15/02/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the former

Trade Minister, Lord Digby Jones,

and the Broadcaster and Campaigner,

Henry Bonsu.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

Tomorrow's front

pages, starting with

The Metro which leads on the news

that the FBI was tipped off

about the Florida shooter

Nikolas Cruz - months before

the teenager carried

out one of America's

deadliest school attacks.

That story is also covered

by the Independent which carries

pictures of most of the 17 victims

who were mainly teenagers.

The Mirror says police investigating

football coach Barry Bennell -

who was convicted of abusing boys

in his care asked Gary Speed

if he was a victim.

The Telegraph leads on report

which suggests that young

professionals are half as likely

to be home owners as

they were 20 years ago.

The I focuses on a warning that

many household chemicals

are a risk to health.

Scientists say cleaning products,

cosmetics and perfumes are releasing

harmful particles into air.

The Times reports that thousands

more prisoners are to be released

early under a government drive

to relieve pressure

on overcrowded jails.

And the Daily Express carries

the story that eating two yoghurts

a week could significantly reduce

the chances of having

a heart attack.

That is a quick run through of the

newspaper front pages. The Florida

shooting dominating, and a striking

picture on the front of the

Telegraph and raising yet again, we

say this every time, the question of

gun control. They think anything

will change?

It raises the question

of gun control in the minds of

people who have lost loved ones, in

the minds of those usually on the

left in the United States, the

Democrats, but not in the minds of

those who are paid by the National

Rifle Association and the gun lobby,

nor in the mind of President Trump

who has treated and said, people of

America are you should not be scared

going to school, and there are

people there to protect you, and

everything apart from introducing

background checks which would make

it more difficult fight and alienate

a teenager to get his hands only of

war. If Sandy Hook wasn't able to

move the dial in 2012, and it is a

great shame and says a lot about

modern America.

President Trump's

remarks didn't mention gun control

at all and you talked about mental

health, and he is a big supporter of

the NRA and the gun lobby in the

United States, and it is a big

supporter of him.

The Telegraph,

this headline about the grieving

parent and it says a nation mourns

again.

From our point of view, how

many more times? If Sandy Hook

doesn't move the dial what is going

to? If you have a president who

doesn't talk about the fact that

this mentally deranged people walks

into a place and kill 17 people with

a gun, doesn't talk about, he

wouldn't have done that if he

doesn't have a time, he would still

be mentally deranged but he couldn't

use that as a channel to commit the

atrocity, so you have to step back,

but in the psyche of America, this

amendment was brought into the

constitution.

7091.

To protect

people in lonely places from

marauding gangs. -- 1791. When you

think a young person, a teenager in

America, the chances of being being

killed by a gun is tens of thousands

more likely than anywhere in Europe.

We are going to be seeing this again

and again and again and that is

disgusting.

In the Guardian, the

front page we have to say the

alleged gunman, 19-year-old Nikolas

Cruz appearing in court accused of

17 premeditated murders, but a lot

of questions about the FBI and

whether they will told in advance,

whether they knew in advance and

could have done something because he

was putting out stuff on social

media.

How much stuff that he put

out and how clearly was marked? I

understand that he made a comment in

response to a video that was posted

on YouTube and the FBI came and

interviewed the person who posted

the video but weren't able to trace

it to this young man. We found out

quite a bit about him. He was linked

to a far right white supremacist

group. He had said a lot of things

which alarmed the youngsters he went

to school with before he was

expelled, you know the said person

most likely... He was said person

most likely to shoot up the school

thought was an open secret and still

nothing was said.

And looking at the

treatment of this FBI in the papers,

it is not true. They knew it was

posted but couldn't trace it to him.

Headlines are not always accurate.

Let's move onto one of the big

stories at home, Barry Bennell, and

this is dominating some of the front

pages, the Times, football clubs

facing multi-million pound claims

over sex abuse will stop notorious

now, 64 years old and just been

convicted of 43 sex offences against

11 boys as young as eight.

A very

specific period, and that is often

the case when somebody becomes

notorious, other people who have

kept quiet for a long time come

forward. Police have disclosed that

a further 86 people have come

forward with allegations and they

will follow all these up seriously.

He is now suspected of being one of

Britain's's most suspected

paedophiles. Lawyers say that

compensation claims could reach more

than £250,000 per person because

many of these people were destroyed

psychologically. They didn't fulfil

their potential. They were abused,

that is talk of being linked to

suicide, no ending of this. Who

knows where it could go.

And if you

follow that, the quest for damages,

you need a deep pocket to sue, and

if you think about it it won't be

Barry Bennell who pays for this.

