latest, top stories this the latest, top stories this houn the latest, top stories this hour. the prime minister has pledged to create 100,000 more apprenticeships. a year by shutting down what he calls rip off degrees . rishi sunak said he off degrees. rishi sunak said he wants to see the worst performing university courses replaced with high skilled apprenticeships. if the conservative retain power at the general election in july . but general election in july. but labour described the policy as laughable . sir keir starmer has laughable. sir keir starmer has said cutting nhs waiting lists will be the first step in a labour government's plan to get the health service back on its feet. the labour leader pledged to create a health service that is there for everyone ahead of a visit to the west midlands tomorrow. labour is saying it's going to initially focus on reducing treatment backlogs , reducing treatment backlogs, which currently stand at just over 7.5 million people. the health secretary, victoria atkins, though, described the plans as more copy and paste politics from labour, who she says have no plan . it's

says have no plan. it's understood tonight that diane abbott has had the labour whip restored after previously having it removed . mr abbott was it removed. mr abbott was suspended from the party last year after suggesting jewish people don't face racism and that instead they suffer prejudice similar to that faced by redheads. she apologised for those comments and had remained sitting as an independent mp for more than a year while an investigation was carried out. the telegraph is reporting tonight that mr abbott is banned from standing at the general election in july, but that still remains unclear. the deputy labour leader has accused the conservatives of using desperate tactics after greater manchester police said it will take no further action in its investigation into the sale of her council house back in 2015, angela rayner has been closely scrutinised over whether or not she paid the right amount of tax on the sale, after there were conflicting stories over whether or not she had had that as her

principal residence. in a statement released this afternoon, police clarified that matters involving council tax didn't fall under their jurisdiction . moving portraits jurisdiction. moving portraits of blind and visually impaired d—day veterans will go on show to mark the 80th anniversary of the landings. the portraits capture 16 veterans who served in normandy and are beneficiaries of blind veterans. uk. seven of the portraits are featured in a special new exhibition at the national army museum in london, which runs until the 9th of june. that's the news for the latest stories , the news for the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts . or go to gb news. common alerts. >> hello and welcome to

headliners. >> i'm simon evans, joining me to plunder wednesday's newspapers for story gold. we have two comedy pirates , captain have two comedy pirates, captain curse and cabin boy steve. steve explain. >> in fact, steve lad . >> in fact, steve lad. >> in fact, steve lad. >> yes. >> yes. >> you don't strike me as piratical . piratical. >> well, i can imagine you, though, actually, as a pirate. >> yeah, definitely . i don't >> yeah, definitely. i don't know if there were scots pirates. i assume there were, but yeah, i should imagine there were. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> anything that floats and try and rob you. >> yeah, but would you have been doing it under her majesty's sort of surreptitious orders? because the pirates, the rest of the world, sees them as essentially the queen's men in. >> so pirates were actually on her majesty's secret secret service. >> that's how the rest of the world sees drake. i only learnt that quite recently. yeah, he's known as drake the pirate in south america, right? >> yeah, like james pond. yeah >> yeah, like james pond. yeah >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we're not going to top that, are we? >> tonight? >> tonight? >> we've gone early anyway. let's have a quick peel at wednesday's front pages. >> telegraph have sunak. >> telegraph have sunak. >> i'm talking to johnson about

the election . i don't know what the election. i don't know what johnson is. slang for guardian. israeli spy chief threatened icc official over war crimes inquiry. the daily mail tory vow to ban rip off university degrees by changing the law. the times sunak plans university cuts to boost apprentices. the financial times reeves rules out surprise tax rises in bid to bolster economic credentials and the daily star imperialistic. i lob all my slugs into next doors lob all my slugs into next door's garden . right. those are door's garden. right. those are your front pages . so obviously your front pages. so obviously we're all on tenterhooks to see if we can get on to the star. but in the meantime, leo, what's on the cover of the telegraph? >> so the telegraph, they have police. >> well, the main story is sunak. >> i'm talking to johnson about the election, to find out. >> i'm sure johnson's going to give him lots of useful advice. >> i'm sure he really loves

sunak. >> after sunak stabbed him in the back. >> so it's probably johnson who told him. >> where do you have on july the 4th? >> i'm early and but the story and then say that you're going to make all the kids join the army. >> they love all that . why do >> they love all that. why do you want to vote? you want to be in the army, but the story we're going to talk about is police passing on rayner house details to hmrc, not just the address, they can go and knock on the doom they can go and knock on the door, basically hmrc have been urged to say whether they will sanction angela rayner. so greater manchester police have concluded their investigation and have decided they'll be. they'll be taking no further action after the investigation into labour's deputy leader revealed that she's, a close friend of andy burnham who oversees greater manchester police. now, amid that bit up . police. now, amid that bit up. yeah, you know, i don't know if i was being investigated by the police, i'd want that police force to be overseen by my best friend. you know, it can't hurt. >> but i do feel we're lagging behind the americans in the lawfare , kind of scheme, aren't lawfare, kind of scheme, aren't we? >> you know what i mean, steve? there should be the. some of the tourists should be. yeah. this is this sexy? yeah yeah, it's £1,500 worth of tax kind of

