:00:00. > :00:00.more on by Yorkshire legend Geoff Boycott isn't being welcomed back by
:00:00. > :00:15.the board. That's all in 50 minutes, after The Papers. -- 15.
:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:19. > :00:22.With me are Simon Watkins, City editor of the Mail on Sunday,
:00:23. > :00:25.and the deputy editor of The New Day, Dawn Alford.
:00:26. > :00:33.The i accuses big building developers of making money out
:00:34. > :00:35.of the country's housing crisis by restricting the supply
:00:36. > :00:42.The Telegraph says Tory MPs are calling on the Chancellor to cut
:00:43. > :00:49.And to mark Super Tuesday, it also has a nice picture
:00:50. > :00:53.of Hillary Clinton joking with Donald Trump at his wedding.
:00:54. > :00:58.The Mirror warns that people may have to wait until they're 75
:00:59. > :01:00.before they can retire, after the government launched
:01:01. > :01:04.The Mail focusses on the same story, but it says white collar workers
:01:05. > :01:07.might have to wait longer for their pensions than manual workers.
:01:08. > :01:10.The Guardian leads with the claim by aid agencies
:01:11. > :01:13.and charities that unless Europe tackles the growing refugee crisis
:01:14. > :01:24.The FT leads with the claim by aid agencies
:01:25. > :01:27.and charities that unless Europe tackles the growing refugee crisis,
:01:28. > :01:31.The Express carries news of a new low-calorie liquid diet it says can
:01:32. > :01:38.And The New Day focuses on the story of a young cystic fibrosis
:01:39. > :01:40.sufferer whose releasing a single backed by celebrities to raise money
:01:41. > :01:59.Starting with the Sun. Work until you are 81. Mirror says work until
:02:00. > :02:04.you are 75. Is the Sun trying to get more readers by making us even more
:02:05. > :02:13.scared? It is one of those things that happens in the newspapers. You
:02:14. > :02:18.could pick any number, as long as it is above what the rate is going to
:02:19. > :02:27.be in about 2028 or whatever. 67. Yes. It is all because the
:02:28. > :02:33.government has said there needs to be reviewed. The implication is they
:02:34. > :02:39.suspect they are not sustainable. Therefore there does leave room for
:02:40. > :02:43.how high it might go and how quickly but the general feeling is it is
:02:44. > :02:51.probably going to go higher than we previously thought. It is something
:02:52. > :02:55.we have to get used to. This has been rumoured for some time. It went
:02:56. > :03:01.up recently, as you mentioned. Another way to look at it is it is
:03:02. > :03:07.really great news. We are going to hopefully live till 100, perhaps
:03:08. > :03:12.longer. If we are going to do that then we have to work longer to
:03:13. > :03:15.sustain the economy. Hold that thought. Someone on Twitter has just
:03:16. > :03:30.sent me a tweet saying, can you lend your panel stopped -- try being a
:03:31. > :03:34.manual labourer for an extra ten years? The Mail makes that point as
:03:35. > :03:39.well. That white-collar workers may have to work longer because it isn't
:03:40. > :03:45.as taxing, using your brain, that manual labour. I can understand the
:03:46. > :03:52.reason why, but I don't know how they would judge that. Somebody
:03:53. > :03:56.might well work in a manual job for 20-30 years and then work in it post
:03:57. > :04:01.office and do something fairly sedentary. How they would judge at
:04:02. > :04:08.what age you can retire... It is the kind of stuff that insurance
:04:09. > :04:11.industries do all the time, estimating the life expectancy of
:04:12. > :04:17.people in pension funds. To do it on a national scale is very difficult,
:04:18. > :04:23.I think. But it is an idea that is raised. I suspect it will be looked
:04:24. > :04:27.at. I'm sure if anything like it comes it will cause exactly the kind
:04:28. > :04:36.of upset that the Twitter post has brought up. People aren't saving for
:04:37. > :04:41.their retirement either. That's the other thing. The days of putting
:04:42. > :04:48.money aside from the age of 80 and having a lovely retirement pot at 60
:04:49. > :04:53.or 65 are probably long gone. Simply to pay the bills to buy food and
:04:54. > :04:55.have the odd holiday people will have to keep working if that's
:04:56. > :05:03.something they would like to do. I mentioned the front page of the
:05:04. > :05:07.Mail. The fact is, the coalition government brought in a law saying
:05:08. > :05:12.that the pension situation had to be reviewed every Parliament. This is
:05:13. > :05:19.part of that review. Are we going to have these kinds of stories every
:05:20. > :05:23.five years? It is entirely possible. There are obviously two elements to
:05:24. > :05:27.this. One is the state of the finances of people in private
:05:28. > :05:34.pensions. Whether there's enough there. That will inform this debate,
:05:35. > :05:38.as will the news of the demographic expectations. Those things have
:05:39. > :05:43.moved in recent years, in the opposite directions. We have less
:05:44. > :05:51.money in pensions and life expectancy is going up. We are
:05:52. > :05:59.probably in a permanent state of review. Moving on to the Times.
