:00:00. > :00:00.And more tributes flood in for Chuck Berry,
:00:00. > :00:16.father of rock and roll. remembered as a founding
:00:17. > :00:27.you couldn't see it, but Chuck Berry caused a little shimmy on one side
:00:28. > :00:32.of the table at! Lucy Fisher, correspondent for The Times, and
:00:33. > :00:37.star of the latest Papers Trail, and Eve pollard,.
:00:38. > :00:41.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:42. > :00:45.The FT leads with a report on a UK-Germany defence cooperation deal.
:00:46. > :00:48."The Prime Minister is seeking to emphasise Britain's contribution
:00:49. > :00:50.to European security in a bid to bolster post-Brexit
:00:51. > :00:54.On its front page, the Mirror features a report on the threat
:00:55. > :01:05.The paper has launched an appeal to help thousands of victims.
:01:06. > :01:07.The Daily Express has a report on the Treasury
:01:08. > :01:09.considering a drastic cut to pension tax relief.
:01:10. > :01:11.The paper says the "tax raid" is to raise funds
:01:12. > :01:31.after the Chancellor's U-turn on national insurance increases.
:01:32. > :01:35.The Metro is leading with a report on the death of a toddler in London.
:01:36. > :01:37.And the remote-controlled 'flying squad' makes
:01:38. > :01:39.the Daily Mail's front page - the paper reports that the first
:01:40. > :01:43.24-hour police drone unit is to be launched this summer to to chase
:01:44. > :01:56.And the guardian talks about Trump and the wiretapping claims. So,
:01:57. > :01:59.let's begin. A remote-controlled flying squad to chase criminals and
:02:00. > :02:07.hunt for missing people, 21st-century Sweeney Todd. Boys on
:02:08. > :02:10.their toys, what can we say? Devon and Dorset, that part of the world,
:02:11. > :02:15.are saying they are thinking of getting drones because that can help
:02:16. > :02:21.them look for people who are lost, in trouble, and I can understand
:02:22. > :02:26.that. How you can utilise a drone in the middle of a burglary, I'm not
:02:27. > :02:33.entirely sure, but the dangerous thing is they are saying you can't
:02:34. > :02:38.get all these trends, and they are not a bargain, by the way, but it is
:02:39. > :02:41.the sort of money that chaps like to spend, and cut down on the police
:02:42. > :02:46.force, cut down on bobbies on the beat and all the rest of it. I'm
:02:47. > :02:49.sure that will be the argument. I'm sure drones can do useful things,
:02:50. > :02:55.looking for people on Beachy head all that sort of thing. The idea
:02:56. > :03:00.that drones can guard people, and apparently they guarded the Duchess
:03:01. > :03:05.of Cambridge recently in Wales. They must have a recording facilities so
:03:06. > :03:09.that they concede if a crime is in the middle of commission of a crime,
:03:10. > :03:14.but there are privacy concerns for some people. And you'd have to be
:03:15. > :03:17.very lucky to have a drone up in the right place at the right time. I
:03:18. > :03:22.think there are big privacy issues with this, particularly when it is
:03:23. > :03:24.allied with new technologies. The Russian state is pioneering
:03:25. > :03:29.technology that can recognise every single face. If you link to that
:03:30. > :03:34.this, then anyone walking down a street, you could in point their
:03:35. > :03:39.location, and that is quite concerning. They say they will use
:03:40. > :03:43.it for marches and all the rest of it, which on the one hand makes you
:03:44. > :03:50.feel scared for your privacy, but on the other hand you might save time
:03:51. > :03:55.if trouble makers were known. A close eye must be kept on the cost,
:03:56. > :04:07.as the public sector has a poor record of getting value for money.
:04:08. > :04:13.You can imagine the latest drones. They can move at 40 miles an hour at
:04:14. > :04:24.100 feet, they cost ?1000. How'd you get it back? Remote-control. They
:04:25. > :04:32.are very skilled, people who use them. There does seem to be a human
:04:33. > :04:47.element that may be missing. That might be part of the issue, if they
:04:48. > :04:56.are having to reduce police numbers. The Financial Times, life after the
:04:57. > :05:01.European court of justice, which is currently the place at which cases
:05:02. > :05:09.end up because we are inside the European Union, that will change,
:05:10. > :05:16.the Supreme Court here will be the first place that cases are referred
:05:17. > :05:20.to. I find it extraordinary that Liz Truss has said to judges, come out
:05:21. > :05:24.and explain to the public what you do after she was attacked for
:05:25. > :05:28.failing to stand up for the judiciary when the Daily Mail
:05:29. > :05:33.branded enemies of the people over the article 50 challenge which they
:05:34. > :05:40.presided over purely on a legal basis whether Parliament needed, the
:05:41. > :05:44.approval of Parliament needed to be sought to trigger to call 50, so I
:05:45. > :05:46.think it is a little bit, there will be judges choking on their
:05:47. > :05:51.cornflakes tomorrow morning when they see the Justice Secretary
:05:52. > :05:57.saying that. I think it is quite a superficial, cheap thing to say.