deals. >> like that. there was never there's no risk anymore, is there? because she'd said if she's found to have done anything criminal, then she'll step down. well it's not going to be criminal anymore. >> she's known to have been a flasher. >> wasn't that criminal? >> wasn't that criminal? >> wasn't that criminal? >> was she in the house of commons? >> don't you remember? there was, i'm sure that was on record, wasn't it? yeah. >> i don't know if someone's complained . could that be a criminal? >> that's true. yeah, yeah. so, that's going to just drizzle out now then there's nothing left. >> well, she's not out of the woods. so the criminal inquiry has gone, but she's also facing scrutiny over whether she or mark rayner, who is her husband at the time, paid the right amount of capital gains tax when two former council houses they owned were sold. and also, there's matters relating to council tax and personal tax because she's faced questions over whether she may owe any council tax as her brother had allegedly been living in her property. while she claimed to live there. and i think she was claiming single occupancy. yeah >> or i mean, i have a lot of sympathy for people in this situation, to be honest, because the system is extraordinarily complex. it's easy to make errors. and also i think they were quite broke, weren't they ?

were quite broke, weren't they? >> and you have a certain kind of sympathy, but i suppose at the same time there is a sort of sort of high moralising attitude that comes out of labour, isn't there? >> and all sorts of other people have been sort of, dismissed as frauds of one kind or another. >> the lesson here should be if you're in politics, don't ever say you should step down because you're being investigated, because what do you think fate is going to do to you then? yes. but we also never address this thing that i think is true and honest. if we're all if we're being brutally honest about it, loads of people would do the same. if someone said to you, oh, you know, if you said you didn't live there, you wouldn't pay didn't live there, you wouldn't pay an extra grand tax. yeah. this is why will you push up as far as you can get, don't you. >> you always want to be, especially with council tax which is a right royal rip off isn't it. >> my goodness, the amount we have to pay now in brighton. i could tell you stories, but anyway, look at all the fantastic pride pavements and things. >> absolutely. yes, i know and, beautifully ornamented seagulls now with hamas chiefs getting council houses. >> i mean, who's going to pay

for the hamas chief council housesif for the hamas chief council houses if we don't pay our council tax? >> let's hope that angela is registered, that i'm sure going forward she will be beyond reproach. steve, you have the daily mail. >> they have, tori vowed to ban rip off university degrees by changing law. i both totally agree with this and then halfway through don't agree with this. so 1 in 8 students could see mickey mouse courses. acts good. you know, my point of view is rather i'm strict on this. if it's not a science , it's it's not a science, it's a hobby. that's what you're doing reading books. that's what people do as a hobby, playing a musical instrument. i think you'll find that's what people do as a hobby. if it's not science, i think science degree should be free. everything else should be free. everything else should be free. everything else should be way more expensive. but you shouldn't ban the courses, because if you want to be a mature student and go and waste some time learning some stuff, we shouldn't make that illegal. yeah, just not be presented to someone when they can get themselves massively in debt at that part of their life. >> well it does. i mean, that seems to be exactly right. >> and also when they introduce the idea of these fees, the assumption was that fees would adjust to a level that reflected how valuable the course was, how in demand it was, whereas in fact , they all went up to the fact, they all went up to the

maximum immediately. and there is not a single course you can study for less than the maximum, is there? >> yeah. and also there are way too many courses and, and i mean, i think the taxpayer subsidising these courses , you subsidising these courses, you know, the idea of taxing a bus driver. so some, you know, jocasta can go and, you know, study about how porcelain is racist or whatever is absolute nonsense. also participation in university is dropping because it used to be, you know, for agesit it used to be, you know, for ages it was seen as this amazing leg up and it would give you like my dad was all like, i'm not going to teach you gunsmithing. i'm not going to teach you this. like highly complex and skilled engineering thing. you know, you go and get a liberal arts degree from one of these new universities and you'll get an amazing job. and it's like, no, i'll get a i'll get a useless degree, and i won't have any skills and i'll have debt. i know some people will say, and this is i think it remains illegal. >> like i get confused sometimes with different legislation in the uk and the us, and this thing is discussed online and so on. >> but really, a lot of employers would just like to see a really watertight cognitive test. they would quite like to just see maybe the kind of aggregated results from three iq tests essentially . i don't know

tests essentially. i don't know whether they're allowed to ask for that instead, but it seems like a lot of people take degrees, spend three years of their life. i don't begrudge anyone the chance to go to parties and take drugs and stuff, but you.

