23/11/2017 The Papers

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Jason Beattie is with us, and Ian

Martin, columnist for The Times

newspapers. Don't be fooled, their

blue shirts may be all they have in

common. The Metro leader to a story

about a potentially lethal drug use

by date rapists targeting women. The

express says a cure for cancer could

be ready to test on patients next

year. The FT FrontPage deals how

British Gas owner Centrica suffered

its worst single day of stock market

loss due to problems with the US and

UK arms. The Mirror leads with the

announcement that the links between

heading in footballing brain damage

will begin in January. The Sun says

that have suspended betting on the

wedding between Prince Harry and

Meagan Markle. Brussels is repaired

to increase the so-called divorce

Bill offered to get trade talks

talking according to the Telegraph.

The Guardian is reporting about the

warning from the think tank the IFF

about slowing living standards. That

dominates The i, saying we are

having the biggest fall in living

standards for a generation. That is

where we will begin. The UK facing

two decades of loss wage growth. ISS

predicting a slowdown leading to a

prolonged period of austerity.

Things seem to be going quite well

for Philip Hammond compared to

previous budgets. Where it fell

apart over the dementia tax.

Along

come the ISS. Politically he has

saved his job. The budget could have

been a real disaster. -- IFS. They

paint a bleak picture about what the

next few years could look like. I

would add a word of caution about

what the IFS says. Long history of

these predictions being run down the

years. Gordon Brown in 2007

sketching out a great picture of how

things would be brilliant in 2009,

economies are dynamic. The global

situation, Brexit.

The uncertainty

over Brexit will be causing a lot of

wobbles for people.

The golden rule

with these kind of studies, when

they support your argument, the

highly respected think tank, when

they do not, they are just experts.

That is the big problem. Looking at

the Office for Budget

Responsibility, doing the forecast

yesterday. Flat-lining growth over

the next five years. Brexit was

taken out of the equation. They do

not know what is going to happen. It

is not forecasted. We are in limbo.

It is a very new phenomenon. Going

back to 25 years ago. Before that

budgets did not contain very much.

About even the next year.

Assumptions of all sorts of things

going right or going wrong.

Sometimes things go it unexpectedly

right or the economy. A recession

was predicted for this year

according to the Treasury's

assessment Brexit, did not happen.

The government is in a bind. It does

not want to be spending a great deal

of money, because they would like to

maintain some form of austerity. To

keep the economy going, to stimulate

growth, if you are going to invest

in infrastructure, you have to spend

cash. You have the problem of the

Conservative Party, they have

backbenchers who want German levels

of public services.

They have other

backbenchers, the right wing ones,

who want Bermuda levels of taxes.

They are incompatible. This argument

taking place among the Tories at the

moment. They are in all sorts of

contortions, they don't know how to

get out of the problem. At the same

time you have Corbin promising the

world. Yes we will raise taxes, we

will give you first-class public

services. Giving people a pay rise.

Helping public sector workers,

investing in the NHS. We are

reaching a tipping point. People are

starting to think I would prefer the

pain of paying a bit more in tax. To

the pain of having bad public

services, seeing people struggle on

welfare, Universal Credit not

working. As this says, the endless

misery of stagnant wages.

You cannot

spend all that money and have

top-class services and pay off the

deficit?

No, people's expectations

are realistic. If taxes rise, not

going to have a stimulating effect

on the economy if the tax burden is

set to be pretty high as it is

anyway. That will not make Britain

competitive. The only way is for us

to grow our way out of it.

Which is

difficult when we have the worst

productivity since Napoleonic times.

The ABI figures are predicated on

that essentially continuing. Britain

has underperformed on productivity.

Certainly true.

Sometimes things

surprise you on the upside. In the

Eurozone things are booming. Jobs

growth, factory orders reaching 17

year highs.

To rub it in. As we were

told yesterday by the Chancellor,

rattling through growth figures so

bad he did not want to say them

slowly. We now have a Brexit turned

down. We don't know how long that

will be, we are ready into it.

Across the Channel, they are doing

very well. Results that are the best

for 6.5 years.

Greece is still in

the bind. He mixed picture, no doubt

there is a recovery. Not an

exaggeration to talk about it as

parts of the Eurozone booming.

Personally that will be good for

Britain as well. A successful

Eurozone is in everyone's interest.

We're not leaving a corpse, as some

Brexiteers said. That is true.

If

you go back five years looking in

the difficulty of the Eurozone was

in during the crisis. You would

always get these moments. Cycles.

Europe doing so, the EU doing better

is a good thing.

The Daily

Telegraph. May be used to break

Brexit impasse?

Good luck with that.

