0:00:00 > 0:00:05now. Coming up in a moment it is The Papers.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:18 > 0:00:19bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21With me are our guests joining me tonight are campaigner
0:00:21 > 0:00:25and broadcaster, David Akinsanya and Rachel Cunliffe from City AM.
0:00:25 > 0:00:34Tomorrow's front pages.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38Starting with the i, which leads with the warning from the EU that
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Britain has two weeks to agree its divorce bill before
0:00:40 > 0:00:45trade talks can begin next month.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47The Daily Mirror reports that the Foreign Secretary,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Boris Johnson, backed bullfighting at an Anglo-Spanish event.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Eating mushrooms could help to fight off diseases including dementia
0:00:51 > 0:00:53and cancer scientists say, that's on the front page
0:00:53 > 0:00:54of the Daily Express.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56The Mail reports how high street chains are launching
0:00:56 > 0:00:59early Christmas sales because of poor trading conditions.
0:00:59 > 0:01:06The Telegraph details how a BBC drama has been taken out
0:01:06 > 0:01:08of the Christmas schedule after it's star Ed Westwick
0:01:08 > 0:01:11was accused of rape.
0:01:11 > 0:01:12The actor denies the allegations.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14The actor denies the allegations.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16On the front page of The Times are details of how
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British woman jailed in Iran,
0:01:18 > 0:01:23has been poorly treated in prison.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26The FT reports how the taxi-hailing app firm Uber, has lost an appeal
0:01:26 > 0:01:29against a ruling that its drivers should be treated as workers
0:01:29 > 0:01:33rather than self-employed.
0:01:33 > 0:01:38The front page of the Guardian has a story about how cuts to local
0:01:38 > 0:01:44policing could endanger national security. Let us begin. Let us start
0:01:44 > 0:01:52with the story on the front page that the EU gives Britain a two-week
0:01:52 > 0:01:58ultimatum. Rachel. What do you make of this?The EU have asked Britain
0:01:58 > 0:02:02to basically say how much we will pay in our divorce Bill and it is a
0:02:02 > 0:02:09bit of an odd way to negotiate! We don't want to do that, for a number
0:02:09 > 0:02:14of reasons. Money is our main leveraged in this negotiation and I
0:02:14 > 0:02:17think Theresa May back in her speech in Florence made some over chores
0:02:17 > 0:02:22of, we will pay what we owe, but what do we owe? Is it the pensions
0:02:22 > 0:02:26or officials of the money for projects we committed to. That could
0:02:26 > 0:02:30be seven years in the future. Obviously a lot of pushback on the
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Brexit side, saying we should walk away with nothing. It makes me
0:02:33 > 0:02:38wonder, do the EU leaders realise what is going on here domestically
0:02:38 > 0:02:42and politically? Have they looked to the drama of the last we can thought
0:02:42 > 0:02:55that Theresa May is really we can now was a good time to push is the
0:02:55 > 0:02:57case they have completely misjudged it, and how we can this kind of
0:02:57 > 0:03:00makes it even less likely that she will know a figure, I would say.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03David, any sympathy for the EU?I think the whole thing is strange. I
0:03:03 > 0:03:05obviously understand the projects we have agreed to, and I am even
0:03:05 > 0:03:08working on a project that has EU funding for four years so I
0:03:08 > 0:03:14understand that there is a bill. Well, I hope so! There is a need to
0:03:14 > 0:03:19play those bills. I just don't know. It all seems like it is cat and
0:03:19 > 0:03:25mouse some people blinking and who is going to be the most scared. The
0:03:25 > 0:03:29EU need our money for those projects and the general public will think
0:03:29 > 0:03:32this is very strange that when we leave the EU we are still going to
0:03:32 > 0:03:37have to give them a lot of money. I think it will upset the plan to give
0:03:37 > 0:03:41£350 million to the NHS every week. We are talking about billions of
0:03:41 > 0:03:45pounds and Theresa May have already talked about 20 million but that is
0:03:45 > 0:03:50not enough.They are now asking for 60 billion and this money is just a
0:03:50 > 0:03:54starting point getters onto the trade talks and if we give too much
0:03:54 > 0:03:59up now the worry is that what will we have to pay for a trade deal with
0:03:59 > 0:04:03the EU? Time is definitely riding out on this.