:05:58. > :06:00.There is nothing more complex than law, and it is for the education
:06:01. > :06:06.sector to explain the rule of law is, separation of powers. The other
:06:07. > :06:07.issue as well is that as Lord Chancellor, she has a legal
:06:08. > :06:12.obligation, she has sworn an oath to obligation, she has sworn an oath to
:06:13. > :06:16.defend the independence of the judiciary. She was criticised for
:06:17. > :06:23.being very slow to come out and say not very much after those attacks in
:06:24. > :06:27.the press. And judges I know, they would run a mile, I think from
:06:28. > :06:34.sitting down and doing an interview with a journalist. All their
:06:35. > :06:42.training has been be above it, don't get down and dirty, just get on with
:06:43. > :06:45.your job as per the law says. And I think the politicisation of the
:06:46. > :06:49.judiciary as you have in the US is highly undesirable. It would be a
:06:50. > :06:53.bad thing for British society to see that come here. It would. And there
:06:54. > :07:03.should be more female judges, I would like to say that. Wouldn't it
:07:04. > :07:06.be helpful if in some we, the general public, who never come into
:07:07. > :07:10.contact with the courts as to, understood how it fitted altogether,
:07:11. > :07:16.the role that the Supreme Court will have on the fact that it is supposed
:07:17. > :07:24.to be above politics. It is, and what was so curious about the whole
:07:25. > :07:27.situation was that nobody had ever said to David Cameron, I presume,
:07:28. > :07:36.you do understand that this will have to go through Parliament as
:07:37. > :07:42.well? A lot of MPs didn't seem to understand that! In the old days,
:07:43. > :07:45.you did civic studies at school, but that has been dropped from the
:07:46. > :07:49.curriculum, and I think a lot of people don't understand. If you
:07:50. > :07:55.don't come into contact with the law, which is the best way to be,
:07:56. > :07:59.those of us who recognise notepaper from lawyers upside down when they
:08:00. > :08:02.get to their desks as an editor does, it is good to be educated
:08:03. > :08:05.about who comes from where and how it works, but I'm not sure that
:08:06. > :08:10.judges should be the ones to do that. I agree with you. And Liz
:08:11. > :08:14.Truss has said, you are going to come in for more attacks, so you
:08:15. > :08:17.will have to defend yourselves. So many judges go into it because they
:08:18. > :08:21.have earned a lot of money being barristers and lawyers, they go and
:08:22. > :08:29.do it for less money and they are now going to be attacked, that makes
:08:30. > :08:38.it seem really attractive, doesn't it?! Let's look at the Daily
:08:39. > :08:40.Express. New tax raid on pensions, anger as retirement perks could be
:08:41. > :08:45.hit to plug the budget U-turn. If you can't raise money by increasing
:08:46. > :08:52.national insurance contributions, the suggestion is that pension tax
:08:53. > :08:55.relief will be the target. I am the only person at this table who is a
:08:56. > :09:01.pensioner, and much good has it done me! Let me just say, this will be
:09:02. > :09:09.another U-turn, won't it, because who votes? And also, the whole
:09:10. > :09:13.point, I thought, was that as you grow up you should invest in your
:09:14. > :09:18.pension so that when you get to the end of your life, you are not a head
:09:19. > :09:23.beat weight on the state and on your children and grandchildren. So the
:09:24. > :09:27.whole point, if you are going to teach people now, don't be careful,
:09:28. > :09:31.don't squirrel money away for when you are old, just spend it all in
:09:32. > :09:40.your 30s and 40s, that is a great lesson, very nonconservative. It is
:09:41. > :09:44.a great lesson, and a similar criticism at the national insurance
:09:45. > :09:47.hike that has been abandoned, again attacking entrepreneurial people,
:09:48. > :09:52.sole traders who set out on their own, also very unconservative, but
:09:53. > :09:57.this was a key U-turn the George Osborne had to perform before he had
:09:58. > :10:03.even announced it. Widely rumoured brief, a lot of speculation, so also
:10:04. > :10:06.to me if it is right that Philip Hammond is thinking of this, it
:10:07. > :10:11.speaks of this lack of will to call radar that he has been criticised
:10:12. > :10:20.for -- political radar, are they trying to all the while by floating
:10:21. > :10:26.ideas that have been through the mill. The interesting thing is, are
:10:27. > :10:30.they taking advantage of the fact that they are so far ahead in the
:10:31. > :10:34.polls, and there is a very little likelihood that Jeremy Corbyn could
:10:35. > :10:39.be Prime Minister, and thinking, we will take a risk. If they don't vote
:10:40. > :10:43.for us, we will still win. They have to plug the gap somehow and they
:10:44. > :10:48.have finite options. But I have to say, what are they spending their
:10:49. > :10:50.money on? One of the things that I think is really worrying, and Liz
:10:51. > :10:56.Truss says everybody things press freedom is very important, one of
:10:57. > :10:59.the problems with the press now is because there are fewer journalists,
:11:00. > :11:03.because we are not covering the councils, because lots of local
:11:04. > :11:07.papers don't have somebody covering what is going on in their local
:11:08. > :11:11.area, where money is being spent and all the rest of it, I feel I know
:11:12. > :11:19.less and less about where we are spending the money. We are shocked
:11:20. > :11:22.when we discover that areas that should have lots of money, the
:11:23. > :11:28.people in charge of bowling at the money for foreign aid, are being
:11:29. > :11:33.paid half a million a year to do so. I don't know, I disagree with that.
