0:00:00 > 0:00:00And coming up, James Naughtie meets the crime writer Peter James to talk
0:00:00 > 0:00:01about his latest novel.
0:00:01 > 0:00:06That's in 15 minutes on this week's Meet The Author.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:20 > 0:00:21bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23With me is the nroadcaster and campaigner, David Akinsanya,
0:00:23 > 0:00:30and the comment and features editor at City AM, Rachel Cunliffe.
0:00:30 > 0:00:36Tomorrow's front pages first then, starting with...
0:00:37 > 0:00:42The front page story in the Times, which says time-wasting patients
0:00:42 > 0:00:44are costing the NHS £1 billion a year.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46The Guardian says several stabbings on New Year's Eve
0:00:46 > 0:00:50brought the number of fatal stabbings in London to 80 for 2017.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52The Daily Mail says firemen with only a few days
0:00:52 > 0:00:55of first aid training are being sent to medical emergencies,
0:00:55 > 0:00:57due to pressure on the NHS.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59The i reports that millions of commuters will be waking
0:01:00 > 0:01:03up to the steepest hike in rail fares for five years -
0:01:03 > 0:01:05it calls the increase "the great train robbery".
0:01:05 > 0:01:08The Metro leads with the Sydney seaplane crash
0:01:08 > 0:01:11which killed British chief executive Richard Cousins and his fiancee -
0:01:11 > 0:01:14saying he found love again after losing his wife to cancer just
0:01:14 > 0:01:15three years earlier.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20And the Express warns that an Atlantic storm
0:01:20 > 0:01:23could bring 80 mile an hour winds, torrential rain and flooding
0:01:23 > 0:01:30to Britain tomorrow.
0:01:30 > 0:01:36To the P. Let's start with the front page of The i might, shall we? It
0:01:36 > 0:01:43has that perennial Newsday story, a good headline. Great Train Robbery.
0:01:43 > 0:01:48Absolutely, great headline. The sad story, though, especially for
0:01:48 > 0:01:53commuters all over the country. Rail fares are going up by as much as
0:01:53 > 0:01:573.4%, just the news that he wanted to start the New Year and I think
0:01:57 > 0:02:04there is really some anger growing behind us. Obviously, rail service
0:02:04 > 0:02:08is one of the things that we as Brits like to complain about, it is
0:02:08 > 0:02:12not something we are particularly good at as a country. The owners of
0:02:12 > 0:02:17the railways are still earning pay packets, I think, totalling £4.5
0:02:17 > 0:02:21million. There is a feeling that service and pay is really not linked
0:02:21 > 0:02:25and it is kind of this cocktail of issues which is causing a lot of
0:02:25 > 0:02:30trouble and has caused the Conservatives -- would cause the
0:02:30 > 0:02:34Conservatives a lot of trouble over the next two years because a lot of
0:02:34 > 0:02:37these commuters are in Tory seats and are starting to look at Jeremy
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Corbyn, who has promised renationalisation of the railways
0:02:39 > 0:02:44and that is starting to look more appealing now.And it is 25 years,
0:02:44 > 0:02:49is the 25th anniversary now of when it railways were privatised. The
0:02:49 > 0:02:52fragmentation of the railway system makes it very difficult for people
0:02:52 > 0:02:56to plan, to put a case forward, because you are dealing with all of
0:02:56 > 0:03:01these different, separate organisations. I was just working
0:03:01 > 0:03:06out, the hometown where I grew up, Basildon, it costs about £4000 a
0:03:06 > 0:03:14year for your annual journey into work. I know most of my friends earn
0:03:14 > 0:03:18between £30,000 and £70,000, most of them get that as part of their
0:03:18 > 0:03:22package because there is no way they could pay out a lump packaged like
0:03:22 > 0:03:27that just to London every day.The companies pay for it...Yeah, a lot
0:03:27 > 0:03:33of companies fork out for it because you get the cheaper ticket if you
0:03:33 > 0:03:37fork out for the annual ticket. I think it is a real shame, we have
0:03:37 > 0:03:41more strikes coming out. I could not work out from the newspaper today
0:03:41 > 0:03:45but it is saying there are processed at stations. I would quite like to
0:03:45 > 0:03:50know because I would quite like to go to the protest. It was not one of
0:03:50 > 0:03:54ours, no.And I make the point that as ticket prices rise, wages are
0:03:54 > 0:03:58stagnating.I think this is a political problem, is a market
