28/10/2017

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0:00:00 > 0:00:07being ordered on board all Royal Navy submarines.

0:00:16 > 0:00:19Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

0:00:19 > 0:00:21bringing us tomorrow.

0:00:21 > 0:00:26With me are the journalist and broadcaster, Penny Smith

0:00:26 > 0:00:32and the commentator and broadcaster, Charlie Wolf.

0:00:32 > 0:00:34Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

0:00:34 > 0:00:36The Mail on Sunday leads with fresh allegations of sexism

0:00:36 > 0:00:39at Westminster.

0:00:39 > 0:00:41The Sunday Times claims some prisoners sentenced

0:00:41 > 0:00:44to less than a year could be allowed to go home to vote,

0:00:44 > 0:00:47under new government plans.

0:00:47 > 0:00:53The Sunday Telegraph says that

0:00:53 > 0:00:55chaotic organisation of the health service is putting patients' lives

0:00:55 > 0:00:57at risk, according to the NHS medical director.

0:00:57 > 0:01:00On the front page of The Observer, claims that senior

0:01:00 > 0:01:01Tory donors have urged Theresa May

0:01:01 > 0:01:04to walk away from Brexit talks rather than accept

0:01:04 > 0:01:09an "unsatisfactory and unfavourable" deal.

0:01:09 > 0:01:12And the Express leads

0:01:12 > 0:01:14with the crisis in Catalonia, as Madrid seizes power over

0:01:14 > 0:01:22the regional Parliament.

0:01:22 > 0:01:25We will start with that Conservative Party donor story on the front page

0:01:25 > 0:01:31of the Observer, Charlie. More pressure on Theresa May, but not

0:01:31 > 0:01:37from her own MPs, but those who prop up the party.The ones with the

0:01:37 > 0:01:41money. And they are right, these people in business who do this every

0:01:41 > 0:01:46day are saying, be ready to walk away. It is nothing to be scared of.

0:01:49 > 0:01:57I was at a meeting Governor with these people. It is almost like

0:01:57 > 0:02:01Groundhog Day. The first rule of negotiating, this is the only thing

0:02:01 > 0:02:06I know about negotiating, is having an end cut-off date to say, sorry,

0:02:06 > 0:02:11we are not going to make a deal here, and walking away. In this

0:02:11 > 0:02:14case, it is different because we are not walking away from everything, we

0:02:14 > 0:02:18are walking away from a deal with the EU but obviously keeping Brexit.

0:02:18 > 0:02:23It is time to say, we have two months to make a deal. It is not

0:02:23 > 0:02:29satisfactory, we are leaving.The clock is ticking.Except that the

0:02:29 > 0:02:34amount of money we are talking about is so vast, and the money is for all

0:02:34 > 0:02:37the things would have been planned which might fail which we have

0:02:37 > 0:02:44committed to in the past and they are saying... You have committed to

0:02:44 > 0:02:51it now. It is like buying a car on hire purchase and then suddenly

0:02:51 > 0:02:55discovering that it was a Rolls-Royce and you thought you had

0:02:55 > 0:03:04put a deposit down for a mini. It is getting bigger and bigger. It is

0:03:04 > 0:03:11like the worst payday loan you have ever had.It is like the guys who

0:03:11 > 0:03:15form a band they quit before the band makes good. If you walk away,

0:03:15 > 0:03:21you walk away. In this case, there is nothing to worry about.But that

0:03:21 > 0:03:29is not just about money, it is about people and jobs.My country walked

0:03:29 > 0:03:35away without a deal back in 1776, and we seem to have done all right.

0:03:35 > 0:03:40Things were quite different then. Every time we do a Brexit story in

0:03:40 > 0:03:46the paper, we could talk about it all night, let's move on. It is on

0:03:46 > 0:03:53the front page of the Observer if you want to read more. Two stories

0:03:53 > 0:03:59on the front page of the Sunday Times. The headline says top BBC

0:03:59 > 0:04:04women expose sex pests. It has a secret group of the BBC's top female

0:04:04 > 0:04:09presenters has uncovered a string of suspected cases of sexual harassment

0:04:09 > 0:04:14at the corporation, including a senior sports presenter. All of this

0:04:14 > 0:04:18with the current climate of the big backdrop.There has been a statement

0:04:18 > 0:04:24from the BBC saying, we can't comment on individuals but treat any

0:04:24 > 0:04:28allegations seriously and have processors for investigating them".

