24/07/2017 The Papers

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

With me are public affairs consultant Alex Deane

Starting with the i, and the parents of Charlie Gard who have given up

their legal fight to keep him alive. It is on the Sun's front page as

well, picking up on comments made by Charlie Gard's parents outside

court. The story also appears on the front page of the Metro and Charlie

Gard is also the Daily Mail's lead story. The Telegraph front of the

story on how consumers who buy internetting gauged appliances for

them homes -- their homes are vulnerable to cyber attacks. The

Times says that ministers are considering clamping down on

developers who sell houses with escalating ground rents. Also a

story on the Police and Crime Commissioner accused of pulling

police away from an anti-fracking protest. The Guardian leads with a

warning from the Bank of England on rising levels of personal debt. The

Express fix on what it calls a row among doctors over the safety of

starting is. So, it was inevitable given the huge public interest that

there is in the story that this is the only picture on the front page

and the photograph on the front page of the Daily Mail. Incredibly

striking and while we are looking at the papers, they are united in

morning trade Charlie Gard, who it seems, his battle has come to an

end, but the next focus will be on what the parents are saying has

caused this decision, which is that great form and is it prolonged the

decision so long that he could no longer have the treatment. It is not

that they are saying he could have been saved if he had had the

treatment earlier but that if he could have promptly had the

treatment instead of the court process, they might have saved him

but now they have to give up because the process has taken so long. Right

now, it is a very sad story that everybody rallies around and mourn

server for the next age is very dangerous that the people on the

other side of the argument. The doctors would say they work in the

interests of the child and they presumed that there was nothing that

could be done for him and whether there was or not is... And it is

certainly true that many independent doctors who didn't work at Great

Ormond Street Hospital of those doctors that there really was no

hope of this experimental American treatment working, or any other

treatment. Journalistically, I would like to add that it's just amazing

the way a story like this catches fire. You know, it became a minor

story in April and then suddenly, it just took off. Then you have Donald

Trump commenting, you have the Vatican, you had controversial

American pastor coming over here to way into the debate. They raised 1.2

million on a crowdfunding website, social media funding Mac at the rate

fuelling it but that is the way that human emotion stories which really

tell the raw sorrow and anger and quite understandable sense of fury

that the parents have gone through, are communicated to the public and,

as I say, it is fuelled by social media and it has become an

incredibly huge worldwide story. The front page of the Sun," we are so

sorry we couldn't save you". They say they are haunted by the what

ifs. And I take James' point entirely, the doctor treating

Charlie Gard seemed entirely of one view and many doctors who weren't

from, none of them would support what has happened, the threats and

so on, but the point for me as a layman, many of us will be

wondering, you say there is no hope but when you switch off the machine,

that is definitely no Hove, right? So the chance of life is what the

parents were seeking. A doctor on the programme this evening said are

these expert, ordinarily kings of their domain, are they in some way

reticent to take advice or maybe expertise from outside their

hospital? I have two uncles that doctors but it doesn't make me a

doctor and maybe I'm a bit naive, but I would always trust the

integrity of the doctors and I am slightly suspicious of the Michael

Gove line, we have had enough of experts, everybody knows better than

experts, but I think the doctors do take a Hippocratic oath which almost

all doctors follow to the letter and would have the child's best

interests at heart and I absolutely agree that if I were the parent, I

would be fighting as long as I could and as hard as I could to keep him

alive, but sometimes, doctors are right. I don't trust expert but I do

worry in this country that institutions, especially when they

are used to being in command, don't like being told they are wrong and

there might be a bit of that. And a great suspicion of experts in this

country, as we well know. This is one of the other big stories of the

evening, the visit of Liam Fox to the United States, this is the front

page of the Independent. He is dismissing concerns that some might

have in this country, if there is a future trade deal in the United

States, they are correlated chicken and hormone raised beef. Some

watchers of the Brexit process will wonder why he is there because we

are not formally allowed to have negotiations with any other country

whilst we are still in the EU protest Michel Barnier said, very

French expression, how can you stop people talking? You can have the

informal conversations with their to negotiation and that is what Liam

Fox is doing and there is no bigger fish in the Pont than a deal with

the United States. We are their largest investor, they are ours and

so forth. Things people get hung up on, chlorinated chicken catches the

mine because it sounds horrible, is food standards. And his bargaining,

which is probably true statistically but a difficult one to swallow, is

that this is a detail and what I would invite you to hang onto him

thinking about that is that if you have been to the United States and

jaw not vegetarian, you have eaten chlorinated chicken and hormone

treated beef and you are fine and even if you are, you have eaten

genetically modified food. Interestingly, at the end of this

front page, it says the National farmers union, their president has

said it is vital that any discussions on future trade deal do

not serve to allow cheap food imports. This is interesting,

everything to do with Brexit is about playing to the home crowd.

