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:00:13. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to the The Papers - a look through what the Sunday
:00:16. > :00:20.With me are Prashant Rao, Deputy Europe Business Editor
:00:21. > :00:22.of the International New York Times and Shyana Perera,
:00:23. > :00:30.The Observer says the Prime Minister is under pressure this weekend
:00:31. > :00:34.to announce an emergency NHS rescue plan to parliament.
:00:35. > :00:37.Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Theresa May says the Government has
:00:38. > :00:41.a duty to step in and tackle injustice.
:00:42. > :00:42.The Sunday Times leads with Britain's former
:00:43. > :00:44.ambassador to the EU, Ivan Rogers, meeting
:00:45. > :00:47.with David Cameron before Christmas to warn him that Theresa May
:00:48. > :00:54.The Sunday Express says the man set to become Donald Trump's ambassador
:00:55. > :00:56.to the EU has revealed that he supported Brexit
:00:57. > :01:03.The Mail on Sunday features Israeli officials allegedly caught making
:01:04. > :01:05.a vow to 'take down' Boris Johnson's Foreign
:01:06. > :01:11.And The Sun on Sunday feature a story of a man,
:01:12. > :01:14.who was born a girl - twenty years ago, being
:01:15. > :01:26.Let's have a look at them. Theresa May, we know she will make a big
:01:27. > :01:29.speech at some point on Brexit, but this is an article she has written
:01:30. > :01:33.for the Sunday Telegraph which they feature on the front page saying
:01:34. > :01:38.that it is now the sheriff society not the big society. I think if you
:01:39. > :01:43.read the article which is tucked away inside the Sunday Telegraph,
:01:44. > :01:47.and the size of a normal column by any columnist, all it says is a
:01:48. > :01:54.shared society means a shared society. It does not tell you
:01:55. > :01:56.anything. We will act across as really society to restore the
:01:57. > :02:00.furnace which is the bedrock of the social solidarity that makes our
:02:01. > :02:05.nation stronger. What on earth does that mean? I cannot see a big
:02:06. > :02:08.difference between this and big society which was all about active
:02:09. > :02:15.citizenship and all of that is embedded in this. It is just...
:02:16. > :02:21.Shared his three letters longer than big. It is and to reason may maybe
:02:22. > :02:27.has not actually got a single idea to deliver. That is the problem, we
:02:28. > :02:31.know the political mood not just in this country but across the western
:02:32. > :02:36.world in democracies is very sceptical of politicians and the
:02:37. > :02:41.promises so when you view the big society or shared society and you
:02:42. > :02:45.wonder if going to hospital is a good thing and if you will be seen a
:02:46. > :02:53.lot, there is a disappointing between the reality that many others
:02:54. > :02:56.live in and the politicians. As people are increasingly sceptical of
:02:57. > :03:00.politicians promises, interestingly there is this one sentence that
:03:01. > :03:04.struck me, which was championing this idea of the people just about
:03:05. > :03:08.managing at the idea that these people need an act of governance
:03:09. > :03:12.that. Up, I think that is currently a throwaway phrase but could be
:03:13. > :03:16.interesting about how a Conservative government could be more activist
:03:17. > :03:19.when it comes to industry, added more interventionist than it comes
:03:20. > :03:23.to markets, she talks but intervening in failed markets, that
:03:24. > :03:27.is not the typical rhetoric a year from Conservative government which
:03:28. > :03:32.places more faith in markets and more faith in businesses to figure
:03:33. > :03:38.things out and this kind of line which I find just a little unusual
:03:39. > :03:42.as not quite in keeping with the Conservatives. I thought that was
:03:43. > :03:48.interesting and that the target audience was not the poor but those
:03:49. > :03:52.who some would describe as jams, but normal ordinary working people who
:03:53. > :03:57.think that things have got much more difficult and also our society is
:03:58. > :04:03.quite unfair. To reason me is a great strategist and has crept
:04:04. > :04:07.crab-like across the social spectrum to the side that is normally brought
:04:08. > :04:10.by the Tories are classified -- pacified by the Tories and she's
:04:11. > :04:14.making all sorts of claims about think she will do that do break the
:04:15. > :04:19.model of what Tory prime ministers do but there is not a single piece
:04:20. > :04:25.of information behind any of this, it is like a Miss world contestants
:04:26. > :04:29.saying I want world peace. It is just where is the basis of any of
:04:30. > :04:34.this? It has been six months, we have not had a single policy that
:04:35. > :04:40.has any value. Is it about changing the subject from Brexit? I think
