28/02/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

With me are the author and journalist Matthew Green

with a new report which highlights the plight of some

The Financial Times leads with claims from the British Retail

Consortium that one million jobs in retail will disappear by 2025,

as technology and the rising minimum wage reshape the industry.

The Daily Express states that migrants will have received benefits

to the tune of one-billion pounds in the last year.

The Metro headlines comments from Eurosceptic Cabinet minister

Iain Duncan Smith, who says David Cameron has a low opinion

of the British people for suggesting a Brexit would be a major gamble.

The Daily Telegraph headlines a leaked report which suggests up

to 20,000 people in need of emergency care were denied

immediate access to ambulances so that officials could meet

The Daily Mail carries claims - made in a new book -

which suggests former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair had

decided to invade Iraq in early 2002.

The i paper headlines a report, which says

Chancellor George Osbourne's northern powerhouse

And so here in an increasingly digital age on a linear digital TV

channel watched in real-time, we mark the launch of a newspaper,

printed on newspaper. It is called New Day. Not every day do we get to

review a newspaper with issue one written on it. It does raise the

question, is anyone insane enough to launch a newspaper in the current

era? Some people have stopped buying a newspaper because they cannot find

a newspaper to buy. This one is hoping to be it. There are half a

million people out there who would like a mid-market, unbiased tabloid

and they are intending to provide it. What I do find odd about this,

and I do applaud it and hope it succeeds. The more people are

reading newspapers, the more likely that Matthew and I will keep our

jobs. The publishers said beforehand, and the editor, that

this was going to be an upbeat and optimistic paper. The front pages

leading with a very good story but a deeply depressing one about

five-year-olds who have to look after their parents without any

assistance. I do not think that is quite in keeping with what they say

the new brand will be for. If we look at the fact the Prime Minister

has written for the newspaper inside, quite a big spread, isn't

it? On pages 12 and 13, about Britain', or not, in the European

Union. It is promising as not to tell us what to think. Is it telling

us what to think if you have the Prime Minister in it? It has the

Prime Minister telling us what to think. The point is, they are going

to try to avoid having a very clear right-wing editorial stance that

other mid-market papers have. That is where they are trying to

differentiate themselves. The column by David Cameron is reiterated what

he has been saying up until now about Brexit, warning what will

happen if Britain does leave the EU in June. A woman called Emma is

undecided and she wants to hear the arguments. A lot of people are

saying that. There are so much arguing going on, they cannot

actually find out what the issues at stake are. The fascinating thing

about this piece. She says she wants to know the facts. The things that

have put her off the EU have been things like the insistence we could

not buy bent cucumbers and that children under eight were banned

from blowing up balloons. What is fascinating is the children under

eight ban was complete nonsense. All the EU said was put warnings on the

packets that people have died blowing up balloons. The bent

cucumbers was in about 2008 because they said this was ridiculous. This

is what she remembers about the EU. It shows it is really hard to take

in what is really going on. We remember random facts that are not

always accurate. Brexit would mean ten years of uncertainty. This is

Downing Street. A leaked report that the Guardian has got hold of, that

says it will take ten years for Britain to extricate itself from the

EU. Under the rules that will be a two-year process. According to the

leaked government report, you'll be so complicated with all the

different issues from the common agricultural policy and single

market access and fishing rights, a whole long list of things that need

resolving, it will take a decade. The economy will suffer and

investment will get held up. The likes of Boris Johnson so this is

nonsense, we apparently capable of ploughing our own furrow and can

forge trade deals with other parts of the world. We do not have to be

relied on the EU to that extent. This is rather convincing. If you

think how long it has taken us to get the agreement of the EU, to

think about whether Britain can have a few amendments in order to be able

to hold a referendum, think how long it will take to negotiate every

single aspect of our lives. We have been integrated in EE you for 30

years. There have been regulations about medicines. One key point is

that other countries will not be able to start negotiating with as

well we are still in complicated initiations would be you. They will

not know how free we are to negotiate with them. The whole thing

does sound like it will be an almighty mess in which lawyers will

be involved for perhaps up to a decade. The Metro is suggesting we

have more confidence in ourselves. This is Iain Duncan-Smith thing

Cameron has a low opinion of the British and this is where it is

starting to become a little acrimonious. His view is we were

very successful as a country before the EU and we can be again. This is

a grand statement which does not mean anything. We may be a great

country, a grand country. The greatest country on Earth, according

to Iain Duncan-Smith. The point is the simple complicate it fact of the

way the world operates. They are not saying Britain is not great. What is

extraordinary is the people who want to leave the EU are complaining

bitterly about Cameron being rude about them but here they are

launching into a full frontal attack on the Prime Minister. It is

inconsistent. This is where the arguments between the in group and

the outgroup get in the way for a lot of people who are trying to

plough their way through all of this. It comes about a political

feud rather than the actual issues. The other one of which has been

overlooked in all of these stories, are the EU countries we are leaving

going to be in a mood to cut us a good deal if we leave? That seems to

be a big question. In the Telegraph, patients die in 111 ambulance

scandal. Can you sum it up for us? It seems that in the south-east,

there was a particular ambulance trust who decided it could only meet

targets if it secretly kept ambulance waiting for an extra ten

minutes before they were sent out to emergency calls. The call handlers

for I'm blazers were on their way, the people having after-tax thought

ambulance is were on their way but they were delayed so that the trust

could be seen to be meeting its targets. Now it is out it is a total

scandal. It is part of the cuts. It is trust is desperately trying to do

what they can while thinking they do not have the resources to do them.

The one when one service has had a pretty bad rap, hasn't it? We must

always used 999 and exaggerate our illnesses. 11 deaths linked to this

essentially stopping the clock on calls on a certain number. Almost

being downgraded as if they were not so important. They are very -- there

is a sad case of a man who was waiting 35 minutes while having a

heart attack and he died. He would probably have survived had the

ambulance arrived. Many retail jobs will vanish by 2025. What a cheerful

selection of front pages you have? There is nothing that is joyful. We

will try to find something that is a bit funny. This is a rather

depressing headline, isn't it? A million retail jobs to vanish,

according to an industry body. They are saying pressure from the

increased minimum wage is going to force them to cut back on jobs.

George Osborne is hoping that by paying higher wages, employers will

get more value out of their employees and make them worth more.

Certainly retailers are warning that sales will shift online and a lot of

jobs will go. They are saying it is about technology and the internet

and the automated tools. It is pretty depressing. Automated tales

are something that makes me want to commit physical violence! They make

me want to cry. I would gladly pay more for a human being. One tell I

have come across says, surprising item in baggage area explanation I

would dread to think what I am shopping for. Finally, with the

Financial Times, luxury flats lose lustre for foreign buyers. This is

as close as we could find for getting good news out of papers.

50,000 luxury flats are being built in London at the moment, very few of

which are being bought by Londoners. Prime property is being bought by

people abroad. Actually foreigners are up to them any longer. Are they

in the wrong place? These are flats, including in Battersea Power

Station, which would look like a very desirable place to live.

Wouldn't it be great if Londoners could start to have flats that were

built but Londoners could afford, instead of having storage boxes in

the sky for the world was Max super rich? All sorts of strange things

are happening. -- the world's super-rich. Arrival of final and

cassette gives analogue new reach of life -- lease of life. We are going

backwards. On a linear TV channel, we should not lament that, it should

we? Keep watching in real-time. We'll be back again at 11:30 p.m..