28/12/2017 The Papers

investigating an alleged plot

for an attack over Christmas.

A 31-year-old man from

Chesterfield, and a 22-year-old

man from Sheffield,

will appear before magistrates

tomorrow.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are broadcaster,

David Davies, and journalist,

Dina Hamdy.

To the thank you very much for

coming in.

-- nice to have you both here.

Tomorrow's front

pages, starting with...

The Times, which reports

that the best paid family doctors

can earn up to £700,000

a year.

The Telegraph reports

that the Minister

for the Constitution has accused

Jeremy Corbyn of trying to rig

the next election by planning

to block proposed reforms

to constituency boundaries.

The i leads with a suggestion that

drunk revellers should be treated

in what it's described

as "drunk tanks", rather

than our hospitals.

The Guardian leads with an MP

warning social media

giants they could face sanctions

if they continue to stonewall

Parliament over Russian

interference in the Brexit vote.

The Daily Mail's front page

covers a study suggesting

Britain has a growing

problem with addiction

to prescription drugs.

The Financial Times says

worldwide merger and acquisitions

surpassed $3 trillion

this year.

The Mirror is launching

a campaign to end

charges in hospital carparks.

The Sun reports that UK

supermarkets will start selling

bacon that doesn't have

harmful added nitrites.

Let's start with the Guardian this

time and Facebook was sanctioned

over Russia in Quarry, not just

Facebook and Twitter as well. They

have not thought to be complying

with politicians who are looking

into alleged Russian interference.

No, they are not. They are allegedly

stonewalling and ignoring the

Parliamentary committee's requests

for information, when they have

submitted a lot of data to a similar

congressional hearing in America.

And they are now threatened with

unspecified sanctions, possibly

where it hurts, their revenue, their

advertising revenue, and of course

it is very bad PR if they keep being

hauled in for questioning every now

and then, in front of the

Parliamentary committee. But I think

the moral of the story for me, for

my personal opinion, is that their

days of monopoly, without liability,

unnumbered. I think that they will

not be able to... Attends to the

mutual platforms for long. They need

to... They will have to clarify

their algorithms at one point or

another, and how they come up with

the news and if it has been tweaked

to, they are acting as editors or

senses.

This is the point, isn't it?

They have always said that, we are

not publish here, we are not subject

to that sort of regulation, we at

just a digital platform.

Digital

platform, yeah. Well, I think they

are going to struggle to maintain

that position and in the middle of

this Guardian story as well, there

is a line that ministers are

understood to be concerned by the

company's attitude and could be

sympathetic to any request for

action, and that it will be very

interesting to see whether the

government itself takes a line on

all this. And having been provoked

into it, by Damian Collins's Select

Committee.

And if you look at it in

Europe, we are rather behind them.

Germany, for example, it is

Parliament has passed legislation

that could see these forms, these

giants, fined up to 50 million euros

if they do not take down hate speech

in a timely fashion.

So much gets

posted on these sites, and even with

the right will to do it, it would be

hard to keep track of all that

traffic, wouldn't it?

I think that

is right and it is very well to sit

as Little Englanders in this

situation and that is the -- this is

the absolute opposite, of course.

The evidence, and the way they gave

their evidence, do I compare the

Football Association which gave some

evidence to the same committee a few

weeks ago, it was almost an object

lesson in how not to give evidence

to a Select Committee.

A look at the

Times, snow and ice forecast to

bring more traffic chaos. Northern

England as well suffers with this

weather a lot more than we do down

here.

Well, you know, I come from a

tradition and heritage outside

London, where we sort of don't

expect much attention unless London

and the south-east sees no. And what

was that sentence about, that if

London should stay in but the

northerners should get a big coat.

-- snow. But I mean, this is serious

stuff, and some of us feel, we

declare our interest that we sat in

the European airport yesterday for

several hours and we have had an

apology today, it took 24 hours but

we got it, to get an apology today

from an airline whose first part of

its name is Easy, and I will leave

you to fill in the other bits. What

they're doing at the moment is not

good enough and in 2018, it is not

to say I well, we can't afford to

help...

It is not a British problem

then, is it?

Well no, it was

actually a British problem because

at the end of the day, the staff for

this airline, British, were not able

to get out of England's two get to,

to come to Europe to bring English

people here.

Thank goodness you

hear.

Well, I am very relieved to be

here.

Thank you for bringing him to

us.

Thank you.

It says here that the

revellers were advised to bring

blankets, torches and shovels, it

does not sound very like a party, it

sounds like they are going to visit

a refugee camp.

Well, no, you might

get stuck in the snow. The Daily

Mirror, other MPs have noticed this

before, axe the hospital parking tax

on the six. It can be very expensive

if you are at the hospital as a

visitor or a patient. This campaign

has its origins, I think in Jeremy

Corbyn's proposal in May, where he

has called it a tax on serious

illness, and it is, people have to

pay a small fortunes to park their

cars, including not only the family

of the six what nurses and NHS

practitioners, up to £100 per month.

And that is just exorbitant.

It did

not used to be this way, did it?

Well, I think that you are going

back a long way to when it was...

