economy and rishi put the uk's economy and rishi sunak popularity back on track . sunak popularity back on track. that's despite the fiscal watchdog suggesting the government has little scope for tax cuts to make the figures add up. jeremy hunt's expected to extend a windfall tax on energy firms profits, and possibly tighten the rules on non—dom tax status . meanwhile, tighten the rules on non—dom tax status. meanwhile, birmingham city council has approved a wave of budget cuts that have been described as a devastating double whammy of tax cuts and fewer public services . the fewer public services. the labour led authority's planning a 21% increase in council tax over two years, and £300 million worth of cuts to public services . council leader john cotton unreservedly apologised to the city's residents for the budget , city's residents for the budget, blaming tory austerity . blaming tory austerity. birmingham's conservative leader said the cuts will mean streets are no longer cleared and broken street lights aren't repaired . street lights aren't repaired. gb news understands that the policing of a pro—palestinian

protest in london this weekend will remain unchanged. officers will remain unchanged. officers will reportedly use existing pubuc will reportedly use existing public order and anti—terror laws after rishi sunak called on the police to crack down on extremist behaviour , and a extremist behaviour, and a government minister has paid damages to an academic after suggesting she supported hamas. but the cost covered by the taxpayer, the science secretary, michelle donelan, has now retracted her comments about professor kate tsang after a government investigation found the allegations were baseless . the allegations were baseless. the thousands of staff at greggs bakeries are to get more than £17 million in bonuses, as it's after the high street chain saw profits rise by 27% in the last yeah profits rise by 27% in the last year. staff can expect to see the extra award in their pay packets at the end of the month, recognise their hard work and if we can say so, it's the icing on the cake for the workers who already get a share profits already get a share of profits each year. so scientists have revealed the case of a hyper

vaccinated man who's reportedly received . 217 covid jabs . the 62 received. 217 covid jabs. the 62 year old from germany received the staggering number of vaccinations for private reasons, he said over 29 months, researchers heard about the man in a newspaper and asked if they could study his body's response to the multiple jabs. could study his body's response to the multiple jabs . they say to the multiple jabs. they say despite his extraordinary hyper vaccination, no noticeable side effects have been found so far . effects have been found so far. and finally, if you were a fan of soap operas in the 90s, you can probably remember this . can probably remember this. young people's stand in the darkness . baywatch became the darkness. baywatch became the world's most watched tv series dunng world's most watched tv series during its original run from 89 to 99, and now those red bathing suits and slow motion jogs along the california beach are set to return in a new series expected to premiere this autumn. it's going to see a whole new generation of lifeguards embarking on daring ocean rescues . the original series

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bottle of remy martin as well on the mantelpiece, which was my little had to get up little treat. if i had to get up in night. in the night. >> so that would elevate mood >> so that would elevate my mood because when because they can tell even when they're not getting it directly from can if from you, they can tell if you're it . you're cross about it. >> that's science. is it .7 >> that's science. is it.7 >> right? >> right? >> let's take a look at our front pages. >> uh, we have the daily mail, believe. >> up first. yes. five essayists, soldiers in murder probe over jihad essayists, soldiers in murder probe overjihad , death. probe over jihad, death. >> and michael gambon's. >> and michael gambon's. >> will the telegraph tax cuts spark election talk? there is jeremy hunt the guardian hunt define public services. alarm with pre—election budget tax cuts predictable response from the guardian. the express hunts tax cut gamble will put £900 in workers pockets . i knew say that workers pockets. i knew say that labour fears tory budget trap as hunt cuts knee . that's national hunt cuts knee. that's national insurance rather than northern ireland by £0.02 in giveaway and the daily star. >> sir squirting snot up your

conch could cure hay fever. >> those were your front pages. and those are the elephant traps provided by jeremy hunt. avoided tonight . so provided by jeremy hunt. avoided tonight. so we start provided by jeremy hunt. avoided tonight . so we start with the tonight. so we start with the daily mail here. very serious story . yes, there are five story. yes, there are five serving sas soldiers. are facing possible murder charges over the death of a suspected jihadist in syria. uh, so it's a case that's provoked fury inside the special forces. understandable so the top brass have alleged that the troops used excessive force and should have arrested this man instead. but a suicide vest was found nearby , and, uh, he was he found nearby, and, uh, he was he was kind of playing dead. he wasn't. he wasn't moving. and they were worried he could detonate suicide vest . uh, detonate a suicide vest. uh, you know, with reason. know, with with reason. obviously a suicide know, with with reason. obviwas( a suicide know, with with reason. obvi was found a suicide know, with with reason. obvi was found nearby. suicide know, with with reason. obvi was found nearby. he cide know, with with reason. obvi was found nearby. he could vest was found nearby. he could do that he was lying. do that while he was lying. >> faking death. do that while he was lying. >> or faking death. do that while he was lying. >> or he aking death. do that while he was lying. >> or he could death. do that while he was lying. >> or he could wait]. do that while he was lying. >> or he could wait for him to come over and then detonate the suicide and blow them up so suicide vest and blow them up so they. him. and, you they. so they shot him. and, you

know, incapacitate him. and know, to incapacitate him. and this happened on the battlefield know, to incapacitate him. and tithisappened on the battlefield know, to incapacitate him. and tithisappene in>n the battlefield know, to incapacitate him. and tithisappene in custody. ttlefield know, to incapacitate him. and tithisappene in custody. this eld . this wasn't in custody. this this wasn't prisoner of war this wasn't a prisoner of war that was was executed. rock that was that was executed. rock of and stuff many of gibraltar and stuff many years ago. yeah yeah, yeah. and, you know, considering in syria, in any, any other war, we get involved uh, we're raining involved in, uh, we're raining death from the air via drones. how long ago was this then? are we talking sort of 2012 or something? this is two years ago. >> oh, just two years ago. >> oh, just two years ago. >> okay, so we're still involved. uh, you know, special forces are still involved in these conflicts that we've apparently back apparently sort of pulled back from. uh, from. yeah, but this, uh, there's there seems to be a feeling amongst, uh, the forces that this is top brass, you know, trying to sort of make a name for themselves or get a gold star and say, look, we sent this in the army today. gold star and say, look, we sent this in the army today . the top this in the army today. the top brass seem to get rewarded for punishing soldiers rather than standing by them or indeed, recruiting them, which not an recruiting them, which is not an insignificant challenge at the moment. if you're moment. i mean, if you're thinking get for thinking you might get done for murder the rest of it. murder on top of the rest of it. yeah, i don't know. mean, i've yeah, i don't know. i mean, i've funnily enough, been listening to audiobook book the

to an audiobook book on the history face of battle. to an audiobook book on the histofrom face of battle. to an audiobook book on the histofrom agincourtf battle. to an audiobook book on the histofrom agincourt through um, from agincourt through waterloo and the somme. then among other things, the circumstances in which killing a prisoner and so on have been considered . obviously, it's, you considered. obviously, it's, you know, it's a tricky question. it always has been. but killing a prisoner seems less of a tricky question than this situation has described . described. >> it's very easy to say no . >> it's very easy to say no. what you should have done is arrested . arrested. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> with hindsight, knowing >> with with hindsight, knowing that you could done the that you could have done the arrest explosion, that you could have done the arrevery explosion, that you could have done the arrevery easy explosion, that you could have done the arrevery easy to explosion, that you could have done the arrevery easy to put3losion, that you could have done the arrevery easy to put that)n, it's very easy to put that argument together. >> but i don't know. and until you're there, until you've got that decision make and it's that decision to make and it's not it would be the first not as if it would be the first thing you do that day, the thing you do that day, and the only a war, only thing you've done in a war, they all of the they would have all of the context what's context around you of what's been i don't know, been happening. so i don't know, it feels a bit cheeky to try. and to say, i mean, and you've got to say, i mean, i presume the, the what you presume the, the what do you call it, the, the balance of probability is, benefit probability is, is benefit of the doubt is given to the soldiers. >> but maybe even within that i have seen, expect you have as have seen, i expect you have as well on, on social quite well on, on social media. quite a body cam footage from

