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as this is the guy call especially as this is the guy call one of the stupidest thing is a rich man has done is build that ghastly new headquarters in the, rowing a beautiful cityscape of st paul's. it is hideous, go and have a look, and don't have a listen to him. is that is the single stupidest thing that any man has ever done! the telegraph, super—rich hacked in bermuda data leak, what is that about? this appears to be another story where a company called appleby. story where a company called appleby, based in bermuda, with offices in many tax havens, who is warning their client tonight that there has been a leak, and i think a lot of people are in desperate conversations with their lawyers to night trying to understand the damage. how sorry we feel for the! are they quaking in their boots? the panama papers were very embarrassing
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to some people, including the then prime minister david cameron, but if sunlight is the best disinfectant, maybe it is a good thing. who knows. isa maybe it is a good thing. who knows. is a data leak a good thing? the sunlight point is a good one, it is all out of the open. but the other side is the internet security side. how safe is the private data, and how far do these leaks go? ridgers makes it awkward if it is very rich people are not you and me, but from an internet security point of view, who else might fall prey to it? it isa who else might fall prey to it? it is a question to ask. john, universal credit is the front page
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in the independent, selling three quarters of the public want the time cup for people have to wait before they get their benefit. the six-week delay built into the system is the focus now of intense pressure on the government, a lot of backbenchers are very worried about it, and this will add to the pressure on the government. the poll is interesting in that people are not persuaded of the benefits of universal credit, people wanted to be stopped altogether. what is the reason for this delay? is it a computer?m altogether. what is the reason for this delay? is it a computer? it is built—in. this delay? is it a computer? it is built-in. people are saying they have had to wait months and months. that is where it goes wrong, but it
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is designed to be your paid per in arrears, so is designed to be your paid per in arrears, so when you first claim can wait six weeks because it is supposed to take into account what your circumstances are over the previous month. see you think it is flawed? i do, and purely for the purposes of saving money. it would cost a huge amount to have payment is made within two weeks, which is the existing... iain duncan smith, the existing... iain duncan smith, the creator, says it is a great reform. he has been speaking out against the delay, actually? really? it is his delay. they have had seven yea rs it is his delay. they have had seven years to sort this out. we have heard these reports about these conversations going on, arguments, debates within the treasury, and it was meant to be iain duncan smith's
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baby, he was passionate about welfare reform, but what i heard was that the money was simply not forthcoming from the treasury, which ended up in something massively problematic in the way it was finally delivered, and i think that is one of the reasons iain duncan smith cited as the reason for him to leave that post, but it is unacceptable that you have this six—week wait, these are the most vulnerable people you are dealing with, and i cannot see how there cannot be a turnaround needed. with, and i cannot see how there cannot be a turnaround neededm with, and i cannot see how there cannot be a turnaround needed. it is a warning from the chief executive of virgin money on the financial times, saying that sexism is prevalent in the financial services industry. i missed this, iwas in the house of commons today but i missed this evidence. it looks interesting, and achieve executive
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of virgin money says that sexism is a real problem in city firms, and quoting someone she is to work with, a senior woman royal bank of scotland who was upset because she was expected to sleep with her boss. it is astonishing that such attitudes are carrying on. to think in the wake of harvey weinstein that other industries are now looking to see how they can improve themselves, and this is one example? what became clear after the harvey weinstein scandal broke was that it wasn't anything to do with that industry at all, it seems like women found the courage to finally speak out, and it seemed as quite a prevalent thing in almost every industry, we have talking about it, parabili european parliament is a hotbed of sexism and women have been putting up with this role on time. we were to give sunlight being the best
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disinfectant, this is one way of dealing with it, the more women who speak out the better. but the message needs to be very clever young girls considering careers in these industries. it is also a place for us to go and find aaron feet. people have worked hard over the yea rs people have worked hard over the years so people have worked hard over the years so that women of my generation can find years so that women of my generation canfind our years so that women of my generation can find our feet years so that women of my generation can find ourfeet in years so that women of my generation can find our feet in the world. and there is this women in finance charter, the initiative to boost gender diversity in the city of the, but the chief executive virgin money was saying a couple of the big investment banks didn't sign up.” think the bank of england only signed up just a think the bank of england only signed upjust a little think the bank of england only signed up just a little while ago, and this has been going on for some time. but i worry about these fancy