0:04:03 > 0:04:09Let us move on to the front page of The Times. This is a distressing
0:04:09 > 0:04:14story about the British Iranian woman who is in jail in Iran. Some
0:04:14 > 0:04:19details have emerged of how she has been kept.Yes, Nazanin
0:04:19 > 0:04:23Zaghari-Ratcliffe, she has been imprisoned, we have all heard about
0:04:23 > 0:04:27it because of the Boris Johnson gaffes, but to hear of some of the
0:04:27 > 0:04:32details about how she is being held, for instance, have hair is falling
0:04:32 > 0:04:36out under the prisoners have said that she has had a hood put over
0:04:36 > 0:04:40her. I had to do that in some training once and it is not a nice
0:04:40 > 0:04:45thing. It just sounds really awful and it is really upsetting to think
0:04:45 > 0:04:48that this poor woman is suffering and she is away from her daughter
0:04:48 > 0:04:53which I think most people would find very distressing to read about. It
0:04:53 > 0:04:58just doesn't seem like it will stop. It looks like they will put another
0:04:58 > 0:05:02five years on her sentence. I remember hearing the story along
0:05:02 > 0:05:07time ago and it was one of those ones where you just felt, could you
0:05:07 > 0:05:12imagine being in that situation yourself? If it was just a holiday,
0:05:12 > 0:05:15she was there with her child, I think people will be very sad to
0:05:15 > 0:05:20read that.It is a reminder that although the story may be came to
0:05:20 > 0:05:24prominence because of what Dave -- Boris Johnson said but it is the way
0:05:24 > 0:05:31she's been treated in Iran that the real scandal.Yes, and this has been
0:05:31 > 0:05:35going on for some time, as you said. I think a lot of people are only
0:05:35 > 0:05:38hearing about it now because of the comment that the Foreign Secretary
0:05:38 > 0:05:43made and did not apologise for, but it is good in a way that we are
0:05:43 > 0:05:50being made aware of it, of the conditions that she is under. Iran
0:05:50 > 0:05:53is an autocratic regime and there are a lot of things that we take for
0:05:53 > 0:05:57granted, law and order and a fair trial and the treatment of prisoners
0:05:57 > 0:06:02does not apply there and we're only talking about it because of what he
0:06:02 > 0:06:07said which doesn't make what he said OK, especially if he has contributed
0:06:07 > 0:06:14to an suspension of her sentence. Staying on that theme of Boris
0:06:14 > 0:06:18Johnson, we can go to the Daily Mirror. Bull-fighting shame of
0:06:18 > 0:06:25Boris. Is this another gas?It seems like another gaffe. Boris has said
0:06:25 > 0:06:29that banning it is political correctness gone mad. You know, I
0:06:29 > 0:06:34know people who have travelled over to watch this event and I wouldn't
0:06:34 > 0:06:37go myself and I don't like the idea of it but it is not for the Foreign
0:06:37 > 0:06:41Secretary to make statements like that because he is the Foreign
0:06:41 > 0:06:46Secretary.Exactly. We were talking earlier about how the Foreign Office
0:06:46 > 0:06:51has released a statement saying this was a personal opinion and not that
0:06:51 > 0:06:54of the UK Government. It is the role of the Foreign Secretary to
0:06:54 > 0:06:58represent UK Government and you cannot just go having opinions and
0:06:58 > 0:07:01offending people left right and centre which is what he has been
0:07:01 > 0:07:07doing in that role.Feels like years unsackable.This is the thing.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Monday was all about, can he last because of the five years extra on
0:07:11 > 0:07:15her sentence and now we're talking about bull-fighting. In that time we
0:07:15 > 0:07:19have lost our second cabinet minister, Priti Patel, who also
0:07:19 > 0:07:23behaved in a problematic way but Boris has moved on from one scandal
0:07:23 > 0:07:27to the next, what is he still doing there?It has to be said, we don't
0:07:27 > 0:07:33know what the event was, the Mirror just said he made these remarks at
0:07:33 > 0:07:38an Anglo/ Spanish event. I feel duty bound to read out what the Foreign
0:07:38 > 0:07:42Office has said in response to this story, that the Foreign Secretary
0:07:42 > 0:07:47was expressing a personal view and he respects his Spanish tradition.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50However the Foreign Secretary doesn't personally support
0:07:50 > 0:07:54bull-fighting and he is proud the UK upholds the highest in animal
0:07:54 > 0:07:59welfare standards. There is a difference, says the Foreign Office
