21/03/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

I'm joined by former Conservative

minister Nicola Blackwood and

political commentator and columnist

for the

Evening Standard, Ayesha Hazarika.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Times says advertisers are

threatening to abandon Facebook -

following Mark Zuckerberg admitting

that the company had

made mistakes over

the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Boris Johnson's comparison

between Vladimir Putin

and Adolf Hitler is the lead

in the Express.

On the FT - an image of Nigel Farage

throwing dead fish into the Thames -

in protest toward the UK remaining

in the common fisheries policy,

during the Brexit transition period.

The Telegraph reports on what it

calls Tory fury over a Franco Dutch

company being poised to start making

the UK's new blue passports.

The £4 billion pay boost for NHS

workers is the lead in the i.

The Metro also reflects

on the NHS pay-rise,

and has that image of Ant McPartlin,

who's been charged

with drink driving.

And it's the same story

in the Mirror, which says the TV

star has checked in to rehab.

And the Sun says there's

uproar in Lincolnshire,

where police officers

are being given two days off

to de-stress with yoga.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

Let's go to the Times front page

with the Facebook story writ large.

The main story in The Times is this

story, the scandal of Cambridge

Analytica, which continues to go on

and get larger, with advertisers now

threatening to pull out of Facebook.

They have some 3000 brands that use

Facebook. This comes on the day that

Mark Zuckerberg has finally broken

his silence and made a statement on

Facebook. Even though during those

five days we have had an operating

manager who has told the DCMS select

committee he warned the actions of

Facebook were outside rules. We have

still not heard an apology from

Zuckerberg.

You say finally, do you

think you should have said more

earlier?

One of the reasons

investors are suing and advertisers

have pulled out, there has felt like

there has been an absence of

leadership.

It doesn't look good at

all. The thing that is becoming

clear about Facebook is that for a

lot of us, we thought it was a nice

and fluffy platform for posting

pictures of our babies and pets and

actually it's a ruthless marketing

platform and the deal is, you get to

do all the fluffy nice things, and

we get to harvest all your

information. Everybody kind of knows

that's the deal and we know it

happens with advertising, but when

it moves into politics and slightly

more serious issues like democracy,

I think people do want to know. Add

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most

powerful men on the planet now.

These new tech giants have so much

power, but with that comes

responsibility. I think the fact he

has not said sorry... I have been

reading his statement. It's very,

very long, but the word that is

missing is sorry.

He does say, we

made mistakes, there is more to do,

we need to step up and do it. He

pledged to investigate suspicious

looking apps and banned developers

who refused to comply with an audit.

Is that enough?

He also said it is

against our policy for developers to

share data without our users'

consent. It's also against data

protection laws to share that data.

New laws were becoming in in May and

breaches of that law will incur

penalties of up to 4% of worldwide

revenues, which means that these are

now laws that have real bite and

companies will have to pay attention

to them. Not only that, it also

means this is a wake-up call for

companies like this about

reputation. What we have seen is the

delete Facebook hashtag trending. It

remains to be seen whether those

will be followed with actions, but

what we are seeing is a move from

people being happy with companies

just relying on data protection, and

they want that to be followed with

data ethics.

To conclude this, I

think the idea of people deleting

Facebook is not going to happen.

It's a social lifeline for a lot of

people. I have relatives in India

and it's incredibly helpful for me.

But us as consumers, and users of

this, we have to get more savvy

about what is happening with our

data and our privacy. People at

Facebook have to be much clearer

with us, the users, about what the

deal is, and allow us to opt in and

opt out of things.

Let's go to the

i, a pay rise hope for the NHS.

The

pay cap on public sector workers,

particularly in the NHS, has been a

sore deal for a long time. Public

sector workers feel they have borne

the brunt of austerity. We have

heard stories of nurses going to

food banks and lots of horrendous

things like that. It looks like a

deal has been reached for nurses.

They do still have to vote on it.

It

does feel like the unions and

government are in a good place.

Most

unions seem to be with it.

I would

argue that it would have been good

if this could have been done earlier

because people have had a hard time.

In real terms you have seen the cost

of living going up and it's been

hard for nurses. The question now

is, what about the other public

sector workers, teachers, classroom

assistants, firefighters? They all

do important jobs in society.

As a

former government minister, Nicola,

I'm intrigued to know how you see

this. Clearly that's an issue at the

headline points to the fact that

wants one group of public sector

workers sees something better, the

others are bound to want the same.

If you look at health, this is not

the only pay deal which has been

settled. This has had the biggest

news, £4.2 billion of new money from

the Treasury, and it's a significant

amount of money, and we are seeing

the lowest amount going up to

potentially 29% pay rises. It's

coming from the Treasury reserves.

And the GP contract has been agreed,

£256 million more. We know doctors

and dentists will have to follow

suit. These pay settlements will be

coming forward. I think what has

become clear in terms of the way the

government is looking at it, it's

not just about the fact these are

incredibly hard-working public

sector workers, who have been on

tight budgets for a really long

time, it's also about recruitment

and retention. In some places, like

my own constituency in Oxford and

Abingdon, it's become a real

challenge with the cost of living

going up inexorably.