>> have been rejected. so. so. yes it's one of these fanciful things that she's. yeah. >> i mean, i suppose you know, over the course of the last 70 years, a lot of solutions have come and gone. >> a lot of negotiations have moved towards a peaceful settlement. and then sometimes extremists on either side of derailed that. but it certainly isn't simply a question of israeli intractability, is it? >> i think we can fairly say that it's also not going to make a blind bit of difference what labour do, just to put it in some sort of perspective. >> but i suppose i can understand. i will say i can understand. i will say i can understand if you felt strongly

about that issue, you would want to influence, you know, your future government's position on it. >> i can understand that even though obviously, yes, it's america. and then, you know, second place is a set of steak knives, clearly, you know, but, andifs knives, clearly, you know, but, and it's a very long clip. >> she's there so long that i think she started registering for council tax in that house. i mean, it's pandering, but of course it's pandering. we saw what happened with the loss of votes, the local elections and the mayoral elections . so the mayoral elections. so they're saying things to try and get that vote back on. but before we condemn them too much, all parties are pandering on the way into an election that hanging's too good for them. send them to national service and have a triple lock. so, you know, the tories are definitely doing some pandering. labour are having to do this kind of pandering. what she said isn't that many million miles away from what keir starmer has said, and he actually says that it has to be as part of a peace deal and include the release of the hostages, making sure that's sewn in there all the time. i think it's really important. >> quick question, do you think angela rayner could recognise palestine if there was, she was given a map without borders clearly marked . how confident clearly marked. how confident would you be? >> the i feel that's a harsh

question. i don't want to be that fair enough. >> i was remembering israel's is it palestine ? no, it's rome that it palestine? no, it's rome that was . that's the historical was. that's the historical solution. i'm settling on, steve, we have. another labour female politician. now, all political careers end in failure, this one likely to do so in july by the look of it. yeah. >> to the times diane abbott to be banned from standing for laboun be banned from standing for labour. which is odd because if ever there's a time when they need a little bit of anti—semitism, just to level things off. but previously on laboun things off. but previously on labour, she wrote for the observer. she said that jewish people, irish people and travellers didn't know real racism like black people. they were more akin to the prejudice that ginger people have because, as we all remember in the 1930s, the strawberry blonde death camps . and, but i don't think camps. and, but i don't think this is worth remembering since then. apologised, retracted, the statement went on a training course to learn about ginger prejudice. probably might have been a different course. >> is it a bit like speeding? like your first time you do it? you can get that. but then after

that you've got to take the points. >> and she's a divisive figure. yes. it's two things can be true at the same time. she gets 50% of all the hate of all the mps. and she also says things like white people love to play divide and conquer. so both can be true. but i do think labour should have a look at giving her the whip back. now she's not going to happen. if she stands again. yeah, but if she doesn't stand again, they're thinking about the idea of giving her the whip back so she can end her career as a as a labour mp again. but it just sets that precedent that if you say one thing wrong once , that's it. thing wrong once, that's it. >> it wasn't that, though, of course, was it? it's her. she she carries the taint of the jeremy corbyn years and indeed a number of other gaffes over the years as well. >> yeah. no, absolutely. i mean she is she was the first black woman elected to the british parliament and she is incredibly intelligent. sometimes she even manages to get her shoes on the on the right feet. it's incredible what she can, what she can achieve. that really puts her in the top. i'd say the top. >> i would honestly say i think she genuinely was quite intelligent and astute and politically astute at one point as well. and for some reason she seems to be in some quite steep

decline. and i find it slightly sad that people aren't able to sort of accept that and leave politics. you know, there are obviously some significantly more important figures on the world stage that i'm kind of hinting at, but do you know what i mean? i mean, the last ten years, she's quite obviously just doesn't have her wits about her the same way. >> yeah. and also she's she's really bought into critical race theory and all this, you know, this sort of snake oil that's been sold by communists on the left. and so i think when people get more entrenched in that, that worldview, it really poisons. >> well, i don't even know about bought into i think she was actually something of a, you know, a vanguard on that. i think she's been selling racial analysis of british culture. you no longer than anyone. it's like the rest of the world's caught up with her. i don't like her. i don't like her analysis at all. but i do just think her grasp has withered as well. do you think so? >> yeah. no, i know what you mean. but this individual story, looking at just this strand of it. yeah i do think she's apologised. the reason lee anderson, never rejoined the tories, refusing to apologise. she's done all the work . yeah. she's done all the work. yeah. >> fair enough. leo nigel farage continues to win his 4d sumo

bouts with the bbc's infamously impartial news coverage. >> yes. so a bbc news presenter, gita guru—murthy, has been forced to issue a grovelling apology today after she accused nigel farage of using customary inflammatory language. and they say here it is not racist to air concerns about migration. the bbc journalists have now been told. an official review is now, saying the corporation sees the issue through a narrow political lens and overlooks the impact on uk communities. so the quote that nigel farage was saying, he said we quoted the polish prime minister, donald tusk, but donald tusk said aggressive young males were coming into poland . and for some reason poland. and for some reason that's now seen as a as a controversial thing to say. i mean, a couple of things about that. donald tusk is a liberal. yeah. or certainly relatively liberal for poland . he's he's on liberal for poland. he's he's on the, on the left or the centre of polish politics. >> the left tusk. yes. >> the left tusk. yes. >> yeah, yeah. and and also just blatantly shows the bias that the bbc have. i mean, yeah,

