19/02/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our Sunday Morning paper review.

With me are the Sun's Deputy Head of Sport,

Let's have a look at the front pages.

plot by Islamic extremists to take control of her school.

leads with a leaked report warning of chaos and uncertainty for EU

nationals living in the UK after Brexit.

reports of child sexual abuse claims against former

The Sunday Express carries a story about young

children of alcoholics calling a helpline and asking to be read

bedtime stories when their parents are drunk.

reports that Russia plotted to remove the government

of Montenegro and assassinate its Prime Minister last year.

The Sunday Mirror claims a convicted rapist who claimed a

?2.5 million lottery jackpot with a deliberately damaged ticket

had bragged to his friends about the plan beforehand.

The Montenegro plot. This is clearly sourced by Whitehall. The Russians,

her friends in eastern neighbours, tried to subvert the Montenegro

Government and ferment and violent overthrow the state with an attack

on parliament and a planned to assassinate the then Prime Minister.

He has no stood down and been replaced by his deputy. There is a

clear worry from Moscow that a lot of satellite states will become more

westernised and Montenegro are one of those. It is the process becoming

a Nato member and seeks to become an EU member. At this very detailed

report in the Sunday Telegraph and appears to show the sheer scale of

the Russian involvement and they have form. Look at what is happening

in Crimea and think a lot of the sphere of the next step will be

similar sportss plots in the Balkans, in Estonia, Lithuania and

Latvia with the Russian minority might be used as a pretext for

something else. It is was like fiction but it is fact. Martin is

right. That is formed for this. But also not to support Vladimir Putin

in any way are endorses worldview, but from the Russian perspective it

will of course look very threatening that Montenegro wants to join the

EU. That it has application in play and also wants to be part of a call.

It will see it as a European judgment on its territory. --

encroachment. This idea of a Russian plot led by two intelligence

officers to lead a revolt against the democratically elected leader.

This is from the United States textbook on the CIA was involved in

all sorts of plots to do the kind of thing. It even had a school of the

Americas which is a school for political clues.

-- coups. We see what has happened in the Ukraine with the Orange

Revolution and the pushback and people being thrown in jail because

the opposition leaders. Russian opposition leader suddenly had these

investment charges against them. And clamp-downs on the free press and

the authoritarian measures. It is then a stark context because we then

have this between Trump, which is to be the bulwark against Russia, and

Moscow for whatever reason. These things of piquancy and Westerners

for us in Europe. -- resonance. We're talking now about business

rates. Everywhere I go, every shop I going to be talking about business

rates. Completely. People are really worried about losing the premises.

In my area it's all independent retailers like the dry cleaner and

the grocer who have petitions that say these business rates are going

to force us to close and that does seem to be the picture across the

UK. You say that all the papers have done pretty solid reporting from

high street talking to retailers. This is the first time in seven

years in business rates have been recalibrated according to property

rises. The disparity in the rates is what is causing so much concern.

Some large businesses such as sports direct who were named in one of the

papers the other day, it is facing a cut while smaller and independent

businesses are not. I think that is a genuine fear that the old fashion

high Street is going because I will get is a homogenous situation when

every turn looks the same. You end up with nothing that differentiates

one time from another. And some other things that my paper covered.

Changing the rates for the football clubs. And if you're an Internet

business you do not have a building. Not only is it completely

unaffordable but it will force them to close. Set against the giant

packs that corporations seem to benefit from and this thing about

not being enough our being able to avail themselves of tax loopholes.

To not pay what you think would be an appropriate level of tax. It is

hitting the national supporters of the Government. -- natural. You know

that MPs are worried. This online from the Government saying there

will be no U-turn which means they will make a U-turn. They will then

say they have listened to the people. The Observer raises concern

about EU citizens after Brexit. This is EU nationals who are now in the

UK and have been for some time. That thought to be 2 million. They have

lives and families and children and work in school and the rest of it.

