29/04/2016

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:00:20. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:26. > :00:28.With me is Neil Midgley, media commentator from the Telegraph,

:00:29. > :00:30.and Louise Court, Director of editorial strategy

:00:31. > :00:43.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

:00:44. > :00:46.The Daily Mail leads on the former owner of BHS, Sir Philip Green,

:00:47. > :00:51.who it says could be forced to pay out tens of millions of pounds

:00:52. > :00:52.to help the company's pension black hole.

:00:53. > :00:56.on the parents of six and seven year olds who are planning

:00:57. > :00:59.to keeping their children away from class to avoid new school

:01:00. > :01:03.The Guardian has an interview with Jeremy Corbyn in which he says

:01:04. > :01:06.the anti-Semitism row will not blow his leadership off course.

:01:07. > :01:09.The i says the Labour Party can expect heavy losses across the UK

:01:10. > :01:12.in the local elections following the argument over

:01:13. > :01:20.The Mirror has an interview with the BBC

:01:21. > :01:23.presenter Chris Packham, who speaks out about his battle

:01:24. > :01:26.The Express highlights new research which says

:01:27. > :01:28.eating one bar of chocolate a day can reduce diabetes

:01:29. > :01:48.We start with what is happening in the Labour Party and how the

:01:49. > :01:54.Guardian is reporting this. Kobin sets up an inquiry to anti-Semitism

:01:55. > :01:58.and fights back after a tumultuous week -- Jeremy Corbyn. We were

:01:59. > :02:02.reporting earlier that the newspaper Jewish news had got this exclusive

:02:03. > :02:07.about an independent inquiry that Jeremy Corbyn set up, and now here

:02:08. > :02:12.it is in the Guardian. He had to do something. He had to take action. It

:02:13. > :02:20.has been a dreadful week for him and the Labour Party. He has also said

:02:21. > :02:28.he will propose a new code of conduct for the Labour Party and how

:02:29. > :02:32.they deal with racist issues. It has been terrible. I wonder why it has

:02:33. > :02:36.taken so long, because it was going on for a long time. We would just

:02:37. > :02:40.looking at the front pages before we came into the studio, and I did a

:02:41. > :02:46.bit of googling and of course, there were whispers about anti-Semitism in

:02:47. > :02:50.the Labour Party even before Jeremy Corbyn was elected. In the run-up to

:02:51. > :02:59.the general election last year as well. The former editor of left foot

:03:00. > :03:03.forward, every left-leaning journalist, in August of last year,

:03:04. > :03:08.when Corbyn was campaigning for the leadership, he was talking them

:03:09. > :03:14.about how uncomfortable Jeremy Corbyn was when quizzed on Channel 4

:03:15. > :03:20.News about having hosted Hamas and Hezbollah in Parliament. Bloodworth

:03:21. > :03:24.said, I am paraphrasing, but he said, I question the Labour Party

:03:25. > :03:33.and how seriously it is taking anti-Semitism. So this has been

:03:34. > :03:37.around for a long time. The fact that there was the whole John Mann

:03:38. > :03:44.versus Ken Livingstone kind of ruckus in the Millbank Studios

:03:45. > :03:50.stairwell the other day, followed by Jeremy Corbyn doing his usual

:03:51. > :03:54.routine of refusing to talk to reporters, desperately tried to put

:03:55. > :03:59.a code into a door this morning so that he could get away from the

:04:00. > :04:04.reporter following him, there has been a complete lack of organisation

:04:05. > :04:10.in the Labour Party and a sense of chaos and farce around something

:04:11. > :04:23.which is incredibly serious. But Ken Livingstone was suspended. Yes, he

:04:24. > :04:26.has been. And he should have been. The fact that there is this almost

:04:27. > :04:33.any Hill sort of farce with people being chased around -- a Benny hill

:04:34. > :04:37.farce around something, I mean, he was talking about Hitler and Zionism

:04:38. > :04:44.in the same sentence, which is massively offensive. That should be

:04:45. > :04:49.something that Corbyn was straight down on. But he's not going quietly,

:04:50. > :04:54.because he is still saying he is going to contest it. It is

:04:55. > :05:01.impossible for them to keep a lid on it. Ken Livingstone said, they will

:05:02. > :05:06.have to admit me back to the party. Even on the day he said it, he said,

