29/04/2016 The Papers

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

With me is Neil Midgley, media commentator from the Telegraph,

and Louise Court, Director of editorial strategy

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

The Daily Mail leads on the former owner of BHS, Sir Philip Green,

who it says could be forced to pay out tens of millions of pounds

to help the company's pension black hole.

on the parents of six and seven year olds who are planning

to keeping their children away from class to avoid new school

The Guardian has an interview with Jeremy Corbyn in which he says

the anti-Semitism row will not blow his leadership off course.

The i says the Labour Party can expect heavy losses across the UK

in the local elections following the argument over

The Mirror has an interview with the BBC

presenter Chris Packham, who speaks out about his battle

The Express highlights new research which says

eating one bar of chocolate a day can reduce diabetes

We start with what is happening in the Labour Party and how the

Guardian is reporting this. Kobin sets up an inquiry to anti-Semitism

and fights back after a tumultuous week -- Jeremy Corbyn. We were

reporting earlier that the newspaper Jewish news had got this exclusive

about an independent inquiry that Jeremy Corbyn set up, and now here

it is in the Guardian. He had to do something. He had to take action. It

has been a dreadful week for him and the Labour Party. He has also said

he will propose a new code of conduct for the Labour Party and how

they deal with racist issues. It has been terrible. I wonder why it has

taken so long, because it was going on for a long time. We would just

looking at the front pages before we came into the studio, and I did a

bit of googling and of course, there were whispers about anti-Semitism in

the Labour Party even before Jeremy Corbyn was elected. In the run-up to

the general election last year as well. The former editor of left foot

forward, every left-leaning journalist, in August of last year,

when Corbyn was campaigning for the leadership, he was talking them

about how uncomfortable Jeremy Corbyn was when quizzed on Channel 4

News about having hosted Hamas and Hezbollah in Parliament. Bloodworth

said, I am paraphrasing, but he said, I question the Labour Party

and how seriously it is taking anti-Semitism. So this has been

around for a long time. The fact that there was the whole John Mann

versus Ken Livingstone kind of ruckus in the Millbank Studios

stairwell the other day, followed by Jeremy Corbyn doing his usual

routine of refusing to talk to reporters, desperately tried to put

a code into a door this morning so that he could get away from the

reporter following him, there has been a complete lack of organisation

in the Labour Party and a sense of chaos and farce around something

which is incredibly serious. But Ken Livingstone was suspended. Yes, he

has been. And he should have been. The fact that there is this almost

any Hill sort of farce with people being chased around -- a Benny hill

farce around something, I mean, he was talking about Hitler and Zionism

in the same sentence, which is massively offensive. That should be

something that Corbyn was straight down on. But he's not going quietly,

because he is still saying he is going to contest it. It is

impossible for them to keep a lid on it. Ken Livingstone said, they will

have to admit me back to the party. Even on the day he said it, he said,

I am not saying anything controversial, but it was so

offensive to some. Ken Livingstone knows what he's doing. He is a

seasoned politician and he would know a comment like that would

attract attention. Incredibly inflammatory. He has tried to

explain it away by saying he is making a particular historically

accurate point. About the deportation of Jews before the

Second World War to Israel. Specifically, the platform on which

Hitler ran in the 1932 election in Germany. Well, even if that is true,

it is an incredibly distasteful factor for Ken to pick out when he

is responding to accusations of anti-Semitism against some of his

parliamentary colleagues. That is not the time to choose to be

historically selective about Adolf Hitler. Let's look at how the i is

looking at it. It says the party can express heavy losses in the

elections next week after bitter anti-Semitism rows. But we don't

know how much difference this row will make to voters. They were

concerned about local elections in the first place, but this makes it

worse. If you think about the groundswell of the popularity of

Corbyn, which was based on a lot of young millennial voters who he

engaged with and they felt he was genuine, but being caught in a

racism row is going to turn those young people off. A lot of people

who turn out for elections tend not to be younger people, they are older

people. There is interesting stuff going on on social media, away from

what is happening with the Labour Party directly. Sayeeda Warsi,

Baroness Warsi, who sits on the Conservative benches in the Lords,

and is a Muslim woman as well, she says on Twitter, in the world of

politics, while Labour is in a civil war, in the real world, West

Yorkshire sincerely do is try to heal the rift. And there is a letter

in a newspaper from a man who was a refugee from Nazi Germany and came

to Britain in the 1930s. He is a Jewish community leader in Bradford,

saying that now is sharp, the MP -- now Shah, the MP who wrote

intemperately about Israel on Facebook and is a Labour MP, he says

she has apologised for this and this should be the end of the matter that

there are other tweets on social media saying that in Bradford, the

Muslim community, amongst others, contributed towards the synagogue in

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

way that maybe puts national politicians to shame. And quite

right, too, that there should be community cohesion. But that doesn't

stop there being a big problem in the Labour Party. On a national

level, that is something Jeremy Corbyn has to address. It is sad

that one of our two major political parties is embroiled. I am no Labour

supporter, but there should be an opposition which is strong and

united and ethical time when we have an insecure international situation

and we are going into a referendum on the future of the country next

month. We should be talking about Europe, not rather nasty, unsavoury

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

parents shun school tests ooh and ah the Times. Not everyone is going to

turn up for these tests for seven-year-olds by the sound of it.

