0:00:02 > 0:00:03leader of the ANC. On meet the author of this week, my guest has a
0:00:03 > 0:00:05book that is a creepy thriller that turns into a contemporary horror
0:00:05 > 0:00:15story.
0:00:21 > 0:00:34Welcome to our look ahead. Many of the front pages are already in, we
0:00:34 > 0:00:41have been looking through, the Metro uses a musketeer analogy to describe
0:00:41 > 0:00:47the comments of amber Rudd on Cabinet relations. Theresa May is
0:00:47 > 0:00:52appeasing Tory Brexiteers by scrapping plans to remain in the
0:00:52 > 0:00:56customs union, meanwhile the Times says a Cabinet compromise on the
0:00:56 > 0:01:03customs union is on the cards. Then a top Bank of England official warns
0:01:03 > 0:01:09against post-Brexit banking regulations. The Guardian has an
0:01:09 > 0:01:13exclusive on a secret fraternity of Freemasons which is continuing to
0:01:13 > 0:01:18operate in Westminster. Lloyds is becoming the first bank to bank
0:01:18 > 0:01:25customers from using credit cards to buy Bitcoin. And the express says it
0:01:25 > 0:01:29is time to wrap up warm, describing the
0:01:29 > 0:01:33forthcoming cold spell as a Scandinavian freeze. On the same
0:01:33 > 0:01:40story, the Mirror says temperatures are going to plummet to minus 14.
0:01:40 > 0:01:48That is a little flavour. No real consensus on what the main story
0:01:48 > 0:01:52will be, let us see what has appealed to I guess this evening.
0:01:52 > 0:01:59You will kick us off with the eye. Brexit, what is the latest
0:01:59 > 0:02:07development.
0:02:07 > 0:02:19Theresa May is trying to soothe the hardliners.
0:02:29 > 0:02:37This is the head of the biggest summit. The Cabinet are planning to
0:02:37 > 0:02:42sit down and have a discussion about what will happen, what the deal will
0:02:42 > 0:02:50look like. I don't think I would want to be referee.There is a lot
0:02:50 > 0:02:56of argy-bargy.You are getting these conflicting opinions and information
0:02:56 > 0:03:03coming through. The idea that Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob
0:03:03 > 0:03:11Rees-Mogg are going... I wish I could.He is the Chancellor
0:03:11 > 0:03:17apparently.Are going to take us to a fantastic new place. What is
0:03:17 > 0:03:22interesting is this battle is continuing and I thought Amber Rudd
0:03:22 > 0:03:28was really good, she seemed solid unsure of herself and she said these
0:03:28 > 0:03:33guys are not going to wreck the cohesion in our Cabinet but then you
0:03:33 > 0:03:39read on and Theresa May is allowing herself to be rattled, again and she
0:03:39 > 0:03:42is making these pre-emptive statements, not looking at the
0:03:42 > 0:03:51evidence that is now building up to Phil God knows how many big
0:03:51 > 0:03:55containers, but this has been locked out of the customs union, that would
0:03:55 > 0:04:00not be a good idea. The Tory party has been at this since Ted Heath,
0:04:00 > 0:04:05they will never reconciled. It is like the Church of England and gay
0:04:05 > 0:04:11marriage, I think they will have to split.There are families who did
0:04:11 > 0:04:18not reconcile after Brexit.These are people who are supposed to be
0:04:18 > 0:04:23governing us.You are looking at the times. Secret plan to end Tory
0:04:23 > 0:04:30turmoil.For the first time, it sounds as though there is a plan.
