23/01/2016

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:00:00. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

:00:22. > :00:24.With me are Joseph Harker, deputy opinion editor for the

:00:25. > :00:34.Guardian, and Neil Midgley, who's media commentator at Forbes.com.

:00:35. > :00:40.And he is great at pulling faces, according to a review on Twitter. --

:00:41. > :00:44.a viewer. The Observer says David Cameron

:00:45. > :00:46.is considering plans to allow thousands of unaccompanied

:00:47. > :00:48.migrant children into Britain. The Sunday Express leads on the

:00:49. > :00:52.story that the RAF has foiled a plan by so-called Islamic State to attack

:00:53. > :00:54.London, Brighton, Bath and Ipswich. The gloves are off, says the

:00:55. > :00:57.Sunday Telegraph, as Conservative infighting deepens over whether to

:00:58. > :00:59.stay in the European Union. Buried by a blizzard -

:01:00. > :01:02.the Independent on Sunday's cover photo shows rows of cars under snow

:01:03. > :01:06.on the US east coast. And in the Sunday Times,

:01:07. > :01:12.the story that a former British spy is to expose

:01:13. > :01:23.what he says was MI5 knowledge What is happening with the Labour

:01:24. > :01:32.Party is reminiscent of the 1980s, many people say, and this is another

:01:33. > :01:41.story that adds to that. Why is Jeremy Corbyn proposing this and is

:01:42. > :01:45.it recent? This might not be a new proposal. It might have been

:01:46. > :01:47.something that he said while in the outer reaches of the Labour

:01:48. > :01:53.backbenches, which is to say more than six months ago. They are

:01:54. > :01:56.reporting this story as though he is in top-level negotiations right now

:01:57. > :02:03.and that this is his number one priority. I somehow doubt that. But

:02:04. > :02:09.it is true that many of the questions on The Andrew Marr Show

:02:10. > :02:18.when he was there were about 1980s things. The reason is that those are

:02:19. > :02:20.his opinions, by and large. He is very ideologically similar to the

:02:21. > :02:25.leadership of the Labour Party in the 1980s on the issues that he

:02:26. > :02:29.considers important. Those are the same issues. Eight may be

:02:30. > :02:37.ideologically similar but that does not mean that his main focus now is

:02:38. > :02:40.not on modern events. The Labour Party's sole focus for the last few

:02:41. > :02:46.weeks has been unilateral nuclear disarmament, which is about as 1980s

:02:47. > :02:51.as you can get. Not quite the same. We have army generals questioning

:02:52. > :02:56.whether Trident should be renewed or not. That is not the issue. The

:02:57. > :03:01.question is whether Jeremy Corbyn... Some say he wants to

:03:02. > :03:06.dialogue with Argentina over the Falklands and the outgoing Argentine

:03:07. > :03:15.ambassador to the UK said that Jeremy Corbyn is one of ours. A

:03:16. > :03:24.greater electoral gifted one sentence to the Tories is hard to

:03:25. > :03:26.imagine. -- gift in. The people of the Falklands have never expressed

:03:27. > :03:30.an opinion of wanting to belong to Argentina. That is correct about the

:03:31. > :03:33.history of the Falklands is that Britain invaded these islands,

:03:34. > :03:37.populate it with its own people and then after that says that everybody

:03:38. > :03:42.wants to be British. Who was there before them apart from the

:03:43. > :03:47.penguins's the fact is that the islands are very close to

:03:48. > :03:52.Argentina. Is a kind of empire throwback and it is very popular in

:03:53. > :03:58.this country. Britons look very favourably on the umpire, obviously

:03:59. > :04:10.ignoring some of the slavery... -- the British Empire. I'm going to

:04:11. > :04:16.give Peter the final say. Let the descendants of the Spanish who

:04:17. > :04:26.slaughtered Indigenous Americans give the land back and then we will

:04:27. > :04:33.talk. MPs need help against violent public. Psychiatrists having to work

:04:34. > :04:37.with the Home Office. It is very tough on a lot of MPs, it seems, and

:04:38. > :04:46.I think that a lot of this is down to social media, where they get the

:04:47. > :04:51.abuse. Threats online. Stella Creasy also had her constituency office