nigel farage was quoting somebody saying this and you know, gita guru—murthy . know, gita guru—murthy. >> yeah. she is the sister of krishnan . yeah. i looked it up. krishnan. yeah. i looked it up. i wondered as well. yeah. interesting because he's on channel 4, isn't he? yeah. do you not feel they should pick a channel? i mean , i know we had channel? i mean, i know we had two dimbleby's, one on radio and one on. really. i do kind of feel . i one on. really. i do kind of feel. i suppose one on. really. i do kind of feel . i suppose that's the two feel. i suppose that's the two of them. yeah. anyway what do you think, steve? is it. does it feel like he was being inflammatory to just quote tusk? >> well, it's not her job to say so. no, it's exactly the job of being a bbc newsreader is to not pass comment straight off the back of a clip. so. but i saw someone on twitter saying ofcom won't even look into this. well, they weren't because it was apologised for in broadcast. it's the kind of thing whenever we're on and lewis says anything and we have to say i apologise. yes, that's the only reason we managed to keep going. so was apologised for. i think it's interesting though, why it's less of a shocking thing for donald tusk to say, but for nigel farage to say and i think the context is british history. we are more well, there's a certain group within britain

more likely to slap ourselves around a bit. and poland doesn't have that history. yes. so you can get away with saying it, douglas murray says it has, a strong sense of the tragic, the song was it a song, a strong sense of the tragic in life or something like that? that's is analysis in the strange death of europe, there's a different vibe in that part of the world, having lived under communism for many years, but also of course, having to, being invaded and be having to, being invaded and be having to, being invaded and be having to fend itself off a lot. yeah. anyway barely a days left to run now, steve, but parliament has found something it can agree upon, according to the independent labour expected to proscribe irans revolutionary guard as 550 parliamentarians demand action. >> quick side question how long after a revolution should you stop going on about it and naming everything revolutionary? yeah, because at some point you're harking back. >> well know that they have to do that in order to maintain their legitimacy, don't they? because if they become the establishment guard, yeah. then they're inviting the next revolution. >> you are you are now the establishment. but this group of

550 parliamentarians want to prescribe it as a, as a terrorist group. and it's so rare to get such cross—party agreement that already you've got to think this is something in this. if david lammy gets the gig, he's up for doing it. i think it'll be interesting to see what gen z do with this, because two years ago they were all about hating iran, because the protest , because the girl the protest, because the girl got killed, about what she was wearing or even, i think two months ago there was still a lot of action on on twitter about people. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> but now gen z are pro—hamas and iran's pro—hamas. this is going to be a very difficult triangle to try and put together. >> every generation has, an educational experience sooner or later, isn't it? in the complexity of geopolitics, i do think it's quite encouraging that there is this kind of cross party consensus against iran. but i do wonder also, there was, i think, i can't remember her name. it was i cannot remember her name, but somebody was saying , iran her name, but somebody was saying, iran is like gearing up to roll out terrorist outrages, one kind or another around the world. what do you think? i

don't know that i buy into that. >> yeah, i think i think we're incredibly vulnerable to it in the west because we don't have any borders control whatsoever. and previously, you know, we've we've had trouble with, islamists just, you know, people who buy into this idea of a, you know, greater islamic caliphate and exterminating all the, horrible but lone actors as, yeah, essentially lone actors are working , yeah, essentially lone actors are working, you yeah, essentially lone actors are working , you know, not not are working, you know, not not organised, not state backed. now we're going to have state backed terror coming to the west. and there's no there's no security when people come across the channel when people come across the channel, when you go to the airport, you've got to go through a scanner, take your shoes off. they don't. i've never once seen one of the cross—channel people being told to take his shoes off. >> no, i can't remember. even in paris or in, nice paris, the bataclan. there was there was al—qaeda, wasn't it? i think it was. i have to try and remember this, not connected to iran , but this, not connected to iran, but that was a coordinated attack. yeah. most of them, even in mainland europe, have been individual people like the truck attack in nice and so on. in this country, we've never had a coordinated islamist attack, i don't think. have we like from a

number of people like, like what, 7th of october, you know , what, 7th of october, you know, seven, seven bombings were were. oh yes. that would be. yeah. yeah. that's true. yeah. so i mean, do you think it's plausible, steve. >> yeah. well, yeah, actually i do, because it's about the nafions do, because it's about the nations that are lining up. you've got iran, russia , china, you've got iran, russia, china, nonh you've got iran, russia, china, north korea, the cricket nations. i'm waiting to see that written in a newspaper. well, not yet . not yet. >> that is it. team will versus krinke. >> that is it. team will versus kane.the >> that is it. team will versus krinke. the race is on a change in tone. leo. from trump towards laboun in tone. leo. from trump towards labour. although it should be added also a change in the leader he's talking about as well. >> yeah. so trump is ready to work with starmer despite previous clashes with labour. obviously when trump was previously talking about the labour party, possibly taking power in the 2019 election, he wasn't a fan of jeremy corbyn because jeremy corbyn is essentially a sort of, sort of communist, so, you know, trump said jeremy corbyn and his labour party would be so bad for your country to take you into such bad places. described them as a negative force.