0:04:28 > 0:04:35Anyone who has reached an age, such as me, has had this sort of thing

0:04:35 > 0:04:40going on at a fairly low level throughout my working life. If you

0:04:40 > 0:04:44ever complained in the past, people would always say, why didn't you

0:04:44 > 0:04:48complain at the time? Well, most of us did, but what we got was "For

0:04:48 > 0:04:52goodness' sake, get a sense of humour, you didn't mean anything by

0:04:52 > 0:04:56it". There was a general feeling that they were OK and that you were

0:04:56 > 0:05:06just being a bit silly. And the word silly kept coming up. Don't be

0:05:06 > 0:05:11silly, as though this was a ridiculous thing. For goodness'

0:05:11 > 0:05:16sake, that is what goes on. And you look back at it and think, why did

0:05:16 > 0:05:19we put up with a? But that was an era when we were watching things

0:05:19 > 0:05:24like the black and White minstrel show when now you just think, what?!

0:05:24 > 0:05:31It is also almost confusing from a man's point of view. We are a bit

0:05:31 > 0:05:37lost. In this environment, we are all luvvies and it is all TV and

0:05:37 > 0:05:41darling, and there are people I would hug and kiss a cheek, with

0:05:41 > 0:05:51nothing meant by it. Nowadays, you start to second-guess yourself. In

0:05:51 > 0:05:58today's environment, I look at the women I work with here. I wouldn't

0:05:58 > 0:06:02dare do anything sexually harassing to you, Penny!Because I would

0:06:02 > 0:06:09karate chop you.You are a strong woman.It is a good point. There are

0:06:09 > 0:06:12a lot of men read stories like this who are shocked that there are men

0:06:12 > 0:06:20who still do this and get away with it.Yes, and a good thing is that

0:06:20 > 0:06:23women do now feel that they can stand up and be counted and people

0:06:23 > 0:06:36will believe them and will not treat them as just overdoing it.It is

0:06:36 > 0:06:39also confusing again from a male standpoint because I look at this as

0:06:39 > 0:06:44a more free time. Women have come on page and women do have relationships

0:06:44 > 0:06:49with men at work, and men with women and men with men and women with

0:06:49 > 0:06:56women and all of that. It almost seems hard to imagine it going on.

0:06:56 > 0:07:01The wider issue is that women are now being given a voice. The

0:07:01 > 0:07:06statement from the BBC says "We have processes for investigating this",

0:07:06 > 0:07:10and thank goodness. Let's hope we are turning a corner, even if it

0:07:10 > 0:07:14means facing an ugly past. The other story on the front page of the

0:07:14 > 0:07:19Sunday Times... Prisoners gain vote in human rights U-turn. This has

0:07:19 > 0:07:27been going on for some time. Police chiefs were warning over terror

0:07:27 > 0:07:35cuts.It is also about how there are certain people such as high-class

0:07:35 > 0:07:40detectives who are now having to go into local police forces because

0:07:40 > 0:07:43there is such a problem with crime at the moment. But there is this

0:07:43 > 0:07:47other story about the prisoners. When you commit a crime, part of the

0:07:47 > 0:07:51punishment is giving up a right. You give up the right of freedom and to

0:07:51 > 0:07:56me, you should give up the right of voting.That is the case in America,

0:07:56 > 0:08:01isn't it?You would normally give up that right until you are no longer

0:08:01 > 0:08:09incarcerated. I gather this is coming from the EU.It is the

0:08:09 > 0:08:17European Court of Human Rights.This is why it has been going on for a

0:08:17 > 0:08:20long time. Let's move on to the Sunday Telegraph, hospitals failing

0:08:20 > 0:08:26to tackle safety crisis. This is coming from the NHS medical

0:08:26 > 0:08:30director.Sir Bruce Keogh, who has been the most senior doctor for ten

0:08:30 > 0:08:37years and he says the problem is that there is the central advice.It

0:08:37 > 0:08:43is the latest cry for help.He said it is a desperate organisation with

0:08:43 > 0:08:49no centre, yet it is supposedly the most centralised organisation after

0:08:49 > 0:08:57the Soviet army, isn't it? That is what used to be said. Again, I hate

0:08:57 > 0:09:03to put on the American thing, but this sort of system, as

0:09:03 > 0:09:07well-intentioned as it was and as lauded as it should be, and I would

0:09:07 > 0:09:10like to continue with a system where you can show up at a hospital, but

0:09:10 > 0:09:16from a management standpoint and a funding standpoint, it doesn't work.

0:09:16 > 0:09:22What he is saying the problem is, he also blames the watchdogs. He says

0:09:22 > 0:09:27there are too many boards and too many watchdogs. Too many cooks

0:09:27 > 0:09:38spoiling the broth. Terrible things are being done to save people from

0:09:38 > 0:09:44death and disability. There are small things that everybody should

0:09:44 > 0:09:56be doing, and not everybody is doing it.Everyone has a good NHS story

0:09:56 > 0:10:04and a bad NHS story. Now, Catalan. That is on the front page of the

0:10:04 > 0:10:08Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Express. Catalan leader faces arrest

0:10:08 > 0:10:13as he calls for civil disobedience. Penny, many analysts tonight at the

0:10:13 > 0:10:19BBC are saying that civil disobedience is going to kick in.