:06:00. > :06:04.E-cigarette prices soaring. They are very much in the news. Every day
:06:05. > :06:12.there is a new argument about whether they are safe or not. This
:06:13. > :06:19.particular story in the Times today is about how they may normally cost
:06:20. > :06:29.?23 and could now cost as much as ?53. The subtext here is that
:06:30. > :06:36.Brussels is doing that. They won't even leave our e-cigarettes alone.
:06:37. > :06:39.Clearly they are talking about whether or not they are doing a
:06:40. > :06:45.great job and clearly they are. 95% of people are giving up with the
:06:46. > :06:57.help of e-cigarettes, so they clearly are doing the job. Perhaps
:06:58. > :07:02.the answer is to tax e-cigarettes, but to me it doesn't seem like the
:07:03. > :07:07.best idea. To me it isn't entirely black and white. E-cigarettes
:07:08. > :07:09.clearly are helpful, as many people give up smoking, but they aren't
:07:10. > :07:26.harmless. They have nicotine in them. They are not harmless so it
:07:27. > :07:29.isn't so clear cut. There's just not enough known at the moment. Not
:07:30. > :07:35.enough studies. People don't know about the liquid is going into
:07:36. > :07:39.them, how safe they will be. But it is nicotine and that the addictive
:07:40. > :07:47.part. Maybe the answer is to tax them to the hill, or about all
:07:48. > :07:52.nicotine altogether. For the next four months are we going to have to
:07:53. > :08:01.look behind the headline of every single story? This could be to do
:08:02. > :08:07.with the referendum. We aren't sure whether Times sit with this. But we
:08:08. > :08:14.suspect we know what Rupert Murdoch thinks. This is a bit of EU bashing,
:08:15. > :08:23.isn't it? I think it will come from both sides. I think every story that
:08:24. > :08:26.has an EU angle on it is whether it demonstrates the evils all the
:08:27. > :08:31.marvels of the EU. That will be the prison to which newspapers will look
:08:32. > :08:40.at any story for months to come. Absolutely. Let's talk a little bit
:08:41. > :08:48.about The New Day later. This is interesting. The front page of the
:08:49. > :08:53.Telegraph. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton at the wedding of Donald
:08:54. > :08:58.Trump and his wife. That was in 2005. They looked very happy and
:08:59. > :09:03.jolly together. There's a lot of love in that room. Look at the white
:09:04. > :09:09.teeth and how much love there is happening. So what went wrong? They
:09:10. > :09:15.will be at each other's throats if they both win the nomination. One of
:09:16. > :09:18.the things that left to my mind about this is Donald Trump has
:09:19. > :09:23.portrayed himself to the American public as the outsider. Unconnected
:09:24. > :09:33.with the power elites in Washington. Here he is 11 years ago with the
:09:34. > :09:39.president of the United States. There can't be any politician that
:09:40. > :09:44.claims they are on the outside. Do you think you might have some double
:09:45. > :09:57.standards? My gosh! Super Tuesday today. 11 states and Donald Trump
:09:58. > :10:03.could well be the winner of the nomination. It looks likely. I have
:10:04. > :10:09.always been fascinated by American politics. Probably not so much as
:10:10. > :10:15.this time. It is incredible. To think that the entire Republican
:10:16. > :10:24.Party, or the Republican elite, are against him is incredible. We did a
:10:25. > :10:27.piece in The New Day asking what the world would look like with Donald
:10:28. > :10:34.Trump in charge and it is frightening. In one of our pieces he
:10:35. > :10:39.said, we are going to win, we are going to win, and you are going to
:10:40. > :10:44.say, we don't want to win any more! And I will say, yes! We will make
:10:45. > :10:53.America great again! But it works. It does. I see absolutely nothing
:10:54. > :10:59.behind the kind of rhetoric. There is no depth to it at all. When he
:11:00. > :11:10.works out that actually can't build the wall, what happens then? He will
:11:11. > :11:16.give up? Crazy. I am being told we will go to this story, ending rugby
:11:17. > :11:22.tackles. If you don't have tackles it's not rugby, is it? There is an
:11:23. > :11:25.argument that children of a certain age should perhaps be playing the
:11:26. > :11:32.contact sport quite as widely as they are. A bunch of doctors have
:11:33. > :11:37.got together, a huge amount of them, casualty workers, saying they see
