29/10/2017 The Papers

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Good morning, welcome to the look at

the Sunday newspapers. With me are

Josie Delap of The Economist, and

the journalist James Rampton. The

front pages, starting with Mail

the journalist James Rampton. The

front pages, starting with Mail on

Sunday, leading with new allegations

of sexism at Westminster. The Sunday

Times claims some prisoners

sentenced to less than a year in

jail could be allowed to go home in

order to vote, under new government

plans. The Sunday Telegraph says

that chaotic organisation of the

health service is putting patients'

lives at risk, according to the NHS

medical director On the front page

of The Observer, claims that senior

Tory donors have urged Theresa May

to walk away from Brexit talks

rather than accept an

"unsatisfactory and unfavourable"

deal

"unsatisfactory and unfavourable"

deal. And the Express leads with the

crisis in Catalonia, as Madrid

seizes power over the regional

Parliament.

A look at the front pages, let's

start off then, we have the Sunday

Mirror, they have a news story,

terror threat as Heathrow security

files found in the street, we have

been reporting that this morning as

well. Lots of secret plans that were

found on a USB memory stick.

Quite

an odd story, unemployed man found a

USB stick in the street, and a few

days later took it to a public

library, just to see what was on it,

turns out to be incredibly detailed

plans of Heathrow security measures

on how the Queen gets through

Heathrow safely, her roots, enormous

amount of data, that was not

protected by passwords or encrypted.

And which people are,

understandably, quite concerned is

now in the public domain.

It is easy

to lose a memory stick, not

defending it! LAUGHTER

. Compared to a briefcase full of

papers.

Yes, but why on earth was

this person taking it out of

Heathrow, but alone putting it on an

unencrypted stick, and the analysis

from the security editor, he is

saying, Islamic State has been

talking about a spectacular to match

9/11, if it got hold of this

information, that could be very

helpful to them. Also, states such

as North Korea have been trying to

bring down infrastructure for years,

likewise, if they got hold of this,

that could be incredibly useful to

them. It is more than careless, it

is shocking that this has happened.

76 folders, things like the

passwords that covert police

officers use at Heathrow. Anyone

could impersonate them and get into

the inner sanctum, perhaps where the

Queen is. It is shocking.

Let's go

on Sunday. Minister sends his PA to

buy sex toys. Tell us about this.

Good luck!

LAUGHTER

Well, he is accused of asking

someone to buy a couple of sex toys,

while standing outside a shop, one

which he said was for his wife and

one was for some the else in his

constituency, and also calling her

"sugar tips" in front of a number of

witnesses. He has said that this was

not sexual harassment, it was a

reference to a television programme

and this was high jinks.

Good-humoured hijinks.

His response

highlights the discrepancy we are

seeing in what men and women

consider sexual harassment to be.

Men may dismiss these comments, some

men may, but it is a man in a

position of power, when you are

conscious of the influence they have

over your career, over your personal

safety, then, to a woman on the

receiving end, that can feel very

different.

These are the ripples

coming out from a Harvey Weinstein

affair, that are going through all

sorts of different industries, not

just Hollywood.

And a lot of

analogies between politics and

Hollywood, very male dominated

industry, people in positions of

great power and patron edge, a kind

of industry where relationships

matter a lot, where it is not very

clear necessarily how you progress,

so you are concerned about reporting

this kind of behaviour.

I would be

the last person to say I am grateful

to Harvey Weinstein, but it does

seem to embolden people quite

rightly to call sleazy men if they

do something they think is beyond

the pale. And we have had this in

the modelling industry, in theatre,

in politics, it is all coming out, I

think that is great. If Harvey

Weinstein has done one thing for us,

it is to legitimise and get people

to take seriously and not laughed

off, his phrase that it was

good-humoured hijinks, that has a

ring of when Donald Trump said, it

was locker room chat. You can say

these things, and the figleaf of

epic banks... You know, locker room

chat, seems to get you off the hook,

but I don't think so. -- "epic

bantz".

Different individual,

Stephen Crabb, former cabinet

minister, who, according to the

Sunday Telegraph, sent a young woman

sexually explicit messages after

rejecting her application for a

Junior Rasolea in his Parliamentary

office. Stephen Crabb has said that

he had been foolish, that there had

been no sexual contact, any sexual

chatter like this is totally wrong,

I am sorry for my actions. He is

reported as saying. All of this,

same themes.

One of the interesting

things, talking about people being

more willing to report this, these

are not the first time that these

accusations have been made about

Stephen Crabb, when he was running

for the leadership there was

accusations. A lot of the discussion

was about the impact on his

leadership bid and his political

career, now there seems to be a much

greater sense of taking seriously

the impact this has on the people

who are on the receiving end of this

harassment, we are seeing it in a

different context.

And a woman who

is close to the woman who has

allegedly been on the receiving end

of these messages accuses Stephen

Crabb of abusing his position, that

may well be a theme that runs

through all the stories. The fact

that it is so often men who hold

power, over the women, it is all

about power and rape and all sorts

of sexual assaults are about

dominating the other person and I

really think that it is important

that women have the boldness and

know that they will have the support

of people, this campaign we have

seen, #metoo, the fantastic things

Rose McGowan has been saying, in

order to say, if you have been

abused in that way, you should say

it, and consequences should be

suffered.

This affects the BBC,

something similar, top BBC women

expose sex pests, this says, the

Sunday Times says a secret route of

-- secret group of top presenters

exposing cases of sexual harassment.

This relates to the Westminster

discussion of their being whether it

is Whats App routes, ways of women

communicating about people by whom

they feel threatened, trying to

spread information on each other,

which is a really important thing to

do. -- groups. And hopefully will

lead to more information coming to

light.

Women being empowered through

new technology, social media...