:04:41. > :04:44.that is interesting, a lot of front pages document Ivan Rogers who
:04:45. > :04:50.continues to dominate headlines,... Right back this is the British
:04:51. > :04:56.diplomatic weight. We see on the front page of the Sunday Times that
:04:57. > :05:00.he secretly met with Cameron at the end of last year, we have stuff here
:05:01. > :05:05.about the front page of the Observer has an op-ed from a Canadian trading
:05:06. > :05:09.official who said it will be difficult and Sir Ivan Rogers was
:05:10. > :05:11.correct, this is still a dominant narrative. I think one of the
:05:12. > :05:16.accusations that has been levelled against the Prime Minister is that
:05:17. > :05:20.the whole Brexit thing has sucked up all the oxygen and has not been
:05:21. > :05:26.enough discussion on other that are happening. The NHS, the education
:05:27. > :05:30.system, all these things ever pressing issues. I thought the front
:05:31. > :05:37.page splash of the mail on Sunday was terrific. Colleagues in Al
:05:38. > :05:42.Jazeera were behind this but the story is as real plot to take down
:05:43. > :05:48.Tory minister. A video cat is the diplomatic conspiring with deputy MP
:05:49. > :05:56.eight two slam a fully minister. You can see let's take down bodices
:05:57. > :06:01.deputy, -- Boris. They have done a good newspaper job. We have done a
:06:02. > :06:07.good newspaper job of ITV job. Let's give credit where it is due. I found
:06:08. > :06:12.this interesting because I did not know Boris and Allen about that
:06:13. > :06:16.important any more, it felt like that is the ministry where we have a
:06:17. > :06:23.couple of puppets and it is being run by someone else. The Israelis
:06:24. > :06:30.suggested that Boris is now was an idiot. That is the court. It is
:06:31. > :06:34.quite interesting, it has been passed on to us and the upgrade
:06:35. > :06:37.relations with visual, everything is fine, which is usual the poetic
:06:38. > :06:46.speak for there is a row behind closed doors. There are two things
:06:47. > :06:49.you, one is the grey minister after Secretary Kenny's speech the
:06:50. > :06:56.pro-minister was more strident in support of Israel, and I think with
:06:57. > :07:00.with British history it is a little bit, its alliance with the US given
:07:01. > :07:07.that she was so critical of the secretary, secretary Kenny, was
:07:08. > :07:12.unusual. We are now hearing more and more about foreign countries tried
:07:13. > :07:14.to intervene in politics. I think this is something of countries
:07:15. > :07:21.elsewhere in the world often suspect of the US and Britain, but now we
:07:22. > :07:25.have the situation with Russia doing things that the allegations that
:07:26. > :07:28.Israel tries to do things in British politics, this is becoming more and
:07:29. > :07:32.more of the narrative. What is interesting about that is to take
:07:33. > :07:37.down a government minister whatever you mean by that, to take down a
:07:38. > :07:42.government minister for believing that Israel's policy of settlements
:07:43. > :07:45.in certain areas is wrong is something that will shock people.
:07:46. > :07:51.Not the side bar stuff about what you think of Boris John is not the
:07:52. > :07:54.idea of destroying someone because you don't like the logical ideas and
:07:55. > :08:03.it is a foreign government doing it, that is the core of this. That is
:08:04. > :08:06.right, but has a long history with Israel and a long leash and ship
:08:07. > :08:11.with Israel and the idea that whether it would be a foreign
:08:12. > :08:15.government intervening to take down a government minister, it is hard to
:08:16. > :08:21.tell what exactly has been done, if anything, with regards to this by
:08:22. > :08:24.the Israeli embassy but even the mere suggestion that this is
:08:25. > :08:29.something that they would want to do. Can you imagine if this was a
:08:30. > :08:32.French diplomat saying they wanted to take down some government
:08:33. > :08:38.minister because they wed in favour Brexit. And you imagine the row? I
:08:39. > :08:41.think there would be a huge row and I find it odd because we are friends
:08:42. > :08:46.of Israel so the idea that they feel they need to take down members of
:08:47. > :08:51.our government is worrying that it makes me think someone has always
:08:52. > :08:57.sat on the fence about as real that perhaps we have gone too far into
:08:58. > :09:02.bed with Israel. Maybe this is a shot across the bow for those of us
:09:03. > :09:06.who have been complacent about it and think it is obvious why we have
:09:07. > :09:11.eggs in this particular basket and are ignoring others. I think it will
:09:12. > :09:16.tip the balance just as I think the Russian hacking as you said will tip
:09:17. > :09:20.the balance. We start to understand, I have just spent the whole
:09:21. > :09:23.Christmas period watching that fact that this is just like homeland.