0:03:58 > 0:04:02problem as well. It is very fragmented, there is no
0:04:02 > 0:04:05accountability and it is not clear how you link service to compensation
0:04:05 > 0:04:09when it comes to people who are running this. This goes hand-in-hand
0:04:09 > 0:04:13with things like the housing crisis, you have more and more young people,
0:04:13 > 0:04:16under the age of 40, who are struggling with housing costs and
0:04:16 > 0:04:21commuting costs. These are exactly the sort of voters that I think the
0:04:21 > 0:04:25Conservatives are trying to win over and I think there is an election in
0:04:25 > 0:04:29the next couple of years, they are really going to get punished at the
0:04:29 > 0:04:32ballot box port, if they don't... And certainly, Basildon is a
0:04:32 > 0:04:37marginal seat, it could be an issue. I think that a lot of people who use
0:04:37 > 0:04:42the railways, me personally, think that Jeremy Corbyn's idea of
0:04:42 > 0:04:47renationalising the railways might be an idea.It is sort of like the
0:04:47 > 0:04:51current system is not working so if you break the current system, maybe
0:04:51 > 0:04:56we'll get something better, maybe we won't. Probably we won't.This is a
0:04:56 > 0:05:00debate that will be continued for sure. Let's move to the front page
0:05:00 > 0:05:03of the Guardian, which has this very grim story about four stabbings in
0:05:03 > 0:05:09London over the New Year period. Funnily enough, actually, I was in a
0:05:09 > 0:05:12park yesterday where one of their helicopters landed to take one of
0:05:12 > 0:05:16these guys that was stabbed hospital. It is a big issue in
0:05:16 > 0:05:20London. Some of the figures, I think AT last you serious stabbings in
0:05:20 > 0:05:24London, and what I was interested in this was Alice and Copeland's son
0:05:24 > 0:05:28was actually stabbed to death, what she was saying is that there is a
0:05:28 > 0:05:32lot of lip service paid to this and that none of the things being put
0:05:32 > 0:05:35forward actually going to change the situation. So having a billboard
0:05:35 > 0:05:39saying I must not carry a knife is not going to stop young people
0:05:39 > 0:05:43carrying a knife, and what she says, and I agree, is quite powerful, is
0:05:43 > 0:05:47that people who have been involved in these incidents should come into
0:05:47 > 0:05:51schools to talk to schoolchildren, a mother to talk to school kids about
0:05:51 > 0:05:55what it is like as a mother to lose your child to knife crime. I think
0:05:55 > 0:05:58that is incredibly powerful and I think the government should be
0:05:58 > 0:06:02investing in that sort of thing, as well as services, that people have
0:06:02 > 0:06:07been talking about for a long time. There are no youth services any
0:06:07 > 0:06:13more. Educating them out of school hours, they just don't exist any
0:06:13 > 0:06:18more. I would support her getting people into schools to talk to kids
0:06:18 > 0:06:25about it.I agree. Obviously this is a law and order problem but it is
0:06:25 > 0:06:28also a social problem, and it is a problem with communities that feel
0:06:28 > 0:06:33distant or ignored.Scared.And scared.Yeah, I think that is why a
0:06:33 > 0:06:38lot of knife carrying goes on. Scared into carrying a knife, it is
0:06:38 > 0:06:44psychical.I think that is so sad, there is a part of me that wants to
0:06:44 > 0:06:48go back to the school days when we just had a punch-up and that was it.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51These days, if your honour is questioned, people turn to this too
0:06:51 > 0:06:56quickly and it is a real shame and I really feel for young people who are
0:06:56 > 0:07:00living in fear, especially in city areas.Let's go to the front page of
0:07:00 > 0:07:07the Metro, another sad story. Devil tragedy of air crash Brits. This is
0:07:07 > 0:07:13a story we have been running very prominently today. -- double
0:07:13 > 0:07:20tragedy. This is Richard Cousins, he lost his fiancee, her daughter, two
0:07:20 > 0:07:23sums, the Daily Telegraph has the same story actually on its front
0:07:23 > 0:07:30page, saying another UK family died in the same type of accident.This
0:07:30 > 0:07:37is sad, the detail in the Daily Telegraph is so shocking. I don't
0:07:37 > 0:07:40know anything about seaplanes, I don't know if you do. This
0:07:40 > 0:07:45particular type of plane is known as applying NT, and they are kind of
0:07:45 > 0:07:48known for having issues. It says here that there had been 31 deaths
0:07:48 > 0:07:52in nine separate incident with this type of plan, and I obviously do not
