0:00:15 > 0:00:19Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:23bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:23 > 0:00:28With me are Charlie Wells, Deputy Snapchat editor
0:00:28 > 0:00:30at the Economist and the Huffington Post's political
0:00:30 > 0:00:34reporter, Kate Forrester.
0:00:34 > 0:00:39Welcome to you both. It was not long ago to have been a reporter on the
0:00:39 > 0:00:48Huffington Post was pretty out there!It was quite new but not now!
0:00:48 > 0:00:54What is a Snapchat editor?I write and produce with a small team a
0:00:54 > 0:00:59weekly edition on Snapchat's Discover platform. The Economist has
0:00:59 > 0:01:07been around for 174 years, Snapchat for six and in the past few years
0:01:07 > 0:01:11they have had a platform where publishers can put their content, it
0:01:11 > 0:01:18is an invite only ecosystem, and we create video content, repurposed old
0:01:18 > 0:01:23articles, write new pieces for the platform and we see it as a great
0:01:23 > 0:01:26way of getting our journalists have helped to millions are particularly
0:01:26 > 0:01:31young people who are consuming news on their phones.Does it bring them
0:01:31 > 0:01:35to the more traditional forms of the Economist?We definitely see this as
0:01:35 > 0:01:43a long game. It is a nice gateway for showing even people -- young
0:01:43 > 0:01:46people who might not be familiar with the economist who we are. It
0:01:46 > 0:01:51would be great if eventually they want to continue reading on the
0:01:51 > 0:01:56website or subscribe to the magazine.They always say that we're
0:01:56 > 0:02:01to train children for jobs that don't exist any more and I doubt
0:02:01 > 0:02:10yours existed? Definitely not. Yours certainly didn't!Definitely not! It
0:02:10 > 0:02:15has been such a fascinating experience. It is a testament to the
0:02:15 > 0:02:19Economist's willingness to try a new digital platforms.I job did exist
0:02:19 > 0:02:25when I was a school, let's hope it stays around for a bit longer but
0:02:25 > 0:02:29you never know! Thank you for that. I hope you don't mind us having a
0:02:29 > 0:02:31little diversion.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Tomorrow's front pages.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Starting with...
0:02:35 > 0:02:38The Financial Times reports the London Stock Exchange Group
0:02:38 > 0:02:40is considering whether to publish a dossier on the behaviour
0:02:40 > 0:02:42of its chief executive in defence of accusations
0:02:42 > 0:02:46they forced him to resign.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48The Times says Google has made millions of pounds
0:02:48 > 0:02:50in advertising from videos that exploit young children on YouTube.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52It also features prominently a photo of Zimbabwe's president
0:02:52 > 0:03:00Robert Mugabe emerging from house arrest in Harare.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02The i says a tax on takeaway plastic,
0:03:02 > 0:03:04like food boxes and coffee cups, could be introduced
0:03:04 > 0:03:09when the government announces its budget next week.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11The Daily Mirror reports on a father's fight
0:03:11 > 0:03:15to clear his name after he punched an intruder in his home.
