:00:00. > :00:00.be talking about a novel, Peculiar Ground, said in a country house that
:00:00. > :00:13.becomes a stage for a gripping drama stretching across three centuries.
:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers
:00:17. > :00:23.Finally, I get to do some work tonight!
:00:24. > :00:25.With me are the parliamentary journalist Tony Grew
:00:26. > :00:29.entertainment editor at Huffington Post UK.
:00:30. > :00:37.Nice to have you both here, coordinated outfits all-round! Do
:00:38. > :00:41.not read anything into it! We will start with the Financial Times.
:00:42. > :00:42.Claims that Theresa May failed to consult
:00:43. > :00:45.some of her most senior colleagues on manifesto plans
:00:46. > :00:51.The Times also goes for social care, saying that the planned changes
:00:52. > :00:53.could be wrecked by poorly performing local authorities.
:00:54. > :00:55.The Metro also leads with the general election,
:00:56. > :00:58.reporting that the Tories are now looking to attack Jeremy Corbyn
:00:59. > :01:01.after polls showed their lead over labour being cut in half.
:01:02. > :01:03.The Telegraph reports that Jeremy Corbyn is at the centre
:01:04. > :01:06.of a growing row after they say he repeatedly refused to condemn
:01:07. > :01:08.the actions of republican terrorists in Ireland.
:01:09. > :01:19.that Britain is set to enjoy a blast of summer with ten days of sunshine.
:01:20. > :01:25.Do we believe it?! Let's make a start with the Financial Times,
:01:26. > :01:30.senior Tories were kept in the dark over May's dementia tax, it says,
:01:31. > :01:35.Prime Minister failed to consult colleagues. She has at times been
:01:36. > :01:39.accused of being very presidential, keeping everything tightly wrapped.
:01:40. > :01:44.She has a coterie, which I am reliably informed amounts to about
:01:45. > :01:47.three in the inner sanctum, but obviously both Boris Johnson, the
:01:48. > :01:54.king of love, and Damian Green today sort of hesitated when they pressed
:01:55. > :01:59.on weather they had been consulted, and Damian Green is actually
:02:00. > :02:03.entirely responsible for this art works and pensions, but they refused
:02:04. > :02:07.to say weather they had been informed. I interviewed Iain Duncan
:02:08. > :02:11.Smith about this ahead of the manifesto launch, and he said, don't
:02:12. > :02:19.ask me for detail, I haven't got a clue! And in the pasty had been very
:02:20. > :02:23.much involved. Years a backbench MP, so I wouldn't speak to them about
:02:24. > :02:26.these issues, despite his expertise, but this is an interesting move from
:02:27. > :02:30.Theresa May. We haven't seen an election pitch like this, she is
:02:31. > :02:34.basically saying, we will probably have the raise your taxes and make
:02:35. > :02:38.you pay for social care if you are a property owner. You could call and
:02:39. > :02:42.brave, or you could see it as a different way of approaching things.
:02:43. > :02:46.The interesting detail here, two things, first, that the Prime
:02:47. > :02:52.Minister's chief of staff, one of the two brains that she's incredibly
:02:53. > :02:56.reliant on and trust implicitly, put this in the manifesto, against the
:02:57. > :03:05.advice of other senior people. Apparently it was put in at the last
:03:06. > :03:09.minute by the head of staff. So that leads to this issue of a Tory
:03:10. > :03:12.candidate saying it is playing badly with voters because people are
:03:13. > :03:16.concerned, they do not know if it affects them. That is a serious
:03:17. > :03:20.problem in a general election campaign, candidate on the doorstep
:03:21. > :03:24.or cannot explain it or do not fully understand of themselves. That is a
:03:25. > :03:27.significant mistake that gives Labour a chance to present
:03:28. > :03:35.themselves, ironically, as the party of pensioners. Now, I would say, for
:03:36. > :03:39.a lot of people who cannot even afford a house, this is like an
:03:40. > :03:42.interesting conversation, you have a massive asset but you are not
:03:43. > :03:50.required to cash in the asset when you're costing thousands of pounds
:03:51. > :03:52.in care. I think what surprised and aggravated quite a lot of people we
:03:53. > :03:57.have spoken to since the manifesto was launched was this idea that
:03:58. > :04:01.there would be a cap on ?76,000, nobody would pay more than that, and
:04:02. > :04:05.that seems to have been accepted, but now all bets are off, you have a
:04:06. > :04:10.new election campaign trying to get a new mandate for something
:04:11. > :04:13.different. Completely turning the sons upside down, making this a
:04:14. > :04:19.ceiling. It is interesting that the two people asked about this, Damian
:04:20. > :04:24.Green saying this is locked down, Boris Johnson saying it may yet be
:04:25. > :04:29.tweaked. It is a complete U-turn on previous policies, but Damian Green
:04:30. > :04:32.saying that is because there is a way of improving it, and the
:04:33. > :04:38.emphasis is on making it seem there are two younger generation. Even if
