04/09/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Deborah Haynes, defence editor at The Times

and Jack Blanchard, editor of Politico's new Playbook

Let's give you a preview of the front pages.

The Metro has split its front page, with Kate and Kim

Express The Daily Express doesn't muddy the waters in any way and goes

all in with Baby number three for Kate and Wills.

The main story in the Times focuses on cyber attacks on British

universities, with medical and scientific research apparently

targeted. The Guardian has an investigation into Azerbaijan's

elite operating a secret scheme to pay the Europeans and launder money.

The Sun has a twist on that story, claiming that the baby was conceived

on their trip to Poland. And the Daily Mail highlighting fears of

home-grown terrorism in isolated communities.

Let's kick off. Welcome to you both, the Korean crisis and the story that

has... Welcome it has been a crisis for so many years, but this one

seems to be more dangerous than ever before? Absolutely, almost every day

it brings a new escalation of tensions. Today, we have had the US

ambassador to the United Nations coming out and using quite blunt

language, accusing Kim Jong-un of begging for war. Strong quotes on

the front of The Guardian, war is never something the United States

wants, we don't want it now but our patients is limited, we will defend

our allies and territory. I was meeting with academics who are over

the, planning war games, they are going to be doing it at Kings

College London yesterday. They have done lots of war games

about the North Korea scenario. It comes to an end where all parties

involved realise they have a vested interest in maintaining the status

quo. While the headlines are terrifying, you wonder if it might

eventually be resolved without things going horribly wrong. The

only problem is that I bet none of their war games involve Donald Trump

being President of the United States. Funny you should say that,

the new one does. How does it end? Was interesting, and added

dimension. The Times, saying that they are set to launch more missile

tests. That will be the task for Donald Trump, if Kim Jong-un keeps

upping the ante? I think he will, what stops them from doing it?

People say he is crazy, maybe he is, but he has a clear focus, develop

nuclear weapons to the point where he feels his regime cannot be

touched. So far, people are shouting and screaming each time he does it,

but nothing happens. Really, what can people do to stop him? I would

expect more missiles to continue to be tested. That is in his interest.

Some analysts are saying his motivation is the more scared the

rest of the world is of him, the safer he is. He doesn't want to go

the way of Saddam Hussein in Iraq or Colonel Gadaffi of Libya. He doesn't

want to be deposed and he thinks nukes are a deterrent? He kind of

has a point. He apparently looks at videos of Gaddafi's painful demise

and sees that... And looks at what happened in Iran, they had a nuclear

deal to try to stop that regime from pushing forward with the nuclear

programme. Look at the power that such a small country, with such

limited resources, that has been a pariah state for so long, and yet it

is gripping the most powerful man in the world. It is top of his agenda.

He has got a point, unfortunately. You do wonder whether the Trump

dimension will actually break the deadlock that we have had to live

with so long. Let's look at some of the other stories. The Times have a

story about university secrets being stolen by cyber gangs? Looks like

the journalists have done freedom of information work, looking at the

number of successful cyber attacks on different British universities.

