:00:00. > :00:17.after already splurging on pre-Christmas discounts.
:00:18. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:22. > :00:24.With me are the political commentator, Jo Phillips,
:00:25. > :00:26.and the Political Editor of the Sunday Mirror
:00:27. > :00:37.A picture of George Michael dominates the front page of the i -
:00:38. > :00:40.with the paper focusing on the charitable donations made
:00:41. > :00:43.Meanwhile, the Mirror has speculation about how
:00:44. > :00:48.The former Wham frontman, is also pictured in the Telegraph.
:00:49. > :00:52.But the paper's main story, is a warning from England's chief
:00:53. > :00:54.nursing officer that the NHS should spend more money looking
:00:55. > :01:05.And finally the Express leads with a report from a pro-Brexit
:01:06. > :01:08.campaign group which claims that the UK will be at least
:01:09. > :01:10.450 million pounds a week better off,
:01:11. > :01:14.The Times's main story claims the nuclear safety regulator has
:01:15. > :01:17.turned a blind eye to dozens of serious mistakes at power plants
:01:18. > :01:21.The Guardian says NHS services for children with mental health
:01:22. > :01:24.needs are so substandard they are prolonging their suffering.
:01:25. > :01:28.And the Sun dedicates its front page to George Michael -
:01:29. > :01:35.showing a picture of him in his heyday, the headline says
:01:36. > :01:49.The papers, the tabloids were not always particularly kind to George
:01:50. > :02:00.Michael but in death they What is interesting about The Sun
:02:01. > :02:06.and the Daily Mirror is that they choose to different front pages. The
:02:07. > :02:11.Sun shows George Michael in his heyday, the picture is some years
:02:12. > :02:17.old. The Mirror has chosen a picture of where George Michael is looking
:02:18. > :02:25.fat and bloated and it is all recent picture. The Sun, inside, shows that
:02:26. > :02:30.picture also but it isn't the way they chose their front pages. Over
:02:31. > :02:35.the years, George Michael has done enough things to keep himself in the
:02:36. > :02:40.news. One would argue that what happens with celebrities is that
:02:41. > :02:51.when he was finally caught by a Los Angeles police officer in a lavatory
:02:52. > :02:58.in LA, the job until then had been beefy, heterosexual man and that
:02:59. > :03:03.helped him to come out. From what he has said since, he was quite pleased
:03:04. > :03:09.to come out because he worried about what would happen to his career if
:03:10. > :03:16.people knew he was gay. The Mirror front page, they say they have
:03:17. > :03:28.details of his death. As Nigel was suggesting, quite different... It is
:03:29. > :03:37.veering into the not quite so a a idolising. His lover told the paper
:03:38. > :03:43.told him how he found him dead on Christmas Day and revelations from
:03:44. > :03:49.apparently friends saying he had been hosting wild all-night parties
:03:50. > :03:56.before his death. The inevitable commentary of local people who
:03:57. > :04:02.spotted him in a restaurant. And that is probably where that teacher
:04:03. > :04:09.came from. That picture they say is George Michael in September.
:04:10. > :04:15.Exactly. In The Mirror, from Tony Parson, who was George Michael's
:04:16. > :04:22.higher refund but he wrote this in 2011 when George Michael was
:04:23. > :04:26.actually dying from pneumonia in a Vienna hospital and it was about the
:04:27. > :04:34.30 years he had known him and he says that George went from being too
:04:35. > :04:40.fat, Ron Smart too stupid, from straight to overtly gay, from a
:04:41. > :04:46.responsible driver to someone who crashed into a shop. It is that
:04:47. > :04:53.celebrity and all the interviews I heard from George Michael, there was
:04:54. > :05:01.this conundrum, this lack of self-confidence despite this amazing
:05:02. > :05:06.talent. "In The Mirror, in his words, there is no such thing as a
:05:07. > :05:11.reluctant star, stars are almost always people who want to make up
:05:12. > :05:18.for their weaknesses by being loved by the public and I no exception. It
:05:19. > :05:23.is interesting he had that tag. What he really wanted was claimed, that
:05:24. > :05:30.he craved it, never thinking what fame brought and what it meant. With
:05:31. > :05:39.an came a nice big house, any car he wanted. In a sense, he was quite
:05:40. > :05:44.naive about his celebrity and then discovered some of the advantages.
