07/12/2017 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Michael Booker,

Deputy Editor of the Daily Express

and Lainy Malkani,

journalist and author.

Tomorrow's front pages.

Starting with...

The Financial Times that says

Bitcoin prices on the biggest

exchanges diverged wildly in a

session that exposed the fragile

trading infrastructure of the

currency.ened The Times: Ready to

work through the night to reach a

compromise on the Irish border

issue. And the Daily Mail: And

comments that British terrorists

should be killed.

And the Garde: A report by the

Government's spending watchdog that

students are failed by universities

in England with one in three saying

that they receive value for money.

And the Daily Mirror carries a royal

exclusive, Megan Markle's dad says

he would love to give his daughter

away. And the #k7 Daily Express and

Arctic weathers with subzero

temperatures likely to last

throughout the week next week. Let's

start with the Telegraph.

EU expects May to sign a deal today.

Everyone was expecting on Monday

that the break through would occur.

Very excited, the bunting is out. As

it says here, barring last-minute

slip-ups. We have seen a few before.

One in here, again it is talking

about the signing off with the DUP.

As we found out on Monday that is a

key thing. So Theresa May is working

through the night. The Telegraph

have done it in a benign way. Saying

it is calm and fine. Them being a

Brexit newspaper. Donald Tusk to be

talking before the markets open at

6.50am. But it does seem as though

there is news on a deal. We have

agreed £50 billion and the residence

rights for the I nationals and now

the Irish problem but they seem to

have gotten somewhere with.

The key words are what you pointed

out "barring" that is the caveat. As

we don't know. We know they are work

through the night. The Times, the

Financial Times head lines uses

three Fs in the first two

paragraphs, frantic, frenetic, that

Theresa May is being forced into

talks and she may or may not be

going to Brussels tomorrow. So it is

frantic and frenetic but...

That is

the difference between the Telegraph

but everything is calm with the FT.

Brussels is having its arm twisted

but dealing with the DUP. There was

a source who told the Sun that they

will not blink as we have taken our

eyelids off. That is how tough they

are.

It was surprising on Monday that

things had not been squared off with

the DUP, you think they might have

talked with them in advance?

That is

right. You wonder what is going on

behind the scenes. The public

persona that it is calm, that it is

under control and the discussions

are going ahead but behind the

scenes what is happening. If the DUP

were not aware. If Theresa May had

to come out of that lunch at the

time to have the conversations, if

the DUP had to then make their own

statement, basically, telling us all

that they are not satisfied with the

talks.

To be fair they have looked

hapless at times. But this is

unchartered territory. We have never

had to deal with something as big as

this for a long time. On both sides,

it is easy for the EU to be

intransigent. So what you have to

remember, this is a deal to get a

deal. We are not anywhere yet!

We

are read being deals and deadlines,

people thinking it is sorted but it

is a deal to just start talking

about trade.

Exactly. What was interesting,

yesterday when the EU said that they

were working until Sunday, the

working week goes up until Sunday so

that this means this could go up to

the wire.

Eurocrats working at the weekend!

And the true deadline...

That is

March 2019. So they are putting the

pressure on. But the truth is

between the calmness of the Daily

Telegraph and the frantic nature of

the FT but it is in there for

goodness knows how long to come.

And the other story on the front

page of the FT, a company reporting

zero gender pay gaps that are

inaccurate. Companies are not

telling the truth about what this

epay?

Yes, one in 20 companies have

submitted gender pay figures and

looked at it and said that they are

improbable, therefore, inaccurate.

But the companies if they have more

than 250 employees they have to

submit the figures to see the

differences in the pay gaps,

submitting the mind the median

figures. They have been putting them

in, they are the same. The

statisticians are saying this is

untrue. Impossible. So they are

either one that they are lying, two,

they don't know the mean and the

median, or three, they don't care

about it.

Or four, they don't think

they would be found out. To me, if

you put forward figures to say this

is what you are doing, the reality

of the situation, as we have seen in

the run up to this, that there is a

massive gender pay gap. Women are

pushing the boundaries, saying this

must stop. So that is to me the

fourth dimension. They thought that

they would not be found out.

So you get the impression that they

are not taking it seriously. So what

does the Government do, name and

shame us, we will go away but there

are no penalties.

But openness and honesty about the

figures is crucial to the process?

It is. Hugo Boss, they it had theirs

pointed out it was unequal but then

that there was a 32% pay gap.