0:07:59 > 0:08:03between respect for Spanish traditions and his own views.Yes,
0:08:03 > 0:08:08but you still have to be careful that comments like this do not get
0:08:08 > 0:08:13misinterpreted.We always knew that Boris would do this all over the
0:08:13 > 0:08:18place.We were leaving to one side and go to the Telegraph. This is an
0:08:18 > 0:08:24interesting story in its Scottish edition. On the front page, Sturgeon
0:08:24 > 0:08:31and Salmond rift.This is what used to be called Russia today. It
0:08:31 > 0:08:36broadcasts from the UK and I have been interviewed on there several
0:08:36 > 0:08:41times. Nicola Sturgeon is saying Alex Salmond, who is no longer an
0:08:41 > 0:08:47MP, has set up a production company and will have a weekly show on this
0:08:47 > 0:08:51channel. Nicola Sturgeon is saying that she does not think this is
0:08:51 > 0:08:56right and that he shouldn't be doing that because he is supporting the
0:08:56 > 0:09:00regime of Putin, where journalists and people with sexuality and all
0:09:00 > 0:09:05sorts of people are being harassed and to actually partake in that does
0:09:05 > 0:09:10not look good on him. But, you know, to be honest with you, people accuse
0:09:10 > 0:09:14the BBC of being a state broadcaster. The fact about is the
0:09:14 > 0:09:19media. I go on there to talk about very important issues like child how
0:09:19 > 0:09:25campaigns in this country. When I thought about it, I thought that
0:09:25 > 0:09:31maybe they want to make written that bad, ex-offenders have been on there
0:09:31 > 0:09:35to talk about British jails. It is whether it is a tool of the state or
0:09:35 > 0:09:40just another broadcaster.They do serious journalism, but it is from
0:09:40 > 0:09:44the perspective of the Russian government and you have to thing
0:09:44 > 0:09:49with this, what suits Russia and Vladimir Putin. Alex Salmond will be
0:09:49 > 0:09:53very critical of the British government and Britain as a country
0:09:53 > 0:09:57and he obviously wants an independent Scotland. He is somebody
0:09:57 > 0:10:01who were tears in his interest to make the British government
0:10:01 > 0:10:04embarrassed and to humiliate them, not because he is doing the bidding
0:10:04 > 0:10:10of Russia, who are paying him but that is because it is his personal
0:10:10 > 0:10:14belief. Will they get someone who paints the West and Britain in a
0:10:14 > 0:10:18positive light? Of course not. Someone who makes a very good point
0:10:18 > 0:10:23in this article, a Liberal Democrat, says on his show, will he interview
0:10:23 > 0:10:29people who are critical of the Russian state?That would be a test,
0:10:29 > 0:10:33wouldn't it?Apparently he has editorial control, he says he has
0:10:33 > 0:10:40editorial control.Will he interview people who have been critical of
0:10:40 > 0:10:45Vladimir Putin.In the past he has spoken of admiration for Putin and
0:10:45 > 0:10:49the way he has restored Russian pride.Are either of you interested
0:10:49 > 0:10:53in the fact that Nicola Sturgeon has been really quite outspoken in
0:10:53 > 0:10:58condemning his move. Do you read anything into that?She is very
0:10:58 > 0:11:02strong. She comes across very strongly in this article I think
0:11:02 > 0:11:06she's quite angry about and you can tell that from the comments in the
0:11:06 > 0:11:09article.It was interesting following us on Twitter and looking
0:11:09 > 0:11:13at how the Scottish Nationalist perception change from this being OK
0:11:13 > 0:11:17people shouldn't criticise him and then Nicola Sturgeon K criticised
0:11:17 > 0:11:21and then they all said he shouldn't be doing it. She clearly is the
0:11:21 > 0:11:28voice of Scotland in that sense and people do follow where she leads.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Let's go to the front page of the Financial Times now under story we
0:11:32 > 0:11:37have been running today about this taxi company losing its case in
0:11:37 > 0:11:46court over the position of its workers.Yes, it was a tribunal
0:11:46 > 0:11:51upheld again rose the app should treat its workers as workers. I was
0:11:51 > 0:11:56thinking about minicab drivers and black cab drivers and how most black
0:11:56 > 0:12:00cab drivers I know a may work for themselves they might work with a
0:12:00 > 0:12:04couple of other guys but also minicab drivers a lot of the time a
0:12:04 > 0:12:07self-employed as well and you made the point that actually cab-drivers
0:12:07 > 0:12:12are saying it is wrong because Uber are being held on the but the app