:04:39. > :04:42.they were to be elected, they would still have to get it through, and
:04:43. > :04:53.some of their own backbenchers might rebel against it? Oblak it depends
:04:54. > :04:56.on the size of the majority, every MP standing on this manifesto, you
:04:57. > :05:00.can't come back afterwards and say, I don't like that part of it. It
:05:01. > :05:07.depends on the size of the mandate, but I don't think she's going to
:05:08. > :05:17.back down on this. Boris is being Boris. The major U-turn was over
:05:18. > :05:22.national insurance contributions, but all bets are off now, this is
:05:23. > :05:28.Theresa May's manifesto. The Daily Telegraph as a couple of stories,
:05:29. > :05:32.Corbyn engulfed in IRA furore, Labour leader refuses to condemn the
:05:33. > :05:37.group. And it has links to a hard left magazine as well, where is this
:05:38. > :05:43.all from? The stuff about the magazine which celebrated the
:05:44. > :05:47.Brighton bombing and advocated IRA victory has been talked about
:05:48. > :05:50.before, but this was raised during Corbyn's leadership. This is a man
:05:51. > :05:56.who repeatedly gave positive publicity to senior figures in Sinn
:05:57. > :05:59.Fein IRA. He was not meeting loyalist terrorist Connie was
:06:00. > :06:05.basically a cheerleader for republicanism,, and not just
:06:06. > :06:09.republicanism but violent republicanism. He is trying to spin
:06:10. > :06:13.it as if he was involved in the peace process, which is disingenuous
:06:14. > :06:21.at best. People like Mo Mowlam argued with murderers without
:06:22. > :06:25.bodyguards. Now that party is led by a man who evades answers when asked
:06:26. > :06:30.directly to criticise terrorism and terrorists. These were people who,
:06:31. > :06:34.when he was supporting them, they were murdering people live in the
:06:35. > :06:37.streets of the city he represented. And for you, there's nothing in the
:06:38. > :06:42.fact that it be standing on a platform with them, he is trying to
:06:43. > :06:47.engage with them? Absolutely not, he believed in IRA victory, he believes
:06:48. > :06:53.they can impose a military solution, drive the Brits out, drive the Brits
:06:54. > :06:57.out of Northern Ireland. You wonder for how many people this... Although
:06:58. > :07:01.we all lived through it, and it is difficult for young people who do
:07:02. > :07:08.not member living through the Troubles, as we always call them,
:07:09. > :07:12.how divisive, of course, it was. But it is, thankfully, quite some time
:07:13. > :07:17.ago, things have moved on. I'm sure people will say it is not perfect,
:07:18. > :07:21.maybe never will be, but how much of an election issue will this be? It
:07:22. > :07:26.is difficult to tell. Everybody has their pressure points, and as you
:07:27. > :07:31.say, perhaps because there is relief all round, in the past, in terms of
:07:32. > :07:34.the Troubles, and Tony has much more intimate knowledge of this, but
:07:35. > :07:38.Theresa May this week talked about fox hunting. I know people who were
:07:39. > :07:45.up in arms about this, it is a deal-breaker. Everybody has their
:07:46. > :07:49.turn, either their Achilles' heel or something they feel most
:07:50. > :07:53.passionately about. Corbyn has so many things coming at him, I don't
:07:54. > :07:57.know if this is going to prove to be the defined in point in the
:07:58. > :08:01.campaign, in the election, but he will certainly spend the next
:08:02. > :08:05.24-hour news cycle having to somehow dodge more of these questions, I
:08:06. > :08:09.imagine. It is probably something he could do without. As you say, it has
:08:10. > :08:13.come up time and time again at various points, this is not the
:08:14. > :08:17.first time. And it is not the last time, wait until the last week of
:08:18. > :08:20.the campaign, the Tories will be hitting this hard, he is
:08:21. > :08:25.unpatriotic, he does not support our Armed Forces, the nuclear deterrent,
:08:26. > :08:28.and he supported the IRA against British troops. He has said he would
:08:29. > :08:33.take military action as a last resort. He may as well promise a
:08:34. > :08:38.unicorn, he is never going to get into Downing Street. The polls have
:08:39. > :08:47.changed quite significantly. There has been a narrowing. About ten
:08:48. > :08:50.points ahead at the moment. The Conservatives, approximately. Second
:08:51. > :08:55.story, Facebook won't censor abuse and violence, something else that
:08:56. > :09:00.keeps coming up, this refusal to take down images which many people
:09:01. > :09:03.find to be completely unacceptable. I mean, the headline is that they
:09:04. > :09:08.have officially announced off what has happened is that the Guardian
:09:09. > :09:13.has uncovered a bunch of internal ethical guidelines that Facebook
:09:14. > :09:19.shares amongst its staff, and there are not that many people, for me the
:09:20. > :09:25.lede is that only 4005 and the people are moderating more than 2
:09:26. > :09:29.billion accounts across the world, a staggeringly small amount of people
