30/12/2017 The Papers

I was telling tall tales all the

time. My mum came and brought me the

journal, she said, honey, some of

the stuff you have been talking

about, why don't you try and write

it down?

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Henry Mance,

political correspondent

at the Financial Times

and Deborah Haynes, defence

editor at the Times.

Will be take you through some of the

papers at the moment.

First, a quick

summary.

The Times leads on an interview

with a government security minister

about plans to tax internet giants

if they don't help combat terrorism.

On a lighter note, there's also

a colourful picture of Eddie

the Eagle and fans -

some of the stuntman's

tricks will be shown

during London's New Year's Day

Parade.

The Observer takes a closer

look at the fallout

from Lord Adonis' resignation -

and the Labour Peer's call

for Chris Grayling to resign.

The Mail on Sunday reports on plans

for so-called unpaid border guards

at ports and airports -

it also shows Rod Stewart modelling

an interesting choice

of knitwear when he turned up

to support his beloved Celtic

earlier this evening.

The Telegraph's top story focuses

on retailers' plans to get around

the government's ban

on credit card fees.

The Sunday Express leads on plans

for the over-75s to get

a new super vaccine.

So let's begin.

Henry and Deborah. We are going to

start off with the Sunday Times.

Tech giants are being zeroed in,

why, though?

We know politicians

hate the amount of tax that Apple

and Facebook pay already but this is

about specific costs that these

companies may be having. He is

saying it is costing the government

hundreds of millions of pounds

because the government is having to

invest in human surveillance of

terrorist suspects because it cannot

break the encryption of services

like Whatsapp and the various

messaging services used. The article

suggests this would be a windfall

tax on these huge silicon valley

companies to enable the government

to get money back.

Deborah, what do

you make of that?

It has long been a

bugbear of the government how the

advance of social media, how

everyone is using social media

platforms, including terrorist

groups, to radicalise individuals.

This is mentioned in the article,

too, how companies like Facebook and

winging down extreme material fast

enough. And despite repeatedly, to

May has repeatedly talked about

this, the need for companies like

Twitter to be much more responsible

in terms of policing their own

sites, and equally, Whatsapp which

have in printed end to end messaging

and not allowing the police in a

timely and marry as necessary to

crack them is a really big problem

and it gives

you've got the Minister in an

interview saying, this kind of

problem, in terms of this free rein

for extremists and terrorists to act

online is what keeps him awake at

night. He says we are mobile revolt

than at any point in the last 100

years. -- more vulnerable. It is

about getting these companies to act

with urgency. They are suggesting

some full -- form of windfall tax

similar to that imposed on

privatised utilities during the Tony

Blair years. But who knows?

I love

the fact that he says because they

sit on beanbags in T-shirts that

they are not ruthless profiteers. I

just got to the end of this article,

quickly scanning through, quite a

warning towards the end St, if you

are going out this weekend, he is

advising people, check where the

exit are. He's almost driving the

point that this is a every real

threat on home shores.

Absolutely.

He says, go out as normal, we

mustn't let them win, but if you are

going to nightclubs, etc, if you do

spot unusual things, say something.

It puts the damper on things, but I

suppose it gets the point across.

Let's move on to the observer. Lord

Adonis is St Mr Grayling should be

resigning.

Andrew donors who

resigned on Friday said he has had

enough of being the government's

chief infrastructure adviser.

Mainly, Brexit, and the other thing

he said was a low-profile decision

by the Transport Secretary Chris

Grayling in November to allow other

companies that operate the east

Coast Main line, Virgin Trains, to

pull out of that contract early and

because those companies would due to

pay hundreds of millions and up to

years of pounds to the government in

those years, that money that the

government and taxpayers may now not

be getting. He says this is a

decision that is hugely damaging to

public fining is. A sign of some of

the justification for Lord Adonis's

argument is on the day this was

announced, though price of

Stagecoach went up.

Deborah, he does

go on to say why didn't he adopt the

alternative course which was to set

up state companies as well, doesn't

he?

Why didn't he do it? I sort of

honed in on how the effect of this

is that it is potentially going to

cost taxpayers money, and if the

people feeling the costs will be the

rail users, we have all faced this.

3.6% rise potentially in your season

tickets from Tuesday. It is warning

that people will start tearing their

backs on the railway. Cos of how

costly it is becoming.

Haven't we

got some protests coming up?

Commuter groups and opposition

groups are planning protests across

the country because of these rises.

I'm not surprised. It will be an

interesting start to the New Year.

The Mail on Sunday, I had to read

this twice, how did you take it when

you saw it?

