to go was politically motivated to go on strike and certainly not in the interests of staff . the interests of staff. >> today's action by the junior doctors on the same day as the labour party are having a health day does slightly ponder the question as to whether this is politically motivated. it's hard to escape that conclusion, given the timing and to call a strike in an election campaign, especially as we found a constructive resolution with the remainder of the nhs workforce. >> meanwhile, labour said today nhs waiting list targets would be met within five years of a government with them and it's according to a pledge made by sir keir starmer this afternoon. the plan would see an additional 40,000 appointments in england each week, making use of time dunng each week, making use of time during evenings and at weekends. and, he said bringing wait times to within an 18 week target . the to within an 18 week target. the conservatives labelled the move copy and paste politics and pointed instead to their plan to

invest in nhs technology. the owners of royal mail agreed a £55 billion takeover bid by czech billionaire today. the deal will see the continuation of one price goes anywhere first class post six days a week as well as the company's branding will also remain, as will its uk headquarters. but the will also remain, as will its uk headquarters . but the sale will also remain, as will its uk headquarters. but the sale has attracted heavy criticism from senior politicians and unions alike. amid concerns over the future of the royal mail's service to the public, gb news can reveal that environmental activists plan to target the uk's busiest airports over the last two weeks of july. just stop oil plans to target airports this summer, including heathrow and gatwick, at the height of the getaway, in to order cause, they say, maximum disruption. the group's also running a series of online courses aimed at encouraging and informing volunteers on how best to carry out the protests. that's 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. keir mather gert's royals. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at thursday's newspapers. >> i am simon evans. thursday's newspapers. >> i am simon evans . joining me >> i am simon evans. joining me tonight. we have two fine stand up comedians, one vigorously active scott capurro. the other one resting monastic . that's one resting monastic. that's nick dixon in a temporary or perhaps permanent sabbatical. >> what do you think? >> what do you think? >> will you ever come back? i went into semi—retirement because i tried to follow scott one night and i couldn't. >> you were great. it was fine. your set was fine. >> that's true . well, you're >> that's true. well, you're going to have an opportunity next monday. >> of course, if you wanted to burst on. >> no, i don't want to. >> no, i don't want to. >> i need to get back in practice to compete with the mighty simon evans. >> this is so inappropriate. if you're bringing this up with me sitting right here. >> yeah, yeah. no, both of you

could appear round, announce. i'd be quite happy to give you a bit of stage time. >> anyway, let's have a look at the front pages. we kick off with the daily mail, as always. >> revealed the crown's case against lord lucan . could against lord lucan. could justice be about to close in on the old chap? >> telegraph ? >> telegraph? >> telegraph? >> abbott i will not be intimidated by starmer. there she is in a biker jacket. she is in a bikerjacket. express. you've buckled hunts win as labour backed down on tax rises . win as labour backed down on tax rises. financial times europe has tiny fraction of airpower needed to guard nato's eastern flank . the i news have abbott flank. the i news have abbott dares starmer try to stop me. and finally the daily star stirred world war. i'm not sure that's appropriate . they were that's appropriate. they were front pages . front pages. >> so we're going to start unusually with a metro scott cynical election doctor strike. >> and there's a photo of a doctor , what's their name? doctor, what's their name? robert lawrenson. pronouns

because i thought that was someone who might be female, but anyway, that doctor said, he says that they're going to strike from june 20th 2nd to july 2nd in their bid to win a pay july 2nd in their bid to win a pay rise of 35. it's quite a lot, isn't it? >> are they? after a pay rise or do they just hope that a large, you know, proportion of tory voters will die over that week without adequate access to their nhs? >> they said they're going to cancel a lot of points. people are going to miss appointments dunng are going to miss appointments during that week. yeah, again, obviously two days before the general election. but i think they want money and they've struck struck strike definitely want money. they want money a life strikes 11 times over the last stricken. stricken. yes struct. yeah. it's been bad 11 times the last 35% though. >> that is just outrageous. i mean, we were discussing this a year ago when inflation was at its height. you know , and how its height. you know, and how pubuc its height. you know, and how public sector obviously, you know, take advantage of these opportunities in a way that i love a rise. but even by that, we deserve that. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah, i got a mere 34% here. and that's just ridiculous. >> disgusting. >> disgusting. >> plus sandwich vouchers .