:09:24. > :09:27.Happening every day in the newspapers. Suddenly you realise
:09:28. > :09:33.that these outlandish narrative you have been watching are happening all
:09:34. > :09:40.the time. We await the French and German elections. I was taken by the
:09:41. > :09:47.study, the Sunday Telegraph says that universities are worn over
:09:48. > :09:53.quoted snowflakes to the hand to Snowflake students in controversial
:09:54. > :09:57.-- is controversial changes to the ranking systems will be approved, it
:09:58. > :10:01.means that student voices as to whether they like the university the
:10:02. > :10:05.art will be taken into account. To dismiss a whole group of people as
:10:06. > :10:10.snowflakes because they happen to be young and have views about how they
:10:11. > :10:14.are mentored -- about how they made doesn't post per year tuition fees
:10:15. > :10:20.are being spread as the raiders. There are two different elements to
:10:21. > :10:22.this that are, I told you about this, as you arrested becomes more
:10:23. > :10:29.expensive because one of a financial decision, it is reasonable to say
:10:30. > :10:33.that, they are kind of customers in a way, that they have some say over
:10:34. > :10:37.the product they are paying for. But at the same time there is also the
:10:38. > :10:41.element that university is a place where you're meant to be challenged
:10:42. > :10:46.and you have to ask questions of yourself and questions the -- that
:10:47. > :10:50.you ask of others that are demanding. The ability to be
:10:51. > :10:56.challenged is a fundamental part of it you come across ideas you don't
:10:57. > :11:00.like. Yes but the ship your views. That was something about my
:11:01. > :11:04.experience in university that I treasure and if that is eroded you
:11:05. > :11:08.lose something. Take your point but the idea that this is a generation
:11:09. > :11:11.of tender little plan to cut the top of this, there are some people who
:11:12. > :11:15.complain about people having different views having a platform.
:11:16. > :11:21.Yes and that is that I would disagree completely about bowing to
:11:22. > :11:24.Snowflake students demand, if they are basing their satisfaction on
:11:25. > :11:30.whether and not the university allows free debate or not,... Or
:11:31. > :11:37.doesn't challenge the prejudices. I am looking for similes but it is
:11:38. > :11:42.like going into Falkland and Mason and complaining they have kangaroo
:11:43. > :11:46.nose and potato root on the shelves. Say well I know it is a well in or
:11:47. > :11:49.to the fancy food store but actually I don't want you to get me fancy
:11:50. > :11:55.food. Whole point of education and I envied each of people now, not the
:11:56. > :11:59.fees are lass but the fact that so many are able to go to university,
:12:00. > :12:03.to be stretched, to be challenged, to be forced to look of things they
:12:04. > :12:07.don't like. To be fair to most students that is what they want.
:12:08. > :12:14.That is the point I was trying to make, it is a very small minority
:12:15. > :12:19.who would fit into that category of so-called snowflakes. That is true.
:12:20. > :12:25.The danger is to castigate an entire group of thousands of aspiring young
:12:26. > :12:27.people who want to be challenged as snowflakes, but there is a decent
:12:28. > :12:31.number of anecdotes that make you a little bit worried about people who
:12:32. > :12:35.are, we see this all the time, people who want to stay in the
:12:36. > :12:40.bottles and don't want to be challenged. It is coming to the NUS
:12:41. > :12:43.which is not a small, might be a small organisation as a whole
:12:44. > :12:51.likeable and many members at hazard has a huge voice and huge influence.