Raising the amount of money? We knew

this was going to happen. They had a

meeting in a Cabinet subcommittee.

Boris Johnson, Liam Fox, David

Davis, Michael Gove excepting we

were going to have to increase the

amount we put on the table to grease

a part.

Like episode of The Law No

Deal. -- Deal Or No Deal.

They said

they want citizens write Cecil,

Northern Ireland settle. I do think

that will be a problem when they

meet tomorrow, with Donald Tusk. A

divorce deal is possible. The real

problem is Northern Ireland. That is

where the bust up will be. That is

where they have an intractable

problem. Having real trouble

breaking the deadlock.

Jason is

right. The government was starting

to feel quite confident going into

this key decision point in the

middle of December. About whether it

goes forward to talk about trade,

stage two. Almost from neighbour,

Ireland has become a problem,

dissipated, but really serious

problem. Potentially giving may be

President Macron, one of the other

members of the 27 an excuse or

chance to save actually we're not

ready to go forward. They were

pretty optimistic in the last week

two.

Ireland went wanted to go

forward either. They will want to

have more certainty.

The risk they

then play, if they have overplayed a

strong hand. You get to a situation

where if you get through Christmas

and nothing is really happened

during January 's wiped out. The

risk is, the British government had

to start saying Iran February or

March, this does not look like it

will happen, start planning for no

Deal.

Daily Telegraph, switch off

cameras in smart toys. Christmas not

far away.

Have you included this to

make me feel old?

Not doing a great

deal for me either.

When my kids

were going up they got very simple

toys, cuddly teddy bears. Now we

have these machines are connected to

the Internet. They had cameras. I am

boggled by this.

My daughter who is

13, some time ago but a piece of

tape across the camera at the

computer at home saying no one could

hack into us. I wish we were doing

something interesting. It is a

point. People can hijack the

cameras, remotely.

The serious

point, we have been through the

early stages of the technological

revolution is a wonderful things it

can do. The evidences, consumers are

starting to work out a lot of the

stuff is about tracking them,

tracking behaviour. Collecting data.

The real problem is the only people

who understand technology other

children. If you want to fix this,

ask your kids.

Daily Mirror. The FA

launches probe into the link between

heading footballs and dementia. This

seems overdue. Your paper has had a

role in bringing this to our

attention.

We have been campaigning

on this. It came out of nowhere.

Suddenly looking at the World Cup

1996 heroes. Three of them have got

dementia. We started asking more

questions. We have had 375 former

players having possible signs of

dementia. Alan Shearer did a

documentary for the BBC. He said the

governing bodies were trying to

sweep it under the carpet. We kept

pressing. Good on the FA. They are

going to launch the study. We're not

entirely sure if there is a definite

link. The evidence points that way

will stop if we can get a scientific

study and it proves it. Overseas

purple, they're not as heavy as they

were years ago. Players can start

thinking about what they are doing.

Concerns about other contact sports.

Boxing the obvious one. Rugby, head

injuries this that is true,

particularly on the football thing.

Of concern to a lot of parents. They

had kids playing sport.

So many

players. I think it is an example of

really good, old-fashioned, proper

tabloid campaigning. Really going at

an issue. Getting some movement. It

is what they do with the research?

Once you have the evidence, or

proof, you need, somebody needs to

be bold.

You don't not wrap kids up

in cotton wool. If there are simple

things you can do, wearing a skull

cap. That is not stop them having

fun, stop people playing football.

Makes sense.

It hurts.

Let's see the

research.

It will start in January?

Conducted at a Scottish university.

Proper big study. Good news.

Pantomime season is almost upon us.

A lot of fairy stories get turned

into pantos. Sorry, you cannot wake

sleeping beauty with a kiss? She has

not given consent. A woman by the

name is Sarah Hall, she wants her

son's school to ban the classic

story.

Her argument is a traditional

understanding of gender roles, being

reinforced here, the express

regarding it as political

correctness,. Example of how crazy

the world would be. I do think,

cerebral, the person who made the

complaint to the school, it should

be noted, as it is towards the end

of the story, in public relations,

standing as president of the

chartered Institute of public

relations. Getting a page lead in

the Daily Express. She should

properly win.

There is a counter

view from the chairman for the

campaign of real education. He says

the Prince is resuscitating her with

the case. I was opposed to try and

tell children not to say somebody?

I'm going to send very boringly PC.

If you look at fairy stories, the

women characters are either Crohn's,

hags and which is, or simpering

princesses. Maybe we should have

straight slightly stronger female

role models, as a father of three

daughters.

You seem work out some

chilly nobody Zane Duquemin rescue

you. You are on your own. Do I sound

bitter? Not at all. You can see the

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