>> there's a whiff of the guy from casablanca . he from casablanca. he >> peter. laurie. peter. >> peter. laurie. peter. >> laurie. >> laurie. >> you're hurting my arm . >> you're hurting my arm. >> you're hurting my arm. >> but, yeah, i mean, we do have this special relationship with the us, but i think it's become weaker and weaker , like most weaker and weaker, like most things in britain has become weaker because we're not in europe anymore. we used to be the sort of the conduit for america to talk to europe. and now we're the conduit for america to talk to britain. britain is big and important, right? >> we're at the halfway point, the equator of time. join us in the equator of time. join us in the temporal south for papal apologists, scottish school shame and the nhs living with nonsense. we will

and welcome back to headliners. so steve, kicking this section off with a rare papal apology from rome. try saying that after a couple of pints of creamed a

month. this is in wednesday's guardian. yeah. >> vatican issues apology over pope francis's homophobic slur . pope francis's homophobic slur. also, i heard a rumour that he was referring to trans women as men in dresses, but it turns out it was just the bishops and the statement cardinal error. the way the statement says the pontiff apologises to those who felt offended by the term reported by others. so let's just analyse what a bad apology this is. yeah, it's not apologising for offending, it's apologising for offending, it's apologising for offending, it's apologising for those who felt offended by the thing that you heard from someone else that was said, not admitting that it was said, not admitting that it was said yeah, this is some top flight. not apologising. >> well, he is ineffable or what is it? immutable. what is he? he's he's he's indescribable. >> he's infallible. >> he's infallible. >> he's infallible. >> he's irreparable. he is infallible . that's right. not is infallible. that's right. not is he. well, no, clearly he is. he is infallible . and that's why he is infallible. and that's why he can't apologise. >> so god's representative on earth . he is. he >> so god's representative on earth. he is. he is >> so god's representative on earth . he is. he is the pope. earth. he is. he is the pope. who? who is god on earth? who? god saw that. >> yeah, but then . >> yeah, but then. >> yeah, but then. >> but the word he said, we don't know what it is in

italian. and maybe one shouldn't even say it, but it's quite hard to nail down. but is it, is it? i mean, do we know how rough it is in italian, as it were? >> i think you can say the italian from kitcheni, which is from cassini, which i had one of those starbucks, i'm sure i translates as a bowl of chopped liver that's been fried. if you know what i mean. oh, right. okay. it's that slow. okay. yeah okay. it's that slow. okay. yeah okay. but and he was talking about, the homosexuals going into the seminaries. i don't know if he pronounced it as seminaries deliberately. he seems like he's doing a lot of hate jokes, this guy. but he's done the apology, a rare apology, which this he's been kind of pro on this issue before . as soon after becoming pope, he famously responded to the question about gay priests. who am i to judge the pope? yes, am ito judge the pope? yes, you're the one guy who gets a say in this, but it turns out that he thinks there might be too much. frogurt. sheen >> yeah, i suppose one question. if you want to try and get anything worthwhile out of it, does he mean it literally, or does he mean it literally, or does he mean it literally, or does he mean it in that sort of sense that they might do what i mean, like a kind of thematic, i

think also tonal thing. >> i think the thing i should have included in this is his second language. so he might not have known that that was a offensive term. oh, right across that's spanish or argentinian. >> so what he might have been just saying to many flower decorations or something, you know, like so too much i don't know. do you know what i mean? >> like, is he just wanted a nice box of mr brains. yeah, for dinner and everything got behind. >> shocking news from north of the border. now leo in the telegraph. shocking, at least for anyone not aware of the extent to which your people have fallen. >> yeah, so, over 95% of scottish secondary schools allow children to self—identify their genden children to self—identify their gender, and only 4% of institutions always inform parents. when a child discloses identity distress, that's when they're like, you know, i think i'm a mom, mama. i think i'm a woman or whatever, i don't know why i'm trying to do a scottish. >> i think i'm mr brains. yeah, i'm thinking so. >> the situation means that biological males are being allowed to participate in female sports classes at schools and

share toilets and changing rooms with girls. in a majority of high schools, there has also been issues with school trips and, you know, all kinds of things where, you know, safeguarding really is an issue. i mean, it's an issue in sports and on the school grounds as well, and this is despite the recent findings of the cass review that said, look, this is this is all sort of basically made up nonsense. and you know, what on earth are you doing? and this is because radical activists masquerading as , as activists masquerading as, as charities and experts have been advising the scottish government and the scottish government is, you know, is mainly made up of sort of green haired, communists. but what about teachers? >> do you think teachers go into the profession expecting or quite happy to just adopt whatever, you know, fashionable diktats they receive? or do you think they tend to be on this side anyway? >> absolutely. teachers are the absolute absolute worst . they absolute absolute worst. they all read the guardian. they've all read the guardian. they've all got blue hair and nose piercings and stuff. man, i wish the tiktok videos. every single teacher seems to just be like they've they literally become a teacher so they can indoctrinate you. >> because i rememberi you. >> because i remember i went to

