01/05/2016 The Papers

Hello, welcome to our look ahead to what The Papers will be bringing us.

Welcome to you both. Thank you for coming in. Tomorrow's front pages

then. Make a start with the Times. It leads with the allegations of

anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Says Labour frontbenchers are

threatening to resign. The I paper quotes Diane Abbott. The Telegraph

high lights a survey from doctors which says thousands of patients are

issued with do not resuscitate without their families realising.

The finance shall time with a crackdown on executive pay. The Mail

claims a British Army interpreter has killed himself after being

refused asylum in the UK. The Daily Express says a heatwave is on the

way after a bank holiday wash out, naturally. The Guardian leads with a

warning about the increasing availability of synthetic drugs in

prisons. The mirror leads on sats tests in primary schools. It says

parents will pull six-year-olds out of test as part of a nationwide

protest. We will start with the FT and the

issue of executive pay, which a lot of people have said has got out of

control, is too high. Norway might be coming to the rescue. The wealth

fund is set to launch crackdown on high pay, $870 billion investor on

the look out for a target. First of all, what do we mean by this wealth

fund? It is called a sovereign fund? This is where Norway is huge oil

wealth ends up. It sits there, and they have done it in a kind of

fascinating way. They own little bit, 1.3% on average of every lived

company on the planet, which gives them a kind of unprecedented

influence, potentially which they have never wielded before, they are

emplying they are looking round, and they are looking for a company whose

executives they will start pressuring, over executive pay. Why

now? Well, executive pay has as the article says, has increased scrutiny

over the last two years. And now it is, this is a whole new level of

corporate governance, where you know, they are going to step up and

say and point fingers and say your level of executive pay is

unacceptable, so it is enforcement of good corporate governance to be

fair. We don't like what the company is doing, then we have a right to

point fingers and say this is wrong, and so, you know, the problem is

with Norway, is that they, Norway Scandinavian countries are

well-known for the kind of the small gap between the top levels of the

organisation and the bottom levels, and so, what is worrying for them is

that you know, they don't want to be enforcing their national policy on,

they want to be seen as enforcing their national policy on, you know,

all of the listed companies of the world, but on the other hand, we

know that executive pay has got out of hand. They regard it now as a

global issue, it seems. It is. Let us not forget they own chunks of

these companies so they don't want necessarily to be what they

presumably feel is over paying. But they want to target. They do. Lots

of companies round the world will be worrying they could be it If I was a

CEO I would hope the other 8099 ones were in their sights not me. We know

it is not BT. The FT points out they voted in favour of that, so now for

them to flip the script a bit and say, we are going to be targeting

company, it will be interesting to see who Che choose first and how

they will attract publicity. Haven't row got to get the shareholders

round you? Depends on the corporate, depends on their voting structures

and things and the like it would be good to bring everyone else onboard

round them. They don't have to. They don't. Let us look at the Telegraph.

Families in dark as doctors let patients die. DNR notices left on up

to 40,000 people each year without their relatives being told. We don't

quite understand where the misunderstanding is coming from, do

we? Who is imposing these notice, and who it is who doesn't know. You

are right. For me, I would say it is unclear from the article who is

actually issuing the DNR on these 40,000 people each year, without

loved ones being told. So, what I have gathered from the article,

though, is that it, no, I am not even going to lie. I have to be

honest about this one. This article I find the title of it is

inflammatory, I can't quite get my finger on who is making the

decision, for, to issue the DNR, is it the doctor, the nurse, the

family, is the family not saying anything? Is the patient deciding

and not issuing instructions to the family? So I am not quite clear but

it does seem inflammatory, I get scared as soon as I say doctors are

doing something they are not telling me about. We don't know where it is

coming from. What we can say is there is a reassessment happening in

end of life issues because the Liverpool care path away as it was

known has been discredited where food and water was withdrawn and it

could be a distressing end for people. It has been established.

That is is right. Could be a distressing end for people. It has

been established. That is is right. This -- abolished. That comes from

the Royal College of Physicians says one in five families was not

informed a DNA order had been put in place, equivalent to 40,000

patients. Exactly right, we don't know who is making the decisions.

