:00:15. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:17. > :00:20.With me are the broadcaster and journalist Shyama Perera
:00:21. > :00:26.and the political commentator Vincent Moss.
:00:27. > :00:29.The Sunday Times leads with news of a fresh challenge to Britain
:00:30. > :00:36.The Mail on Sunday has a front page story about former education
:00:37. > :00:38.minister Nicky Morgan being banned from meetings in Number Ten -
:00:39. > :00:46.for criticising Theresa May's choice of trousers.
:00:47. > :00:53.And the Express warns of a ?100 council tax rise.
:00:54. > :01:02.Let's begin obviously with the political story of the day, trouser
:01:03. > :01:08.gate. There are toxic texts over the PM's trousers and a couple of pages
:01:09. > :01:12.inside. I think it is a really important story, Gavin, not the
:01:13. > :01:18.story itself but what it throws up as a question. The story itself is
:01:19. > :01:24.that Nicky Morgan is banned from Downing Street from having to make
:01:25. > :01:31.some sort of remark about Theresa May's brown leather trousers which
:01:32. > :01:37.cost nearly ?1000. She has been banned by Fiona Hill who rather than
:01:38. > :01:45.having sent her directly text, said one to Alistair Burt saying don't
:01:46. > :01:53.bring that woman here again. Day both want a soft Brexit. First of
:01:54. > :01:57.all Fiona Hill using sexist terminology, don't bring that woman
:01:58. > :02:02.again. Apparently Nicky Morgan said you can say to me directly. But
:02:03. > :02:07.apparently Fiona Hill is also in charge of this makeover of Theresa
:02:08. > :02:10.May and it is that kind of sexist dressing of the Prime Minister that
:02:11. > :02:15.I was sort of exercised in the Green room because the reason Angela
:02:16. > :02:23.Merkel is so powerful is you never noticed what she is wearing.
:02:24. > :02:27.I have been fortunate to meet her and she buys a number of jackets and
:02:28. > :02:33.pairs of trousers which are the same colour and no one talks about it.
:02:34. > :02:38.Basically it is smart trousers and smart jacket. She power dressers.
:02:39. > :02:43.Theresa May is dressing like a middle-aged Barbie. And actually,
:02:44. > :02:46.you don't want to notice what your leader is wearing. What you want to
:02:47. > :02:52.know is that the power is in their brains and in their actions, not on
:02:53. > :02:57.their bodies. It is very hard because if you are a male politician
:02:58. > :03:01.you just wear a dark suit and no one knows where it comes from and how
:03:02. > :03:06.much it costs but people will ask how much the clothes cost and when
:03:07. > :03:09.you get a price tag, in the case of Theresa May's leather trousers and
:03:10. > :03:13.it is nearly ?1000, people will say that is a lot of money and you look
:03:14. > :03:18.like you are out of touch and that is what has happened in this case.
:03:19. > :03:24.It is also where the emphasis goes. The fallout is over trousers, not
:03:25. > :03:28.over soft Brexit. It has become like a playground. Isn't it a simple
:03:29. > :03:35.truth that women in politics are judged completely differently from
:03:36. > :03:38.men, they are judged for the way they dressed. The President of
:03:39. > :03:43.chilly came here and bet the Queen and she was really annoyed that the
:03:44. > :03:51.chilly and press had focused on what she wore when meeting the Queen
:03:52. > :03:56.rather than a very important relationship for Chile. Even here I
:03:57. > :04:02.am taken in for the full works and make up, thank you Ray much, BBC.