:09:30. > :09:33.charged with this huge responsibility. They must be
:09:34. > :09:36.overwhelmed every time they get to work. And they have said it is
:09:37. > :09:41.because they don't wish to censor their users. This is all very noble,
:09:42. > :09:45.putting freedom of speech so high, but once again, we have touched on
:09:46. > :09:56.this before, Facebook and others identify themselves as platform
:09:57. > :09:59.providers, but there are increasingly influential publishers,
:10:00. > :10:03.they are the biggest machines of this in the world, and when you hear
:10:04. > :10:06.that some of the things include videos of abortions, as long as
:10:07. > :10:10.there is no nudity, this is unspeakable. I feel like the line
:10:11. > :10:15.has been crossed, they don't seem to think it as yet. I don't know what
:10:16. > :10:19.it would take. The rules about what broadcasters can show is different,
:10:20. > :10:23.we show much less than some parts of the world, but this is beyond what
:10:24. > :10:29.we would ever imagine being able to put out. As usual, I am frustrated
:10:30. > :10:33.by the Government's querulous approach, we are going to ask
:10:34. > :10:39.Facebook to explain this. You are a platform provider, let's set up a
:10:40. > :10:42.newsagent called a platform provider and start selling pornography to
:10:43. > :10:47.children, the police would be around quickly. You need to establish that
:10:48. > :10:52.they have extreme material that they are posting, you arrest senior
:10:53. > :10:58.executives under the same laws that you would arrest anyone else. But
:10:59. > :11:00.can you do that given that it is an international operation? They
:11:01. > :11:05.operate under UK law, of course they can do it. In this piece, it does
:11:06. > :11:10.say that Theresa May is promising that one of her next things, her big
:11:11. > :11:14.projects, is to impose legislation on these people. We already know
:11:15. > :11:18.there is an office of instruments talking about personal data, this
:11:19. > :11:21.comes on the back of Mark Zuckerberg sort of tacitly acknowledging that
:11:22. > :11:25.he is in some way responsible for fake news, and he is now sharing
:11:26. > :11:29.tips for spotting fake news. That is as far as he has got. I feel like
:11:30. > :11:34.walls are being broken down with this. Facebook like many and they
:11:35. > :11:39.don't like being controlled by governments, and that some point
:11:40. > :11:44.those two are going to collide. Church of England Barnes heavenly
:11:45. > :11:56.17% returns put it among the top performance. -- funds. How are they
:11:57. > :12:01.doing so well? Apparently, they are going against all trends, they have
:12:02. > :12:05.very active financial managers who are looking seriously at headlines,
:12:06. > :12:09.running in the opposite direction. Apps we should all take a leaf out
:12:10. > :12:15.of their book. I love reading the Financial Times, a sentence here, an
:12:16. > :12:19.investor remains a support of active management at a time of massive
:12:20. > :12:25.inflows into passive index tracking funds, I don't understand it at all!
:12:26. > :12:30.Foreign-language! Cyclical, play the long game, that is what it means. If
:12:31. > :12:33.you are taking positions counter to industry trends, you might have to
:12:34. > :12:37.play the long game, but we will both have to rush tomorrow to see what is
:12:38. > :12:42.in their portfolio. I suppose you need someone who understands that
:12:43. > :12:49.sort of talk! It is a difficult one, though, isn't it? If you are in
:12:50. > :12:53.pursuit of wealth. It is a ?7.9 billion investment fund that
:12:54. > :12:56.contribute about 15% of their overall ministry costs, so things
:12:57. > :13:00.like looking after cathedrals and things like that. So less than I
:13:01. > :13:03.thought, I thought they were making more money from the stock market,
:13:04. > :13:06.but most of the revenue comes from people putting money in the
:13:07. > :13:11.collection plate. No matter the size of the congregation, they are doing
:13:12. > :13:16.all right. Let's look at the Times, air pollution can deprive you of a
:13:17. > :13:20.good night's sleep, barely a day goes by where pollution is not an
:13:21. > :13:26.issue for one reason or another. We look at it as a background issue,
:13:27. > :13:30.but 40,000 deaths a year, you know, and I think about how this country
:13:31. > :13:34.dealt with jinked driving, for example, which was another massacre
:13:35. > :13:40.on the roads. The Government intervened, culture change occurred,
:13:41. > :13:43.and road deaths are down significantly. I think this is a
:13:44. > :13:48.hidden killer that we just accept as the price of living in polluted
:13:49. > :13:51.cities. I am not surprised at this, what surprised me is that the
:13:52. > :13:57.average age of the people involved was 63. So it has not been spread
:13:58. > :14:01.across an age range, it is focusing slightly older. But of course the
:14:02. > :14:05.people who actually suffer the most from air pollution are children.
