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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
With me are former Foreign correspondent and author | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Matthew Green and the journalist and writer Toby Young. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Tomorrow's front pages, starting with this. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
The Treasury has given millions of pounds intended for war veterans | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
to some unknown charities, claims The Sunday Times. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
The Independent leads with reports that fish | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
intended for human consumption in Africa are being used | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
The Daily Mail reports on a Syrian migrant | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
using a fake passport to reach the UK on a Ryanair flight. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
for the death of an Iraqi teenager 13 years ago, | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
that's on the Telegraph's front page. | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
Princess Eugenie seeks the Queen's approval | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
for her upcoming marriage, according to the Sunday Express. | :01:00. | :01:12. | |
A couple of stories on the Sunday Telegraph. Betrayal, as soldiers | :01:13. | :01:25. | |
face Iraq prosecution. These are servicemen who could face trials. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
That is even though they thought it had been investigated and put to | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
rest. That is right. Three servicemen accused of involvement in | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
the death of an Iraqi teenager in the immediate aftermath of the | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
invasion in 2003. They have already been three military investigation | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
which has cleared then. Now it is looking like they may face another | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
trial through a separate process and prosecution. Obviously, to have to | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
go through the same trial twice, that is going to be stressful for | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
anybody. Especially for military personnel, one of whom is reported | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
to be suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and injuries. What | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
is the justification? The issue is not so much that it is stressful to | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
go through the same trial twice. It is a fundamental principle of | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
justice that if you are tried and found not guilty you cannot be tried | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
again for the same crime. This... It looks as if the Iraq Historic | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
Allegations Team set up by the labour government to investigate | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
various allegations of wrongdoing by British service personnel in Iraq | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
are recommending that this investigation be reopened and that | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
these three men be charged again. But actually the allegations which | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
this organisation was set up to investigate were made by a law firm | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
which closed in the summer over alleged regularities which seems | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
scandalous. The Telegraph. Tory MPs set up a new group to push for | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Brexit. Who are these people? How many are there? Three Conservative | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
MPs have been named in this story. The new group is called Leave Means | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
Leave, an echo of Brexit means Brexit from Theresa May. Sir Gerald, | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Dominic, the former Justice Minister, and Owen Paterson, the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
former Environment Secretary. There are three others involved as well. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
It looks as if they are pushing for Theresa May to trigger Article 50 | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
sooner rather than later. They are urging her not to accept a deal | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
which involves written remaining in the single market. -- Britain. They | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
are claiming that no deal is better than a bad deal, especially if it | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
involves us making trade agreements with those outside the EU. Why are | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
you shaking your head? LAUGHING. It is the golf of | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
rationality these people seem to be on the other side of. It looks like | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
a car running towards the cliff and they want to press the accelerator | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
rather than steering to an arrangement that might not be a huge | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
blow to Rajesh business. If the country wants to leave the EU, | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
meaning getting out of the single market, the only way to control the | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
borders, get on with it, say some people. Or maybe try and figure out | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
some sort of solution that causes the least amount of damage to | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Britain's economic success and global standing. How damaging do you | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
think it would be to the British economy if we had no trade agreement | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
with the EU when we eventually did leave the EU? That would not mean no | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
trade with the EU. That would mean trade under WTO rules rather than | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
free trade agreements of some kind. That might not be disastrous if we | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
had compensation through other trade agreements with other places. What | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
will that be, five years? Ten years, before we get that new deal? | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Legally, I think we need to leave the EU, withdraw from the EU, before | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
we can start making free trade agreements with other parts of the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
world. But we don't have to make a free-trade agreement with the EU. We | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
are ticking along quite well before we even started having this | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
conversation. It seems like a monumental task now to try to | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
totally re-engineered this enormous system, for what actual gains at the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
end of that? The gain is that we can... British sovereignty is | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
restored to the British Parliament. Is denied per cent of our laws are | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
made by a 28 unelected officials. -- 58. It is just kind of like a | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
face-palm moment when groups like these are trying to do something | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
when the government does not even know what Brexit means. It seems | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
like a total folly. I don't think groups like this will have a great | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
deal of influence. Theresa May is anxious to forge a deal which | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
commands consensus. They want to help Leavers and Remainers. I feel | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
reassured. The act of alchemy that is about to help us out of the | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
situation. It is a bit late now. Scandal as millions disappear from | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
the Treasury. Funds given away without checking. Funds given to | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
