07/08/2016 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to look ahead to the papers, with us or our James

Milner and Eva Simpson hoping for some silly is that we can't find

any. Let's look at the front pages starting with the metal, reporting

opposition MPs have vowed to fight Theresa May's plans for new grammar

schools. The Daily Telegraph said union leaders at Southern rail have

been accused of deliberately damaging Britain's economy by

ordering the longest rail strike for almost 50 years. The Daily Express

collided on the news talks with big business of quitting the EU have

begun six weeks after the Brexit vote. The Guardian focuses on

International Paralympic committee's decision to ban Russia from

competing at the Paralympic games in Rio. The Times says Russian and

Syrian aircraft bombing opposition areas of liberal in revenge after a

Rebel Alliance for a vote of month-long siege. -- Aleppo. The

commercial Times leaves on the fact that the pay of 100,000 Chief

Executive rove by one tenth last year -- rose. Let's begin. The

Guardian is the only one we found so far that is looking at this

Paralympic story. Russia banned outright from competing at Olympics,

Putin attacked for medals over morals position. A very emphatic

position by the International Paralympic committee compared with

the IOC. That is strange because it announced today that no Russian

Paralympic and will compete but then you have the IOC who have allowed

the able-bodied Russian team to compete in their current Olympics.

The entire process is odd because you think, why isn't there a blanket

ban for all of the Russian athletes? Why can some compete and others

can't? It seems you either ban them all or decision to work some compete

should stand, it is old and if I was a Paralympic and who had trained

just as hard as an able-bodied athlete I would feel very aggrieved

by this decision. And Russia said they will appeal. Of course we have

all of the fun and games with appeals. The IOC initially banned

Russia and Russian athlete and then some got in and they left up to the

individual sports. The only thing is it appears the Paralympic committee

have the guts to do at the Olympic Committee didn't. If the

state-sponsored doping was going on then clearly the country as an

entirety has no right compete in a sporting contest that is the

Olympics and if you were an athlete who had trained for years and not

doped then you be very aggrieved that the Russians were letting if

they had. Whichever way you look at it, we you watch any of the Russian

athletes, you will always come you'll just be left with a sense of,

well, who is clean and who isn't? It is all such a mess. I was listening

to this looming earlier and someone called Julia something or other and

they kept saying a very controversial figure every time they

said their name because she has had a positive test in the past. Even if

she is clean now. Such a cloud hanging over the entire team. It

spoils the whole thing, which hopefully won't happen at the

Paralympics because they will be banned. It is based on tests from

the Sochi games, samples from the Winter games. And what appears... In

which they came second. Shall we look at the Metro. MPs fight me's

bid to expand grammars. No sooner has the prime Minster expressed his

desire to have more grammar schools in some people are climbing all over

the idea. Who doesn't like it in particular? It is a political walk,

this is a great story. MPs don't really matter. Because if the Tories

get behind this, they can get it through the Commons. The problems

start in the Lords because the Tories don't have a majority there

yet, there are still building their numbers and that is why Tim Farron

comes into play. His eight MPs, but many Lords, somewhere in the

vicinity of 100 Lords and they have the balance of power. Labour will

oppose it if the Lib Dems supported and they get other people on the

thing would get past. People who like grammar schools say they

promote social mobility and give children from disadvantaged

backgrounds the option to to have an education that their parents

couldn't necessarily afford to buy? Most of the objections stem from the

fact of this idea of social mobility has not been proven. That might have

happened historically but if you look at Granero system now -- the

grammar system now. The number of children who go there who have free

school meals, measure of poverty, is a very old number, about 3% in some

schools. The argument is we have a system where there are grammar

schools and in those schools that is not social mobility, so why is

creating more grammar schools going to encourage more social mobility?

What it will do is encourage those sharp elbowed parents... Who just

want the best for their children? Everyone wants the best but some

people have more of a means you can get tutors and the other

paraphernalia that comes with passing these exams you will have a

better advantage. That is the main objection. It is just to keep Tory

voters happy. Neil Carmichael, the new Conservative chairman of the

education select committee told the BBC tonight that he would oppose

moves to allow a New Generation of grammar schools. He doesn't believe

that a return will improve social mobility but will be a distraction,

he thinks. If the conservative camp are entirely convinced either.

Ignore what I said about the Lords because the House of Commons comes

back into play and then it gets more interesting. Because if you only

need a few Tories to be against it for the SNP to hold the balance of

power and then you have an entirely new problem is the SNP get to decide

on English education policy because education is devolved Scotland.

James Milner. Political wonk. If I thing is in The Sunday Telegraph who

have the exclusive about grammar schools potentially being

reintroduced they also have a story that said the private school system

is under threat because parents have never had it so good in terms of

their state school choices. We should not just automatically think

that state schools are a disaster. They are doing better than ever. So

why do we need grammar schools? No one has really answer that question.