Obviously it is important to develop links with the US for when we leave

the EU but this is a turf war that might be developing between the Fox,

who has been complaining this week that he is not getting enough

coverage, and Michael Gove, who has said he wants to enforce

environmental food standards and indeed Andrea Leeds said today she

was worried that British farmers would be disadvantaged -- Andrea led

some. So there will be a big battle. Like any good trade union, the NFU

are sticking up the interest of their members. That is what they are

paid for! A story on the front page of The Times which is rumbling on

the shopping precincts and pubs, the rip-off scandal of leaseholds. So

you buy a new house, you get a decent deal and tact in in the small

print is the ground rent, the leasehold and you think I have 999

years, it looks like a small leaseholder and lo and behold, it

starts to go up pretty quickly and the Government says it is going to

end this. People are not realising that they are buying a house they

don't fully owned, and their leasehold, which we are used to

seeing in flats, is being attached to new-build homes, which means you

may be paying up to, concrete examples, of ?10,000 a year being

paid in ground rent. That is going to make homes unsellable in the

future if that escalation continues, and it's not right. There is no

principal reason for doing it. One example here of someone who bought a

house in Bolton for ?200,000, a family home, her ground rent went up

3000% and will hit almost ?10,000 a year. This is a scheme that people

are: greedy and nobody seems to have highlighted it before and I think

Sajid Javid has done a good job, bringing it to our attention and

using colourful language that will catch the eye and saying enough is

enough, if house-builders aren't prepared to step off the ground rent

gravy train, I will derail it and that will go down well with the

people who are in it and that is 43% of new builds being leaseholds, an

extraordinary percentage of the market. It has put people in a

horrible position but one has to point out that they took the

decision to take that misprision of the under professional advice and

they have something to answer to. -- Take That position. They are saying

you can buy it but it is 2,000 and then a few years down the line, it

is a lot more. I'm not going to blame the people hoodwinked into

these deals but if they were professionally advised and it wasn't

flagged to them properly, someone has to suffer that. There may be

more legal action on that, you are right. In the Times, anti-fracking

police chief accused of pulling force from protest, the police and

crime commission of the North Wales. It is very interesting, with Police

and Crime Commissioner is, you can argue it either way, they should be

professional and run by like police officers or it is good to have

democratic principle in. The good thing about -- the thing about

elected Police and Crime Commissioner is issue will from time

to time get conflict-of-interest were what a person stood for before

they took office as PCC and what they are now doing in their job and

this seems to be a clear example of someone who has an agenda,

anti-fracking, in charge of the police, who have a duty to protect

those carrying out unlawful business and directing them not to do so, so

police officers are pulled away from protecting those who are trying to

carry out their fracking activity. As you say, the way the Times tells

it, it does look quite questionable and the residents who are "Backing

fracking" are calling it cronyism and it is true that Mr Jones was a

member of "Phrack three Wrexham". His forces sending officers to help

out in Lancashire Blackpool and he is saying how can they do that when

there are capacity issues at home and he is saying it is nothing to do

that. Many people will look at the fact he

was in anti-fracking campaigner, and they will question it. Are the

memories of what caused all the problems in 2008-9, are they

starting to wear off? The Bank of England is saying that they are

increasingly alarmed by the amount of money being borrowed on easy

terms. The Guardian says people are complacent about building up debt

but when you have a central bank that prints money, which is what

quantitative easing is, and keeps rates so low that you can't make

money if you are a saver and you can't make real returns in the

economic environment because interest rates are so low, how can

you say I am shocked to find out there is gambling going on in this

establishment. How can this have happened? It is a shocker. It is

interesting that it was maybe 25 years ago that Gordon gecko said

"Greed is good" in Wall Street, the famous film about Wall Street

operatives and it seems to be the motivation of a lot of people, the

greed or consumerism that is driving this huge consumer boom at the

moment, but the bank is warning there is a spiral of complacency

that could lead to another crash. That is quite alarmist to put it in

those terms but he is warning we could be going in that direction.

Interest rates are artificially low. It punishes savers and encourages

this kind of spending. It says it has helped the economy to grow.

Speaking of which is true in the short term. We are going to the

Telegraph and the rugby story. We have brilliant women's teams doing

so well at the moment in the football and the cricket and the

rugby women are the world champions and that they have all lost their

job. I can't understand, even if you think the right thing to do is end

of the contracts, they are moving their focus from full 15 rugby to

playing sevens, which is a fast-moving, exciting game and I

enjoy both films, they are both great forms of rugby, but who in

their right mind says, days at you win the World Cup, let's get rid of

our contracts for our victorious squad, shake the whole thing up and

make some of them effectively redundant? That is definitely the

Gerald Ratner School of ER. What interests me is that you are

personally to blame for this because a Labour MP saying it is a kick in

the teeth and to treat women like this, particularly in light of how

women working for the BBC got paid... So everything is to do with

BBC pay. With three guys talking about the papers! Moving swiftly on.

Men of a certain age. Maybe we could all go out for a pint because it

says here drinking to forget could be harder than you think, so I

brought this expert panel together, these expert drinkers who could tell

me whether that is true or not. We have a long time thought that you

would drink to plot their jaw memories, but a very interesting

study undertaken by the University of Exeter demonstrates that there is

a limited, and they want to underscore this, limited, positive

affect from drinking and that, actually, what you think of as the

well-established negative effects of drinking too much can be

counteracted by the ability to have recall. So if you are drinking to

forget, try something else. It has destroyed a lifetime of hope that I

would forget. And listening to blues music telling me to drink and all of

my woes will disappear, I'm just going to have to drink to forget

that music. A sharpener tonight. That is it for the papers, you

consider front pages of the paper online on the BBC News website, it

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programme, you can watch it later on BBC iPlayer. Thank you to Alex and

James, it has been a pleasure having you. Thanks for watching.

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