12/01/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Rosamund Urwin,

who's a columnist for

the London Evening Standard

and Michael Booker, Deputy Editor

of the Daily Express.

Good evening to you both. Before we

speak to them both, let's take a

look at some of the newspaper front

pages. The Guardian leads on the

condemnation by the United Nations

over Donald Trump's alleged racist

comments. The president should

didn't get his hopes up about

getting an invitation to the royal

wedding according to the Daily

Mail's lead story.

The Mirror covers

the allegations of racism

by Chelsea coaching

staff in the 1990s.

A smiling image of Angela Merkel

is on the FT, which reports

on the German Chancellor reaching

an agreement to form

a three party coalition.

Tips on how to halt dementia,

are the top story in the Express.

The Sun says there's pressure

on the BBC to sack Radio Four

presenter John Humphrys over

comments he made off-air

about equal pay.

The Telegraph has an interview

with the presenter,

in which he says he didn't know

he was being recorded.

And also reports that people

are being turned away

from pharmacies without flu jabs

because of low supplies.

Meanwhile, the Daily Star

has some alternative

advice for keeping the bug at bay.

Must read that in more detail. Let

us begin... Kick us off pleased with

the Guardian, a lot of coverage of

this. United Nations, Trump's

remarks racist and shameful. We

won't have the word itself he is

said to have used but people might

not know quite what's going on here,

please enlighten them.

Yet again,

Donald Trump's bigmouth has landed

him in trouble and he has been very

rude about Central American

countries and African nations and

this has resulted in the UN, human

rights spokesman saying it's

impossible to view his remarks as

anything other than racist. American

diplomats are being summoned for

approach to leaders.

I'm sure a lot

of things get said in private by all

sorts of American presidents but

this was in a slightly bigger for?

It was. A Democrat senator has come

forward to sake he said these

things. Trump at first, and this is

the interesting thing, he had

initially allowed the White House

not to deny the reports of his

comments. It has been said by plenty

of people but actually these kind of

remarks played very well with his

base. He has admitted he used tough

language but later went on to say

he'd never used those words, but the

denial was rather slow to come out.

In being undiplomatic is not

entirely new. This is the guy you

want to build the wall because he

accuse Mexicans of being rapists.

This is something he is kind of use

to and used either for or behind it.

We were discussing this just before,

there is a lot of people very angry,

the UN would be very angry with this

and call it racist, but we are still

yet to see the people who voted for

him in the first place. We don't

really hear what they are saying

about Donald Trump at the moment.

Those in the liberal media and

Western media... They think he's a

terrible guy.

Trump's usual enemies

stop where exactly, getting upset

every single time. The same people

again in this country who were very

happy

that he won't be coming over

to open the embassy as well. Sadiq

Khan at the London mayor saying that

he's not got our values and things

like that, but does it matter to the

people in America? Are they paying

attention to the fact he isn't

coming to open the embassy?

Is the

point being reached that even he

might be going a bit far, do you

think?

Or is it more of the same?

There are plenty of senior

Republican politicians worried about

this, particularly people in swing

states, who are concerned they only

need to lose a few voting points and

it turns off a chunk of their voters

they don't want to lose. Obviously,

young people in America

overwhelmingly rejected Donald

Trump, those who voted, and I think

all this stuff to them, they must be

looking at their country, a lot of

young people, and thinking how on

earth as our country become this? I

think in four years, yes maybe this

stuff does build up.

You get the

impression with him anyway, when you

see the Michael Wolff thing,...

The

book that came out?

Yes, that he's

prepared to walk away at some point.

And the family are as well. It seems

as though it was all of a bit of a

shock to become president in the

first place and he has got four

years out of it and he likes playing

the victim. If he is perceived to be

forced out, he will play the victim

for the rest of his life.

We will

never hear the end of it! Michael,

staying with Donald Trump, the front

page of the Daily Mail. As you

mentioned, not coming over to open a

new embassy, claiming he doesn't

like the building or the location

and thinks it was a bad deal, all

sorts of reasons. But this is

something else? The Royal wedding?

The Daily Mail had the scoop that he

wasn't coming over for the empty

this morning, now they are saying he

will miss the Royal wedding. This

doesn't seem as incredibly well

sourced because there doesn't... For

Prince Harry Meghan Markle's big day

in May, no invites have gone out yet

so we don't know 100%. They are

saying someone from the Royal

household, some courtier, there's a

good source in the stories! The

guest list hasn't yet been

announced, there is no reason he

would be invited, though. There is

this debate the former president,

because his best friends with Harry

and shares his liberal values that

of Meghan Markle, would he be

invited? This doesn't seem as cut

and dried as this morning's Daily

Mail, saying he wasn't coming to

open up the embassy. But I can't

imagine he would be invited. It is a

lot smaller wedding this time than

Kate and William's wedding. They are

trying to contain it at Windsor, so

I wouldn't imagine it would be a big

song and dance and Obama didn't go

to that wedding.

