:00:00. > :00:00.league action and Ireland's favourite cricket, the Twenty20
:00:00. > :00:15.World Cup. That's all in 15 minutes after The Papers.
:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:19. > :00:22.With me are Sue Matthias, of the FT, and James Millar,
:00:23. > :00:28.The Times says Britain is suffering from a sexting crisis with tens
:00:29. > :00:32.of thousands of schoolchildren caught sharing sexual imagery online
:00:33. > :00:38.The Independent reports on warnings that the North of England is
:00:39. > :00:41.in danger of becoming a cultural wasteland as town hall leaders are
:00:42. > :00:46.The Mail says the true scale of immigration to Britain by EU
:00:47. > :00:50.citizens is being kept secret by Government officials.
:00:51. > :00:51.The Telegraph reports benefits payments to
:00:52. > :00:58.the disabled are to be reduced in a move that could clear the way
:00:59. > :01:01.for George Osborne to cut taxes for the middle classes in the Budget.
:01:02. > :01:05.The FT says Mr Osborne faces an ?18 billion black hole that has opened
:01:06. > :01:09.The Guardian reports on a warning that Britain risks becoming
:01:10. > :01:14."permanently divided" as a result of intergenerational inequality.
:01:15. > :01:17.And the Sun has what it calls an "exclusive investigation" into
:01:18. > :01:33.Starting with a couple of stories to do with the economy. Firstly, the
:01:34. > :01:45.FT. George Osborne faces ?18 million black hole is the headline. Before
:01:46. > :01:50.Christmas we seem to -- seemed to be in a fine of the ball. Yes, and his
:01:51. > :01:56.last statement was fairly generous. Now it has become quite awkward. ?18
:01:57. > :02:02.billion, which sounds like quite a lot of money. As you say it has
:02:03. > :02:10.opened up this black hole since then and what it means is that
:02:11. > :02:20.essentially we will have to be back to austerity. Do we know why there
:02:21. > :02:27.is this huge Blackall? The Blackall was there before Christmas. -- black
:02:28. > :02:29.hole. It's just they didn't know it was there and he tells the
:02:30. > :02:41.Chancellor how big the economy isn't all of this. Is it a he or she? It's
:02:42. > :02:44.a heady. -- a he. And he has said the economy is 1% smaller than he
:02:45. > :02:48.previously said, leaving the Chancellor with a bit of a problem.
:02:49. > :02:53.It signalled the end to the worst of austerity. He won't be going back on
:02:54. > :03:00.it immediately because there is an EU referendum insight and he is told
:03:01. > :03:05.to not rock the boat. Happy days are still here for a little bit longer.
:03:06. > :03:13.So do we just sit there with this debt? Waiting for it to happen, yes.
:03:14. > :03:16.The interesting thing is that George Osborne has been in charge of the
:03:17. > :03:22.economy for six years and it isn't actually fixed. He has had quite a
:03:23. > :03:27.long run of this. It doesn't make him look very good. You just wonder
:03:28. > :03:35.if the wind will start blowing the other way. Jeremy Auburn will --
:03:36. > :03:42.Jeremy Corbyn will suddenly start looking good! In your opinion! He is
:03:43. > :03:54.now talking about fiscal credibility. But George Osborne is
:03:55. > :04:03.getting a kicking. Well, let's see whether The Daily Telegraph has a
:04:04. > :04:08.different opinion. There are some winners and losers. Yes. The
:04:09. > :04:13.Telegraph is broadly in favour of cutting welfare and tax breaks. It
:04:14. > :04:20.doesn't sound like it. The devil is in the detail. The welfare cuts will
:04:21. > :04:23.fall for disabled people. 600,000 disabled people will lose a portion
:04:24. > :04:31.of their benefits, to save ?1.2 billion. This will increase the
:04:32. > :04:37.threshold, which is something the Tories said they would do in their
:04:38. > :04:41.manifesto. So it isn't going to kick in straight away. People will have
:04:42. > :04:47.to wait for the change to their tax status. That's right. Really what
:04:48. > :04:53.this is suggesting is that this is a trade-off. That he is handing the
:04:54. > :05:01.middle classes or the lower middle classes a sweetener and that a lot
:05:02. > :05:06.of disabled people will suffer as a consequence. So, again, a bad
:05:07. > :05:17.headline for George. And something Labour can work with. You might
:05:18. > :05:21.still not want to benefit on the backs of disabled people having
:05:22. > :05:27.their benefits cut. It is quite a nice story in a way. The straight
:05:28. > :05:31.story, in that your view on it depends on the views you bring to
:05:32. > :05:44.it. The Telegraph pushing a particular point. The Guardian. A
:05:45. > :05:51.permanent divide. Social mobility tsar warns of an existential crisis.
