12/02/2018 The Papers

With me are Martin Bentham,

Home Affairs Editor

for the London Evening Standard,

and Times columnist Jenni Russell.

Many of the front pages are in,

so let's take a look

Many of the front pages are in,

so let's take a look.

The Telegraph leads with the ongoing

scandal surrounding Oxfam -

with claims of abuse in charity

shops involving staff,

as well as overseas aid workers.

The I takes up the same

story on its front page -

focusing on the resignation

of Oxfam's deputy chief executive.

That story features

in the Guardian too -

which also has big picture

of British snowboarder Aimee Fuller,

falling victim of the gusty winds

at the Winter Olympics

in Pyeongchang.

The Metro carries a photo of one

of the survivors of the Grand Canyon

helicopter crash -

in which three people were killed.

The Express focuses on a report

which says that drugs used to treat

arthritis might also cut

the risk of dementia.

The Financial Times' top story

is Barclays' ongoing legal

battle over alleged cash injections

from Qatari investors.

And The Mirror leads

on apparent visits made

by Meghan Markle to the victims

and survivors of the Grenfell Tower

fire - with the paper

dubbing her as the 'new people's

princess'.

So our main story tonight -

the allegations against Oxfam staff

- makes most of the front pages

of tomorrow's papers.

So let's start with

the I's coverage.

And I am ashamed of this happened on

my watch, says the woman who

resigned, but possibly seven years

later?

Yes. At least somebody has

taken responsibility, so credit to

her, in that at least. Clearly what

has happened here, she has admitted

she was international programmes

director at the time and failed to

do enough when the concerns about

the main perpetrator and one of his

staff were raised in Chad, and then

he was allowed to move to high ET,

where the new allegations have since

surfaced and led to all this

terrible concern about what has been

happening at Oxfam. She has

resigned, the Chief Executive

remains under pressure, because he

was not chief executive of the time,

but still, there ongoing questions

which we will talk about in a second

about how quickly they acted, not

just at the time in Haiti, but also

subsequent to that, and whether they

have done enough onwards.

And the

Paton Tapp The i, do you get the

sense that the papers are making any

of that state?

It is hard to know

what the chains of responsibility

are comment is difficult to know

what oversight Judy was, of the

Charity commission or what Oxfam

told them and all of that is yet to

be covered. I think it is pretty

striking that having watched the way

that some of Oxfam's executors have

responded today. My faith in the

charity has really been shattered to

some extent. I assumed when the

stories first came out and it was

broken by my newspaper, the Times,

and I think it is a fantastic job

they did on it. But I think I

assumed it had to be a few

exceptions. And when you listen to

the woman who whistle-blower today,

saying that actually I brought all

these concerns, including the fact

that on a single day she had

allocations brought to her of

coerced sex in other countries by

three Oxfam workers in one day, she

took her concerns to the board, and

they told her that they had read her

paper and didn't want to listen to

her talking about it. He truly seems

they did not take seriously the fact

that if you send people who have

immense power into situations where

other people are dependent upon

them, then some people who was to

miss use that power will be

completely free to do so unless

there are consequences.

Yes, so that

particular line is obviously the key

story on the front page of the

Telegraph, Martin. They are saying,

their headline, Oxfam workers offers

aid to sex, which is a very serious

allegation.

Precisely, this is the

interviewer talking about, which was

on Channel 4 News. Clearly it is a

massive problem that has been

exposed, and one that has been far

too slow to be acted upon. And the

great irony of this is that of

course in disaster zones in

particular, one of the great things

charities try to do is set up safe

spaces and work to protect

vulnerable women in particular and

young girls, and of course some of

this is about the alleged abuse of

children, not just women, children,

even worse, and yet the charities

working to try to protect them on

one hand, and then the staff appear

to have been engaging in this type

of abusive behaviour, and whilst it

was known, and as you say, we don't

quite know how far this will go

faster we don't know if it will just

be restricted to Oxfam or whether

other charities...

That is

incredibly unlikely, it is never

going to be the case that only one

organisation has the problem, as it

was that Harvey Weinstein was the

only powerful man abusing people in

his industry. We have to fit a

caveat, having spent a lot of time

abroad and with people that work in

aid, most of them are highly

motivated and a fantastic job. My

concerns about Oxfam here is that

they were not willing to recognise

when a few people are behaving

badly. Let's not tell the whole of

the aid sector, because there are an

awful lot of incredibly committed

people who work in appalling

conditions, doing very brave things,

and we should be grateful to them

for that.

It is kind of the response

to the problem is most worse than

the original problem, or consumes

the original problem.

I was in high

ET after the earthquake and have

been there a few times since, and

seen the things you are talking

about, people doing quite valuable

work I do help people in desperate

situations, try to help them.

They

must be completely dismayed today

first

you think of those lovely old

ladies in the Oxfam charities shops

you going to, think how they must be

feeling, giving up their time

willingly and at the moment the

whole brand is in danger of being

tarnished, which is why the Chief

Executive at the time and all the

staff should have taken them

seriously. They should not have

breasted under the carpet. Think

much pressure there would have been

if they said we have discovered

this, we have sacked these people,

they will never work in the AIDS

sector again and this is what we'll

do about it.

That defensive

behaviour by big institutions are

something we have seen over and over

again. Let's just move onto another

story in the front page the

Telegraph and stop the US saying

take back your jihadists. What is

that all about?