a lot of body cam footage from arrests attempted in america, where obviously police have guns and a similar situation and people reach for weapons and so on. things can happen very, very quickly in that circumstance. it's one thing to be going, don't move, don't move, don't move. but, uh, yeah. and also the guy was hiding behind a bush who's behind bush . who's motionless behind a bush. so, i mean, he could have saved himself wait, don't himself by saying, wait, i don't have here. i don't have. i'm over here. i don't have. i'm over here. i don't have anything . so, you know, he have anything. so, you know, he didn't. and was playing didn't. and if he was playing dead, then they presumably thought there was there was nothing lost or gained nothing to be lost or gained anyway, on to wednesday's anyway, moving on to wednesday's guardian anyway, moving on to wednesday's gueyeah, slightly less depressing. >> hunt defies. i've done it same. >> i, i managed to say it. it's always close, isn't it? hunt defies always close, isn't it? hunt defies public services alarm with pre—election budget tax cuts. what a boring headline, i'm afraid. but it's all about £0.02 off national insurance . £0.02 off national insurance. the plan is. but there was no way he couldn't do or. we don't know yet, but we'll find out very soon. there'll be £0.02 off national it's been national insurance. it's been promised talked about for promised or talked about for so long. said long. if he would have said tomorrow. by the way, no

tomorrow. oh, by the way, no change in income or national change in income tax or national insurance, have been insurance, that would have been it. i mean, do it. done. well i mean, we'll do we'll inheritance we'll do inheritance tax. >> expected that >> i certainly expected that when first when they when they first i mean, took over from mean, when they took over from truss, basically it like truss, basically it was like were going to try and mount truss, basically it was like werpain going to try and mount truss, basically it was like werpain on oing to try and mount truss, basically it was like werpain on usg to try and mount truss, basically it was like werpain on us front,y and mount truss, basically it was like werpain on us front,y andthe�*unt the pain on us front, load the pain that they can ease it pain so that they can ease it off time for election? off in time for the election? >> although in january >> although it was in january we got national cut. got a national insurance cut. >> why this is not a >> and this is why this is not a good idea, because you do the surveys. no one remembers it. no one what, one goes. i'll tell you what, those really good. those tories are really good. i'm even paying i'm barely even paying national insurance. thinks insurance. no one even thinks of national take off national insurance. take it off income because that's the income tax because that's the headline. it is more cost effective off effective to take it off national insurance, but no one cares. have the impact. >> it's you're right. it's the feel good factor. used to feel good factor. they used to call didn't they. and call it didn't they. and of course blair famously course tony blair famously had it in his first administration bequeathed really by kenneth bequeathed it really by kenneth clarke wonderful budgets bequeathed it really by kenneth clajohn wonderful budgets bequeathed it really by kenneth clajohn butderful budgets bequeathed it really by kenneth clajohn but it'sul budgets bequeathed it really by kenneth clajohn but it's beendgets forjohn major. but it's been an awfully time since anyone awfully long time since anyone has felt anything other than quite you know, profoundly depressed by the economic circumstances. they're living in. yeah, absolutely. and we seem to be paying more tax than even seem to be paying more tax than ever. we're in more debt than even ever. we're in more debt than ever. and our public services

are getting worse than ever. so what's the balance is what's happening? the balance is completely kilter. completely out of kilter. i mean, i think what we need to do, we need a javier milei to come for we're come in. and for aslef, we're not we're getting not getting one. we're getting keir need javier keir starmer. we need javier milei and just be milei to come in and just be like, afuera and cancel all like, afuera and just cancel all this stuff that all this money, all this public sector money gets spaffed on, like the radical mosques with hate preachers. can stop giving preachers. we can stop giving tax money how tax payers money to them. how about arts council. we about that? the arts council. we can giving money to that. can stop giving money to that. if you want to go and see the ballet, about you pay for it ballet, how about you pay for it instead a bus driver instead of taxing a bus driver for it? i mean, i agree with you and with father and i grew up with my father explaining to me repeatedly pretty broadcast pretty much every news broadcast that expected be that nobody expected to be subsidised. which was subsidised. his hobby, which was building aircraft building model aircraft who didn't he should didn't see why he should subsidise suppose subsidise the opera. i suppose we paying for the pandemic we are paying for the pandemic though, aren't still? but though, aren't we still? but the problem productivity problem is the productivity hasn't normal. hasn't returned to normal. people getting people aren't aren't getting back more people back to work. vastly more people are on sick leave. vastly more people are out of work one way or another. we need make it or another. we need to make it much to like literally , much tougher to like literally, literally hit people in the legs with planks and see i'm there

with planks and see i'm there with that. to be honest, i would vote for that party. >> the last budget an >> the last budget before an election a election should normally be a giveaway is barely giveaway. this is barely a giveaway. this is barely a giveaway. the extra £900 in the pocket already been spent on pocket has already been spent on how things more how much things are more expensive, thanks to the inflation we've had. >> yeah, so right, it's >> yeah, so you're right, it's slightly scalding on slightly less scalding water on the of neck, isn't it? the back of the neck, isn't it? that's the best you can that's about the best you can say it. telegraph page say of it. telegraph front page where they so they have uh where they got. so they have uh they have menopause is they have the menopause is marketed as a disease to make money for drug companies. marketed as a disease to make money for drug companies . well, money for drug companies. well, wait till find out about wait till you find out about other illnesses and other conditions like depression and things like that. but yeah, commercial interest or medical izing the condition, which is part healthy ageing, the part of healthy ageing, the menopause is part of healthy ageing. totally normal. ageing. it's totally normal. this the this research paper in the lancet uh says they're just doing it. they're taking a medicalized view menopause , medicalized view of menopause, uh, so that they can prescribe hormones and all of hormones and all kinds of treatments and make money off it. i am slightly torn on this one. i'm 58. a lot of the women i was at university with have been through the menopause, and a lot them have sworn hrt.

a lot of them have sworn by hrt. some of have gone private, some of them have gone private, some nhs. some of them are on the nhs. they've different protocols . they've had different protocols. it be particularly it does seem to be particularly valuable if you to stay in valuable if you want to stay in work be honest, because i work to be honest, because i think it just smooths out some of bumps that you might of the bumps that you might be otherwise know, otherwise subject to, you know, hot in meetings and mood hot flushes in meetings and mood swings and it's very, swings and so on. it's very, very dangerous territory for free sit around free men to sit around discussing times. discussing the best of times. i wouldn't want to deny anyone it, but hand, i do but on the other hand, i do agree with you. the medicalisation of normal within range spectrum of. i mean , as range spectrum of. i mean, as you say, mental health generally speaking. now, the extent to which even the faintest flicker of sadness, you know, that crosses your child's eyes before you know it, they're on. or if you know it, they're on. or if you get slightly distracted, then got exactly then you've got adhd. exactly yes. yeah. squirrel. >> i mean, they might be right that it's being treated like a disease, but we just disease, but we don't just medicalize diseases. medicalize or treat diseases. >> there are many things that >> so there are many things that happen older that are happen as you get older that are perfectly they're not perfectly normal. they're not positive. you positive. i suppose, but you do get treatment it. i mean, get a treatment for it. i mean, even a bloke it's perfectly even as a bloke it's perfectly natural. prostate is going natural. your prostate is going to a bigger if you live

