08/01/2017 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to the The Papers - a look through what the Sunday

With me are Prashant Rao, Deputy Europe Business Editor

of the International New York Times and Shyana Perera,

The Observer says the Prime Minister is under pressure this weekend

to announce an emergency NHS rescue plan to parliament.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Theresa May says the Government has

a duty to step in and tackle injustice.

The Sunday Times leads with Britain's former

ambassador to the EU, Ivan Rogers, meeting

with David Cameron before Christmas to warn him that Theresa May

The Sunday Express says the man set to become Donald Trump's ambassador

to the EU has revealed that he supported Brexit

The Mail on Sunday features Israeli officials allegedly caught making

a vow to 'take down' Boris Johnson's Foreign

And The Sun on Sunday feature a story of a man,

who was born a girl - twenty years ago, being

Let's have a look at them. Theresa May, we know she will make a big

speech at some point on Brexit, but this is an article she has written

for the Sunday Telegraph which they feature on the front page saying

that it is now the sheriff society not the big society. I think if you

read the article which is tucked away inside the Sunday Telegraph,

and the size of a normal column by any columnist, all it says is a

shared society means a shared society. It does not tell you

anything. We will act across as really society to restore the

furnace which is the bedrock of the social solidarity that makes our

nation stronger. What on earth does that mean? I cannot see a big

difference between this and big society which was all about active

citizenship and all of that is embedded in this. It is just...

Shared his three letters longer than big. It is and to reason may maybe

has not actually got a single idea to deliver. That is the problem, we

know the political mood not just in this country but across the western

world in democracies is very sceptical of politicians and the

promises so when you view the big society or shared society and you

wonder if going to hospital is a good thing and if you will be seen a

lot, there is a disappointing between the reality that many others

live in and the politicians. As people are increasingly sceptical of

politicians promises, interestingly there is this one sentence that

struck me, which was championing this idea of the people just about

managing at the idea that these people need an act of governance

that. Up, I think that is currently a throwaway phrase but could be

interesting about how a Conservative government could be more activist

when it comes to industry, added more interventionist than it comes

to markets, she talks but intervening in failed markets, that

is not the typical rhetoric a year from Conservative government which

places more faith in markets and more faith in businesses to figure

things out and this kind of line which I find just a little unusual

as not quite in keeping with the Conservatives. I thought that was

interesting and that the target audience was not the poor but those

who some would describe as jams, but normal ordinary working people who

think that things have got much more difficult and also our society is

quite unfair. To reason me is a great strategist and has crept

crab-like across the social spectrum to the side that is normally brought

by the Tories are classified -- pacified by the Tories and she's

making all sorts of claims about think she will do that do break the

model of what Tory prime ministers do but there is not a single piece

of information behind any of this, it is like a Miss world contestants

saying I want world peace. It is just where is the basis of any of

this? It has been six months, we have not had a single policy that

has any value. Is it about changing the subject from Brexit? I think

that is interesting, a lot of front pages document Ivan Rogers who

continues to dominate headlines,... Right back this is the British

diplomatic weight. We see on the front page of the Sunday Times that

he secretly met with Cameron at the end of last year, we have stuff here

about the front page of the Observer has an op-ed from a Canadian trading

official who said it will be difficult and Sir Ivan Rogers was

correct, this is still a dominant narrative. I think one of the

accusations that has been levelled against the Prime Minister is that

the whole Brexit thing has sucked up all the oxygen and has not been

enough discussion on other that are happening. The NHS, the education

system, all these things ever pressing issues. I thought the front

page splash of the mail on Sunday was terrific. Colleagues in Al

Jazeera were behind this but the story is as real plot to take down

Tory minister. A video cat is the diplomatic conspiring with deputy MP

eight two slam a fully minister. You can see let's take down bodices

deputy, -- Boris. They have done a good newspaper job. We have done a

good newspaper job of ITV job. Let's give credit where it is due. I found

this interesting because I did not know Boris and Allen about that

important any more, it felt like that is the ministry where we have a

couple of puppets and it is being run by someone else. The Israelis

suggested that Boris is now was an idiot. That is the court. It is

quite interesting, it has been passed on to us and the upgrade

relations with visual, everything is fine, which is usual the poetic

speak for there is a row behind closed doors. There are two things

you, one is the grey minister after Secretary Kenny's speech the

pro-minister was more strident in support of Israel, and I think with

with British history it is a little bit, its alliance with the US given

that she was so critical of the secretary, secretary Kenny, was

unusual. We are now hearing more and more about foreign countries tried

to intervene in politics. I think this is something of countries

elsewhere in the world often suspect of the US and Britain, but now we

have the situation with Russia doing things that the allegations that

Israel tries to do things in British politics, this is becoming more and

more of the narrative. What is interesting about that is to take

down a government minister whatever you mean by that, to take down a

government minister for believing that Israel's policy of settlements

in certain areas is wrong is something that will shock people.