a state jmi junior mixed infant, so from 5 to 11 or whatever, and almost all the stuff, they weren't like that at all. i mean, they were quite they were sterner than my mum on on average. yeah. what's happened to those people? >> where are they, 1930s. >> where are they, 1930s. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> no, actually i think that thatis >> no, actually i think that that is part of the weird transition that when we were growing up, it was very much the teachers and the parents against the child. like you got told off. you get told off by both of them at once. now you've got the schools not even telling the parents what's happening to their child. yeah. issues that their child. yeah. issues that the child are having and the only thing i disagree with is when you talk about the cast report, i don't think the cast report, i don't think the cast report said one side's made up nonsense. the great thing about the cast report is that it didn't say anything that could easily be kind of dismissed without being read. oh, you're just a turf document. so actually it made some points. if you don't have evidence, don't act as if you've got evidence. and that seems to make sense. >> crimes against language in the mail. now steve, as the nhs appears to be living with cringe. >> yeah nhs blasted for being politically correct after it emerges official advice describes fat people as living with overweight . now i, i live

with overweight. now i, i live with overweight. now i, i live with overweight. now i, i live with overweight. she hates it when i call her that, no. so experts claim that using first person language reduces discrimination , even just in discrimination, even just in case anyone struggles to imagine what overweight looks like. >> i think we have an image. >> i think we have an image. >> oh, you get oh i oh, look at >> oh, you get oh! oh, look at that. oh, how very . that. oh, how very. >> no, there she is. oh, no. oh that's disgraceful i do apologise, i didn't expect that. >> so what this story tells us is that the english language is about to die out. because the problem is overweight is an adjective . yes. so like obese is adjective. yes. so like obese is an adjective. you don't live with obese . you live with with obese. you live with obesity. exactly. overweight ity or overweightness. i'd take that as a. you can't be messing with the language. tam fry from the national obesity forum said it's a mistaken attempt to ease the fear of being labelled fat. no fat person has ever wanted this. no one's no fat person, says. could you add to my embarrassment of my muffin top by calling me a weird thing that makes it sound like i can't handle being called fat fat people love fat. they put it on all their foods and well, that's

not necessarily. >> of course, that is possibly where the problem started, because it's sugar. that's right. but the well sugar and fat together isn't it? that makes it unstoppable. >> i've been on the luas for course, but , >> i've been on the luas for course, but, but it >> i've been on the luas for course, but , but it does. course, but, but it does. >> i mean, it is. yes. yes. right. it is because drinking dehydrates you. but, what it is, is, it's not just patronising, it's sort of disabling. it's infantilizing , isn't it? it infantilizing, isn't it? it suggests these people have no agency. they live with something that sort of blown onto them, as if they were just walking down the street. and it's like a carrier bag, as if the ace up in. >> yeah. as if the ice cream just falls into their mouth. you get these fat people being like, oh, i just can't shift and shift the pounds. it's like, what are you doing when you're in the supermarket? why are you buying? i mean, you can't you literally can't. it's like it's harder to sort of absolutely don't let it in the house. >> but i do have some sympathy because, you know, some people have more powerful hunger pangs and so on. and if you eat a bad diet, if you get that ball rolling, if you get that flywheel turning, yeah, it can be hard to slow it down. >> we know fat and die. then

that's your choice. >> i don't say that. i'm just saying you've got to create the interest. you've got to create the agency in people you know, say you're living with overweight, you're saying you've got a bad diet, fix it. >> you know, the nhs says living with overweight was nationally and internationally widely used term. we spoke the language too. yeah >> oh, the people in poland and iceland and italy living with overweight fracassini , steve. overweight fracassini, steve. a development to delight the ghost of oswald spengler. now in the telegraph. >> which one? we're going to . >> which one? we're going to. >> which one? we're going to. >> this is the death of western civilisation. oh, i've. i already saw . already saw. >> oh, this is the tiktok. yes, inside the first tiktok election. yes, remember the app that the us was banning? only they're not banning it. but the newspapers say that. and the app that you can't have on your work phoneif that you can't have on your work phone if you work for our government, by the way, good. get rid of candy crush. do you done job? yeah. well now it's a place where young people get their news. so all parties are getting involved. oh, it's got to be cringier than being called

living with overweight. rishi sunak was on there saying hi , sunak was on there saying hi, tiktok already? yeah, it's going to be like some supply teacher trying to talk to you about jesus, isn't it? sorry to be breaking into your usual politics free feed, but i've got a big announcement. this is about they're all going to be going to war. yes, they love that one service. meanwhile, labour had a meme of it with that lord farquaad from, shrek saying , some of you may die, but saying, some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice i'm willing to make. very nice. yeah, the bad one is it? >> but it just means that i have a feeling, you know, it's funny in america. the funny thing, in 2016, we learned that the left can't meme. that was a big, learning, wasn't it? and the right had all the frogs and it was hilarious. i've got horrible feeling in this country. probably labour are going to be better at this , aren't they, better at this, aren't they, than the tories? >> well, the trouble is we've got two left wing parties , so got two left wing parties, so neither of them can mean yeah, that's true. >> that's exactly what it is. do you think reform will be able to meme. this will be the big test. >> i'm not sure because the average age seems to be about 68. so i'm not sure that's the, you know, the prime time. but i was just worried that apparently