Their features completely uncertain because they are being as pawns in

our negotiation about withdrawal from the EU. On top of this there

has been a leaked report that says because there are weaknesses in the

British immigration system and the way that charts and processes of

non-British citizens and it is just not up to the job of being able to

filter carefully select should be here. That is adding to the

uncertainty. A previous court case for many years ago would have it

they would say that, wouldn't they? It is interesting that one of the

pieces in the Observer suggest that had much scheme for the National ID

card been approved ten years ago this would have been an issue that

could have been avoided. The problem, it is claimed here, is that

there is no real logging of people coming to the country. The fate of

British citizens in Europe is also uncertain. It is interesting now

that the trigger for Article 50 leaving the EU is going in front of

the House of Lords, this issue is one that might be sent back to get

an amendment is slapped on it. It is causing a lot of distress and I

think a lot of the Lords have a political freedom and political

space to be able to look about best cleanly and say this is just

completely ludicrous. It is not fair to do this to people. There has been

inconsistency. Affordable to those clear a lot of Brexit ears were

saying there would be no impact on foreign citizens are British living

abroad. -- Brexiteers. One would hope that could be a sensible

solution probe could say this is where we stand. People are rightly

fearful of where they're going. The Sunday Times has an article about

what is known as another Trojan horse plot. This is an old term with

a a primary school sent an e-mail to a local council to say that she

believes there is a plot to force a particular conservative branch of

Islam onto the school. -- Oldham. There were issues in Birmingham and

Tower Hamlets and Luton. This is one of the journalists hobbyhorses that

you can see why there are issues there. She is claiming she has had

death threats. It is a very strong statement, an e-mail sent to her. I

have very strong reasons to believe this is happening. I am the subject

of death threats and aggression to my car and a verbal abuse and

attacked physically by a parent. This goes back to 2013. It will

concern people. The Birmingham are quietly went on for a long time and

while some of the claims were dismissed the thrust of them were

our peril. -- where upheld. There were cross-party concerns in the

city as well. The danger is you end up branding everyone is a

fundamentalist and trying to attack and destroy what is the norm in this

country. It is an issue that has to be looked at. It is an issue that

needs to be reported responsibly and I'm not sure that this front page in

the Sunday Times achieved that. As you rightly said the Trojan horse

plot, number one, in Birmingham was not as big as people thought. There

was an official Government cross-party enquiry into it that

concluded that a lot of the fears were unsubstantiated. None of that

is to take away from what this headteacher has experienced and her

concerns for our own safety which is an incredibly frightening. But we

are in a context where the Muslim population in the UK is very

besieged and it has become acceptable to scapegoat and demonise

that minute in a way would not do it any other community and I think that

needs to be care in the way this is reported because the impression

created is that we are dealing with Islamist extremists and conflating

that the religious conservativism which acts which different things.

And making much more about the naturally is the case. I want to

look at the mail On Sunday briefly. Allegations against Edward Heath. We

have known that ever teeth and others have been accused for some

time of widespread paedophilia. Lee and Britain died just before he was

officially cleared. His family blamed the failure to exonerate him

as a contributory factor in his death. Another Lord was also

accused. A lot of the allegations have been viewed as being fantasy,

basically. This one particular called Nick who has been seen as a

source of a lot of his allegations. However this is the Chief Constable

of Wiltshire Police who is investigating. It is sources close

to him. They say he is 120% sure of the allegations against Edward Heath

had totally convincing. The rationale for the stories he did

drive a car. One of the claims made by those who supported Heath and

dismissed the allegations are that he could not have driven to commit

these offences because it did not drive. He was always driven by the

Government driver. There are photos in the story of him at the wheel of

this rubber 2000 car that he bought. -- Rover. Other witnesses talking

about him say that he did drive a car. Maybe it is a little chink of

light for those who believe in it. There are a long series of quotes a

from the source. Close similarities to accounts given to those who have

come forward with same names and times and places and incidents

coming forward. Stories and details dovetail. Contains disturbing stuff.

Investigators have been shocked by what they have learned. Fast Edward

Heath cannot reply and respond to these now. Rachel, do you like

football? Like underdogs winning. Should we say "bigly"? The FA Cup

has been fantastic. Yesterday was a bigger shock of the lot. Lincoln

City going to bodily who play pretty much a first-team. -- Burnley. The

first time in a hundred years and non-league side is whose last eight

of the tour. Satellite playing Arsenal Monday night. Millwall won

yesterday. That was lost, there victory over the champions. --

Sutton. They would all want magister united away. It would be all over

television and the biggest payday. -- Manchester United. They probably

would not want Millwall home. We take a look at tomorrow's front

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