gb news. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> i'm ray anderson in the gb newsroom. headliners is coming right up. but first, our top stories this evening . rishi stories this evening. rishi sunak has announced mandatory national service for 18 year olds. if the conservative party wins the general election. the prime minister says they'll be given a choice between 12 months in the armed forces or one weekend a month volunteering in their communities. he claims the measure would help unite society in an increasingly uncertain world. sunak says applicants would open in september 2025 with a new national service act, introduced by the end of the next parliament. the prince and princess of wales have said they are incredibly sad to hear of the death of an raf pilot after his spitfire crashed into a

field in lincolnshire. the ministry of defence has described the incident, which took place near raf coningsby , took place near raf coningsby, as a tragic accident. police and emergency services responded just before 120 this afternoon and the pilot, who has not yet been named , was declared dead at been named, was declared dead at the scene. now it's thought that the scene. now it's thought that the aircraft was taking part in a battle of britain memorial event. a battle of britain memorial event . the man's family has been event. the man's family has been informed and an investigation is now underway. rishi sunak has described the pilot's death as awful news, while sir keir starmer said he was deeply saddened . sir ed davey has saddened. sir ed davey has claimed that the lib dems are way more in tune with young voters after sir keir starmer pledged to lower the voting age to 16. sir ed pointed to his party's position on housing gaza and the european union as examples of their youth appeal . examples of their youth appeal. the major parties have been pitching their messages to voters on this the first weekend of the election campaign.

speaking to reporters, the labour leader said young people deserve to have their say. >> 16 and 17 year olds voting . >> 16 and 17 year olds voting. they can go out and work. they can serve in our armed forces and of course, if they are out and of course, if they are out and working, they pay tax and therefore they should have a say over how the money they're paying over how the money they're paying in is being used. so yes, i want to see that for vote 16 and 17 year olds if you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your armed forces, then you ought to be able to vote. >> bit of breaking news a 17 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 16 year old boy was stabbed to death in hayes, west london. the victim has been named as kamari johnson, the met police says officers were called around 1:30 pm. on friday. the suspect was arrested this evening and remains in custody. police are appealing for anyone who may have footage of the incident to come forward . and finally, a 17 come forward. and finally, a 17 year old boy from lancashire

remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead on after a woman was found dead on a beach in bournemouth late last night . dorset police saying that night. dorset police saying that they were called to reports of two women stabbed on durley chine beach at around 1145. a 34 year old was pronounced dead at the scene. a 38 year old was taken to hospital with serious injuries . police say she injuries. police say she continues to receive treatment there . right? for all the latest there. right? for all the latest stories , sign up to gb news stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. carmela, it's time now for our for our headliners . for our headliners. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at sunday's newspapers through the prism of three comedians. i'm josh howie, and if they ever did make a british remake of bad

boys, surely these two would be a shoo in. >> it's bruce devlin and nick dixon. hey, guys. good evening. which one would you be? will smith or unrwa? >> i don't think i've seen that one. did you see beaches or bad boys? >> bad boys? what? you've never seen bad boys? it's a classic buddy comedy starring will smith and martin lawrence. it's a buddy cop buddy movie in the classic genre. yes, and there's bad boys two. and then there's going to be bad boys three, which is very exciting. and it's quite similar because they don't like each other. that's what he's going with. >> oh, and one and one's much more famous and beloved. >> what three men who who you would just tell me about your detritus on your trash. i'd relax. that's all. fair >> that's all fair. i mean, i just threw it in randomly, but i am very impressed with you, nick, that you managed to actually genuinely draw some sort of parallels. i've got good material out of it. josh, throw me anything. i'll work with it. all right, let's keep that energy going for the rest of the show. we're going to have a quick look at the front pages. first. we have the mail on sunday. rishi i'll bring back national service the sunday telegraph pm. i will bring back

national service. the observer reeves slams reckless sunak over £64 billion tax cut pledge. the sunday times tory plan for all 18 year olds to do national service . the sunday express. service. the sunday express. rishi i'll bring in national service. i'm guessing that he won the sunday papers there. and finally, the daily star sunday did the earth move for me? and those were your front pages . those were your front pages. well, bruce, this is the story that most of the newspapers have gone with. tell us what the mail is saying. >> is it about rishi bringing back national service? >> it just happens to be about this incredible quiz. >> so what he has said was that he's going to do two things. school leavers will either be able to enrol on a 12 month placement or do some kind of volunteering on a monthly basis in their community. yeah, i'm not necessarily sure that anyone's going to listen considering that he wouldn't use an umbrella. he doesn't seem nice. >> you don't think that he's now worthy of the respect he hasn't won, even though he wears adidas

trainers ? he's a cool dude. trainers? he's a cool dude. >> do you think he is? no no obviously no no no no no, i don't think anyone's going to listen. >> would you. so you don't think this is a vote winner? it's not. it's mandatory. that's what the word mandatory is. they have to do it. >> no, no, no i understand what the word means. i'm fat, not stupid. but yes, i just don't think people are going to go for it, do you? well, would you want one of your children to do it? >> i think i actually would. i mean, there's an argument, nick, isn't there, that this kind of kills a lot of birds with one stone. we haven't a shortage in the in the army. there's the idea that this would bring together national unity. this is also would get people, those who go for the voluntary stuff that's kind of unpaid labour there. there's nothing wrong with it in principle. >> it just feels a bit like one of those things that the tories occasionally throw out, like, oh, we'll bring back grammar schools. i mean, i'd love it if they did, but they won't. this is a bit similar. it's like, oh, national service, that'll get a few older people voting tory. it's just one of those soundbites. it's not very serious. it's kind of like the