to get a bit bigger if you live long going get long enough. it's going to get bigger you. long enough. it's going to get big that's you. long enough. it's going to get big that's true. |. long enough. it's going to get big that's true. if there were >> that's true. if there were some sucking that some way of sucking that out through about i through your nose at about 65, i think that would be that would through your nose at about 65, i thi a. that would be that would through your nose at about 65, i thi a massive uld be that would through your nose at about 65, i thi a massive stride that would through your nose at about 65, i thi a massive stride forward. jld be a massive stride forward. talking of which, can we pick that? can very quickly that? can we very quickly address squirting up address the squirting snot up your hay fever remedy? your conk hay fever remedy? >> yeah . um, your conk hay fever remedy? >> yeah. um, so your conk hay fever remedy? >> yeah . um, so apparently >> yeah. um, so apparently having a snot transplant says the daily star will get rid of hay fever. no, thanks. i'll have the hay fever. >> do you have hay fever, though? i don't, you see, though? no, i don't, you see, that's it. that's why you're able to be flippant. i get hay fever used as fever and i never used to as a child, my best mate used to child, but my best mate used to get it around season. and get it around exam season. and it three grades it knocked about three grades off unquestionably he off him. unquestionably he is absolutely and now off him. unquestionably he is absoijtely and now off him. unquestionably he is absoi get' and now off him. unquestionably he is absoi get it. and now off him. unquestionably he is absoi get it. and and now off him. unquestionably he is absoi get it. and it's and now off him. unquestionably he is absoi get it. and it's weirdiow off him. unquestionably he is absoi get it. and it's weird .>w now i get it. and it's weird. it's about sneezing or even it's not about sneezing or even itchy really led itchy eyes. it's a really led and thick, sluggish kind of feeling . we need intestinal feeling. we need intestinal parasites because intestinal parasites, because they're foreign protein. they have to release medical, uh, chemicals that our immune system. that moderate our immune system. right. and that reduces all the apparently a third of us suffer from autoimmune related disorders. i believe that. disorders. i can believe that. you sniff someone else's

snot. >> they did it. they did trials after about three months, the effects you have to effects wear off. you have to keep this. when keep doing this. i remember when we baby was about we had when our baby was about six somebody six months of age, somebody showed us was this little showed us there was this little kind pipette you kind of reverse pipette you could to suck snot out could use to suck the snot out of then you'd squeeze it >> and then you'd squeeze it away. and i went, no, much away. and i went, no, it's much easier like oh easier to do it like this. oh sucking the poison . oh, it's sucking out the poison. oh, it's marvellous . sucking out the poison. oh, it's marvellous. no greater sucking out the poison. oh, it's marvellous . no greater love hath marvellous. no greater love hath a man . that's the front pages a man. that's the front pages done. join us after the break for your regular dose of trans outrage. and the collapse of the nhs, to utterly distinct stories there. course, we'll you

welcome back to headliners your first look at wednesday's newspapers with me, simon evans, leo kearse, steve n allen. so leo, we will kick off this section and to no one's great surprise, perhaps the daily mail have evidence that so—called trans so—called healthcare, so—called doctors are well aware that many of their clients are

in no position to be calling the shots on their own surgery . shots on their own surgery. yeah. so trans healthcare doctors are exposed, admitting that some patients are too young or too mentally ill to understand the consequences of their treatment . this is leaked their treatment. this is leaked messages from the world professional association for transgender health, or w path , transgender health, or w path, uh, might be related to psychopath , but given how psychopath, but given how they're behaving, they reveal how medics have acknowledged behind the scenes that teenagers, given puberty blocking drugs, did not always realise that this would mean they could never have children . they could never have children. and obviously, you know, when they're puberty they're given the puberty blocking drugs, not only does it does their body, lead does it wreck their body, lead to and various does it wreck their body, lead to other and various does it wreck their body, lead to other things various does it wreck their body, lead to other things and us various other things and depression and, you know, more mental health issues . uh, but mental health issues. uh, but then it sets off and sets them on a pathway to having the transgender surgery, which can be, you know, really quite, quite brutal and quite, uh, horrifying and not even, you know, particularly successful . know, particularly successful. it's not like you get, you know, there's a god, god given penis. you get like a weird balloon

penis made out of your arm and stuff like that. yeah and these guidelines w path influence guidelines from w path influence the nhs . uh, and, i mean, this the nhs. uh, and, i mean, this is going to be the next big medical scandal. yeah. and the real victim here is the taxpayer. so we're for taxpayer. so we're paying for all children and other all these children and other people to have transitions and, uh, like, and now we're going to have to pay. they're a few years on, they're going to be like, well, i misinformed by my well, i was misinformed by my doctor. misled, uh, i'm doctor. i was misled, uh, i'm suffering these things. suffering all all these things. they're to they're going they're going to they're going to deal transition and to want to deal transition and they're want to sue they're going to want to sue the nhs. like didn't want to nhs. it's like i didn't want to pay nhs. it's like i didn't want to pay in the first place. pay for it in the first place. now having pay for it and now i'm having to pay for it and then for people to then pay for people to detransition. it's a very i mean, i suppose try and play mean, i suppose to try and play devil's advocate some extent. mean, i suppose to try and play devil'sifidvocate some extent. mean, i suppose to try and play devil'sif you'vee some extent. mean, i suppose to try and play devil'sif you've got some extent. mean, i suppose to try and play devil'sif you've got a)me extent. mean, i suppose to try and play devil'sif you've got a child xtent. mean, i suppose to try and play devil'sif you've got a child that . steve if you've got a child that is expressing extreme discomfort, your gender dysphoria you can dysphoria or whatever, you can understand saying, dysphoria or whatever, you can unde|listen saying, dysphoria or whatever, you can unde|listen , saying, dysphoria or whatever, you can unde|listen , if saying, dysphoria or whatever, you can unde|listen , if they saying, dysphoria or whatever, you can unde|listen , if they if saying, dysphoria or whatever, you can unde|listen , if they if theying, well, listen, if they if they absolutely know, know , that absolutely know, you know, that they are supposed to be a girl and their their body and their and their their body is them. you can is wrong for them. you can understand that. but there have been so i mean, we've had so many issues over the centuries

where we've we've come to understand that children not understand that children are not old give consent to old enough to give consent to sex. they're not old enough to vote. they're not old enough to dnnk vote. they're not old enough to drink how can we drink alcohol. how can we possibly something as possibly think that something as extraordinarily like decisive and definitive and irreversible as this could have been? okay yeah. >> i think even if you are at your core, thoroughly trying to spend all of your time supporting the trans people, you would want there to be more figoun would want there to be more rigour. this is not something that should be done lightly, because then you end having because then you end up having the affected . the wrong people affected. you're not trans people , you're not saving trans people, you're potentially harming other people weren't trans. it's people who weren't trans. it's often these debates end up often these these debates end up being not about trans people. the thing happens you the same thing happens when you talk not about talk about toilets, not about trans people. it's about people who toilets, who want to sneak into toilets, who want to sneak into toilets, who trans, are using who aren't trans, who are using the loopholes. thing the loopholes. the same thing here. it's not about the actual trans could be trans people that could be helped by a system, but if the system is so poor, it just ends up medicalized . we talked up medicalized. and we talked about wrong about medicalizing the wrong people helping one people. you're helping no one i know, it's a complex