I

have long memories.

Well, you may

have long memory, perhaps even even

longer one than me. I don't know is

true, I am certain it isn't. What is

happening is that charges have got

way, way out of kilter and they have

got to such a level in places like

the West Midlands that people have

said enough is enough. Now, it will

be very interesting to see how the

government reacts, if it reacts at

all, because to actually stop

hospital trusts from putting up

these charges will need, one

suspects, legislation.

Yeah, and

there will be a gap of £175 million

that will need raising to do it. The

Guardian, the back page this time.

When I am racially abused, I just

want to be alone and left to think

about it. This is Rhian Brewster,

who is one of the England under 17

winners and he feels frustrated that

there is not enough action against

racism by authorities stop loop this

is an extraordinary interview, a

huge credit to him and the Liverpool

Football Club. I cannot think of

anything comparable in recent times.

-- this is. With a 17-year-old

player, who has never actually paid

for the senior team in Liverpool yet

but he has played for England very

successfully, the England under 17

team, and he is talking about seven

occasions when he says he has been

racially abused or witnessed the

same happening 20 Mate. Now, those

of us who go back to helping the

setting up of the kick-in Out

campaign using football as a power

to fight racism, there are people

who think I well, it is all history.

It isn't history and frankly, if you

think it is history, I recommend you

go to the local park on a Saturday

or Sunday afternoon in several parts

of the country, and you will still

see racism. But having said that, I

absolutely sympathise with this and

somebody, having the guts and the

courage, not least a 17-year-old

guy, to do this and to say Uefa,

Fifa, you are not doing enough. And

what isn't of is players walking off

the pitch and grounds being shut,

that is the only thing people

understand.

Because it is an

international problem, isn't it?

This young man describes one of his

teammates being racially abused by

an opposition player, when they were

playing in Spain.

And in Russia and

elsewhere. I mean, I don't know...

Do you feel that as you say, you

have got a long memory, do you feel

that this is a recent phenomenon?

That we could tie to the rise of far

right populism, for example? That

gives people the room to rent their

ugly beliefs?

But let me tell you,

it has been there. It is not,

Margaret Thatcher might have said

this, it is not, might have been

told this, it is not football's

problem but it is in football. And

the reality, you can argue that

football has done as much as anybody

to try and count it and it has been

successful in certain places, but

England is not the world. England is

not Europe and there is, in eastern

Europe, dare I say it, and in parts

of the... In Italy, I was on, part

of a committee where the Italians

used as they do not highlight it

because you will make it worse, that

was the traditional attitude.

Let's

go to the Daily Telegraph. Ask

Doctor Google before your GP. I am

sure that I have read something that

was exactly the opposite.

I have

read it as well, and you are going

to be told up by your GP for coming

in and seeming to know what is wrong

with you, and now you are told to do

exactly the opposite and find out

what is wrong with you and not only

that, hopefully get treated for you

call on the GP at all.

There are

several pieces of advice, one is

asking pharmacist. You second that.

I am a great fan of that. You have

to have confidence in your

pharmacist, that is true, and I'm

not quite sure who has agreed that

pharmacist should take on greater

and greater responsibilities.

They

are highly trained.

Our highly

trained and they are overwhelmingly

kind, in my experience, kind people

who offered this advice if you ask

for it, but it is very difficult if

you go to, you know, a pharmacy on

Euston station and you go into a

busy pharmacy, customers everywhere

and all the rest of it, and somebody

has got some ailments that they

don't want to go and see their GP

about, is asking a lot of that

pharmacist to give particular time

to person after person after person.

I am surely they would send you to

the doctor if they could not help.

We have a panda.

She underlined it

three times. I am not taking a panda

with me. Pandas and politicians are

not happy omens. It was later

revealed that she meant not love

omens.

This was suggested to

Margaret Thatcher and we have just

learned about it because of the

release of the National archives, as

we get at this time of year when

they are no longer secret and can be

publicised. She thought this was not

a good idea because it would remind

people of a previous conservative.

I

fear, DRS say it, that has more to

do with it. -- their ISA it. The

late Edward Heath brought a

paperback from China. They were a

big thing at that time. Now I am

happy to say I think they are

flourishing in key parts of the

world. That era has something to do

with it. It is extraordinary that it

was such an issue that a former

Prime Minister should be underlining

it in her private memos.

And that it

was even secret, all this time.

To

be honest, I don't blame her. You

don't know what a panda might do.

Sitting next to her eating me

peanuts. Finally, the Sun. That

saves our Bacon. Fry up and rejoice.

Rashes are free of cancer chemicals.

All thanks to boffins -- rashers.

What have they done?

For those of us

who love our Bacon and poached eggs,

and have done for too many years, it

has probably come too late for me.

They can without nitrates from the

curing process will be available in

supermarkets in the new year.

Note

letter in numbers and nitrates -- E

numbers.

The food industry has a lot

to answer for.

They have listened

and thanks to the boffins it has all

been dealt with. Get those hangover

Savages ready.

That's it for The Papers tonight.

Thank you David Davies

and Dina Hamdy.

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