:12:52. > :12:55.The one thing I worried about as being one of those people who say it
:12:56. > :13:00.was better in my day! Don't want to be that person but that is my
:13:01. > :13:08.concern. Fish stocks if I can find it, the story says, it is somewhere
:13:09. > :13:14.in the Observer, the point of the story, thank you very much, how
:13:15. > :13:18.warming seas are forcing fish to seek new waters. And not by a number
:13:19. > :13:22.of things about this. Climate change is affecting the fish we have in
:13:23. > :13:27.British waters, cold is further north and this is more difficult to
:13:28. > :13:31.get. That said coming soon, squid suppers. We are plenty of squid, not
:13:32. > :13:38.so much cod, will be changing dietary habits because of this? Are
:13:39. > :13:44.you? I'm not. You will live cod suddenly goes up in price. I suppose
:13:45. > :13:48.the Scottish will start on it and pass it down, they like haggis, the
:13:49. > :13:54.like squid. Pass over the border and we will all start eating it because
:13:55. > :14:00.there is no more cod. I am a Scottish squid lover so I am happy
:14:01. > :14:04.to have squid and chips. How about you, Prashant? It is interesting
:14:05. > :14:08.because cultures cuisines do change over time depending on what is
:14:09. > :14:12.available economically and as the climate changes, so wouldn't be
:14:13. > :14:16.surprising. It would be unusual and fun to shake up some of these
:14:17. > :14:25.recipes. Can you imagine it with vigour can? Whatever Sunday roast
:14:26. > :14:28.was built around squid? What would that is why? The Sunday roast is not
:14:29. > :14:34.something that people have on Sundays very often any more. It was
:14:35. > :14:38.something 50 years ago. Our tastes have changed. The Indian
:14:39. > :14:42.subcontinent, her favourite meal is supposed to be checking taken the
:14:43. > :14:50.salad. And it probably is. -- chicken taken masala. This is harder
:14:51. > :14:52.because if you cannot afford because you can go for something else.
:14:53. > :14:58.Whenever fish has become fashionable it has always been fish that we
:14:59. > :15:02.have, sea bass has become fashionable, then monkfish, you
:15:03. > :15:09.don't really see the local fish becoming fashionable. Cod you tend
:15:10. > :15:16.to get into peace, hadn't you get in chickpeas, so I guess the squid will
:15:17. > :15:20.go into the chip shop. Is squid is good? You're Scottish. Don't hold it
:15:21. > :15:26.against me. I am not of the snuffly generation so I can take it. To
:15:27. > :15:34.pursue the fish angle, Salmond has made a huge comeback. 50 years ago
:15:35. > :15:42.it was expensive and now it is quite cheap, it is a good fish to eat. I
:15:43. > :15:48.preferred the Atlantic salmon. Farmed salmon is a bit flabby. I
:15:49. > :15:52.don't know quite where going. The other big story this month is
:15:53. > :15:56.obviously the presidency of the United States. Club tweets in the
:15:57. > :16:05.world jobs, this is inside the Observer. Now, the Sunday Times.
