:00:00. > :00:00.in the final. Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal hits back at
:00:00. > :00:13.reports he is to leave the club. Hello and welcome to our look
:00:14. > :00:16.ahead to what the the papers With me are the Social Affairs
:00:17. > :00:21.Editor of the Guardian, Randeep Ramesh, and the Evening
:00:22. > :00:28.Standard columnist, Rosamund Urwin. The Prime Minister could be
:00:29. > :00:31.about to strike a deal with fellow EU leaders over curbing benefits
:00:32. > :00:34.for migrants, that's according to Zika explodes, and
:00:35. > :00:39.the world wakes up to the threat, says tomorrow's i, featuring pest
:00:40. > :00:42.controllers spraying poison to kill The Telegraph leads
:00:43. > :00:49.on the story that Oxford University can't afford to pull
:00:50. > :00:51.down its statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes after donors threaten
:00:52. > :00:56.to withdraw funding in protest. The Express warns of a Brussels
:00:57. > :01:00.plan to slap tax on food - they say it could add more than ?200 a year
:01:01. > :01:04.to the average family's bill. Meanwhile,
:01:05. > :01:07.the Guardian says the EU is poised to investigate Google's tax deal
:01:08. > :01:13.with the British authorities, after Labour and the SNP complained
:01:14. > :01:16.about the tech giant's settlement. The Times despairs over the latest
:01:17. > :01:18.global league tables for literacy and maths, teenagers in England
:01:19. > :01:21.are bottom of the class compared And the Daily Mail says it's not
:01:22. > :01:25.just Google who could get Corporations are in line
:01:26. > :01:44.for what it calls "cosy Let's begin with the education story
:01:45. > :01:49.in The Times. Teenagers bottom of international league table. I feel
:01:50. > :01:55.like we used to see this a lot more, and it seems to have gone away
:01:56. > :02:01.or improve. This rather suggests unfortunately that you are wrong.
:02:02. > :02:06.What they are saying is that teenagers, in their late teens, are
:02:07. > :02:25.the worst of 23 developed nations and are ranked 22nd out of 23 NU
:02:26. > :02:32.Morrissey. It strikes me that when you look down the list, people that
:02:33. > :02:35.you would hope in countries that are significantly below us in other
:02:36. > :02:43.matters, would really hope to be above in this. Why are we getting it
:02:44. > :02:49.so wrong? It must be very unpleasant for students to read things like
:02:50. > :02:54.this. I think a few things are being conflated. We have a lump of people
:02:55. > :02:59.who don't perform as well at the bottom of our education system, we
:03:00. > :03:02.have known that for some time. When you talk about graduates, maybe some
:03:03. > :03:05.should have gone to further education colleges rather than
:03:06. > :03:13.university, so there is a bit of that as well. I tend to worry that
:03:14. > :03:18.these things become a stick to beat young children with, telling them
:03:19. > :03:27.they should be like South Korea or China, where rote learning and
:03:28. > :03:33.things don't really suit the kind of culture that we bring our children
:03:34. > :03:39.up with. I think people believe the British education system teaches
:03:40. > :03:50.children to think creatively. The South Korean system is built up for
:03:51. > :03:53.a different client base. And they don't have particularly happy
:03:54. > :03:57.children. They work very hard and around mental health around that. I
:03:58. > :04:05.think it would be interesting to see exactly what these tests in tail,
:04:06. > :04:13.and see if they are the skills that people need. I think that literacy
:04:14. > :04:18.skills tend to be quite poor, but people can be quite bright. I think
:04:19. > :04:24.if you don't practice maths, the skills to fade. I tested that
:04:25. > :04:35.recently with the Times tables test, and startled my guests five asking
:04:36. > :04:41.them some questions. The Google tax does not tax Google, why not? George
:04:42. > :04:46.Osborne made great play, with a new thing be diverted profit tax. It
:04:47. > :04:52.stops corporations from pushing profits into low tax regimes and
:04:53. > :04:55.avoiding tax over here. Google is one of the company that has been
:04:56. > :05:00.caught in this, but the diverted profit tax doesn't seem to apply to
:05:01. > :05:06.them. Therefore, the headline Google tax doesn't really work. Sorry, I
:05:07. > :05:14.have a tickly throat. Where is this money being paid from then? They
:05:15. > :05:18.have just done a deal in a room, rather than actually being HMRC
:05:19. > :05:22.recovering that, they say officials have concluded that Google's
:05:23. > :05:25.offshore arrangements are legitimate. It is sort of a goodwill
:05:26. > :05:35.gesture, which is quite appalling for most of us. They think, that
:05:36. > :05:40.sounds a reasonable amount for us to pay, we can do that. But there is no
:05:41. > :05:46.guarantee that they will be paying that in the future, this would have
:05:47. > :05:51.meant that you would expect a certain amount coming in every year.
