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anti—semitism during a visit to a jewish synagogue, prince william said it has no place in society as he met young people and students today in london. he was told about an increase in anti—semitism since the israel—hamas war. it was first pubuc israel—hamas war. it was first public appearance since pulling out of a memorial service on tuesday due to a personal matter for the very latest stories, do sign up for gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now it's time for headliners . headliners. >> thank you paulie. >> thank you paulie. >> hello and welcome to headliners. >> your run through tomorrow's newspapers with three comedians. >> i'm leo carson. tonight i'm joined by two comedians who definitely weren't diversity hires. >> we've got paul cox, the people's gammon , and he's going people's gammon, and he's going to be served with a side of mash. it's steeped in alan cos

you're on the mash report, steve. it's very good, i like it. >> thank you. i'd also tasty food. it's a double win. gammon and mash. gammon and mash the most. just fighting crime. yeah okay. that's the frivolous chit chat. let's have a look at tomorrow's front pages. the daily mail leads with britain's broke and borders. the telegraph leads with russia flooding west with migrants. the guardian leads with more than 100 palestinians die in chaos surrounding gaza aid convoy. the times has nothing to stop. another police killer like cousins . the i news has £0.02 cousins. the i news has £0.02 tax cut in doubt after gloomier forecast on uk economy. and finally the daily star has my best friend is on a journey that for now i can't follow. and those were your front pages as . those were your front pages as. and let's have a closer look at those front pages, starting with the telegraph. paul yeah, russia

flooding the west with migrants. this is interesting story. >> this is quite new to me. i don't know if it's to new you, but russia is using a private militia to control and weaponize immigration into europe. the telegraph and telegraph can reveal. and the idea controlling idea is by controlling this is via africa, by the way, but controlling immigration into europe , you can control the europe, you can control the outcome of, uh , democracy votes. outcome of, uh, democracy votes. you know, because obviously diversity is our strength. so the more diversity you get in so you can strengthen certain areas by sending lots of migrants there. >> is that. yeah. i'm being a bit i'm a bit i'm a bit i'm a bit i'm a bit i'm a bit i'm a bit facetious. >> sorry. but there is a lot more to this because this is quite technical tactically, he seems a bit of seems to have quite a bit of control over a number the control over a number of the routes through africa into europe, and he's been doing this routes through africa into euraie, and he's been doing this routes through africa into eura year.d he's been doing this for a year. >> is this is a new >> i mean, this is this is a new way he's doing it. so the wagner mercenaries africa are mercenaries in africa are basically moving, moving migrants bringing migrants around and bringing them know, to the them up to, you know, to the migrant but migrant channels. uh, but previously he's done it with when went into syria to when he went into syria to destabilise syria. knew he

destabilise syria. he knew he knew that would a wave of knew that would send a wave of refugees , millions refugees refugees, millions of refugees up europe and destabilise up to europe and destabilise europe. been flying europe. he's also been flying people from the middle east and africa putting up, africa, putting adverts up, saying , you know, we'll you saying, you know, we'll fly you to belarus or we'll fly you to saint petersburg for free and then bus you to the border, and then bus you to the border, and then you can have great time then bus you to the border, and th> yes, people get angry. >> yes, people get angry. >> so. >> e!- en- y we just playing into >> so are we just playing into putin's plot right now?

>> steve, calm down. >> steve, calm down. >> it's pretty good. >> it's pretty good. >> mean, doesn't some of it >> i mean, it doesn't some of it doesn't does doesn't make sense, does it? because, once you get because, you know, once you get into a country, first thing into a country, the first thing you do is get the you don't do is get on the electoral roll and start looking at the candidates vote for. >> not swing. for. >> swing. it's not >> it's not to swing. it's not to swing the actual the people aren't although to swing the actual the people aren of although to swing the actual the people aren of the although to swing the actual the people aren of the that, lthough to swing the actual the people aren of the that, you jgh part of the reason that, you know, left wing politicians are so is that they so pro—open borders is that they believe once people believe that once those people are country are able are in the country and are able to will vote for, to vote, they will vote for, well, they'll vote the well, they'll vote for the people in, people that allowed them in, won't they? people that allowed them in, worthat's'? people that allowed them in, worthat's the idea. >> that's the idea. >> that's the idea. >> the labour party >> yeah. the labour party admitted wanted to rub admitted that they wanted to rub the nose it and tilt the right's nose in it and tilt the right's nose in it and tilt the electoral, uh, landscape in their but i mean, are their favour. but i mean, are you , steve, are you surprised you, steve, are you surprised that the dissident right in the west, in the uk and in obviously republicans maga republicans in the are so pro—putin? the states are so pro—putin? yeah when he's doing this to, to to, western europe and to the uk. yeah >> i mean, i suppose i can understand a little bit of why america cares. not that much about happening in about what's happening in europe. much europe. they are very much thinking own thinking you deal with your own problem, unbelievable, thinking you deal with your own problit,1, unbelievable, thinking you deal with your own proint, that unbelievable, thinking you deal with your own proint, that somehow lievable, thinking you deal with your own proint, that somehow it'sable, flipped. >> you know, in the old days, to

be a proper american would be to hate their russkies and hate those their russkies and now, don't like them, now, if you don't like them, it's . it's. >> best version of >> you're the best version of what america has. what right wing america has. it's. the world's gone it's. i don't the world's gone crazy . crazy. >> and also, uh, with regards to the, you know, woke culture, gender ideology, critical race theory , there's a theory that theory, there's a theory that theory, there's a theory that the soviet union seeded that in western universities. so we've got russia to blame for everything that the right is supposedly against. and yet the right seems to love putin for some reason. i don't get it. anyway, moving to on the daily mail, steve, what have they got in the front cover? i mean, there's a picture of geri halliwell and the story about the husband. halliwell and the story about the iimagine, with some sort of >> i imagine, with some sort of headline, to headline, like, if you want to be lover. i said, get with my be my lover. i said, get with my friends, people you work with. >> that's probably not a headune >> that's probably not a headline for legal reasons. >> broken borders >> britain's broken borders watchdog shocking watchdog report exposes shocking migration . migration system failings. >> things like border ports on arrivals were unmanned . arrivals were unmanned. >> the flagship humanitarian schemes have problems. look, i mean, it's not it's not a great report and it comes on the back

of 1.4 million visas granted . of 1.4 million visas granted. and this was in part this is rishi sunak promise to get rid of that backlog. and he did it by magic wand. and just saying, yeah. do you remember that scene in bruce almighty where he's guarding? >> he gets all these prayers and he just goes, yes. >> and then hilarity. oh, i didn't realise. >> sunak was bruce >> rishi sunak was in bruce almighty. >> rishi sunak was in bruce alnif|hty. >> rishi sunak was in bruce alnif|h could do deepfake , i'd >> if i could do deepfake, i'd do a version of that with rishi's would work. >> so people were claiming asylum been, asylum and they could have been, you who knows what their asylum and they could have been, you was who knows what their asylum and they could have been, you was wh where is what their asylum and they could have been, you was wh where they at their status was or where they deserved or whether they deserved asylum or whether they were to acid in were going to chuck acid in someone's or whatever it someone's face or whatever it is. rishi was like, is. and rishi was just like, yeah, all of you, all of you could cleared the backlog credit where could cleared the backlog credit wh> that clears the backlog, didn't not clear. in backlog. >> it's moving backlog >> it's moving the backlog into the yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> there's also look i mean look, i have everyone in this building. probably building. i'm probably more likely concepts of likely to defend the concepts of migration . but anyone, even migration. but anyone, even if you you need a system you love it, you need a system that a that that works because a system that doesn't work worse. like doesn't work is even worse. like the a couple of weeks ago, the story of the care homes that

