19/03/2017 The Papers

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of the table at! Lucy Fisher, correspondent for The Times, and

star of the latest Papers Trail, and Eve pollard,.

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

The FT leads with a report on a UK-Germany defence cooperation deal.

"The Prime Minister is seeking to emphasise Britain's contribution

to European security in a bid to bolster post-Brexit

On its front page, the Mirror features a report on the threat

The paper has launched an appeal to help thousands of victims.

The Daily Express has a report on the Treasury

considering a drastic cut to pension tax relief.

The paper says the "tax raid" is to raise funds

after the Chancellor's U-turn on national insurance increases.

The Metro is leading with a report on the death of a toddler in London.

And the remote-controlled 'flying squad' makes

the Daily Mail's front page - the paper reports that the first

24-hour police drone unit is to be launched this summer to to chase

And the guardian talks about Trump and the wiretapping claims. So,

let's begin. A remote-controlled flying squad to chase criminals and

hunt for missing people, 21st-century Sweeney Todd. Boys on

their toys, what can we say? Devon and Dorset, that part of the world,

are saying they are thinking of getting drones because that can help

them look for people who are lost, in trouble, and I can understand

that. How you can utilise a drone in the middle of a burglary, I'm not

entirely sure, but the dangerous thing is they are saying you can't

get all these trends, and they are not a bargain, by the way, but it is

the sort of money that chaps like to spend, and cut down on the police

force, cut down on bobbies on the beat and all the rest of it. I'm

sure that will be the argument. I'm sure drones can do useful things,

looking for people on Beachy head all that sort of thing. The idea

that drones can guard people, and apparently they guarded the Duchess

of Cambridge recently in Wales. They must have a recording facilities so

that they concede if a crime is in the middle of commission of a crime,

but there are privacy concerns for some people. And you'd have to be

very lucky to have a drone up in the right place at the right time. I

think there are big privacy issues with this, particularly when it is

allied with new technologies. The Russian state is pioneering

technology that can recognise every single face. If you link to that

this, then anyone walking down a street, you could in point their

location, and that is quite concerning. They say they will use

it for marches and all the rest of it, which on the one hand makes you

feel scared for your privacy, but on the other hand you might save time

if trouble makers were known. A close eye must be kept on the cost,

as the public sector has a poor record of getting value for money.

You can imagine the latest drones. They can move at 40 miles an hour at

100 feet, they cost ?1000. How'd you get it back? Remote-control. They

are very skilled, people who use them. There does seem to be a human

element that may be missing. That might be part of the issue, if they

are having to reduce police numbers. The Financial Times, life after the

European court of justice, which is currently the place at which cases

end up because we are inside the European Union, that will change,

the Supreme Court here will be the first place that cases are referred

to. I find it extraordinary that Liz Truss has said to judges, come out

and explain to the public what you do after she was attacked for

failing to stand up for the judiciary when the Daily Mail

branded enemies of the people over the article 50 challenge which they

presided over purely on a legal basis whether Parliament needed, the

approval of Parliament needed to be sought to trigger to call 50, so I

think it is a little bit, there will be judges choking on their

cornflakes tomorrow morning when they see the Justice Secretary

saying that. I think it is quite a superficial, cheap thing to say.