0:03:15 > 0:03:23The Telegraph says Europe is threatening
0:03:23 > 0:03:26to withhold Britain's final rebate payment of five billion euros
0:03:26 > 0:03:28as part of negotiations over the Brext Bill.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30The Sun claims an exclusive on the controversy
0:03:30 > 0:03:31surrounding pornography found on Damien Green's
0:03:31 > 0:03:32computer at Westminster.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35It says content is violent and would have been illegal
0:03:35 > 0:03:36if found a week later.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39It also says it is unclear who downloaded the material.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42The Daily Mail has the story of British
0:03:42 > 0:03:44explorer Benedict Allen, who was rescued from
0:03:44 > 0:03:46a Papua New Guinea jungle after going missing
0:03:46 > 0:03:47on an expedition.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49And the Guardian says parents who divorce could be
0:03:49 > 0:03:52denied access to their children if they try to turn
0:03:52 > 0:04:02one against the other.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Three stories connected to the budget which of course is only a
0:04:05 > 0:04:12matter of days away. Take away plastic to be taxed, this is in
0:04:12 > 0:04:20lured, things like single use cups -- this is in the i.It is such a
0:04:20 > 0:04:25big part of life, everybody is used to seeing it and it is quite a big
0:04:25 > 0:04:30change. On paper it might seem quite a big step but if you look at
0:04:30 > 0:04:37similar measures that have been taken in the past, the 5p tax on
0:04:37 > 0:04:40plastic bags for example, when that was brought in everybody thought
0:04:40 > 0:04:44that was going to be a pain and to be honest it has gone off without a
0:04:44 > 0:04:49hitch. Everybody has that used to it. You take your bags out shopping
0:04:49 > 0:04:54and it has cut the number of plastic bags being thrown away by a don't
0:04:54 > 0:04:59know exactly how much but a lot I believe. It is great news for
0:04:59 > 0:05:02environmental campaigners who are all delighted. But I think it'll
0:05:02 > 0:05:10take a bit more than raising the price of a cabal to be a successful
0:05:10 > 0:05:14budget.I suppose the difference is that whilst you know you are going
0:05:14 > 0:05:18shopping, you might take a bag with you but if you are going to take
0:05:18 > 0:05:23away, do you take a plate with you the Miz it ties into this
0:05:23 > 0:05:27interesting idea of nudges which are taking off over the past few years
0:05:27 > 0:05:28in behavioural economics.
0:05:29 > 0:05:36Governments will try to set policies that make people make a little
0:05:36 > 0:05:38change, something manageable. The exciting thing about this is that it
0:05:38 > 0:05:43could perhaps raise people's economic DAC -- ecological
0:05:43 > 0:05:48consciousness. Thinking about the impact of your plastic utensils you
0:05:48 > 0:05:52might make other changes. I know that these forks are causing a
0:05:52 > 0:05:56problem, I should probably turn off the lights as well and think about
0:05:56 > 0:06:01the impacts of my consumption.And it is not just landfill, we are
0:06:01 > 0:06:06seeing these videos of divers in the sea and as far as you can look to
0:06:06 > 0:06:12the horizon there is miles of plastic bottles floating in the ward
0:06:12 > 0:06:17and killing marine life.It is really depressing and especially
0:06:17 > 0:06:21with Blue Planet being on at the moment, everybody is looking at how
0:06:21 > 0:06:26beautiful the ocean is and how fantastic all this marine life is
0:06:26 > 0:06:31and it is obviously being choked by tonnes of rubbish.The Economist on
0:06:31 > 0:06:37Snapchat actually did an edition on this!Shameless!We did an edition
0:06:37 > 0:06:41on plastic and fascinatingly, there has been research that there are new
0:06:41 > 0:06:47forms of life for Ming in some of these plastic colonies in the ocean.
0:06:47 > 0:06:54-- forming. It seems we are entering an age in which humans are changing
0:06:54 > 0:07:01life on the planet significantly. There was the famous experiment of
0:07:01 > 0:07:06recording in industrial Britain moths changing their wing patterns
0:07:06 > 0:07:10to fit in with city walls. Murder somebody will correct me and tell me
0:07:10 > 0:07:21I have got my biology one -- no doubt somebody will correct me. In
0:07:21 > 0:07:27America you have brown paper bags rather than plastic bags, don't you?