charities, various charities, to try to help the many, many service men | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
and women who are leaving the forces and need support. This is a huge | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
issue. I have written about this in my new book Aftershock... A | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
shameless plug. But go on. LAUGHING. It looks at this very | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
subject. 100 years ago we had an epidemic of shellshock on the Battle | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
of the Somme. Sentries have passed and we have not got a system in | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
place still to help soldiers and other service personnel suffering | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
from psychological injury. -- centuries. The government has thrown | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
money at a number of charities, some of which which are doing great work, | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
but there are many which have great questions over then. There is a | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
political vacuum in Westminster to look at this problem and get all the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
parties involved to come up with a solution that actually... Or a | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
system... That actually works. But it hasn't happened in. If you | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
formalise it and do it through government it is going to cost the | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
taxpayer a lot of money. I think this looks awfully like the scandal | :08:04. | :08:13. | |
we saw last year over Kids Company with the Department for Education | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
giving large amounts of taxpayer money to them without doing proper | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
due diligence. This look the same. ?35 million worth of libor fines | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
were set aside by the Treasury. And that money is pledged to these | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
various charities that work with those suffering Post-Traumatic | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Stress Disorder it looks like not much due diligence was done before | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
deciding who to award this money to. The Sunday Times the cancer | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
treatment to pay for HIV drugs. It protects healthy people from | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
developing HIV. There are three people who the paper has identified, | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
Toby, who might as a result of that miss out a life-saving cancer | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
operations to pillow these three people have got a rare blood cancer. | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
They have had a number of treatments to prepare them for a potentially | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
life-saving stem cell transplant. But they have now been told they | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
cannot have this operation because the NHS has been ordered by the High | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
Court to set aside 10- ?20 million to pay for any treatment which is | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
designed to prevent people who are at high risk of getting HIV rather | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
than people who are actually suffering from HIV. A preventative | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
drug programme, this is. The reason this is a little bit scandalous is | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
that it seems to prioritise spending on preventative medicine rather than | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
treating those actually ill. Moving on to the Mail on Sunday. Anarchists | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
flying on Ryanair. Tell us about this. We could do with more | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
information on these. Oh, come on. This group, No Borders, accused of | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
stirring up trouble with migrant and refugee camps across Europe We don't | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
have much more information on the paper. But the story boils down to | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
the fact a Syrian migrant was able to buy a cash Ryanair ticket in | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
Athens airport, use a fake passport to get through security, then claim | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
asylum. What sticks out to me is that he did present himself to | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
authorities and claimed asylum so he has therefore been discovered. May | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
be the banner headline should not be as alarming as it should have been. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
He says he could have been a jihadi. He was not. Vital African fish | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
stocks raided to feed the West, that is on the Independent. This is | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
confusing on a number of levels. The impact it could have with food | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
security in Africa. The story is that West African fish stocks are | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
being diverted by various large Western food organisations. And the | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
fish, instead of feeding hungry West Africans in coastal communities, is | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
instead being used by these large organisations to feed pigs, | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
chickens, and salmon, in the developed world, in order to produce | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
cheaper meat and fish for us. And the justification for it, it is hard | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
to find one. Making money, isn't it? That is the justification that is | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
trashing the oceans globally. This is a huge problem for, obviously, | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
West Africans living on the coast, who depend on fish for a large part | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
of their protein intake. Let's look at the bigger picture. Have seen | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
fish stocks declining around the world, a certification caused by | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
greenhouse gas emissions, coral bleaching from the coral reef to the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Caribbean. -- acidification. The Sunday Times. She has done us proud | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
to be big headed babies are brightest. Who is the brightest | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
here? It is not me. I have a small head. Strangely shaped. I have a big | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
one. Is filled with useful brain? At least metaphorically. It is an | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
interesting story. It is not that the circumference and volume of your | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
head could be linked to medical and intellectual health. But this data | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
looks robust. It has 500,000 people as a dataset studied over quite a | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
long period of time. One of the interesting aspects of this study is | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
that they have... As reported in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, 17 | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
genes have been found that dictate quite easily who will go to | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
university. This is the problem with a tutor-proof test to get into | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
grammar school. You could just measure their heads. That sounds | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
simple. Like go around with one of those sticks to find out who goes | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
in. It sounds like we are close to unravelling something major about... | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
Were you about your tummy to be quiet? No. | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
LAUGHING. That is the papers for the night. Toby and Matthew. Both of you | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
are big headed. Good work, both of you. | :13:53. | :13:56. |