In london in separate attacks over new year. And coming up, James Naughtie meets the crime writer peterjames to talk about his latest novel. Thats in 15 minutes on this weeks meet the author. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me is the nroadcaster and campaigner, david akinsanya, and the comment and features editor at city am, rachel cunliffe. Tomorrows front pages first then, starting with. The front page story in the times, which says time wasting patients are costing the nhs £1 billion a year. The guardian says several stabbings on new years eve brought the number of fatal stabbings in london to 80 for 2017. The daily mail says firemen with only a few days of First Aid Training are being sent to medical emergencies, due to pressure on the nhs. The i reports that millions of commuters will be waking up to the steepest hike in rail fares for five years it calls the increase the great train robbery. The metro leads with the sydne
Actually until i was just a little bit older. My father insisted, when i went to secondary school, that i play american football. Actually out there on the football field, i realised i was playing for the wrong team. Whats interesting is how quickly people start to presume that you dont know the maths behind your own work. Im always taken aback by that strange presumption, which i will frankly say, i never experienced before and i never see my male peers going through, which is that maybe im good at leading science projects, but surely i dont know the technical details. And they kind of came out of nowhere, just overnight, people stopped asking me maths questions. Whenjoe when joe and joan are whenjoe and joan are doing the same quality of work, what extra work doesjoan quality of work, what extra work does joan need quality of work, what extra work doesjoan need to do to get the same chance of promotion . We found that jonah needs to go to a more prominent school, for longer periods o
Mills which sell essays. Lecturers are taking cash basically. Vulnerable lecturers. What is that . One who was paid not as much as eve ryo ne one who was paid not as much as everyone else. They are helping stu d e nts everyone else. They are helping students cheat in their degrees. My understanding is much of this cheating was being tackled because of algorithms. They could spot the copying and pasting. This is a different angle. The lecturers are. There is a lot of coursework. If you have a lot, you can see why this happens we have to be honest, eve ryo ne this happens we have to be honest, everyone copies from someone. Not a lot of original thought out there. The report recommends universities add an explicit clause in contracts that assist in a student in academic efforts will be subject to disciplinary action. You would expect that to be obvious. We will stay with the sunday telegraph. I had to read this twice. Popcorn related injuries. The little bits that dont expand. Those are m
Peterjames created a detective, roy grace, who leads an army of readers through the routine and mystery of his work. Apparently straightforward crimes are not quite what they seem. We care about him, we sympathise with him, we worry on his behalf. The Police Procedural novel has an enduring appeal and in need you dead, the latest roy grace story, peter james produces another taught and hypnotic tale. Welcome. Peter, why do you think so many people get hooked on policemen and women and the trials and tribulations of their everyday lives . Well, i think good crime fiction actually reflects the world in which we live, in a better way than any other genre. I started my career writing spy thrillers. Not very good ones id just had my first book published and we got burgled. A young detective came to the house to take fingerprints and he was married to a detective and he said to me, if you ever want your Research Help with the police, give me a call. My then wife and i became really good frie
Mail. If you take the gender pay gap, if you dont know how many women there are in the uk, how can you figure out where the resources are to ensure you can you figure out where the resources are to ensure you can compare you figure out where the resources are to ensure you can compare the pay of males and females . Sometimes you need to know those hard figures . Absolutely. The notion that there may not be clear statistics any more as tory mps up in arms, one in particular, philip davies, who says, the world is going mad. This kind of cuts to the idea of the culture we have, this pc increasing. The ons cuts to the idea of the culture we have, this pc increasing. The cns is keen to say this is not an official recommendation, it is just keen to say this is not an official recommendation, it isjust about thinking about it more sensitively. Thinking about those who dont identify themselves in a particular gender. Those would probably still fill in the form anyway. It is worth considering.