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