:04:52. > :04:57.ticketed around the time of the vote for air strikes on Syria. And many

:04:58. > :05:02.people say things online in the heat of the moment and it sounds awful

:05:03. > :05:06.and you just don't know whether to take it seriously, when somebody is

:05:07. > :05:09.threatening you. This is making a lot of MPs very nervous. Some talk

:05:10. > :05:14.about being afraid to go out there from door, being treated for anxiety

:05:15. > :05:23.and depression, marriages breaking down because of the pressure... I

:05:24. > :05:27.think there are possibly two parallel issues, although they are

:05:28. > :05:29.connected. One of them is that there are constituents who are either

:05:30. > :05:35.threatening and he's making them feel afraid if we, whether that is

:05:36. > :05:41.social media or elsewhere. But in the Labour Party, there is also a

:05:42. > :05:46.nasty faction, again reminiscent of the 1980s and the far left,

:05:47. > :05:52.which... You may laugh but they have threatened violence against MPs. I

:05:53. > :05:57.think individuals have threatened MPs. Whether they are Labour Party

:05:58. > :06:02.members or whatever is... But the key to it is that Jeremy Corbyn will

:06:03. > :06:09.not fall for Richard Lee denounce those people. -- not completely

:06:10. > :06:13.denounce those people, who are his ideological supporters. He does

:06:14. > :06:15.denounce those people who are threatening his opponent in the

:06:16. > :06:24.Labour Party. This is a huge organisation... The did a survey

:06:25. > :06:26.this last week. It was of Labour Party constituencies. There has been

:06:27. > :06:32.a massive increase in support for Jeremy Corbyn and a massive increase

:06:33. > :06:35.in membership but they are more interested in campaigning on social

:06:36. > :06:42.issues and things like that than trying to oust current MPs were

:06:43. > :06:47.deemed to be right wing. We have quite a lot to get through. Britain

:06:48. > :06:58.poised to open the door to thousands of migrant children. We have had the

:06:59. > :07:01.very meagre and mean spirited pledge by David Cameron to take in 4000

:07:02. > :07:06.migrants per year on hundreds of thousands of them are coming into

:07:07. > :07:10.Europe at the moment. It is very much Britain not doing its fair

:07:11. > :07:15.share to address this crisis. But there are 3000 unaccompanied

:07:16. > :07:19.children who have been somehow separated from their families and it

:07:20. > :07:24.is now feared they could be at risk of falling prey to child

:07:25. > :07:27.traffickers, and so David Cameron it seems willing to step in at that

:07:28. > :07:33.stage to help them. You have got to have the services in place here for

:07:34. > :07:37.when they arrive... I think there was a high water mark in terms of

:07:38. > :07:43.British public opinion about migrants and migrant children, in

:07:44. > :07:47.particular, that photograph last summer of that poor little boy

:07:48. > :07:49.washed up dead on the beach. Clearly if there is a humanitarian crisis

:07:50. > :07:55.involving unaccompanied children... You would hope... It was Margaret

:07:56. > :07:58.Thatcher who said surely it is not beyond the wit of man to fix that

:07:59. > :08:04.sort of thing. There are not that many people involved. There is

:08:05. > :08:06.probably opinion polling on this but I don't censor a great swell of

:08:07. > :08:12.public opinion in this country now in favour of letting in more

:08:13. > :08:18.refugees. I think it has subsided. And I wonder... Somebody has to take

:08:19. > :08:22.care of these children, whether it is social services or someone else,

:08:23. > :08:26.and I wonder how many bighearted British people are went off to

:08:27. > :08:33.foster or adopt the parent was Syrian child if we let them in? --

:08:34. > :08:42.off Syrian child. Probably quite a lot. Quickly, the main picture

:08:43. > :08:48.here. New York in America's east coast buried in a blizzard. You can

:08:49. > :08:56.barely tell that they are cars under all that snow. We also have live

:08:57. > :09:00.pictures from Times Square tonight. This is the beauty of live

:09:01. > :09:07.television, everybody. There is. Is looking pretty but it is lethal in

:09:08. > :09:13.places. How many people? 17. It was only 13 an hour ago was clearly a

:09:14. > :09:18.lethal storm in the US. And it seems that people are unfortunately going

:09:19. > :09:25.out and travelling when they are best to stay at home. Schools told

:09:26. > :09:32.to drop university snobbery. We should think of friendships and

:09:33. > :09:35.skills as equivalent. So says the Education Secretary, which is quite

:09:36. > :09:39.a strange turn around and that we have been trying to encourage young

:09:40. > :09:48.people to go into universities of 20 years now, opening the system.