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signing up to charter is where. about themselves because they have ticked the box. and also in the f t, china, this communist party congress, and president xijinping, and carrie gracie, are china editor was saying he is the new red emperor, he is the new chairman mao. and his name has been written into the chinese communist party constitution, which is a big deal. mao zedong is the only other person who has been in his lifetime written into the constitution. i don't know enough about china, but i find that fairly reassuring in the sense that president xi seems to be a fairly
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capitalist moderniser. running, ennis party! who is bringing china into 21st—century. 21st—ce ntury. we were 21st—century. we were rather that they were democratic and liberal and respected human rights, especially in tibet, but the system seems to be working, and it is extraordinary have this huge comres party congress in a country with more billionaires than america, apparently. it is fascinating. one of the things i also find interesting is that it seems like mr xi has not pointed any officials young enough to be a guaranteed success as a president, anatomy would sooner he will hold office beyond 2022. he will be around for a long time, one would suspect. last
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story, the daily telegraph. this is the controversy about cambridge university replacing some white authors with black writers on english literature courses because of demands from the student union women's officer. it is a fascinating story. i'm sure cambridge university would say they were responding just to an open letter from the women's officer of the student union, but it seems to me like it is broadly a good thing to have a more diverse curriculum. there are people quoted in the telegraph article saying that this is a very worrying trend because you can't have the curriculum by some kind of statistical measure of ethnic diversity. but if it isjust saying you don'tjust diversity. but if it isjust saying you don't just want the canonical dead white men, then that is a step
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forward. i think it is absolutely right that important bme authors should be included in curriculum. i think it is important that students don't miss out on reading the other classics. the responsibility to strike the right balance will be on the authorities, and they need to make sure they do a good job. deduced the english at university?|j studied deduced the english at university?” studied english at cambridge. so you are very well qualified! what authors warn your curriculum ? are very well qualified! what authors warn your curriculum? hardy, dickens and shakespeare!” authors warn your curriculum? hardy, dickens and shakespeare! i remember choosing my own authors for a lot of the work that i did. but they'd tends to be white men, i do remember, rather embarrassingly. well, interesting, good to talk to both of you. that's it from the papers for tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online
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on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. for the moment, thank you to both of you, and we will see you again soon. good night. it's a cloudy evening out there, a spot or two of rain in one or two spots, and the next few days it will stay miles, it got up to 20 degrees today in the south, heathrow registered 20 degrees, one to other places as well. this mild and is coming from the azores all the way to the uk and coming into southern of scandinavia. this pattern has been with us the 23 days now and it
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won't really change an awful lot overall, we are still going to be importing mild air from overall, we are still going to be importing mild airfrom the south—west, but the difference tomorrow will be that this weather front will shift further southwards, meaning that the cloud and drizzle will be also further southwards through the morning and into the afternoon, which means that many areas to the north will have more sunshine. this is what it looks like in the morning, still pretty cloudy as far north as perhaps the midlands and also across western scotland we have some showers, but overall a lot of bright weather across most parts of bright weather across most parts of the uk first thing on wednesday, and not cold at all. this weather front is sinking southwards, and sliding along its still, just around the southern counties, so north of this line here, the m4 corridor, north of that it will be sunday, further south it will be cloudy and
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quite drizzly around paul mullin devon —— cornwall and devon. the best of the sunshine across eastern scotla nd best of the sunshine across eastern scotland and northern england, but fresher, i3 celsius with north—westerly wind setting in. there will be a change as we head to the end of the week, high pressure building across the uk, the weather settles, no more weather fronts, building across the uk, the weather settles, no more weatherfronts, but the wind will be coming from the northwest, initially across scotland, west north—westerly, said temperatures dipping down to 1011 celsius, already feeling less mild across the south, and the northerly wind for a time developing during the course of the weekend, so temperatures will take a bit of a tumble, particularly around the north sea coasts, and on top of that, quite a strong wind. 50 the weekend on average around 13. this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at 11.00: two republican senators lash out at donald trump — one calls him a liar, the other declares he will not seek re—election because of the "reckless
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and undignified behaviour" of the white house. the hire—purchase firm brighthouse is to pay out nearly £15 million to customers, after the financial watchdog says it hadn't acted as a responsible lender. a british man who spent the past two years fighting against the islamic state group has been killed in northern syria. xijinping consolidates his control of china, as the communist party enshrines his name and ideology into its constitution — an honour only given to two previous leaders.
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