:00:00. > :00:00.tonight's games in the Scottish Cup and the Scottish premiership, and
:00:00. > :00:07.Ronnie O'Sullivan with more on his decision not to make a 147 in the
:00:08. > :00:14.World Cup of snooker. Hello, and welcome to
:00:15. > :00:17.our look ahead to what the papers With me are Caroline Daniel,
:00:18. > :00:23.the editor of the Weekend FT, and Matthew Syed,
:00:24. > :00:25.a columnist at the Times. Tomorrow's front page,
:00:26. > :00:27.starting with: The Times reports that the Palace has denied that
:00:28. > :00:30.a speech by Prince William backed That is the lead, too,
:00:31. > :00:38.in the Telegraph, which says the Duke's remarks echo
:00:39. > :00:41.the intervention by the Queen on "Shut your Cakehole" is the Sun's
:00:42. > :00:45.headline. It is a reference to comments
:00:46. > :00:48.by the actress Emma Thompson, who has apparently described the UK
:00:49. > :00:50.as a "cake-filled, misery-laden, The FT says Saudi Arabia and Russia
:00:51. > :01:00.have agreed to freeze oil output in the Guardian reports that
:01:01. > :01:04.a new report has highlighted high The Mirror leads on the missing
:01:05. > :01:10.junior doctor Rose Polge, who left And finally, the Express says house
:01:11. > :01:29.prices are rising by an average That is good news if you've got a
:01:30. > :01:37.house. A lot of people don't is the problem. The Times says don't push
:01:38. > :01:46.us into Brexit. This isn't an editorial. Not yet... You think that
:01:47. > :01:49.is how they are going to go? It is a strange story because it has been a
:01:50. > :01:53.mixed day for David Cameron in Europe. The European Parliament has
:01:54. > :01:57.suggested they have some issues with the deal and they have a right to
:01:58. > :02:00.have a say on how the deal might go down in terms of being able to vote
:02:01. > :02:03.on it. On the other hand they also stressed that they don't have the
:02:04. > :02:07.right of veto over the proposed solution but they had some push back
:02:08. > :02:11.today and that wasn't great for David Cameron. He wants to have it
:02:12. > :02:16.signed, sealed and delivered. He doesn't want to have some ambiguity
:02:17. > :02:20.about the Brits voting on a referendum and later on the European
:02:21. > :02:26.Parliament undoing it. He has been under pressure from the Eastern
:02:27. > :02:28.European bloc as well, over the concessions around migrants and some
:02:29. > :02:33.of their benefits but I think this is... I rather like the fact that in
:02:34. > :02:40.the first sentence we see a rather stressed David Cameron because they
:02:41. > :02:45.want to give the sense of Time running out, the only having until
:02:46. > :02:48.Friday and then he can come out and win some of these issues. Some of
:02:49. > :02:54.this is just a bit of drama. Going back to my initial point, and this
:02:55. > :03:03.is in your newspaper, The Times, is this the way that they are Leaning,
:03:04. > :03:08.do you think? Don't push Britain into Brexit? This is an imputed
:03:09. > :03:11.quote from Cameron, and it could just be choreography, as you say. I
:03:12. > :03:14.think there will be a lot of this manoeuvring in the build-up to the
:03:15. > :03:20.discussion at the end of the week but some of the detail is quite fun.
:03:21. > :03:23.He is normally so very relaxed, a senior European official said he
:03:24. > :03:27.looks terribly, terribly stressed and he is worried according to this
:03:28. > :03:32.report that MEPs will water down an agreement which was already sorted
:03:33. > :03:37.by a great deal of the British press. And that could end his
:03:38. > :03:44.premiership and tarnish his legacy. But I suspect, I'm with you. One
:03:45. > :03:48.thing is that there is a lot of manoeuvring and smoke signalling at
:03:49. > :03:53.the moment. Secondly, most people will not make a decision on the
:03:54. > :04:05.future referendum on them initiate of child benefits -- the minutiae.
:04:06. > :04:10.They will make it on how they feel about written's future. So this is
:04:11. > :04:14.not as significant as it seems. And the suggestion he is pleading with
:04:15. > :04:19.European MEPs to save his deal, he is in fact arguing with his own MPs.
:04:20. > :04:25.This is a far more important domestic issue than what one MEP may
:04:26. > :04:29.do. The largest groups in the Parliament made clear their support
:04:30. > :04:35.for British reforms. That is hardly MEPs pushing Britain into Brexit. If
:04:36. > :04:39.we go to the Independent, the eastern bloc tells Cameron has
:04:40. > :04:42.benefits plan is unacceptable. You were pretty relaxed just then. It
:04:43. > :04:49.sounded as though you thought that... Don't over into print.