Anything with Darren

Sammy on the front page will raise

an eyebrow. -- Dad's Army. It seems

a long time ago that we were so

overstretched that we needed to have

captained manner in man our

defences. There are people who can't

get into the police force and they

become special constables and they

are largely unpaid. This is saying

could we use volunteers for

Farnborough ballpoints at the

borders. -- vulnerable points. They

may be access points from -- for

jihad is returning from Syria.

Perhaps it is the way, if it has

worked in policing, maybe it will

work on the border.

They are saying

it could come into force in 28 team.

Less than 24 hours away. They have

had a pilot scheme running. It is

aborted talk about how rollerball --

important to talk about how

vulnerable they are. Much of the

security forces have had to enjoy

many cuts and efficiency savings and

the fact is they don't have the size

of the force necessary to protect

our borders. They are obviously

looking at ways to try and do this.

It is obviously not ideal to have

people without the power of arrest,

I think it says, Manning these

vulnerable points but maybe it is

better than nothing. And the

government needs to think about

greater investment. The capability

review is going on at the moment and

the big focus in the media and I

have been interested in it, is the

defence element to it. Border

protection, there are 12 strands of

work and one of them is border

protection, it is a cost neutral

exercise that money will be flowing

from certain areas into others so

maybe we will see, given Brexit and

everything, a greater push to

protect our borders.

The Home Office

refusing to give details of how they

will vet these volunteers. A little

bit worrying?

Encase you get some

have a go hero who is dreaming of

taking down illegal immigrants at

the Irish border? I imagine there

will be some concern. Charlie

Elphicke, the MP for Dover, says

there should be rate caution. This

is something the unions dislike they

say we have trained members, if you

want this job done properly, invest

in the services.

Sunday Telegraph,

credit card fees ban on shoppers.

It

seems it is to do with how when you

click online and if you use your

debit card it is free and if you use

all ready card you get a charge. --

your credit card. The plan is to get

rid of that but the Sunday Telegraph

is revealing that they have learned

that some retailers and other

companies are planning to sneak

around the rules by refusing credit

card payments, increasing shelf

prices, and introducing new service

judges across the board. -- service

charges. Is that of people paying

the charge for credit cards,

everyone will have to pay the extra

which doesn't seem likely outcome

the government wanted the method the

ban on.

Staying with the Telegraph,

New Year party goers facing strikes

and storms.

This is Storm Dylan.

Jeremy Paxman, in the FT yesterday,

referred to New Year's Eve is the

worst night of the year. Lots of

people have stresses and strains

without these things mounting on top

but this year, it looks like you

will have to be careful on the roads

and trains and you will have to

check the exits of any nightclubs.

Have a great time!

Hogmanay

celebrations have kicked off fine.

There hasn't hit yet. I think it is

a three-day celebration. Super jab,

very quick lead.

It is true, it works. The flu is

rubbish.

Would your parents be happy

to have this?

If it is generally

some kind of amazing jab that can

cure flu, why is it only for this

over 75.

It is a super strong dose

of the vaccine. Try what you can

with that. The idea is if it works,

it saves the health service money

because people don't go back into

hospital.

Don't you find when you

have the flu jab, you get sick?

No.

I'm a northerner, maybe that is it.

Interestingly, though, a lot of

elderly don't have the jab because

they say, I don't need it.

And they

get sick. Giving them a super dose

of it, you start worrying. This is

nice dory. -- my story.

You are

outnumbered here. We are talking

about mums on wedding certificates.

It is fatally astonishing that in

the 21st-century, your father of the

bride name, and occupation on the

certificate, but not other's. So,

yeah.

What is more astonishing is

that when I got married, I didn't

even question it. Isn't that bad?

What does that say about me?

This

isn't the first time it has been

attempted. Previous proposals failed

because they hadn't considered same

sex marriages, and part of it also

was that they involved replacing

tens of thousands of register books

across the country, but I think this

is a great step forward. And why

didn't we ever pick this up before,

Debra?

Why weren't we angry?

I think

this has all been part of a

campaign, as well. An interesting

line here from the fatherhood

Institute saying that this is long

overdue and she wants and end to

discrimination against fathers whose

names are not routinely included on

paperwork from schools and GP

surgeries.

I've never thought of

that. Mean either.

I deal with all

the admin.

This because we are good

at it. You are not saying anything

here. There was a legal challenge

from heterosexual couple who said,

we want a civil partnership because

marriage is a patriarchal

old-fashioned institution and this

is some of the things that would

address their concerns.

That's it for the Papers this hour.

Thank you, Henry Mance

and Deborah Haynes -

you'll both be back at 11.30pm

for another look at the stories

making the news tomorrow.

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