didn't even exist. so visas were given to pretend carers . given out to pretend carers. they wouldn't even be helping the yeah, no the pretend patients. yeah, no one wants that. >> and worst thing about >> and the worst thing about that dad in one of that is i put my dad in one of those and he was just in those groups, and he was just in a in a multi—storey car park somewhere. paul, i mean, somewhere. and paul, i mean, the our system seems to our immigration system seems to operate like a ponzi scheme. we're told, you we need to we're told, you know, we need to keep people at keep bringing people in at the bottom because people are getting need people getting older and we need people to them and generate to look after them and generate the the ponzi the economy. but the ponzi scheme isn't even working well because we're bringing people at the people the top. we're bringing people in who are dependent on welfare and and hospitals and need schools and hospitals and need schools and hospitals and of it. so it's and all the rest of it. so it's ending up costing more money. >> yes. and the first thing i saw when i thought when i read this story is that this must put a significant amount of pressure on pubuc a significant amount of pressure on public yeah. on our public services. yeah. then further down in the then i read further down in the story what story and that's exactly what suella said . so i'm suella braverman said. so i'm now to suella braverman, now aligned to suella braverman, who i'm told is the most evil woman since margaret thatcher, um, who was also a great woman. yeah also a great woman. however there's a lot of statistics going on here, and i think the

key one is to bear in mind , and key one is to bear in mind, and it's the way it's going to be tackled in the future, is that almost half of those visas that were granted were members of were granted were to members of families, of the people that were came to here were granted, that came to here work in the first place. so by reducing that in the future and increasing the minimum salary , increasing the minimum salary, the idea is that you can probably reduce immigration. this is perfectly legal immigration visas, obviously, 1.4 million reduce that by a third or more 300,000. so slightly less than a third. so only have a million people coming next. yeah it doesn't solve it doesn't solve the problem. >> but to be fair, you can't train doctors in half a year , so train doctors in half a year, so there is going to be a lag. you can get a rough idea of what they're doing. >> so come on. >> watched a few episodes >> i've watched a few episodes of reckon can of house and i reckon i can solve a things. yeah, i'll solve a few things. yeah, i'll have a crack at it. >> finally. paul, we've the >> finally. paul, we've got the guardian. in cover there? >> tm t 100 palestine >> more than 100 palestine auens in >> more than 100 palestine aliens in chaos surrounding aliens die in chaos surrounding gaza aid convoy. so israeli military rejects claims that it

fired on a crowd and blames a deadly crush . so there's two deadly crush. so there's two sides of the story here. there were essentially there was aid being into gaza, and being delivered into gaza, and from the palestinian perspective, they're saying as soon as, uh , um, civilians soon as, uh, um, civilians started crowding around this aid truck, the israeli opened fire. the israelis are saying , and 100 the israelis are saying, and 100 people were killed. by the way, the israelis are saying that no, that's not true. there was a crush, and that's what called it calls the death. all i know is all of this is totally harrowing and quite grim , and i'm no and quite grim, and i'm no longer sure what to believe because it's just become this sort for tat. and we see sort of for tat. and we see these messages. of course, i see it's in the guardian. so they're leaning palestinian it's in the guardian. so they're leani was palestinian it's in the guardian. so they're leani was it palestinian it's in the guardian. so they're leani was it had palestinian it's in the guardian. so they're leani was it had it palestinian it's in the guardian. so they're leani was it had it beenstinian it's in the guardian. so they're leani was it had it been in1ian it's in the guardian. so they're leani was it had it been in the side. was it had it been in the mail, we'd have probably seen , mail, we'd have probably seen, you know, the fact that they died yeah. i don't died in a crush. yeah. i don't know believe anymore. know what to believe anymore. all this just all i know is this is just totally, totally beyond the point where i can imagine how bad this is anymore . yeah. bad this is anymore. yeah. >> i mean, what do you make of this, steve? because, i mean, i watch the video and the

explanation to me of the crush look much more plausible than, uh, being uh, you know, people being fired on. reason for the crush on. and the reason for the crush is actually , um, you know, is actually, um, you know, pretty damning for hamas. is actually, um, you know, pretty damning for hamas . so pretty damning for hamas. so people the trucks people swarmed around the trucks and there was a big crush because they were desperate to get aid, because get the aid, because if they don't , then hamas the aid don't, then hamas take the aid and hamas don't distribute the aid to the palestinian people. they can make they see if they can make something blows up out of something that blows up out of it, they can fire at israelis. >> i mean, the point of the desperation being there is surely, from anyone's point of view, true, level view, true, the level of desperation that these people have. so no wonder they head straight to those trucks. i mean, i saw some on tv earlier on saying, you need an investigation to get to the bottom there was bottom of why there was a stampede, was the stampede, whether it was the desperation, whether people stampede gunshots . stampede after hearing gunshots. but paul's right. there's so much misery around here because this is war, isn't it? this is this is war, isn't it? this is this is war, isn't it? this is this is the problem with having to talk, you know, do a funny show and these are the headlines. show and these are the heawell,;. funny, you know, >> well, it's funny, you know, this wars that this is one of the wars that we've got the most footage of in history. it's still history. and it's still incredibly just just

incredibly not just not just that lovely that there were some lovely footage gulf war. footage of the first gulf war. >> sort of remember footage of the first gulf war. >> dark sort of remember footage of the first gulf war. >> dark and sort of remember footage of the first gulf war. >> dark and the ort of remember footage of the first gulf war. >> dark and the scud remember footage of the first gulf war. >> dark and the scud missilesar the dark and the scud missiles and the green and all that sort of and what of stuff. and however what we got now is social media. >> course, then the >> and of course, then the wikileaks footage came out and revealed that it wasn't such, uh, you know, uh, such a clean cut. you know, these missiles weren't these cruise missiles weren't going and turning going down streets and turning corners out targets corners and taking out targets all . all the time. >> i remember >> yeah, they i remember thinking this was because it was 1991, first one i was, uh, 1991, the first one i was, uh, you sort of 12 years old. you know, sort of 12 years old. i thinking how cool i remember thinking how cool these were without these missiles were without any context were doing context of what they were doing and, were it. and, and why they were doing it. but now is just but what we've got now is just endless opinion. and endless appellate opinion. and it's we have to stop occasionally . and when i read occasionally. and when i read this, i hadn't seen the footage. we still have to stop occasionally and go, this is still humans. whatever side they're whether died in happening, whether they died in the they got shot happening, whether they died in the these they got shot happening, whether they died in the these are they got shot happening, whether they died in the these are still|ey got shot happening, whether they died in the these are still humans. lot upon, these are still humans. and it's just, i mean, what a mess. yeah >> absolutely well, that's >> absolutely true. well, that's the join the front pages. done. join us in for racial in a moment for racial segregation. returning to london. politicians want london. and politicians who want to people. you

