03/05/2017 The Papers

Welcomed our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Joan Bakewell. Good evening. Let's have a look at the

front pages. Theresa May accusing European politicians of making

threats against Britain in the i, she claims they are doing it to

affect the general election result. Same story in the FT. She said that

some in Brussels to not want Brexit talks to succeed. And the headline

in the Daily Telegraph, Mae unleashes fire at Europe. It also

makes the front page of the Daily Express. -- Theresa May unleashes

fire at Europe. The Metro's main story is the student Damon Smith,

who's been found guilty of trying to set off a home-made bomb on a Tube

train in London. Police are urging more schools in the capital to

install metal scanners to protect children from rising violent crime

in the Guardian. The Times says more than 5 million people could be stuck

on waiting lists for NHS treatment within two years, according to

documents seen by a health Journal. And the daily Mirror says the

Hollywood actor Brad Pitt has admitted to having a drinking

problem in an interview which has come after his split with Angelina

Jolie. Let us begin. The Daily Telegraph headline, Theresa May

unleashes fire. Would you start us off, she is using colourful and

forceful language. It is extraordinary, on the steps of

Downing Street she unleashes this vitriol, saying that the EU is

trying to wreck the election. She has been called the new iron Lady,

explaining that the EU needs to keep out of our elections. Very, very

strong fire against the EU. Remembering our history a bit,

everybody knew about Margaret Thatcher, do you think she is

Margaret Thatcher Mark two. I hate to be sceptical, but there was a bit

of Donald Trump, the best defence is fence. How do you take the

coronation of Theresa May off the headlines? You say here is our enemy

across the waters. How'd you get all of the Ukip voters on board? You

create the enemy out of the EU. Is that too sceptical? No, well, what

do you think? I'm more sceptical. She is fighting two battles. She is

fighting the election. And also fighting Brexit. Two are obviously

incredibly mashed, but she's going for the election first because that

is what she's got to win in the short term. She's doing it by making

a pitch for the Ukip voters, who now are not sure where to go and she

doesn't want to lose them. She doesn't feel she has to worry about

Jeremy Corbyn so she is attacking and browsing up that fierce British

spirits, we won't take it, we will fight them on the beaches. There is

a bit of that. And there is nothing like insulting people to rally your

supporters, a wonderful picture of the election. And talk of other

people getting involved in other people's elections. No Russia, not

yet. The cartoon in the Daily Telegraph. He is very gifted. Prime

Minister, the Brexit bill is 100 billion euros and the EU wants to

know if you would like to add a tip. Very good. Let's go to the FT. This

was the newspaper that yesterday had the story that the amount of money

that is going to have to go to Europe would be 100 billion euros.

That is before a lot of other arguments. They've got a lot of

stuff about the famous dinner? It has been very interesting since it

leaked from the Frankfurt newspaper about exactly what went on and who

said what. It was absolutely like a dire situation. About hatred, and

threats, and it was reported as terrible. The FT broke the story of

the hundred billion amount of money. And it says it was triggered by

reports yesterday that Germany, France, and Poland were pressing for

Britain to pay this bill on leaving the EU. There has been a claw back

since. The people involved, some of them at that dinner, have been

saying tonight that it is not going to be that steep. That she is an

honourable woman playing a good game. Words to that effect, anyway.

And ameliorating the hostility and the intensity of the hostility. This

is Martin Sa'u Meyer, chief of staff to Junker. Coming out with 100

billion euros and David Davies says, well, that is their opening gambit,

we will anchor it to the other side. -- but

Selmire has come out and said that. He's trying to play down as a tough

negotiator. Everybody is posturing and we can all relax. Considering

there is an election, this is the issue she is making the headlines

with, we haven't heard any Tory policy, we haven't heard their

manifesto, we don't know what they stand for, but we all expected to

vote because she is strong and offering strong government in the

face of our enemy. We know who the enemy is. It is focused absolutely

on her. I heard her speech. The word me was used a lot. You teach people

to negotiate. Do you think they are doing a good job of it? Absolutely.

It is all about anchoring your position in one extreme. And the

other. And hopefully not insulting individuals along the way to such an

extent that you have no room to manoeuvre and come to an agreement.

To the extent that Trump said, of his opponent, he said, you know,

lock her up. When the election was over he said I didn't mean it, it

was a tactic for the election. Perhaps all of this is a tactic for

the election. When we get round to it they will be nice as pie, give or

take, and it could be a soft Brexit. Fake news, that expression hasn't

been used, thank goodness. Let's talk about the money. Enormous sums

of money are being thrown around. But we have to be careful, I think,

because it sounds as if we will have to pay them a vast amount of money.