:04:03. > :04:07.Vincent was told he does not need it and I said that is a very sexist
:04:08. > :04:12.thing to say. You probably needs it more than I do! But women are judged
:04:13. > :04:18.completely differently. This is that's dresses and so on the came an
:04:19. > :04:25.iconic thing, her handbags, nobody ever talks about Macmillan's 3-piece
:04:26. > :04:30.suit. The truth is the public are interested in these things. I'm not
:04:31. > :04:34.sure how much we can say about exit, we have years to go. People will
:04:35. > :04:39.talk about these things. It is fascinating that somebody would
:04:40. > :04:43.spend that amount of money. You can almost get a second-hand car for
:04:44. > :04:48.that amount of money. You could get several poor families Christmas from
:04:49. > :04:52.that pair of trousers. Do people think like that or do they think
:04:53. > :05:00.here is a relatively wealthy woman who can dress as she pleases and
:05:01. > :05:05.that is up to her. You should not be thinking how much Prime Minister's
:05:06. > :05:08.clothes cost. I'm sure David Cameron's suits cost thousands of
:05:09. > :05:14.pounds but we never thought about it. We should not be having to think
:05:15. > :05:20.about what she is wearing. Somehow I think like Brexit that might run and
:05:21. > :05:26.run. Let's move on to the Times now. AA Gill, giant journalism dies aged
:05:27. > :05:32.62. A few weeks ago he announced he had the full English, as he put it,
:05:33. > :05:35.of cancer. People are shocked at how quickly this happened. He only
:05:36. > :05:40.announced it two or three weeks ago that he was suffering from terrible
:05:41. > :05:44.cancer and now he has died. It feels as if he has been cruelly snatched
:05:45. > :05:49.from not only his legions of fans but his family very quickly. The
:05:50. > :05:53.Sunday Times plays great tribute to him and also another former
:05:54. > :05:59.journalist who has recently passed away. He was at the peak of his
:06:00. > :06:05.career. As a journalist also, what set him apart, I'm sure you have
:06:06. > :06:08.friends and I certainly do, who make a name ploughing a particular
:06:09. > :06:12.journalistic furrow and every time some of the needs of specialist on
:06:13. > :06:16.that subject they get called out. What happens is that whatever their
:06:17. > :06:19.brilliance is gets dilutive downed dilutive den to the point that you
:06:20. > :06:24.are reading stuff with their name on it and the most interesting thing is
:06:25. > :06:27.their name as they have run out of the vocabulary, they have run out of
:06:28. > :06:33.the originality, they can no longer say something new. You just hear
:06:34. > :06:37.people spouting the same. What set AA Gill apart if he could turn out
:06:38. > :06:42.thousands of words a week on ten different subjects and every
:06:43. > :06:46.sentence was worth reading. He was never dilutive. His brilliance was
:06:47. > :06:52.never dilutive. It was constant across everything he did. For me he
:06:53. > :06:57.is the journalist's journalist in many ways. Every time I read AA Gill
:06:58. > :07:04.on Sundays, even a restaurant review, you learn things in it, you
:07:05. > :07:10.got a world view. You laughed. And you laughed. His brilliance is such
:07:11. > :07:17.a loss. It is. Let's also look at the other side of the Sunday Times
:07:18. > :07:20.front page. A new court case threatens to derail Brexit. As we
:07:21. > :07:25.have seen with the other court case it is a complicated matter. Perhaps
:07:26. > :07:34.you could explain it, Vincent? Not really. This is about an article
:07:35. > :07:38.called article 127. People say there will be a fresh court case over
:07:39. > :07:41.this. It is another attempt to derail Brexit and I think we will
:07:42. > :07:47.hear more and more of this as the months go on. What is interesting is
:07:48. > :07:53.it has been brought by two people and one of them is actually at Leave
:07:54. > :07:59.voter which makes it slightly different. But I think they leave
:08:00. > :08:02.that that vote wanted is what we effectively call soft Brexit. I
:08:03. > :08:08.don't know if you are getting is irritated by these terms as many of
:08:09. > :08:13.us are. They are the only terms we have, hard, soft, red and white
