04/02/2018 The Papers

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Welcome to our look ahead. Many of

the front pages are already in, we

have been looking through, the Metro

uses a musketeer analogy to describe

the comments of amber Rudd on

Cabinet relations. Theresa May is

appeasing Tory Brexiteers by

scrapping plans to remain in the

customs union, meanwhile the Times

says a Cabinet compromise on the

customs union is on the cards. Then

a top Bank of England official warns

against post-Brexit banking

regulations. The Guardian has an

exclusive on a secret fraternity of

Freemasons which is continuing to

operate in Westminster. Lloyds is

becoming the first bank to bank

customers from using credit cards to

buy Bitcoin. And the express says it

is time to wrap up warm, describing

the

forthcoming cold spell as a

Scandinavian freeze. On the same

story, the Mirror says temperatures

are going to plummet to minus 14.

That is a little flavour. No real

consensus on what the main story

will be, let us see what has

appealed to I guess this evening.

You will kick us off with the eye.

Brexit, what is the latest

development.

Theresa May is trying to soothe the

hardliners.

This is the head of the biggest

summit. The Cabinet are planning to

sit down and have a discussion about

what will happen, what the deal will

look like. I don't think I would

want to be referee.

There is a lot

of argy-bargy.

You are getting these

conflicting opinions and information

coming through. The idea that Boris

Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob

Rees-Mogg are going... I wish I

could.

He is the Chancellor

apparently.

Are going to take us to

a fantastic new place. What is

interesting is this battle is

continuing and I thought Amber Rudd

was really good, she seemed solid

unsure of herself and she said these

guys are not going to wreck the

cohesion in our Cabinet but then you

read on and Theresa May is allowing

herself to be rattled, again and she

is making these pre-emptive

statements, not looking at the

evidence that is now building up to

Phil God knows how many big

containers, but this has been locked

out of the customs union, that would

not be a good idea. The Tory party

has been at this since Ted Heath,

they will never reconciled. It is

like the Church of England and gay

marriage, I think they will have to

split.

There are families who did

not reconcile after Brexit.

These

are people who are supposed to be

governing us.

You are looking at the

times. Secret plan to end Tory

turmoil.

For the first time, it

sounds as though there is a plan.

Essentially, there is a move towards

a compromise, which could be struck

by asking the Brexiteers to sign up

to a time-limited extension to

elements of the existing customs

union and what they are essentially

saying is they are trying to put a

wedge between those individuals.

Let

us test them. Whatever they do, they

are not going to be able to settle

this one. As soon as something seems

to be vaguely agreed, these cowboys

go off and do their own thing.

These

are the people who are governing us

and that is why, I don't know when

it will settle but I don't think

there is going to be an agreement on

this. If there is, they have to

negotiate on this.

The EU might not

agree. There are so many fronts,

there are the divisions in the Tory

party and then Michel Barnier

arrives and divisions arrived with

him and he has his own 27 coming

end.

We have got a government and

Theresa May seems to be losing her

nerve and I think this is quite

worrying. She goes with the forceful

males who are riding this thing. I

hope the Times is the more accurate

reflection. I still want to believe

there is a plan somewhere, I am sure

it is buried under a lot of paper

but I want to believe there is a

plan somewhere.

Take is to the

Guardian, because there is a group

of people who might know what the

planners, this is about secret

Freemasons Lodge is for and

journalists.

It is an exclusive. One

new, I have known about this funny

thing called the Freemasons and how

they do funny walks. But, this is

about MPs and journalist and I am

quite shocked. We are in the 21st

century and there are these circles

within circles, propping each other

up.

Underneath on the front page of

the Guardian, there is a story about

votes for women, 100 years on from

that act and above that, there is a

story about an old gentleman 's

club.

It explains why men have been

much more privilege. I once by

mistake stepped into their

headquarters not knowing, because I

was lost, oh my God, you should have

seen their reactions, it was like an

alien had stepped in!

It is

interesting, we do think, we look at

Freemasons and we think about silly

rolled up trousers and mysterious

handshakes, it is almost slightly

comical and yet this story is quite

serious.

Yes, David Staples, the

Chief Executive of the United grand

Lodge of England, that might have

been where you wandered into, he

says being a Freemason helps those

members in roles serving society and

that they have good acts that are

done, too made a lot of money and

the more positive side is put

forward.

Why do they need to do

this? I give money to charity, I do

not need to be a dark circle to do

that. Women don't.

It is quite odd.

The mystery around it, something

that Freemasons believe, that is

part of the good thing but to many

others, it does us the most harm.

Recently we heard a suggestion that

a lot of police chiefs were in this.

I always suspected that there was a

judge is logged in here, because

they are so similar. Here is a

picture, of when we got the vote and

we are still living with these

gentlemen 's clubs.

Onto a totally

different thing, the Daily

Telegraph, at the bottom, records

numbers die of malnutrition in the

NHS, what are they talking about?

There is a story here that says that

record numbers are dying of

malnutrition in NHS hospitals and

statistics show that 351 patients in

England and Wales had malnutrition

listed on the death certificates, as

the underlying cause or contribute a

factor in 2016. It is a shame we

have only got the front page,

because they do not know how

malnutrition is judged because part

of the story suggest that there are

many elderly people who are living

alone who go into hospital and they

have not been looking after

themselves at home and they are

already malnourished and actually

there is a challenge for hospitals

in what they do. I don't know when

there are end of life care and some

people just do not have food for

example, whether they are listed as

malnourished.

I have a severely

mentally ill sister in hospital and

she is not eating and the food was

there when you went and it was quite

nice. I could not make it, the

nurses do not have the time to stand

there for an hour to persuade her.

Some of it has to do, what do you do

when a patient just says no.

Mental

health can be a huge factor.

And as

you say, time is a big factor. The

suggestion that if the nurses had

more time, they would spend it on

coaxing people.

Today my sister did

not want to eat a single sperm, I'd

tried and tried and my husband

tried, you cannot force her to eat

-- she did not want to eat a single

thing.

And shoulder times. This is

deep mined -- and the Financial

Times.

This was their artificial

intelligence efforts and they

started to divert some very clever

people and I was suspicious, it

sounded a bit scary. This story is

one of the first I have seen. It is

essentially crunching data from

thousands of retinal scans and they

are working with London Moorfields

eye Hospital, one of the best in the

world and what they are able to do,

the computers are effectively able

to pick out algorithms which are

identifying the early signs of eye

disease which they are claiming

humans would not have managed to

pick up. They are starting to work

out the similarities, picking up the

rhythms, different conditions and

what the early stages might be. It

is a massive breakthrough and it is

still in the early stages, where

they start to send it all off.

We

have all been talking about AI and

thinking it is sinister but it could

make a good difference. All this

thing with robots and the deep

technology which I do not even begin

to understand.

It could be

fantastic. When you think about

glaucoma and diabetes and the huge

impact they could have, this sort of

thing could make a difference to

people's eyes.

Finish as off, if the

weather does not. The killer freezes

coming.

It is going to be cold but I

keep thinking, we have an

unprecedented number of homeless

people now living in doorways and so

on and up to a point, I think they

can survive some temperatures, but I

wonder how many of them will not

survive unless councils make special

provision for them or some of them

just do not want to go indoors. We

never know the number of homeless

people who die over winter, we know

how many elderly people die, we need

to count them.

OK. Pressure on the

NHS always tends to come.

And fuel

bills, the cold weather is a hard

thing to cope with for everyone.

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