almost half of adults get their news from social media. that's that's kind of terrifying. yeah >> i mean, i get it off, i get it off tiktok, but it usually has a link to a proper newspaper if you want to read them. >> yeah. oh, but who wants to read? i just like headlines. >> just pick it up off a single image. that's it for this part. the end is nigh. join us in the final section for football stickers. solar stickers, and entertainers who are sticking with it too. we'll see you

and welcome back to headliners for our final section . we have for our final section. we have to nip through these. leo, the daily mail have news of corporate warfare to rival the great organised crime rackets . great organised crime rackets. >> yes, this is the greek football sticker rip off. this is basically two football sticker companies going to war. there's panini. who do shinies and the legendary heraldic knight insignia. and the legendary heraldic knight insignia . and they also knight insignia. and they also do lovely toasted buns as well. and there's also topps, which is, which is an american

company. so panini topps is cheap and nasty. and topps are coming for panini because stickers are not a complex business. >> it's a problematic name. isn't it? it's a yeah, there's another meaning altogether. portwood like , yeah to do panini portwood like, yeah to do panini with the famous ones. when i was at school i was never bothered. but the thing is, you buy a pack of like six stickers and then you've probably already got some. so you have duplicates and then you start trading them. right. that's the deal. yeah. but they're saying when you work it out how many packs you have to buy to fill an album, it's like absolutely eye—watering. that sounds. >> but you do learn the basics of economics. yeah the fact that you've got things you don't need and other people have things you do, and you get this trade and barter stuff going off. >> yeah. and but also you are, you're, you're confronted with a monopoly situation, aren't you? and you're being forced to buy things you don't want as well. it's not like you have. it's not like you have surplus. it's not like you have surplus. it's not like you have surplus. it's not like you grow radishes and you grow more than you can eat. so you trade some of them for beetroot. you're being forced to buy, you know, i don't know. there probably is an economic term for this, i suppose. a bit like mining, isn't it? there's a

lot of war left over at the end of the day. yeah. you know, but anyway, is that no one cares about. i mean, i'm slightly, surprised and a little touched to find out kids are still doing this in the internet age where you can literally just get a brilliant picture of every footballer you've ever heard of on your phone immediately. yeah exactly. yeah. lazy apes. the guardian. steve, have news that might conceivably interest more than it does the viewers, it's a ticking time bomb. why are so many entertainers forced to work past retirement age? it feels like it's. it is aimed at you, simon. i don't know why they did this. yeah don't blame me. >> you got 20 years. you're fine. leah. my goodness . fine. leah. my goodness. >> fairly begum jobbing work is the familiar names. loads of people working into their 70s and 80s. and alexi sales quoted saying , if you made your money saying, if you made your money in the 70s and 80s, you got a better chance of being well off. i got into local radio just after the radio authority freed up the licenses. so the money was terrible. yeah, i filmed an advert way after alan davis did the, the abbey national, abbey national. so the money was rubbish. when he was jonathan

creek, i managed to get on tv and ensemble thing. basically, i would love alexei sayle money. stop moaning about what you're having to live. >> no, no, i mean, to be fair, i don't think alexis moaning, but i mean, i think i remember stephen fry used to earn enough to, like, buy a house on a daily basis, just doing voiceovers for adverts that has all gone and also, it is true when you get into comedy, it is a bit like the wild west and nobody tells you. i say nobody takes but very few people will kind of. your agent won't kind of say get an accountant. and also a financial planner and stuff, you know. >> yeah, well, talking to comedians who are around at the at the end of the 90s when you know you're still making good, good money from clubs and houses were cheap, you could buy, you know, talking to comedians who bought like a flat in vauxhall or whatever, or a house in clerkenwell for, you know, 40 grand. >> yeah. and then sadly fell asleep with a fag on the go. and that was the end of that. but finally some good news, leo in the independent, at least for anyone that has access to the sun, i don't know how many overseas viewers we have. >> yeah, that's the sun. as in up in the sky. yeah, not the newspaper. so world changing solar tech could mean the death of batteries. so these these can be printed off on this, this

printer in stockholm. and they harvest light from any source, even a candle. even the moonlight. wow. so moonlight. so. yeah, apparently , because, so. yeah, apparently, because, you know, moore's law that says that, you know, computer generated generating power is getting, you know, exponentially more powerful and also cheaper at the same time. the same thing is happening with solar power. wow so it could mean that we'll never need nuclear fusion and stuff will always have. >> that would be amazing if we if we managed, if the french have invested all of that money in nuclear reactors and it turns out no, at the last minute, but this could be i mean, this could be tremendous. and but obviously at the moment we're charging phones with it. but if you scale it up at some point, could this be vehicular i think yeah, i think so. >> i mean i don't know if you'll be able to drive along and what you can charge. yeah. as you charge it sort of thing. >> maybe around those roads on the, down near naples, you know, the, down near naples, you know, the amalfi coast received a big seal that opens up . seal that opens up. >> could you say it will? i guarantee there'll be people saying, no, i prefer batteries like a nine volt. >> i do think that there is a it's nice when you hear