:11:38. > :11:40.some of the most horrendous injuries. Children paralysed,
:11:41. > :11:46.children with brain damage and concussion. It's not that they are
:11:47. > :11:54.losing the odd tooth or breaking the odd bone, rugby can kill. Is it
:11:55. > :11:58.right to put your ten, 11 or 12-year-old on the pitch, or let
:11:59. > :12:04.them grow and let them decide for themselves, that it's a sport they
:12:05. > :12:08.want to carry on with? It is an interesting subject. One wonders
:12:09. > :12:14.what the authorities do with this. At the professional level there have
:12:15. > :12:16.been horrific injuries. And there are great concerns about unspotted
:12:17. > :12:23.concussion is among rugby players. It seems only natural that one would
:12:24. > :12:33.look at sport in schools. But if you ban rugby venue will ban a number of
:12:34. > :12:45.other sports. Golf? Golf! I would ban call. A dreadful pass time. Be
:12:46. > :12:50.careful! The New Day. You've got a story on Caty Price. An interesting
:12:51. > :12:56.story and you put it on the front page. Yes. She was a television
:12:57. > :13:00.today. She has never been shy in coming forward. Today she was
:13:01. > :13:08.talking about how when she was pregnant 14 years ago with Harvey if
:13:09. > :13:10.she had been told that he was going to be born blind and disabled she
:13:11. > :13:19.would have considered having an abortion. I hasten to add she did
:13:20. > :13:25.think she would have thought that as a 23-year-old, however clearly she
:13:26. > :13:31.loves her son very much and she is delighted that she didn't go ahead
:13:32. > :13:35.without, or didn't happen. Has she much sympathy for that position?
:13:36. > :13:40.Immediately some people were criticising her for the words but I
:13:41. > :13:43.think people actually step back now and people think she is very brave
:13:44. > :13:52.to say so and right to say so. You can't criticise her... She has
:13:53. > :13:57.always come across as being a very good mother, a very dedicated
:13:58. > :14:03.mother. Citing she was just being honest and that's often white gets
:14:04. > :14:08.her into trouble. Yes. It is a level of honesty that some people will
:14:09. > :14:16.find refreshing, others brave or cruel. I find it refreshing and I
:14:17. > :14:21.suspect there are many out there who applaud that honesty and concede the
:14:22. > :14:27.truth to that and humanity of that. I am sure there are some who are
:14:28. > :14:30.offended. The New Day. I am interested by the price on the
:14:31. > :14:37.front. 25 Peter Riddell price, the suggestion that it will go up? --
:14:38. > :14:47.trial price. That is more expensive than some of the other tabloids.
:14:48. > :14:57.Clearly it has elements of tabloid spirit about it and elements of what
:14:58. > :15:06.we used to call the broadsheet. Many years ago, you were very much judged
:15:07. > :15:11.by, if you were working class, you purchased a tabloid and if you are
:15:12. > :15:14.upper-class, you purchased a broadsheet. It is completely gone
:15:15. > :15:18.now and there are many of us in the middle and it is normal. We like to
:15:19. > :15:22.think that we are the newspaper for people who don't class themselves in
:15:23. > :15:28.any particular demographic, people who just want to not be lectured
:15:29. > :15:37.that. A balanced opinion and it will be independent? Absolutely. No
:15:38. > :15:49.political bias one way or the other? I think the days of Rupert Murdoch
:15:50. > :15:53.are over. People don't need newspapers telling them how to vote
:15:54. > :16:00.or think and they don't expect it. We are asking a question that you
:16:01. > :16:07.can see, was she being brave? Readers can make up their own mind.
:16:08. > :16:11.Sales so far? Very well. We have had a lot of very positive feedback.
:16:12. > :16:15.This is our first day so we won't know figures yet but yesterday was
:16:16. > :16:24.completely free. We are literally getting actual letters, print and
:16:25. > :16:28.post, and our post bag and social media feeds have been going crazy.
:16:29. > :16:34.Friends and colleagues and the public have seemed to be very
:16:35. > :16:41.pleased that it exists. Excellent. Thank you for your first appearance
:16:42. > :16:45.on the paper and the New Day being in the papers. Hopefully we will
:16:46. > :16:50.have much more of you in the future. Thank you for looking at the
:16:51. > :16:53.stories today. Stay with us, much more coming up. Now it is
:16:54. > :17:02.Sportsday.