15/05/2016 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are the Iraqi-British journalist, Mina,

and the Political Columnist for The Independent, Steve Richards.

The Mirror describes the incident at Old Trafford as a blunder,

after the discovery of a training device led to Manchester

A similar headline in the Metro predicts red faces

A disappointed pair of United fans is the image

on the Guardian, which also reports on fears of a

The Telegraph also focusses on the bomb scare

in Manchester and also has a picture of the Queen

The Queen is also on the front of the Times,

which also reports on millions of pounds being invested in Google

by the Church despite the web-giant's record on tax.

The backlash facing Boris Johnson for his comments

about Hitler and EU is the Eye's top headline.

Let's begin with the Daily Mail's coverage at Old Trafford -- Daily

Mirror's. Big match called off after suspect device left after training

exercise. The papers haven't held back in their criticism? And it was

because there was a dummy device, a lot can be said about the decision

to cancel the game, the first Premier League game that's cancelled

because of security fears, but no one can doubt the fact you need to

make a difficult decision and say we have a device, let's do this. The

blunder is the fact you have a private firm responsible for this

device being left in the rest room at the stadium. The words we are

seeing in the papers, blunder, fiasco, dummy and so forth are

playing on the word dummy bomb and quite rightly so. People have

travelled to the game, it's so important, people want to see what

happens and it will actually take place tomorrow but the fear and

panic you have that 75,000 people had to be evacuated safely. There is

anger but there is more anger about the fact the device was left in the

bathroom and not being cleared out after a training exercise last

week. The mayor of Greater Manchester and the Police

Commissioner criticising whoever did this. Reading the headlines, blunder

is now coming up a lot. It's not, though, this was a terribly confused

event, they are saying blunder, you quoted the mayor of Manchester as

well saying that. The blunder is not in the decision to call this huge

match off, it was in leaving this device from a security exercise last

week, that is the blunder. This will turn into quite a big story and

these premiership matches are worth a fortune, the stakes were quite

high, Manchester United were playing for a place in the Champions League

and it was called off because of the consensus emerging in what has been

a complicated and confused and fast moving story towards the sense now

that a terrible error has occurred. An hour ago we were talking about

security implications and all the rest of it, but now it's looking

like the focus on who and how was this device left from a security

exercise a week ago. In some ways maybe they should be praising the

reaction a bit more in the papers. For all they knew it was a bomb. 20

minutes before kick-off, absolutely. A brave decision. Moving

on to the Times, lots of stories to pick from the front page of the

Times. But we are going to focus on the headline about security firm

fake bomb triggering evacuation. A more held back headline, more about

the facts rather than who is at fault. Each paper is trying to work

out exactly what happened, who took the decisions, what was the context

in which this device was found, the private security company and the

implications of that. It will be a massive operation to get the match

going again. The stakes will be high for Manchester United. It works as a

news story on so many levels. As we mentioned earlier, there are massive

security implications now for big football live events, these huge

stadiums. At the same time there's huge sums of money involved in every

game and a decision to call one off is a massive, massive decision! The

blunder headlines that are coming out and the statements from people

in Manchester are more about the origins of this device than the

decision to call it off. And the fact it remained there before a

match, there will be head scratching because of that tonight. The Daily

Telegraph says football bomb scare sparks Euro 2016 fears. Even this

was a blunder that somebody left behind, there will still be

questions about how it was able to remain for as long as it did. The

good part of the story is we are asking questions without an attack

happening. All too often you get an attack and people are asking about

the security protocols, I'm sure there are protocols but the fact

there was a device in a restroom that had been there several days

before the match raises questions. Perhaps this pushes more scrutiny

about the plans before Euro 2016 and other things in the summer, and it

is on Tuesday, you're right, but this is the problem with reading

tomorrow's papers tonight. Thank you for that. This is me quoting a

paper... We are in Monday morning territory now. Apologies to the

viewers. That has really confused the viewers watching it on iPlayer.