:05:07. > :05:09.I am not saying anything controversial, but it was so

:05:10. > :05:13.offensive to some. Ken Livingstone knows what he's doing. He is a

:05:14. > :05:16.seasoned politician and he would know a comment like that would

:05:17. > :05:26.attract attention. Incredibly inflammatory. He has tried to

:05:27. > :05:31.explain it away by saying he is making a particular historically

:05:32. > :05:35.accurate point. About the deportation of Jews before the

:05:36. > :05:40.Second World War to Israel. Specifically, the platform on which

:05:41. > :05:50.Hitler ran in the 1932 election in Germany. Well, even if that is true,

:05:51. > :05:57.it is an incredibly distasteful factor for Ken to pick out when he

:05:58. > :06:00.is responding to accusations of anti-Semitism against some of his

:06:01. > :06:05.parliamentary colleagues. That is not the time to choose to be

:06:06. > :06:14.historically selective about Adolf Hitler. Let's look at how the i is

:06:15. > :06:19.looking at it. It says the party can express heavy losses in the

:06:20. > :06:22.elections next week after bitter anti-Semitism rows. But we don't

:06:23. > :06:32.know how much difference this row will make to voters. They were

:06:33. > :06:36.concerned about local elections in the first place, but this makes it

:06:37. > :06:39.worse. If you think about the groundswell of the popularity of

:06:40. > :06:43.Corbyn, which was based on a lot of young millennial voters who he

:06:44. > :06:49.engaged with and they felt he was genuine, but being caught in a

:06:50. > :06:54.racism row is going to turn those young people off. A lot of people

:06:55. > :07:00.who turn out for elections tend not to be younger people, they are older

:07:01. > :07:03.people. There is interesting stuff going on on social media, away from

:07:04. > :07:09.what is happening with the Labour Party directly. Sayeeda Warsi,

:07:10. > :07:14.Baroness Warsi, who sits on the Conservative benches in the Lords,

:07:15. > :07:18.and is a Muslim woman as well, she says on Twitter, in the world of

:07:19. > :07:23.politics, while Labour is in a civil war, in the real world, West

:07:24. > :07:29.Yorkshire sincerely do is try to heal the rift. And there is a letter

:07:30. > :07:35.in a newspaper from a man who was a refugee from Nazi Germany and came

:07:36. > :07:43.to Britain in the 1930s. He is a Jewish community leader in Bradford,

:07:44. > :07:46.saying that now is sharp, the MP -- now Shah, the MP who wrote

:07:47. > :07:50.intemperately about Israel on Facebook and is a Labour MP, he says

:07:51. > :07:55.she has apologised for this and this should be the end of the matter that

:07:56. > :08:02.there are other tweets on social media saying that in Bradford, the

:08:03. > :08:07.Muslim community, amongst others, contributed towards the synagogue in

:08:08. > :08:12.Bradford. So on the ground, people are trying to put this right in a

:08:13. > :08:20.way that maybe puts national politicians to shame. And quite

:08:21. > :08:26.right, too, that there should be community cohesion. But that doesn't

:08:27. > :08:32.stop there being a big problem in the Labour Party. On a national

:08:33. > :08:39.level, that is something Jeremy Corbyn has to address. It is sad

:08:40. > :08:48.that one of our two major political parties is embroiled. I am no Labour

:08:49. > :08:55.supporter, but there should be an opposition which is strong and

:08:56. > :08:58.united and ethical time when we have an insecure international situation

:08:59. > :09:02.and we are going into a referendum on the future of the country next

:09:03. > :09:08.month. We should be talking about Europe, not rather nasty, unsavoury

:09:09. > :09:20.internecine goings-on in the Labour Party. Let's move on. The times says

:09:21. > :09:24.parents shun school tests ooh and ah the Times. Not everyone is going to

:09:25. > :09:29.turn up for these tests for seven-year-olds by the sound of it.