>> plus sandwich vouchers. >> plus sandwich vouchers. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i can't remember the last time i had a raise of any kind in any, any access to actually, you know, when i get raises, when i get , it's when i get when i get, it's when i get union acting jobs in the us, right . right. >> and i just was offered one. and that money is standard but it increases with inflation. yeah. >> what do you think though, nick? i mean seriously it is cynical isn't it. it's obviously political. well yeah i think they lost the sort of the public a long time ago with this, but they don't seem to care, do they?i they don't seem to care, do they? i mean, their argument is that they didn't go for 15 years in line with inflation. i understand the argument, but luckily it's all going to be over soon. over 500“. >> over soon. >> simon, because wes streeting has said that they'll solve it by get this negotiation and negotiate. how about that? >> no one thought of that. >> no one thought of that. >> he also wants to privatise some of the nhs, so we might get some of the nhs, so we might get some real doctors. >> is he not also going to tighten up on tax loopholes or something. >> oh, streeting is going to do it all. yeah yeah yeah it's going to be a utopia. >> yeah. let's have a look at the daily mail. let's see if that makes any more sense. yeah. well they've got revealed the crown's case against lord lucan. >> now, part of this is just the mail advertising their new true crime podcast . and it's nice to crime podcast. and it's nice to get that kind of advertising

space on the front page of a national newspaper, which happens to be your own newspaper. yeah, mine's called the current thing new episode with graham linehan, and i have the weekly sceptic. but anyway, while we're advertising podcasts, the point is lord lucan never been found. but he accidentally bludgeoned to death his nanny. i say, certainly because he thought it was his wife. it's an easy mistake to make. yeah, you know, things are dark. >> it's a legal loophole. >> it's a legal loophole. >> yeah, yeah. and so grey area, isn't it, in south africa. >> right. he thought that it was pistorius. >> he thought he was shooting a burglar. >> yeah. yes. tried to . tried to >> yeah. yes. tried to. tried to kill his wife, to be fair, was a strange. so, you know, these things happen, right? and now now they're finally they think they're solving it and they've got this 60 page kind of dossier to use an alastair campbell word differences. of course. >> lord, lord lucan did have it away on his toes, which oscar victorious could not. >> yeah, that's the key difference. that is the key difference. that is the key difference . and the question is difference. and the question is where did he go? there are different theories. i don't know if you're familiar, but one was that he was a guy called jungle barry in goa. he was a hippie. he became a hippie or pretended to be one. was that he was in an old land rover with a pet possum in new zealand. and another was that he was a buddhist in australia, another rumoured that

he was fed to a tiger. i suppose he was fed to a tiger. i suppose he could multiple ones of those could be true, and then cropped up on tiger king on netflix. >> pandemic. i mean, this was the last gasp of the aristocracy and back scratching each other's backs. >> so simpler times. >> so simpler times. >> clermont club with the interestingly left wing comedian mark steel discovered that his biological father was one of this gang. did you know that he did a whole show about it? yeah, right. he was a backgammon player, but yeah, they were all a bunch of. they were. there was the chap who ran the zoos who? several of his keepers were eaten by tigers. it's probably that's the guy you're probably thinking of at. what was his name ? do you remember what he name? do you remember what he had? no. >> no one does. >> no one does. >> and he used to wrestle with his own tigers. they were all a bunch of crazy people . that bunch of crazy people. that sounds. anyway. yeah. >> what happened to her? >> what happened to her? >> though? lucan was a mainstay of the tabloid front pages throughout the 80s, i thought were the wife wind up do we know? >> oh, lady question. >> oh, lady question. >> yeah. lucan has anyone ever thought she's fed to a lion ? thought she's fed to a lion? let's have a look at the telegraph. we've got a proper story here. >> yeah, well, there's miss abbott in her leather biker jacket. ready for action, i think. yeah, but also , she looks

think. yeah, but also, she looks like a black version of, mencius. >> moldbug. curtis. yarvin. that's an extremely obscure reference for middle england. >> simon. i know what you're talking about, but no one else does what you're saying. he's a blogger and a famous blogger. >> sounds awkward in a leather jacket. >> yeah, and in the telegram. >> yeah, and in the telegram. >> that might be pleather, actually. >> oh, well , actually. >> oh, well, in actually. >> oh, well , in the telegraph, >> oh, well, in the telegraph, apparently, gary lineker says that he tweets so he can look himself the mirror at night. okay. yes, he. >> it is the black mirror. that's what they say. >> yes. he puts his feelings on twitter and then he ignores his responses because they can be quite abusive. yeah but he wants people to know how he feels like when he was removed from a particular tv show that he's hosted for years because of some remarks he made. >> match of the day. yes >> match of the day. yes >> and he made some remarks about, suella braverman reminding him of fascist nazis or something. and they fired him. he didn't know he's in the taxi, and he cried. and he wanted people to know about that, but they didn't fire him. he said no, they removed him from that show.

