11/02/2018 The Papers

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This is BBC News.

I don't know what they are laughing

at!

We'll be taking a look at tomorrow

morning's papers in a moment.

First the headlines.

The government is warning Oxfam

and other UK charities that funding

will be withdrawn if they fail

to cooperate with the authorities

in cases of sexual

exploitation by staff.

A Russian passenger aircraft has

crashed shortly after taking off

from Domodedovo Airport in Moscow,

killing all 71 people on board.

Theresa May and some of her senior

ministers are to give speeches over

the coming weeks setting out

the future relationship the UK wants

with the EU after Brexit.

The leader of South Africa's ruling

ANC party, Cyril Ramaphosa,

says the future of the country's

president, Jacob Zuma,

will be finalised tomorrow.

The Foreign Office says it is

providing support

The Foreign Office says it is

providing support to the families of

six British visitors involved in a

helicopter action and in the Grand

Canyon which killed three people.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are parliamentary journalist

Tony Grew and the entertainment

journalist Caroline Frost.

So pleased to have you here.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Metro leads with former

Development Secretary Priti Patel's

response to the Oxfam scandal,

and her claims that exploitation

in the aid sector is rife.

The Express warns that icy

weather is on its way,

with forecasters saying blizzards

could lead to power cuts and even

affect mobile phone signal.

I would be quite glad if that

happened!

The Guardian reports

that £34 million

of government funds could be at risk

for Oxfam following the

allegations of sexual misconduct.

The Telegraph also

leads on the former

Development Secretary's comments

that warnings about sexual

exploitation in the aid sector had

previously been dismissed.

The Times has a story about time

pressures at the Home Office over

the need to create separate systems

to register existing EU citizens and

those who will arrive after March

next year.

Lots of interesting front

pages for our paper

reviewers to discuss.

Thank you very much for joining us

this Sunday evening.

Starting with the Metro and the

Oxfam scandal, Tip of the iceberg.

This is the former development

secretary speaking, we heard from

penny Mordaunt early in the day but

this is Priti Patel.

This story is

going to grow and grow. We have been

talking about Haiti and it has now

moved to Chad. Clearly, if the

allegations turn out to be true,

this is exploitation on a grand

scale. We know that Haiti is one of

the most disaster struck, poverty

riddled countries in the world and

the idea that Oxfam workers, charged

with going in there and doing good,

are somehow abusing their positions

to enjoy them selves in some of the

Hellenistic fashion, it is a double

bad, a good person using a position

of authority to commit something he

missed -- head on a stick fashion.

These people are there to help and

they are taking advantage. --

hedonistic fashion.

These are entitled men who feel they

have an entitlement to put their

hands on women, vulnerable women,

children in poor countries, and it

is also about the culture of these

charities, multi-million pound

charities. There has been disquiet

about the way the charity industry

conducts itself, particularly in

Haiti where half £1 billion was

donated and very little was done

with it apart from staying in

expensive hotels and driving round

in four by four vehicles. Oxfam let

three men resign from their

positions during an enquiry into

sexual exploitation and the only

reason they did that was to protect

their own reputation and that is

another part of the story. I think

this will grow, Oxfam is not the

only major charity taking tens of

millions of pounds from the UK, both

from taxpayers and the British

people. It is the culture of

entitlement and also sequencing and

back covering within the charity

sector.

The Daily Telegraph also has

this as its lead, ministers to

investigate aid abuse cover-up,

pursuing those claims. It does not

matter where the funding come from,

it is what is being done in the name

of charity.

A couple of interesting

things is, last liked the line from

the government significantly

hardened, they said on Saturday they

would have a chat but by last night,

Penny Mordaunt was saying you are

going to cut off funding unless they

come in and tell us everything that

has been going on and assure us they

have safeguards in place. And to

point out, the Dev Patel -- Priti

Patel as written in the Telegraph

saying that when she raised the

issue in the department it was only

a problem with UN peacekeepers which

is subsequently shown to be

incorrect. She was rebuffed having

raised this and it shows us about

what you might call the

international development culture.

They can't be aid workers, but is

not possible thing they do. The

attitudes that pervade the charities

also seem to pervade the government

department responsible for

administering the way in which UK

aid is distributed and I find it

concerning.

It is an uncomfortable

thing to have to accept.

What I find

particularly sad about this, I

studied for my ethics degree under

investor Peter Singer who is a right

activist and has dedicated almost

five decades to read disputing

wealth amongst the poorest people

from the richest -- redistributing.

He said that if you're not sure what

to do with your hard earned cash,

one place to put it where it is safe

is Oxfam, he has been saying that

for years. The idea that somebody

who I studied with all of that work

and belief, that we can feel safe,

we put our hands and our pockets, it

is the Blue Peter appeal, part of

our goodwill conscience for years

and the idea that so much of that

good work will be undone by this is

a real shame.

Moving on and we will

stay with the Daily Telegraph who is

doing well out of us tonight. Three

out of five stories. Take your sick

children to the pharmacy, not the

GP. This is the NHS saying it.