0:04:30 > 0:04:36Essentially, there is a move towards a compromise, which could be struck
0:04:36 > 0:04:42by asking the Brexiteers to sign up to a time-limited extension to
0:04:42 > 0:04:45elements of the existing customs union and what they are essentially
0:04:45 > 0:04:53saying is they are trying to put a wedge between those individuals.Let
0:04:53 > 0:04:58us test them. Whatever they do, they are not going to be able to settle
0:04:58 > 0:05:03this one. As soon as something seems to be vaguely agreed, these cowboys
0:05:03 > 0:05:12go off and do their own thing.These are the people who are governing us
0:05:12 > 0:05:15and that is why, I don't know when it will settle but I don't think
0:05:15 > 0:05:22there is going to be an agreement on this. If there is, they have to
0:05:22 > 0:05:28negotiate on this.The EU might not agree. There are so many fronts,
0:05:28 > 0:05:32there are the divisions in the Tory party and then Michel Barnier
0:05:32 > 0:05:38arrives and divisions arrived with him and he has his own 27 coming
0:05:38 > 0:05:49end.We have got a government and Theresa May seems to be losing her
0:05:49 > 0:05:57nerve and I think this is quite worrying. She goes with the forceful
0:05:57 > 0:06:02males who are riding this thing. I hope the Times is the more accurate
0:06:02 > 0:06:08reflection. I still want to believe there is a plan somewhere, I am sure
0:06:08 > 0:06:12it is buried under a lot of paper but I want to believe there is a
0:06:12 > 0:06:17plan somewhere.Take is to the Guardian, because there is a group
0:06:17 > 0:06:22of people who might know what the planners, this is about secret
0:06:22 > 0:06:31Freemasons Lodge is for and journalists.It is an exclusive. One
0:06:31 > 0:06:36new, I have known about this funny thing called the Freemasons and how
0:06:36 > 0:06:44they do funny walks. But, this is about MPs and journalist and I am
0:06:44 > 0:06:52quite shocked. We are in the 21st century and there are these circles
0:06:52 > 0:06:57within circles, propping each other up.Underneath on the front page of
0:06:57 > 0:07:04the Guardian, there is a story about votes for women, 100 years on from
0:07:04 > 0:07:09that act and above that, there is a story about an old gentleman 's
0:07:09 > 0:07:16club.It explains why men have been much more privilege. I once by
0:07:16 > 0:07:20mistake stepped into their headquarters not knowing, because I
0:07:20 > 0:07:26was lost, oh my God, you should have seen their reactions, it was like an
0:07:26 > 0:07:33alien had stepped in!It is interesting, we do think, we look at
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Freemasons and we think about silly rolled up trousers and mysterious
0:07:37 > 0:07:42handshakes, it is almost slightly comical and yet this story is quite
0:07:42 > 0:07:47serious.Yes, David Staples, the Chief Executive of the United grand
0:07:47 > 0:07:52Lodge of England, that might have been where you wandered into, he
0:07:52 > 0:07:57says being a Freemason helps those members in roles serving society and
0:07:57 > 0:08:04that they have good acts that are done, too made a lot of money and
0:08:04 > 0:08:07the more positive side is put forward.Why do they need to do
0:08:07 > 0:08:13this? I give money to charity, I do not need to be a dark circle to do
0:08:13 > 0:08:20that. Women don't.It is quite odd. The mystery around it, something
0:08:20 > 0:08:24that Freemasons believe, that is part of the good thing but to many
0:08:24 > 0:08:32others, it does us the most harm. Recently we heard a suggestion that
0:08:32 > 0:08:37a lot of police chiefs were in this. I always suspected that there was a
0:08:37 > 0:08:44judge is logged in here, because they are so similar. Here is a
0:08:44 > 0:08:50picture, of when we got the vote and we are still living with these
0:08:50 > 0:08:57gentlemen 's clubs.Onto a totally different thing, the Daily
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Telegraph, at the bottom, records numbers die of malnutrition in the
0:09:00 > 0:09:06NHS, what are they talking about? There is a story here that says that
0:09:06 > 0:09:10record numbers are dying of malnutrition in NHS hospitals and
0:09:10 > 0:09:16statistics show that 351 patients in England and Wales had malnutrition
0:09:16 > 0:09:22listed on the death certificates, as the underlying cause or contribute a
0:09:22 > 0:09:26factor in 2016. It is a shame we have only got the front page,
0:09:26 > 0:09:31because they do not know how malnutrition is judged because part
0:09:31 > 0:09:34of the story suggest that there are many elderly people who are living
0:09:34 > 0:09:38alone who go into hospital and they have not been looking after
0:09:38 > 0:09:41themselves at home and they are already malnourished and actually
0:09:41 > 0:09:46there is a challenge for hospitals in what they do. I don't know when
0:09:46 > 0:09:51there are end of life care and some people just do not have food for
0:09:51 > 0:10:02example, whether they are listed as malnourished.I have a severely
0:10:02 > 0:10:05mentally ill sister in hospital and she is not eating and the food was
0:10:05 > 0:10:08there when you went and it was quite nice. I could not make it, the
0:10:08 > 0:10:12nurses do not have the time to stand there for an hour to persuade her.