Now the Mail. The fuss about the

Mail's headline yesterday with the

interview with the new Defence

Secretary, talking about them

killing British jihadis is: I will

not back down headline in the

morning? It is the sort of thing

that the right-wing readers want to

hear it. A lot will be happy to see

that happen, given the terrorism

happening on our shores. Gavin

Williams is trying to talk tough.

Setting the stall out early on.

There has been a back lash, as they

are saying in the Mail, enraged

liberals. Not everyone likes to see

slaughter. That is fair enough. But

they are saying that they are

legitimate targets for military

strikes.

What's the alternative? February

they are detained, what happens

then? They cannot be killed in me

are detained, can they. I am

wondering whether or not he is

sending out a message, as you said,

he is new in the job. He is now

sending a message to say he is

tough.

Snow

If he said we will let them in

the country and everything would be

fine, there would be an up roar. So

he is going the other way. Saying

that they are legitimate and

therefore a threat.

And senior public prosecutions and

so on have raced questions about

whether or not it would be legal to

actually kill people who have gone

out to join IS?

That's it. What are

the circumstances but as he is

talking in big headlines and he

wants to show he is a tough guy, we

don't know about the detail what he

means. This will go down well with

Mail readers and others, as he is

saying he is not backing down. We

have had it this week with the

failings in the MI5 MI5, the

terrorist attacks where a lot of

people have died.

And is there a

message, about him saying he will

not back down in terms of Brexit and

has May backed down?

Well, he does

want to be the Prime Minister

eventually. A lot of politicians

have that idea.

Goodness me, now the Times the

Bitcoin bonanza takes hold of the

wormed markets? Laney?

I didn't know

hot air cost so much. What are

Bitcoins. It is a cryptow currency

that people are getting excited

about and spending up to £20,000

just for one wit coin but I'm not

sure. I had a conversation with a

student who was thinking of buying

into the crypto currency. There are

others on the markets but I just

find the whole thing, there is

nothing tangible. I'm not sure where

you spend your Bitcoins, and also

the volatility in the markets in

terms of worth.

It is massive.

Bitcoins are doing

better than the pound?

They are but

it looks like it will be a bubble.

I heard earlier on the BBC, somebody

being interviewed, it is the fear of

missing out. They are piling money

into it, as they are seeing others

piling money into it. The bubble

will burst.

Robert Skiller has told the Times it

will crash. There is a warning.

Good luck everyone.

-- Robert Schiller.

Now, Gordon Ramsey, he is

complaining that too many are coming

into the restaurant complaining that

they are intolerant of gluten,

wheat, garlic or tomato.

It says here that 50 customers -- in

Raymond Blanc's restaurant, that 50

customers come in with issues over

food. The reality is if you have

allergies, you have allergies, no

chef wants to put themselves in a

position where they have a customer

who has turned ill because of a

result of this.

It can be serious.

He is talking

about people who are saying that

they are gassy when they have eggs,

which I'm sure a lot of people do.

But he says it is part of the trendy

eating culture. I suppose if they

are 50 customers, getting their

bespoke dishes from Raymond Blanc,

you would feel rather special.

He is a Michelin starred chef,

surely he can cope?

As customers we

are demanding the things we want. It

is not cheap to eat in a two-star

Michelin restaurant.

It maybing showing that food in this

country has changed so much that

people are, there are so many things

in food making us ill, that people

don't know what good food is

anymore, they haven't tasted it. You

can see why people are going in

there, saying that they have

intolerances, as we are being fed a

load of old rubbish!

Now, your

paper, the Express, just for a

change has talked about the weather.

We talk about Brexit as well!

Look

at this headline, freezing chaos!

Well a lot of our readers are 60

plus. They don't live down here in

trendy media London land, living in

nice heated homes, many can't afford

to heat their homes over winter.

They need to know what it will be

like. Lurks travel, there will be

chaos over the next few days, it

will be very, very cold.

I think you

are right. We can mock the idea of

chaos, snow, all of the rest of it,

it's going to be minus 12 in parts.

In some parts it will be snowing and

it does affect a lot of people. Old

people can't leave their homes as a

result of it. So I hear you.

And you

get nice pictures.

Everyone likes to see a nice bit of

snow.

And as we are coming up to

Christmas, it's a nice festive

paper!

Michael and Laney, thank you

both very much indeed. That's it for

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