:05:52. > :05:54.There is a possibility that this point just apply to Google, but it
:05:55. > :06:04.will be made with other corporations as well. Yes, this is looking more
:06:05. > :06:10.broadly at a Treasury minister who has been flying around the world to
:06:11. > :06:17.woo global corporations. It has essentially said, come here and they
:06:18. > :06:22.will give you VIP treatment, HMRC well. I'm sure we would all love VIP
:06:23. > :06:27.treatment from HMRC, and they feel that if countries are large enough
:06:28. > :06:33.they will be provided with relationship managers to avoid
:06:34. > :06:38.expensive litigation. So will we be getting no money out of them at
:06:39. > :06:43.all? It is plain to the idea that we're ending over backwards to get
:06:44. > :06:48.these people to turn up and not tax them like we would anyone else. I
:06:49. > :06:51.think this favouring of big American corporations, like hammers on,
:06:52. > :07:10.Starbucks, Google, it doesn't play well. -- Amazon. What about this
:07:11. > :07:17.deal, what does this entail? This is David Cameron in a hurry to get
:07:18. > :07:22.something out of the EU, such as putting a brake on paying EU
:07:23. > :07:33.migrants in work benefits if there were exceptional conditions. I think
:07:34. > :07:38.there will be a problem for the Tory Right who will think this isn't good
:07:39. > :07:44.enough. Who will it be good enough for? I think that is a fair
:07:45. > :07:47.question. I also think the Eurosceptics will remain
:07:48. > :07:55.Eurosceptics whatever he came back with. It seems that even before the
:07:56. > :07:58.debate had begun, if you are in the yes or no camp it didn't really
:07:59. > :08:07.matter what was brought back. A lot of people seem to think they are
:08:08. > :08:15.pro- or anti-. Yes, I think it is partly about getting someone in his
:08:16. > :08:18.own cabinet to support him. He says he doesn't want people close to him
:08:19. > :08:27.arguing that a Grexit is the way forward. The idea that there were
:08:28. > :08:32.wavering voters in the cabinet, I don't know about that. He has to
:08:33. > :08:41.come back with something, he can't come back with nothing. Let's look
:08:42. > :08:51.at the Telegraph. Activists who wanted a plaque commemorating the
:08:52. > :08:55.colonialists Cecil Rhodes, which some regard to be racist, to be
:08:56. > :08:57.taken down. There has been some debate about whether he should
:08:58. > :09:02.rightfully be there, even though he is a major benefactor to the
:09:03. > :09:07.college. What appears to have won this is money. All of these donors
:09:08. > :09:14.and presumably there are a lot of them leaving money in their wills,
:09:15. > :09:22.some have threatened to withdraw their donations over this, and
:09:23. > :09:28.because of it being a threat of the statue being removed. Apparently the
:09:29. > :09:35.college fears that a proposed ?100 million gift would be in jeopardy
:09:36. > :09:43.over this. It is money that has won this. I'm afraid I am on the side of
:09:44. > :09:47.Mary Beard who thinks it was barking to raise history, because I don't
:09:48. > :09:53.think it is the way to solve this. Far better to lampoon him, put silly
:09:54. > :09:56.hats on, whatever, but I don't think by removing something you are
:09:57. > :10:02.achieving anything. I have been having a look at the College
:10:03. > :10:07.website, and it says it has been decided that the statue will remain
:10:08. > :10:13.in place in the college will seek to provide a clear context as to why
:10:14. > :10:17.the statue and plaque are there. There needs to be continuing
:10:18. > :10:24.presence of these historical artefacts, but also to accept and
:10:25. > :10:28.explain colonialism today. That is one way out of it. I am sympathetic
:10:29. > :10:32.to the idea that we can't rub out history we disagree with, but I
:10:33. > :10:41.think organisations that face the future in a certain way can decide
:10:42. > :10:48.what the public space has in it. You could retire Cecil on the grounds
:10:49. > :10:59.that he doesn't fit your ideas at the moment. There is an interesting
:11:00. > :11:03.park outside of Budapest, and if you hop on a train you can go and see
:11:04. > :11:09.all the Communist statues that were taken down. They explain what they
:11:10. > :11:17.signify, and fortunately they have not thrown them all away. This is a
:11:18. > :11:29.picture story, cloud over a continent. Zika virus has exploded.