welcome back to headliners i'm leo kearse i'm still here with paul cox the people's gunman and steve in allen the people's match kicking off this section with the guardian with great news for any racists watching racial segregated theatre audiences are back. steve, tell us more . us more. >> us more. >> yeah, number 10 is not happy. number 10 condemns london theatre for hosting blackout nights . theatre for hosting blackout nights. rishi sunak theatre for hosting blackout nights . rishi sunak spokesperson nights. rishi sunak spokesperson said be concerning and said it would be concerning and divisive to restrict audiences based on race. this is at the noel coward theatre now to set the scene. if someone said to me, steve, you can't go to the theatre tonight, normally i'd be like, fine, it's not going to impact my night. but this is news because it's kind of pr to get us all talking about it by having a that is, and they having a night that is, and they phrase black, identifying phrase it all black, identifying audience, which is actually better calling it a better than calling it a blackout because a blackout night because it's a blackout, . it's blackout, which they do. it's the blackout the opposite of a blackout night. out night. night. it's a white out night. um, brutally um, if we're being brutally honest about it. here's the kicker, though. the theatre says

while been while the performance has been arranged for black audience members specifically , no one members specifically, no one will be excluded from attending. so it's a nothing. >> people are going to look at you like ruined their you like you've ruined their night out. if you go along as the white person, there is night out. if you go along as tiyou white person, there is night out. if you go along as tiyou could te person, there is night out. if you go along as tiyou could identify,1, there is night out. if you go along as tiyou could identify, can'tre is night out. if you go along as tiyou could identify, can't you? night out. if you go along as tiyitheould identify, can't you? night out. if you go along as tiyithe whole entify, can't you? night out. if you go along as tiyithe whole point, can't you? night out. if you go along as tiyithe whole point, cethislou? night out. if you go along as tiyithe whole point, cethis story >> the whole point of this story is you could use black is that you could use black identity, even if you don't identify won't you. identity, even if you don't ideibut won't you. identity, even if you don't ideibut itvon't you. identity, even if you don't ideibut it would you. identity, even if you don't ideibut it would be you. >> but yeah, it would be awkward. there might be some some know some tutting, but i don't know if film if you ever remember the film soul man. maybe that's what people are to do. if people are going to do. if you've sure you've not seen that, i'm sure that's a cancelled film. >> that >> maybe you remember that somebody up. somebody blacking up. >> some tablets >> yeah, but taking some tablets because a university because there was a university grant. this is an american film from get from the 80s. he couldn't get into was into university, but there was one chy into university, but there was one city grant available. one day city grant available. there is no way that films available days. um, available these days. no, um, but the only get into but the only way to get into university, if you want to do something radical in terms of getting people to the theatre who ordinarily there who wouldn't ordinarily be there , for working class. , go for working class. people do night people do like one night where people on minimum wage can win a ticket, and they'd be safe in the knowledge that there wouldn't middle class wouldn't be any middle class people being all around

people being all snobby around them. people being all snobby around the this rest of us could >> this is the rest of us could go to theatre on the other nights knowing that there weren't working class. weren't any working class. >> how we it. we're weren't any working class. >> to how we it. we're weren't any working class. >> to how night it. we're weren't any working class. >> to how night justve're weren't any working class. >> to how night just to re going to ruin a night just to say slave play. it say it's called slave play. it opens the 29th june. opens on the 29th of june. >> yes >> slave plays? yes >> slave plays? yes >> never that up. and >> it's never made that up. and it's really going for the racist angle. >> and stars kit harington, >> and it stars kit harington, best known for of thrones, best known for game of thrones, where the where his character was in the black all of this fits black watch. so all of this fits in, doesn't it? >> mhm. a white guy? >> mhm. is he a white guy? >> mhm. is he a white guy? >> is not going to be able to >> he is not going to be able to perform is he. they perform that night. is he. they talk about gays a lot talk about white gays a lot in this which at first this don't they. which at first i thought the i thought yeah i see the problem. obviously problem. you know obviously andrew's our boss. >> white yeah. gay people. >> yeah that's what i first thought. but it's not. it's gazi. oh white people staring at black apparently gazi. oh white people staring at black of apparently gazi. oh white people staring at black of an apparently gazi. oh white people staring at black of an issue. apparently gazi. oh white people staring at black of an issue. yeah,'ently is a bit of an issue. yeah, because read they said because i read this, they said that feel unsafe that black audiences feel unsafe around goers, and around white theatre goers, and i'm not sure that's true. >> can you imagine? i haven't seen an explosion of white on black crime at the theatre represented in any crime statistics . i think the last statistics. i think the last person shot in a theatre was abraham lincoln. that's not encourage any of that. i mean,

if we're going to if all races are going to play that game, i mean, like, are white people allowed unsafe around allowed to feel unsafe around black i thought that black people? i thought that would a horrifically racist would be a horrifically racist thing to do. >> think would to the >> i think it would be to the whole thing's racist, isn't it? this is the biggest question i have thing is have about the whole thing is how determined that how can it be determined that this is progress? yeah, this is not way, shape not progress in any way, shape or it? this is putting or form, is it? this is putting people and people back into silos and saying you'd much better off saying you'd be much better off without white people without those white people looking at you. just enjoy show. >> grabbing rosa and >> it's grabbing rosa parks and saying , no, you down the end saying, no, you get down the end of your special of that bus. that's your special safe of that bus. that's your special saf< it's of that bus. that's your special saf> it's pr it's just to get us talking. yeah >> are talking about? >> what are we talking about? yeah, going now. yeah, i'm going now. >> this isn't good when it's pr. >> this isn't good when it's pr. >> doesn't this whole story >> doesn't make this whole story is okay. is just purely okay. >> moving we've >> well, moving on, we've got the the the guardian again, and the communist elites rule over communist elites who rule over us found a new way to us have found a new way to punish the people who generate wealth society. paul. wealth in society. paul. >> well, we'll if >> yeah, well, we'll find out if this comes fruition. the this ever comes to fruition. the 620 the this ever comes to fruition. the g20 the world's most g20 group of the world's most powerful countries is exploring plans for global maximum tax , plans for a global maximum tax, minimum minimum minimum tax.

we've already got a maximum . we've already got a maximum. i've got a maximum tax. >> mathematically, we could calculate that one. >> is for the world's 3000 >> this is for the world's 3000 billionaires. way . >> this is for the world's 3000 billionaires. way. um, to billionaires. by the way. um, to prevent to the bottom . prevent a race to the bottom. and this enabled the super rich to tax . now, i don't to pay less tax. now, i don't think i mean, sounds rather lovely. it sounds like ideal think i mean, sounds rather lovelofit sounds like ideal think i mean, sounds rather lovelof the�*unds like ideal think i mean, sounds rather lovelof the world. ke ideal think i mean, sounds rather lovelof the world. and ideal think i mean, sounds rather lovelof the world. and perhaps , view of the world. and perhaps, perhaps, guardian perhaps, um, the guardian believed this too. and the billionaires probably could pay believed this too. and the bilittle|ires probably could pay believed this too. and the bilittleniresmore.|bly could pay believed this too. and the bilittleniresmore. however, pay believed this too. and the bilittleniresmore. however, i�*ay a little bit more. however, i don't think it's to happen don't think it's going to happen for two reasons. one thing billionaires cleverer than billionaires are cleverer than politicians, so it doesn't matter of them in matter if there's 20 of them in a billionaires are going matter if there's 20 of them in a outsmartionaires are going matter if there's 20 of them in a outsmart them. s are going matter if there's 20 of them in a outsmart them. ande going matter if there's 20 of them in a outsmart them. and also,g to outsmart them. and also, billionaires every billionaires prop up every single one of those leaders. so there's no way that this is going to happen. if it happens in some form, then there would have already figured out the loopholes to go through at the back. so ultimately , i don't back. so ultimately, i don't think ever going to get think you're ever going to get through this unless you make the whole world communist, as whole world communist, which as long as what you want. >> oh, love the idea. well, >> oh, i love the idea. well, i love i love tax, but love i don't love tax, but i love i don't love tax, but i love people paying tax. love other people paying tax. yeah, exactly. the of yeah, exactly. the idea of billionaires don't yeah, exactly. the idea of billioiitires don't yeah, exactly. the idea of billloill doesn't don't yeah, exactly. the idea of billloill doesn't sit don't yeah, exactly. the idea of billloill doesn't sit right don't yeah, exactly. the idea of billloill doesn't sit right that't think it doesn't sit right that billionaires a lower