:09:30. > :09:34.This is amazing. I think it is a great story. We keep hearing reports

:09:35. > :09:38.that a lot of our kids are the most stressed and the most unhappy in

:09:39. > :09:42.Europe with the amount of pressure put on children. Why are six and

:09:43. > :09:48.seven-year-olds taking these tests? A lot of teachers they they don't

:09:49. > :09:52.get the point of it. And creating these tests is putting huge stress

:09:53. > :09:56.on the teachers, kids why so many leave the profession. But the

:09:57. > :10:01.parents are going to risk fines of up to ?120 per child by keeping them

:10:02. > :10:11.out of school for the dates of the tests. Why are you smoking? --

:10:12. > :10:16.smirking? I wish my school had allowed me to stay at home. You did

:10:17. > :10:24.not have those tests. Not these ones. My equivalent was showing up

:10:25. > :10:32.for rugby in the hail in Leeds. Count the building. Exactly, but so

:10:33. > :10:37.are tests. Oh, Neil! Well, yes, kids are stressed and we put so much

:10:38. > :10:41.pressure on them these days. But at the same time, there are lots of

:10:42. > :10:45.things in life that six and seven-year-olds are not going to

:10:46. > :10:50.like but they are going to have to show up for later in life. And their

:10:51. > :10:55.parents should be teaching them the lesson at that age that sometimes,

:10:56. > :11:04.you have to man up or woman up and do it. Louise, would you keep your

:11:05. > :11:10.six or seven-year-old at home? Would I keep them at home and risk a fine?

:11:11. > :11:17.Probably not. So you agree with me? No, because I think sums up to the

:11:18. > :11:21.parents that do. Overall, I think kids do far too many tests at

:11:22. > :11:29.school. It stresses out the whole family. And it is pointless. What is

:11:30. > :11:39.the point? Do an exam at ten or 11, but not before. It depends how the

:11:40. > :11:43.school manages to handle the Sats. A lot say secondary schools take

:11:44. > :11:48.little notice anyway. But it says here that headteachers are giving

:11:49. > :11:52.their tacit approval and in some cases lend their support to the

:11:53. > :12:01.campaign, called let our kids begins. What are these tests for? I

:12:02. > :12:08.don't know! But if a school set a test, you should show up for it. But

:12:09. > :12:12.the organisers of this are anonymous. So do you think they are

:12:13. > :12:18.terrified of their children being picked on? Reprisals from Nicky

:12:19. > :12:23.Morgan? Coming to get them before she turns them into an academy. They

:12:24. > :12:27.sit two reading papers and two maths papers and two in spelling and

:12:28. > :12:33.grammar, quite a lot. And you don't want a seven-year-old to feel they

:12:34. > :12:37.are a failure at six or seven. Unless you're going to do something

:12:38. > :12:43.with those results, what is the point? The problem with maths is a

:12:44. > :12:49.lack of rigour in the exams further up the ladder. If kids were properly

:12:50. > :13:00.prepared for serious O-levels and A-levels, as we were in our day...

:13:01. > :13:08.You are ageing me now! Well, I am sure Louise was doing GCSEs or

:13:09. > :13:12.whatever trade -- trendy thing they have now, but in my day, the exams

:13:13. > :13:17.you sat were graded so that universities and employers could

:13:18. > :13:22.distinguish between the kids who sat them on the basis of their result.

:13:23. > :13:30.Now that there are prizes for everybody and everybody passes, that

:13:31. > :13:41.is impossible. They don't all pass. 98% or something get something. They

:13:42. > :13:47.don't all get A*s. But they all pass. In my day, the average

:13:48. > :13:58.national exam result was a CSE grade four, which was a fail. There are

:13:59. > :14:05.targets that the schools set. But and universities say there is not

:14:06. > :14:08.sufficient distinction to distinguish between the most able

:14:09. > :14:14.and the list able. And that is feeding further down the system into

:14:15. > :14:19.this enormous stress where kids have to be constantly taking tests. And

:14:20. > :14:27.once you passed your exams, you went down the pit. That's right. Let's go

:14:28. > :14:33.to the Daily Mirror. This is Chris Packham, my suicide agony. He is a

:14:34. > :14:37.hugely popular presenter. We will see him soon on Springwatch on the

:14:38. > :14:45.BBC. He was talking about how he struggled with Asperger syndrome,

:14:46. > :14:47.and he was suicidal, even though he had this tremendously successful

:14:48. > :14:55.career. I was researching this before we came on. Thank goodness

:14:56. > :15:01.for Google. If you suffer from Asperger syndrome, you are more

:15:02. > :15:05.prone to depression, apparently. This story is on the front page of

:15:06. > :15:09.the Times as well. What is strong about it is the fact that

:15:10. > :15:14.apparently, eight Out Of ten Cats suicide attempts are done by men.