We have totally lost them. The Guardian sticks with the theme of

terrorism. This is interesting, isn't it, Steve? A bold statement at

the beginning of the year that there would be thousands more police

officers on the streets, this seems to be down to shortages and people

not wanting to step forward. It's a classic example. Often prime

ministers and home secretaries make statements and there's an assumption

that things will change overnight and they hardly ever do for all

kinds of reasons. This reason it appears is that there's a reluctance

from police officers to go ahead with this because culpable at it

used is a bit confused in British law. It seems as if there will not

be the numbers police regard as necessary in the near future --

culpability. It seems they are looking for about 3000 volunteers to

come forward to fill 1500 extra needed volunteers of police officers

that our armed. It's difficult because of culpability and also we

have a culture in the UK of people not carrying arms. You said earlier,

what happens is when you have police officers carrying arms you have

terrorists and criminals and others carrying arms as well. It changes

society and that should be taken seriously. It's interesting, the

whole of the front page of the Guardian, I don't know if we can see

it on the screen, it's really interesting because you have the

photo of two people who were looking forward to seeing the match, and you

have the story about the Manchester United bomb, then you have the story

about the shortage of armed officers. What's interesting is the

whole of the front page virtually is in the context of the threat posed

by terrorists. There hasn't been an attack... I know people are always

warning that one is likely, that's the phrase I think, but there hasn't

been. But just the possibility could command with two entirely different

story is the whole of the front page of a paper. Terrorism is a

nightmare, you have the disappointed child in the arms of his father on

the front page at Old Trafford, but some of those tears will be shocked

and dismayed, I presume it is his father giving him a coach, he will

be glad he's OK, and you have to balance that with keeping him safe

with armed officers -- a hug. Our shopping centres will be disrupted

and so will our travel to work, it's a balance between freedom and also

making sure we can do things safely. British people tend to get

on with it when you look back over the decades. It's not the first time

we've seen this kind of threat. The balance between the two, it was and

remains an issue to some extent with Northern Ireland, both within

Northern Ireland and on the mainland. And that threat is

reimagining. Indeed. The whole threat of carrying on as normal

while being protected is massively complicated and will produce endless

front pages in the weeks and months to come even if, touch wood, we

don't get this attack. Boris Johnson doesn't escape some of the front

pages, this is the i, we can see the headline. I know this is something

you feel strongly about, Steve? This referendum is producing wacky front

pages. The Daily Mirror on its front page has Cameron writes for the

Mirror... Yes, really. Even they are joking about it, it must be one of

the first time is a Tory Prime Minister has written for the Daily

Mirror putting the case for the In campaign. Then you have Boris

Johnson being put under intense media scrutiny and political

scrutiny... Although he's one of the most famous politicians in the

UK... For the first time in his career. The comparison he made, he

was making the point that Hitler wanted a superstate, and he was

arguing the EU is basically going to become a superstate and Britain

should get out of it. But by using Hitler... You saw what happened to

Ken Livingstone the other day, you generate a kind of feverish

response. But the question is whether it gets the response he

wants. I don't think it will be the kind of thing that will convince

undecideds that he will become this great authoritative figure to

follow. It certainly gets headlines and he's on the front pages again,

he's on the front pages a lot, but that doesn't necessarily mean votes

for the Out campaign. I think he's having quite an erratic campaign so

far. Not that surprising. It's his first big national campaign. Cameron

and Osborne have fought general election is. Labour politicians have

fought general election is. This is his first big exposure. -- general

elections. As mayor of London, even though it's only London, it is the

capital and he's been on the international stage for a long

time. He knows exactly what he's doing and he is saying surely this

is an experienced campaigner. He is banking on getting emotions going

and he also wants to grab headlines and be in the news for as long as

possible and he's planning his next move is. I'm not sure it's a wise

way of doing it but he thinks this bombastic character...

Internationally we are seeing people getting attention because of

statements we find ridiculous but people are saying, he is speaking

off-the-cuff and that is attractive --. It will be interesting to find

out if he has made a thoughtful calculation. Politics is.

TRANSLATION: Pouring in front of our eyes, you have Donald Trump in the

US and other outsiders in Europe flourishing -- politics is

transforming. There was a survey a couple of weeks ago that said both

campaigns were lacking fact, both of them were lacking proper hard facts

about what this and that meant. A lot of it was presumptions and

feelings and predictions. I don't blame them for that. At the moment

we are Bombay bombarded by fax and it becomes impossible to make any

judgement at all. -- bombarded by facts. Every now and again the BBC

does fact checks and they find that one assertion doesn't go with the

facts. This is a battle and of course you are going to use all

sorts of emotional stuff to win your argument. The biggest

numbercrunching is people that are undecided and they may not vote,

that's the biggest problem not for politicians only but also for

journalists. We have to leave it there but thank you for taking us

through the papers. I'm sure we would have had plenty more to say.

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