smoking ban. it's not serious. you focus on immigration, the economy, the nhs. this is what people are concerned about as we will come up in a story later. those are people's main concerns. it's very kind of rishi just sort of whack a mole politics. and also there's a sinister undertone to it, which is that andrew bridgen claimed the other day that we're already at war with russia. so every time i hear these kind of war type things, i think, are they sort of softening us up for the revelation that we're going to be in a war with russia? >> of course, the smoking ban. >> of course, the smoking ban. >> oh, well, he wanted to ban smoking. now he's got rid of it. he doesn't have time because he's, as it says here, surprise himself with his own staff election. so he wanted to ban smoking. he's got rid of it. it's just a bit sort of tokenism what i mean. oh, national service, it's very kind of this rishi government, very kind of hit and miss tokenism , nonsense. hit and miss tokenism, nonsense. >> it's not something that people have been talking about before, and it certainly isn't something that people are clamouring for, as you say, in terms of people's needs, housing, the nhs, but i wonder if it will resonate. and of course, the genius about it is, is that the people who don't want it to happen, i.e. 17 year olds can't vote, of course. yeah, we'll get on to that. not yet. no. well, there we go.

right. moving on to the observer now, nick. >> yeah, they've got reeves. well, firstly, they've got man united winning. let's just say that with a brilliant two one victory against man city, the fa cup. josh the fa cup rugby against man city. you have all the money all the dodgy financial fair play and good old man united beat them two one. and though erik ten hag may still be sacked because it's a tough it's a tough old game. it's like hearing is blah blah blah. it's like me smashing headliners but i have to be sacked anyway. this is kind of unfair. it's like he's won the fa cup, but he may have to. he may be sacked and replaced anyway, but that's the football. then we got reeves slams, reckless sunak over 64 billion tax cut pledges. so reeves is playing the oh i'm sensible card. i'm going to be the prudent one. and she's she's comparing rishi to liz truss because honestly rishi has come out with a load of vague tax stuff last minute and hunt has the things in themselves are not bad, like getting rid of inheritance tax would be good green levies. they're going to scrap 4 billion of green levies. i'm for that without even knowing what they are. but, she's obviously just going to say, well, you're rushing like truss. and that's quite a sort of damning thing you can say now in the post truss era. >> never rush like truss.

>> never rush like truss. >> exactly. fools rush in. >> exactly. fools rush in. >> no, but i think we should make it. oh, yeah. >> no, a hashtag truss. >> no, a hashtag truss. >> truss. >> truss. >> bruce. normally in traditional elections it's always, tories who seem to be slamming into labour for their fiscal responsibilities. certainly that's where it was in 2019. free broadband and all these other ideas. now it's the other way round. >> but isn't the whole kind of electorial debate just them slamming into each other ? slamming into each other? >> i mean, it is, but but usually this is the tories. the economy is the one thing that tories will be able to successfully. >> well, it was a friend of mine that had said that what people will forget in the upcoming election is that the tories fiscal policies are beginning to work and then they think when labour get in, labour will take credit for that. so. >> well, it's i mean, the argument, what do you think. is it that that's tory. is it sunak.can it that that's tory. is it sunak. can he claim something. well he's claiming that. or is it just energy prices have dropped . dropped. >> yeah. well he's claiming isn't he. i've halved inflation. so that's the claim. but yes many people are arguing that was going to happen anyway.

>> yeah. so well we'll see. all right. well let's go on to the sunday times nick. so they have the of course the national service again. >> and they've got a picture of carrie fisher as well from star wars. but they've also an man united. but they've also got streeting. we'll cut out the cultural rot in nhs. this is wes streeting who of course is, you know, he survived cancer and so on. he knows a bit about the nhs and he's able to attack the nhs because he's labour and he's not the nasty party, the tories, who aren't allowed to do anything because everyone's like, oh, they want to privatise your nan or whatever, but he's allowed to do it. so he talks about quite an interesting thing that he was, had a phone call saying, can you from the nhs saying, can you stop going on about all these waiting lists and people dying? not because it wasn't happening, but because it was their 74th birthday and they didn't want it spoilt. so he's saying this is completely wrong and we need to get rid of this. we need to have radical candour, get rid of what he calls a denialism. and i completely agree with this. he talks about it as well. he says the reformation, we need a reformation of the national religion. i'm not sure how much irony he says that with, because in the past he's criticised us, calling it us treating it like a national religion. so i guess he's that's a little bit of

snark, maybe saying that we shouldn't be treating it as a national religion, which of course, we shouldn't. >> what is the national religion? >> well, it's meant to be. it's meant to be the church of england, but it's actually the nhs and as far as i can tell, and wokeness , i think wokeness. and wokeness, i think wokeness. yeah, that's what we say on this channel. i know you don't. you don't say it as much. >> it's interesting that you say that he's allowed to say this because he's labour, but actually he's very much playing against a core part of the labour vote who see any threat to the nhs. and in terms of wes streeting just being quite adult about it, like they will have to be changed, they will have to be outsourcing to some, as there already has been to some private companies , and there are those companies, and there are those on the left who see him at this as a massive betrayal. bruce. but is it is that candour actually something that most people would respond to? >> i think so, because i think the nhs isn't for. it was when it was conceived , if you see it was conceived, if you see what i mean. it's very different andifs what i mean. it's very different and it's under an incredible amount of pressure and stuff. so if you are going to have to outsource stuff, i'll just be honest about it. it's a bit like when people were worried about