know, i know, it's a complex thing and i andrew doyle is doing a special on free. he is, he is. >> that's right. yeah. he is. >> there's ight. yeah. he is. >> there's ight. yeaito dig into >> there's so much to dig into this. going to this. it's going to be fascinating. does also fascinating. it does also strike me. >> and i mean, this is maybe naive, would thought naive, but i would have thought there ways for there would be other ways for them their, their them to overcome their, their dysphoria. they're looking in the in the short the mirror problem in the short terme, brutally terme, you know, to be brutally frank effectively frank about it, effectively strap on to whatever. do you know i mean? there are ways know what i mean? there are ways you could use medical prosthetics. i've seen a lot of those as well. yeah, but those films as well. yeah, but it's you, are it's like you, there are ways you can mean, you can dress. i mean, i remember used to have remember my son used to have a this is maybe being too this is maybe i'm being too polyphony here, but he had a sort batman, shirt that sort of batman, uh, shirt that had six pack and big had a kind of six pack and big pecs built into it. know pecs built into it. you know what in foam. that made what i mean? in foam. that made him a, you him think he was like a, you know, not do. well, it feels know, why not do. well, it feels like it's a bit of a safer shortcut, know, couple of shortcut, you know, couple of years until you're a bit older and you can decide what you want to and now he he's not to do. and now he knows he's not bad. in the meantime, yeah, bad. but in the meantime, yeah, he's not batman. as soon as >> he's not batman. as soon as he puberty, realised it he hit puberty, you realised it was as that was was just as soon as that was like, there's a mugger out there, and you to go out there, and i want you to go out and it out further medical

and sort it out further medical news the telegraph, steve. >> and perhaps the one thing that trans from that might save trans kids from irreversible is the irreversible procedures is the waiting crumbling nhs to waiting list crumbling nhs to push record numbers to private health care . health care. >> more than 800,000. expect to pay >> more than 800,000. expect to pay for their medical services . pay for their medical services. this is when we play a clip from 2010 of some mp being asked , are 2010 of some mp being asked, are you trying to underfund the nhs ? you trying to underfund the nhs? so it's being privatised by the back door, not at all. cut to. turns out the phone call was coming from inside the house all along. plot twist . um, so the along. plot twist. um, so the number of private hospital admissions it's admissions has increased. it's gone 664,000, according to gone up to 664,000, according to data. you can't blame people because there's an upper limit on a waiting list that you can cope with. and that's how long you've to live. and you've got left to live. and also, i mean, it's very closely tied to the well to the same demographic shifts that that made us prone to covid, isn't it? >> it's an ageing population option. i think something like 50% of nhs budget is, is spent on people who are in the last 18 months of their life. so

obviously the, the more people , obviously the, the more people, the larger the percentage of your population are from that, your population are from that, you know that was never foreseen. even ten years ago. i don't think a lot of this is understandable because the procedures that are up there on the list of commonly paid for procedures that are up there on the things commonly paid for procedures that are up there on the things com cataracts,d for procedures that are up there on the things com cataracts, knee are things like cataracts, knee surgery, replacements pain ones. >> but on is diagnostic >> but on there is diagnostic endoscopies. now i had of endoscopies. now i had one of the smaller ones, the sigmoidoscopy . and a couple of sigmoidoscopy. and a couple of years ago i had some sort of scare. yeah, spoiler alert i don't any of that cancer don't have any of that cancer luck, it's cancer, you luck, but if it's cancer, you want out early, don't want to find out early, don't put waiting no, put that on a waiting list. no, and i the letter i remember and i got the letter i remember and i got the letter i remember and said, you're an emergency and it said, you're an emergency case. you should be seen within two turnover your case. you should be seen within two is turnover your case. you should be seen within two is so turnover your case. you should be seen within two is so nine over your case. you should be seen within two is so nine months your case. you should be seen within two is so nine months later. r date is so nine months later. why even it on the on the why even put it on the on the piece paper to make me feel worried? >> you should be seen within two weeks. going to happen. >> you should be seen within two weejust going to happen. >> you should be seen within two weejust so going to happen. >> you should be seen within two weejust so you going to happen. >> you should be seen within two weejust so you know. to happen. >> you should be seen within two weejust so you know. yeah, pen. but just so you know. yeah, yeah. telegraph again leo, having established much having established just how much spare cash and capacity is sloshing the nhs, good sloshing around in the nhs, good to they've got their to see they've got their priorities straight. so a scottish has made a scottish nhs board has made a formal apology over its historical slavery links in jamaica. apparently, as recently

as 1997, they were taking a boat over to jamaica, rounding people up and making them wash the hospital and paint the window. no they weren't. yeah they they were . they're trying to make were. they're trying to make amends. this is nhs lothian. they want make amends for they want to make amends for edinburgh edinburgh's edinburgh, edinburgh's royal infirmary. i've been treated there. hospital or it there. very good hospital or it used to anyway being used to be. anyway being funded by slave plantation . by a jamaica slave plantation. it 1749. so this is it was left in 1749. so this is stuff that happened quite a long time before the french time ago, before the french revolution. i mean, revolution. yeah i mean, i feel that should cut off point if that should be cut off point if you're going have one. that you're going to have one. that would literally a off would be literally a cut off point . point. >> the one thing is famous for it is all the trip. so this it is all the head trip. so this is know, given that we've is you know, given that we've just parlous state just heard what a parlous state the is, and only are the nhs is, and not only are people private, but, you people going private, but, you know, you to get know, even if you want to get seen and dealt with by public services in this country, you've got to use it. >> in the soviet union, had got to use it. >.thinghe soviet union, had got to use it. >.thinghe soviblat, ion, had got to use it. >.thinghe soviblat, which had got to use it. >.thinghe soviblat, which wasad a thing called blat, which was cajoling and harassing and bribing you got the bribing until you got the service needed. and we've service you needed. and we've basically got that in the uk at the moment. so they're the moment. so why they're wasting time and money doing this sort of virtue signalling

apology for slavery that happened hundreds of years ago. ihave happened hundreds of years ago. i have no idea. i suppose one should say that this is essentially an apology. there's been meeting . there might be been a meeting. there might be a letter issued, huge amount letter issued, not a huge amount of has been but of money has been spent, but it's certainly focus, it's certainly drawn focus, isn't yeah. people's time isn't it? yeah. people's time and also these and efforts and also these things very rarely end with the first apology, do they? they will now be a demand for reparation of some sort. >> i suppose this might, because one of the things they've done is commissioned art is they've commissioned some art as of the reparations, and as part of the reparations, and that's going to be the thing where ancestors descend of slaves going to say , okay, slaves are going to say, okay, oh, you shouldn't have . oh, no , oh, you shouldn't have. oh, no, that's fine. you keep that stupid statue independent. >> now , steve, what sounds a lot >> now, steve, what sounds a lot like the knights first scape squirrel from saint mark rowley. are you familiar with the scape squirrel? yes. >> i was here when you launched the scape squirrel met chief warns violence against women needs treated needs to be treated like terrorism. will up terrorism. so we will end up having people who having marches for people who support it. yeah. um, so mark rowley said that we sort of