They say it has doubled in the past couple of years. I think it is just

indicative of the world we are now living in, where so much more crime

is just becoming an online issue. The really smart criminals, they are

not going around robbing banks any more. They are doing this kind of

work. You think of the wealth of information that universities hold,

or all sorts of different issues, technology, medical research,

anything else, there is a real financial incentive to do that kind

of attack. Another university story, this is the head of Oxford

University attacking what they call pay lies of ministers? It is quite a

long-running story. The various heads of universities being attacked

for bringing home massive pay packages at a time when students are

buckling under the debt they accumulate going to university. I

guess it is like a fightback. The paper also quotes Jo Johnson, the

University Minister, well, not quoting him, saying he will announce

plans this week to stop the upward ratcheting of salaries by linking

pay to performance. It does seem like it is a bit of a spat. What is

interesting is that the Government took a pretty big pasting during the

general election on tuition fees. It seems to be a big vote winner for

Jeremy Corbyn. We might be seeing a pushback from the government,

saying, what would the students like to see us doing? One thing we could

do is look at these massively overpaid Vice Chancellor is taking

him so much money while the students are paying tens of thousands each

year. Professor Louise Richardson, who is saying this, from

Oxfordshire, is earning three and ?50,000 a year, saying that they

don't get much compared to footballers and bankers? Well, which

is true. They bring more to society. If that is the bar, people can get

paid whatever they want! I'm not trying to support it, but you want

to attract talent. If you want to get the best people in, you need to

pay them well. The Telegraph, again, just briefly, Britain is losing its

religion in the words of the REM song. The proportion of the

non-believers is the highest it has ever been? I don't think it will

come as a surprise to many people. Britain has been moving in this

direction for a long time. It doesn't show any signs of changing.

A lot of the most religious people in the UK now are people that have

moved here from other countries. It's a rarity to meet very religious

people in this country, and it is only going one way, I'm afraid. The

Sun have got a story about Theresa May's government wanting the EU to

hurry up with the Brexit negotiations. That's quite

interesting. The EU are saying, well, Britain was very slow in

triggering Article 50 in the first place, and then there was the

election that got in the way. It is us that have been dragging our

heels, now we are saying it is them? They have taken the story from

Politico. We have these negotiations, where they go over,

David Davis, for about three days, they have an awkward press

conference and then come back and talk among themselves. We are not

getting anywhere. Britain has said, let's just stay here and keep

talking until we get somewhere. At the moment, it feels like total

deadlock. It seems a smart thing to do. Both sides have to agree to it.

Time is running short, really. There is not that long to go. There is

obviously going to be parliament coming back after the summer

holidays tomorrow. They are going to be voting on various... It is the

legislation around the withdrawal. It seems like Theresa May is

potentially going to be in a rough ride there, according to tomorrow's

papers. Can the EU hurry up, that is the headline in the The Sun. The PM

demands nonstop Brexit talks? I'm not sure they will be nonstop? I

don't think so, the EU does not do weekends or Friday. It is a relaxed

pace. Britain has triggered this, and it is Britain faces to lose at

the most of it doesn't work. We are the ones under pressure. That is why

the push for speed is coming from the UK side. It is us that needs

this. Do you think the US EU EU will be amenable? You would hope so, it

is in everybody's interests to get it sorted out. Deborah, the big

story of the day, Kate's third baby. I was kind of thinking, in these

times of great turmoil and huge events, stressful North Korea

screaming headlines, it is quite nice to get some happy news, happy,

soft, fluffy news about another baby. Before her. I feel sorry for

her, having the whole morning sickness. She had that with all

three pregnancies. It sounds pretty horrific. I had my third last year.

Fortunately, I did not endure the morning sickness, but I did have the

sleepless nights afterwards. It is quite a big jump from two to three.

Any advice about having three? Just endless patience. Also, the older

you get, the harder it is to deal with those. She will probably have

more staff than you. A palace full of staff probably eases the pain.

Surely want to help your baby. Delighted with the news of the baby?

I am completely indifferent. They seem like a nice couple, good for

them. I am not sure I would put it on my front page. Would you put this

on? Jeremy Corbyn, Tahir and, apparently, with being vegan. --

toying with being a vegan. There is a bit on the Telegraph as well. The

Times today lovely job. He was addressing an event at Lush. He was

talking about how he is eating more and more vegan food. He says it is

getting so much better. He went to a house and had a lovely vegan wheel.

But he says, I am not going vegan quite yet. I can tell you why. I was

speaking to him at Christmas. Do you have Christmas together? Frequently!

You started talking about his love of cheese. He is passionate about

cheese. He talked endlessly about different cheeses, he talked about

smuggling it across borders so he could have his favourite cheese. The

story says he is being held back from full vegan by his love of

creamy Somerset Brie? Hasn't held back at least four MPs. A revelation

in the Times about how there are, at present, four openly vegan MPs, all

of them Labour. It makes you wonder how many closet vegans there are. Do

you think it is a vote winner? According to the article, and I take

all of my information about vegan eating from this article, it seems

to be about 500,000 people. But more of a proportion of people are vegan

than MPs are. Half a million, that is quite a lot? Maybe this could

make the difference. Thank you so much for being with us. I give your

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