19/01/2018 The Papers

Welcome both. Let's see if we can

get it right. Many of the front

pages are already in. Let's start

with the times which has a picture

of Donald Trump and his daughter on

the eve of their first anniversary

of his inauguration. The Financial

Times. There is news of a potential

new treatment for sufferers of IBS

on the front of the eye. The express

features a reaction that there will

be no attempt by the government to

review the parole board 's decision

to release taxi rate this John

Worboys. Much of it because it is

contaminated. The Telegraph has

Cabinet officer David Lillington has

suggested that they could rejoin the

EU in the future. The mirror leads

with calls by victims of John

Worboys for police to reinvestigate

dozens of allegations of rape and

assault. A variety of different

stories. There were no real

consensus on which one they should

be leading an although the decision

of the release of John Worboys does

feature in a couple and of course

Donald Trump. We will be talking

about that at length in a minute.

There is also much to talk about

with him, isn't there? Let's start

with the express will stop regarding

the outcry because a six offender

John Warboys is to be released from

prison. There was talk that the

government might to take a judicial

review but they have said that now

it is not going to happen.

There

would be little chance of the parole

board's decision being overturned. I

think the reason why there is so

much anger around this is that the

government set a hare running in the

past week or so, by a nod and a wink

same, we realise there is a lot of

public anger so we will do what we

can to keep him behind bars. Now

they have decided that they cannot

do anything at all. The government

haven't handled it very well.

There

is an idea that two of his victims.

They don't break its chances of

success that type.

It is difficult

for the government because they did

give the impression that they wanted

to do it will stop when he was

speaking in the House of Commons

today he didn't have a particular

had time, but you can see it on the

front pages of the tabloids.

The

daily Mirror says it as well.

Although he was convicted on 12 or

so offences, the police think he may

have attacked many more.

Obviously

the evidence for that might be more

difficult. The problem is that

people feel very strongly about it

and David Gauke has looked as if he

has folded at the first hurdle and

that has contributed to this since

that... Nick Bowles the Conservative

MP had a go at to Reza gave --

Theresa May.

There is a lot of

discussion right now about the way

parole boards operate and the fact

that they are so opaque.

It's not

just the decision to release him. It

was the way that his victims weren't

informed before it was announced, so

clearly it came as a dreadful shock

to them. There needs to be more

transparency. At the moment people

are looking at it and thinking and

an. Even just what he was convicted

of how could it be right that he has

only served nine years in prison. If

the parole board were in some way

able to come out and get some

indication as to the reason behind

it,...

That would involve a change

in the law. They are actually

forbidden to give the reasons by

law.

The times.

It was... Social media history

wasn't disclosed.

This is a

follow-up story to that and it's

about how that is going to have

knock-on effects in other trials

possibly. It's obviously a real

problem. We don't know why the

police didn't disclose this

information but presumably it's

because they feel under pressure to

achieve convictions. So you've got

the vicious cycle where public

opinion really wants to see people

put away for these terrible offences

but that is leading to miscarriages

of justice. This morning they say it

is to investigation. I'm not casting

aspersions for saying that but the

facts speak for themselves. These

are people who... All the while

there was clear evidence that he

wasn't guilty. It is incredible

really, the amount of power that the

Justice system can wield over

someone.

It undermines confidence.

Of course it does. Donald Trump. His

one year in... In office as

president. He is on the front page

of the times with his daughter.

There is an analysis of 25,000

tweets. We thought he had them all

in one year but no he is not a

prolific.

That would be 70 tweets a

day. It is more like 17 tweets a day

over four years.

It seems like more.

He does get quite a lot of attention

for each one and now he has 280

characters to play with.

There is an

analysis in The Times. There seems

to be some method to it.

I don't

know about method... The times

analysis is fascinating because it

picks out that the word he uses most

often is great. It has these fancy

graphs showing the frequency that he

uses phrases, such as crooked

Hillary.

He doesn't sleep a lot.

Apparently you only sleeps only four

hours a night will stop. What let

out at me was that Britain, the word

Britain, appears only seven times

whereas France appears 21 times. I

guess that is partly to do with the

terrorist attacks in France. Theresa

May is looking for reassurance.

Towards the end of this article it

does say that there is some kind of

strategic use of social media. Is

that reading too much into it?

I

wrote an article once saying that

the way Donald Trump uses twitter is

brilliant, clever. But ever since

then you have just realised that it

is not at all. It is all instinctive

and is based on something that he

has just seen on television. He just

five them off. It is the sort of

stuff that goes down very well with

his supporters. His ratings are not

great. They have been drifting

downward since the election but he

still does have a lot of support in

America and those people are not

shifting.

And likely doesn't have to

pay for the of an! .

One of the

first things I was taught that the

young journalist was never to use

exclamation marks.

I can't stand the

use of the double! In particular.

Capitals look like you are shouting

at someone. That is Donald Trump

after being in the presidency for

one year. Nowhere else.

It feels

like longer.

Let's look at the

Telegraph.

The UK could rejoin EU in future. We

haven't even left through Brexit yet

and we might one day go back in.

Yeah, he has taken over from Damian

Green as the de facto Deputy Prime

Minister, I thought when Damien

Green left we had seen the back of

that description. But no -

He's the

de facto, de facto Deputy Prime

Minister.