:11:30. > :11:34.This first came to people's attention not that long ago, but now
:11:35. > :11:41.it is huge. I think it is an issue because of the correlation between
:11:42. > :11:50.infection and the birth of children who suffer from abnormalities. Just
:11:51. > :11:57.because you are in the tropics, the spread of mosquitoes is unstoppable.
:11:58. > :12:10.You can't do anything about them, the conditions provide for them, so
:12:11. > :12:20.it is very hard. This picture is from Nicaragua, so the threat is
:12:21. > :12:23.spreading, and we are seeing them going around fumigating. It seems
:12:24. > :12:28.kind of pointless echoes the mosquitoes will be back as soon as
:12:29. > :12:33.the water is there. You are right, this is a problem that will affect
:12:34. > :12:41.all countries in the Americas, they think that Chile and Canada might be
:12:42. > :12:45.spared. It is rather frightening, particularly for pregnant women, it
:12:46. > :12:50.must be terrifying if you are pregnant in Brazil at the moment.
:12:51. > :12:56.What are you supposed to do? A lot of women were reporting Zika virus,
:12:57. > :13:00.and doctors won't taking any notice and didn't recognise it as a
:13:01. > :13:07.potential problem. Let us finish with the express. Barbie gets a PC
:13:08. > :13:16.makeover. There she is in various forms. You can buy them now in three
:13:17. > :13:20.different barytes. You can have a taller Barbie, a curvier Barbie, or
:13:21. > :13:25.a petite one. I dread to think how small the petite one is, because the
:13:26. > :13:35.regular one was very skinny. I think she's just shorter. They have the
:13:36. > :13:43.great line that she has had 180 careers in her time. Her body has
:13:44. > :13:50.never changed, and I did have a little Google earlier, and Barbies
:13:51. > :13:55.in their current form, her waist is significantly smaller than her
:13:56. > :14:03.head. Isn't yours? No, it really isn't. Did you have a Barbie? Didn't
:14:04. > :14:08.make any difference to how felt about body image? I had an older
:14:09. > :14:17.brother who had chopped up my sister's Barbies. So I never had any
:14:18. > :14:21.goals. I think my mother gave up. I had still been in families instead,
:14:22. > :14:25.which other rather unrealistic thing of animal heads on human -esque
:14:26. > :14:34.bodies. They have a different kind of body dysmorphia. Yes, but in that
:14:35. > :14:40.world all the animals are human in physique, except for the horses, who
:14:41. > :14:43.are some kind of weird slaves because they are still fully horse.
:14:44. > :14:55.They just use them to work, and it seems very unfair. It doesn't seem
:14:56. > :15:03.fair on the horses. I think all children's toys don't bear very much
:15:04. > :15:06.scrutiny. Action Man with his eyes...
:15:07. > :15:08.Sportsday is next.