0:10:19 > 0:10:24They are saying he faces 30 years in jail. I don't know why I find that

0:10:24 > 0:10:32quite staggering.And he might not be the only one.No. And he has been

0:10:32 > 0:10:36replaced. He then went out and had dinner and photos with people

0:10:36 > 0:10:40drinking a glass of red wine. On Monday morning, there might be two

0:10:40 > 0:10:46presidents turning up for work. Because you have Carles Puigdemont

0:10:46 > 0:10:53and you have the guy who has been putting by Madrid. So the

0:10:53 > 0:10:59responsibility of them both turning up and fighting. Pencil cases at

0:10:59 > 0:11:08dawn.Federal troops will probably be there.And it is talk like that

0:11:08 > 0:11:14that is evidently keeping tourists away, with mounting tensions. Penny,

0:11:14 > 0:11:18you do talk radio. How much do people care? Are they worried about

0:11:18 > 0:11:24what is going on in Spain?There have been people who are saying,

0:11:24 > 0:11:28maybe I just won't go. I did an interview this morning with somebody

0:11:28 > 0:11:34who is out there and I said, is there a problem? And he said, no,

0:11:34 > 0:11:40you wouldn't notice. But then I remember being in Bolivia in La Paz

0:11:40 > 0:11:50and all of a sudden, a coup went on. It was a bit scary, but perfectly

0:11:50 > 0:11:57normal until then.Charlie, is Spain on a knife edge?It can be. Society

0:11:57 > 0:12:01is falling apart can happen extremely quickly, faster than you

0:12:01 > 0:12:05can imagine. You only have to look at what happened a couple of weeks

0:12:05 > 0:12:08ago with the voting, that referendum. On one level, I support

0:12:08 > 0:12:11the Spanish in the sense that you can't have individuals suddenly say,

0:12:11 > 0:12:17we are holding a vote when they are not the government. The way they

0:12:17 > 0:12:22handled that was, to put it nicely, miscalculated. Going roof with

0:12:22 > 0:12:26batons and what have you. But I can understand why they might give this

0:12:26 > 0:12:30man 30 years. It is seditious. It is like me saying, I don't like what

0:12:30 > 0:12:34Theresa May is doing, I think I will be Prime Minister, or Penny should

0:12:34 > 0:12:43be Prime Minister.But people do have the right to have a say in how

0:12:43 > 0:12:48their lives are controlled. It will be argued about whether this is

0:12:48 > 0:12:52being done in the right way by the Catalan authorities. There are

0:12:52 > 0:12:55various states in America that wouldn't mind breaking away from the

0:12:55 > 0:13:04rest.Civil war was fought over that.Is Spain heading that way?

0:13:04 > 0:13:08Again, it is hard to imagine in today's world, but maybe that makes

0:13:08 > 0:13:15the case for the Second Amendment. It is hard to imagine. Shall we go

0:13:15 > 0:13:24to some cheery news?I love this. I was watching a bit of it earlier.If

0:13:24 > 0:13:31these are our future players, we might end up winning the World Cup.

0:13:31 > 0:13:36Let's just start slowly and enjoy it for what it is. There is another

0:13:36 > 0:13:42picture on the front of the Independent and the Observer.Let's

0:13:42 > 0:13:46enjoy it for what it is. They are not talking to their agents about

0:13:46 > 0:13:54sponsorship deals. This is like 1966 all over again.We haven't even

0:13:54 > 0:13:59mentioned what we are talking about. The under 17 England World Cup team

0:13:59 > 0:14:04have won the World Cup in a 5-2 victory over Spain. Spain didn't

0:14:04 > 0:14:11really need this, but England needed it. And of course, the under 20s won

0:14:11 > 0:14:23as well.They were so chuffed at the end, and the coach.Charlie is with

0:14:23 > 0:14:33me, Penny.I will be dead by 2066!I spoke to a father of one of the

0:14:33 > 0:14:37players and he said he sent a text before the semifinal saying, you are

0:14:37 > 0:14:46not playing well, and his response was a hat-trick. Brewster was his

0:14:46 > 0:14:50name. Amazing news for them, but it is an insight into future talent

0:14:50 > 0:14:58didn't does show that with investment in which a sport, we can

0:14:58 > 0:15:03produce fantastic performances. Almost like the American women's

0:15:03 > 0:15:07team. At one point, they had more World Cup goals than Beckham did. We

0:15:07 > 0:15:14had one of the all-time teams, but it was our women's team. So if we

0:15:14 > 0:15:23can do it, you guys have a shot as well.Thanks, Charlie! Charlie and

0:15:23 > 0:15:29Penny, we will do it all again at 11.30, with more stories. See you

0:15:29 > 0:15:37then. More front pages are coming in.

0:15:37 > 0:15:44Coming up next, it's Meet The Author.