Authorities at one stage are cited at the decision makers here. But we

are not sure. But what seems to be the case, is that the Royal College

of Physicians have identified a problem in the system where families

an patients, are not being consulted suchly. It seems -- sufficiently. It

seeps tiply round end of life issues I is difficult for people to talk

about. It is so distressing people shy away from talking about it. They

shy away from talking about it. It is not just about the DNA. It

discussing end of life situation where people are rushed into hop and

dying in the corridors, locking at people who are terrified nurses who

aren't able to do things because they have to follow -- follow a

process and there are care homes who don't know about the nursing care

and they panic and call 999. It feel like end of life care as a process

is broken and we need the look closely at it. The Telegraph. Tips

coming off the Menuhin ewe. A often there is is a discretionary service

charge on your bill. People don't notice it, and discretionary means

you don't have to paint but people do. It doesn't feel discretionary

when it is there and you feel micely to cross it off. It is not a good

way to end a meal. The Government is coming and saying this has to change

on two levels. First of all, you can't slip this in, it has to be

volleyball trair and discretionary, there is a second part, which is we

are seeing that the waitering, the servers are no necessarily getting

the tips and so, the Government is saying, look, there Meades to be

transparency about who gets this. We were talking about that last summer,

it emerged that some companies were creaming off the tips that customers

thought went to their staff. Exactly. You flow know, this issue

is so close to my heart. I put myself through school being a server

and I, it is so confusing for customers. Between the card machine

asking you if you want an extra tip, then on the bill there is a service

charge, then there is the front of staff where you know, sop of the

tips situations they want to split it between the front of house staff,

the servers and the chefs in back, so there is a pool system. So

frankly I don't know where my tip is going, whatever channel I use to

issue it. But I do know that the servers aren't getting it. Their

wages aren't enough. I am glad they are looking at it. It St not fair

and it is not transparent to the customers where their money is

going. Let us look at the Times. Corbyn faces front bench exodus over

anti-Semitism. This has been headline news all week. It could

trigger resignations, yet more pressure for Jeremy Corbyn, various

people coming to his rescue over the weekend saying no, everything is

fine. We have this inquiry under way, it is a few bad apple But it is

a smear campaign. I am not going to say it is a smear campaign but I

would say it feels like we are looking for it. It feels like people

are looking for MrCorbyn to misstep or to not do things in the way they

want. It doesn't, there is something not right, he has made the claim or

he has made the statement they are fighting anti-Semitism and racism in

any form, and it is not tolerated within the Labour Party, and it is

fantastic that Len McCluskey the Unite union chief, he say it is a

smear campaign. Diane Abbott says it is a smear campaign, however, there

are some things that I would say that MrCorbyn probably, you know, in

some of the situations in regards to the calling the Hamas and Hezbollah

friends, then I can see where the Israeli ambassador is like, wait,

what is going on here, in light of everything that is happening at

home, was this the right thing to do? Some of his associations of the

past are being scrutinised again and the suggestion that this independent

inquiry he has set up should have come a lot sooner. He should have

been more emphatic about what ever steps he has chosen to take That is

right. So much is about the time that is involved, the slowness, the

Corbyn reacted, the other Labour MPs and grandee waps have been silenced

so far have been ale slow in responding and there shouldn't be

any delay in responding to racism, and it is something that shouldn't,

you shouldn't have to spend 48-hours thinking about it. Yes, investigate

it, and conduct inquiries, but when someone like Ken Livingstone has

said what he said, what is the delay? I think that created a huge

problem. Let us move on to The Mirror. Children aged six in school

strikes it is not the children who are striking, but it is parents who

want to pull their children out on mass from classes so they don't have

to take these sat, because children are aware even at this age, of they

are going to be tested and it is even if it doesn't matter to their

parents, it matters to thele zoo, it matters to the children. They are,

in The Mirror story we hear of very stressed out children, having

nightmares and so the parents are taking matters into their own hands

and taking them out of school tomorrow and taking them on

educational trips. They could be fined ?120 for doing this, but the

suspicion is that schools will look the other way.

In the States do they bother testing kids so early? Yes, I think all

round the world they do test children, you know, from the age of

four, really, as soon as they enter into school system. But I think it

is the onus that is placed on the results that put the enormous amount

of pressure on the children, so you should be testing children, you

should be making sure that you know, that the goals that we are setting

for them, we have global standards as well as UK standards, that we

should be meeting. However, what is happening here, we are translating

the individual performance of a Chile into you know the performance

of the school, the performance of our education system, and frankly we

should be locking at children saying, Hay, let us teach you this,

you haven't got it yet? Let us teach you some more. Children are allowed

to be in that strait so they are not sleeping and they are

seven-year-old. They feel like failures at seven. It is shocking.

Of course I do agree with testing per se, but I think that the problem

is much deeper than just you know, having test, tests are a good thing

and we should be teaching children how to take them but they shouldn't

feel this pressure on them to perform. They should be just be

tested. Let us move on and talk about football yet again. I was

hoping to wear a blue frock tonight, to celebrate and to drape the table

with a very large and vulgar flag that was blue and white but it is

still wrapped up back at home. Because Leicester haven't quite done

it. Here is the back page of the Guardian. It is all down to Spurs at

Chelsea, and there will be a lot of Leicester porters urging Chelsea on

tomorrow, which is probably a first for a lot of them. A very strange

thing. It will be a bit anti-climactic if Leicester aren't

on the pitch when they win the league, which could well happen

tomorrow. But the thing I love in the Guardian story is Ranieri, he

won't even by a were of it, because he is going off to visit his mother

in Italy tomorrow, she is 96, and he is going to have lunch with her and

he will be on the plane when the result comes in. So, presumably, I

am going to guess the captain on that flight will let him know.

Somebody might tip him off. How much has passed you by Melanie, as

possibly not being the most ardent football fan. No, my brother is a

Manchester United fan and the rest of my fan are Spurs fans, so, but

what I love about this though, just the sheer sports story of the

underdog, of the, you know, sometimes we get jaded with the

stories of you know, high paid athletes and well funded teams, and

Leicester is the story that can inspire any person who is inspired

by competition and pure true sport for the love and fun of it. That is

why even though yes, family please, I apologise, but I almost want to

see them win and it would have been lovely to have that pitch moment

where they can jump round. It will say so much for the sport. It could

be they are sitting at home on or on a plane and they win it without

having to kick a ball tomorrow. If that happen, you will see basically

every person in Leicester end up at the King Power stadium and in the

pubs and they may not sleep. But the issue s I think a lot of people dare

not believe they are going to do it until it is there. Many a slip

between cup and lip. That is right. This is not guaranteed. I mean they

don't have a supereasy way into the end of the season, and Spurs are on

fire. You just never know. It is one thing to win the title, last year,

you might not realise this they were not far off relegation, so the turn

round is more remarkable. But then next year you stay in the Premier

League and all the money that brings and the attention, but you have the

pressure, of not being quite the underdog you were. It is like Eddie

Redmayne after his Oscar, we love an underdog over here, I want them to

win. I want the see them flourish. And as a Liverpool supportersome Am

a Liverpool supporter. You still want to see them win. It has been a

long painful couple of decades. It has been 132 years for Leicester, so

you have our sympathy. That is it for The Papers for this hour but

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