the horsemeat in lasagne , god, the horsemeat in lasagne, god, those are tough. those were the days. but yeah, you just say what's in the lasagne? so just say what's happening in the nhs . say what's happening in the nhs. >> i mean, but i mean, that's a really good point. and they do sell horse lasagne in the hospital. >> still not sell. they give it to you, they make you eat it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well let's continue this in analogy, nick. it seems like there are many institutions who are still trying to feed us horse meat. it's not just the nhs. >> no, it's all our institutions. you could argue many. so yeah, it's absolutely. but my point is simply that labour has more political capital to criticise the nhs because they're not perceived as the nasty party who wants to privatise everything. so they have i see your point. >> they haven't been in control for the last 14 years as well. >> so yeah. yes. and under labour the nhs wasn't. but let's see if they actually do it because so far all anyone's ever done with the nhs is pump more money into it. so let's see if they can actually reform work in when in tony blair's did it. >> yeah it did. the waiting list went way down. their investment worked. >> there was that old clip, to be fair, wasn't there, about people complaining about the times being too short? do you remember the waiting list were

too short and they were complaining because it was confusing to get my shoes on and the doctor wants to see me. >> oh yeah. it'd be nice if that happened again. and finally, bruce, what are the daily star going with? >> well, this is amazing. quick ten minute bonk gave me massive orgasm. so intense i ended up with amnesia. and this is to do with amnesia. and this is to do with amnesia. and this is to do with a guy called mcfarlane, am i sorry? >> no. but now let's get to the story . story. >> right. okay. don't make thatcher, which does sound like an adult entertainment name, was shocked when his partner , polly shocked when his partner, polly fisher. i'm. this could be a hoax.i fisher. i'm. this could be a hoax . i don't know how sudden hoax. i don't know how sudden memory loss after they shared a horizontal refreshment and it has left doctors utterly baffled. so she enjoyed herself so much. she had no idea where she was, but would she then wake up and go, who are you? >> and did i consent to this? >> and did i consent to this? >> wow, i didn't see that coming. i figured this out. >> this is why all my ex—girlfriends have denied that i exist. they've got amnesia. >> they've forgotten. >> they've forgotten. >> come on, that's gold. even bruce will never laugh inside. he's laughing at that. sorry plural. >> surprised that you're not gay

? >> because 7_ >> because i'm ? >> because i'm so good 7 >> because i'm so good looking and stylish, i got it, i got it, all right? >> it's just the band. >> it's just the band. >> i'm on fire tonight. i had a migraine all day, but i'm still on fire. it's given me special powers flowing. >> i love it, right. that's it for sunday's front pages. in the next section, we find out what's inside them. with weaning britain, mumsnet targeted. and

welcome back to headliners. your first look at sunday's newspapers with me . josh howie newspapers with me. josh howie and down on the train from scotland. bruce devlin . and down scotland. bruce devlin. and down from the north london is nick dixon . and we are hosting dixon. and we are hosting a night with the headliners live. and you can join us for an evening of comedy with andrew doyle, leah kerr, simon evans and me. for more information , and me. for more information, scan the qr code here or go on the screen and visit gbnews.com. right bruce sunday telegraph

first and new new labour has a new deal that's new. >> i think it's new or it may just be rebranding. so labour rebrands new deal. so that would suggest that it has been a previous deal. if you see what i mean. do you see what i'm going to soothe businesses and seal core vote. angela rayner, who is i believe, a very keen property developer, is the architect for enough of these plans. and sir keir starmer, who is seeking to avert tory attacks, sir keir starmer has renamed labour's flagship sorry flagship package of trade union and workers rights reforms as he seeks to sharpen his economic message and reassure businesses and swing voters. so it seems to be, nick, that there's a the crux of this is the balance between wanting to keep the unions happy or win them over, and also keeping business happy . right. business happy. right. >> yeah. it's, i mean firstly yes, angela rayner being the architect, immediate red flag doesn't even know which house she lives in. so there's that.

and then there's this core message of making work. pay is also an attempt to rob the conservatives of their clothes. something else i also don't want to see, but, it depends on the which one. that's a good point, actually. let's not get into. i'm not getting i will not cover because i'll probably be on the channel. i'll be accused of misogyny by one of the men, so do have quite a feminine energy that could still. >> how dare you ? >> how dare you? >> how dare you? >> i'm from the north. anyway, the point is, this kind of rayner versus, reeves. reeves wants to be more responsible. and, you know , she's the new and, you know, she's the new thatcher, whereas rayner wants to keep the core of this mad lefty union stuff. that was my take on it . take on it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> the, the and they've given it a rubbish name as well . a new a rubbish name as well. a new deal for working people has become labour's plan to make work pay. it's just sort of ridiculous really on the nose. >> just, just call it give people money. >> yeah. it's very starmer. this is labour's plan to give you money in your pocket if you want. as long as you work you might get more money. >> yeah. but that's the thing. if you work you'll get paid. so why do they even have to set it up as a thing?

