19/02/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Deborah Haynes,

Defence Editor of the Times,

and Jim Waterson,

political editor at Buzzfeed.

On his way to the Guardian as well

very soon.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Devils Incarnate

is the headline in the Metro -

with pictures of serial sex

offenders Barry Bennell

and Matthew Falder, who have each

been jailed for more than 30 years.

Brexit is the lead in the Guardian,

which previews a speech

by David Davis, who tomorrow

will say that Brexit

won't plunge Britain

into a "Mad Max" dystopia.

Brexit also features

on the front page of the The I -

which says the former

Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green

is asking the government to release

papers that detail the impact

of Brexit on the UK.

The Times says thousands of students

could have their final

year exams cancelled

because of strikes by lecturers.

The Telegraph focuses on pressure

from the Prime Minister

for Jeremy Corbyn to authorise

the release of cold war files

kept on him by Czech

and East German secret services.

The story also features on the front

page of the Daily Mail, which says

the Czech spy told his bosses Mr

Corbyn could be a 'useful source'.

The FT reports that hundreds

of branches of the fast-food chain

KFC are closed because they've run

out of chicken.

And 'Kentucky Fried Shut'

is the headline in the Sun -

which says 700 of KFC's 870 UK

branches remain closed.

Let's start off with the Daily Mail.

Deborah, tell us, the Corbyn story,

which is dominating quite if you

front pages, actually.

Yes,

absolutely. The news of the papers

tomorrow is how Theresa May has sort

of wade into this whole piece about

whether or not Jeremy Corbyn

provided information to a checks

buyer for stop

where does this come

from, new readers start here, where

has all this come from, this whole

story?

There is this agent that

seems to be talking an awful lot to

the mail and the Telegraph about his

interactions with Jeremy Corbyn. And

there are these sort of Cold War

papers, like a Stasi file, which

apparently was opened when he

visited East Germany in the 70s. --

East Germany. There is pressure

coming on Mr Corbyn to allow these

files to be opened, so people can

read what was actually shared by

him. But obviously he is denying

that he did anything wrong.

Similar

front page, Jim, on the Telegraph

actually.

What is Willy interesting

is that the sun started the story

last week and really pushed it. They

got hold of the original agent --

agent Cobb files from the archives.

But what is interesting. Agent Cobb

was supposedly his secret name. What

he revealed doesn't seem to be clear

or whether he would knew whether he

was meeting with the spies, even

less clear. But the fact that the

Telegraph and the Conservative Party

is really tried to make hay out of

this, they are really trying to push

this. They forward have a reason

think this is robot something that

could damage him. What intrigues me

from a political perspective is

whether they think this will cut

through to the general public, who

despite all the accusations put at

Jeremy Corbyn think that is ancient

history.

Seed don't think it will

damage him?

It could, but it is

whether people care for stop the

Conservatives in the last election

thought that Jeremy Corbyn, I will

choose my words carefully, but

friendship with Irish republicans in

the 1980s could be used to undermine

him. That was seen as their killer

card, and when the public find out

it will really destroy it. It didn't

really happen. So this sort of

stuff, the fact the party is pushing

it hard. There is a quote from the

defence minister on the Telegraph

front page, in which he says Kim

Philby was also using these sorts of

excuses, ie the Cambridge spy, which

was actually a tweet in reply to

Buzzfeed's media editor. He then

wrote back saying he wasn't

comparing him, he was just following

a few parallels. There are quite

know what the messages, but they

tried to push this idea that Jeremy

Corbyn can't be trusted on national

security.

And a nice cartoon on the

front page of the Telegraph. Can you

tell us about that?

It is a funny

one. The whole idea is why would you

really get a Jeremy Corbyn if you

wanted secret information on what

was going on in the British state?

So there is a picture of two Cold

War spies on a bridge in Prague. The

quote is I met Corbyn, he told me

his runner beans are doing well and

he might plant some courgettes.

Interestingly, in the Telegraph,...

A reference to his allotment, I

guess?

I guess so. A reference to

how MPs are looking to call this

checks by to give evidence. So it is

clearly something that will rumble

on that longer.

Page nine of your

paper, the Times, they have an angle

on this as well.

We have this

fantastic story, obviously I would

say that about my great paper.

You

are going to be debt from your

phone?

I will read it from iPhone, I

don't have the actual copy. My my

colleague, Dominic Kennedy was that

he has got hold of diplomatic

telegrams related to a fact-finding

mission to Grenada, after America

invaded the Commonwealth island,

that was the lead by none other than

Jeremy Corbyn. And the story goes,

he was helped by Sir Jeffrey Howell,

who was then Foreign Secretary under

Margaret Thatcher, and he sent two

diplomatic telegrams marked

restricted to the diplomatic editor

in grenade, ever questing that

maximum assistance be given to the

left-wing MP.