There is nothing more complex than law, and it is for the education

sector to explain the rule of law is, separation of powers. The other

issue as well is that as Lord Chancellor, she has a legal

obligation, she has sworn an oath to obligation, she has sworn an oath to

defend the independence of the judiciary. She was criticised for

being very slow to come out and say not very much after those attacks in

the press. And judges I know, they would run a mile, I think from

sitting down and doing an interview with a journalist. All their

training has been be above it, don't get down and dirty, just get on with

your job as per the law says. And I think the politicisation of the

judiciary as you have in the US is highly undesirable. It would be a

bad thing for British society to see that come here. It would. And there

should be more female judges, I would like to say that. Wouldn't it

be helpful if in some we, the general public, who never come into

contact with the courts as to, understood how it fitted altogether,

the role that the Supreme Court will have on the fact that it is supposed

to be above politics. It is, and what was so curious about the whole

situation was that nobody had ever said to David Cameron, I presume,

you do understand that this will have to go through Parliament as

well? A lot of MPs didn't seem to understand that! In the old days,

you did civic studies at school, but that has been dropped from the

curriculum, and I think a lot of people don't understand. If you

don't come into contact with the law, which is the best way to be,

those of us who recognise notepaper from lawyers upside down when they

get to their desks as an editor does, it is good to be educated

about who comes from where and how it works, but I'm not sure that

judges should be the ones to do that. I agree with you. And Liz

Truss has said, you are going to come in for more attacks, so you

will have to defend yourselves. So many judges go into it because they

have earned a lot of money being barristers and lawyers, they go and

do it for less money and they are now going to be attacked, that makes

it seem really attractive, doesn't it?! Let's look at the Daily

Express. New tax raid on pensions, anger as retirement perks could be

hit to plug the budget U-turn. If you can't raise money by increasing

national insurance contributions, the suggestion is that pension tax

relief will be the target. I am the only person at this table who is a

pensioner, and much good has it done me! Let me just say, this will be

another U-turn, won't it, because who votes? And also, the whole

point, I thought, was that as you grow up you should invest in your

pension so that when you get to the end of your life, you are not a head

beat weight on the state and on your children and grandchildren. So the

whole point, if you are going to teach people now, don't be careful,

don't squirrel money away for when you are old, just spend it all in

your 30s and 40s, that is a great lesson, very nonconservative. It is

a great lesson, and a similar criticism at the national insurance

hike that has been abandoned, again attacking entrepreneurial people,

sole traders who set out on their own, also very unconservative, but

this was a key U-turn the George Osborne had to perform before he had

even announced it. Widely rumoured brief, a lot of speculation, so also

to me if it is right that Philip Hammond is thinking of this, it

speaks of this lack of will to call radar that he has been criticised

for -- political radar, are they trying to all the while by floating

ideas that have been through the mill. The interesting thing is, are

they taking advantage of the fact that they are so far ahead in the

polls, and there is a very little likelihood that Jeremy Corbyn could

be Prime Minister, and thinking, we will take a risk. If they don't vote

for us, we will still win. They have to plug the gap somehow and they

have finite options. But I have to say, what are they spending their

money on? One of the things that I think is really worrying, and Liz

Truss says everybody things press freedom is very important, one of

the problems with the press now is because there are fewer journalists,

because we are not covering the councils, because lots of local

papers don't have somebody covering what is going on in their local

area, where money is being spent and all the rest of it, I feel I know

less and less about where we are spending the money. We are shocked

when we discover that areas that should have lots of money, the

people in charge of bowling at the money for foreign aid, are being

paid half a million a year to do so. I don't know, I disagree with that.

There has probably never been a better time to transparency with the

budget as a shin of records, -- the digital creation of records,

journalists have more access, and there is probably more transparency,

maybe not at a local level. It would be very interesting for someone to

explain where our taxes are going to, why we have problems as we do

social care and all the rest of it, social care and all the rest of it,

and what can we do? And actually it would make more of us feel keener to

pay more tax or spend more than this sort of I feel just not being in the

middle of editing a newspaper, I'm not sure newspapers are taking this

role, you say you can get hold of the information. You mentioned,

conveniently, thank you, foreign aid. The Daily Mirror is looking at

the famine that is affecting several countries in Africa, 20 million

people at risk of starvation. There is a campaign to raise money and the

picture of a little girl who died within a week of them featuring her

in a previous report. This is about the drought in Somalia and other

countries affected, too. There has been a great deal of money raised in

a short time, again, by the British public, when the DC put an appeal

at, but clearly the Daily Mirror thinks not enough is being done. In

many ways, there is very little coverage of something of a

humanitarian disaster on this scale. I think that is right. It is

difficult, people turn away from the horror of it, and that picture of

this little girl is just absolutely heartbreaking, and I think 24-hour

news people think they are perhaps they knew it to the crisis, but it

is very easy to bash, and rightly in many cases, when money is misspent

or wasted, the Ethiopian Spice Girls, wires and British taxpayers

money, going to that. But it is important to cover the attempts to

help people facing starvation. I am so old I can remember the Ethiopian

crisis... You are not the only one! And British people are the most

generous in the world, they are fantastic when it comes to situation

like this. But what worries you is you are giving money to somebody who

will put it straight in a Swiss bank account, and it is not getting to

the tragic stories of this little girl who died, and does social media

say that we get fatigue? The FT, Trump calls for aesthetically

pleasing wall, this is the wall that will be built between America and

Mexico. What does aesthetically pleasing mean? I'm hoping that David

Hockney and Banksy will go around their with their paint, and there

can be a mirror to Donald so he can check his hair. It is a lovely idea

that there will be less aesthetically pleasing wall. That is

what it is all about(!) but there is a requirement for it to be built

with American materials. Yes, and it says here, only aesthetically

pleasing colours and textures on the US side. It can be ugly concrete for

the Mexicans to look at. Mexican builders' firms being asked to

examine their conscience and not reply when asked to build it. We

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