16/08/2016 The Papers

the weekend. So, strong wind, heavy showers and feeling cooler as well.

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

With me are Kiran Stacey, Energy correspondent

at Financial Times, and Fay Schlesinger,

Starting with the Metro's headline of 'Great Scott and Great Trott'

as Team GB's gold rush continues in Rio on the water

The Express reports that Brexit Britain could get what it

calls a special deal if talks are speeded up,

according to a senior German minister.

The Times leads on the conviction of UK hate preacher Anjem Choudary

for encouraging support for so-called Islamic State.

It says the verdict was heralded as a seismic moment

That story also leading the Mail, with the headline "nailed at last",

as Choudary faces being jailed for ten years after what it calls

The Guardian interviews the President of the National Black

Police Association, who's expressed concern about the disproportionate

use of Tasers against black and ethnic minority people,

in the wake of the death of former footballer Dalian Atkinson.

And the Star has a picture of Laura Trott, who pedals her way

into history to become Team GB's most successful female Olympian ever

Let's have a look at some of those in the next couple of minutes. Let's

kickoff with Olympic success on the Times. It is good news. We haven't

been kicked out of the World Cup early. We are doing really well. We

are currently second in the medals table, beating China as it stands,

although it might not last. It is a wonderful success story. Laura Trott

has got her fourth gold. Her fiance, Jason Kenny, has got his sixth, so

he is level with Chris Hoy. They are a stunning couple. We have done a

piece in the Times about the difference between them. She is very

chatty on Twitter. She has 230,000 followers. He says he is a miserable

sod. He is clearly not. He looked quite happy half an hour ago. We

have put a lot of money into cycling and it is reaping the benefits. And

the wonderful moments earlier today with a 16-year-old, Amy Tim Clark,

who has won runs in the floor gymnastics, which was not expected

-- Tinkler. You get these lovely moments of contrast. It has been a

wonderfully extraordinary day. What is it today? Terrific Tuesday. I was

looking at some of the records that have been struck today. Laura Trott

has become the most successful British female Olympian. Jason Kenny

has won as many goals as Sir Chris Hoy. The Trott and kenny household

would be 12 on the medal table, they would be above Spain. Track cycling

in 2008 and 2012, Britain won 14 of the 20 track cycling medals

available. It is astonishing. It is also deliberate with Britain

spending $32 million on track cycling. In the same time the US has

only spent about $4 million. Britain identified this as a sport with lots

of goals to get, you can get lots of results with tiny marginal gains,

marginal gains theory, we have all heard about it, and they have said

that is where we are going to go for gold, and they have done so very

successfully. The hero of the games is John Major forsaking of the

national lottery which in turn has funded a lot of these sports. I saw

that claim in one of the papers this morning. I haven't heard his

comments on that but I am sure he would be delighted. The Daily Mail,

nailed at last is how they are following the Anjem Choudary story.

Yeah, 20 years now Anjem Choudary has been around, talking about his

support for IS, drumming up hate preaching in the UK. The authorities

have been trying to chase him down for that amount of time but he has

always been clever, he has stayed just on the right side of the law,

he is a solicitor so he knows how it is worded, and he has stopped short

of saying anything that will land him in jail until now. And it seems

the reporting restrictions have been lifted on this. He has been

convicted because of a minor rule, which is that he expressed praise

for a statement by ISIS leader of a declaration of a new caliphate, and

praise for that terror, that act of terror, that has landed him in jail.

So, the Mail is quite scathing of them not getting him into jail more

quickly. And rightly, to be honest. It is a good day for the court

system. It is interesting, he has been convicted of much less than

what we have seen in the papers. We have the ability to write things we

have all known before and yet we haven't been able to say because he

is a solicitor, a careful man, and you had to be careful about what you

write about him. And now we can link into all of these plots which for a

long time he has been linked with. And the people he has influenced.

The power of words with what's happening with Islamic State, and

the way young people are being drawn into it, you can't understate that.

He hasn't joined the caliphate. He has sat at home and talk, he has

been on TV programmes, on the news, and he pushed his message. This is a

really important blow. It is important, and it is, obviously, a

shame we haven't got him into jail before. It is a good thing the law

is drawn so tightly as it is. It is important people have free speech. I

don't think he should be able to say all the things he has said at the

law should be drawn tightly to stop the state going after people it

simply doesn't like. It is important that these rules are very clearly

defined. The risk with that is a trained person can game the system

and eventually the authorities, as we saw today, will probably catch up

with him. One more for us because time is regrettably tight, because

we keep winning gold medals. The Guardian, this story about tax

avoidance. We knew what to reason may set about it when she became PM.

And now a clampdown of some description. Yes, we have seen a

number of them on tax avoidance. This specifically targets the

industry around tax avoidance, banks, accountancy firms and

consultants who have schemes through which people can pump their money

and save tax at the other end. And until now they have got away

scot-free because, if you yourself put in a tax avoidance scheme, these

guys make money from the back of it, and this is an attempt to try to

fine them for the same amount of tax that they save for their clients. I

wonder if it will succeed but, on the surface, it seems a good deal. A

clampdown that will make a difference? The big four accountancy

firms are very, very good at, as we have been talking about already in a

different story and different context, treading the right side of

the law. They will fight a way to put wording into the contract that

will make sure they are not put on the hook for any scheme they are

marketing. They will say it was just a suggestion rather than

recommendation to make sure they are never quite pinned down. It has

become fashionable, understandably, because people got angry with tax

avoidance, to announce every budget. This has come in summer, so it is

different. This is still to be seen though. Time has beaten us, I am

afraid. Thank you both very much indeed. That is it for the papers

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