When you see the front of the

Guardian they take it one stage

further and actually put Manchester

City's name up in lights and said

they are seriously implicated in

this, were warned about his

behaviour and still let him carry

on.

Let's just see the Guardian, the

front page, Manchester City ignored

warnings and kept serial abuser and

the youth team setup. There are

going to be more questions.

There

are questions that you see so often

these victims, when they look for

financial compensation, the pocket

they have to go after those usually

doing time in prison for that very

thing. Here, they have got an

absolute slam dunk very wealthy club

who actually put this guy back in

charge of children, having been

warned, so I would suggest...

It is

when there is proof.

One little well

done this to a former Crewe

Alexandra player, Steve Walters,

where he waved his anonymity in 2016

to come up and say this man abused

me. That is staggeringly courageous,

especially in this game of football

where everyone is macho, I think it

is amazing, and because of that

others then said I was. I would say

Steve Walters has done a lot of

people some good and well done to

him, because in the match football

that is very difficult to start

talking about it.

And the more you

read about Barry Bennell you realise

how devious he was and it is a

particular person who goes into a

job where they have a petition of

trust, the parents are very keen and

hand over trust to a football club.

They think they are being

safeguarded, the same term used in

relation to Oxfam, and there are

certain types of devious people who

go on to these professions because

they know they have untrammelled

access the children.

Let's talk

about housing because it is a story

that in different ways is on a

couple of the front pages, and the

Telegraph runs it as its main story.

Middle-class millennial is priced

out of housing and young

professionals half as likely to be

homeowners as 20 years ago. Is that

the to you?

What it doesn't do is

ask why.

What do you think is the

reason why?

That is factual

analysis. Some of it is going to be

because in south-east England house

prices have increased at a rate way

beyond wages ability to borrow the

money to buy one, so good point,

what an awful lot of other parts of

Britain that is not the case, and

the a lot of this will be because

millennial is' choices and sense of

priority, what they want to do has

changed. What do they do? They go

and have expensive stagnates in Las

Vegas and weddings in the Caribbean

and then say I can't afford a house.

I am now millennial but I bought my

first property in 1983 on the

deposit they had to put down was

£2600 and that was in zone to

London. I am from Manchester, let me

land. The same person who wants to

buy a two-bedroom flat in London now

will have today is around a bit

£80,000. They will have two be

earning £80,000 a year.

Go up the M1

and it is not the same.

I know it is

not the same in Birmingham

Manchester a, but the thing is if

you have left in London all your

life or you live in the south-east

and your job is your...

I am

agreeing with you, I am merely

saying north of their people have

different priorities to that which

would lead you to buying a house or

need to buy a house and one of the

reasons as they accept renting as a

way forward if they can do other

things. Come on!

We have got to move

on, you can be here all night as you

usually are arguing about things.

Household products. Revealed as a

major cause of pollution.

The word

household is misleading because yes

it is the stuff that you put down

the toil and so on but here the

article is talking about shampoo,

talking about deodorant. Is personal

products. Household gives you the

connotation of stuff you clean the

house work and this is stuff you use

on the body and it is the healing of

it and the particular its in the ear

that get into your body and lungs

and do damage.

This is the kind of

problem that is on the links that

are usually sent to me and I would

think it is fake news, this is not

the kind of guy I am. Maybe it is

meant for a big day. But this is an

everyday product and if we are

trying to eradicate these I am not

sure how we would replace them.

Maybe someone will come up with

non-harmful particles but these are

embedded into our way of life just

as processed food is.

Very quickly I

will ask you about South Africa.

Jacob Zuma is gone and the new

president, are you optimistic? A new

dawn?

Has to be, a new dawn for the

rainbow nation but I wish people

would stop seeing everything went

downhill after 1994 because

everything was worse under

apartheid.

I am privileged to have

met all three presidents of South

Africa in office and the quality of

governance and leadership and

inspiration declined in that time.

He is right that compared with what

it is like under apartheid that is

all better.

But will it improve

going ahead?

It won't get any worse.

We are already seeing bounces and

all the economic indicators.

The

country's standing bubble up in the

world.

He is a very skilled

negotiator.

And he has been around a

long time. He knows how to play the

international market.

He does and

people will be optimistic.

He wants

to get the economy going and has to

get business and investment.

He

knows he is only in power now

because of the failures of Jacob

Zuma and he knows he will be judged

not just on the economy but on

dealing with corruption.

Great to

have both with us even if you argue

a lot. But we never talked about

Brexit.

That is a first for us!

Henry and Digby, thank

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