But actually, we will in the end, if we believe the reports, be owed a

lot of money, as well. It is money we would have been paying anyway.

This is the exit bill. You know, the divorce bill is the wrong way of

phrasing it, it is money that we would have been paying in any case.

And we are continuing to pay it a year on year until we have Brexit,

which isn't on the horizon for a couple of years. Couple of years,

this is just the beginning of a lot of Brexit and exit. Thank you. We

can move on to the Guardian. We have this story. It is about school

scanners. I cannot find mine. It's on the bottom. What's interesting

is, it sounds enormously sensible but the police are urging to take

action to stop people stabbing each other to death. What could be more

sensible than that? However, when you look into it, it presents

certain problems because they are suggesting that schools have

scanners and the children go through, the knives are discovered

and everybody is pleased. But at the end of the story it says that most

of the killings are done in the street, at the school gate. After

school, in the evenings. That's right. It is a marvellous impulse,

quite the right impulse, but it doesn't answer the problem which is

the enormous increase, 24% in the last year of deaths in the capital.

Young people are killing each other and something has to happen. It is a

well meant gesture. This is a slight echo, probably not quite so bad, of

what has been happening in America the years. Terrible things happen in

the schoolrooms. The debate is not just about scanners, it is whether

staff should be armed and so on. The issue in the US is guns. Here it is

knives. It is unfortunate, the idea, but many schools in the US have

airport tight security, as well, because you either go in that

direction, or you have people armed. Neither one of good. Having these

arches perhaps stigmatises a school. On the other hand, if I was a parent

I would feel more confident by that. But the police say the real issue is

we need to find where these nests of knives are and take care of it that

way. And also, just because it doesn't happen in school doesn't

mean it won't happen when kids are going home or going to school. The

police say we need to find the stashes. Where they are being kept.

They are not being kept at schools. Parents would feel relieved to know

that their children will be safe for a few hours. Terrible statistics.

Crime generally is on a downward trend, we keep being told, but this

sort of crime, violent crime and crime affecting young people, as you

say, seems to be ballooning. I don't know why it should be so. Boredom,

dissatisfaction, horror movies, frightening thing is happening. The

world is unstable in many ways. There is a great sense of unease

about communities. Perhaps they have picked that up. I don't know.

Perhaps it would take somebody wiser. A lot of different

approaches. Not one thing. Talking about the world being an uncertain

place, we go inside The Times about Facebook moderators. Mark

Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook, this is all about. Would you explain

what is being proposed. We are seeing horrible things on Facebook.

You can put up videos of suicides, murders, and the feeling is that

complaints are made constantly to Facebook and they are not

responding. Facebook says they get 1 million such things and they cannot

cope with it. They are hiring 3000 more individuals basically as a

rapid response team to be able to look at what is being posted.

They've already got 4500 already. Adding another 3000 is quite

extraordinary. But it is what they need to do in order to make sure

that paedophiles are taken off-line immediately, or terrorism, promoting

terrorism. They have another issue where Facebook is being used for

piracy. What people do is they will take live sports programmes, or

other ones, and immediately live stream them and the content. That's

also been mentioned. They have been pretty slow about this. It is a

nightmare world we are looking at. Appalling things you can see.

They've been slow. They should have been able to predict this, certainly

with the huge industry of pornography that is worldwide and

known to be, and has been for decades, and they have been slow to

set up these monitoring systems. Thank goodness they are on the job

now. When they took down images, the iconic one of the young Vietnamese

girl from the napalm attack running, that was taken down because it was a

nude little girl and considered a concern. They were then criticised

for that. It is difficult. Always difficult. Very briefly, a small

story on the front of the FT. About the Turner prize. They are doing

something extraordinary. I am thrilled because it is, for the

first time, they have short listed and made it eligible for people over

the age of 50. Several of them are over 50. The work is very

exhilarating and tremendous. My complaint is they cap it at 62. That

is ageism. Why have they done that? Somebody at the age of 63 is capable

of art? And they are turning away from The Unmade Bed, The Cow

hopefully something better is coming. But it all looks jolly good.

People between 50 and 62 are young, aren't they? Children. You can see

the front pages of the papers online on the BBC website. It is there

seven days a week. If you miss the programme you can watch it later on

the BBC iPlayer. Thank you both. It has been delightful, as usual.

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