0:12:12 > 0:12:16brings them together so it is quite confusing thing. I am freelance and
0:12:16 > 0:12:21I do not get holiday pay and I don't get sick pay and stuff like that but
0:12:21 > 0:12:26it is just that you do feel with this company that they are trying to
0:12:26 > 0:12:30shirk their responsibilities and not take care of their workers. I don't
0:12:30 > 0:12:33use Uber and I know a lot of people do and they say they are very cheap
0:12:33 > 0:12:38but there is probably a reason for that.The Financial Times broadens
0:12:38 > 0:12:43it out and says this is the most high-profile UK test of the premise
0:12:43 > 0:12:47that people who work on geek apps are independent and not employed by
0:12:47 > 0:12:52anyone.It the wider question of the gig economy. You brought up your
0:12:52 > 0:12:57freelance and a lot of people freelance and have -- multiple jobs.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01There are gay gaps for everything from music to catering and tuition
0:13:01 > 0:13:08and all kinds of things. The anger about this shows that we do not have
0:13:08 > 0:13:13categories anymore that are able to explain how a lot of people are
0:13:13 > 0:13:17working now and a review was meant to address this. We have employed
0:13:17 > 0:13:21and self-employed categories but a lot of people fall into a new area
0:13:21 > 0:13:24in between the regulation hasn't really caught up so rather than
0:13:24 > 0:13:28trying to force Uber into the categories that we already add,
0:13:28 > 0:13:30maybe we need to think more generally about the way that our
0:13:30 > 0:13:37labour market is starting to work. Let us move on to the front page of
0:13:37 > 0:13:42the Daily Telegraph ran top of the page, about charities dodging the
0:13:42 > 0:13:50begging ban.This is a big issue, especially if you know older people,
0:13:50 > 0:13:55about how marketing is being done to raise money for charities. This is
0:13:55 > 0:13:58very aggressive. We all know the people we see in the street to come
0:13:58 > 0:14:02up to us and ask... This is about the Royal Mail delivering hundreds
0:14:02 > 0:14:07of thousands of letters to people, sometimes vulnerable people, and the
0:14:07 > 0:14:11amount of complaints they have been getting about this and actually what
0:14:11 > 0:14:15is really good, that I read in this article is that actually the
0:14:15 > 0:14:18relatives of elderly people have been complaining and saying that
0:14:18 > 0:14:24these mailshots are coming through the door thick and fast and that it
0:14:24 > 0:14:27is not always, it is not good for older people to have these because
0:14:27 > 0:14:35they might do things and they might be voting with their heart. It is a
0:14:35 > 0:14:39very aggressive trade I think, raising money for charities these
0:14:39 > 0:14:43days.Does seem to be about a loophole because a fundraising
0:14:43 > 0:14:46regulator was set up after a very well-publicised case of a woman who
0:14:46 > 0:14:50was said to take an error in life after being bombarded with these
0:14:50 > 0:14:56requests. Apparently charities have found a way around the new
0:14:56 > 0:15:01regulations.Yes, if they do it anonymously, mass mail outs, then
0:15:01 > 0:15:05they're risen to way to stop them from delivering to a certain
0:15:05 > 0:15:13address. 240 million anonymous letters were sent in 2013.It is
0:15:13 > 0:15:17extraordinary. No huge number.There are also sending presents and gifts
0:15:17 > 0:15:22like Christmas cards and pens. I used to look after an elderly lady
0:15:22 > 0:15:25and she left the freebie but along with that there is a begging letter
0:15:25 > 0:15:30and there is just whether it is fair and aggressive? And then why is the
0:15:30 > 0:15:34money being spent on that rather than the cause itself?Going further
0:15:34 > 0:15:39down the front page of the Daily Telegraph, the BBC pulls us
0:15:39 > 0:15:44Christmas special over rape claims about a star.I remember him from
0:15:44 > 0:15:51gossip girl which is the show that I think made him famous. This is Ed
0:15:51 > 0:15:55Westwick who has been accused of rape and denied all claims and
0:15:55 > 0:15:57obviously we don't know what happened at what is interesting for
0:15:57 > 0:16:02me is that the show that made him, he plays a character, it is all
0:16:02 > 0:16:04about rich New Yorkers going to parties and getting drunk and in the
0:16:04 > 0:16:09very first episode of the show his character does attempt to rate on a
0:16:09 > 0:16:13girl at the party and that is kind of glamorised in a certain way.