>> i but the thing that some of these things seem sensible to me, this thing about unfair dismissal, and sick pay. but in terms of day one rights. but they've dropped the maternity paternity leave. and i think that as we have talked a few times on the show about the looming , times on the show about the looming, crisis of, you times on the show about the looming , crisis of, you know, looming, crisis of, you know, lack of fertility or lack of babies basically being born in that kind of stuff i don't think is particularly helpful. nick. i mean, you know what i mean? >> not really, come on, help me out . out. >> i'm trying to conceive at the moment. >> i just so now when he said babies being born, you know, that this is the situation. >> this is something that western countries. >> oh, the catastrophically low birth rates. yeah. >> yeah. and to basically solidify and extend paternity maternity leave is something that would that would be great. >> yeah. we need to encourage instead of they've taken out. yeah no that's a, that's a mistake. we need to encourage child rearing wherever possible and bearing. and what's it called when you have children. yeah. all all the stages of it. birth. birth

>> there we go. if we just like a history the migraine one of those gender the migraine kicked back in and i zoned out. sorry. oh no you did. it was like well, you just caught something about me. >> it was like, i get spells. i'm like a woman in a 19th century novel in my eyes, for a second it was weird, right? >> more more telegraph and nick. it's interesting to see, the come out so sort of pro—immigration really ? pro—immigration really? >> yeah. it's why weaning britain off foreign workers could come at a high price. quite a weird way of putting it weaning off. but yeah, i mean, this is the idea that we've needed immigration, you know, to plug needed immigration, you know, to plug gaps in the labour market, which i've never really agreed with. we were fine before. but yes, you might cite the birth rate and say, well, that's what the problem is. but 40% of the country says that immigration is the biggest issue, and that's just behind the economy and health. as i mentioned earlier, and at last election, it was only 1 in 5. so this is a massive increase, obviously, because immigration has reached absurd levels, 764,000 net arrivals in 2022 only went down to 685,000 in 2023. so this is

obviously the problem facing the country, and labour have only promised to get it down to the hundreds of thousands, a couple of hundred thousand a year still way too high for most migration in terms of people leaving the isn't it is the balance of people leaving and people coming. no, a net migration is net numbers coming in. >> just just on that. >> just just on that. >> yeah yeah yeah yeah. i mean that's why that's catastrophically high. i mean that's net arrivals. that's not gross arrivals. i mean a certain amount go go back. but that's that means a million came in but several hundred thousand went back. but that's still left you with a net of 764,000. that's what that means. so that's incredible. so yeah, but the idea that we this is a question of do we need foreign workers, you know, will british people not do the jobs, etc. i always question that, but that is the claim. of course i don't think british people will do the jobs. would you do them well? >> what job? >> what job? >> well, we're barely doing it here. >> no, exactly i wouldn't i wouldn't do this and i'm british, so. no. >> well look, nick, you i know you know about this stuff. could you know about this stuff. could you answer me this question

then? no. do you think that the country or will be worse off with less, migration? >> no. i mean , we better think >> no. i mean, we better think there'll be. there'll be less. >> what? this article is arguing that it will come at a high price to this country . price to this country. >> oh, okay. so now you want to see now you're getting into different kinds of price. so paul morland, who's an expert on this, talks about the three e's. he talks about egotism by which he means the refusal to have children. then there's then there's economic growth and then there's economic growth and then there's what he calls ethnic continuity. so someone like japan has said, right, we only want japanese people, never mind the economic growth. we just won't have any immigration. now, england has sacrificed that. we've sacrificed a certain amount of cultural cohesion because we've said, okay, we don't want to have that many children, but we want to keep our economic growth. so we've got to sacrifice. so his theory is you have to sacrifice one of these. yeah. and so that's what we've done. but but i'm questioning whether it's even led to this economic growth. people like douglas murray and strange death of europe questions is gdp per capita might have gone up. no gdp total might have gone up. no gdp total might have gone up. no gdp total might have gone up. but gdp per capha might have gone up. but gdp per capita has gone down. yeah. >> well that's what it says

here. but the argument of this article is that it's going to come at a higher price with if. >> yeah, they're talking about who's, you know, how are we going to we've got used to it. this is why they say weaned off. so how are we. there would be an adjustment period where people are used to low prices, low wages. and this is kind of archetypal thing. you have your cleaner or whatever. it's this kind of it's this kind of remainer rhetoric , but we just remainer rhetoric, but we just have to readjust, which i think we would just that it's there's unintended consequences in terms of companies relocating because they can't afford the new thresholds that are being put there to restrict immigration. >> now, they can't afford to pay that. so they're going to move those factories to port. so there are just there are bigger ramifications. but you could remove regulations, absurd amount of regulations on business and minimum wage and so on. all right. well, look, we tried to get deep on something. >> let's i think we did quite well. >> yeah. all right. good. very good. right. moving on to the sunday times. adam. bruce, have the lib dems got the painters in? >> well, i don't know if that's a euphemism. and but what i did think was orange. sorry they described themselves as an orange wave. i thought there were more mustard colours. >> no one ever seems to be able