0:07:27 > 0:07:32You can recycle bad but still the recycling is going to take energy
0:07:32 > 0:07:35resources as well so I think the more people can cut down on this the
0:07:35 > 0:07:39better. It speaks to this larger problem of the delivery ecosystem in
0:07:39 > 0:07:45places like London and New York, places like China, everybody is
0:07:45 > 0:07:49getting everything delivered. Governments need to update policies
0:07:49 > 0:07:55to manage this growing ecosystem. You can buy something quite small
0:07:55 > 0:07:59and it comes with all that packaging.I ordered something
0:07:59 > 0:08:03recently, I won't say where from, it eventually came delivered to my home
0:08:03 > 0:08:10in a sleeping bag! It is awful. There was a story a couple of days
0:08:10 > 0:08:15ago a woman who had ordered a pair of tights or something and there was
0:08:15 > 0:08:19about a mild slurp of cardboard packaging that came with it. It's
0:08:19 > 0:08:25crazy. -- a mile's worth of cardboard packaging.The FT talks
0:08:25 > 0:08:36about the budget. Hammond plunges extra £5 billion for budget
0:08:36 > 0:08:40spending. -- country is --
0:08:43 > 0:08:48. This is houses those wishing debt which has been reassigned.This is
0:08:48 > 0:08:51kind of an accounting benefit which the government has on its hands
0:08:51 > 0:08:57right now. The hope is that this budget will not be used for
0:08:57 > 0:09:04political gain but actually to set good growth orientated policy. We
0:09:04 > 0:09:11all know the UK is entering a moment of uncertainty. If I remember
0:09:11 > 0:09:15correctly unemployment was up for the first time in a while so one
0:09:15 > 0:09:18would hope the government would use this money to encourage growth
0:09:18 > 0:09:28instead of trying to make up for losses. But we still need extra
0:09:28 > 0:09:33housing which is where the thinking is this money might be spent.To
0:09:33 > 0:09:36encourage many more houses to be built and that would steal a march
0:09:36 > 0:09:42on what Labour have been criticising the Tories for.It would. I think
0:09:42 > 0:09:47Phillip Hammond is in a bit of a bind. He is under pressure from some
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Cabinet ministers like Sajid Javid who have said that we need tonnes
0:09:51 > 0:09:55more investment in house building and infrastructure. On the other
0:09:55 > 0:10:00side he has a lot of Brexiteers who are very much looking to hamstring
0:10:00 > 0:10:08him for anything they can in this budget and if he goes too far one
0:10:08 > 0:10:14way he risks damaging this reputation of fiscal responsibility
0:10:14 > 0:10:17that he spent seven years cultivating.Can he not get around
0:10:17 > 0:10:22that by saying that this money is no longer on the books of the Treasury
0:10:22 > 0:10:27or the Public accounts because it is housing associations and they are
0:10:27 > 0:10:34not part of the public sector?I guess he can. I just think he is in
0:10:34 > 0:10:37a very precarious position, especially given the disastrous
0:10:37 > 0:10:42budget of last year with his U-turn on national insurance for example.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46He had to climb down in a matter of days after the huge backlash. I
0:10:46 > 0:10:50think he is under a lot of pressure to get this right. Whether that will
0:10:50 > 0:10:57come off for him remains to be seen. Another story in the Independent.
0:10:57 > 0:11:04Budget sector to deliver council housing boost, local authorities who
0:11:04 > 0:11:07have traditionally been responsible for building council houses before
0:11:07 > 0:11:11housing associations became so prevalent, they are going to be
0:11:11 > 0:11:18allowed to borrow.I think they are struggling so much that there
0:11:18 > 0:11:22appears to be very little other options for them on the table. For
0:11:22 > 0:11:26local authorities it is not just housing that is causing the issue it
0:11:26 > 0:11:31is things like social care. They have a budget gap of billions in the
0:11:31 > 0:11:36coming years and I think something has got to be freed up in order to
0:11:36 > 0:11:42deliver these things.That is why we build them. We had Lord Adonis
0:11:42 > 0:11:46talking about this arc between Oxford and Cambridge and building
0:11:46 > 0:11:51hundreds of thousands of homes that would, according to his
0:11:51 > 0:11:55calculations, generate huge growth and prosperity and productivity.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59That would be great. I am a renter, I dream of owning a home, I don't
0:11:59 > 0:12:03know I will ever be able to afford it to anything the government can do
0:12:03 > 0:12:09to make buying a home easier I would be in favour of. Purely anecdotally
0:12:09 > 0:12:14and I would love to get your thoughts on this, I know that
0:12:14 > 0:12:19millenials do want to own homes and just as much as people of other
0:12:19 > 0:12:24generations but I think there are deeper issues that millenials worry
0:12:24 > 0:12:34about. The dig economy for instance. -- gig. There are other questions
0:12:34 > 0:12:39they want to ask, will my job be around in five years, will the
0:12:39 > 0:12:42economy be open to trade and the rest of the world? I would love to
0:12:42 > 0:12:46see more of a focus on those things. Housing is incredibly important that
0:12:46 > 0:12:51you are trying to capture the millenials vote, there are deeper
0:12:51 > 0:12:54structural things to look at as well.There is an awful lot of
0:12:54 > 0:13:00uncertainty. We don't know what our economy is going to look like in the
0:13:00 > 0:13:07next year even, certainly the next two years, post-Brexit. What does it
0:13:07 > 0:13:11look like post-Brexit? Nobody is able to give us a definitive answer
0:13:11 > 0:13:19on that at the moment.Is popular as it may be with people who live in
0:13:19 > 0:13:22that arc between Oxford and Cambridge, if it really is going to
0:13:22 > 0:13:26generate prosperity and jobs and homes, that is home-grown, isn't it?