occasionally like a positive story, though, because there's one fella here saying our children will laugh at us and won't be able to believe that. we used to have cables. yeah. you know, and that makes a change from scientists saying our grandchildren will despise us for failing to take action. you know, i want to hear that our children are just laughing at our quaint old ways, rather than burning us in effigy as they sink beneath the rising seas, the show is nearly over. let's take another quick look at wednesday's front pages . we have wednesday's front pages. we have the telegraph sunak. i'm talking to johnson about the election. oh. guardian israeli spy chief threatened icc official over war crimes inquiry. the daily mail tory vow to ban rip off university degrees by changing law. the times sunak plans university cuts to boost apprentices. financial times reeves rules out surprise tax rises in bid to bolster economic credentials and the daily star imperialist titch i lob all my slugs into next door's garden. the mainframe crash to avoid

heanng the mainframe crash to avoid hearing about that one. that's all we have time for. thank you to my guest, leo, kirsten, steve and alan. i'm back tomorrow at 11 pm. with scott kabiru and nick dixon. if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast. otherwise thank you very much for your company. apologies for the technical error earlier. hope you made the cup of tea and we'll see you again tomorrow. thank you very much. good night. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good evening from the met office . here's your latest gb office. here's your latest gb news weather update. whilst it is going to turn drier for most of us by the weekend before then, we still have some thundery showers around earlier on today we had a weather system pushing its way north eastwards across the country , bringing across the country, bringing some heavy persistent rain. for many of us, that's now starting to clear though lingering across some northeastern parts through this evening and overnight. and behind it, it isn't turning completely dry. further outbreaks of showery rain and some of these could still be heavy. possibly the odd rumble

of thunder overnight, but many places staying quite cloudy so temperatures aren't going to drop a huge amount. but there will be some clear skies around, especially towards the south. and here we could see a few pockets of mist and fog developing tomorrow morning. if we take a closer look at what's happening tomorrow morning, though quite a cloudy start across northeast scotland and some outbreaks of lingering rain here, maybe some brightness across northwest scotland around the central belt. but on a whole largely cloudy further outbreaks of showery rain to be had , of showery rain to be had, similar for northern ireland and northern england, though some bright spells possible. a brighter picture, though across central southern england a greater chance of seeing some sunshine, particularly once any mist and fog patches clear away as we go through the rest of the day. and it is going to be quite a showery picture for most of us. any rain lingering towards the northeast may continue for a time, but the greatest story will be the fact that there'll be some hefty showers, particularly for eastern scotland, northeast england, some of these turning heavy and thundery elsewhere, the showers maybe not quite as intense , but maybe not quite as intense, but some rumbles of thunder are possible. there will be some

sunny spells in between the showers, though, and temperatures rising into the mid to high teens or possibly low 20s towards the southeast. thursday is going to be another showery day for many of us. perhaps the showers not quite as intense as on wednesday, but nonetheless some thundery downpours are still possible, though there will again be some bright or sunny spells in between any showers. like i said at the start , it is turning at the start, it is turning dner at the start, it is turning drier into the weekend and so particularly by saturday and sunday is looking mostly fine and quite warm. by by looks like things are heating up . things are heating up. >> boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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course. we're going to be reflecting on nigel's big speech on immigration in dover. and of course, that extraordinary bbc apology we're also going to be talking about whether this is a tiktok, election dominated by social media. and we're going to be speaking to the female fly fisher woman who wants to join an all male angling club. but first, here's the news with polly middlehurst . polly middlehurst. >> camilla. thank you. well, the top story tonight . pensioners top story tonight. pensioners could be in for a tax break collectively worth up to £25 billion a year as part of an election pledge by the conservative party. it could see tax free allowances rising, netting around £95 a year per pensioner rising to £275 by 2029. the prime minister says it will be funded by reclaiming funds from those who deliberately evade tax. labour

described the plan as a desperate move, but rishi sunak said it's part of the government's overall plan. >> what i believe is that if you work hard all your life, you should have dignity in retirement . that's why we've retirement. that's why we've protected the triple lock, which is going up by £900 this year for pensioners. but today what we've announced is the triple lock. plus we're going to increase the personal allowance for pensioners delivering a tax cut worth around £100 to millions of pensioners, demonstrating our commitment to them, making sure that we can deliver a secure future for them. and in contrast, the labour party have said they oppose that policy , which means oppose that policy, which means pensioners will be paying tax under any future labour government. and that's the clear choice on offer at this election i >> -- >> sunak speaking earlier on this afternoon. well, the shadow chancellor has told gb news that pensioners are in fact paying more tax because of the conservative government rachel reeves used her first major speech of the election campaign to pick out the much criticised

mini—budget of liz truss, which she blamed for