billionaires can pay a lower rate than people minimum rate than people on minimum wage, are. it's the wage, but they are. it's the 620. to wage, but they are. it's the g20. to remember that. g20. we need to remember that. so that 21st country just so that 21st country is just going out its tax rate, going to drop out its tax rate, and money's go and all the money's going to go in so it will be in there, so it will be impossible this it impossible to chase. this was it this week. there was the first private mission to moon. you private mission to the moon. you know people are? they know what rich people are? they probably there now probably opened a bank there now because they love keeping their money planet. money offshore. off planet. yeah, when it yeah, he broke a leg when it landed, there a landed, but there is now a private lander moon. if private lander on the moon. if you. you call it a bank, you. yeah, you call it a bank, and that's where money's and that's where the money's going to isn't it? um, but going to be, isn't it? um, but i the graph, the billionaires, i'm not the not sure billionaires are the people wealth in people who hoard the wealth in the same way the see are the same way the ones we see are the same way the ones we see are the ones who do stupid projects. they into they spend tons on going into space and all the other stupid things. pushing things. but that's pushing the boundanes things. but that's pushing the boundaries endeavour. boundaries of human endeavour. i'm it. it gets i'm in favour of it. it gets money. stupid billionaires are the get money back the best thing to get money back into circulation. it's the into circulation. yeah, it's the millionaires it millionaires who just keep it and also billionaires really and also billionaires are really good and efficient at allocating caphal >> that's how they became billionaires in most cases, unless they inherited it . like unless they inherited it. like elon pretty much built elon musk is pretty much built himself he's made himself up. and he's made amazing businesses. so from my

point of view, we should tax poor people who are obviously rubbish at money and give the money to the billionaires who will use it wisely generate will use it wisely to generate wealth advance humanity . wealth and advance humanity. >> the good news that's already happening. time. happening. yeah, give it time. >> happening. not >> it's not happening. it's not happening. is the gap happening. this is the gap between and poor between the rich and the poor is getting wider, so you'll eventually utopia. no, eventually get your utopia. no, inequality mean that inequality doesn't mean that poor paying more for poor people are paying more for tax. that just means that poor people are still bad at earning people are still bad at earning people are still bad at earning people are getting poorer because value of money because the value of money drops, still have a drops, and they still have a small amount. i mean, small amount. no, but i mean, that's money's always a fungible, flexible token. so i mean , inflation affects mean, inflation affects everybody. the value of everybody's money drops the worth of anything is how much you can outbid someone else for. >> so if billionaires can >> okay. so if billionaires can buy what is it something like a handful of people who own 40% of all the assets in the world, they could make the rest of they could they make the rest of us poorer by being so rich? >> don't. they make us >> no they don't. they make us fichen richer. elon musk makes us ficher richer. elon musk makes us richer making that richer by making things that that value us. that provide value to us. somebody buys a tesla that provides immense to them .

provides immense value to them. starlink, he makes starlink, anything that he makes that they use, that's that's generating value, generating wealth in the world. i think we should slash welfare and hand all that money to billionaires. it's the only thing that makes sense. anyway. i'm the host , sense. anyway. uh, i'm the host, so i'm right. i'm one of the times now, and politicians are calling national assisted calling for a national assisted dying strategy. if it's politicians, i'm happy to do it with a brick. steve um, we need a national assisted dying strategy. >> no need . the nation is, uh, >> no need. the nation is, uh, it's dying on its own, isn't it? um, but that's not what they mean. it's a debate that's back in because, um, esther in the news because, um, esther rantzen has joined dignitas. this it's been a debate rantzen has joined dignitas. thiswe're it's been a debate rantzen has joined dignitas. thiswe're talkingeen a debate rantzen has joined dignitas. thiswe're talking aboutiebate rantzen has joined dignitas. thiswe're talking about it, ate and we're talking about it, a lovely woman. i interviewed her a years ago, so i feel terrible that of person that that i'm the kind of person that will the irony that will point out the irony that she hosted that's life . um, but she hosted that's life. um, but i am so . but now there's she hosted that's life. um, but i am so. but now there's a report on assisted dying that basically says we need to talk about it now because parts of the uk might actually get this law before other parts do. so i suppose people wouldn't be going off they'd

off to switzerland, they'd be going to off the isle of man or jersey, thinking about it. jersey, are thinking about it. we do have the mps step jersey, are thinking about it. we have have the mps step jersey, are thinking about it. we have a have the mps step jersey, are thinking about it. we have a discussion 1e mps step jersey, are thinking about it. we have a discussion abouts step jersey, are thinking about it. we have a discussion about thisp up, have a discussion about this . favour a . keir starmer is in favour of a free , so maybe will get free vote, so maybe we will get some movement on it, but some sort of movement on it, but i'm in favour of it. vulcans like in favour. like it so i'm in favour. >> paul , i mean like it so i'm in favour. >> paul, i mean i'm >> but paul, i mean i'm concerned. we've seen canada concerned. we've seen in canada they've, legalised , uh, they've, uh, legalised, uh, medically assisted dying and now they've sort of gone too far down the slope on the other side, and they're allowing people to get, uh, to be youth, to be euthanized if they're depressed, if they have, like, some of mental, mental some kind of mental, mental issue, they're young as issue, and if they're young as well. so there's a i think there's 22 year old, uh , the there's a 22 year old, uh, the mother found out there's 22 mother just found out there's 22 year boy. mean, he was year old boy. i mean, he was blind eye and he had blind in one eye and he had diabetes. and was depressed. that you know, that was it, though. you know, these things that you these are all things that you can from live with. can recover from or live with. and mother he'd and the mother found that he'd made appointment behind made an appointment behind behind back , uh, have behind her back, uh, to have himself canadian himself killed by the canadian government because obviously the canadian like, canadian government's like, oh, we can save some money we can we can save some money here. we save a week on here. we can save $20 a week on prescription payments. they're

