17/11/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Charlie Wells,

Deputy Snapchat editor

at the Economist and the Huffington

Post's political

reporter, Kate Forrester.

Welcome to you both. It was not long

ago to have been a reporter on the

Huffington Post was pretty out

there!

It was quite new but not now!

What is a Snapchat editor?

I write

and produce with a small team a

weekly edition on Snapchat's

Discover platform. The Economist has

been around for 174 years, Snapchat

for six and in the past few years

they have had a platform where

publishers can put their content, it

is an invite only ecosystem, and we

create video content, repurposed old

articles, write new pieces for the

platform and we see it as a great

way of getting our journalists have

helped to millions are particularly

young people who are consuming news

on their phones.

Does it bring them

to the more traditional forms of the

Economist?

We definitely see this as

a long game. It is a nice gateway

for showing even people -- young

people who might not be familiar

with the economist who we are. It

would be great if eventually they

want to continue reading on the

website or subscribe to the

magazine.

They always say that we're

to train children for jobs that

don't exist any more and I doubt

yours existed? Definitely not. Yours

certainly didn't!

Definitely not! It

has been such a fascinating

experience. It is a testament to the

Economist's willingness to try a new

digital platforms.

I job did exist

when I was a school, let's hope it

stays around for a bit longer but

you never know! Thank you for that.

I hope you don't mind us having a

little diversion.

Tomorrow's front pages.

Starting with...

The Financial Times reports

the London Stock Exchange Group

is considering whether to publish

a dossier on the behaviour

of its chief executive

in defence of accusations

they forced him to resign.

The Times says Google has

made millions of pounds

in advertising from videos that

exploit young children on YouTube.

It also features prominently a photo

of Zimbabwe's president

Robert Mugabe emerging from house

arrest in Harare.

The i says a tax

on takeaway plastic,

like food boxes and coffee cups,

could be introduced

when the government announces

its budget next week.

The Daily Mirror reports

on a father's fight

to clear his name after he punched

an intruder in his home.

The Telegraph says

Europe is threatening

to withhold Britain's final rebate

payment of five billion euros

as part of negotiations

over the Brext Bill.

The Sun claims an exclusive

on the controversy

surrounding pornography found

on Damien Green's

computer at Westminster.

It says content is violent

and would have been illegal

if found a week later.

It also says it is unclear

who downloaded the material.

The Daily Mail has

the story of British

explorer Benedict Allen,

who was rescued from

a Papua New Guinea jungle

after going missing

on an expedition.

And the Guardian says parents

who divorce could be

denied access to their children

if they try to turn

one against the other.

Three stories connected to the

budget which of course is only a

matter of days away. Take away

plastic to be taxed, this is in

lured, things like single use cups

-- this is in the i.

It is such a

big part of life, everybody is used

to seeing it and it is quite a big

change. On paper it might seem quite

a big step but if you look at

similar measures that have been

taken in the past, the 5p tax on

plastic bags for example, when that

was brought in everybody thought

that was going to be a pain and to

be honest it has gone off without a

hitch. Everybody has that used to

it. You take your bags out shopping

and it has cut the number of plastic

bags being thrown away by a don't

know exactly how much but a lot I

believe. It is great news for

environmental campaigners who are

all delighted. But I think it'll

take a bit more than raising the

price of a cabal to be a successful

budget.

I suppose the difference is

that whilst you know you are going

shopping, you might take a bag with

you but if you are going to take

away, do you take a plate with you

the Miz it ties into this

interesting idea of nudges which are

taking off over the past few years

in behavioural economics.

Governments will try to set policies

that make people make a little

change, something manageable. The

exciting thing about this is that it

could perhaps raise people's

economic DAC -- ecological

consciousness. Thinking about the

impact of your plastic utensils you

might make other changes. I know

that these forks are causing a

problem, I should probably turn off

the lights as well and think about

the impacts of my consumption.

And

it is not just landfill, we are

seeing these videos of divers in the

sea and as far as you can look to

the horizon there is miles of

plastic bottles floating in the ward

and killing marine life.

It is

really depressing and especially

with Blue Planet being on at the

moment, everybody is looking at how

beautiful the ocean is and how

fantastic all this marine life is

and it is obviously being choked by

tonnes of rubbish.

The Economist on

Snapchat actually did an edition on

this!

Shameless!

