12/11/2017 The Papers

Author, I am talking about Edward

said and his book about King Lear.

Hello, welcome to a look ahead to

what the papers will be bringing

tomorrow. Withers are Tony Grue and

Caroline frost. We will begin with

the Metro. It leaves with news that

the Church of England is advising

5000 schools that children should be

able to choose which six they are

without judgment or derision. --

sex. The Sun says that two-year-olds

will get lessons from drag queens.

The Guardian says Brexiteers Michael

Gove and Boris Johnson have set the

Prime Minister what it describes as

an Orwellian set of demands ahead of

the Withdrawal Bill vote.

The Telegraph leads

with a plea from the husband

of the British-Iranian woman

imprisoned in Iran.

Richard Ratcliffe says sacking

Boris Johnson for his comments

on his wife's visit to Iran may make

the situation worse.

It also features the Queen

at today's remembrance

service at the Cenotaph.

And finally The FT leads with news

British spy chiefs are worried

anti-virus software given away

by Barclays to 2 million

of their customers could be used

as an intelligence-gathering tool

by the Russian government.

as an intelligence-gathering tool

It also covers

Donald Trump's meeting

with the Filippino counterpart

in Manila yesterday.

Let's begin with Iran and Nazanin

Zaghari-Ratcliffe being held on

charges of spying. Her family say

she was just there on holiday. Here

it is in the Telegraph. Don't axe

Boris over my wife's Iran jail

shambles. A statement Richard

Ratcliffe has made comment part

about his wife's medical condition?

It appears she has undergone medical

tests and there are concerns that

she may have cancer. I think the

tests are preliminary. I agree, I

don't think Boris Johnson should be

sacked. I think he should have

resigned. He sat before a committee

of Parliament and repeated the lies

of the Iranian regime, that she was

training journalists, not just

visiting family. He refused to

apologise. Michael Gove seems to be

casting aspersions as well. I'm not

sure if that is loose language, but

it looks like the Environment

Secretary is more concerned about

defending the Foreign Secretary than

protecting a British national. I

think Foreign Secretary is one of

the key posts, where they should be

careful with their language. Boris

Johnson has shown he does not do

this.

She was brought in front of a

conservative judge and she could be

imprisoned for an extra five years.

Her husband is saying, Boris Johnson

might be able to help here.

I think

is probably feeling extremely shaken

by the events of the last few days.

Perhaps thinking stop messing. It

does seem like every single time a

politician speaks out on this it

doesn't seem to be helping their

case. Now he is clearly very

concerned about his wife's health.

Hopefully, I imagine he is thinking

behind the scenes the dramatic

channels might affect more of an

improvement in his wife's

circumstances than anything that a

politician is saying up front and

centre. Michael Gove didn't do

anything, perhaps the path of good

intentions, but it led to him saying

I am not sure what she was doing

there, which has been very clear in

the last few days. Her family have

said exactly what you was doing when

she was on holiday. So now we have

the added convocation. This is a

story, as Tony said, it has been

going on for weeks now behind the

scenes. This story seemed to go

away. Boris Johnson's blooper was

overshadowed by Priti Patel and it

seems to be coming back into the

main headlines again.

They can put

it right with some emphatic

language, couldn't they? The I am

not sure they can. By the way, this

is Michael Gove. He is going on

television and saying that criticism

of the Foreign Secretary is helping

the Iranians. That is false

equivalence. I see two people more

interested in their jobs than the

national interest and the welfare of

British citizens and it makes me

very sad.

The, the church saying let kids

choose their gender. Being given to

nearly 5000 schools, this guidance?

It seems to be a very progressive

move by the Church of England, who

perhaps want to be seen to be on the

front foot of history. Often we see

that they have defied all sorts of

battles about women priests, what

the view is on same-sex marriages.

Clearly, this is a Zeitgeist issue

that they have decided they will own

and they are saying that children

should be allowed to express their

gender in a climate that black

sphere, where they can experiment

creatively and go through all of the

changes that young children who wish

to identify and another gender are

making trips to clinics, and they

have jumped on this and seen it as a

topic that they can be seen to be

helped.

It is massively

controversial, the subject. People

have strong views. This is really to

say that whatever children choose,

how they choose to describe

themselves, they should be bullied

for it?

It is written in church

language, the child may choose the

tutu, the tiara, the fireman's

helmet. The Church of England, apart

from being religious, it is also an

education provider. The churches

issuing guidelines because they're

worried they will get sued the

parents of transgender children. So,

it is not a theological issue, it is

legal. It is the church, as a

significant education provider,

issuing guidelines to schools. Many

of them educate children that are

not from the Church of England.

Saying, look, the transgender thing,

we need to make sure we are not

pressing children into gender

expression. Then evangelical

Christians, there is a lady from the

Christian Law Centre, they are often

involved in fighting for what they

see as the rights of Christians.

They say any dissent or a slip of

the tongue will be labelled hateful.

I am not sure why she has taken such

an extreme position on what seems to

be just saying that children should

be able to express themselves how

they want to. There is no mention of

parents.

Not at all.

It is just

about primary schools, nursery

schools and teachers, the ways in

which schools should approach. There

appear to be more young people

expressing feelings that may be in

the wrong gender. The fact it is

such a big issue means it will make

the front page of every paper, even

though they are just issuing

guidance that most people would

think is reasonable.