all for killing people . all for killing people. >> well , there's a lot to >> yeah, well, there's a lot to unpack there. i mean, it does look a cynical way to look like a cynical way to tackle overpopulation, but i'm not it is. yeah, not sure that it is. yeah, i what? i'm very interested in is psychology of this. what was the tipping point? because isn't tipping point? because it isn't esther was esther ransom. esther ransom was is a big story with dignitas. because you know, unfortunately, she , she, she wants to go out she, she, she wants to go out the way she wants to go out. yeah. there's nothing unfortunate about that. unfortunately. she's ill. um, however, this however, for this, this, this argument used to be quite cut and dry, and people used say, and dry, and people used to say, well, we're very well, hang on, we're very uncomfortable um, you uncomfortable with this. um, you know, perhaps we should know, perhaps perhaps we should not this. of not shouldn't do this. all of a sudden. just become open sudden. it's just become open season and someone keir season and someone like keir starmer very keen, starmer is very, very keen, which makes me slightly nervous. >> right. well, the >> right? right. well, the telegraph truss is telegraph now and liz truss is forgettable , apparently. i'm forgettable, apparently. i'm guessing wrote this guessing whoever wrote this doesn't have a mortgage. paul. yeah liz truss is the most forgettable . forgettable. >> british prime minister, said the world only leap year newspaper of course, it's the 29th of february today, so it's, uh, it's , uh, one of those rare

uh, it's, uh, one of those rare leap days. and this is a politically incorrect french newspaper. believe it or not, they're most famous for their cartoons . uh they're most famous for their cartoons. uh labuschagne. uh dup. uh i think that's right. >> you have just failed your french test. >> i think i might have done. that's right. is it anywhere near right? >> bouchet dup ? >> bouchet dup? >> bouchet dup? >> yeah. come on. hey, if it's not, it should be. that's what i say. um, only publishes every two. rodney. yeah. lovely. bon dodi. steve. bannau de douche. um, every four years on the 29th of february distributes just 200,000 copies across france amongst its things. it said also that, um, the olympics should have a winston wooden have a winston churchill wooden spoon award. mean, i like the spoon award. i mean, i like the sound these guys. like the sound of these guys. i like the cut jib. yeah, i mean, cut of theirjib. yeah, i mean, we're probably in danger of taking and taking this stuff seriously and saying, are you saying, you know, why are you criticising us? look at you. they just they probably do. but it's just nice are still nice to know there are still newspapers out there don't newspapers out there that don't take seriously . take themselves seriously. >> and nice to see >> yeah. and it's nice to see that people still care that french people still care about stephen. >> nice . yeah, but i >> oh, that's nice. yeah, but i think you're right. they're wrong being

wrong about liz truss being forgettable. memorable. wrong about liz truss being forgetum,e. memorable. wrong about liz truss being forget um, because emorable. wrong about liz truss being forgetum, because not�*rable. wrong about liz truss being forgetum, because not onlye. wrong about liz truss being forgetum, because not only the yeah. um, because not only the mortgage thing, no one will ever say cheese markets without doing it that voice. and and she it in that voice. and and she will be a pub quiz. answer for shortest pm and also pm when the queen died. so she will be written in books somewhere written down in books somewhere amazing. >> made it halfway. >> well, we've made it halfway. stay us out how stay with us to find out how thousands of civil servants can be and why a school made be fired and why a school made false eyelashes part of their uniform. see you in couple

welcome back to headliners. we've got the mail now and civil servants will be replaced by ai. seems like overkill . most civil seems like overkill. most civil servants could be replaced with a wooden spoon with a face drawn on it. steve i'm so far you're on it. steve i'm so far you're on the fence. >> let's see what you think is player one. civil servants will be replaced by ai chatbots. this is oliver dowden, who's been saying unveiled a £110 saying this unveiled a £110 million to do this. mean, million plan to do this. i mean, great, no one really knows how

to use chatgpt yet. so there's a bit of hyperbole like bit of hyperbole here. like blackrod be a robot. you blackrod will be a robot. you can anything want, can predict anything you want, but happen . the one but it should happen. the one thing about public thing we know about the public sector flaw is sector is it's its flaw is efficiency. if you can bring in efficiency, you should . this efficiency, you should. this doesn't have to be about doesn't even have to be about hating civil servants, because don't the ai don't worry. by the way, the ai will be equally as woke. will still be equally as woke. you can still get all angry at the blob, isn't it? yeah yeah, it'll be companies it'll be tech companies and everyone hates them already. but it's that we're it's the fact that we're launching to launching £110 million drive to save money. so already we're out of pocket. and when it fails. >> but it's going to save a huge amount of money. an estimated £24 billion a year. >> yeah. they'll it's the >> yeah. they'll never. it's the government. government. and it. have they ever coalesced in a way worked. way that's worked. >> time , this time this >> so this time, this time this token will work. >> he said . remember how much >> he said. remember how much the size of the civil service has with exit has grown with the eu exit preparedness? have got preparedness? we should have got chatgpt negotiate brexit. it chatgpt to negotiate brexit. it would have done better. yeah it only gets like 4000 words and it could have come up with a better plan. yeah. >> i mean paul what do you what

do you make of this. i think it's fantastic. and also i think the utilisation and the utilisation of tech and innovation could mean innovation such as ai could mean that by economists that we're told by economists all the time that we need to have borders mass have open borders and mass immigration to, fill roles immigration to, to fill roles for, why not let for, for jobs. why not let computers do it? >> jeepers creepers. that's what i've got to say. this is outrageous. the idea that we would use chat gpt to replace, i mean, every, every, every, every ai has base program, okay. ai has got a base program, okay. which is written, it seems to be by wokeist people in the by the wokeist people in the world. it doesn't matter what world. so it doesn't matter what you with it, it's still going you do with it, it's still going to driven. you to be politically driven. so you either get , you either need to get, uh, you writing it, leo? uh, we'll get you and steve to write it. that'd idea if you and that'd be an idea if you and steve write it, we might get a nice little centrist. >> won't be as good i used nice little centrist. >>be.won't be as good i used nice little centrist. >>be. honesta as good i used nice little centrist. >>be. honest no. good i used to be. honest no. >> but i mean, the idea >> yeah, but i mean, the idea that chatgpt going to replace that chatgpt is going to replace all civil servants is, uh, is rubbish. don't see. rubbish. really? i don't see. >> and also, if they use google ai, serve black ai, it'll only serve black people it's inherently people because it's inherently racist and we won't be able to watch. yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> moving on. we've got the

telegraph now and transgender women commit crimes women who commit violent crimes will recorded men. why are will be recorded as men. why are men getting the blame for what these stunning , brave, stunning these stunning, brave, stunning and women paul yeah, and brave women do? paul yeah, this isn't fair. corbyn's women need to better. need to do better. >> downing street urges police forces to offenders such as forces to put offenders such as cat scarlett blake down cat killer scarlett blake down as unless they are as a male, unless they are legally changed their gender. so we either need to start to accept that this is progress or we are going to have to accept that there are a lot more female sexual predators out there because we female. >> you mean male? >> you mean male? >> well, well, this is the point, isn't it? if we if we if we say if we say that this particular person who identifies as a female is a female, then that's going to drive the statistic. i mean, we're talking stephen and anne here. i don't want to say like statistics and data. this david, steve. well, steve's not wearing any trousers. is weird for trousers. so this is weird for me at the moment already. but uh, don't . see for me as