:08:14. > :08:21.blue, Brexit means Brexit. It will get increasingly bitter as it goes
:08:22. > :08:29.on. The Observer shows a council tax rise is too small to help with care
:08:30. > :08:34.costs. This is an interesting story as we are all getting older. Council
:08:35. > :08:38.tax is set to go up because of this than people realise we have to do
:08:39. > :08:43.something to pay for the cost of social care. It is out of control
:08:44. > :08:49.and too expensive and everyone is struggling to find a solution. It is
:08:50. > :08:53.about the Better Care fund wrought in by this government which is not
:08:54. > :09:00.meeting any targets as far as I can see. The Observer has found that of
:09:01. > :09:05.151 local councils who responded asking about their targets for
:09:06. > :09:11.improving care for people in care homes, 58% missed their target. And
:09:12. > :09:19.we have time for a couple more. The Sunday Telegraph, ministers demand
:09:20. > :09:30.AIDS stop bashing Boris. The alternative view is he should be
:09:31. > :09:37.more careful with his words. -- ministers' aides. Stop treating him
:09:38. > :09:45.like a clown. He is the Foreign Secretary. I noticed Fiona Hill is
:09:46. > :09:55.also implicated. I just wonder if this is the kind of new Alistair
:09:56. > :10:02.Campbell? It takes two of them to become one Alistair. We have a
:10:03. > :10:06.couple of minutes left. This is one of the good stories of Christmas,
:10:07. > :10:12.eat up, fat is good for you. This is in the Sunday express. New dietary
:10:13. > :10:17.research means we can enjoy a guilt free Christmas. I am not too sure
:10:18. > :10:22.about that. There is no harm in having any fat. It is very hard for
:10:23. > :10:27.me to comment on this but I certainly think with all food fads,
:10:28. > :10:32.it is not about the food itself, it is about the quantity that is bad
:10:33. > :10:37.for you. Is that good for you? Personally, so far, it has been good
:10:38. > :10:43.for me both literally and figurative leaks, but I think this kind, it is
:10:44. > :10:49.about fascism around what we eat. This fear of getting large, fear of
:10:50. > :10:52.being unhealthy, which is all predicated on the fact we cannot
:10:53. > :11:00.look after the people who are unhealthy or have problems. It is
:11:01. > :11:06.all part of a big anxiety about society no longer being able to
:11:07. > :11:10.service its citizens. But also, if you look at this kind of lifestyle
:11:11. > :11:14.journalism over the last decade, you would either think there is no point
:11:15. > :11:17.actually because one minute something is great for you it is a
:11:18. > :11:22.magnificent food, the next minute it is no good for you and now we're
:11:23. > :11:26.being told that fact, which we were told for decades is terrible for
:11:27. > :11:32.heart disease and so on, it is not that bad, is carbohydrates we have
:11:33. > :11:37.to avoid. You get conflicting advice on all these things. Today fat is
:11:38. > :11:45.good for you. I think the key is sugar. That is the real killer. It
:11:46. > :11:49.is to function on Sunday we started with Sunday supplements and now we
:11:50. > :11:54.have content online all the time. You have to fill pages with stuff.
:11:55. > :11:58.Lifestyle is great because you can regurgitate it in every form.
:11:59. > :12:02.Tomorrow, if we could only have a single newspaper and a single page
:12:03. > :12:08.on the website you would never read another story about what we eat.
:12:09. > :12:12.Indeed, but the question is, what do you actually trust? Because some of
:12:13. > :12:16.this information is contradictory, we are told the phases of super
:12:17. > :12:21.foods and so on which are not that superb, it does seem as if a
:12:22. > :12:27.balanced diet that the Romans would have understood is possibly the best
:12:28. > :12:31.way to go. That and exercise. But the Romans were not that healthy!
:12:32. > :12:33.That is indeed true. We will leave it there.
:12:34. > :12:36.Thanks to the political commentator Vincent Moss
:12:37. > :12:40.Just a reminder we take a look at tomorrow's front pages every
:12:41. > :12:59.Good morning. It has been a fairly fresh start to the day compared with
:13:00. > :13:01.recent days. Not as mild but there is plenty of sunshine out there.
:13:02. > :13:03.Things are set