:09:49. > :09:51.Increasing tuition fees because it is such a valuable thing to have a

:09:52. > :09:57.degree, and now she is trying to turn the clock back. On the one

:09:58. > :10:00.hand, if children are not suited to university, it is a good thing that

:10:01. > :10:07.they are not laden down with massive debt are laws by these tuition

:10:08. > :10:10.fees, but on the other hand... The Conservative Party are supposed to

:10:11. > :10:13.be part of ambition and the idea that they just trying to dissuade

:10:14. > :10:18.people from getting a great education at some of the great

:10:19. > :10:21.institutions is quite strange. I think that as a practical matter we

:10:22. > :10:23.need more young people to be taking on apprenticeships and things that

:10:24. > :10:30.we need young people to be qualified to do, such as coding, planning,

:10:31. > :10:36.being an electrician and holding trades. London is crying out for

:10:37. > :10:41.skilled workers in all of those fields. And so I can understand why

:10:42. > :10:46.the government would want to boost the idea of apprenticeships as a

:10:47. > :10:54.concept but whether we like it or not, young people are bright or less

:10:55. > :10:59.bright and the right of the child, the more suited they are likely to

:11:00. > :11:04.be to go to university and get a good degree in a proper subject and

:11:05. > :11:09.go on to make a lot of money for themselves and their country. You

:11:10. > :11:13.need to have proper alternatives. Some schemes have been criticised as

:11:14. > :11:19.not being robust enough or fit for purpose on the apprenticeship sided

:11:20. > :11:24.thing. Government after government has to find some way of replicating

:11:25. > :11:31.the German model where they do have robust apprenticeships in trades and

:11:32. > :11:37.where that is seen as a valid and worthwhile and laudable thing for

:11:38. > :11:42.young people to do. In this country, no matter what they degree is in or

:11:43. > :11:48.where it comes from, we do tend to put that in terms of status above

:11:49. > :11:51.those who did not go to university. And if there is a blurring of that

:11:52. > :11:58.distinction, that would be all to the good. Let us finish with the

:11:59. > :12:04.Times. Stinky teenagers losing sleep. There is a very good reason,

:12:05. > :12:09.apparently, to insist that your teenager's bedroom is regularly

:12:10. > :12:13.ventilated. Apparently, yes. Windows should be opened and the heating

:12:14. > :12:17.turned down because the recirculation of germs and

:12:18. > :12:26.everything else in the rooms of teenagers can cause insomnia and

:12:27. > :12:31.have the effect of lowering their educational performance. In fact,

:12:32. > :12:35.they are so concerned, according to this report, that they are wondering

:12:36. > :12:40.whether teenagers need sleep education lesson, which is something

:12:41. > :12:47.I never considered any of my kids needing. Most of them just want to

:12:48. > :12:50.sleep forever. And the later start time for school, which I can imagine

:12:51. > :12:58.going down very well. They have tried that in some places but then

:12:59. > :13:06.they have to stay behind later. I like this story. It does give every

:13:07. > :13:10.parent of a teenager, and I have three and I'm not going to see if

:13:11. > :13:16.any of them marks Digi or not, but it does that make any of them are

:13:17. > :13:25.stinky or not but it does give you an excuse to tell them to clean the

:13:26. > :13:29.rooms. There is a good chemical reason. I'm going to cut that out

:13:30. > :13:33.and take it home and show mine. He is not stinky but he does not like

:13:34. > :13:35.to have us window open. Coming up next,

:13:36. > :13:51.it's time for the Film Review. You should come back again together.

:13:52. > :13:53.You have to pull faces and fight. It would not be good on the box office

:13:54. > :13:55.if you just agreed.