already do. >> in fact. mean, like this. >> in fact. i mean, like this. yeah, but anyway, so he the yeah, but anyway, so he said the future governments need give yeah, but anyway, so he said the futhame/ernments need give yeah, but anyway, so he said the futl same levelents need give yeah, but anyway, so he said the futl same level ofts need give yeah, but anyway, so he said the futl same level of funding give yeah, but anyway, so he said the futl same level of funding to;ive the same level of funding to deal with this issue of violence against women. deal with this issue of violence agayou're)men. deal with this issue of violence agayou're)melmet police. if >> you're the met police. if you'd violence you'd like to cut violence against people against women, tell the people you employ stop it. you employ to stop doing it. >> this my point. i mean, >> this is my point. i mean, this why it's a scape this is why i say it's a scape squirrel, because they're talking about cousins, aren't they? about the they? they're talking about the specific they specific wayne cousins that they continue and he moved continue to employ. and he moved from force to despite from force to force despite flags so red that they could have been seen, you know, from, from several miles away. >> you wouldn't near that. from several miles away. >> no. wouldn't near that. from several miles away. >> no. exactly.t near that. from several miles away. >> no. exactly. and near that. from several miles away. >> no. exactly. and he'sear that. from several miles away. >> no. exactly. and he's tryingt. >> no. exactly. and he's trying to blame some kind of wider cultural or dysfunction in the budgetary allocations and also violence against women is i've not googled it, but it's already illegal. >> so i would have presumed they were already trying to stop it . were already trying to stop it. >> yeah. and he was known as the rapist colloquially. this chap . rapist colloquially. this chap. i mean, it's ridiculous to try and kind of blame anything other than their own abject . yeah, than their own abject. yeah, failure to respond and to obvious cues and also to draw

parallels with terrorism and say it needs to be treated like terrorism, like terrorism is generally motivated by an ideology, whereas nobody's you know, committing domestic violence or whatever out of an ideological drive. no absolutely. you don't get people going, going. i'm thinking of becoming a rapist and. yeah, and then it's up to you to kind of go and report that to your superiors . it's ridiculous superiors. it's ridiculous comparison. i mean, you can you can spend money on it, obviously, but as you say, he's basically just trying to like create a massive cloud of squid ink as far as i can see, instead of taking responsibility. disgraceful all the disgraceful all over to the ongoing gaza crisis with the guardian now and through gritted teeth , they have news from the teeth, they have news from the un special envoy. so the united nafions un special envoy. so the united nations has found convincing information that hamas raped and tortured israeli hostages. i don't know whether it took them till now to say this. and we think we've all seen the evidence, but yeah, so the un special envoy and sexual violence and conflict is reported , clear and convincing

reported, clear and convincing information some and information that some women and children held hamas children, hostages held by hamas had subjected to rape and had been subjected to rape and sexualised torture , and that sexualised torture, and that there reasonable grounds to there were reasonable grounds to believe such are believe that such abuses are ongoing . because there ongoing. because obviously there are key. are still. that's the key. i think, isn't it? yeah, because i think, isn't it? yeah, because i think everyone had accepted that there was there was incontrovertible footage of it happening when they actually invaded israel. yeah, yeah. so it's still ongoing. although if you you know , people you listen to, you know, people on owen jones and, you on the left, owen jones and, you know, your typical guardian commentator, it commentator, you'd think it wasn't happening at all. they think that rape only happens. it's when a, it's when a man puts a middle class puts his hand on a middle class actress's , whereas this is actress's leg, whereas this is not. is an opportunity not. it is an opportunity now for jones to give his view for owen jones to give his view on this, i suppose, isn't it? but very quickly or it's too. >> is guardian, though. >> this is the guardian, though. yeah. this. yeah. actually reporting this. so, him a bit, a so, you know, give him a bit, a bit credit. bit of credit. >> made it halfway before bit of credit. >> start made it halfway before bit of credit. >> start tongue it halfway before bit of credit. >> start tongue in halfway before bit of credit. >> start tongue in the way before bit of credit. >> start tongue in the guardian'e we start tongue in the guardian in part two. we'll be looking at the latest orwellian dystopia to hit the hiking trail with north face and why thangam debbonaire feet don't touch the ground

and. okay, we're back to headliners for the second half or the third quarter. if you want to go american style, steve, the telegraph now any gb news viewer who has made it this far with their blood pressure within range, might want to consider looking away the best looking away now is the best story . story. >> want money off north face clothing ? then you to clothing? then you have to complete inclusion complete a racial inclusion course first. they're offering 20% off if you do this course, it an hour or an it takes about an hour or an houn it takes about an hour or an hour, but it's 20. if you're doing a big shop, maybe you sit through . um, they're doing through it. um, they're doing they doing allyship they they're doing an allyship in outdoors program. i don't think that the people who sell outdoors wear are racist . outdoors wear are racist. they've got one company called blacks. they've got one company called blacks . so if ever there's blacks. so if ever there's a place that's not like this, but they want to try and foster a deep understanding of the unique challenges of people of colour face they outdoors. face when they go outdoors. this follows on the news story of

people saying that the countryside is racist. yeah. uh and i'm not sure that it is. countryside is racist. yeah. uh and i'm not sure that it is . i and i'm not sure that it is. i just people say they don't just some people say they don't feel countryside. feel welcome in the countryside. that's countryside . it's got that's the countryside. it's got electric and people with electric fences and people with shotguns, get off shotguns, people saying, get off my . my land. >> right. w" my land. >> right. one wants >> that's right. no one wants you the top of a horse. yeah you at the top of a horse. yeah no. particularly intimidating. yeah. story in yeah. and there's a story in here who said she was here of someone who said she was in shop buying some in a in a shop buying some outdoor quite the >> didn't quite get the attention from shopkeeper. attention from the shopkeeper. she and therefore she wanted and therefore thought, maybe i'm meant to thought, maybe i'm not meant to go countryside. why are go in the countryside. why are you leap if the you making that leap if the thing stopping is your thing stopping you is your perception, you've got a little bit responsibility bit of responsibility to fix it. >> say, i mean, >> and also i would say, i mean, ihave >> and also i would say, i mean, i have i had to look at this quiz and it's very obvious what you're to say. if you're supposed to say. so if you're supposed to say. so if you get your 20% off, you want to get your 20% off, you want to get your 20% off, you hold nose and just you can hold your nose and just click. benefits all click. diversity benefits us all and only through encouraging all peoples and races and creeds can we have a fully enriching. it's very easy. you're not going to learn anything. know what learn anything. do you know what i being i mean? you're not being confronted with some. oh, actually, out that , um, actually, it turns out that, um, i don't know, uh, people of colour develop certain diseases

because they don't get enough fresh air and exercise or something. it's just it's something. yeah, it's just it's just all the standard platitudes arranged in a sort of series of flowcharts . and you just go, flowcharts. and you just go, yes, yes, the standard yes, yes, yes, the standard platitudes as fact. platitudes presented as fact. so, you know, the fact that diversity , diversity, equity and diversity, diversity, equity and inclusion always enriches and makes things better. and you can't criticise, you can't question it. you can't say that it leads siloed, it leads to siloed, uh, demographic mix. and you can't say that diversity is taking over the conversation, even though those are valid opinions . though those are valid opinions. if you click those, then you're wrong. >> no, it's only 20. so i think you could afford it. go in, take the test. answer all of those. yeah extra 20% and go. but look at them. yeah >> but i'm not going to give money to a company that assumes that and i need that i'm racist. and i need to be and actually, have be educated and actually, i have spent of money with north spent a lot of money with north face the mostly in the face in the past, mostly in the sale, quite a of sale, but still quite a lot of money. i've always felt it was a bit a sham anyway, because bit of a sham anyway, because it's in a shopping mall, it's always in a shopping mall, isn't of their, you isn't it? and most of their, you know, uh, know, uh , know, 80, uh, you know, uh, graham down don't see

