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after already splurging on pre-Christmas discounts. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
With me are the political commentator, Jo Phillips, | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
and the Political Editor of the Sunday Mirror | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
A picture of George Michael dominates the front page of the i - | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
with the paper focusing on the charitable donations made | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Meanwhile, the Mirror has speculation about how | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
The former Wham frontman, is also pictured in the Telegraph. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
But the paper's main story, is a warning from England's chief | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
nursing officer that the NHS should spend more money looking | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
And finally the Express leads with a report from a pro-Brexit | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
campaign group which claims that the UK will be at least | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
450 million pounds a week better off, | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
The Times's main story claims the nuclear safety regulator has | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
turned a blind eye to dozens of serious mistakes at power plants | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
The Guardian says NHS services for children with mental health | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
needs are so substandard they are prolonging their suffering. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
And the Sun dedicates its front page to George Michael - | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
showing a picture of him in his heyday, the headline says | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
The papers, the tabloids were not always particularly kind to George | :01:36. | :01:49. | |
Michael but in death they What is interesting about The Sun | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
and the Daily Mirror is that they choose to different front pages. The | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Sun shows George Michael in his heyday, the picture is some years | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
old. The Mirror has chosen a picture of where George Michael is looking | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
fat and bloated and it is all recent picture. The Sun, inside, shows that | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
picture also but it isn't the way they chose their front pages. Over | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
the years, George Michael has done enough things to keep himself in the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
news. One would argue that what happens with celebrities is that | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
when he was finally caught by a Los Angeles police officer in a lavatory | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
in LA, the job until then had been beefy, heterosexual man and that | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
helped him to come out. From what he has said since, he was quite pleased | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
to come out because he worried about what would happen to his career if | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
people knew he was gay. The Mirror front page, they say they have | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
details of his death. As Nigel was suggesting, quite different... It is | :03:17. | :03:28. | |
veering into the not quite so a a idolising. His lover told the paper | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
told him how he found him dead on Christmas Day and revelations from | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
apparently friends saying he had been hosting wild all-night parties | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
before his death. The inevitable commentary of local people who | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
spotted him in a restaurant. And that is probably where that teacher | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
came from. That picture they say is George Michael in September. | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
Exactly. In The Mirror, from Tony Parson, who was George Michael's | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
higher refund but he wrote this in 2011 when George Michael was | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
actually dying from pneumonia in a Vienna hospital and it was about the | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
30 years he had known him and he says that George went from being too | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
fat, Ron Smart too stupid, from straight to overtly gay, from a | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
responsible driver to someone who crashed into a shop. It is that | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
celebrity and all the interviews I heard from George Michael, there was | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
this conundrum, this lack of self-confidence despite this amazing | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
talent. "In The Mirror, in his words, there is no such thing as a | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
reluctant star, stars are almost always people who want to make up | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
for their weaknesses by being loved by the public and I no exception. It | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
is interesting he had that tag. What he really wanted was claimed, that | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
he craved it, never thinking what fame brought and what it meant. With | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
an came a nice big house, any car he wanted. In a sense, he was quite | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
naive about his celebrity and then discovered some of the advantages. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
He was never quite sure of himself. But he found it hard to cope with | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
fame, having achieved it. Yes, that's right. And a lot of the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
things he kept secret. One of the interesting quote from the Daily | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Mirror is that everything had been very complicated recently. We did | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
not know what that means. What was quite behind George Michael's death | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
but there seems to be something going on. The high talk about what | :06:11. | :06:20. | |
an amazing philanthropist he was. The Blakey did for charity without | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
being noticed. Again, it goes back to that being, that is the | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
conundrum. Someone who wanted fame, as someone who got huge wealth | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
through his fame and then was giving money away and millions and millions | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
of pounds to charities. He gave all the royalties from Jesus to a child, | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
a huge hit, to a charity. Apparently he gave a complete stranger, a woman | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
he watched on TV programme he was trying to get money for a programme | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
and he gave her money. He gave a lot for the NHS. Generous with text. | :07:03. | :07:14. | |
?500 to one. We did not know his wishes but there is a different | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
picture of him. I had that dominates more than the bloated... A wonderful | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
singer and star who sadly died at the age of 53. The Times, their main | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
story is about the nuclear industry and the safety regulator they say is | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
accused of turning a blind I? The things they turned the blind eye to | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
on the surface - a torpedo going up in another. The radioactive material | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