0:13:26 > 0:13:31It doesn't depend on the rest of Europe or the world.That's true.
0:13:31 > 0:13:39Isn't it only like 7% of the land in the UK is actually built on.When
0:13:39 > 0:13:43you fly over you realise how unspoiled many paths are. That is
0:13:43 > 0:13:48not to say that people want to carry on spoiling those parts. But you
0:13:48 > 0:13:53have to live somewhere. It is a constant tension.And it is a
0:13:53 > 0:13:56difficult political game to play because nobody wants to hear, we're
0:13:56 > 0:14:01going to build loads of houses on the Green Belt for example. But at
0:14:01 > 0:14:06some point some bold decisions will have to be made. There is an awful
0:14:06 > 0:14:10lot of spare land that we have and I think it could be utilised better.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14It is about building the right kind of homes.The right kind and the
0:14:14 > 0:14:17infrastructure that can support them. I am from California and I
0:14:17 > 0:14:22have seen so many massive mansion housing community is essentially
0:14:22 > 0:14:29built in a desert. The hope is that certainly to expand but to be spot
0:14:29 > 0:14:36about it -- are smart about it.In the times, they say that Google is
0:14:36 > 0:14:42making millions of pounds from advertising around videos that we
0:14:42 > 0:14:45fight immensely disturbing and we do not understand why anybody would
0:14:45 > 0:14:50want to make these and watch them. These are some disgusting piece of
0:14:50 > 0:14:55content. This story talks about a seven-year-old girl bleeding from
0:14:55 > 0:14:59the mouth and crying after losing a tooth. You can't understand why
0:14:59 > 0:15:05anybody would want to watch this sort of thing. This is going to play
0:15:05 > 0:15:10into the idea of a tech backlash that we are starting to see. In the
0:15:10 > 0:15:13financial crisis these large companies almost seemed like
0:15:13 > 0:15:17saviours, innovators who could essentially do no wrong but now with
0:15:17 > 0:15:23issues like content policing, Russian meddling in social media
0:15:23 > 0:15:27platforms, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, people are taking a more
0:15:27 > 0:15:32sceptical view.Perhaps the things that will concentrate the mind of
0:15:32 > 0:15:38the company is that when advertisers start withdrawing these adverts.Of
0:15:38 > 0:15:42course and obviously our systems and the way we deal with issues that
0:15:42 > 0:15:46arise online have not quite caught up with the speed of technology and
0:15:46 > 0:15:52the growth of the Internet itself. However, if you put up a song on
0:15:52 > 0:15:55YouTube and you don't have the copyright for it, it is taken down
0:15:55 > 0:16:02within minutes if not seconds. They are so hot on that. The idea that
0:16:02 > 0:16:06these big tech giants could not develop a system where they could
0:16:06 > 0:16:12more easily tackle this extremist or really horrible and distasteful
0:16:12 > 0:16:15content, I'm not sure I buy it.If that is your business, you have got
0:16:15 > 0:16:23to have that facility. Looking at the Daily Telegraph, you did not
0:16:23 > 0:16:29think you could get away without a Brexit story? EU threat to withhold
0:16:29 > 0:16:35Thatcher's rebate. This is the rebate they have been heralding all
0:16:35 > 0:16:38these years to get money back from the fact that we contribute to the
0:16:38 > 0:16:47EU. Why might it be withheld?It is more wrangling over money. It is the