If you're keeping up! He's

next in line. He's a heart beat away

from being Prime Minister and one of

the leading Europhiles in the

Cabinet, he was staunch pro-EU

Conservative MP, in this interview

with the telegraph, Gordon Rainer

has got a great line where he

speculates that once we've left

maybe in a generation's time, we

could talk about rejoining again,

which logically, of course, anything

could happen in the future. But at

this point precise moment in time,

politically, it's a bit a daft thing

to say, think I.

-- I think. It

makes the point that Europe would

probably have to be, and probably

will be rather different by then.

Again, that's part of the

speculation about what might happen

in the future. You know, who knows

what might happen. I do think once

Brexit does happen, I think the

European Union might well want to

think again about how it operates.

It might change. But, you know, as

Kevin says, it's a gift to the daily

Brexit graph. I'm surprised at David

Livington, one of the cleverest

members of the Cabinet. I'm

surprised he didn't see that

question coming and work round it.

Maybe he's answer today that way for

a reason. Who knows.

Well, maybe.

Let's stay with the Telegraph. That

gets us nicely from Europe to the

next story about Carillion on the

FT. Carillion, channel bridge,

suggested by Boris Johnson, there it

is, the car going off the end,

because they haven't finished

building it. Job fears rise on the

FT. Cherry-picking of assets looks

fairly inevitable.

Yeah, as

Carillion has gone bust, obviously,

there will be a scramble to pick up

the profitable bits of what is left.

You know, there are obviously

concerns about the jobs in the long

run. What's interesting about the

jobs is how many of them are being

guaranteed for the moment. All the

ones in the public sector contracts

are 90% -- and 90% of the private

sector contracts are being kept

going, which actually, you know,

suggests that things might not be

quite as bad as we feared when we

heard they'd gone bust.

You hope not

with all the people whose jobs

depend upon it. The Kier group has

offered to take on 200 people. The

banks are being encouraged to extend

credit.

Yeah it's not just the

employees that clearly are very,

very worried at the moment. It's the

other companies in the Carillion

supply chain, who are relying on

Carillion paying them in order to

pay their employees. Obviously

they've gone bust owing millions and

millions of pounds. So there's an

awful lot of companies who are left

out of pocket as well. That has a

knock-on effect. As you say, the

banks are being encouraged to be a

bit lenient with them. There's many

ripples to this particular story. I

think it's got a long way to run.

All those services and contracts do

need, you know, if the work needs to

be done, it needs to be done by

someone.

That's right and probably

at a slightly higher price, because

the companies that are going to come

in, will obviously, I mean, the

reason Carillion went bust, one of

the reasons was because it had

underpriced the contracts. In the

end, the taxpayer is going to have

to pay more. In a sense, that's just

compensating for the fact that we

were getting a very good deal before

at Carillion's expense.

Let's look

at the Daily Mail. What a waste

revealed, it says. Half a million

tons of rubbish that we put out for

recycling is being dumped in

landfill or burned instead. I think

most of the recycling that I put out

got blown across the garden this

week in the wind. We had to pick it

up! This has been suspected for a

long time, that the contamination as

well, if you've not sorted it out

properly, it's useless.

Yeah, I

mean, I know that our own recycling,

everything, cardboard, plastic,

tins, newspapers, everything goes in

the one bucket, so I mean...

You get

a bucket? In west London.

A massive

big wheelie bin.

So do I. Not paper,

paper and card is separate.

So when

you do it, you kind of feel good

about yourself. You think that

you're helping to save the planet.

Well, this kind of bursts that

particular self-righteous bubble. It

shows most of it, sorry 4% of it, a

decent chunk.

This is a bit of a

Daily Mail headline, this. Because

actually if you read the small

print, it's only 4% of recycling.

But it had gone up from 1. 7% in

2011. So the trend...

Yes, but this

is giving the impression that it's a

waste of time to recycle because

it's being thrown away or burned.

That's not the case.

What I would

like is them to bring back the

bottle return system, where you

could take them back and get your

5p.

Remember that, and blue bottles

as a kid for 10p. You supplement

your sweet money. You didn't realise

you were recycling.

You didn't.

Your

pocket money.

Flesh it out for penny

sweets, if such things still exist,

I have no idea. Let's finish with

the Guardian, woman has baby, on the

front page. She's making light of it

too. This is the Prime Minister of

New Zealand. She's going to take six

weeks off while she has this baby in

June she says and then get back to

work.

It's obviously a brilliant

good news story for equality of the

sexes, because it just, it further

allows us to treat pregnancy, having

children as a normal part of life

and something that even Prime

Ministers do.

It hasn't happened for

a long timement

No, it hasn't. We

had a slight experience of it with

Tony Blair. He didn't have a baby.

It was Benazir Bhutto.

There was

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

But

they weren't giving birth and coming

back six weeks later.

It's not the

long time to be off work.

Baby has

two parents, who's going to step in?

The husband.

The daddy, Clark. Good

for him. Why not. He's going to be

the first man of fishing and a stay

at home dad. I think you might have

to rethink that Clark, I don't know

how much fishing you'll be getting

done.

Baby in a papouse.

Little more

time consuming that people perhaps

realise. That's all for the papers

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John, nice to see you. I'm going to

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