0:16:13 > 0:16:17Obviously that is the character and not the actor but it just made me
0:16:17 > 0:16:24think that this was a really popular show that ran for six or seven
0:16:24 > 0:16:26seasons and was all about glamorising the high life in bad
0:16:26 > 0:16:30boys and all of that. There was a cultural issue here and the fact
0:16:30 > 0:16:33that this show has been pulled because of the allegations, even
0:16:33 > 0:16:37though we do not know what the outcome will be, sort of shows that
0:16:37 > 0:16:41we are experiencing a cultural shift in the last few weeks and
0:16:41 > 0:16:45broadcasters aren't actors and directors don't want to be
0:16:45 > 0:16:48associated with that kind of messaging anymore.Things are being
0:16:48 > 0:16:52pulled left right and centre, we've heard about Kevin Spacey. The BBC
0:16:52 > 0:16:56now has to fill that hole in the schedule and that is going to cause
0:16:56 > 0:17:09a problem and I think it might be a bigger problem in times to come
0:17:09 > 0:17:11because there will be more and more of these allegations.I should add
0:17:11 > 0:17:14that Ed Westwick strenuously denies the allegations. We can move onto a
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Christmas story. It is only November the Daily Mail says Christmas sales
0:17:16 > 0:17:20are on already.We haven't even done Black Friday yet! Every year I take
0:17:20 > 0:17:23a photograph when I see the first thing in the local supermarket and I
0:17:23 > 0:17:28did that a few weeks ago. It really is ridiculous. We are all being
0:17:28 > 0:17:34siphoned of our money.You don't have to spend it.We don't but you
0:17:34 > 0:17:38feel... The biggest thing for me as Halloween and how that has changed.
0:17:38 > 0:17:43All of this, there are lots of items you can buy for Halloween now. I
0:17:43 > 0:17:45remember people saying it is American and not the British
0:17:45 > 0:17:49tradition but it has become, because it is run by the shops a commercial
0:17:49 > 0:17:53and the need to up their profits and that is what life is a bike, I'm
0:17:53 > 0:17:58afraid. Christmas ravens starting July before we know it.They have
0:17:58 > 0:18:01hit panic button and the idea is that sales have been slow so they
0:18:01 > 0:18:06are hyping up Christmas early in order to try and get people to spend
0:18:06 > 0:18:20more earlier. I always think, does this work? It
0:18:25 > 0:18:27must work do it. I think people will spend a certain amount for
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Christmas, whether that is the week before Christmas or the month before
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Christmas, it will be a similar amount. Maybe that is just me.I
0:18:32 > 0:18:35have friends who save lots of money and they start in January.Lemmy
0:18:35 > 0:18:37creeping in one more Christmas story on page three of the times. Let the
0:18:37 > 0:18:43festive countdown BGN! Ouch! This is about posh Advent calendars.Really
0:18:43 > 0:18:49posh. Gin, whiskey, make up. Money. One of them was trending and make up
0:18:49 > 0:18:54Advent calendar that was trending on Google in August, so that goes to
0:18:54 > 0:18:59show. I don't really get this. Again maybe I just don't get it but I
0:18:59 > 0:19:03think an Advent calendar, the fun is opening its anger in the little
0:19:03 > 0:19:07chocolate. If you are spending lots of money to get the more expensive
0:19:07 > 0:19:11gifts, wouldn't it make more sense to just buy the gift that you wanted
0:19:11 > 0:19:15and have the calendar separately. Am I just not getting it? I am with
0:19:15 > 0:19:23you!You didn't mention the £10,000 one! I think it is for children and
0:19:23 > 0:19:27adults want to do it... Advent calendars for children. Adults who
0:19:27 > 0:19:31want to sit and be children an open and drinking every day, good luck to
0:19:31 > 0:19:36them. If they have the money, good luck.One word for the pork
0:19:36 > 0:19:40scratching calendar for those who prefer their Advent calendar is a
0:19:40 > 0:19:44bit more down-market. Thank you both very much. That is it for The Papers
0:19:44 > 0:19:48tonight. The front pages of the papers online on the BBC News
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0:19:59 > 0:20:06both. Goodbye.