You

mentioned the campaign, #metoo, we

can hope these revelations will

change behaviour but what is

definitely clear is that social

media, the attention is issue is

getting, it is creating a sense in

which people feel more able to

report and discuss these things

without fear that they will be the

ones being shamed and blamed.

That

front page which features the BBC

presenter, Michelle Hussain, she has

issued a statement saying, she has

been rather misrepresented in this.

She says, the Sunday Times used my

name and image in any story, it is

an inaccurate portrayal of

conversations that women at the BBC

have been having since the pay gaps

were identified, we are a forum for

female college to come together

which many of us wish had existed

earlier on in our careers but it is

wrong to portray it as being focused

on sexual harassment or targeting

individuals. So she says that she

has been misrepresented.

And I think

it is interesting she mentions these

groups, perhaps on Whats App, where

they are, that you cannot read those

messages, they are safe from person

to person, so you can speak your

mind very freely. I grew up, you are

too young, when apartheid was still

in South Africa, and I thought, in

50 years' time, people will look

back and say, how did this happen. I

think in 50 years' time, when women

rightly have more positions of power

they will say, how did society

tolerate a massive gender pay gap,

how did they tolerate the fact that

women of the news, as sexed objects,

and it was OK. -- as -- how did they

tolerate the fact that women were

often used as sex objects.

Like

looking back and thinking about how

women did not have the vote at one

time.

Exactly.

The Sunday Times have

a story about prisoners being

granted the right to vote, always

controversial, the idea that

prisoners could vote.

Particularly

controversial in Britain because

there was a ruling that a blanket

ban was wrong, now it is being said

that the Justice Secretary is

considering giving those who could

have been sentenced to less than

eight the vote, which I think is a

great idea.

I'm equally encouraged,

I read that the idea once made David

Cameron physically ill, so I know

that I'm right about this! If you

want to rehabilitate prisoners,

which is one the points of prison,

if you give them a sense of social

responsibility and engagement with

society, they are far less likely to

offend, recidivism is at 60%,

massive problem and we need to get

prisoners through education and

workshops and schemes like this to

re-engage with society so they will

not reoffend.

The Observer, crisis

in Catalonia, very dramatic, the

last few days, demonstrations this

morning, pro-unity demonstrations,

actually, in Barcelona today, what

do you make of it all?

Terrible

crisis for Spain, we have Madrid

reimposing direct rule on Catalonia,

new elections in December, which was

probably a good idea, although it is

not clear that prounion parties will

win in those elections, so it is not

clear that having the elections will

solve anything for Madrid. This

continues to be a real mess in terms

of how the Spanish government is

dealing with it, when you have this

secessionist movement, you can try

to crush it, you can bow to it or

you can find a way to seriously

negotiate. And...

The fear is

violence, sooner or later.

Everything in this world is about

image, the optics, the image of a

hardline back-ups autocratic seeming

government, in Madrid, imposing

rule, through use of the police

agency hated under Franco is very

unfortunate, this is a country that

within my lifetime suffered one of

the worst dictatorships in Europe,

he died in... 1975... To be doing

similar things, even if you have the

law on your side, seems tone deaf to

me, and nothing Mariano Rajoy is

really taking risks by this court.

While we are talking about the

allegations against international

Trade Minister, Mark Garnier,

actually, the Cabinet Office is to

investigate whether Mark Garnier

rogue the ministerial code after

admitting asking his secretary to

buy sex toys. That is according to

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

I

wonder which part of the ministerial

code that is in, I would love to

read that particular clause!

LAUGHTER.

Quick word about Brexit, never far

from the front pages.

Which Brexit

of which you speak?

LAUGHTER

Tory donors warning the Prime

Minister to get ready for a no deal

Brexit.

Telling Theresa May that,

you know, if we get a really bad

deal, no deal is to and she should

make this very clear. Comes as

ministers are saying that they have

not fully read the economic

briefings on the impact of a no deal

outcome, what it would entail for

Britain, yet another stage in this

very poorly run negotiation.

I don't

want to invoke the spirit of Noel

Edmonds, God forbid, but there is a

sense... I feel the anger on the

side of the hard Brexit is is

completely unjustified, saying, they

are not treating us fairly, one of

the donors is saying, with the EU

kick us further in the teeth when we

are down... We started it! It is

like starting a fight and then

complaining that the opposition is

winning, you cannot complain if you

have called for Brexit, the EU must

fight its corner and must punish us.

Speaking of winning, the under 17

Sylla... We have won the World Cup!

Who would have thought it. -- the

under 17s.

Coming back from 2-0 down

to win the World Cup, also coming

after the under 20s won the World

Cup, clearly, youthful English

footballers...

If I were Gareth

Southgate, which thank the Lord I'm

not, I would send this team straight

to Russia, they have the winning

habit, they beat Spain, of all

people, one of the greatest football

nations on earth, coming back from

2-0 down, they have optimism,

confidence, vigour, fitness,

everything on their side that are

lacking in the main team. And they

have already won the World Cup, so

they are used to it. Send this lot

and we will win Russia!

In five,

seven, ten years' time, maybe they

will have the same problems of fear

on the global stage when they play

at a World Cup, senior level.

I

don't know, if you start this young,

thrust into this high pressure, high

intense world of sport more from a

very early age, how long can you

sustain that, how long can you

continue playing at this level...?

You can, Pele started very young,

first World Cup, 17. The danger is,

the tabloid pressure, every time

there is a terrible song released

saying how we will win the World

Cup... They say, they are all

nodding out of time in the studio...

There is a tidal wave of hype and

fifth end in bitter disappointment.

I'm afraid we are ending, but not in

bitter disappointment! I hope. That

is it from the newspapers. We will

be taking a look at tomorrow's front

pages every evening at 10:40pm, here

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