:05:52. > :05:57.He has been looking at this for a while. Who are the real losers? The
:05:58. > :06:01.Guardian has been following this story all week. In fact, they had a
:06:02. > :06:12.massive splash at the beginning of the week. This so-called lost
:06:13. > :06:21.generation. They are really, from this point of view, being shafted by
:06:22. > :06:30.society in that they will... They will never probably be able to
:06:31. > :06:34.afford to buy a home and employment is going to continue to be difficult
:06:35. > :06:42.for them. Pensions when they are older. Any remedy suggested? Yes, go
:06:43. > :06:49.and vote. This crazy idea, go out and vote. The reason the Chancellor
:06:50. > :06:56.protects pensioners from austerity is because they vote for it. If you
:06:57. > :06:58.don't like what's happening with young people, get out and vote and
:06:59. > :07:03.then they will start paying attention to you, rather than being
:07:04. > :07:08.millennial is. They aren't whining about being millennial is, this is
:07:09. > :07:15.not something conjured up out of thin air. Absolutely not. They
:07:16. > :07:22.should go and vote and they haven't been and we are just saying of the
:07:23. > :07:25.EU referendum vote coming up, which will affect the prospects of a lot
:07:26. > :07:30.of young people, most of them will be at Glastonbury and they won't be
:07:31. > :07:34.voting. James is so miles how he says it but he is actually very
:07:35. > :07:42.rude! I am not going to put it like that. They should go and vote! But
:07:43. > :07:46.you could be a little gentler. The Daily Mail, migrant numbers. Tell us
:07:47. > :07:51.the true numbers of EU numbers. Suggestions of the figures being
:07:52. > :07:57.covered up. It isn't an especially new story. It is slightly
:07:58. > :08:03.complicated. In terms of the figures, there a difference the
:08:04. > :08:07.figures of the number of migrants and the numbers of national
:08:08. > :08:10.insurance numbers given. That's because the office of national
:08:11. > :08:13.statistics records the number of people staying for a year. Anyone
:08:14. > :08:21.who turns up gets a national insurance number. So you're two
:08:22. > :08:28.different things. I've got a Social Security number for America but I
:08:29. > :08:31.don't live there. Yes, but the government has it within its power
:08:32. > :08:35.to give out the figure for the number of active numbers. What is
:08:36. > :08:42.the suggestion as to why they aren't giving it out? The suggestion is
:08:43. > :08:49.that... Where is it... They haven't got time or it is too expensive to
:08:50. > :09:00.do. Yes, it is such a big decision. What's the problem? People who have
:09:01. > :09:07.and -- NI numbers, they weren't working on the black economy and are
:09:08. > :09:10.properly -- probably only here for a short amount of time and they are
:09:11. > :09:17.paying taxes, contributing. But they might be getting in work benefits.