to get that. >> yeah. anyway basically so ed davey has. i'm say they're going to come good in the election and i think that's a lot to do with in council elections. they have taken a lot of councils from conservative strongholds. >> yeah. i mean, nick, they talk here about this being kind of a long term strategy where they have just been focusing on these 90 seats, the so—called blue wall, is that strategy going to work? >> it could work, which is quite disturbing to me because i don't think they're talking about the surrey shufflers or squeezers, which is weird. and they're trying to target the socially liberal, economically conservative people who, you know, they vote tory, but they could go lib dem. but do they realise what the lib dems are these days? i mean, that made sense in the past when it was old, you know, paddy ashdown and stuff. but i think the lib dems changed. they freaked out about trump even in the cable era. then they had the ultra woke jo swinson. now you have local, you might like your local candidate. back home we had tim farron, who was well loved and he became the

leader. they got rid of him because he was a christian, but they become so woke now. you know ed davey thinks women have penises. so i think, do you know what you're voting for? it's a protest vote. it's you know, saying we're sick of the tories as it even says here. people are 1 in 3 are motivated by a desire to get rid of the tories. so it's pretty straightforward. people are going to tactically vote. they might lend their vote from labour, which 16% of voters are prepared to do, and they just want to get rid of the tories at all costs. and for some reason they want the lib dems. but the lib dems are not. i think you know, they're not what they used to be. yeah, they're a radical left party. >> i mean, how do the lib dems do in scotland, i the guy, is it alex cole—hamilton? i think a lot of people, the area of south queensferry, which is just outside edinburgh, that's a liberal democrat stronghold, as with some places outside of saint andrews in the east neuk of fife. so the are i'm seen as credible and people do vote for them. so yeah, i don't think they're a complete busted flush. >> yeah, well this is going to be interesting to see if they can return to the kind of numbers they had. yes. pre what, 2011. yes. when they all or

after sorry 2017. when does it all fall apart basically when they well they did the coalition in 2010. >> then they were punished for that. they were punished over the tuition fees. >> that basically is the punishment. over. yeah. right. i news now with the disturbing news now with the disturbing news that mumsnet may have been infiltrated, i better log in as mummy's tired 453 to warn them. >> yeah. it's russia expected to meddle in uk election as regime targets forums like mumsnet. so it's and it's you know as a quick guide, if you see someone say something like does your teenager just spend ages in his teenagerjust spend ages in his room? by the way, isn't putin amazing that might be a russian bot. it's got to look out for these things. so they've targeted the poor old mums on mumsnet. to be honest, putin would probably be afraid of quite a lot of the people who post on mumsnet because they're such like ultra karen psychopaths. but, yeah, they, they buy that word like karen. >> yeah, i just brought it back like a misogynistic term. >> it is. that's why i brought it back just there, it just came into my head. but look, they've integrated themselves into onune integrated themselves into online communities. >> i'm not saying that karen's

don't exist. >> are you? just don't like it. >> are you? just don't like it. >> just don't like the word. yeah. >> do you? >> do you? >> cause you're sorry for that and actually called karen that might be light. >> it's not that. i just think it's used as a way of being misogynist. why are you being. there are loads of such a karen about it. >> well, maybe that's what it is. >> it's self—defence. sorry, nick. i didn't mean to. no, no, you're asking to see the manager in a minute. >> that's what karen's do. well, yeah, i mean, that's basically it. i mean, facebook took action on 691 million fake accounts, which shocked me. between october and december 2023. i mean, that is a lot. most of them are just kind of rubbish and obvious, aren't they? but some of them are sophisticated mumsnet posters. they start with the stuff about your teenage kid. they end up, you know, before you know you're invading ukraine. well this is it begins with waitrose and ends up in warsaw. >> so this is it, bruce, in the actual article itself, it doesn't have any evidence that russia has infiltrated mumsnet . russia has infiltrated mumsnet. surely this is fake news. >> but it also, i remember the 2014 independence referendum up the road and apparently russia was all over that and all that kind of thing. but i never saw any evidence and didn't understand as to why they would want to be bothered.

>> i love getting involved, don't they? right. bruce, before we go to the break, will this observer story inspire people to put in an extra order of toilet paper and pasta? >> well, this is the thing. patrick vallance , who is no patrick vallance, who is no relation to the singer holly valance, says that another pandemic is absolutely inevitable. now, interestingly , inevitable. now, interestingly, as i did travel down here, i have seen a lot more people wearing masks again, i know people , you know, many some people, you know, many some pro—palestine protest . no, no, pro—palestine protest. no, no, it was an airport lounge. oh really? and they had. yeah but then the thing that really kind of annoyed me was it was in edinburgh airport and someone had a hole in their mask so they could vape. >> ridiculous . >> ridiculous. >> ridiculous. >> a couple of things really annoyed me about it. one is he says, we're not ready yet, but of course, last time we abandoned our plans anyway, so the question of readiness becomes moot. so you know. exactly. >> that's the thing. why aren't we ready then? >> right? >> right? >> it's mad we've been through it. so why? >> and the other thing that bothers me is when he says another pandemic is inevitable. we've had diseases throughout history. what i'm concerned is he means another kind of

pandemic event, which means finding ways to keep you in your house, take away all your freedoms, you know, and then this is what the sort of neoliberal culture loves to do. their ultimate fantasy is euthanasia. so they can just quietly kill you. but but they love to sort of change society and take your feelings. if it just meant a disease, i'd be worried. but i'm more worried when they say we're planning for another. >> specifically the who. as i say here, pushed for a pandemic accord, which some of the early drafts that we saw of this kind of just basically gives them control of the world. yes i mean, i don't want to get too conspiracy riddled, but but it does seem i, you know, some of those first drafts that they can kind of order governments to take certain actions. yeah. and it's not like their record was spotless during covid. >> and that's and they have to rule out lockdowns in future. but you just think they would easily do it again. >> right. well we're halfway we are in the groove and we've got some great stories for you in the next section, including bbc journalist , the next section, including bbc journalist, rape denier, iranian attack in london and greenpeace . attack in london and greenpeace. don't like rice? see you