:05:45. > :05:51.He was never quite sure of himself. But he found it hard to cope with
:05:52. > :05:56.fame, having achieved it. Yes, that's right. And a lot of the
:05:57. > :06:00.things he kept secret. One of the interesting quote from the Daily
:06:01. > :06:06.Mirror is that everything had been very complicated recently. We did
:06:07. > :06:10.not know what that means. What was quite behind George Michael's death
:06:11. > :06:20.but there seems to be something going on. The high talk about what
:06:21. > :06:26.an amazing philanthropist he was. The Blakey did for charity without
:06:27. > :06:30.being noticed. Again, it goes back to that being, that is the
:06:31. > :06:35.conundrum. Someone who wanted fame, as someone who got huge wealth
:06:36. > :06:40.through his fame and then was giving money away and millions and millions
:06:41. > :06:49.of pounds to charities. He gave all the royalties from Jesus to a child,
:06:50. > :06:54.a huge hit, to a charity. Apparently he gave a complete stranger, a woman
:06:55. > :07:02.he watched on TV programme he was trying to get money for a programme
:07:03. > :07:14.and he gave her money. He gave a lot for the NHS. Generous with text.
:07:15. > :07:19.?500 to one. We did not know his wishes but there is a different
:07:20. > :07:24.picture of him. I had that dominates more than the bloated... A wonderful
:07:25. > :07:33.singer and star who sadly died at the age of 53. The Times, their main
:07:34. > :07:42.story is about the nuclear industry and the safety regulator they say is
:07:43. > :07:50.accused of turning a blind I? The things they turned the blind eye to
:07:51. > :07:59.on the surface - a torpedo going up in another. The radioactive material
:08:00. > :08:04.involved in accidents on the roads and this stuff spilling out which
:08:05. > :08:09.they said was not dangerous at all and everything was fine. But the
:08:10. > :08:15.idea of a torpedo floating around does not sound that harmless but,
:08:16. > :08:22.again, that does not know. I do not know whether it patted out or
:08:23. > :08:27.whatever. But the Times have a lot of instances they have here that are
:08:28. > :08:33.enough that if you were a campaigner against regulate loads being hauled
:08:34. > :08:44.up and down the countries in trains on roads, this gives your own -- an
:08:45. > :08:50.awful lot of ammunition. Still in the Times, you can plead guilty
:08:51. > :08:57.online to speed the wheels of justice? This is part of the prison
:08:58. > :09:06.reform Bill. To keep minor offenders out of the court system. Offences
:09:07. > :09:11.like TV Licence evasion, motoring, traffic events, fare dodging, the
:09:12. > :09:17.plan is that some of these could be Internet based administrative and
:09:18. > :09:24.you would be able to logon, view the penalty, accepted the conviction and
:09:25. > :09:31.pay, rather like you do, I think, for most fixed penalty parking
:09:32. > :09:36.fines. But the association is concerned and say it is justice
:09:37. > :09:42.being done outside public scrutiny and some offenders will plead guilty
:09:43. > :09:49.when they should not but on the other hand, this could free up the
:09:50. > :10:00.delays... Surely you can say that pop, guv and Payet online. -- payee
:10:01. > :10:09.it online. But if you are not guilty... Presumably you can contest
:10:10. > :10:15.it. Fair point. The Telegraph have a story about how Bottas in towns and
:10:16. > :10:19.cities with large Woodland communities were there are about
:10:20. > :10:25.electoral fraud may need to show their passport or driving licences
:10:26. > :10:31.before they can vote? This is a scandal. First of all, targeting
:10:32. > :10:37.Muslim areas but what they would argue is that they are targeting
:10:38. > :10:41.areas where there is a lot of electoral fraud and they happen to
:10:42. > :10:46.be Muslim areas. But the bit that gets to me is that people should
:10:47. > :10:53.bring ID to vote. Voting is a bright and the right people in this country
:10:54. > :11:00.who do not have a passport, driving licences, credit card and you cannot
:11:01. > :11:06.say you disenfranchise these people. Having a new system of voting,
:11:07. > :11:11.whether it is electronic and a secure, is one thing but the idea of
:11:12. > :11:17.making people produce things they may not have two exercise of the
:11:18. > :11:24.right to vote is not on. ID cards via the back door. It is this
:11:25. > :11:32.targeting of particular ethnic areas that will mean an outrage. This is
:11:33. > :11:41.not acceptable. We are reaching the end of the Brexit a year... I think
:11:42. > :11:50.2017 will be pretty much about Brexit as well! The Express have got
:11:51. > :11:57.the EU - Brexit is going to save us ?450 billion per week. Oh, yes and
:11:58. > :12:08.if you read it the story is for change Britain which was Vote Leave.