0:07:52 > 0:08:00want to detract from this tragedy on the front page of The Daily Mirror,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03but it does seem that there is an issue with this model and that
0:08:03 > 0:08:06almost makes the whole thing worse because this could have been
0:08:06 > 0:08:10preventable.Yeah, I mean they have been known to stall and this is like
0:08:10 > 0:08:14one of those flights we go to look at the coastline and stuff like
0:08:14 > 0:08:19that. So, the plan is moving about a bit and it looks to be that that is
0:08:19 > 0:08:23a problem that has come up, and that they do have to have more vigorous
0:08:23 > 0:08:26safety checks because of this problem. But it is just the sort of,
0:08:26 > 0:08:31I mean it is not the sort of thing you want to you on New Year's Day.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35It is an awful story about a whole family being wiped out and when you
0:08:35 > 0:08:39read about this guy and his wife's fight with cancer and wanting to
0:08:39 > 0:08:42have another partner, it is just... Yes, the reason he was engaged is
0:08:42 > 0:08:46that his first wife wanted him to find someone else.Is very tragic,
0:08:46 > 0:08:52an 11-year-old girl is well.I know. Lets move on to the front page of
0:08:52 > 0:08:56the Times, which has a different story as its front page story. Time
0:08:56 > 0:09:01wasting patients are costing the NHS £1 billion a year.Yes, this is an
0:09:01 > 0:09:05issue that I don't think we'll surprise to many people who miss
0:09:05 > 0:09:10appointments, it is costs the NHS a lot of money. How much money? 1
0:09:10 > 0:09:18million cataract operations or 200,000 hip replacements, just on
0:09:18 > 0:09:22the money that is being spent on these missed appointments. There
0:09:22 > 0:09:30were 7.9 million appointments missed in 2017, that seems extraordinary to
0:09:30 > 0:09:41me.One in 15.A lot of people feel that they are too busy with work or
0:09:41 > 0:09:45that their surgeries are too full and they cannot get an appointment
0:09:45 > 0:09:49at the right time, so put off going to have an appointment that they
0:09:49 > 0:09:52really need because they feel like they do not have the time to do
0:09:52 > 0:09:55that. So you have these twin problems people booking them and
0:09:55 > 0:09:59missing them, and blocking them to people who really need them.And
0:09:59 > 0:10:04apparently, they cost £120 slot. I did not know that, but every
0:10:04 > 0:10:09appointment cost £120 to the NHS. I am very lucky because I was one of
0:10:09 > 0:10:13these guys who did not go to a doctor for 20 years. There are a lot
0:10:13 > 0:10:18of men like me, and I started to go... And the reason I did not go to
0:10:18 > 0:10:21the doctors is because the one thing, I found receptionist to be
0:10:21 > 0:10:25really rude and I do not like that to justify myself to them stop loop
0:10:25 > 0:10:29you can do it online now. That is what I am saying, the practice I am
0:10:29 > 0:10:37now are brilliant.-- you can do it online now.There is really no
0:10:37 > 0:10:41excuse for missing an hour. The same thing with mental health services, I
0:10:41 > 0:10:44know they are really good at making sure they keep in touch with their
0:10:44 > 0:10:50patient. There is no reason. It is the cost, that is the problem. It
0:10:50 > 0:10:53seems that everything now has a cost without rhythms and all this sort of
0:10:53 > 0:10:57thing, everything has been worked out. And when you see these figures,
0:10:57 > 0:11:01you have to say to yourself that it is wasting a lot of money and we
0:11:01 > 0:11:05have to take responsibility for its. The 70th anniversary of the NHS,
0:11:05 > 0:11:09they want people to rethink how they use it and there is an argument that
0:11:09 > 0:11:13this, obviously it is a problem of individuals but it is also a system
0:11:13 > 0:11:18problem, and that there are ways which are already coming into
0:11:18 > 0:11:26fruition, giving people in -- appointments in person. There are
0:11:26 > 0:11:29lots of ways that we can use technology and the existing
0:11:29 > 0:11:35infrastructure to take the pressure off services. Obviously, that in no
0:11:35 > 0:11:39way excuses not turning up for an appointment, but there are lots of
0:11:39 > 0:11:42ways with online appointments and text messages, that we can use
0:11:42 > 0:11:46technology to help solve this problem.Let's take a look at the
0:11:46 > 0:11:50other story on the front page of the Times. Retired peers awarded a meal
0:11:50 > 0:11:58ticket for life, what is that?That is no surprise, is it? Come on.Does
0:11:58 > 0:12:02that mean you worked up about it?It does mean that I worked up about it.