You don't make too

much buzz about things that are not

happening!

He would be interesting

if Obama does get the invite.

Yes,

it would be seen as a snub.

Trump's

ego is fragile and would see it as a

snub. It is in a state occasion and

the guest list is drawn up by

Buckingham Palace but the government

has a consultancy role. We know

Meghan Markle loathed him and wrote

and called him divisive and

misogynistic.

The other problem is

if that would be his first visit to

this country, then all the security

problems, would we want this huge

protest outside of Windsor Castle

for the Royal wedding? I can't

imagine he would be invited to this

wedding.

It says Donald Trump faces

the embarrassment of not being

invited. I think that is one thing

he doesn't suffer!

OK, let's go now to the Daily

Telegraph. Would you get us on this?

This is about the dreaded flu. The

headline probably says it's all,

chemist runs short of flu jab.

Yes,

we've now on not only got to fear

the Australian flu but also the

Japanese flu and today... Sorry,

today the Telegraph is saying people

across the country were being turned

away from pharmacies who had run out

of stock of the vaccine. So there is

a shortage in Cumbria and the

Telegraph has contacted branches of

Routes across the Midlands. It is

not a cause for panic straightaway.

Boots said today, it has told the

Telegraph they would be being

resupplied and swiftly. One of the

things that comes up later in the

story is high-street chemist said

they avoided overstocking the jabs

because they are only reimbursed by

the NHS for vaccines that are used,

so they only keep quite a small

supply in stores because they don't

want to lose money.

It does point

out there is a stockpile somewhere.

They don't exactly where that there

is a stockpile. I don't think there

is a need to panic. As they say, it

could be the worst flu season for

seven years. It is not at that point

yet. Sadly 85 people have died over

the winter period, but it is not

that caused panic at the moment. I

seem to remember seven years ago

when it was far worse, most of the

country survived.

Don't get too

worried about it. We are overdue a

flu epidemic!

They are from tomorrow

going to be fully stocked again so

again, I think it is a little bit

scary the way it is presented in the

Telegraph but I think we will be all

right.

The extraordinary thing to me

as there is so much warning about

the flu, you have to wave a flag and

say, particularly in vulnerable,

elderly, but also the National

Health Service people are being

pushed to have the flu jab. You

would think they would get that

automatically?

Except because of the

way the flu jab works, it doesn't

protect you against all the strains

of that. It can make people feel not

particular well having it and there

is an argument that it is pretty

pointless, some doctors make this

argument.

As beings can be lazy

income be bothered to get it.

You

talking about yourself?

Gas!

But of

course the broader context here for

this is the NHS is really, really

struggling. In theory it has had a

relatively easy winter which has

still been incredibly tough on

staff, they are losing staff, these

A&E specialist sending a letter to

the Prime Minister this week, saying

about the state of A&Es. That is a

big problem, because if you have the

context people dying on trolleys and

additionally got a growing crisis,

though admittedly at the moment not

that big, but has the potential to

become something much bigger, then

it becomes...

They say it's moving

towards an epidemic.

A scary word.

An official epidemic in France.

Still just across the Channel. There

is a big drama front page of the

Daily Telegraph. Michael, a familiar

face one could say, John Humphrys,

the Today programme presenter facing

criticism. Just explain if you can

what this is about.

He was recorded

having that all four word banter

about Carrie Gracie, the BBC News

China editor who resigned earlier in

the week about the gender pay rules.

As the week has gone and he has been

speaking to Jon Sopel, the BBC's

North America editor. This wasn't

being broadcast but this tape has

got out and got into other hands, it

was in the Times this morning and

the sun, in which they were joking

about it. These jokes haven't gone

down very well. Particularly John

Humphrys rather than Jon Sopel. At

one point, Jon Sopel said stop in a

jokey manner. John Humphrys talking

here, also on the front of the sun.

They want him out. And a lot of

people in the BBC, predict we women

I imagine, don't like the cut of

their jib, the way they were joking,

particularly John Humphrys. In the

Telegraph he is saying if he could

relive the last few days, he

wouldn't have done the same chat

with Jon Sopel. But I think that 74,

I think John Humphrys probably

doesn't care that much. He's making

quite a lot of money at the moment,

on about £600,000 a year and the

moment? He probably has a decent

pension and is better off than most

people. He is trying to laugh it off

and is a it was a wind-up, saying it

was just a nasty person with a

gradually did.