It comes

against the background of two days

ago in the Daily Mail, jumping on a

story where a schoolteacher

addressed a pupil by the wrong

gender and allegedly lost his job as

a result. Clearly it is a hot brick

topic.

The Guardian, a couple Brexit

stories. Can't go very far into the

paper review without one, can we?

Brexit is to send the PM Orwellian

set of demands. This is a memo that

is Mail on Sunday was reporting

today. How is this anything more

than a retread of that?

It's not,

really. The memo was sent some weeks

ago. It also shows the impossible

situation Prime Minister is in. As

you are aware, the Withdrawal Bill

comes back to the House of Commons

on Tuesday. The return has been

delayed, as Mrs May try to get her

rebels around the table and do a

deal. The reason that the part of

the Bill's process is critical, it

is where they can start putting

amendments forward, it is the stage

where they can start changing

things. It says the Prime Minister

is already struggling with the EU

Withdrawal Bill, with Labour

expected to join Tory rebels and

inflict a series of defeats. Theresa

May does not have a majority. She

has a confidence and supply

arrangement with the DUP, but it

only takes a small number of her own

MPs to rebel for her to lose votes

and House of Commons. I think we are

coming up to the stage now where

Tory MPs are going to have to ask

themselves if they are going to be

pragmatic and act in the national

interests, or go for the ideology of

the hard Brexit. I have to say,

there is no consensus in the

Conservative Party for either

approach. I think it will get really

messy. That is before it arrives in

House of Lords, where it will get

even messier. The Lords will say

they are acting in the national

interest.

Another Brexit story, and

the Telegraph, which I have put to

the back of the pile. Aiming at the

pets of Britain. They know how to

get us. Michel Barnier hints that

there will be a pet travel ban

because the Brexit talks have gone

to the dogs?

It is where everybody

stops. It is like the TV adverts

where the houses for sale, the car

is for sale, have you really thought

about this? This is it. Michel

Barnier is threatening that should

there be no deal, one of the very

first effect will be that pet

passports may be a thing of the past

and that we will not be able to take

our prized pooches across the

Channel. That will obviously stop

anybody who was thinking of

Brexiting in their tracks.

There is

an episode of Yes, Prime Minister,

the Prime Minister getting a gift

from the Queen of France, and the

issue of quarantine. I imagine them

sitting in Brussels, what will

really wind up the English? Dogs.

It

wasn't that long ago that we

couldn't go to and fro across the

Channel.

It was only 2015 where it

was brought in. It is part of upping

the ante. We are going to see more

of that. The tension is ratcheting

up and we are getting to the stage

of Michel Barnier issuing demands

and saying that we have to cough up

more money or there will not be

progress on trade talks. The other

end, we have the hard Brexit years

saying we don't need a trade. Jacob

Rees-Mogg...

It wouldn't be complete

without a quote from him.

He is

basically all for keeping rabid

Eurocrat out of the UK. He said a

fear of rabies was more of a concern

than UK dogs going to Europe.

It

was, but we know that these things

work both ways. Let's go to the

Financial Times. The picture story.

Two chaps enjoying a glass of what

looks like it is probably champagne,

judging by the glasses.

They have a lot in common, some

might argue, with their iconoclastic

styles.

This usually big fans of

each other. The whole goodwill tour

seems to be a stretch across an ice

rink, can I just get to the other

side without cutting anybody's

fingers off or falling over? It

seems to be one of his better days.

We have seen some tweets about North

Korea, we have seen him pretty much

dodging what has been going on in

the States. He does seem to be not

upsetting the fish, as he did when

he visited the previous country. He

seems to be finding a like-minded

soul in Duterte. Both of them swept

to power in elections last year on

the strength of iconoclastic

policies.

A very controversial pair.

The little similarity is that they

said they would shake things up. In

Duterte's case, it led to lots of

extrajudicial murders. The

international community condemned

him for that, Donald Trump goes and

rinse with him, he doesn't drink, so

I don't know what is in that class.

Nobody else would be photographed

with this man, no otherworldly that.

But it is part of a trip in which

the President of the United States

says he believes the President of

Russia, a former KGB agent, more

than the entirety of his

intelligence and security apparatus.

We sometimes think he is a bit of a

buffoon, this shows you the really

worrying side of his policies. The

coarsening of America's reputation.

Shall we finish with The Metro? Rita

Ora, in a bathrobe with a towel on

her head? I'm sorry, is this what we

are meant to be wearing?

You have

missed the narrative. This is post

fashion fashion. This is a

deconstruction of the preparations

involve one A-lister diva to get on

the red carpet.

Multiple costume

changes? I have rarely seen anybody

looking quite so good in a bathrobe.

You should see me in the morning! I

am concerned what she was doing at

the European Medicines Agency.

We

will get some clarification. We all

need a narrative when we get

trashed.

It is not enough, you have

seen some of the things that come to

the fore at the gala, this is just

an extension of that. It is high

fashion.

Very low maintenance.

Very

white whites. I don't know which

washing powder she uses, but highly

recommended. I don't pretend to

understand. We will stop. That is it

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