Not the side bar stuff about what you think of Boris John is not the

idea of destroying someone because you don't like the logical ideas and

it is a foreign government doing it, that is the core of this. That is

right, but has a long history with Israel and a long leash and ship

with Israel and the idea that whether it would be a foreign

government intervening to take down a government minister, it is hard to

tell what exactly has been done, if anything, with regards to this by

the Israeli embassy but even the mere suggestion that this is

something that they would want to do. Can you imagine if this was a

French diplomat saying they wanted to take down some government

minister because they wed in favour Brexit. And you imagine the row? I

think there would be a huge row and I find it odd because we are friends

of Israel so the idea that they feel they need to take down members of

our government is worrying that it makes me think someone has always

sat on the fence about as real that perhaps we have gone too far into

bed with Israel. Maybe this is a shot across the bow for those of us

who have been complacent about it and think it is obvious why we have

eggs in this particular basket and are ignoring others. I think it will

tip the balance just as I think the Russian hacking as you said will tip

the balance. We start to understand, I have just spent the whole

Christmas period watching that fact that this is just like homeland.

Happening every day in the newspapers. Suddenly you realise

that these outlandish narrative you have been watching are happening all

the time. We await the French and German elections. I was taken by the

study, the Sunday Telegraph says that universities are worn over

quoted snowflakes to the hand to Snowflake students in controversial

-- is controversial changes to the ranking systems will be approved, it

means that student voices as to whether they like the university the

art will be taken into account. To dismiss a whole group of people as

snowflakes because they happen to be young and have views about how they

are mentored -- about how they made doesn't post per year tuition fees

are being spread as the raiders. There are two different elements to

this that are, I told you about this, as you arrested becomes more

expensive because one of a financial decision, it is reasonable to say

that, they are kind of customers in a way, that they have some say over

the product they are paying for. But at the same time there is also the

element that university is a place where you're meant to be challenged

and you have to ask questions of yourself and questions the -- that

you ask of others that are demanding. The ability to be

challenged is a fundamental part of it you come across ideas you don't

like. Yes but the ship your views. That was something about my

experience in university that I treasure and if that is eroded you

lose something. Take your point but the idea that this is a generation

of tender little plan to cut the top of this, there are some people who

complain about people having different views having a platform.

Yes and that is that I would disagree completely about bowing to

Snowflake students demand, if they are basing their satisfaction on

whether and not the university allows free debate or not,... Or

doesn't challenge the prejudices. I am looking for similes but it is

like going into Falkland and Mason and complaining they have kangaroo

nose and potato root on the shelves. Say well I know it is a well in or

to the fancy food store but actually I don't want you to get me fancy

food. Whole point of education and I envied each of people now, not the

fees are lass but the fact that so many are able to go to university,

to be stretched, to be challenged, to be forced to look of things they

don't like. To be fair to most students that is what they want.

That is the point I was trying to make, it is a very small minority

who would fit into that category of so-called snowflakes. That is true.

The danger is to castigate an entire group of thousands of aspiring young

people who want to be challenged as snowflakes, but there is a decent

number of anecdotes that make you a little bit worried about people who

are, we see this all the time, people who want to stay in the

bottles and don't want to be challenged. It is coming to the NUS

which is not a small, might be a small organisation as a whole

likeable and many members at hazard has a huge voice and huge influence.

The one thing I worried about as being one of those people who say it

was better in my day! Don't want to be that person but that is my

concern. Fish stocks if I can find it, the story says, it is somewhere

in the Observer, the point of the story, thank you very much, how

warming seas are forcing fish to seek new waters. And not by a number

of things about this. Climate change is affecting the fish we have in

British waters, cold is further north and this is more difficult to

get. That said coming soon, squid suppers. We are plenty of squid, not

so much cod, will be changing dietary habits because of this? Are

you? I'm not. You will live cod suddenly goes up in price. I suppose

the Scottish will start on it and pass it down, they like haggis, the

like squid. Pass over the border and we will all start eating it because

there is no more cod. I am a Scottish squid lover so I am happy

to have squid and chips. How about you, Prashant? It is interesting

because cultures cuisines do change over time depending on what is

available economically and as the climate changes, so wouldn't be

surprising. It would be unusual and fun to shake up some of these

recipes. Can you imagine it with vigour can? Whatever Sunday roast

was built around squid? What would that is why? The Sunday roast is not

something that people have on Sundays very often any more. It was

something 50 years ago. Our tastes have changed. The Indian

subcontinent, her favourite meal is supposed to be checking taken the

salad. And it probably is. -- chicken taken masala. This is harder

because if you cannot afford because you can go for something else.