uh, i just don't. see for me as a trad guy . uh, i just don't. see for me as a trad guy. this seems absolutely mental, right? that was a geezer who blended a cat and then killed another geezer. yeah and then was trying to get sentenced to a female prison. referred as cat killer referred to as a cat killer rather a human killer. rather than a human killer. >> human was >> and i thought the human was the by far. >> w- w" they're. >> but i mean, men are. and by which i mean traditional men, uh, are far more likely we're way violent way overrepresented in violent crime and crime statistics, stephen. and i think between 8 or 9 to 8 think it's between 8 or 9 to 8 to 9 times more likely to commit violent crimes, such as murders. so. we're seeing those same so. and we're seeing those same that same overrepresent station reflected in transgender . women reflected in transgender. women suggesting that their transition hasn't been completely , uh, hasn't been completely, uh, flawless and convincing . uh, if flawless and convincing. uh, if they're still committing the same sort of crimes that men do. uh, i mean, this this seems like an obvious, obvious you an obvious, obvious thing. you can't just, like, put on a frock and be like, i'm a woman and then recorded as a woman in then be recorded as a woman in crime statistics . yeah. crime statistics. yeah. >> mean, if you're worried >> i mean, if you're worried

about how it's going to skew the statistics of violent statistics in terms of violent crime, till see crime, you wait till you see what female prostate what happens to female prostate cancer to go cancer because it's about to go through roof. uh, previously through the roof. uh, previously very a problem. um, very little of a problem. um, but think you read the whole but i think you read the whole story, like story, and it looks like maybe this how should have been this is how it should have been recorded. is not recorded. anyway, this is not like in. like a new rules coming in. the fact that they're saying, what's the legal legally that needs the legal sex legally that needs to i mean, i'd say to be in there? i mean, i'd say you put the trans status in you can put the trans status in the why not just have the data. why not just have another way, was another field? and that way, was it jk rowling saying, this another field? and that way, was it not lowling saying, this another field? and that way, was it not ouring saying, this another field? and that way, was it not our crimes. saying, this another field? and that way, was it not our crimes. if ying, this another field? and that way, was it not our crimes. if you, this is not our crimes. if you actually mark down trans actually mark down the trans community, not be community, they'd also not be our crimes can get rid of. our crimes we can get rid of. let's all not crimes. let's all just not get crimes. yeah this is the goal, apparently. yeah. really apparently. yeah. not really associated with other crimes because still thrown because we still get thrown under bus, don't we? under the bus, don't we? >> one of the crimes. >> this is one of the crimes. this. that must have this. yes. that bus must have a lot people under it because lot of people under it because i'm constantly using that phrase, chucking people under the but, um , this the bus. but, um, this interestingly, like steve makes a very good point . this was a very good point. this was never he was always going to be sent to a male prison. yeah um, it's only the way was it's only the way it was reported that became problematic. just advice for , uh, for >> just advice for, uh, for dopey civil servants who were

going to record it wrong because diversity training. okay, well, the male and is the male now and a school is making eyelashes as part making false eyelashes as part of the uniform. how will teachers be able to tell who the drag teachers be able to tell who the dmg am? teachers be able to tell who the drag are? steve. drag queens are? steve. >> so school were for >> so school sparks were out for making part of making false eyelashes. part of its uniform is what it says there. you read that you think what forced wear them. what you're forced to wear them. yeah, will be yeah, the teachers will be if they're long you'll they're not long enough, you'll get eyelashes get detention. the eyelashes have school colours. >> of course. >> of course. >> yeah, that makes sense now. but turns out more the but it turns out it was more the school accepts wearing of school accepts the wearing of false we've not false eyelashes. we've not really uniform, really been part of the uniform, but that's how they but fair enough. that's how they phrase school was doing but fair enough. that's how they piinse school was doing but fair enough. that's how they piin seven school was doing but fair enough. that's how they piin seven oaks,iool was doing but fair enough. that's how they piin seven oaks, the was doing but fair enough. that's how they piin seven oaks, the normalng it in seven oaks, the normal academy, noticed academy, because they'd noticed girls them. they girls are wearing them. they were taking time to get them were taking time off to get them removed. you're not allowed were taking time off to get them relweari. you're not allowed were taking time off to get them relwear them )u're not allowed were taking time off to get them relwear them in re not allowed were taking time off to get them relwear them in schoolallowed were taking time off to get them relwear them in school or)wed were taking time off to get them relwear them in school or just to wear them in school or just not school. so they not coming to school. so they dropped mother dropped the rule. one mother said, being said, we're in a society being run another mother run by children. another mother said quite worrying because said it's quite worrying because they're getting they're going to start getting attention of older men. my daughter quite tall and slim. daughter is quite tall and slim. she does look older. and she already does look older. and then this your kid. then it hit me this is your kid. you stop wearing eyelashes . you stop wearing long eyelashes. why is it the school's job all of a sudden to raise the kids to

not eyelashes ? yeah. do not wear eyelashes? yeah. do some mothering in this. the mother are the mother said, um, what are the school to say if the girls school going to say if the girls end up pregnant? probably going to blame you for that as well. take responsibility take some responsibility in this. why is it the school that has all it that might has to do all of it that might become compulsory as well? >> everybody has to get >> everybody has got to get pregnant. balance of pregnant. i mean, the balance of power, between adults power, authority between adults and children shifted and children has shifted somewhat . right? but even since somewhat. right? but even since our time , you know, we grew up. our time, you know, we grew up. we're the greatest generation, generation x, it's undisputed. however, since then, it seems that are being listened that kids are being listened to more, good more, which seemed like a good idea because we idea at first because while we don't to be chimney don't want them to be chimney sweeps like they were in the victorian but we don't victorian age, but also we don't want listening them want to start listening to them and they're and taking their advice. they're idiots , you know? i mean, greta idiots, you know? i mean, greta thunberg is one of the best known world. thunberg is one of the best knowrnot world. thunberg is one of the best knowrnot a world. thunberg is one of the best knowrnot a child world. thunberg is one of the best knowrnot a child anymored. she's not a child anymore. although she look one. although she does look like one. um, you know, have um, she she, you know, we have started lot of started to give way a lot of power. okay? and if that's the case, we need just accept case, we need to just accept that just full of that the future's just full of fake . and greta

thunberg's. >> okay, i'll go out and . buy >> okay, i'll go out and. buy some. moving on. we've got a story in the guardian about woke comedy and woke comedy is a bit like women's gets like women's football. it gets written in the written about a lot in the guardian, it's terrible. guardian, but it's terrible. anyway, article shows anyway, uh, this article shows how gets made. paul how it gets made. paul >> why would want to >> uh, why would you not want to be woke inside the tv comedy workshops? the right be woke inside the tv comedy workspress? the right wing press? >> i'm so angry. >> oh, i'm so angry. >> oh, i'm so angry. >> well, is the first i've >> well, this is the first i've seen of actually. and seen of it, actually. and looking the photograph. yeah, looking at the photograph. yeah, there are lots of people in that photograph can photograph that i know. we can see photograph. there's some see the photograph. there's some good. some good. there are some good comedians photograph. comedians in that photograph. i'm name i'm not going to name them because like because they don't like mahasara. mathers mahasara. yeah. john mathers great fact. well sounds great in fact. well sounds great. fiona ridgewell's in there. fantastic. the there. she's fantastic. and the lady, um, lady, the lady who writes, um, largely or largely writes this article or is the main contributor is a lady called, uh, sian davis and ihave lady called, uh, sian davis and i have a gig with sian, and she is actually over the last 5 or 6 years. if you exclude the pandemic. she has helped , um, pandemic. she has helped, um, get lot of working class get a lot of working class people up to edinburgh because of is so expensive. of the cost. is so expensive. the would say is the only thing i would say is that to get them there and keep them the rest of the them there so the rest of the country get on their