graham down jackets don't see the the eiger or the north face of the eiger or they, they see the north face of they, they see the north face of the escalator. that's fine . or the escalator. that's fine. or maybe the terraces at a rugby game, but i mean , it is it's game, but i mean, it is it's kind of. it's fashion gear anyway. really but if they wanted to take on some cause if i thought they were supporting actual diversity, like bio diversity, you know, the great lakes or patagonia or or the congo, do you know what i mean? where you might go on an expedition. yes. that's great, but just encourage. there's nothing to do with them, whether black go hiking black people want to go hiking or it nothing any more or not. it has nothing any more than it would be appropriate for like a reggae night at the camden palais to start kind of going , we camden palais to start kind of going, we need to get more middle class white men in here, you yeah, it's like. and you know? yeah, it's like. and also, if any of those middle class i don't class white men said, i don't feel , then they'd be feel welcome, then they'd be condemned. racist and condemned. absolutely racist and bigoted. yeah, exactly . for some bigoted. yeah, exactly. for some reason, anybody says it about reason, if anybody says it about the countryside, then it's like, oh, must and we must, oh, we must pander and we must, you bend over backwards to

you know, bend over backwards to try and absolutely around try and absolutely fit around your so sorry, north your feelings. so sorry, north face, lost three customers. face, you lost three customers. the daily mail now, leo, and some spicy corn snacks have been getting a little bit spicier than they were expecting . yeah, than they were expecting. yeah, so doritos has fired a transgender activist who appeared in one of its promotional videos after being alerted to her sickening old tweets. when they see her, they mean his, including one where, uh, where he wrote about doing depraved things to a 12 year old, which, you know, kind of i mean, when you get crimes like that, paedophilia, uh, it that, like paedophilia, uh, it is generally a sort of male thing . so that's, you know, one thing. so that's, you know, one clue the transition hasn't clue that the transition hasn't been quite as successful as they might imagine. yeah, doritos might imagine. but yeah, doritos told stone the magazine told rolling stone the magazine not like mick jagger on tuesday that it would no longer work with sir mantha hudson, who had appeared in this promotional video saying it had been unaware of his previous of a previous his previous inappropriate post. it's like just just do a bit of due diligence, just go through their twitter, see, have they advocated for paedophilia because this this person has,

uh, want do this is what uh, i want to do this is what the, hudson has the, uh, samantha hudson has said. ivan gonzales , ronaldo, as said. ivan gonzales, ronaldo, as he was then. right? yeah. so i want to do thuggish things to get into a 12 year old sense or another post says in the middle of the street in mallorca in panfies of the street in mallorca in panties and screaming that i'm a nymphomaniac in front of a super beautiful eight year old girl. perfectly normal woman behaviour there. very convincing there. yeah very convincing transition. why would i mean, apart from all of this particular, you know, the depth of depravity in this individual, why why did doritos want a trans person at all? because everybody's by this everybody's gripped by this mania. you've got to like , call mania. you've got to like, call the countryside racist. did you want sell anything? you've want to sell anything? you've got cold countryside racist, got a cold countryside racist, sort synthetic sort of sort of yellow synthetic sort of smudge of flavour that you chew on while watching sports games. right? >> they could have had a little cartoon character. none this cartoon character. none of this trouble, no, exactly. unless whoever drew it really got into some. >> well, that is all joking aside. i mean, there has been a discussion, hasn't it? the influences already influences are already being created . artificial intelligence

created. artificial intelligence , video influence on instagram. there are instagram accounts now of influencers that are totally fictional, that have no backstory . very nothing about backstory. very nothing about them will emerge because they have been created by a graphics card, but they'll have been they'll have been coded by woke people. so they will also advocate for paedophile to. oh, i can't wait to see the first one of those. that's good. staying with the male steve, a woman mp who rejoices under the name of thangam debbonaire is complaining that the house of commons benches are too high for a tiny little legs. i think jacob rees—mogg shown her how to deal with that, isn't he? >> it's a now labour >> so it's a now labour frontbench who rule frontbench who branded rule britannia , says that britannia alienating, says that it's sexist because the chairs are too big, the benches are too big and she's five foot one, right. >> that's the thing. >> that's the thing. >> i'm going to put up here. it's not sexist because many were the average height of women could sit on those benches. then by this it's heightist. could sit on those benches. then by this it's heightist . maybe it by this it's heightist. maybe it maybe your maybe it's ageist because your average old furniture is

average 12 year old furniture is like heightist to some extent, isn't like heightist to some extent, isn'there are built in >> there are built in suppositions . yeah. about the suppositions. yeah. about the about the human. yeah it's like you don't have to study vitruvian man understand. vitruvian man to understand. there certain there's there are certain and there's a certain solution to it as well. >> she says if she sits all the way back, her legs dangle like ronnie doing the ronnie corbett doing the monologue. forward. ronnie corbett doing the monoingue. forward. ronnie corbett doing the monoin the forward. ronnie corbett doing the monoin the same forward. ronnie corbett doing the monoin the same way forward. ronnie corbett doing the monoin the same way that ward. ronnie corbett doing the monoin the same way that i'ard. ronnie corbett doing the monoin the same way that i went then in the same way that i went to, i wrote for ronnie corbett many, many years i wrote many, many years ago, i wrote a couple of monologue couple of sort of monologue jokes and met him in jokes for him, and i met him in a starbucks in the west end, and i ready how i had i was not ready for how tiny he was. >> i know it is like he was so tiny. i had to stop myself from lifting him up to get on onto the stool because we were sitting those stools and he sitting at those stools and he couldn't up. he was couldn't really get up. he was to a little. so i do. i can to give a little. so i do. i can picture tangon , but just to picture tangon, but um, just to say, don't swap them out say, um, don't swap them out because be waste of money. >> f’- money. >> our taxpayers >> yes, it's our taxpayers money. labour show that money. show labour show that you're buy you're good with money and buy booster seats. >> yeah, yeah. or get some platform. uh , heels. platform. um uh uh, heels. right. that's what she wants. her feet to touch the floor. or mps that don't moan about stupid

stuff. extraordinary stuff. yeah. it's extraordinary when think what used to when you think what they used to have put up with. yeah uh, have to put up with. yeah uh, female ancient history academics in massive sense of humour. failure as british museum in massive sense of humour. failure misguided sh museum in massive sense of humour. failure misguided joke.iseum in massive sense of humour. failure misguided joke. leo.n in massive sense of humour. failure misguided joke. leo. so posted, misguided joke. leo. so the british museum has been accused of sexism after a misguided role in an empire meme so basically it suggested that single women can attract a man by looking confused at its roman exhibition. so this is a reference to there was a tiktok trend on social media where wives and girlfriends were asking their male partners how often a day, you know , how often often a day, you know, how often do you think about the roman empire? and they're saying every day, every day. and so this is this is a this a reference. this is a this is a reference. it's making fun of mansplain thing the men would then thing because the men would then explain the roman empire to them. it's saying, you know, them. so it's saying, you know, a sort of bait. you can, you can. it's actually pretty media savvy, isn't it, the british savvy, isn't it, for the british museum. it's pretty funny. yeah. but will people but people will just people love getting offended by stuff. so the i i do it every day. the i mean, i do it every day. and also likened the

and so they've also likened the display to, to a nazi rally because there was five red flags . well, where do you think they got the fascist from? i mean that was the point, wasn't it? mussolini was trying to revive ancient aesthetic and ancient rome as an aesthetic and as and principle, and as a unifier and principle, and to rekindle pride that the to rekindle the pride that the romans had in their great city. i mean, it's not coincidence that men do mansplaining. >> just done it exactly >> you've just done it exactly this. and you win it. well, mussolini , how did she get out mussolini, how did she get out of the museum? >> yeah, i don't know. i do think sometimes these academics just their head just try and get their own head above complained above the woman who complained about the fascist imagery is now writing rome, it writing a book about rome, it seems, right you can seems, you know. right you can see, know, everyone to see, you know, everyone tries to latch things. but latch on to these things. but i do feel bad for the british museum. they have attempted to use of sass, a bit use a little bit of sass, a bit of yeah, it's of snap. yeah, yeah, it's a great it's great joke. is great it's a great joke. is funny. it wasn't a tall demeaning you know, i'm demeaning or, you know, i'm gonna it actually . gonna go and watch it actually. and not wearing north face ehheh and not wearing north face either. staying with feminist carping steve the guardian have the latest on the least interested gap since watford