So what is this all

mean?

The discovery of Mr Corbyn's

discreet allowance -- alliance with

the Foreign Office at the height of

the Cold War indicates that the

authorities trusted him and it

raises the prospect that Mr Corbyn,

stay with me, who has met

representatives from violent

revolutionary groups, might have

continued to be helpful to the

British state as an intermediary for

stop

so rather being a

revolutionary...

007 Colvin.

Undercover for the Home Office,

maybe.

The possibilities are

endless! -- 007 Corbyn. Oxfam, and

their continuing trials and

tribulations over all the sex abuse

allegations in 80. This time the

chief of Oxfam in the dock

potentially.

The fact that Oxfam's

handling of this story, which the

Times broke two weeks ago now, the

extent to which they have really

aside from the horrific allegations,

they have also been terrible, in

terms of how they handle this.

Rather than just come out, say what

they knew, get everything out in the

open and clear it out, the fact

there has been a continuous fear of

a cover-up. The idea that the

organisation has something within it

that has been tolerating this sort

of thing. We have already seen a

deputy go but now it is coming right

to the top, and whether or not the

organisation is able to survive with

all the goodwill towards it, all the

people who do fundraising for it.

Do

you really think it might not

survive?

I think it will but the

fundraising, the big funding from

the government is under threat. If

you are doing your just giving page

for Oxfam, what will people be

willing to donate? It could be

catastrophic for the charity.

Let's

go on to the Guardian front page,

Barry Bannan getting 30 years for

what they call the evil reign over

boys. Deborah, it has been a

shocking story, really, hasn't it,

that has been coming out over the

last few days from the court case.

Absolutely. There were shouts of yes

when the sentencing came out. And it

has been a triumph for the Guardian,

who actually broke the story in the

first place, and such a difficult

subject, to be to get the witnesses

to come forward and get their

evidence. You know, you just hope

that this kind of very, very strong

sentencing for a heedless crime will

act as a deterrent: more than

anything.

And the bravery of the

guys who came forward, Daniel

Taylor, saying despite often being

quite low-key guys who just sort of

never thought they would be

appearing in papers and doing things

like this, and talking about how it

has ruined their lives.

The

Metropolitan act front-page combines

the two paedophile stories, Barry

Bennell and the Cambridge graduate,

Matthew Falder. Devils incarnate,

which was the judge's word in

reference to Barry Bennell actually.

Absolutely, Matthew Falder, the way

he used really truly horrific

tactics, using dark net stuff, to

basically blackmail people into

doing horrific acts is just truly

unimaginable. And again, the Barry

Bennell stuff, still playing out and

having an impact for stop

let's

finish off with probably the best

story of the day in some ways.

Kentucky fried chicken running out

of, guess what? Chicken. Out of this

ever happen?

It is to do with how

they have got a new delivery

contract, is that right?

I have just

been completely obsessed with the

story!

LAUGHTER

Are you a KFC man, then?

I am

absolutely not, but people have been

knocking on the doors of KFC,

demanding their fried chicken,

people writing to their MPs. Neil

Cole said he had lots of complaints

from constituents demanding that KFC

is open. And the cold country is in

uproar. -- the whole country. There

are videos of people knocking on

doors demanding to be let in for

their fried chicken, all because

DHL, the new delivery partner, can't

get the warehouse working. It is

just great to see that amidst all

the chaos and change happening in

the UK, if you take away people's

fried chicken, they get upset.

It

seems extraordinary if your main

function is to sell fried chicken,

you can't find any chicken to sell.

It is quite an oversight.

There was

apparently quite a serious element,

some of the workers at KFC, which

operate as a franchise, they are on

zero-hours contracts, and whether

they will get paid during this time

when there is no chicken.

They have

been told to take holiday, if they

want to.

Presumably a paid holiday,

if KFC cares about its brand.

You

would hope so.

Do you think it would

damage them reputation lay? It is

hugely embarrassing.

It will

probably boost their brand, if they

play it right and say we are open

now, we are really sorry, then

suddenly it has got onto all the

front pages and said the British

public love KFC.

They did make a

joke with that read, why did the

chicken cross the road? Not to get

the KFC. I will let you go and get

some fast food from somewhere else.

Thank you both very much for

reviewing the papers.

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Thank you Deborah and Jim.

Goodbye.