We did an edition

on plastic and fascinatingly, there

has been research that there are new

forms of life for Ming in some of

these plastic colonies in the ocean.

-- forming. It seems we are entering

an age in which humans are changing

life on the planet significantly.

There was the famous experiment of

recording in industrial Britain

moths changing their wing patterns

to fit in with city walls. Murder

somebody will correct me and tell me

I have got my biology one -- no

doubt somebody will correct me. In

America you have brown paper bags

rather than plastic bags, don't you?

You can recycle bad but still the

recycling is going to take energy

resources as well so I think the

more people can cut down on this the

better. It speaks to this larger

problem of the delivery ecosystem in

places like London and New York,

places like China, everybody is

getting everything delivered.

Governments need to update policies

to manage this growing ecosystem.

You can buy something quite small

and it comes with all that

packaging.

I ordered something

recently, I won't say where from, it

eventually came delivered to my home

in a sleeping bag! It is awful.

There was a story a couple of days

ago a woman who had ordered a pair

of tights or something and there was

about a mild slurp of cardboard

packaging that came with it. It's

crazy. -- a mile's worth of

cardboard packaging.

The FT talks

about the budget. Hammond plunges

extra £5 billion for budget

spending. -- country is --

. This is houses those wishing debt

which has been reassigned.

This is

kind of an accounting benefit which

the government has on its hands

right now. The hope is that this

budget will not be used for

political gain but actually to set

good growth orientated policy. We

all know the UK is entering a moment

of uncertainty. If I remember

correctly unemployment was up for

the first time in a while so one

would hope the government would use

this money to encourage growth

instead of trying to make up for

losses. But we still need extra

housing which is where the thinking

is this money might be spent.

To

encourage many more houses to be

built and that would steal a march

on what Labour have been criticising

the Tories for.

It would. I think

Phillip Hammond is in a bit of a

bind. He is under pressure from some

Cabinet ministers like Sajid Javid

who have said that we need tonnes

more investment in house building

and infrastructure. On the other

side he has a lot of Brexiteers who

are very much looking to hamstring

him for anything they can in this

budget and if he goes too far one

way he risks damaging this

reputation of fiscal responsibility

that he spent seven years

cultivating.

Can he not get around

that by saying that this money is no

longer on the books of the Treasury

or the Public accounts because it is

housing associations and they are

not part of the public sector?

I

guess he can. I just think he is in

a very precarious position,

especially given the disastrous

budget of last year with his U-turn

on national insurance for example.

He had to climb down in a matter of

days after the huge backlash. I

think he is under a lot of pressure

to get this right. Whether that will

come off for him remains to be seen.

Another story in the Independent.

Budget sector to deliver council

housing boost, local authorities who

have traditionally been responsible

for building council houses before

housing associations became so

prevalent, they are going to be

allowed to borrow.

I think they are

struggling so much that there

appears to be very little other

options for them on the table. For

local authorities it is not just

housing that is causing the issue it

is things like social care. They

have a budget gap of billions in the

coming years and I think something

has got to be freed up in order to

deliver these things.

That is why we

build them. We had Lord Adonis

talking about this arc between

Oxford and Cambridge and building

hundreds of thousands of homes that

would, according to his

calculations, generate huge growth

and prosperity and productivity.

That would be great. I am a renter,

I dream of owning a home, I don't

know I will ever be able to afford

it to anything the government can do

to make buying a home easier I would

be in favour of. Purely anecdotally

and I would love to get your

thoughts on this, I know that

millenials do want to own homes and

just as much as people of other

generations but I think there are

deeper issues that millenials worry

about. The dig economy for instance.

-- gig. There are other questions

they want to ask, will my job be

around in five years, will the

economy be open to trade and the

rest of the world? I would love to

see more of a focus on those things.

Housing is incredibly important that

you are trying to capture the

millenials vote, there are deeper

structural things to look at as

well.

There is an awful lot of

uncertainty. We don't know what our

economy is going to look like in the

next year even, certainly the next

two years, post-Brexit. What does it

look like post-Brexit? Nobody is

able to give us a definitive answer

on that at the moment.

Is popular as

it may be with people who live in

that arc between Oxford and

Cambridge, if it really is going to

generate prosperity and jobs and

homes, that is home-grown, isn't it?

It doesn't depend on the rest of

Europe or the world.

That's true.