This is amazing. I think it is a great story. We keep hearing reports

that a lot of our kids are the most stressed and the most unhappy in

Europe with the amount of pressure put on children. Why are six and

seven-year-olds taking these tests? A lot of teachers they they don't

get the point of it. And creating these tests is putting huge stress

on the teachers, kids why so many leave the profession. But the

parents are going to risk fines of up to ?120 per child by keeping them

out of school for the dates of the tests. Why are you smoking? --

smirking? I wish my school had allowed me to stay at home. You did

not have those tests. Not these ones. My equivalent was showing up

for rugby in the hail in Leeds. Count the building. Exactly, but so

are tests. Oh, Neil! Well, yes, kids are stressed and we put so much

pressure on them these days. But at the same time, there are lots of

things in life that six and seven-year-olds are not going to

like but they are going to have to show up for later in life. And their

parents should be teaching them the lesson at that age that sometimes,

you have to man up or woman up and do it. Louise, would you keep your

six or seven-year-old at home? Would I keep them at home and risk a fine?

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

parents that do. Overall, I think kids do far too many tests at

school. It stresses out the whole family. And it is pointless. What is

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

school manages to handle the Sats. A lot say secondary schools take

little notice anyway. But it says here that headteachers are giving

their tacit approval and in some cases lend their support to the

campaign, called let our kids begins. What are these tests for? I

don't know! But if a school set a test, you should show up for it. But

the organisers of this are anonymous. So do you think they are

terrified of their children being picked on? Reprisals from Nicky

Morgan? Coming to get them before she turns them into an academy. They

sit two reading papers and two maths papers and two in spelling and

grammar, quite a lot. And you don't want a seven-year-old to feel they

are a failure at six or seven. Unless you're going to do something

with those results, what is the point? The problem with maths is a

lack of rigour in the exams further up the ladder. If kids were properly

prepared for serious O-levels and A-levels, as we were in our day...

You are ageing me now! Well, I am sure Louise was doing GCSEs or

whatever trade -- trendy thing they have now, but in my day, the exams

you sat were graded so that universities and employers could

distinguish between the kids who sat them on the basis of their result.

Now that there are prizes for everybody and everybody passes, that

is impossible. They don't all pass. 98% or something get something. They

don't all get A*s. But they all pass. In my day, the average

national exam result was a CSE grade four, which was a fail. There are

targets that the schools set. But and universities say there is not

sufficient distinction to distinguish between the most able

and the list able. And that is feeding further down the system into

this enormous stress where kids have to be constantly taking tests. And

once you passed your exams, you went down the pit. That's right. Let's go

to the Daily Mirror. This is Chris Packham, my suicide agony. He is a

hugely popular presenter. We will see him soon on Springwatch on the

BBC. He was talking about how he struggled with Asperger syndrome,

and he was suicidal, even though he had this tremendously successful

career. I was researching this before we came on. Thank goodness

for Google. If you suffer from Asperger syndrome, you are more

prone to depression, apparently. This story is on the front page of

the Times as well. What is strong about it is the fact that

apparently, eight Out Of ten Cats suicide attempts are done by men.

And there is a lot of concern about men being at risk of suicide and

suffering from mental illness and depression because they don't talk

to anybody about it. There is a huge stigma, so to have somebody in the

public eye talking about this is a brave thing to do. It is, and men's

mental health, Louise runs an organisation of women's magazines

and I used to work on very young women's magazines. We gave a lot of

coverage at one stage to telling the young women reading our magazine to

talk to their boyfriends and make sure there were emotionally literate

in talking about their problems instead of bottling them up. And

here he is talking about thoughts of suicide. As Louise said, there are

too many suicide attempt is among young men. On to page three of the

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

And there is a model of the same age who looks sensational. Marjorie Bo

Gilbert. A fantastic name, and she is the retired director of a

cardboard box manufacturing company, which is not glamorous, but she

looks amazing. She is wearing Victoria Beckham clothes in this

photograph and she says, I always like to keep myself looking decent.

Even if I am not going up, I try to keep standards up. I dress to sit

myself. I don't dress for boys. She laments the fact that we are not all

wearing hats. I am with her on that, there are not enough hats worn these

days. All gloves. Yes, if you like. But 100 years old, Vogue. I had no

idea it was that old. How old is Cosmo? It is not 100. It is just

over 50 in America and 43 in the UK. Still good going. Would you put

someone aged 50 in a fashion shoot in Cosmo in the UK? I don't see why

not. We probably have. You have an editor over 50. That is different,

because you don't see that. Vogue are making a big point of anti-ages

in fashion. Will you follow them? Cosmo never follows, Cosmo said the

trends. So what if the trend you can set? We could have a naked man over

100 in doubt. I would come and do that! You are too young. Finally, I

know you are probably sick of me talking about Leicester City. The

Daily Star says God signs for the foxes. Leicester City have turned to

God in any effort to seal their fairy tale first Premier League

title tomorrow. I know you are a pistol palace fan, Louise. -- a

Crystal Palace fan. But are you pleased for Leicester? I think it is

great to see another underdog up there, doing amazingly, especially

when they don't have the funds like Crystal Palace don't have the funds,

some of the big clubs. It cheers everybody up to see that possible.

The club chaplain is going to lead the players in prayer before they

meet Man Utd on Sunday. The mind boggles. I am not a football fan,

but the idea of a Premier League dressing room falling into silence

for spiritual contemplation before a match... I am sure it happens all

the time. Does it? A very large Leicester flight has been purchased

in our house. It is enormous and vulgar -- a large Leicester flag. I

could put it on this table as a cloth. You have to wrap it around a

Bible now. And maybe lend it to Gary Lineker when he has to present in

his pants in September. He could be in Cosmo.

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