country can get on with their lives. not to clean the rubbish up anything bothered by up or anything bothered by without by without being bothered by working one one working class people. one one thing would say like thing i would say it's like maybe use island. next, the maybe use an island. next, the type class people are type of working class people are always the same. yeah, i consider class. i consider myself working class. i grew on a council estate. grew up on a council estate. i don't that presented in the don't see that presented in the same it could do everything same way it could do everything leans i'm not leans a certain way. i'm not suggesting a sian's suggesting for a minute sian's doing wrong, there suggesting for a minute sian's doi|some wrong, there suggesting for a minute sian's doi|some people there suggesting for a minute sian's doi|some people that. re are some good people in that. >> comedians who >> but all the comedians who say, i'm working class, it's like, man, you got a macbook pro? you never like, you're not working you in a nice working class. you up in a nice big house. what? your dad had to buy used you think buy a used car. once you think you're working class , man, is. >> please , is.— >> please , man. >> please, man. >> please, man. >> cutlery. little points. >> cutlery. little points. >> sorry , steve. you probably >> sorry, steve. you probably want to talk about this, but i am impassioned by some of the stuff here. i think stuff here. i just think everything it from everything comes at it from a very slanted political angle. everything the, the, the idea that some of the comedians are terrible, like tom mayhew is a terrible, like tom mayhew is a terrible comedian and also he's made a career out of being poor. >> he's all like, oh, i'm so poonl >> he's all like, oh, i'm so poor, i can't afford anything. and some success.

and then he's got some success. and then he's got some success. and well, you're and it's like, well, you're still going on about not being able afford the bus the able to afford the bus to the studio studio. studio of bbc studio. >> have money now. >> you must have money now. >> you must have money now. >> being so useless. why >> stop being so useless. why don't comedy don't you get better at comedy and money? tom and make more money? tom >> i was just going to >> well, and i was just going to say it's a classic example of each side of argument that each side of the argument that thinks the definition of the word wolk's different. so no one's same one's arguing about the same thing yeah, thing anymore. yeah, that headune them. >> my definition, course. >> my definition, of course. >> my definition, of course. >> all getting paid >> and they're all getting paid to do that job. and it ain't difficult. get difficult. it's difficult to get paid comedian. paid as a comedian. >> it is anyway. guardian >> it is anyway. the guardian now with the news now with the good news that young reading lots of young people are reading lots of books, probably because they're young people are reading lots of books, fthing ly because they're young people are reading lots of books, fthing ly becan'te they're young people are reading lots of books, fthing ly becan't be ey're the one thing that can't be tweaked execs to be fake tweaked by tech execs to be fake and and racist. steve tweaked by tech execs to be fake ancthe and racist. steve tweaked by tech execs to be fake ancthe midst and racist. steve tweaked by tech execs to be fake ancthe midst ofand racist. steve tweaked by tech execs to be fake ancthe midst of a d racist. steve tweaked by tech execs to be fake ancthe midst of a boom.t. steve tweaked by tech execs to be fake ancthe midst of a boom ofsteve tweaked by tech execs to be fake ancthe midst of a boom of book uk the midst of a boom of book clubs as generations z hobbies change it was nightclubs change once it was nightclubs and sport clubs and now they're going to clubs. going to book clubs. >> generation z, they don't >> this generation z, they don't drink, don't have sex, they drink, they don't have sex, they go to book clubs. and let's remember a generation that remember there a generation that say, you're living say, okay, boomer, you're living as boomer now. you're like a as a boomer now. you're like a retiree. what are you doing with your time? but the trend it says coincides are coincides with celebs who are launching dua lipa

launching book clubs. dua lipa i've on her app. i've learned italian on her app. it's great. and there's one book owner. i read this out a book club owner, who says that the book is a safe space and book club is a safe space and the conversation segues into real life issues and discussions about lonely in london. real life issues and discussions about like lonely in london. real life issues and discussions about like a)nely in london. real life issues and discussions about like a greatin london. real life issues and discussions about like a great nightdon. real life issues and discussions about like a great night out, sounds like a great night out, but do you think conference call the samaritans ? the samaritans? >> well, strewth yeah, no wonder there's a push for, uh, for assisted dying . um, paul, what assisted dying. um, paul, what do you make of this ? do you make of this? >> well, it's, uh, i make of it the well, steve makes of it. i mean, clubs have opened up mean, book clubs have opened up as a safe for space communities. they say in here it's because this guardian. just this is in the guardian. it just drives like they drives me mad. it's like they can't have a book club that can't even have a book club that isn't safe space. book isn't a safe space. now, book clubs safe space. if i clubs aren't a safe space. if i was to, has there ever was going to, has there ever been a book club that's an unsafe space? >> no. >> 5 one em— 5 one book is. yeah >> i mean, one book is. yeah >> i mean, one book is. yeah >> i mean, one book is. yeah >> i mean. there are a few in that one that week. >> oh, book this. >> oh, book this. >> i mean, if it's if it's 50 shades of grey and there's one just woman and three geezers there, then it's not a safe space, is it? anyway, just one

section to go in a couple of minutes. >> we'll have drugs in the olympics and drugs in paul pogba. see you then

welcome back to the final section of headliners kicking off this section with the guardian. with olympic tsar sebastian coe clearly threatened by a new and better olympics that allows athletes to take steroids and cocaine. >> paul, this is brilliant . steroids and cocaine. >> paul, this is brilliant. i didn't know anything about this till i read this story today. the world athletics president, sir sebastian coe, of course, has hit out at plans for an enhanced games. the enhanced games that would allow athletes to take steroids and other performance enhancing drugs and warn that anyone who competes would be banned for a long time. and yes, because it's not sport, is it? the idea in the olympics is it? the idea in the olympics is that it's drug free. well let me get to that, because sport on drugs, it's is sport on drugs, which be brilliant. but which would be brilliant. but i'm saying wouldn't be.

i'm not saying it wouldn't be. i'm not saying it wouldn't be. i'm just saying the two aren't compatible. one about pure compatible. one is about pure human ability do something . human ability to do something. the other one is about roided up people smashing the living daylights out of one another. and i want to watch that, that's for sure . i mean, i think that for sure. i mean, i think that would be good tv. yeah >> i mean, they'll have to be careful drugs take careful what drugs they take because not all drugs are performance enhancing. >> true. lot >> that's true. no, a lot of watching crisps that watching tv, eating crisps that could be a sport i love it, could be a new sport i love it, you get a sebastian coe, gets upset. even uses the b word. you know, the means know, the one that means testicles. imagine. really testicles. yeah. imagine. really small all small testicles because of all the but you're the steroids. um, but you're right. it's a weird calling. it enhanced not you what enhanced does not tell you what it. makes you think fake it. so it makes you think fake bosoms. yeah. and that is, that is we'd all like is the 100m that we'd all like to watch. >> the fake bosom. 100. yeah, yeah, just mainly men with fake bosoms as well. >> definitely. >> definitely. >> lactating the independent. >> now settling the debate over what came first. the chicken or the hey just glad you the egg? hey just be glad you both came , steve. both came, steve. >> yeah. scientists finally discover whether the chicken or the egg came first. before we