Let's go to the Financial Times. Blue-chip bosses ?5.5 million salary

is boost me's call for a crackdown. It was only last month that the

premise was saying it was unacceptable, this growing gap

between the average pay of our company worker and The People

running the place. In terms of grabbing the agenda, Theresa May is

on the front pages of most papers for different reasons. She is really

in control of the agenda. She is calling for a crackdown on salaries

and says that the FTSE 100 companies, their pay has risen by a

tenth to an average of ?5.5 million, which is eye watering in anyone's

books. It is almost the closest you get to a silly season story in the

papers because it is as if they have gone to write everyone is on

holiday, let's put something about fat cats on the front page. You

can't go far wrong. And it's true. Because even if it's not that new.

What flatpack pay, that would be interesting. If you Amess trike --

if you are Mr IKEA. It is in the States. Indeed. The figures are eye

watering and then you get the American figures were Chief

Executive Skip to four times employees median compensation. --

204. That figure is on the sixth part of the story suggests it is

maybe slightly thin fact that turned American figures, you have got a

huge amount of good -- it is good to compare. Daily Express, EU exit off

the lead last, Chris retrieves work on how we cut ties with bottles and

a key issue is whether we will stay in the single market. It is a fairly

fundamental question. Who would have thought? The express loves the EU

and Brexit, not sure... They want to let us forget about Brexit. It has

taken six weeks. The sixth paragraph of this is explaining the

relationship between Norway and the EU, suggesting there isn't a huge

amount of news in the story. It seems to be official at the Treasury

have made contact with the city. What does that make? Presumably they

have sent e-mails, do you want to visit us in September when we at our

desks speak about this? The suggestion is there is a poll being

done, two thirds of grassroots Conservative Party members don't

like the idea of a Norway style relationship, which includes a

single market freedom of movement. It is the freedom of movement

because that was the mantra of Brexit, take back control, so if we

have gone through all of this and we still have freedom of movement that

will not fly with Brexiteers. Not surprised they don't want to travel

down that road. It doesn't seem clear Brexit still means? Even if

Brexit will happen, we believe some people... The prime ministers says

altogether Brexit means Brexit. Whatever that means. It doesn't mean

anything. Heretical talk. Let's look at The Daily Telegraph. Locals might

get compensated for new housing. Last night it was people being

potentially if the consultation goes this way being compensated if they

live in a place where Shell gas is to be fracked. And the distraction.

What is this about? This is a continuation of that story where

developers who will have to give people, homeowners in the

countryside and villages and towns where they will be developing new

homes, they will have to give them potentially cash incentives to keep

them sweet to get them to agree to this planning permission. I don't

think that is a particularly bad idea if you have moved to a village

because of the tranquillity and the peace and the lovely scenery and

suddenly a developer wants to come along and build something you don't

particularly want, why shouldn't you be compensated? People need to live

somewhere. The question is how much do you have to be paid? If I was of,

say, copyright Corbin persuasion, I might suggest this is a very Tory

policy, the idea that if you give people enough money they will accept

anything. It might be true. But there is something. If you give them

money before you put in your planning application that would be

bribery. If you do it afterwards then somehow that is OK? But if you

can't get planning permission because the locals object then how

do you be houses built? -- how do you get. Chouly how much you are

prepared to pay would have to be part of the application? Ask the

Government. I'm asking you. This is Theresa May again, taken control of

the agenda and pumping out announcements that maybe don't have

much substance. Maybe she would like to join us for 1130. Finally,

five-year-olds reported to police for sex assaults. On suspicion of

them. The suggestion here is that common sense is being abandoned

because of the pressure for schools to act on allegations. What do they

mean? The problem in this piece in The Telegraph which does not explain

the late -- nature of these assaults so we don't know if it is touching

or kissing, all we know is that teachers are calling police or

reporting children as young as five to police in increasing numbers.

Between 2011 and 2012 there were 719 incidents reported to the police and

that has come up 1955 between 2014 of 2015. There is a suggestion there

is more to report these cases to the police in the wake of the Jimmy

Savile affair according to The Telegraph. The charity is talking at

the moment, plan International, as are many organisations, about the

rise of sexual violence and assaults in schools. They are speaking about

all the children ordinarily. If there is worrying behaviour amongst

small children it is probably not sexual assault, is to do with care

that they need, isn't it? Yes. That is possibly why these are being

flagged up. It is a good thing perhaps that some agencies are

seeing something is wrong, you need to hopefully pass this onto another

agency and look at is going on at home. There certainly has been a

rise in sexual allegations made to the police involving schools, 719 in

2011-12 to nearly 2014-15. It is interesting reporting because plan

International have done the region of information to get the figures,

their thing is compulsory sex and research of education in schools,

which a lot of people would like to see introduced anti-government

boxing to be entirely against it and -- and the Government don't seem to

be. I'm not sure of plan International would be entirely

delighted with the way this has been brought in. Not the statistic they

were driving at, I would imagine. That is it for now but we will be

back at half past 11. Hopefully they will join me too. Coming up next, we

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