:15:15. > :15:17.And there is a lot of concern about men being at risk of suicide and

:15:18. > :15:22.suffering from mental illness and depression because they don't talk

:15:23. > :15:26.to anybody about it. There is a huge stigma, so to have somebody in the

:15:27. > :15:33.public eye talking about this is a brave thing to do. It is, and men's

:15:34. > :15:36.mental health, Louise runs an organisation of women's magazines

:15:37. > :15:44.and I used to work on very young women's magazines. We gave a lot of

:15:45. > :15:48.coverage at one stage to telling the young women reading our magazine to

:15:49. > :15:53.talk to their boyfriends and make sure there were emotionally literate

:15:54. > :16:01.in talking about their problems instead of bottling them up. And

:16:02. > :16:05.here he is talking about thoughts of suicide. As Louise said, there are

:16:06. > :16:15.too many suicide attempt is among young men. On to page three of the

:16:16. > :16:21.Times. Still in fashion, face of folk at 100 is chic and so stylish.

:16:22. > :16:29.And there is a model of the same age who looks sensational. Marjorie Bo

:16:30. > :16:33.Gilbert. A fantastic name, and she is the retired director of a

:16:34. > :16:37.cardboard box manufacturing company, which is not glamorous, but she

:16:38. > :16:43.looks amazing. She is wearing Victoria Beckham clothes in this

:16:44. > :16:48.photograph and she says, I always like to keep myself looking decent.

:16:49. > :16:53.Even if I am not going up, I try to keep standards up. I dress to sit

:16:54. > :16:58.myself. I don't dress for boys. She laments the fact that we are not all

:16:59. > :17:09.wearing hats. I am with her on that, there are not enough hats worn these

:17:10. > :17:13.days. All gloves. Yes, if you like. But 100 years old, Vogue. I had no

:17:14. > :17:24.idea it was that old. How old is Cosmo? It is not 100. It is just

:17:25. > :17:28.over 50 in America and 43 in the UK. Still good going. Would you put

:17:29. > :17:37.someone aged 50 in a fashion shoot in Cosmo in the UK? I don't see why

:17:38. > :17:43.not. We probably have. You have an editor over 50. That is different,

:17:44. > :17:48.because you don't see that. Vogue are making a big point of anti-ages

:17:49. > :17:54.in fashion. Will you follow them? Cosmo never follows, Cosmo said the

:17:55. > :17:59.trends. So what if the trend you can set? We could have a naked man over

:18:00. > :18:05.100 in doubt. I would come and do that! You are too young. Finally, I

:18:06. > :18:11.know you are probably sick of me talking about Leicester City. The

:18:12. > :18:19.Daily Star says God signs for the foxes. Leicester City have turned to

:18:20. > :18:23.God in any effort to seal their fairy tale first Premier League

:18:24. > :18:29.title tomorrow. I know you are a pistol palace fan, Louise. -- a

:18:30. > :18:34.Crystal Palace fan. But are you pleased for Leicester? I think it is

:18:35. > :18:39.great to see another underdog up there, doing amazingly, especially

:18:40. > :18:44.when they don't have the funds like Crystal Palace don't have the funds,

:18:45. > :18:49.some of the big clubs. It cheers everybody up to see that possible.

:18:50. > :18:54.The club chaplain is going to lead the players in prayer before they

:18:55. > :18:58.meet Man Utd on Sunday. The mind boggles. I am not a football fan,

:18:59. > :19:04.but the idea of a Premier League dressing room falling into silence

:19:05. > :19:12.for spiritual contemplation before a match... I am sure it happens all

:19:13. > :19:15.the time. Does it? A very large Leicester flight has been purchased

:19:16. > :19:21.in our house. It is enormous and vulgar -- a large Leicester flag. I

:19:22. > :19:28.could put it on this table as a cloth. You have to wrap it around a

:19:29. > :19:34.Bible now. And maybe lend it to Gary Lineker when he has to present in

:19:35. > :19:40.his pants in September. He could be in Cosmo.

:19:41. > :19:46.are online on the BBC News website, where you can read a detailed

:19:47. > :20:04.It's all there for you seven days a week.