:04:50. > :04:58.That's what I always do, over interpret. -- over interpret. It is
:04:59. > :05:02.just posturing. It is a poker game. When it comes to the negotiation,
:05:03. > :05:06.each has to show that they are willing to walk away if they don't
:05:07. > :05:12.get their minimum conditions. And so they are, as it were, exaggerating
:05:13. > :05:18.what they can do. So the other thing that is worth throwing into this, is
:05:19. > :05:23.Prince William has weighed in. Not just MEPs, not just European
:05:24. > :05:28.Commission, it is the future monarch who has given a coded message that
:05:29. > :05:33.you don't think is significant at all and I think is rather fun, that
:05:34. > :05:36.we should stay in. A coded message not even mentioning the word
:05:37. > :05:40.Europe. The eastern bloc is basically saying they want Britain
:05:41. > :05:44.to walk an extra mile for the deal. They are not happy with Britain
:05:45. > :05:47.doing this anyway. They want to make Britain sweat a bit and they
:05:48. > :05:52.wouldn't mind the fact that David Cameron looks a bit stressed. And
:05:53. > :05:55.they have their own constituencies as well which they have to play
:05:56. > :06:00.too, no question about that. We are not going to talk about its William,
:06:01. > :06:03.we did that in the previous hour. But we will talk about another
:06:04. > :06:08.member of royalty, acting royalty. This is Emma Thompson who has
:06:09. > :06:20.attacked what she called a cake filled, misery laid in Britain,
:06:21. > :06:30.saying that we should shut out cakeholes. Not quite, the Sun says
:06:31. > :06:39.that she should shut her cakehole. Is that the Victoria sponge? I love
:06:40. > :06:46.Victoria sponges. It is crucial, the proportion of cream. Britain's parts
:06:47. > :06:54.are the envy of the world. It is one of those kinds of stories -- tarts.
:06:55. > :06:59.You had Michael Caine a few months ago coming out as very Eurosceptic.
:07:00. > :07:02.Now we have a left-wing lobby coming out, a pro- EU lobby. She did make a
:07:03. > :07:08.slightly unfortunate statement during a press conference promoting
:07:09. > :07:15.a film in Berlin, so she sort of rift on what she thinks about the EU
:07:16. > :07:19.-- riffed. It is a great headline but I don't think it will make a
:07:20. > :07:26.substantial change to the debate. Will this really affect the man on
:07:27. > :07:34.the Clapham omnibus? More successful than the EU is jam sponge. It is all
:07:35. > :07:39.about the lightness of the sponge. It has to be light and fluffy, there
:07:40. > :07:45.is no question. I think she is one of the great actresses. Sense and
:07:46. > :07:48.Sensibility, one of my favourite films. I can understand saying we
:07:49. > :07:52.want to be part of Europe, but that doesn't mean we have to be negative
:07:53. > :07:57.about Britain. I'm quite surprised how shrill... I mean, she was asked
:07:58. > :08:02.in a movie press conference so she may have been taken out of context.
:08:03. > :08:09.Wu Mac it is a reference to the week about the British like to moan --
:08:10. > :08:20.she may be trying to convince too many topical news events. Into one
:08:21. > :08:28.piece of fabulous Victoria sponge. The Sun also has that quote. But we
:08:29. > :08:35.are going to go on to the Financial Times. The Saudis and Russia agree
:08:36. > :08:39.on output freezing bid to halt oil price slide. This is a freeze so as
:08:40. > :08:44.you are suggesting earlier this is hopefully perhaps the bottom of the
:08:45. > :08:50.slide? This is an important intervention but it is not just one
:08:51. > :08:53.the market wanted. They wanted them to cut production so the oil price
:08:54. > :08:57.would go back up and we are all back in the energy game again. Instead
:08:58. > :09:00.they have said they will stop production where it is and they want
:09:01. > :09:04.to get other countries like Venezuela and Iran to also agreed to
:09:05. > :09:08.halt extra production in the hope that that will stop the oil price
:09:09. > :09:13.sliding but they could have done a lot more, and so people will be
:09:14. > :09:18.disappointed. But the hope, I think, for an average consumer is
:09:19. > :09:21.actually the slide in oil won't go down to $10 a barrel which some
:09:22. > :09:27.people have been gloomily forecasting and it may stick around
:09:28. > :09:30.$30 which is a bleak what the scientists want to achieve, which is
:09:31. > :09:35.to cause trouble for the American fracking companies. They have been
:09:36. > :09:38.trying to deal with ) companies over in the United States and put them
:09:39. > :09:43.out of business. They have managed to do that with some independent
:09:44. > :09:50.producers -- some fracking companies. They have had to bring in
:09:51. > :09:54.a Budget which was the most stringent and cost-cutting, I
:09:55. > :09:59.suppose you could say, in a long time in the kingdom. This isn't just
:10:00. > :10:02.about economics for Saudi Arabia. It is about the long-term political
:10:03. > :10:07.integrity. Survival. As if America becomes independent, energy
:10:08. > :10:10.independent, on the basis of that relationship, which is essentially
:10:11. > :10:15.about the US providing protection and arms in return for oil, changes
:10:16. > :10:20.fundamentally and the attempt to keep the price low, private capital
:10:21. > :10:26.has been driven into loss-making for the fracking companies in America.