:11:34. > :11:41.There has probably never been a better time to transparency with the
:11:42. > :11:44.budget as a shin of records, -- the digital creation of records,
:11:45. > :11:49.journalists have more access, and there is probably more transparency,
:11:50. > :11:53.maybe not at a local level. It would be very interesting for someone to
:11:54. > :11:57.explain where our taxes are going to, why we have problems as we do
:11:58. > :12:04.social care and all the rest of it, social care and all the rest of it,
:12:05. > :12:10.and what can we do? And actually it would make more of us feel keener to
:12:11. > :12:18.pay more tax or spend more than this sort of I feel just not being in the
:12:19. > :12:22.middle of editing a newspaper, I'm not sure newspapers are taking this
:12:23. > :12:26.role, you say you can get hold of the information. You mentioned,
:12:27. > :12:30.conveniently, thank you, foreign aid. The Daily Mirror is looking at
:12:31. > :12:35.the famine that is affecting several countries in Africa, 20 million
:12:36. > :12:40.people at risk of starvation. There is a campaign to raise money and the
:12:41. > :12:46.picture of a little girl who died within a week of them featuring her
:12:47. > :12:51.in a previous report. This is about the drought in Somalia and other
:12:52. > :12:56.countries affected, too. There has been a great deal of money raised in
:12:57. > :13:01.a short time, again, by the British public, when the DC put an appeal
:13:02. > :13:05.at, but clearly the Daily Mirror thinks not enough is being done. In
:13:06. > :13:08.many ways, there is very little coverage of something of a
:13:09. > :13:14.humanitarian disaster on this scale. I think that is right. It is
:13:15. > :13:18.difficult, people turn away from the horror of it, and that picture of
:13:19. > :13:25.this little girl is just absolutely heartbreaking, and I think 24-hour
:13:26. > :13:34.news people think they are perhaps they knew it to the crisis, but it
:13:35. > :13:37.is very easy to bash, and rightly in many cases, when money is misspent
:13:38. > :13:45.or wasted, the Ethiopian Spice Girls, wires and British taxpayers
:13:46. > :13:54.money, going to that. But it is important to cover the attempts to
:13:55. > :14:00.help people facing starvation. I am so old I can remember the Ethiopian
:14:01. > :14:04.crisis... You are not the only one! And British people are the most
:14:05. > :14:07.generous in the world, they are fantastic when it comes to situation
:14:08. > :14:11.like this. But what worries you is you are giving money to somebody who
:14:12. > :14:16.will put it straight in a Swiss bank account, and it is not getting to
:14:17. > :14:23.the tragic stories of this little girl who died, and does social media
:14:24. > :14:31.say that we get fatigue? The FT, Trump calls for aesthetically
:14:32. > :14:33.pleasing wall, this is the wall that will be built between America and
:14:34. > :14:39.Mexico. What does aesthetically pleasing mean? I'm hoping that David
:14:40. > :14:47.Hockney and Banksy will go around their with their paint, and there
:14:48. > :14:52.can be a mirror to Donald so he can check his hair. It is a lovely idea
:14:53. > :15:00.that there will be less aesthetically pleasing wall. That is
:15:01. > :15:06.what it is all about(!) but there is a requirement for it to be built
:15:07. > :15:10.with American materials. Yes, and it says here, only aesthetically
:15:11. > :15:17.pleasing colours and textures on the US side. It can be ugly concrete for
:15:18. > :15:23.the Mexicans to look at. Mexican builders' firms being asked to
:15:24. > :15:29.examine their conscience and not reply when asked to build it. We
:15:30. > :15:36.will be back at half past 11 with another look at the pages with Lucy
:15:37. > :15:49.and Eve. And you can see the papers seven days a week on our website.
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