involved in accidents on the roads and this stuff spilling out which | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
they said was not dangerous at all and everything was fine. But the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
idea of a torpedo floating around does not sound that harmless but, | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
again, that does not know. I do not know whether it patted out or | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
whatever. But the Times have a lot of instances they have here that are | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
enough that if you were a campaigner against regulate loads being hauled | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
up and down the countries in trains on roads, this gives your own -- an | :08:34. | :08:44. | |
awful lot of ammunition. Still in the Times, you can plead guilty | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
online to speed the wheels of justice? This is part of the prison | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
reform Bill. To keep minor offenders out of the court system. Offences | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
like TV Licence evasion, motoring, traffic events, fare dodging, the | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
plan is that some of these could be Internet based administrative and | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
you would be able to logon, view the penalty, accepted the conviction and | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
pay, rather like you do, I think, for most fixed penalty parking | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
fines. But the association is concerned and say it is justice | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
being done outside public scrutiny and some offenders will plead guilty | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
when they should not but on the other hand, this could free up the | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
delays... Surely you can say that pop, guv and Payet online. -- payee | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
it online. But if you are not guilty... Presumably you can contest | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
it. Fair point. The Telegraph have a story about how Bottas in towns and | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
cities with large Woodland communities were there are about | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
electoral fraud may need to show their passport or driving licences | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
before they can vote? This is a scandal. First of all, targeting | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Muslim areas but what they would argue is that they are targeting | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
areas where there is a lot of electoral fraud and they happen to | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
be Muslim areas. But the bit that gets to me is that people should | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
bring ID to vote. Voting is a bright and the right people in this country | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
who do not have a passport, driving licences, credit card and you cannot | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
say you disenfranchise these people. Having a new system of voting, | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
whether it is electronic and a secure, is one thing but the idea of | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
making people produce things they may not have two exercise of the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
right to vote is not on. ID cards via the back door. It is this | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
targeting of particular ethnic areas that will mean an outrage. This is | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
not acceptable. We are reaching the end of the Brexit a year... I think | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
2017 will be pretty much about Brexit as well! The Express have got | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
the EU - Brexit is going to save us ?450 billion per week. Oh, yes and | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
if you read it the story is for change Britain which was Vote Leave. | :11:58. | :12:08. | |
They are sensible reputable people by this report is like saying I have | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
been to the sale, I have got this fantastic bargain look how much I | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
saved but not looking at how much you actually have spent. It could - | :12:19. | :12:28. | |
could, deliver and free burdens and regulations and allow the UK to | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
Fords new trade deals and they say figures are very conservatives and | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
GDP could be boosted by another 80.5 billion and so on and so on but none | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
of this talks about what we get currently from the EU in terms of | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
research grant... It is a wish list. If we do a deal with the Tahrir, if | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
we do a deal with Asian economies... We have to do the deals first. I am | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
sorry to sound sceptical but we saw that on the buses during the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
referendum campaign. Do you think Theresa May will keep to the | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
timetable of triggering Article 50? I can't see why not, if they vote | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
then MPs will go for it. They might try to turn on the odd amendment | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
here and there if they can. But yes, I think she will. We will | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
have to see whether or not she gets forced into a general election. You | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
were mentioning the sales as a metaphor, but let's talk about the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
real Boxing Day sales. ?4 billion bonanza as foreigners boost the | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Boxing Day sales. Foreigners, we like them now! This is the Daily | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Express, that's OK then! Why are foreigners coming? Because of the | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
pound! It is astonishing. We were talking before we came on air about | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
the old days when there would be a very posh person from the BBC who | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
would interview a young couple sitting outside a department store | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
somewhere and they were going to go to Safer for ?20. There's a woman | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
quoted here who bought two pairs of shoes that were reduced from ?630 to | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
?90 a pair, if you can afford to spend that on shoes then you | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
probably don't need to go in that crash in the sales! I find it | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
astonishing. But it is good for retail. You're not a salesperson? I | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
hate shopping, I can think of so many things I would rather do. I'm | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
not going to the sales. I don't know why people would want to do this | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
when you had so many discounts before Christmas. During the | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
Christmas shopping was astonished to see how much was cheaper, as if it | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
was a perpetual sale. Great for the retail sector if people want to go | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
out, but not for me. Many thanks to both of you. I guess it is the last | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
time we will see you this year. Bargain basement, we are! Our very | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
own Boxing Day sale with Joe and Nigel. Thanks and happy New Year to | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
both of you. Coming up next on BBC News it is time for Sportsday. | :15:18. | :15:21. |