get into the story, it's egg. of course but let's see what course it is. but let's see what they yeah. a they say. yeah. um it's a question that have been question that humans have been asking for almost asking themselves for almost since now they since time began. now they haven't. they have , haven't. but if they have, they've now, haven't. but if they have, the say, now, haven't. but if they have, the say, um. now, haven't. but if they have, the say, um. louis now, haven't. but if they have, the say, um. louis vazelon, w, haven't. but if they have, thesay, um. louis vazelon, a i'd say, um. louis vazelon, a scientist and technology educator, says eggs are older scientist and technology educ chickensy eggs are older scientist and technology educ chickens .aggs are older scientist and technology educ chickens . yep. are older scientist and technology educ chickens . yep. um older scientist and technology educ chickens . yep. um and' scientist and technology educ chickens . yep. um and then than chickens. yep. um and then he said, but it's not just about saying that dinosaurs came before, uh, chickens. what about the chicken egg? which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg? at some point in evolutionary history, there were chicken egg? at some point in ev> so have you got anything to add this? add to this? >> not not not that i do >> not not that, not that i do not to challenge that not want to challenge that theory. clever theory. no i don't look clever as but if i come up with as it is, but if i come up with another theory, then i. >> an egg conspiracy. >> an egg conspiracy. >> yeah , that's what i need, >> yeah, that's what i need, louis, to make me look clever. leo, you know that. okay we've got telegraph now with got the telegraph now with another remake of a

another woke remake of a television classic . television classic. >> time the blue planet >> this time is the blue planet with sex scenes. paul. oh, man. >> there's some serious jiggery pokery going on here. humpback humpback sex. jeepers creepers , humpback sex. jeepers creepers, jeepers creepers. i mean, it's almost like someone's making me say these words . um, humpback, say these words. um, humpback, uh, sex. uh, photograph for the first time. right? men too. and both whales are male , so who both whales are male, so who cares, right? first. well, let me let me do this story. right. and then we'll get into the consent issue of it. oh, well, there is. there it is. >> no. that's that was u2. >> oh, no. that's that was u2. that's which 1 am. i? two male humpback whales were reliably informed by scientists that that is a photo of them having sex. i think this is post—watershed. >> think there's consent >> i think there's a consent issue, but let's see what they say here. a pair of humpback say in here. a pair of humpback whales obsessed, observed, whales are obsessed, observed, not observed. not obsessed, observed. having sex first ever by sex for the first time ever by scientists . now who's going out scientists. now who's going out there specifically looking to find that out? i guess maybe they weren't, but they go into quite a bit of detail about how penetrative etc. penetrative it was, etc, etc. and they can't quite figure out

why , why, why would be two why, why, why it would be two males. love. leo. this is males. it's love. leo. this is 2024. it's love. they've gone out into the middle of the ocean for a bit of special time, and they've scientists with they've got some scientists with his they're his camera. they're taking photographs . outrageous. photographs. outrageous. >> let's just quickly >> yeah, and let's just quickly finish this about paul finish on this story about paul pogba. just be careful. if you're if you're, uh, if you're out because some drugs accidentally into his accidentally fell into his mouth, apparently. steve. >> is a. yeah. i can go >> oh, this is a. yeah. i can go with this one. um he's got four years for doping to effectively end his world career. end his world cup career. that's. he's out of it. that's. he's ageing out of it. they've for four they've banned him for four years. uh, but yeah, it turns out he's been banned from football. believe that's football. i believe that's a game the former band united midfielder . game the former band united midfielder. um, he took a supplement that somehow has this androgen thing in there by accident . and i've read it a few accident. and i've read it a few times. they don't tell you what the supplement is, because i'd love to have a bit of this. yeah, just on vitamin b, like an idiot. if i could get some of this my you could be in this in my life, you could be in the olympics just the enhanced olympics. just a massive coe angry. massive sebastian coe angry. >> your large breasts in 10s.

have you got anything? >> no. i'm not. i'm not competing with large breasts. >> and on that you want to see jiggery pokery >> and on that you want to see jiggery pokery again? >> i'd love to see some. yeah. jiggery corbyn's. jiggery pokery at corbyn's. >> sure is nearly >> well, there sure is nearly aukus. let's take another quick look pages. look at friday's front pages. the leads with the daily mail leads with britain's broken borders. the telegraph has russia flooding the west with migrants. the guardian leads with more than 100 palestinians die in chaos surrounding gaza, aid convoy. the times leads with there's nothing to stop. another police killer like cousins. nothing to stop. another police killer like cousins . the nothing to stop. another police killer like cousins. the i nothing to stop. another police killer like cousins . the i news killer like cousins. the i news has £0.02 tacks cut in doubt after gloomier forecast on uk economy. and finally , the daily economy. and finally, the daily star with a story about the hairy biker that sadly died. my best friend is on a journey that for now i can't follow and those were your front pages and that's all we have time for. thank you to my guest, paul cox and steve allen. back tomorrow 11 allen. we're back tomorrow at 11 pm. other people . see pm. with some other people. see you then. and if you're watching, uh, 5 stay watching, uh, at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast and coming up tom harwood

up after the break. tom harwood tom taking you tom harwood will be taking you through tonight's by—election results. what's in store? >> it was meant to be so >> tom, it was meant to be so predictable . a presumed safe predictable. a presumed safe labour seat was meant to be sealed up . but then two twin sealed up. but then two twin d disturbances in what could have been a very predictable by—election. first, of course, the war in gaza. and second, the disowning of the labour party's own candidate is thrown the night wide open. george galloway is already claiming victory here, standing against the labour party, standing against the other parties, but also reform uk has simon danczuk, the former rochdale mp , standing as former rochdale mp, standing as their candidate. could he have a look in two? it's to all play for in the most unpredictable by—election in a very long time. we'll be going through every twist and turn as the counting is already underway, so stay with us here on gb news from midnight through to 6 am, we'll be joined with a—list guests as we unpick what's happening in

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travel. also a little bit of flooding well. that flooding possible as well. that rain then feeds further north and lying across and eastwards, lying across northern england . as we northern parts of england. as we head into the afternoon, a scattering of with some scattering of showers with some sunny developing across sunny spells developing across much and wales. sunny spells developing across much and wales . the much of england and wales. the best sunshine though across scotland ireland, scotland and northern ireland, temperatures for many are a little on the chilly side, especially consider especially when you consider tomorrow the first day of tomorrow is the first day of meteorological spring. as we look and it's look towards saturday, and it's a a day, there will a bit of a messy day, there will be outbreaks of showery be some outbreaks of showery rain could rain around, and there could still some wintry still be some wintry ness, particularly over any modest higher at the moment it higher ground at the moment it looks like sunday is going to be a day for of us, but a drier day for many of us, but do watch out for some rain in the south and more wet the south east and more wet weather come as we go into weather to come as we go into the start next week, the start of next week, particularly i'll see the start of next week, partlater..y i'll see the start of next week, partlater. bye i'll see the start of next week, partlater. bye bye. i'll see you later. bye bye. >> brighter outlook with boxt >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on .

6b news. >> it's midnight. news. >> it's midnight . this is gb >> it's midnight. this is gb news, britain's election channel polls have closed in rochdale tonight. in one of the most divisive and controversial by—election contests in recent history. the reform party candidate, simon danczuk, spoke to patrick christys earlier tonight . tonight. >> it's the extremist election i've known in my 35 years in british politics. >> there's been intimidation. >> there's been intimidation. >> there's been threats to members of the public who were supporting particular people. >> there's been a crazy run up to this by—election as labour, labour withdrew support for azhar ali, their former candidate , after is after saying candidate, after is after saying israel . wanted the october the israel. wanted the october the 7th attack from hamas as a pretext to invade