That

is because 5 million parents of

children under the age of five, 18

million GP appointments and 2.1

million A&E visit taken up by

patients by condition that could be

treated at home. They are clogged up

with children who don't have much

wrong with them and a pharmacist can

sort it out but the problem is,

parents are not doctors. They cannot

diagnose. Whilst promises are

extremely highly qualified, and no

doubt if they saw something that

required medical attention, they

would advise them to see a GP, I'm

still slightly concerned at this

advice. Parents are being asked to

make a judgment about the child's

illness.

The chief executive of the

UK sepsis trust is saying that

parents should trust them, this is a

high-risk strategy. Normally with

small kids, they bring you in early

because small children can become

very poorly very quickly.

And spread

many illnesses quickly amongst

schools and nursery groups. I can

remember writing an article for the

practical examiner when I was

studying about the undervalued and

underused resource that is pharmacy

in the country because they train

for up to seven years, they note all

of those things -- they know. I

think they are underused. I am

stunned that nearly two decades

later they are having the same

discussion. Clearly the message has

not got through. It must be about

balancing, the instinct of every

mother is to fear the worst. Perhaps

it has gone the other way and they

are trying to balance it out but

there will be some horror stories.

I

agree I have attended the event with

community pharmacists and they are

and underused resource but perhaps

targeting children is not the way to

go.

Looking at the Guardian, we

can't have a paper review without

Brexit, what is going on? There it

is. Penny Mordaunt pledge of a

further £100,000 to fight Brexit.

-- Soros to pledge a further

£100,000.

We have heard other donors

putting their money into other pots

and he has joined the fight. It'll

take some hard cash to bring groups

together. We have seen how pressure

groups can work when well funded and

organised over the likes of

Momentum, and we will see if this

amount of cash input makes any

difference. So far, what do we know?

It is a bit of an editorial free for

all so we will see if hard cash

makes any difference and make the

message any clearer.

What is he

trying to do?

Stimulate the debate

about what the Brexit the UK might

have. It sounds like a lot of money

to us but I would point out that

five men effectively between them

bankrolled the Leave campaign,

putting in almost 50 million in, --

15 million. It is worth pointing out

that this organisation, test for

Britain, has raised £50,000

combination to Saint Wednesday so

there is some support for it -- Best

for Britain. It is not some evil

billionaire try to influence public

opinion.

You think his money has

spearheaded the donations?

His

support for the organisation might

well have done that comes back to

the point that we don't have a clue

our Brexit look like and the

government doesn't.

We are finding

out with the speeches.

Which will no

doubt contradict each other because

there has been no decision in

Cabinet. Theresa May had done an

amazing job of taking it down the

road from other 18 months, the EU

has no idea what we want, it is

difficult for them to come to a

negotiating position so that

everything is to play for in this

sense. If Theresa May had won her

huge Parliamentary majority for her

hard Brexit, we would have a

different situation but the reality

is there is no parliamentary

majority for a hard Brexit. She will

either as to defy her own party and

the like on the votes of Labour MPs

to get a more soft version of

Brexit, possibly involving sums of

the customs union which would solve

multiple problems but the

manufacturing and the Irish border.

The Irish border as well, that is

used to get put to one side so

frequently.

People then remember

that it is a big deal. And we

haven't heard about it for awhile

because the DUP are keeping their

powder dry until the next time they

are asked to agree with the Cabinet

or government about something. As

Tony said, this is not a huge the

money but it an interesting figure,

we need these faces to come up, it

is what we have been lacking, they

have Boris, Mr Gove, Jacob

Rees-Mogg, leader in waiting if you

read certain editorials. I feel it

is up to the Remainers to find

somebody suitably high profile and

dynamic and it could be an

87-year-old millionaire.

There was

Gina Miller with her legal

challenge. Why are you smiling?

I

find the idea is Jacob Rees-Mogg

being promised both hilarious and

terrifying! A year ago I would have

said no but these days who knows? I

don't think he would command the

support of the majority of the

Parliament who party. He might have

supporters but there are more than

300 Tory MPs and if there was a

leadership challenge at the minute,

Tory MPs would end up Bachinger

Theresa May. But again, let's see

where we are.

You are a brave man to

make such statement -- backing

Theresa May. And finally back to the

Daily Telegraph. We need somebody

with a technical mind to step in and

help us with this story. Hackers

hijack thousands of government

websites to mine BitCoin.

You're

looking at me!

It is to do with the

internet! That's all I've got.

What

I know is that it takes a lot of

processing power to mine crypto

currencies. And it seems that

different government websites are

being harnessed to bring that

processing power. You can use the

metaphor.

It is the equivalent, we

know that sometimes your broadband

gets nicked by your neighbour. These

are very thorough neighbours with a

million password at their disposal,

this is them effectively borrowing

the broadband from an attire

neighbourhood, city, town, whatever,

to create the processing power

needed.

More insidiously, there may

be some kind of virus infection.

There are questions for government

to answer, not least that the

information Commissioner's office is

one of the websites...

They must

survive a laugh when they that.

It

is also pointing out that there are

easy steps that the government can

take to stop it happening.

We will

do that later, I am so relieved that

story is over!

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