0:16:47 > 0:16:52divorce bill. We cannot move forward with any trade negotiations as we
0:16:52 > 0:16:58know until the divorce Bill is settled. It says here that senior
0:16:58 > 0:17:05sources believe... It says negotiations over the bill which the
0:17:05 > 0:17:10EU sets at 60 billion are still not settled if the UK would receive the
0:17:10 > 0:17:13payment as part of a final settlement when it leaves the EU in
0:17:13 > 0:17:25March 2019. I don't know how much this means to real people! We can
0:17:25 > 0:17:31try to make it real. I'm looking at it and obviously...Isn't the
0:17:31 > 0:17:37message I suppose that Britain is not putting enough money on the
0:17:37 > 0:17:40table and the EU is saying, if you don't put enough money, we will keep
0:17:40 > 0:17:45back the money you would have expected to get?That's right.How
0:17:45 > 0:17:48that matters to an ordinary person who is not bothered about the
0:17:48 > 0:17:55machinations of all of this, maybe the EU is doing what they have said
0:17:55 > 0:17:58they always do and some people don't like that, the fact that in some
0:17:58 > 0:18:05people's views they are being mean about it.I guess I'm struggling to
0:18:05 > 0:18:08tease out the new information here because it is obviously more
0:18:08 > 0:18:14financial wrangling. I think David Davis has tried to claw back the
0:18:14 > 0:18:19rhetoric a little bit with his speech this week where he basically
0:18:19 > 0:18:22said that the EU need to convert might as well and you can't get
0:18:22 > 0:18:27something for nothing but how much of an effect is having, not sure
0:18:27 > 0:18:28that's what it needs to compromise.
0:18:31 > 0:18:36Just looking at this front page, it looks like it's from 1980 to! I
0:18:36 > 0:18:44can't imagine the last time the word Thatcher was used in the third line
0:18:44 > 0:18:49of a lead story.It is the Daily Telegraph!But it is playing into
0:18:49 > 0:18:56readers emotions. Let's say you are a Brexit supporter, which I'm not,
0:18:56 > 0:19:01but if you are, you want to have a very good negotiating tactic with
0:19:01 > 0:19:06Brussels to try to get the best deal you can also you need to stay
0:19:06 > 0:19:10clear-headed, thinking about Margaret Thatcher's rebate, which is
0:19:10 > 0:19:15a small amount of money, is probably going to distract you.But very
0:19:15 > 0:19:23symbolic for a lot of people.True. Let's finish with a nice dog story.
0:19:23 > 0:19:30Get a dog and live longer. We knew that having certain types of pets
0:19:30 > 0:19:38was good for you but not quite as good.What's not to like? It's a
0:19:38 > 0:19:41lovely dog. I think there is definitely something in that as an
0:19:41 > 0:19:45animal lover and a pet owner.You can cut the risk of heart disease by
0:19:45 > 0:19:53up to 36%.I am not a pet owner, I am a dog fan! I have heard that
0:19:53 > 0:19:59somebody might be a cat fan.You can like both!I think you are one or
0:19:59 > 0:20:09the other. If you had to come down? Cat.
0:20:09 > 0:20:14We have the nasty as to cat in the world but the sweetest dog! That is
0:20:14 > 0:20:18it for tonight. Don't forget that you can see the front pages of the
0:20:18 > 0:20:21papers online on the BBC News website which is there for you seven
0:20:21 > 0:20:27days a week. If you missed the programme any evening you can watch
0:20:27 > 0:20:33it later on the iPlayer. Charlie and Kate, thank you for coming in.
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