0:10:12 > 0:10:18Some of it has to do, what do you do when a patient just says no.Mental
0:10:18 > 0:10:24health can be a huge factor.And as you say, time is a big factor. The
0:10:24 > 0:10:29suggestion that if the nurses had more time, they would spend it on
0:10:29 > 0:10:33coaxing people.Today my sister did not want to eat a single sperm, I'd
0:10:33 > 0:10:41tried and tried and my husband tried, you cannot force her to eat
0:10:41 > 0:10:52-- she did not want to eat a single thing.And shoulder times. This is
0:10:52 > 0:11:00deep mined -- and the Financial Times.This was their artificial
0:11:00 > 0:11:06intelligence efforts and they started to divert some very clever
0:11:06 > 0:11:11people and I was suspicious, it sounded a bit scary. This story is
0:11:11 > 0:11:19one of the first I have seen. It is essentially crunching data from
0:11:19 > 0:11:23thousands of retinal scans and they are working with London Moorfields
0:11:23 > 0:11:29eye Hospital, one of the best in the world and what they are able to do,
0:11:29 > 0:11:33the computers are effectively able to pick out algorithms which are
0:11:33 > 0:11:37identifying the early signs of eye disease which they are claiming
0:11:37 > 0:11:42humans would not have managed to pick up. They are starting to work
0:11:42 > 0:11:46out the similarities, picking up the rhythms, different conditions and
0:11:46 > 0:12:01what the early stages might be. It is a massive breakthrough and it is
0:12:01 > 0:12:04still in the early stages, where they start to send it all off.We
0:12:04 > 0:12:07have all been talking about AI and thinking it is sinister but it could
0:12:07 > 0:12:12make a good difference. All this thing with robots and the deep
0:12:12 > 0:12:16technology which I do not even begin to understand.It could be
0:12:16 > 0:12:19fantastic. When you think about glaucoma and diabetes and the huge
0:12:19 > 0:12:24impact they could have, this sort of thing could make a difference to
0:12:24 > 0:12:30people's eyes.Finish as off, if the weather does not. The killer freezes
0:12:30 > 0:12:37coming.It is going to be cold but I keep thinking, we have an
0:12:37 > 0:12:39unprecedented number of homeless people now living in doorways and so
0:12:39 > 0:12:45on and up to a point, I think they can survive some temperatures, but I
0:12:45 > 0:12:49wonder how many of them will not survive unless councils make special
0:12:49 > 0:12:53provision for them or some of them just do not want to go indoors. We
0:12:53 > 0:12:57never know the number of homeless people who die over winter, we know
0:12:57 > 0:13:05how many elderly people die, we need to count them.OK. Pressure on the
0:13:05 > 0:13:09NHS always tends to come.And fuel bills, the cold weather is a hard
0:13:09 > 0:13:14thing to cope with for everyone. That is it for The Papers, but we
0:13:14 > 0:13:21will be back at half past 11. Join us then. Now it is time for Meet