:09:18. > :09:21.There are couple of stories. The Daily Mail says the issues are
:09:22. > :09:29.different, but the government can clear this up and I've not. That's
:09:30. > :09:32.important. But the story about migrants claiming enormous amounts
:09:33. > :09:37.of benefits has already been disproved. They are not. They are
:09:38. > :09:44.contributing more in taxes than they are taking benefits. It's something
:09:45. > :09:50.David Cameron wanted to bring back from the negotiations. Living on the
:09:51. > :09:59.Daily Mirror. There's no actual substance to this story. Are ripped
:10:00. > :10:02.stars driving meant to eating disorders? The suggestion that this
:10:03. > :10:07.very muscular men are having a negative impact on the younger men,
:10:08. > :10:14.boys, teenagers, who feel they also need to look like this. Well, I have
:10:15. > :10:19.no idea whether this is true or not and whether the ripped stars are
:10:20. > :10:23.having this effect, but it seems an arguable that more men are suffering
:10:24. > :10:27.from eating disorders, whichever report you look at. And men are more
:10:28. > :10:31.concerned, especially young men, maybe older men as well, are more
:10:32. > :10:39.concerned with their looks, their physique. Whether it is these two
:10:40. > :10:45.particular men, I don't know. That's just a handy picture. Even that, it
:10:46. > :10:50.is almost a sign of the way things are going. The number of pictures
:10:51. > :11:01.with pretty ladies on the front, and they put the ripped men on the
:11:02. > :11:06.front... It is on the quality of us thought that we aren't necessarily
:11:07. > :11:12.after. Exactly what feminists and suchlike didn't want or don't want,
:11:13. > :11:17.which is to drag everybody down to the same level. It is about raising
:11:18. > :11:23.everybody up. The Telegraph. Driverless cars heading to a road
:11:24. > :11:29.near you soon. Not just cars, great big vehicles that travel in a long
:11:30. > :11:32.line. Yes, they are all in line together but through the miracle of
:11:33. > :11:42.technology they are observing proper, safe limits between them.
:11:43. > :11:47.But how fast can a travel? No idea. As fast as you want to make them go.
:11:48. > :11:55.They are talking about 50 mph, which keeps a short gap. There are drivers
:11:56. > :11:59.present but they're not involved in driving until they leave the
:12:00. > :12:07.motorway. Are you excited by this author of five? I am neither excited
:12:08. > :12:12.or horrified. They are the only options I gave you! Please pick one.
:12:13. > :12:15.I think driverless cars are the future. I think they raise all kinds
:12:16. > :12:25.of incredibly interesting questions, such as who is liable. Is it the
:12:26. > :12:31.robot? Is a technology? Or is it the human controlling it? Just do it and
:12:32. > :12:36.see what happens. Don't worry about things like that. George Osborne is
:12:37. > :12:43.featured in this story again. He is promoting this. Is he going to make
:12:44. > :12:49.money out of it? He wants Britain to be the world leader in this
:12:50. > :12:58.technology. Finishing with the FT. Demand increases for disgraced
:12:59. > :13:01.insurance service. This is prompted by the Maria Sharapova testing
:13:02. > :13:04.positive for a banned drug. The sponsors are having second thoughts
:13:05. > :13:16.about whether they want to be associated with her.
:13:17. > :13:20.This is about celebrities doing anything that will damage their
:13:21. > :13:25.brand. If you have a celebrity, in this case Maria Sharapova, although
:13:26. > :13:31.some of her sponsors are staying with her, but if you have a
:13:32. > :13:35.celebrity who is endorsing your brand and then goes off and does
:13:36. > :13:41.something incredibly damaging to the brand, such as, I don't know, taking
:13:42. > :13:47.cocaine in nightclubs or whatever, then you can be insured against that
:13:48. > :13:52.disgrace. I have never heard about that before. That is why it is
:13:53. > :13:56.interesting is because it is new. And it is social media as well. Not
:13:57. > :14:01.just taking drugs, but sending a tweet that is deemed a bit racist,
:14:02. > :14:09.all of a sudden you have a nightmare run your hands. It perhaps applies
:14:10. > :14:17.more in the entertainment industry, the music industry, where the
:14:18. > :14:27.stars... You kind of want... The brand is almost hired them for those
:14:28. > :14:32.bad boy, bad girl ideas. That is the Papers for tonight. It is lovely to
:14:33. > :14:38.see you both, honestly, it really is. Up next, Sportsday.