:00:14. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:18. > :00:20.With me are the broadcaster and author, Dame Joan Bakewell
:00:21. > :00:35.The Telegraph leads with criticism of the National Trust for dropping
:00:36. > :00:38.the word easter from its easter egg hunt, and carries a large picture
:00:39. > :00:43.The I says opinion polls show Labour losing over a hundred seats at next
:00:44. > :00:49.The Express reports one in five British workers has no
:00:50. > :00:54.The Financial Times leads with the news that
:00:55. > :00:57.unemployment in the Eurozone is at an eight year low.
:00:58. > :01:00.The Metro reports a claim by a union leader that some teachers
:01:01. > :01:03.are working four day weeks then working another for free to keep
:01:04. > :01:16.The Daily Mail says that banks are exploiting customers unable to pay
:01:17. > :01:23.their credit card debts. The Mirror leads with two armed robbers who
:01:24. > :01:29.poured boiling water over their pension victims. The Times is
:01:30. > :01:43.warning of unethical behaviour by aid contractors. We'll start with
:01:44. > :01:47.the Guardian. Saint Petersburg. You know it well, Joan?
:01:48. > :01:53.And what is tucked away here is that the second bomb which did not go
:01:54. > :01:57.off, would have been several times more powerful than the first and was
:01:58. > :02:00.designed to be disguised as a fire extinguisher which had been picked
:02:01. > :02:08.with shrapnel. It would have been much worse than the one which killed
:02:09. > :02:15.ten or 11 people. Small mercies. Indeed. Absolutely dreadful. 50
:02:16. > :02:18.people have been injured. You know Saint Petersburg as well, Tim. This
:02:19. > :02:23.happened just after 2:30pm local time. Not rush hour but the damage
:02:24. > :02:28.that has been caused is horrific. Russia has been the victim of some
:02:29. > :02:34.horrible terror outrages in recent times, 200 odd Russians died in a
:02:35. > :02:39.plane that was brought down in shambles shake classier. Of course,
:02:40. > :02:43.Russia has been prepared for this for quite some time. There has
:02:44. > :02:48.always been the fear that because of their active involvement in the
:02:49. > :02:52.campaign to bomb Aleppo in disgraceful ways, that there would
:02:53. > :02:56.be a backlash from fundamentalists. I am afraid there is obviously no
:02:57. > :03:00.justification for it whatsoever. What we have seen in sick Petersburg
:03:01. > :03:07.today. But Russia probably is braced for it and will expect more. It
:03:08. > :03:12.could be checked now. -- in Saint Petersburg today. I suspect what we
:03:13. > :03:15.will now see is a crackdown by Vladimir Putin of the kind we have
:03:16. > :03:28.seen in Turkey by President and again. Using terrible terrorist
:03:29. > :03:33.outrages. It's a classic case of, we have an excuse now. We can go in
:03:34. > :03:36.heavy on the protesters. We had a democracy protests in Russia
:03:37. > :03:42.recently, Friday. That will have worried Britain and he now very
:03:43. > :03:48.sadly has, because of this tragedy, an excuse to crack down. -- that
:03:49. > :03:53.will have worried Putin. It's the purview of the Prime Minister, but
:03:54. > :03:59.of course we know who's pulling the strings.