:14:06. > :14:11.Yes. Their little lungs are the ones that really suffer. And there are so
:14:12. > :14:19.many initiatives that could be on the way, these cars scrappage,
:14:20. > :14:24.having to pay congestion charge. Yes, and we know that these targets
:14:25. > :14:28.are continuously failing to be met. Elution is one of the big villains,
:14:29. > :14:35.it is up there with every week, we have a new villain in town, sugar is
:14:36. > :14:38.the latest. But pollution has always been around. I went to a
:14:39. > :14:43.nutritionist who told me, forget your diet, you are fighting a losing
:14:44. > :14:47.battle when you live in the Thames Estuary, because it taps into your
:14:48. > :14:51.immune system, allergies, your ability to process even good food.
:14:52. > :14:57.You need to get out of towns and get into clean air. On a bicycle! We are
:14:58. > :15:03.going to finish with the i, because Carolinas here, she can tell us all
:15:04. > :15:10.about it. In the culture section, Twin Peaks is back, what is it all
:15:11. > :15:13.about? It first came to the screens 27 years ago, I was out of the
:15:14. > :15:18.country and I missed it, but I know it was a big deal. What is
:15:19. > :15:20.interesting is that there is a whole generation who have forgotten all
:15:21. > :15:25.who will never know what Twin Peaks was about, and they are saying, what
:15:26. > :15:28.is it all about? But it did Harold this golden age of television that
:15:29. > :15:35.we continue to celebrate over and over again. -- Herald. For every
:15:36. > :15:42.auto creating these programmes, these long, corrugated narrative arc
:15:43. > :15:47.series, they'll credit David Lynch and Twin Peaks for pioneering what
:15:48. > :15:53.was possible. It was a bit weird, wasn't it? It didn't make any sense!
:15:54. > :15:58.It was great television, wasn't it, Caroline, like nothing we have seen
:15:59. > :16:03.before? Obviously I was only a young child when it first came out! But I
:16:04. > :16:07.saw it later, it was baffling, I somebody in biology class join a
:16:08. > :16:12.diagram, who was doing what, because it was incredibly confusing. But it
:16:13. > :16:18.was television like we have never seen before, I am really looking
:16:19. > :16:23.forward to seeing what they do. It is a revival, and what David Lynch
:16:24. > :16:27.probably uniquely has managed to do is recruit a very impressive number
:16:28. > :16:32.of the original cast members, so unfortunately the log Lady is no
:16:33. > :16:38.longer with us, but she did film her scenes before she died, in 2015, so
:16:39. > :16:46.she will be back on screen, along with some other strange folk. It
:16:47. > :16:59.really said some careers allied, didn't it? Kyle McLachlan is back as
:17:00. > :17:03.Agent Cooper, he will probably be ordering some damn fine coffee. Some
:17:04. > :17:07.famous faces, a lot of people are writing articles, where are they
:17:08. > :17:11.now? The wackiest characters countdown, they are going to keep us
:17:12. > :17:15.imprint for a few weeks yet. You have to watch the first one first,
:17:16. > :17:20.or I will be even more confused! That is it... Where are we?! That is
:17:21. > :17:25.it for the Papers, but Tony and Caroline will be back at 11:30pm.
:17:26. > :17:30.Don't forget, all the front pages are on the BBC News website, you can
:17:31. > :17:35.read a review, that is seven days a week on the BBC website. You can see
:17:36. > :17:39.us there, posted shortly after we have finished. And now it is time
:17:40. > :17:47.for Meet The Author. A great house
:17:48. > :17:50.with a great wall around it. We are in mid-17th century England
:17:51. > :17:54.at a time of religious strife when many lives are touched
:17:55. > :17:58.by danger and intrigue. Then we are in the same house three
:17:59. > :18:02.centuries later in the grip