One of the

reasons the Conservatives failed to

get the majority and lost a lot of

seats at the general election, a lot

of public sector workers got sick

and tired of the pay cap. I think

the Conservative Party paid quite a

heavy price for that paid.

The

express, Boris says Putin is just

like hit her.

With characteristic

bluntness and use of language, Boris

makes the point about what he sees

as the risks of the World Cup. --

Putin is just like Hitler. We know

with the World Cup, the use of

propaganda extends to sporting

events. We saw it with the Sochi

Olympics and the doping scandal that

followed. I think the concerns Boris

has raised are perfectly reasonable.

The politicising of the World Cup. I

think the question which then

follows is twofold. The first is,

who should then attend? And I think

he is right that having worked so

hard for all of this time, it's

right for the team to attend, but

the next question that follows is

the safety of the fans, and ensuring

that safety. I know discussions are

going to follow on that, but I think

it will be a really crucial part of

the picture.

Lots of discussions

about whether England should even go

to the games. As a Scot, we took a

decision early on not to get to the

World Cup! We took a very principled

decision!

LAUGHTER

We look to the future and saw bad

things coming down the track and

said no. That's what I would like to

believe.

I'm sure that's how Gordon

Strachan sees it!

You have to look

on the bright side. It's a difficult

issue. Everybody is talking tough

around Putin. To be slightly

cynical, I think it's easy for Boris

to ramp up the rhetoric. Equating

Putin to Hitler I think is a bit of

a stretch, to be honest. Putin is

definitely a bad man. Hitler killed

millions and millions of Jewish

people and other people, so I think

it's a big reach. What I think Boris

Johnson should be doing, and Theresa

May is cracking down on tackling

money coming in from Russia to this

country. They have done good on the

diplomats. There is the Magnitsky

Act, which they should be putting

into place to allow us to crackdown

on foreign officials involved in

corruption, but there is a lot of

dirty Russian money coming through

London. I think a little less

hysterical overblown rhetoric like

this and C as crackdown on that kind

of stuff.

I will invite you both to

move reasonably swiftly through the

next few selections. A word about

the Metro, and Ant McPartlin, and

where it will leave ITV.

It's a

really sad story. Ant McPartlin has

been struggling for a long time. And

on deck are a large drawer for ITV.

For the rest of the season it

presents ITV with a huge challenge

and Dec has said he will go through

with the remainder of programmes

without Ant. The question is whether

that can be sustained for the rest

of the season.

It's hard to

visualise it for either of them.

I

read that they had a pact that they

would always do television together.

They grew up together, they were

teenagers when they entered the

spotlight. It's very sad, but

hopefully their friendship will help

them come through this.

Nigel Farage

and some fish on the front of the

Financial Times.

Just when you think

Brexit can't get any more

ridiculous, it is the spectacle of

Nigel Farage throwing dead fish into

the River Thames as a protest at the

fact that fishing is not going to

change as much as we thought it

would. We are not going to take back

control of fishing in the way we had

somehow promised. I think, you know,

the whole thing was a completely

ludicrous stunt, but then again, the

Leave campaign did go around doing

some ridiculous stunts during the

campaign as well.

Says a Remainer.

A

lot of people are saying... They are

on the warpath saying it's an

important industry. I'm not saying

it's not, but there were other

groups in society, take the staff in

the NHS, we employ a lot of people

in the NHS and they are wondering

where the £350 million per week

plastered on the bus is.

We are not

going to rerun that campaign again.

We haven't got time. Nicola,

sticking with that theme, the

Telegraph, the blue Brexit passports

might not be made in Britain.

They

might not be made by a British

company, they might be made by a

Franco Dutch company. The concern

made by some Brexiteers is that the

reason for this is because European

rules required the tender to be put

out across the EU and it has been

won not by a British company, and

the symbolism of this is not what

we're after during the Brexit period

I have to say, I think all concerned

need to lift up their eyes and look

at where we are trying to end up as

an end goal, which is to come out of

Brexit with an economy that is

strong and with the right results. I

think Michael Gove put it quite well

when he said, keep the eye on the

prize. You want to have trade

negotiations through the transition

period and have a pragmatic result

at the end where immigration rules

are right, and the terms of

transition give certainty to

companies. Some of these issues, it

feels like they have some

importance, they are perhaps not top

priority.

I will ask you to pause

now, to give us 30 seconds to

reflect on back pain. According to

The Times, treatment is useless.

A

subject close to the back of my

heart. It's about getting hooked on

drugs and painkillers and opioids,

what people should be doing is using

psychological therapy and exercise.

So instead... Back pain is a huge

issue, suffered by 9 million people

in Britain. One out of every seven

GP appointments is about back pain.

The message is, don't just pop

pills, gets down and do some

Pilates.

About five years ago I

couldn't turn my neck at all. I went

to a physio who was also a Pilates

teacher and she did everything with

physio and couldn't fix it. She said

I wouldn't respond to any touching,

try doing exercise. And I did, and I

can now turn my head.

Beautiful. I

am living proof that the article is

correct.

Thank you both for the

papers tonight.

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Thank you to you both. Goodbye.