Whenever fish has become fashionable it has always been fish that we

have, sea bass has become fashionable, then monkfish, you

don't really see the local fish becoming fashionable. Cod you tend

to get into peace, hadn't you get in chickpeas, so I guess the squid will

go into the chip shop. Is squid is good? You're Scottish. Don't hold it

against me. I am not of the snuffly generation so I can take it. To

pursue the fish angle, Salmond has made a huge comeback. 50 years ago

it was expensive and now it is quite cheap, it is a good fish to eat. I

preferred the Atlantic salmon. Farmed salmon is a bit flabby. I

don't know quite where going. The other big story this month is

obviously the presidency of the United States. Club tweets in the

world jobs, this is inside the Observer. Now, the Sunday Times.

What is interesting about this issue is a man who makes the news by

sitting on his phone and quite often if you follow the news he is making,

commenting on TV programmes and new shoes he is watching, this is a

president unlike any other we have ever seen. It is easy to talk about

that, the more concerning stuff is his tweets have aside from the

lyrical impact, we saw the past week he was tweeting about General Motors

fortitude, the company had to dramatically change the strategy or

at somatic changes, otherwise, it is easy to forget that these companies

employ hundreds of thousands of people with real jobs, and being

affected by 140 characters that the President-elect puts out. Maybe the

share price of these companies bounces back but they suddenly have

to veer off course. The impact of these tweets are fascinating because

how does the PR industry do with this? If you are the PR for Toyota

and you're waiting on tenterhooks for what the President-elect might

tweet, it could completely upend your strategy overnight. It is

fascinating. And also he has been, Mr Trump has been derided for using

these tweets, I would suggest he is very smart because you don't get

challenged or you ignore the challenges, everybody takes this as

news value, and he cannot be interrogated on it. You can't

question. He tweeted about how delighted he is to meet Theresa May

later this spring, but is a great ally. Well that is fine but when it

comes to what Toyota should do, what car company should do, we get into

different territory. He has the ballast of being himself, so we

can't write it off as easily as we would if it were seen President

Obama who was tweeting. It is interesting because he's absolutely

a president for the modern age, he is able to first of all encapsulated

things and short pithy sentences and he is able to control and terrorise

via Twitter which is really a gift I think Mrs Thatcher would have been

like this. This is a man who doesn't sleep. In mind that is cause of the

working sometimes it is making -- working positively and a lot of the

time it is working negatively in some danger not sure it is working

but the result was something going on and I think this is exciting and

interesting, because I'm not affected by it I guess, the moment.

I find this endlessly interesting and entertaining and enlightening,

actually, that somebody can be so powerful and there must be some

truth in some of the things he's saying for companies and people to

respond in the way that they do. The other but I was struck by if we have

a look on this, this is the Telegraph cartoon and you will see

the President-elect of the United States being sworn in and he is a

glove puppet with Vladimir Putin with his hand inside a glove. That

is a very interesting, obviously a cartoonist 's take on a very

interesting story. Relations Russia in 2017. It is like with it the

tweets, it is anyone's guess. It is clear that the President-elect is

certainly more open to good relations with Russia and sees

Russia in a different way than I think most are at least the loudest

portion of the US foreign policy community views Russia, I think this

will be tricky because his nominee for Secretary of State has garnered

some opposition from within his own party because of Rex Kellas and's

relationship with Russia. As time goes on and this is going to be one

of the fascinating narratives of the Trump presidency, he really should

chip in Russia that will be arguably the most important relationship and

how it stays -- shapes the security climate. The sound ramifications for

the whole world, doesn't it? It is a Mexican stand-off between these two

superpowers. I think there's something that is incredibly

positive about it actually, I like the fact that Trump is suggesting he

is open -- using opening, what is scary as the curtain suggested that

perhaps he's been manipulative, but if ultimately there is some sort of

agreement, if there is some sort of, think the word I looking for is

Congress but I don't think that is the correct word, but finding that

equilibrium between the two superpowers, think it would be

fantastic. On that happy note, that isn't the papers. Our FAQs to

Prashant and Shyana. We take a look at tomorrow's front pages every

evening on BBC News. Good morning. Another fairly quiet

weather day, it is misty and create the Iliad have some freezing fog and

avail of York but it will be all change this week. Already the

elements line up to the west of the UK every cDNA of low pressure