:16:06. > :16:09.What is interesting about this issue is a man who makes the news by
:16:10. > :16:13.sitting on his phone and quite often if you follow the news he is making,
:16:14. > :16:18.commenting on TV programmes and new shoes he is watching, this is a
:16:19. > :16:23.president unlike any other we have ever seen. It is easy to talk about
:16:24. > :16:30.that, the more concerning stuff is his tweets have aside from the
:16:31. > :16:35.lyrical impact, we saw the past week he was tweeting about General Motors
:16:36. > :16:41.fortitude, the company had to dramatically change the strategy or
:16:42. > :16:43.at somatic changes, otherwise, it is easy to forget that these companies
:16:44. > :16:50.employ hundreds of thousands of people with real jobs, and being
:16:51. > :16:55.affected by 140 characters that the President-elect puts out. Maybe the
:16:56. > :16:58.share price of these companies bounces back but they suddenly have
:16:59. > :17:02.to veer off course. The impact of these tweets are fascinating because
:17:03. > :17:08.how does the PR industry do with this? If you are the PR for Toyota
:17:09. > :17:13.and you're waiting on tenterhooks for what the President-elect might
:17:14. > :17:18.tweet, it could completely upend your strategy overnight. It is
:17:19. > :17:22.fascinating. And also he has been, Mr Trump has been derided for using
:17:23. > :17:28.these tweets, I would suggest he is very smart because you don't get
:17:29. > :17:32.challenged or you ignore the challenges, everybody takes this as
:17:33. > :17:39.news value, and he cannot be interrogated on it. You can't
:17:40. > :17:43.question. He tweeted about how delighted he is to meet Theresa May
:17:44. > :17:48.later this spring, but is a great ally. Well that is fine but when it
:17:49. > :17:54.comes to what Toyota should do, what car company should do, we get into
:17:55. > :18:01.different territory. He has the ballast of being himself, so we
:18:02. > :18:04.can't write it off as easily as we would if it were seen President
:18:05. > :18:09.Obama who was tweeting. It is interesting because he's absolutely
:18:10. > :18:15.a president for the modern age, he is able to first of all encapsulated
:18:16. > :18:22.things and short pithy sentences and he is able to control and terrorise
:18:23. > :18:28.via Twitter which is really a gift I think Mrs Thatcher would have been
:18:29. > :18:33.like this. This is a man who doesn't sleep. In mind that is cause of the
:18:34. > :18:36.working sometimes it is making -- working positively and a lot of the
:18:37. > :18:39.time it is working negatively in some danger not sure it is working
:18:40. > :18:43.but the result was something going on and I think this is exciting and
:18:44. > :18:50.interesting, because I'm not affected by it I guess, the moment.
:18:51. > :18:58.I find this endlessly interesting and entertaining and enlightening,
:18:59. > :19:00.actually, that somebody can be so powerful and there must be some
:19:01. > :19:05.truth in some of the things he's saying for companies and people to
:19:06. > :19:10.respond in the way that they do. The other but I was struck by if we have
:19:11. > :19:13.a look on this, this is the Telegraph cartoon and you will see
:19:14. > :19:19.the President-elect of the United States being sworn in and he is a
:19:20. > :19:27.glove puppet with Vladimir Putin with his hand inside a glove. That
:19:28. > :19:30.is a very interesting, obviously a cartoonist 's take on a very
:19:31. > :19:38.interesting story. Relations Russia in 2017. It is like with it the
:19:39. > :19:41.tweets, it is anyone's guess. It is clear that the President-elect is
:19:42. > :19:48.certainly more open to good relations with Russia and sees
:19:49. > :19:51.Russia in a different way than I think most are at least the loudest
:19:52. > :19:58.portion of the US foreign policy community views Russia, I think this
:19:59. > :20:01.will be tricky because his nominee for Secretary of State has garnered
:20:02. > :20:05.some opposition from within his own party because of Rex Kellas and's
:20:06. > :20:09.relationship with Russia. As time goes on and this is going to be one
:20:10. > :20:13.of the fascinating narratives of the Trump presidency, he really should
:20:14. > :20:18.chip in Russia that will be arguably the most important relationship and
:20:19. > :20:30.how it stays -- shapes the security climate. The sound ramifications for
:20:31. > :20:35.the whole world, doesn't it? It is a Mexican stand-off between these two
:20:36. > :20:39.superpowers. I think there's something that is incredibly
:20:40. > :20:47.positive about it actually, I like the fact that Trump is suggesting he
:20:48. > :20:50.is open -- using opening, what is scary as the curtain suggested that
:20:51. > :20:58.perhaps he's been manipulative, but if ultimately there is some sort of
:20:59. > :21:02.agreement, if there is some sort of, think the word I looking for is
:21:03. > :21:07.Congress but I don't think that is the correct word, but finding that
:21:08. > :21:12.equilibrium between the two superpowers, think it would be
:21:13. > :21:21.fantastic. On that happy note, that isn't the papers. Our FAQs to
:21:22. > :21:22.Prashant and Shyana. We take a look at tomorrow's front pages every
:21:23. > :21:38.evening on BBC News. Good morning. Another fairly quiet
:21:39. > :21:42.weather day, it is misty and create the Iliad have some freezing fog and
:21:43. > :21:48.avail of York but it will be all change this week. Already the
:21:49. > :21:49.elements line up to the west of the UK every cDNA of low pressure