climb off the fence. >> why are you , um, no equality >> why are you, um, no equality for working women in any country in the entire world? according to this study, the global gender gap, not pay to this study, the global gender gap, “01 pay gap to this study, the global gender gap, not pay gap . gender gap. gap, not pay gap. gender gap. this is bigger. yeah it's far bigger than they previously thought . no country bigger than they previously thought. no country in the bigger than they previously thought . no country in the world thought. no country in the world affords women the same opportunities in the opportunities as men in the workforce. one i found workforce. this one i found interesting. found interesting. it found that women, enjoyed just interesting. it found that women,the enjoyed just interesting. it found that women,the legal enjoyed just interesting. it found that women,the legal protectionsjust 64% of the legal protections that men do. i don't really even understand that. no, i can't get my head because any law my head round because any law that's the uk is genderless that's in the uk is genderless unless it's getting you wotsit trapped a lift or something . trapped in a lift or something. i don't think there's a law against they against that, is they, they they can't me. i mean, they did can't stop me. i mean, they did say you into it, this is say if you read into it, this is about a worldwide thing. >> and the headline result really have really is that things have improved in the improved dramatically in the developing but they developing world. but they although they've they have improved principle , they they improved in principle, they they don't teeth . don't they lack the teeth. right. yeah. they don't i think that's yeah you don't that's yeah. yeah you don't follow another follow through. that's another workplace. the whole the whole idea, the whole concept of a gender pay gap. you know, any ceo instantly boost his

ceo could instantly boost his profits by only hiring women. so i think exists. i think i don't think it exists. i think you're right. the end of part three. see us if we're still here for the final section for woke lego miserable britain and bejewelled gnashers . we'll see bejewelled gnashers. we'll see you in

and welcome back to headliners for our final quarter time's now, leo. lego would like us to construct a fantasy world where their product is yet another front in the culture war, rather than an assault on middle aged bare feet . yes. so according to bare feet. yes. so according to lego, according to a scientific research paper conducted by lego , uh, girls are less inspired to be creative than boys because they're more likely to be called sweet or cute instead of cool or brave . so a study found that brave. so a study found that girls as young as five were being creatively stifled, with two thirds saying the language they made them worried they heard made them worried about mistakes

about making mistakes. mistakes and shouldn't and felt like they shouldn't experiment. as experiment. so girls as young as five are learning that you should moan and try and not take account of accountability, but blame other people for the fact that you're not creative. but yeah , this this is ridiculous. yeah, this this is ridiculous. it's not science. this is researchers coming in with an agenda and saying, you know, uh, women are different. girls are definitely held by definitely being held back by gendered they're gendered language. so they're not in like, you not coming in being like, you know, completely balanced and open possibility . they're open to any possibility. they're not up with not following up with educational outcomes. they're just saying little girls , just saying to little girls, yeah. sometimes feel like yeah. do you sometimes feel like you have rocket you would have been a rocket scientist you hadn't been scientist if you hadn't been given, yeah. know , given, put into. yeah. you know, it's north face quiz it's like the north face quiz all over again. they're sitting them down and like, you know, hitting this is hitting them. listen, this is the answer. this is the right answer. steve has probably got a slightly more nuanced view, but the threat this is the stereotype threat this is called, right? >> yes. well and there's some of their presumptions are wrong at their presumptions are wrong at the start of this research, i think get called brave think women do get called brave when something when they wear something that shows after shows the midriff after a certain so the word brave certain age. so the word brave is a different way,

is used in a different way, isn't it? >> wife was accused of being >> my wife was accused of being brave once, and she brave with colour once, and she that never spoken to that woman was never spoken to again. there is a difference. again. so there is a difference. >> i'd take brave as a compliment. a woman takes brave as dare you! no. as how very dare you! but no. come maybe there's a link come on. maybe there's a link between being called cute and not expert in rocket not being an expert in rocket science, but you'll go on to be a stripper or be on onlyfans. and there's a lot of money, so enjoy being called. >> i you thing >> i tell you one thing that lego do if want to lego could do if they want to encourage innovative encourage more innovative attitude towards the potential offered their own toy is stop offered by their own toy is stop entirely marketing it as like uni purpose , you are going to uni purpose, you are going to build the death star. you are going to build the great pyramid. you are going to build tracy island. in my day, you would just you had a bunch of bricks, right? and you and you could and make up what you could try and make up what you want yeah. want with them. yeah. >> that's right. so i wouldn't leave to his wide >> that's right. so i wouldn't leavethe to his wide >> that's right. so i wouldn't leavethe big to his wide >> that's right. so i wouldn't leavethe big explosioniis wide >> that's right. so i wouldn't leavethe big explosion .; wide >> that's right. so i wouldn't leavethe big explosion . notie >> that's right. so i wouldn't leavethe big explosion . not that near the big explosion. not that much of an idiot. >> where the lizards, the >> that's where the lizards, the shapeshifting lizards get in. uh, however is a poll uh, here. however is a poll i suspect we can all agree with. this is in the mail. >> is. this is in the mail. >> is . pakistan the

>> steve is. pakistan is the only nation more miserable than britain . yes, but don't worry, britain. yes, but don't worry, britain, if we try hard, we can get to number one. and i'm sure we will do soon. um, they do a world. well being chart to measure happiness. they world. well being chart to measure happiness . they look at measure happiness. they look at mood, on life, mood, outlook on life, self—esteem. i mean , we moan. self—esteem. i mean, we moan. it's what we do. we're really good at it. actually, some surprised we took second place and good to see and it's not good to see uzbekistan and uk getting similar depressing similar scores. a depressing place, weak economy, corrupt leaders . yeah, but even we love leaders. yeah, but even we love it nevertheless. yeah thank you. >> i will say a couple of things occur to me. firstly, i think it's quite seasonal in britain. i don't know when this poll was taken. i think have unused, taken. i think we have unused, really seasons don't really profound seasons don't we. yeah. you know, among you know, get in america in know, we don't get in america in places like that . they get places like that. they get a proper winter with snow and ice. you can go outside, whereas we just get consistent cold rain for, for a long time. winter sucks. my son says this in a way that he's learned this that suggests he's learned this in know ? but the in school. you know? but the other is, i do think we're other thing is, i do think we're in of a trough at the

in a bit of a trough at the moment. maybe it's because we're coming end tory coming to the end of a tory administration that's 14 years of to deliver of complete failure to deliver on its promises. i see on any of its promises. i see the of western civilisation . the end of western civilisation. yes, seeping as yes, there is that seeping in as well, isn't there? i was there's a in a nation, but a lot of ruin in a nation, but i feel like the flint is coming through the of the pitch at through the top of the pitch at the moment. >> but it's not even that that the moment. >> blook s not even that that the moment. >> blook at. )t even that that the moment. >> blook at. it'sven that that the moment. >> blook at. it's what|at that the moment. >> blook at. it's what bothers they look at. it's what bothers me. blaming phones like me. they're blaming phones like everyone . let me everyone blames phones. let me use my darn phone. they say that in you have good in areas where you have good access the internet, young access to the internet, young people getting people are getting more depressed. access the depressed. the access to the internet you internet can't make you depressed. people who internet can't make you depitalk d. people who internet can't make you depitalk talk people who internet can't make you depitalk talk would people who use talk talk would be the happiest ones. we know that by how. >> now. >> i do think they are sort of thing. day about thing. the other day about the young dictionary, young person's dictionary, which no words heron no longer has words like heron and in it, and and finch and moss in it, and they're all words like committee and and log off. i did and broadband and log off. i did feel a bit sad about that . yeah. feel a bit sad about that. yeah. do you know what i mean ? it does do you know what i mean? it does feel like, i don't know , feel like, i don't know, skibadee. riz. yeah. anyway back to the guardian now. leo. millions complain that everything in london shuts within two hours of dusk, but

