05/03/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are political commentator James Millar.

And editorial director of the Sunday Times, Eleanor Mills.

The front pages. I was going to tell you about the Sunday Times but that

is the Observer. We will be talking about their story

in our review. The Sunday Telegraph, Trump accuses Barack Obama. And Tony

Blair's a story about a secret meeting about being a Middle East

envoy. We are back to the Sunday Times. Stop business cuts to save

the NHS says... Theresa May has been warned. And the Sunday express

newspaper claims nearly ?150 million from the health budget was spent on

overseas aid last year. Let's begin. We might have more

success talking about it than watching the graphics! The Sunday

Times. A traditional Sunday before the budget, hand-out from the

Treasury, as to what they will do. What they are not going to do. The

Chancellor Philip Hammond, it is looking like a fairly dull budget, I

would say. 500 million for skills, which I do not think is terribly new

and 1.3 billion to combat the social care crisis, which I think probably

a lot will claim is not enough, all of which will be funded by Mork ats.

How much room does he have to manoeuvre? Because the economy is

doing better than people thought it was, he has a bit more than he

thought stop he has 27 billion he thought he would not have and he

said he will build up a war chest of 60 billion said that if there is any

turbulence when we come out of the EU, he has a fighting fund. He wrote

an article for the Sunday Times in which he talks about what he is

trying to do. Saying after we leave the EU, we will need more skilled

workers in the UK, we won't be able to import them. This is part of the

big package about the other big story today, about T-levels, a

replacement for A-levels. In his article in our comment pages he

talks about how this is skilling up the nation and having a war chest in

reserve. The piece is full of all those lovely cliches Chancellor 's

love. Such as an economy that works for everyone. You could do

Chancellor bingo. Also, I want to ensure the next generation is

equipped to take advantage of opportunities. And he talks about

needing an economy that competes with the world on the basis of

superior talent and skills. I wanted to pick up on the T-levels. When I

was young, you had a choice, to go to a technical college all the more

academic route and we had lots of people the skills and we have lost

that. What is interesting about T-levels, it is not a new policy and

it shows how little he will announce because he is re-announcing this and

giving it a new title of T-levels. They think they will pay people to

stay in technical education, that now you get help from the government

if you go to university and a loan, and people who stay doing technical

qualifications until they are 19 will get the same financial support.

There is a shift in emphasis. Our technical education is a joke and

always has been. The fact they realise it will be crucial I think

is important. They are talking the talk. I spoke to the schools

minister and Labour front bench about this issue which is why I know

it is not new. The question with this is you can talk the talk, you

have got to walk the walk and that will cost cash. It does not happen

tomorrow. You could put the exams in next year but it will take years for

the young people to go through. I want to go to the front page of the

Mail on Sunday newspaper. Tony Blair and a secret summit. I am going to

spoil it for you. It says Mr Blair has made no such pitch to be the

President's Middle East envoy neither has he had discussions on

taking a role for the new president. He has been working on the peace

process for ten years and does it in a private capacity and will continue

to do it that way. That is a spokesperson for Tony Blair. We were

discussing before we came on air. James said, where is paragraph 24

when they say, not sure. It is not in the story but it has come later

but still something interesting. What is interesting is the contacts

between Tony Blair and Donald Trump's son-in-law. Ivanka Trump is

friends with Tony Blair. They are part of a circle. There has been a

series of meeting, definitely. This statement is interesting. It would

make sense for Tony Blair who has been leading a Middle East policy

for seven years to be briefing the person who will be leading on that

for the White House with the Israelis. And this man of courses

and Orthodox Jew. It would be understandable for him to speak to

Tony Blair about what is going on. If you look at the rebuttal by the

spokesperson and the language, he has made no such pitch to be the

President's Middle East envoy, neither has he had discussions about

taking such a role. It does not mean... The meetings have definitely

happen. Contacts are being made. It does not fit with the big speech he

made about Brexit, saying populism is on the rise and he will stand up

for anti-Brexit, and now he is trying to be friendly with the

Donald Trump White House when Donald Trump Brexit are often bracketed

together as manifestations of the same food on -- same phenomenon.

Blair was speaking at a big liberal elite powwow where George Osborne

attended. We have heard about the manoeuvres by George Osborne and

Tony Blair to maybe set up a more Pro-remain party and so it is

interesting in the residue. We heard about the big beasts out of office

who are now back in. Tony Blair loves America. He has always been

slightly dazzled by America. Not just America. American presidents.

He loves a bit of the west wing. The Telegraph, are the -- the ordering,

he says, of the tapping of phones before the election in October. This

is Donald Trump on Twitter. On a Saturday morning. Really early in

the morning. Every Saturday morning. Manna from Heaven for the Sunday

papers because we know every Sunday there will be Donald Trump on

Twitter doing something amazing. This time he accuses Obama of

tapping phones in Trump Tower. There is a slightly weaselly denial from

Obama's Lott saying presidents can never ordered directly wiretaps, not

saying it. It is a judicial issue, tapping wires. Exactly. He will not

say where the information came from. The Obama team have a solid defence.

