:00:00. > :00:00.comments. Chris gale caused a stir with some
:00:00. > :00:17.on-air flirting. That hasn't stopped him being offered another contract.
:00:18. > :00:21.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:22. > :00:24.With me are the International Editor of the Economist, Helen Joyce,
:00:25. > :00:26.and the Times columnist, Matthew Syed.
:00:27. > :00:39.The front page of the Daily Telegraph. Depression and rugs makes
:00:40. > :00:45.suicide more likely. Pharmaceutical companies accused of failing to
:00:46. > :00:52.report some suicides and deaths. This is an important scientific will
:00:53. > :00:57.technique, clinical trials very important to establish what works
:00:58. > :01:00.and what doesn't, with big pharmaceutical companies rigging the
:01:01. > :01:05.trial to undermine the validity of what they are doing and minimising
:01:06. > :01:11.the side effects. We now know from a study that these anti-depression
:01:12. > :01:14.drugs makes suicide more likely, but the pharmaceutical companies rigged
:01:15. > :01:18.it. If somebody died, they would come up with an alternative
:01:19. > :01:22.explanation. If it happened at a particular time, they would say it
:01:23. > :01:27.was a cut-off date for that particular trial. This has happened
:01:28. > :01:30.for decades in the pharmaceutical industry. It's amazing to me they
:01:31. > :01:36.still haven't got their act together. There are families up and
:01:37. > :01:40.down the country, across the world, who have said for many, many years
:01:41. > :01:46.that they have people who are under the age of 18. It isn't adult
:01:47. > :01:53.specifically. It seems to be young people, who have committed suicide
:01:54. > :01:59.as a result of taking depression drugs. When you have any one case,
:02:00. > :02:03.you don't know what caused it. With one case, you can say it was a
:02:04. > :02:08.coincidence, so that is the point of doing a trial and gathering all the
:02:09. > :02:12.data, so you can see between comparative groups, because it has
:02:13. > :02:16.play fair. There is an excellent play fair. There is an excellent
:02:17. > :02:20.global campaign to force pharmaceutical companies to register
:02:21. > :02:25.all trials before they start. You can sign up if you think it's a good
:02:26. > :02:30.idea. This would stop the process. The easiest way to do the rigging is
:02:31. > :02:34.to put the trials that don't give the answer you want in a drawer and
:02:35. > :02:40.publish the ones you want. This is systematic, right through the
:02:41. > :02:44.pharmaceutical industry. This report has been published in the British
:02:45. > :02:50.Medical Journal. Part of the research was done by University
:02:51. > :02:56.College London. It makes sense. Do you think anyone will act on this? I
:02:57. > :03:00.hope so. This campaign is vital. It's called publication bias. You do
:03:01. > :03:05.lots of different trials, and just because of luck you get the answer
:03:06. > :03:09.you want in three of them, but the answer you don't want in five. You
:03:10. > :03:17.then published the three and you pay your representatives to push the
:03:18. > :03:22.trials they carried out. They are rigorous, they are authentic, they
:03:23. > :03:27.say. But nobody asks if they carry out any other trials? It is their
:03:28. > :03:36.intellectual property. They also bribed the doctors. They have a
:03:37. > :03:43.conflict of interest. I. The history is interesting too. I read a book on
:03:44. > :03:46.this recently! When the first Bible of psychiatric conditions was
:03:47. > :03:52.published, there are a number of conditions under which psychiatrists
:03:53. > :03:59.could prescribe drugs. That has gone up incredibly. With the rigging of
:04:00. > :04:05.the system, it has brought the entire thing into disrepute, and it
:04:06. > :04:10.is an unfolding tragedy. It is lack of trust. We are going to have to
:04:11. > :04:19.move on to the bedroom tax. The fight act begins. Families have
:04:20. > :04:23.challenged the penalty. These are challenges on rather
:04:24. > :04:29.specific cases. One is a woman who is a rape victim and domestic
:04:30. > :04:35.violence victim who has a safe room, but that counts as a spare bedroom.