:04:00. > :04:05.The BBC can't be accused of Brexit bias, because the referendum is
:04:06. > :04:14.over. This is according to my erstwhile colleague Mr Nick
:04:15. > :04:18.Robinson. Does he have a point? Of course the BBC is perfect in every
:04:19. > :04:27.way! Obviously when you present. You've got it, Tim. We have a remain
:04:28. > :04:31.here and a Brexiteers. Full balance. I think the BBC, to be fair, during
:04:32. > :04:36.the Brexit campaign worked incredibly hard to be balanced. I
:04:37. > :04:40.hear what Nick Robinson says here and it's a good defence of the
:04:41. > :04:44.corporation. But I think there are programmes partly because I think a
:04:45. > :04:48.lot of the staff in the corporation tend to lean one way, sometimes
:04:49. > :04:51.wonder if there is a full understanding of the Brexit position
:04:52. > :04:59.on some of the BBC's bulletins and broadcast. There's an awful lot of
:05:00. > :05:03.attempts, quite rightly, on a News Corporation like the BBC to ensure
:05:04. > :05:06.there is balance of race and gender among other things. I wonder if
:05:07. > :05:10.there is another attempt to ensure that on a whole range of political
:05:11. > :05:13.and ideological issues there are enough people in the newsroom to
:05:14. > :05:16.think in diverse ways. Who come from different parts of the country. Who
:05:17. > :05:22.are not all London-based, for example. I think that's unavoidable,
:05:23. > :05:37.because they come down to London to work at the harbour. Having been --
:05:38. > :05:42.to work at the hub. He says if company a announces that it will
:05:43. > :05:45.invest more in the UK and create more jobs, it's not our duty to
:05:46. > :05:50.search for a company that says it will invest less. Just to balance
:05:51. > :05:56.the news. It is a trap this, on the one hand, because there are now so
:05:57. > :06:01.many diverse hands on which we could look. There are not just two options
:06:02. > :06:05.in life any more. Life has become much more... OK, a bit of
:06:06. > :06:08.perspective as well. Like Michael Howard 's silly remarks about
:06:09. > :06:14.Gibraltar the other day. They were silly. And I think perhaps not
:06:15. > :06:19.getting it quite out of proportion like some broadcasting articles have
:06:20. > :06:23.done. That's part of the responsibility as well. Not to pour
:06:24. > :06:29.fire on some of the issues that social media pause fire onto. I
:06:30. > :06:34.think that was just to add to the gaiety of Nations, because it was
:06:35. > :06:38.just so silly. The Spanish slightly worried according to some
:06:39. > :06:39.commentators I spoke to. The only Brits likely to invade Spain are our
:06:40. > :06:57.tourists. And that's bad enough! Corbin heading for disaster in next
:06:58. > :07:03.month 's local elections. How low can you party go? The Labour Party
:07:04. > :07:07.is schizophrenic at the moment. What is extraordinary is that while a
:07:08. > :07:13.large part of the party is in despair, at the prospect of these
:07:14. > :07:17.losses which have to be confronted, Corbin's circle of supporters and
:07:18. > :07:21.the thousands of people who joined up under the new rules are
:07:22. > :07:27.absolutely passionate Corbynista 's. They really cheer him to the Echo.
:07:28. > :07:30.They fill the holes. They are passionate in his support. They
:07:31. > :07:38.don't represent the country. But they represent a very strong morally
:07:39. > :07:43.convinced set of political... Some of the insiders in his office have
:07:44. > :07:47.been resigning recently though. Are there signs of it falling apart from
:07:48. > :07:51.the call? I get the feeling that's because is not a very good manager
:07:52. > :07:55.of staff. At that thing that matters to do the disillusionment of
:07:56. > :08:00.politics, I think the enthusiasts remain super enthusiastic. Everyone
:08:01. > :08:07.else is going, but there aren't... We have to convince the public.
:08:08. > :08:10.Because you don't get elected. So that realisation that the public
:08:11. > :08:14.perhaps, it would seem, have not come on board with this whole
:08:15. > :08:19.project. That still isn't sinking in as far as those who are closest to
:08:20. > :08:28.Jeremy Corbyn are concerned that she much and only speculating here, but
:08:29. > :08:31.I believe. The truth will dawn eventually because of this
:08:32. > :08:36.government and the cruelty of the cuts. Schools running out of money
:08:37. > :08:40.and hospitals. Old people dying and so on. The penny will drop and
:08:41. > :08:46.people will suddenly see that they have been right all along. You don't
:08:47. > :08:52.believe that, do you? I don't believe in that particular project,
:08:53. > :08:56.though I do believe it's an evil government doing wicked things. You
:08:57. > :09:07.really believe it's an evil government? No! It's on record now,
:09:08. > :09:10.Joan! You had a title. As a conservative, I can't see any
:09:11. > :09:15.pleasure in either the complete collapse of the Labour Party. Not
:09:16. > :09:23.complete. Well, near collapse. Not in the North, it hasn't come close
:09:24. > :09:26.to collapse. Every country needs an opposition and frankly we have quite
:09:27. > :09:28.a week Tory Cabinet which is not being held to account in the
:09:29. > :09:35.comments particularly. I would welcome a Keir Starmer or a Hillary
:09:36. > :09:44.Byrne leaving the -- leading the Labour Party. A quick look at the
:09:45. > :09:49.times. Theresa May in Jordan for talks there. Saudi Arabia as well.