Isn't it only like 7% of the land in

the UK is actually built on.

When

you fly over you realise how

unspoiled many paths are. That is

not to say that people want to carry

on spoiling those parts. But you

have to live somewhere. It is a

constant tension.

And it is a

difficult political game to play

because nobody wants to hear, we're

going to build loads of houses on

the Green Belt for example. But at

some point some bold decisions will

have to be made. There is an awful

lot of spare land that we have and I

think it could be utilised better.

It is about building the right kind

of homes.

The right kind and the

infrastructure that can support

them. I am from California and I

have seen so many massive mansion

housing community is essentially

built in a desert. The hope is that

certainly to expand but to be spot

about it -- are smart about it.

In

the times, they say that Google is

making millions of pounds from

advertising around videos that we

fight immensely disturbing and we do

not understand why anybody would

want to make these and watch them.

These are some disgusting piece of

content. This story talks about a

seven-year-old girl bleeding from

the mouth and crying after losing a

tooth. You can't understand why

anybody would want to watch this

sort of thing. This is going to play

into the idea of a tech backlash

that we are starting to see. In the

financial crisis these large

companies almost seemed like

saviours, innovators who could

essentially do no wrong but now with

issues like content policing,

Russian meddling in social media

platforms, YouTube, Facebook,

Twitter, people are taking a more

sceptical view.

Perhaps the things

that will concentrate the mind of

the company is that when advertisers

start withdrawing these adverts.

Of

course and obviously our systems and

the way we deal with issues that

arise online have not quite caught

up with the speed of technology and

the growth of the Internet itself.

However, if you put up a song on

YouTube and you don't have the

copyright for it, it is taken down

within minutes if not seconds. They

are so hot on that. The idea that

these big tech giants could not

develop a system where they could

more easily tackle this extremist or

really horrible and distasteful

content, I'm not sure I buy it.

If

that is your business, you have got

to have that facility. Looking at

the Daily Telegraph, you did not

think you could get away without a

Brexit story? EU threat to withhold

Thatcher's rebate. This is the

rebate they have been heralding all

these years to get money back from

the fact that we contribute to the

EU. Why might it be withheld?

It is

more wrangling over money. It is the

divorce bill. We cannot move forward

with any trade negotiations as we

know until the divorce Bill is

settled. It says here that senior

sources believe... It says

negotiations over the bill which the

EU sets at 60 billion are still not

settled if the UK would receive the

payment as part of a final

settlement when it leaves the EU in

March 2019. I don't know how much

this means to real people! We can

try to make it real. I'm looking at

it and obviously...

Isn't the

message I suppose that Britain is

not putting enough money on the

table and the EU is saying, if you

don't put enough money, we will keep

back the money you would have

expected to get?

That's right.

How

that matters to an ordinary person

who is not bothered about the

machinations of all of this, maybe

the EU is doing what they have said

they always do and some people don't

like that, the fact that in some

people's views they are being mean

about it.

I guess I'm struggling to

tease out the new information here

because it is obviously more

financial wrangling. I think David

Davis has tried to claw back the

rhetoric a little bit with his

speech this week where he basically

said that the EU need to convert

might as well and you can't get

something for nothing but how much

of an effect is having, not sure

that's what it needs to compromise.

Just looking at this front page, it

looks like it's from 1980 to! I

can't imagine the last time the word

Thatcher was used in the third line

of a lead story.

It is the Daily

Telegraph!

But it is playing into

readers emotions. Let's say you are

a Brexit supporter, which I'm not,

but if you are, you want to have a

very good negotiating tactic with

Brussels to try to get the best deal

you can also you need to stay

clear-headed, thinking about

Margaret Thatcher's rebate, which is

a small amount of money, is probably

going to distract you.

But very

symbolic for a lot of people.

True.

Let's finish with a nice dog story.

Get a dog and live longer. We knew

that having certain types of pets

was good for you but not quite as

good.

What's not to like? It's a

lovely dog. I think there is

definitely something in that as an

animal lover and a pet owner.

You

can cut the risk of heart disease by

up to 36%.

I am not a pet owner, I

am a dog fan! I have heard that

somebody might be a cat fan.

You can

like both!

I think you are one or

the other. If you had to come down?

Cat.

We have the nasty as to cat in the

world but the sweetest dog! That is

it for tonight. Don't forget that

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