Saying the president cannot do this. It is not up to him. It is not to

say somebody didn't approve it and it did not happen somewhere but

Obama seems to be in the clear and the bottom line is, if you look at

Obama and Donald Trump, who would you trust? It is pretty

straightforward. I read the only possible place it would come from is

Breitbart News. Trump was reading a story on Breitbart News which is

when he started tweeting. The background is Donald Trump and his

people are furious at what they see Obamacare's or the Democrat

influence in the security services linking this stuff about Russia.

Donald Trump did not endear himself to the security services when he

arrived. Probably a mistake. I think we said that at the time. With what

is coming out it invariably turns out to be true and people need to

know. He has lost his national security adviser and his Attorney

General is having to retreat. Trump had a tantrum in the oval office

according to a report because of that. How could he have an Attorney

General scene to be not telling the truth on over? We could do the whole

half-hour on Donald Trump. The Observer. The watchdog probe over

data misuse. A hot topic. Is this exciting enough to be a splash? Do

those stories get you excited? Particularly the way it is written.

It is obscure. It is a bit wonky. A quick summary. The Observer have

followed this, a company who they say make grandiose claims. To be

fair to them it is often the Observer making grandiose claims. It

is the idea that to hoover up all your Facebook likes and online

activity and they can work out what sort of person you are, how you are

likely to vote, and what messages you are susceptible to and they

pushed the messages to you. That is the modern world. It is a bit of

that social media, be afraid. I do not think they can change

people'sbrains via the media. But there are issues about data

protection and issues that need to be investigated. If you like

something on Facebook, should the Donald Trump team, the Tories,

Labour, whoever see that? You get things popping up because you looked

at a holiday somewhere. The Times newspaper had a story about those

adverts popping up on all sorts of things, car videos, Islamic State

videos. The way you are tracked around the internet is fascinating

but I do not think it is good on that that where the Observer has

been good is analysing the ecosystem of fake news and how they drench the

internet with right wing propaganda and fed it. Most people, I am

thinking about my mother, they would not know that is being thrown up. In

journalistic terms, the case of the presentation of this, it is as clear

as mud what they are after. The key to Facebook and the reason people

believe the stories is it becomes from friends and family, not because

it is a computer saying this is a story you are interested in. We are

in trouble. We need to go to Facebook! The Sunday Times. This

will provoke a lot of comment. Jenni Murray said changing sex cannot make

a real woman and the quote, too many men who changed sex model themselves

on the male view of what a woman should be. I'm sorry, I am the

editor of the Sunday Times Magazine and it is in my magazine today, by

Jenni Murray, the trans, be proud, but do not call yourself a real

woman is the headline. It came from a discussion we had when I was on

Woman's Hour. We were talking about this. There is disquiet among quite

a lot of women about men who change themselves physically into a female

form and then claim to be women. What Jenni Murray argues in this

piece is there is a history of becoming a woman which is often

about being treated as a second-class citizen, not having the

same rights as men, being judged on your appearance, not being listened

to. She says when men transition to become women, a lot of them, not

all, have no idea about the sexual politics, feminism, some of the

battles women have had to get them where they are. She mentions female

vicars and a man who had been a vicar who became... Had a sex change

and became a female vicar and who paid absolutely no attention, did

not pay tribute to the women who campaigned hard within the church to

allow that to be possible. She is not saying they should not change.

She is not being like Jermaine Gray, saying they are fake women in that

rather crude way, she goes out of her way to attack that -- Greer. It

is talking about what it means to be a woman and how you get there and

how these men do not necessarily understand. It will be interesting

to hear from these men if they feel that when they become women. A lot

of the men, in the magazine piece, they do agree with Jenni Murray and

say having lived as women they understand there is a whole thing

around being a woman they have not understood, which is why it is an

interesting piece. Transgender people do know something about

struggle. A different struggle, but I don't think... You certainly have

to be careful about dismissing the unique problems they have is a

community and in terms of getting to where they are now. Jenni Murray is

not doing that, she is saying a lot of the men who transition do not

have a particularly good understanding of a lot of women's

issues and she is specific about what she is talking about. We will

leave that because we want to get to the big story of the morning. The

cauliflower! This is exciting new and it has excited me because I like

cauliflower. Do you, James? Take it or leave it but I don't like farmers

having to plough up the field because the cauliflowers have not

been eaten. This is the cauliflower fathers of Thanet. -- farmers of

Thanet. They said they will have to plough their lovely cauliflowers

back because there is a glut of cauliflowers because it has been so

warm. Lots of cauliflowers from -- on British shells from Spain. This

is a plea for British people to buy British cauliflowers and eat them. I

did not know I was not buying a British cauliflower. I am from

Northern Ireland and we always eat local produce. We have had the issue

of the lack of courgettes because of the weather in Spain. Swap the

courgettes for a British cauliflower. Cauliflower cheese.

Cauliflower rice. Cauliflower pizza. Our resident cauliflower expert. We

will leave it on that note because Twitter will be awash with

cauliflower recipes. Thanks for joining us. We look at tomorrow's

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