welcome back to headliners. nick, let's get straight into the sunday telegraph. and someone who is too anti—semitic for the workers party. is it hitler? >> well, i just want to say, first off, mr galloway is known for being quite litigious, so i think he's a great guy, saying the workers party. >> oh , workers, they're great >> oh, workers, they're great guys as well. >> anyway, it's george galloway's party drops candidate over anti—semitic remarks. and this was hassan shaheen. no idea how to pronounce it. sorry, don't really care. but he claimed that a coven of jews had seized control of america and that jews have been punished throughout history for killing jesus christ. i mean , at some jesus christ. i mean, at some points in there, but but but, but yeah, a bit much, a bit much . and then some of the other he said, if it's too much for you as well. >> i mean, yeah, i've got line. >> josh, you know, i'm not a monster. he describes zionism as a combination of filth selected from different countries . and from different countries. and yeah, it's shocking stuff. it didn't meet the high standards

of mr galloway's party. so they immediately, you know , of immediately, you know, of course, got rid of him. >> yes. i mean, this the fullest extent of this anti—semitism and also his hilarious kind of denials afterwards go, oh, no, you know , i just posted a video you know, i just posted a video of an american , but i wonder if of an american, but i wonder if there are going to be because there's evidence of other people within the workers party also being anti—semitic. and i'm wondering if them, like, kicking this guy out is going to actually kind of backfire to some of their core voters who are anti—semitic. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i'm just surprised that there was the candidate for party. it just seems putney's changed. yeah. it has. i went to the same school as george galloway did you? so that's not a ringing endorsement for education, is it? >> you're both great orators. there we go. you're both on telly a lot. yeah >> i've never been a cat in public, although i have met rula lenska. >> okay. she was nice. >> okay. she was nice. >> so . >> so.

>> so. >> and you do want to topple the government? go on. >> getting back to my question, do you think, bruce, that this will have any impact on the people who are likely to vote for them, going, oh, look at you, you're owned by big zionist companies because or whatever it is that they would do, the fact that they've actually kicked out someone for being anti—semitic. >> i'm i'm not necessarily sure it will. i think if people want to vote for them, they'll vote for them. that's regardless. yeah. what do you think? people are really blind. >> no, i see your point. the they'll be like, oh, they're selling out. if the vehement kind of radical anti—zionist could see it, that way, i suppose. but some people might like it equally. they might say they could kind of be serious as a party. >> yeah, i just feel sorry. there's going to be a couple of full time journalists over the next six weeks who all they're going to be doing is going through the how many are they putting up for election? yeah, well, if you want to be really fair, all of their social media accounts, i suppose what happened with reform uk was similar in that in that they said, look, we don't have the infrastructure to vet all our candidates. and then, then they were cancelling them, sometimes

wrongly, but sometimes rightly perhaps. but as a result of pressure groups and articles like this. obviously this guy's said some awful things, but the smaller parties do run into this problem. they don't have the money, so they just they accept people willy nilly. yeah. >> this guy. yeah. the mr shapps, he lavished praise on the leader of hezbollah and it was like time to travel corbyn era bruce. more telegraph, more anti—semitism , this time for the anti—semitism, this time for the bbc. yes, i'm shocked. >> a bbc journalist liked tweet describing reports of hamas rapes as nonsense. the broadcaster's social media guidelines state that the reporters have to have a particular responsibility to uphold the bbc's impartiality , uphold the bbc's impartiality, and this was a bbc wales journalist, shazia ali, allegedly liked a post published on the 8th of october that said, and i quote, no one raped anyone. stop this nonsense. so this is rape denial, nick. >> it's shocking. bbc this isn't even bbc arabic or bbc or not. the excuses that. but this is like well it's bbc. >> well yeah well wales has

changed. yeah it's look i clicked on her profile to see who it was and she protected it. fair enough. and i don't encourage ever piling on anyone online. no, but she seemed quite. you look quite young. which i say because there's a radicalism amongst younger people on this issue. we saw on october 7th there was people like novara media saying it was a day of celebration, incredibly sick, radical stuff . and this is sick, radical stuff. and this is very, very similar. you know, she liked that one, saying you all wanted decolonisation and, and, and land back. but then , and, and land back. but then, you know, then then you baulk at whatever them actually doing all this pro like decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon. she liked that. so this is what this is the this is the ideology unmasking itself . as we saw from unmasking itself. as we saw from october 7th onwards, we've seen what the radical left is really about. and elements of them are about, yes, rape and violence is justified in the name of decolonisation because they're sick ideologues basically . sick ideologues basically. >> and, i mean, you say youth. i think that is part of it. but i'm just going to be real here. shazia ali, i'm assuming i'm going to make the assumption she