It is all about the

foreign fighters who have been

captured in Syria and Iraq. The US

administration apparently suggesting

that those countries from which they

have come should take ownership and

deal with them, rather than

necessarily the Americans having to

pick up the problem, or indeed those

people floating around and

disappearing off elsewhere to cause

trouble elsewhere. It is angled

here, talking about the two

so-called Beatles, former British

citizens, who both had their

citizenship stripped from this

country. But only we will be having

them back and I think the Americans

will want to prosecute themselves

anyway. In that particular case

because of the appalling acts they

are alleged to have committed

against American citizens.

Given how

unpopular government is, I don't

want this kind of election winning

slogan for we are bringing back as

his supporters to Britain to take up

time and jail space. Absolutely a

no-no.

Moving on to the Guardian, a

sharp rise in admissions for eating

disorders. The story of interest to

many families of teenage girls.

The

number of admissions to hospital

treating disorders has almost

doubled from 2010 from just over.

It goes along with the fact that

there has been a sharp decline in

mental health among teenage girls in

particular. The Kara Mbodj exact

figures but within the last ten

years their suicide rate has

doubled. Almost approaching that of

young men, which has always been

high. Medical experts think this is

all to do with the increased

pressure on girls in particular, and

it is social media, and having to

look and behave perfectly, and the

injured everything OK, and the

appalling popularity contest, as you

put your pictures and your feeds

online, seeing how many likes you

get. It is devastating people.

Basically they are all having to

live as if they are in the public

eye and they are only children.

So

Martin, in terms of the detail of

this, this is so fuzzy, the sprint,

I can't see it, but the numbers

about 13,000.

Yes. As it says, it

has doubled in basically a decade or

so.

Which is shocking, isn't it?

Absolutely frightening. The trouble

is, each individual person who

suffers that, it is heartbreaking

for their families and stop terrible

for them. It needs proper

investigation to find out what is

causing this. The fairer ways in

which some of those pressures can be

alleviated to that fewer people and

up this way. It is the wrong way to

be going, not the right way.

But it

is also the case that government

cuts to children's mental health

services over the past few years, I

know Jeremy Hunt has said this way.

It is the wrong way to be going, not

the right way. But it is also the

case that government cuts to

children's mental health services

over the past few years, I know

Jeremy Hunt has a business now be a

target and a focus for the

government and make every much in is

the case that people working in

adolescent mental health services

often find when children are

referred to them because they are in

crisis, they can be given

appointments 80 months ahead, which

is worse than useless. That is half

your time in six form, if you are a

child.

Yes. Cilic ourselves up at

all with the next Tory?

Let's try!

No limit on entry exam fails for

aspiring teachers, so if you are a

teacher you can fail as many times

as you like, basically. This is the

The i.

Used to be ruled out after

three tonnes of have to wait two

years to retake. The same does not

apply for the normal exams that

pupils take.

Are they allowed to

teach during?

This is before they

have qualified.

The problem with

this is that it is the side-effect

of government policy, the fact that

teaching has become such a high

stress occupation, in which teachers

are being measured at the time on

how their children achieved, and

children of cream taught the test.

The quality -- children are being

put to the test. The pressure on

both children and teachers is

increasing dramatically, and so many

teachers are leaving and so many

more don't want to come into it, but

actually this is not an answer. The

answer is how do you make the

teaching profession less stressful,

more productive and more attractive.

Just try and shovel in some of the

people that aren't up to it by

saying never mind, can just keep

retaking interview fluke a parcel

stop sorry about that, it was your

fault, it was your story!

The

mirror, Meghan's secret visits to

comfort Grun for victims. They have

visits plural, is it that committee

meeting?

We don't know, but it seems

like a very good idea.

It is not

very clear, it says has visited the

Grenfell Tower site, so we don't

know the answer to that one. Not a

very cheerful topic but at least she

is doing something positive to try

to help people there, and good for

her.

The important thing is we all

remember to Theresa May turning up

to visit the Grenfell Tower victims

looking absolutely petrified,

surrounded by her security detail.

Doing a few handshakes with some of

the firefighters and other people at

the fire and then fleeing without

actually beating any of the victims.

And that so much increased

everyone's rage at the time. And in

the Queen turned up unannounced,

think of was the following day, and

Prince Harry, and they spent time

with the victims, and they shook

hands, and they talk to them, and

you could see how moved the Queen

was, and you could see that it

completely calmed a very few BREL

situation at that point. There is

still in the society something very

special about being visited by

royalty. I think at times of such

enormous divisions in this area. It

is a good thing.

And in the people's

and says, that is special for

people. We just have time for one

more, a picture story, the Financial

Times has got these interesting

portraits of the Obamas.

Exactly, I

like the bit in particular about

Barack Obama. To negotiate to have

less grey hair and smaller ears, but

the portrait artist said nowhere,

and there it is. What is and all.

Not many warts, in fact, most people

would be happy to look like he did.

That is a great tradition of

poultry, all portrait artists

throughout the centres have tried to

flatter their subjects. --

throughout the centuries. I was a

bit struck, having the portrait of

Barack Obama is pretty fabulous, and

you really see his characters with.

He looks thoughtful, intelligent yet

composed. But I don't think that

this picture of Michelle Obama looks

like at all.

I'm with you.

She likes

it, apparently.

She's not going say

she doesn't.

If we think of all the

sitting she must of had and all the

time, to manage to produce a

portrait that actually doesn't look

like this woman? I think that is a

fail.

These are going in the

Smithsonian, right, in the National

portrait Gallery?

The great thing is

it is the first time obviously that

a black president has been there by

definition, so it is a breakthrough

in that sense.

We have two Corletto

day there. Thank you so much

rejoining us. Come back again -- we

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