:09:50. > :09:56.We had on the 10pm news just recently. We both like this picture.
:09:57. > :09:59.Both of us have misgivings about our trade dependence on the spot of the
:10:00. > :10:02.world, but particularly Saudi Arabia. This is a country that does
:10:03. > :10:07.not respect women's rights particularly. Or at all, very much.
:10:08. > :10:11.Here we have a female leader of our country going there, and having to
:10:12. > :10:15.sort of acknowledged this. That's right. She's wearing trousers,
:10:16. > :10:18.that's correct. She's not wearing anything on her head, they may
:10:19. > :10:22.disapprove of that. But she's doing it in her own right. She is stepping
:10:23. > :10:32.down alone into a world that does not give women any kind of credit.
:10:33. > :10:37.That's impressive. It is. As we had only ten o'clock News, allegations
:10:38. > :10:39.of weapons used by Saudis sold by Britain against people in Yemen. A
:10:40. > :10:41.difficult relationship. "Teachers lose a day's
:10:42. > :10:50.pay to do homework." That's in the Metro. Stressed staff
:10:51. > :10:56.cut hours to free up time for marking. The teachers I know do
:10:57. > :11:03.spend a lot of time marking papers. Because there are so many stats,
:11:04. > :11:06.these various sets of things that children are to reach, they now have
:11:07. > :11:11.to check they are doing it at every stage. There is no freewheeling
:11:12. > :11:17.education in which people can coast a little and learn adjacent
:11:18. > :11:21.information that is not strictly governed by passing these exams or
:11:22. > :11:26.reaching these targets. We target crazy. I think it is so sad for
:11:27. > :11:30.young children when the teachers are just going crackers trying to keep
:11:31. > :11:41.up with it. And hit their targets said the report on the School
:11:42. > :11:45.reflects them well. But you have to have a bar to which these schools
:11:46. > :11:49.and pupils reach? That's part of the target system. That's part of the
:11:50. > :11:55.system we have set up. It's not one I grew up with many years ago. It's
:11:56. > :11:59.been accentuated. There was a time when you simply passed. In my day,
:12:00. > :12:09.it was the 11 plus or not. That's coming back, you know? LAUGHTER
:12:10. > :12:12.Easy, Tiger! Tim, for that, you have to explain why Easter has
:12:13. > :12:18.disappeared according to the Telegraph. The National Trust
:12:19. > :12:26.usually has an Easter egg Trail where kids follow their chocolate
:12:27. > :12:31.desires at this time of year. The National Trust are renaming it the
:12:32. > :12:35.great British egg hunt. Cadburys think, who have sponsored this,
:12:36. > :12:39.think that this will be more appealing now to non-Christians as
:12:40. > :12:44.well as Christians. The Archbishop of York, the most Reverend John
:12:45. > :12:49.Saint-Saens, is not impressed. Spitting on the grave of John
:12:50. > :12:52.Cadbury, is his understated reaction to this. I'm a Christian, I don't
:12:53. > :13:03.think this is something I particularly welcome. I think most
:13:04. > :13:06.people, Muslims, Jewish people, they are -- actually quite like the idea
:13:07. > :13:09.of a Christian country where these principles are celebrated. I don't
:13:10. > :13:14.think they find offensive. Neither can I get too worked up about the
:13:15. > :13:19.fact this is being renamed. In a slightly more lively way. It does
:13:20. > :13:26.mean you can flog eggs in November, doesn't it? August. It's Easter.
:13:27. > :13:38.It's a famous festival and just as we like to Bali or whatever, --
:13:39. > :13:42.Diwali. We celebrated and respected. I'm not an observing question but
:13:43. > :13:46.it's Easter, it is a serious festival. So let's just have Easter
:13:47. > :13:52.eggs. We all agree, we not impressed. Thank you very much for
:13:53. > :13:53.looking at some of the stories behind the headlines. We'll have you
:13:54. > :13:54.back soon. Don't forget you can see the front
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:14:08. > :14:14.of this Sun before we leave you. It has the clear message, up yours,
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