That is the other

wrangle. Let's just go to this front

page here... BBC women want veteran

sacked.

What a surprise!

One

paragraph we can see on the front?

A

source for an equal page campaign

group said the only acceptable

outcome is for him to go. I think

one of the frustrations of one of

these women is a lot of them have

stopped, they are not allowed to

present on this issue, but John

Humphrys is still allowed to.

Allowed? Everyone seems to know it

was a conversation which he didn't

expect. He was broadcasting at the

time.

Sure, but going forward... The

people have been banned, who have

commented on it publicly. His

argument was this was a private

conversation which has become a

public one and he is still allowed

to ask people about this issue.

And

still trying to laugh it off whereas

other people are taking far more

seriously.

Onto another story...

Chelsea on the front page of the

mirror, Chelsea n-word outrage.

It

emerged on the Guardian online. It

is Chelsea youth players claiming to

have been subject to racial abuse by

the coach and scout. I think at

Chelsea since 1979, very close to

Ken Bates, the chairman and owner

that was. He was there quite a few

years. There is confirmed quite

shocking stuff these players say

they were subjected to from both of

them.

And that is their relegation.

The pair of them deny those

allegations, and we must say the

police have said they have found no

evidence for it.

There was a

complaint made to the pleas, the

police investigated and there was no

grounds for prosecution. Chelsea are

now subject to legal action from

these players who said it lived with

them. These young lads, they are

eager to please, a lot of them from

very poor backgrounds and this is a

good chance to give themselves and

their family a great future, playing

football is a dream for a lot of

young lads. If they are subjected to

this sort of thing... These people

have great power over them. If they

are subjecting these lads... Why

might you are generalising.

It is

interesting, when we see a spotlight

shifting, we start in Hollywood, we

come to other organisations and

institutions and settling on the

world of football now.

Football had

the allegations in the women's game

last year which came before

Parliament, where the women said,

not totally dissimilar, not as

severe, but that there was racial

abuse and a lot of sexism going on

and bad behaviour.

Do you think it's

a case that in areas where people

sort of felt it had to be put up

with, again not this case

particular, but in sport... People

playing football and so on, oh well,

there's a lot of rough-and-tumble,

but now people are looking at that

sort of thing differently?

Yes, and

power stretches. Hollywood is

similar. A couple of people hold an

awful lot of power, particularly

over relatively young people

starting out, who hope this person

will be the person who makes their

career. This is very difficult to

take them on, when you think my

career lies in this person's hands.

The point was made earlier in the

week, allegations against Kojak

Newcastle United. I think they are

being investigated as well. It goes

back to these lads are scared of

them.

He also denies it. The

Financial Times front page,

Rosamond, the headline says mortgage

lenders shut the door on bit coin

investors eyeing first property,

disentangle this for us and tell us

what it is!

Essentially lots of young people

have seen bitcoin is an easy way to

make money. People compare to other

Rushs in the city on the past, going

back to Tulip Fever.

The crypto

currency, it doesn't exist in

physical form.

It is the most famous

crypto currency but a lot of people

have piled into it because it's been

seen as a really quick way to get a

massive return. It has shot up very

quickly. Now, they have tried to

cash out and some people have

struggled even to do that, but those

who have have thought, this is

great, I will put a deposit on my

flat. Except it turns out they are

not really allowed to use it as a

deposit on a flat. Public sector

worker who made £40,000 investing

bitcoin couldn't get a mortgage

because he couldn't prove where he

got the funds. What is interesting

about this is a mortgage lender

didn't know what a crypto currency

was, which seems staggering to me

given that it's been pretty much the

most talked about things of the last

year.

Maybe... You might read about

it but it is still a pretty complex

thing.

But this will create a

problem, because it's really

difficult to get on the property

market, this is one way to get a

deposit, or has been. There is no

guarantee it keeps going up,

obviously.

Michael, are you using

your bitcoin to find a new place?

I

checked by the computer to see if I

dropped any of there! It has been

explained to me a million times what

bitcoin is all about and it seems

like it's a made up thing that will

end up causing a lot of problems for

a lot of people who have invested so

much time and it stops are not if

you cash out! Bellowed the people

have been able to cash out and then

being ripped off when they have

tried to cash out.

The problem here

wouldn't apply, this is the first

time buyers, because the aftershow

way your deposit has come from. If

you owned the property, you could

use that money to pay down the

mortgage and then you don't have a

problem because no one is asking

when you pay down your mortgage.

Obviously no one should lie! Thank

you both very much indeed. That is

it for the Papers tonight.

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As I said, thank you very much,

bye-bye.