:12:09. > :12:14.They are sensible reputable people by this report is like saying I have
:12:15. > :12:18.been to the sale, I have got this fantastic bargain look how much I
:12:19. > :12:28.saved but not looking at how much you actually have spent. It could -
:12:29. > :12:35.could, deliver and free burdens and regulations and allow the UK to
:12:36. > :12:39.Fords new trade deals and they say figures are very conservatives and
:12:40. > :12:45.GDP could be boosted by another 80.5 billion and so on and so on but none
:12:46. > :12:51.of this talks about what we get currently from the EU in terms of
:12:52. > :12:56.research grant... It is a wish list. If we do a deal with the Tahrir, if
:12:57. > :13:03.we do a deal with Asian economies... We have to do the deals first. I am
:13:04. > :13:08.sorry to sound sceptical but we saw that on the buses during the
:13:09. > :13:13.referendum campaign. Do you think Theresa May will keep to the
:13:14. > :13:23.timetable of triggering Article 50? I can't see why not, if they vote
:13:24. > :13:25.then MPs will go for it. They might try to turn on the odd amendment
:13:26. > :13:32.here and there if they can. But yes, I think she will. We will
:13:33. > :13:37.have to see whether or not she gets forced into a general election. You
:13:38. > :13:42.were mentioning the sales as a metaphor, but let's talk about the
:13:43. > :13:47.real Boxing Day sales. ?4 billion bonanza as foreigners boost the
:13:48. > :13:52.Boxing Day sales. Foreigners, we like them now! This is the Daily
:13:53. > :13:57.Express, that's OK then! Why are foreigners coming? Because of the
:13:58. > :14:02.pound! It is astonishing. We were talking before we came on air about
:14:03. > :14:05.the old days when there would be a very posh person from the BBC who
:14:06. > :14:11.would interview a young couple sitting outside a department store
:14:12. > :14:19.somewhere and they were going to go to Safer for ?20. There's a woman
:14:20. > :14:25.quoted here who bought two pairs of shoes that were reduced from ?630 to
:14:26. > :14:29.?90 a pair, if you can afford to spend that on shoes then you
:14:30. > :14:34.probably don't need to go in that crash in the sales! I find it
:14:35. > :14:39.astonishing. But it is good for retail. You're not a salesperson? I
:14:40. > :14:44.hate shopping, I can think of so many things I would rather do. I'm
:14:45. > :14:48.not going to the sales. I don't know why people would want to do this
:14:49. > :14:51.when you had so many discounts before Christmas. During the
:14:52. > :14:56.Christmas shopping was astonished to see how much was cheaper, as if it
:14:57. > :15:01.was a perpetual sale. Great for the retail sector if people want to go
:15:02. > :15:05.out, but not for me. Many thanks to both of you. I guess it is the last
:15:06. > :15:12.time we will see you this year. Bargain basement, we are! Our very
:15:13. > :15:17.own Boxing Day sale with Joe and Nigel. Thanks and happy New Year to
:15:18. > :15:21.both of you. Coming up next on BBC News it is time for Sportsday.