she's, comes from a muslim background. and the reality is there is a huge issue with anti—semitism within, muslim culture. and i'm imagining that that's where it, frankly came from to the point where she's now a rape denialist and also what we're seeing, bruce, is hypocrisy from someone. she's saying, my passion for journalism is centred around telling real people stories, giving coverage to bame communities. well, bame middle east, i mean, that includes israelis and over half israelis are people of colour. so it's this is the frustrating thing for me anyway, is this hypocrisy vie within this kind of purity and not being able to recognise their own racism? >> no, no, no, no, i agree, but my point is, as a journalist, you would have to remain impartial . so you would have to remain impartial. so i just don't understand why she got herself into this at all. >> the funny thing the question is, did the bbc see these tweets and then go, she's perfect or was it the other way around? i'm not sure. >> well, there's been a bunch of other journalists who have been otherjournalists who have been identified and they still have their jobs and they've with discussing anti—semitism and bbc, have done seemingly nothing. let's move on to the mail on sunday. nick and iranian

asylum seekers excuse me. meet those they were trying to escape and who we let in as well. >> it's. yeah, it's four people have been injured and one has been arrested after supporters of the iranian government clashed with dissidents protesting outside a london vigil to president raisi. so who died last week, of course, in a helicopter crash . so, yeah. helicopter crash. so, yeah. look, it's this we've imported the whole world's problems . this the whole world's problems. this was in alperton lane in wembley. there was this. people like, hey, we love old raisi and we're celebrating that. other people were less keen on him. and so start to kind of counter protests. and this is this is, this is the country now . this is the country now. >> well, this is i mean a little bit of wembley, but have you seen i mean, all foreign conflicts are kind of played out on our streets now, that's all. >> i'm everything to do with israel—palestine now. iran. >> well , bruce, do you see the >> well, bruce, do you see the footage of this? i haven't seen pretty horrific. i mean, in this woman, she's been she's on the floor. she's been kicked whilst on the floor by multiple men. what? i didn't see that one man was arrested and there was about at least 20 men involved here. so again , this is a seemingly

so again, this is a seemingly failing to do their job. i understand they may make later arrests, but, i didn't see that. >> that does sound horrific. >> that does sound horrific. >> sorry. yeah, it was really. and seeing some of the there there's film afterwards of people in the hospital and what happened to them. and these were thugs. okay let me ask you this, bruce, if some of those people who took part in this physical attack turn out to not be british citizens, should they be kicked out? >> i'm. >> i'm. >> yes. no, i don't know. well, yeah. >> i mean, you were right the first time. >> okay, just give me a moment. thank you. because i'm thinking, the fact of the matter is, if they have attacked anyone and they have attacked anyone and they happen. yeah, yeah, i probably would agree with you. >> love it. love it. there you go. there we go. >> good. yeah. bruce, proof now that the observer is different from the guardian in that they actually criticise china . actually criticise china. >> well, yes, but china has not taken this well because they've basically they've done a changing rooms on a mosque. yeah. and they've made it more

kind of chinese. >> the word they use here. what was it again. they use it loads of times don't they. sinner sinification sinicization sinicized. >> so that means to make it chinese or to inject some chinese or to inject some chinese chinoiserie . acas. is chinese chinoiserie. acas. is that a thing? is that a term? yeah. well, not the second one, but the sinicize. >> i think it is. is it? >> i think it is. is it? >> yeah. is it sinicize or sinicize? >> i think it's cinesite. >> i think it's cinesite. >> i think it's cinesite. >> i want to make sure when people are at work on monday and they're talking to their friends about this story and they're like, i was watching headliners and they were talking about sinicization. >> yeah, well they're learning. yeah. it's gone. sorry carry on. no, no, no, i didn't think you'd done the main. sorry. okay. yeah, well, i was just going to say my point about this, which is that i'm against china doing things like demolishing churches. right. because they're very anti—christian as well. but then they're sort of part of me begrudgingly respects them for defending their own culture at all costs. i mean, that's that's why i'm torn on this. but then the further nuance is, is it china or is it just the ccp ? china or is it just the ccp? because there's a big difference

between the communist party and the what? sometimes gets called the. here's another term for it, the. here's another term for it, the lao beijing, which means old hundred surnames, which is kind of a very poetic way of referring to the ordinary people of china. so there's also a distinction to be made there. anyway sorry. >> yeah. i mean, bruce, it's you saw the photos. did you see did you manage to see the photos ? you manage to see the photos? there's an argument here that it's an eradication of by doing it's an eradication of by doing it via architecture and buildings , you are eradicating a buildings, you are eradicating a culture. and of course, this isn't the uyghurs. this is a different ethnic muslim group, but they're has been arguably a genocide going on with the uyghurs. that has been also kind of ignored, and, and this kind of, i don't know, this level of control and also putting, cameras within the mosque. i mean , it's all it's mean, it's all it's intimidation. >> right? >> right? >> so this is the what they are calling the sinification of islam. >> yes, basically. >> yes, basically. >> and to control it, i didn't realise they were putting cameras in the mosque. in the mosque as well. yeah right, i don't know. so it's. yeah, it's a complicated story, but i think

it's, it's good that it's been covered. right. one more section to go where we get friend of the show to answer questions on sex and has i mastered the art of

welcome back to headliners and kicking off with the observer for a story about greenpeace possibly causing hunger. nick >> yes, a catastrophe. greenpeace blocks planting of life saving golden rice. it's golden in so many ways because it can save lives. and this is classic green stuff. it's like how george monbiot hates farms. it's a classic luxury beliefs, because basically the philippines need this rice to save lives. but it's been blocked because of safety issues. but scientists have said there's no evidence that it is actually dangerous. and they say it will be overturned. but in the meantime , it will have the meantime, it will have profound impacts. and while we're waiting for it to be overturned because it's people are going to die . and this is are going to die. and this is the problem when these luxury