:04:36. > :04:41.The other is very disabled children who require a spare room for the
:04:42. > :04:45.equipment. If they were adults, they would be allowed. So both cases
:04:46. > :04:50.claim discrimination. -- discrimination. The government says
:04:51. > :04:55.they will challenge it, but there are wider implications for the whole
:04:56. > :05:00.bedroom tax policy. The government has said it has put aside money to
:05:01. > :05:05.deal with some specific cases. It doesn't sound as if it is going to
:05:06. > :05:09.be enough money. When you see people like this on the front of
:05:10. > :05:13.newspapers, and potential rape victims with panic rooms, it does
:05:14. > :05:19.see there is a disconnect here between morality and trying to save
:05:20. > :05:26.pennies. That is on the money. Forgive the pun! It was awful. But
:05:27. > :05:29.the anomaly between private and social housing, you could sort of
:05:30. > :05:34.understand the logic of why they want to remove that anomaly. What
:05:35. > :05:38.surprises me is what you are saying - why didn't they think of the
:05:39. > :05:42.particularly vulnerable groups who are going to be horrifically damaged
:05:43. > :05:48.by this? And the funding you mention isn't mitigated by this. They would
:05:49. > :05:52.say that they did think about vulnerable groups, and there are
:05:53. > :05:56.measures within the legislation, including this money that has been
:05:57. > :06:01.set aside. Fundamentally, the majority of the public supported
:06:02. > :06:05.these changes. You can see why. It sounds fair. But the problem is
:06:06. > :06:10.there are not small enough houses for people to move into. The
:06:11. > :06:19.Financial Times. Google and Apple hit back over tax. Google's European
:06:20. > :06:27.public affairs chief has written saying governments make tax law and
:06:28. > :06:35.Google complies with the law. Wasn't he the editor of Newsnight? The same
:06:36. > :06:40.guy. Anyway. What has that got to do with anything? It's because I
:06:41. > :06:48.recognised the name! I thought it was a trap. No. The Times has
:06:49. > :06:54.written a strong leader. The Times is often in favour of business and
:06:55. > :06:58.free markets, but this is an issue of fairness. These are huge
:06:59. > :07:02.companies that are gaining the international tax system. What we
:07:03. > :07:08.need is an international set of agreements where the major economies
:07:09. > :07:12.are prepared to ask the major corporations for transparency, so
:07:13. > :07:18.you get the tax they deserve to pay. Helen, you work for a very
:07:19. > :07:25.pro-free-market magazine. Google and Apple. Are they gaining the system?
:07:26. > :07:31.But they are within the law? We have no idea on what basis they are
:07:32. > :07:37.paying this ?130 million, because there is secrecy about tax on
:07:38. > :07:42.corporations. So I cannot tell you. But it isn't likely to be an
:07:43. > :07:47.overestimation? I am sure of that. We believe in a free market,
:07:48. > :07:52.fairness and rules, so this ridiculous system where you park
:07:53. > :07:58.your intellectual property in a tax haven, and this allows you to offset
:07:59. > :08:06.everything... Is fairness and compatible as -- capitalism
:08:07. > :08:13.compatible? Yes, of course. It can only work if people are prepared to
:08:14. > :08:16.be honest. Cameron goes to halt arms sales with Saudi Arabia. Saudi
:08:17. > :08:21.Arabia is a big contributor to the British bottom line. Fairness and
:08:22. > :08:27.ethics might suggest that for some people we shouldn't be selling them
:08:28. > :08:32.weapons. British made weapons have been used to bomb hospitals,
:08:33. > :08:37.schools, markets and other civilian targets in Yemen. We were discussing
:08:38. > :08:41.this earlier. When you sell arms to people, they are going to sometimes
:08:42. > :08:45.be used for bad things. I don't think the British government will be
:08:46. > :08:52.surprised by this. You are right to say there is a long history of
:08:53. > :08:57.selling arms to Saudi Arabia. The idea that selling arms to Saudi
:08:58. > :09:07.Arabia has been a arm of policy for decades. Propping up extremists, and
:09:08. > :09:14.a Sunni dictatorship is not going to be in our long-term interests. The
:09:15. > :09:17.religious warring is going to make a mockery of this relationship. It
:09:18. > :09:23.will be difficult, given the amount of jobs the defence industry
:09:24. > :09:28.supports. The Daily Express, revealing School reports of the rich
:09:29. > :09:32.and famous. Churchill is there, and Judi Dench. I know that Churchill's
:09:33. > :09:38.school report was dreadful. He turned out all right! Don't you feel
:09:39. > :09:45.sorry for teachers, having to write these works of fiction! They have to
:09:46. > :09:48.write something about 30 kids' marks, their effort, something
:09:49. > :09:54.crafted to suggest that their little darlings have been suggested in the
:09:55. > :10:00.class, in every subject! I wouldn't expect to do it, and I am a writer
:10:01. > :10:04.in trade. We were not given this stuff when I was little. There were
:10:05. > :10:10.a lot of good marks when I was little. I was a real sucker! We
:10:11. > :10:19.didn't get them. They are playing the music. We've got to go. We will
:10:20. > :10:23.be back in an hour's time. We will tell you about it then. Much more
:10:24. > :10:26.coming up at the top of the hour first, time for a very enlightening
:10:27. > :10:36.Sportsday. here's what we have
:10:37. > :10:42.for you on Sportsday tonight.