0:12:02 > 0:12:09It is a bit like public school, old university, old, elitist... That is
0:12:09 > 0:12:14how it feels to me. I just think that most of these retired peers are
0:12:14 > 0:12:18rich anyway, aren't they? The one they talk about the most common Lord
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Ashcroft, he has got more money than anyone, hasn't he?What is
0:12:21 > 0:12:31outrageous, is that meals are subsidised.That is a good headline.
0:12:31 > 0:12:37The thing that bothers me when you look at other areas of government
0:12:37 > 0:12:40spending is that it gives them an opportunity to influence policies
0:12:40 > 0:12:43and the continued interactive current members of the house appears
0:12:43 > 0:12:47in the House of Commons in this very protected, privilege space, and that
0:12:47 > 0:12:50is something that we should be interested in for issues of
0:12:50 > 0:12:54accountability. Why are they getting this privilege space? And that is
0:12:54 > 0:12:59far more important than the money. OK. Let's move on to the front page
0:12:59 > 0:13:02of the Financial Times, which has predictions for the economy that
0:13:02 > 0:13:08growth will slow to 1.5% this year. It is just what you want to stop
0:13:08 > 0:13:162018.Well, we are full of good news, aren't we? This January?Low
0:13:16 > 0:13:20growth, which we heard from Phillip Hammond, in the budget having to
0:13:20 > 0:13:22revise a lot of these figures looking at Roath. Business
0:13:22 > 0:13:26investment is on hold, which is obviously a huge issue for
0:13:26 > 0:13:30productivity. Productivity continues to be low, they are predicting that
0:13:30 > 0:13:33inflation will recede, which depending on which part of the
0:13:33 > 0:13:40economy you are in, is good or not so much. Consumer spending will
0:13:40 > 0:13:44cease, which again is good in terms of consumer debt, which is a real
0:13:44 > 0:13:48problem but it is not so good in terms of the retail sector.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52Inflation will increase. It does have buried in the third column,
0:13:52 > 0:13:56something that I think is worth mentioning which is that on a more
0:13:56 > 0:13:59positive note, they predicted that exports would rise this year as
0:13:59 > 0:14:04British companies benefit from global acceleration and of course,
0:14:04 > 0:14:08the drop in sterling and Brexit. I think that is something to be very
0:14:08 > 0:14:11positive about it basically, the point of this story is that if we
0:14:11 > 0:14:14don't get to grips with the productivity or if measuring
0:14:14 > 0:14:18productivity in a way that enables us to make growth predictions, then
0:14:18 > 0:14:26we are in trouble.Wright, David? Everything she said. The thing is,
0:14:26 > 0:14:30my worry is obviously Brexit and how things are going to be in the future
0:14:30 > 0:14:39and the long-term.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42I know that cars are assembled
0:14:39 > 0:14:42I know that cars are assembled here
0:14:42 > 0:14:42I know that cars are
0:14:42 > 0:14:42in
0:14:42 > 0:14:45I know that cars are assembled here in bits and pieces are done but I am
0:14:45 > 0:14:48worried about what we will be giving to the world afterwards.Financial
0:14:48 > 0:14:54services are the main one and that is something that my paper in
0:14:54 > 0:14:58particular is set on protecting. Financial services are what messed
0:14:58 > 0:15:04us are.We could be debating this for a long time. One final story,
0:15:04 > 0:15:10the front page of the Sun. Mars bars did it apparently they are out
0:15:10 > 0:15:14because they have over 200 calories. We are now been told by government
0:15:14 > 0:15:20is that we should not be giving children any more than 200 calories
0:15:20 > 0:15:24of treats in a day. These poor children will have to eat rice
0:15:24 > 0:15:33cakes.Is the headline overwritten? Banned from eating?They can do
0:15:33 > 0:15:38whatever they want to do. There is a great traffic here on page five that
0:15:38 > 0:15:46shows the exact amount of chocolate you can give a child. This much for
0:15:46 > 0:15:52eight weeks, less for dairy milk, even less for a bounty. I must say,
0:15:52 > 0:15:56the amount of chocolate I consumed as a child... I turned out all
0:15:56 > 0:16:01right.What I liked at the end was the last line that said you need to
0:16:01 > 0:16:09get kids moving as well.right. A simple lesson, really. Thank you
0:16:09 > 0:16:16both did it back