green beliefs is like, no, people need food, guys. well, this is it. >> i mean, there's a vitamin a deficiency, which causes, morbidity and mortality, infections, childhood blindness. exactly. so bruce, i thought the whole point about greenpeace was follow the science . and you have follow the science. and you have 150 scientists here. and i think nobel prize winners as well. no, 150 nobel laureates signing an open letter attacking greenpeace. so why aren't greenpeace. so why aren't greenpeace following the science then? >>i then? >> i think because greenpeace just do what they want to do for whatever reason. is that not the. no. >> that's a good that's a very, very good answer. >> and also, can i ask, is this race going to be in a microwavable packet for convenience? >> well, if it's not i will not be. >> exactly. yeah. >> exactly. yeah. >> come on mail on sunday. and bruce i feel like the story really gets me. >> okay. so this is in the mail on sunday, as you said. >> and here's what happens to the human body when you don't enjoy a horizontal refreshment or some solo activity , if you or some solo activity, if you catch my drift. and what it's saying here is gen z of legal age anyone's drift? gen z of

legal age are having less sex than any generation in history, and experts warn it could lead to their genitalia shrinking . to their genitalia shrinking. now, doctor tara, i can't even begin to pronounce that . but begin to pronounce that. but it's funny. the end of her name says porn is a sex and relationship expert told the daily mail.com. that bastion of fact that men who are sexually inactive, i don't know if that's unique. it's not an experience. a very rare condition called penile atrophy , where the penile penile atrophy, where the penile tissue becomes less elastic kwasi, and so they shrink 1 or 2cm. so a lot going on there, which is the size of a gorilla's 1 or 2cm. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it turns out that's the size of a gorilla's. i think we've cancelled that story. but anyway, yeah, it's shocking. i mean, look, it's saying, you know, people get depressed and anxious and they. if they don't have sex, what about monks? they're so happy that they're fine. >> yeah, but maybe they, i don't know. yeah now you've made me think that all monks have small willies. >> no, it's no, they just don't need. this is a lie. it's fine.

you know, i think they're really angry. >> or they could be like that. humming could be another sound. anyway nick heading over to the independent. now for a truly baffling question about the friend of a show. >> well, this is sophie hagen. hadn't slept with anyone in 3000 days and wanted to know why. why nick? >> well, why didn't you sleep with her? >> i feel terrible covering this because i know sophie. i used to know her in the pre woke days. she was a very funny comedian. and then she became . they became and then she became. they became what? she became woke. and she became. they and of course, i'm sure it was a totally sincere conversion. it happened to help her career but which is a bonus. but it's so i feel weird talking about it, but the story is about how they have not had sex for a long time, which is even longer than me, and i've been actively avoiding women on purpose, so i'm shocked. i mean, it's like eight years, isn't it? if you add it up. yeah. i mean, it's a long time. >> what do you think about this, bruce? i mean, this sounds like a torture. she's written a book. will i ever have sex again? this sounds like torture. a whole book with they them pronouns. >> do you think this is just to promote the book and do you think that she's been getting it

and just not saying, do you think this is all a hoax? >> wow, you're saying some fake news from sophie? >> i don't know, sophie. >> i don't know, sophie. >> no, i know well, she said she was having an affair for years, but they never touched. it's like. is she the stalker in baby reindeer? >> but why would you admit? do you know what i don't understand about the storm ciaran? baby reindeer? a man was sexually assaulted and yet they're going after a woman who appeared on a piers morgan show, which i don't understand. i've never met her. i don't know, but if she has had an affair. i mean, that's not a ringing endorsement of decent morals. >> no, indeed. observer next. and, bruce, now, computer games are good if you're deaf . are good if you're deaf. >> oh, okay. okay, okay. >> oh, okay. okay, okay. >> so virtual reality gaming helps uk's deaf children to understand speech. scientists have found that immersing kids in computer games can train their brains to localise sound better? it's to do. the project is known as bears. not the kind of bears that i hang around with. it's for both ears. it's aimed at youngsters who have been given twin cochlear implants because they were born with little or indeed no hearing. >> okay, so this is this is great, right? more technology, better bettering people's lives.

nick. >> yeah, i want to provide balance, but it's quite hard to be anti—death. although you did manage to mock them for years in your stand up act. >> i still do my joke about people. right? the sun has a story, nick, about deceptive ai, but this could have been written by it, and it's actually a double bluff. >> yeah, it's ai has already mastered deception. as scientists warn, chatbots have now learned to manipulate and cheat humans, so it's basically machiavellian terminator . cheat humans, so it's basically machiavellian terminator. in case you weren't worried enough about al. yeah, the fact that it can basically it says i can perform premeditated deception. so it's essentially evolved and become a woman . become a woman. >> oh no, you didn't. >> oh no, you didn't. >> wow, bruce, what do you want to say before we, before we finish the show? >> i'm cancelling tonight. >> i'm cancelling tonight. >> i'm cancelling tonight. >> i'm very briefly the star. why? one inch is plenty for burly gorillas whose todger size could explain problem in men. >> well, there we go. that's, brilliantly covered. the show is nearly over. let's take another quick look at sunday's front pages. we have the mail on sunday rishi. i'll bring back national service, the sunday telegraph pm. i'll bring back national service. the observer.

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