:10:27. > :10:29.It is interesting they have made this strategic decision now. What I
:10:30. > :10:35.don't understand is that OPEC tripled the oil price in the 70s,
:10:36. > :10:40.there was stagflation. Now the price has gone down, it is also a
:10:41. > :10:46.disaster. You can't get it right. This is very true. Going onto the
:10:47. > :10:52.Guardian. High sugar content of hot drinks. Now this isn't just your
:10:53. > :10:58.normal cup of coffee or anything. This is this big things with fruit
:10:59. > :11:02.in and all kinds of cream on top. I mean, they look as if they are going
:11:03. > :11:12.to give you a heart attack anyway. I know where you're coming from, but
:11:13. > :11:24.if I was offered in a Starbucks chai great -- grape latte, I wouldn't
:11:25. > :11:28.think it has 25 teaspoons of sugar. I am fine with any ingredient in any
:11:29. > :11:34.product so long as the label is clear. That puts the onus on the
:11:35. > :11:39.consumer to manage what they consume. But I want clear labelling.
:11:40. > :11:53.I went to New York a couple of years ago and had a couple of frappe --
:11:54. > :11:58.frappucinos. It was so cloying. Sugar is the new salt and the new
:11:59. > :12:02.tobacco. We are getting these stories regularly about the hidden
:12:03. > :12:09.problems that sugar can sort of highlight. This would not have been
:12:10. > :12:12.front-page news a while ago. And what is equally interesting is that
:12:13. > :12:17.Starbucks is saying it will commit to reducing sugar in its tricks by
:12:18. > :12:23.25% but not until the end of 2020. -- in its drinks. That seems a long
:12:24. > :12:29.time when we already know the impact, I would say for the really
:12:30. > :12:33.big ventis you should disclose how much sugar is in them. For most of
:12:34. > :12:36.the drinks they tested, two thirds of them had less than a can of
:12:37. > :12:40.Coca-Cola in terms of sugar. I think the most extraordinary thing is the
:12:41. > :12:51.fact that it says hot chocolate is a fashionable hot drink these days.
:12:52. > :12:57.What will be next? We are going to go to the Times. Prescribed drugs to
:12:58. > :13:02.tackle Britain's gambling epidemic. That sounds weird. There are two
:13:03. > :13:05.different things. I am really interested in the Times picking this
:13:06. > :13:12.as something to investigate because these... What are they called? Fixed
:13:13. > :13:18.odds machines, they are the crack cocaine of gambling and they take
:13:19. > :13:23.?300 a minute. I had a friend who was addicted to gambling and went
:13:24. > :13:26.into the most horrific downward spiral and the advertising is
:13:27. > :13:30.everywhere. You cannot watch any sporting coverage without seeing
:13:31. > :13:33.blanket advertising, both on the television screen and on the shirts
:13:34. > :13:38.and on the sponsors. And I think it is a problem, and I think, you know,
:13:39. > :13:41.as I said in the previous answer, I'm worried about the state getting
:13:42. > :13:46.too involved in these kinds of issues but it is interesting The
:13:47. > :13:50.Times has gone after this. I am deeply worried about medicalising
:13:51. > :13:55.this, allowing doctors to look at the list of conditions and then to
:13:56. > :14:00.start prescribing, in this case, a drug. I think there has been far too
:14:01. > :14:07.big moves over the last or four Mac decades to medicalise behaviours
:14:08. > :14:15.which should be dealt with. -- three or four decades. What is drug
:14:16. > :14:20.actually do? It is a drug prescribed to people with addictions to alcohol
:14:21. > :14:25.and other drugs, it reduces the neurotransmitters involved in
:14:26. > :14:34.oxytocin and of that kind. Opiates. Onto the Telegraph, finally, British
:14:35. > :14:41.children are the laziest. Discussed. There wasn't a lot of proof in this
:14:42. > :14:45.story. Good headline though. I was more concerned about the fact they
:14:46. > :14:49.were apparently doing the least the work of any child, so that has been
:14:50. > :14:53.a concern for me. And it does say that thousands of children had also
:14:54. > :14:56.had to disclose attitudes to possessions and the iPhones and it
:14:57. > :15:00.doesn't say anything about their interest to possessions and iPhones,
:15:01. > :15:08.just talks about them being lazy. That is unfair to Britain's youth.
:15:09. > :15:09.So says a woman from the Financial Times talking about a story on the
:15:10. > :15:11.front of the Telegraph. Thank you to Caroline Daniel
:15:12. > :15:14.and Matthew Syed. Coming up next,
:15:15. > :15:16.it is time for Sportsday.