spain has a different problem, it seems. yes the spain's late night eating culture poses a mental health risk, according to a minister. labour, labour minister says it's madness that people are still working in restaurants. at 1 am. but opposition and tourism groups are defending the country's nightlife, so this labour minister said a country that has its restaurants open at 1:00 in the morning reasonable . the morning is not reasonable. well, madness to continue well, it's madness to continue extending opening hours until who but this is who knows what time. but this is a voluntary arrangement. people are go and in are choosing to go and work in these restaurants you these restaurants in spain, you know, still has the siesta. so, you know, you can have that nap in the afternoon and then you're ready and you eat later. and have have been there ? have you, have you been there? it's right. and it's great. you're right. and you out and maybe if you're you go out and maybe if you're english, and hit the town english, you go and hit the town square p.m. it's quiet square at 10 pm. and it's quiet and like, oh, this and you're like, oh, this place is and around is dead. and then around midnight, full of midnight, suddenly it's full of scooters. like people scooters. and like young people having time, we have got having a wild time, we have got about this final story. about 50s for this final story. leo the guardian this strikes me as a grotesque dissent in barbarism and primitive notions of beauty. but perhaps you can

explain . so from £35 crystals to explain. so from £35 crystals to £30,000 diamonds, the jaw dropping rise of tooth jewellery so despite us all being poor young britons are somehow finding ways to stick diamonds in weird places. it's imogen campbell's , i mean, she's campbell's, i mean, she's obviously posh. it's her first time having tooth gems . she time having tooth gems. she booked the appointment. she had cold first time. she cold feet the first time. she was a bit hesitant she was a bit hesitant because she works financial services. works in financial services. but now have got, you now young people have got, you know, tattoos all over their face. they've know, face. they've got, you know, gold why not gold teeth. so yeah, why not cheek offensively cheek almost offensively and ornamented at the graffiti. your teeth as well imogen, why not completely that face? completely destroy that face? you've four seconds, steve. you've got four seconds, steve. >> mick hucknall used to have this in the 80s, and just this in the 80s, and it just looks like been punched looks like you've been punched by with a signet ring. by someone with a signet ring. it's is nearly over. >> the show is nearly over. let's another look at let's take another quick look at wednesday's pages . daily wednesday's front pages. daily mail essayist soldiers in mail five. essayist soldiers in murder probe over jihadi mail five. essayist soldiers in murder probe overjihadi death. murder probe over jihadi death. telegraph tax cuts spark election talk. the guardian hunt defies election talk. the guardian hunt defies public services alarm with pre—election budget tax

cuts. the express hunts tax cut gamble will put £900 in workers pockets . eye news labour fears pockets. eye news labour fears tory budget trap as hunt cuts that was the tricky one and i buy £0.02 in giveaway. the daily star squirting snot up your conk could cure hay fever. those were your front pages and that's all we have time for. my thanks to leo kearse and steve allen's andrew doyle will be here tomorrow with nick dixon and scott capurro. if you're watching at a.m, stay tuned watching at 5 am, stay tuned for otherwise good for breakfast. otherwise good night . night. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> good evening. welcome to your latest weather update from the met office for gb news showers today , but they are fading away today, but they are fading away and most will have a dry night a little bit of fog and frost likely in the south—west. low pressure is out in the atlantic . pressure is out in the atlantic. it tries move in, but it's it tries to move in, but it's getting and by a getting blocked and stopped by a big high pressure . that

big area of high pressure. that is dominant feature and it is the dominant feature and it is the dominant feature and it is allowing a bit more cloud to drift the east. we've seen drift into the east. we've seen some showers the some heavy showers across the south—east. drifting south—east. they are drifting away. few scattered away. still a few scattered showers here and there through the lot of cloud in the night. a lot of cloud in eastern england and eastern scotland. further scotland. clear skies further west. that allow it to turn west. that will allow it to turn quite of frost quite cold. a touch of frost through rural parts of wales and southwest england, and some freezing patches around freezing fog patches around maybe m4 and the maybe affecting the m4 and the m5. first thing in the morning. could take a few hours to clear away. generally quite a grey day again in the east, particularly on the east coast, with a breeze freshening here through the day. a few scattered showers over eastern england, a bit eastern parts of england, a bit of times eastern of rain at times in eastern scotland, mostly over the hills and some showers creeping into cornwall later. much of the cornwall later. but much of the west, bright through west, dry and bright through tomorrow with decent spells tomorrow with some decent spells of or here. of sunshine. 11 or 12 here. colder in the east, where it stays cloudy and that cloud likely to stick around on thursday see a few more thursday we'll see a few more showers, thursday showers, i suspect on thursday over southern england over parts of southern england then through wales then developing through wales and midlands. some heavy

and the midlands. some heavy downpours are possible. they'll be hit and miss, but do watch out for a lively shower on thursday again. many places dry, some spells in the south some sunny spells in the south and west, fairly glum and chilly in east. in the east. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar for sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> good evening. not notice very much. george galloway yesterday said the next election will be all about the muslim vote. we debate . is he actually right debate. is he actually right about the budget coming up tomorrow and we're being told yes , jeremy hunt tells us that yes, jeremy hunt tells us that we're going to cut back on funding for all sorts of diversity and inclusion managers. but haven't we heard all of this before? and of course , in america it is super

course, in america it is super tuesday. it looks like trump and biden are going to win. but we talked to a top american pollster . how are talked to a top american pollster. how are things looking ahead of the november fifth general election? but before all of that, let's get the news with polly middlehurst . polly middlehurst. >> nigel, thank you. and good evening to you. well, our top story tonight is that tomorrow the chancellor will unveil the new budget and it's being rumoured he could announce a £0.02 in the pound cut to national insurance contributions. jeremy hunt is aiming to put the uk's economy and rishi sunak's popularity back on the road to recovery. that's despite the fiscal watchdog giving the government little scope for tax cuts. analysts are saying the nhs could be facing real terms. funding cuts of £2 billion annually amid rising costs and a promise to tackle waiting lists . promise to tackle waiting lists. and our other main story tonight, the leader of labour led birmingham city council has

unreservedly apologised to the city's residents for the budget set out today . the cost cutting set out today. the cost cutting plan includes taking more than £300 million away from public services across britain's biggest city, second biggest city after it effectively declared itself bankrupt last yeah declared itself bankrupt last year. councillorjohn declared itself bankrupt last year. councillor john cotton described the cuts as a result of a raging crisis in local government caused by the conservatives calling them cheerleaders for austerity. at the same time, birmingham city council is planning to raise council taxes by just less than 10% a year . suella council taxes by just less than 10% a year. suella braverman told gb news today she doesn't believe the former tory mp lee anderson is islamophobic . anderson is islamophobic. today's exclusive interview with the former home secretary comes after mr anderson claimed islamists had got control of the mayor of london. >> he is not racist, he is not islamophobic. he's calling out very poor performance by the mayor of london, who has completely failed to hold the