>> they fired him more about. >> they fired him more about. >> he says he's crying more about gaza than he has about any other conflict during his lifetime or the october seventh thing he said that included that he didn't remember. famously, on october the 7th, what was his only tweet was about tottenham making. >> i think he had bad reception that day. i think that's the funny thing. i mean, he's talking about how he tweets and it's so important to him to tweet what happened on october 7th. >> gary, i guess he read the paper from the back that day like, you know, you know, he's using his burner phone. >> he said it was a thing he saw it, but he just didn't think it was important enough to write about. but he does tweet. and then he he kind of he he's interested in social media from his point of view, but no one else's. yeah. i mean, i'll talk about a bit later before you tweet us. >> we'll get on to her later. yeah, yeah. of course. >> listen, i, i actually defend gary lineker's right to, to tweet as he, as he wishes and as he finds about politics politics are emotional. you know we all post rationalise our emotional. yeah. it'sjust post rationalise our emotional. yeah. it's just unfortunate that he has like 14 million followers who have all come through his state funded, presentation of a television. >> and it's a and it's a pity he has all the wrong views. >> yeah. yes he does. he has a

year left on his contract with the bbc. he hopes it extends. he really enjoys it. he said he really enjoys it. he said he really likes them. they're great and he'd like to continue if possible. >> well listen there are other, you know, bbc presenters are available. nick, we have the swinger daily star. >> you know about that, right, daily star goes with third world war. not sure he even allowed to say that, but it's the irish version of third is what we're saying . and, richard deterred saying. and, richard deterred andifs saying. and, richard deterred and it's and it's north korea who is sending what's called dirty balloons with explosive bags of poo to south korea. it seems they're sort of foreign policy here is being dictated by teenage boys or the joker from batman . i'm teenage boys or the joker from batman. i'm not sure teenage boys or the joker from batman . i'm not sure they batman. i'm not sure they explode in your face with with faeces . and, south korea has faeces. and, south korea has frowned upon this. and their joint chiefs of staff are saying that it violated the international law and seriously threatened the safety of the korean people and sternly advised north korea to immediately cease such inhumane and tacky actions . they added and tacky actions. they added the tackiness as well because it's inhumane and dangerous distance themselves from this. they've run out of weapons. >> i think .

>> i think. >> i think. >> yeah, that might be it. >> yeah, that might be it. >> i mean, it's like an ewok style defence, isn't it? it's like a last ditch. this is all we've got, i think. yeah, i remember when, our children were young and obviously nappy changes were a big part of the regime. >> and it occurred to both my wife and i that they, you know, it was a waste to just always throw them in the bin , so you throw them in the bin, so you made them disposable one. >> so instead you kind of fantasise about splatting them on, on neighbours windscreens that annoyed you in does your wife know you call it the regime? >> the regime , the baby regime, >> the regime, the baby regime, not her. i see the routine. >> anyway, that's part one, booted and looted. in part two we have nigel, the pirate reform's latest recruit . reform's latest recruit. starmer's night of the long knives gathers pace. we'll see you in a couple

and welcome back to headliners. so your first look at thursday's newspapers continues with me. simon evans, scott capurro and nick dixon. but before we do that , we are

nick dixon. but before we do that, we are hosting a night with the headliners live. neither nick nor scott appear, but you can join us for an evening of comedy with andrew doyle, leo kirsch, josh howie and me, simon evans. for more information on that, scan the qr code on screen or visit gb news. com it will be a great night. so scott, we kick off unusually with a political story in the sun and nigel's plans for the grand old party of great britain i >> -- >> yes, nick 5mm >> yes, nick was invited to that comedy show, by the way, i was not, but that's probably only because i'm flying off to california the next morning. of course you don't have the time. you do not have. and having my hair done. >> and they said, you're not good at comedy. they said the other thing, comedy. there was an email. >> they said, no one can follow me. that's an insult. that's the problem. yeah. this is a problem. yeah. this is a problem. nigel farage has hinted he could launch a bid to hijack the conservative party in the way that he, thinks trump has done with the republican party since 2016. and he really admires trump for this. and he has said that he doesn't want to run for office here, partially because he'd like to find himself in the us next year with trump in office. so he wants in the meantime, he thinks it's a

joke for him in the white house. he does . wow. and in the he does. wow. and in the meantime, he might have been offered something. and in the meantime , he would like to stay meantime, he would like to stay here and again hijack the conservative party. had he the chance. >> but he said he said something quite, interesting , which i quite, interesting, which i hadnt quite, interesting, which i hadn't really considered, although i don't think it's out of the question. but he said the, the mechanisms are not the same in america. you do have this. >> you give more, you have more choice in america. >> and there's an open primary. >> and there's an open primary. >> yeah, there's a primary. so anyone can run at that point. and he would find himself i think, running. he thinks he would have a lot of backing if he had a chance to run because she said he said and he said this before conservatives don't want him near their election. they don't want near his party, their party and so obviously what's going to happen after the next election? >> we're all waiting to see and we're going to find out a lot soonen we're going to find out a lot sooner. but it is conceivable that the tory party could even be down to double digits. you know, we have no idea. i'm not quite sure why he's not running for his own party reform. >> well, apparently didn't really have time. that was one reason. yeah, yeah. i mean , he's reason. yeah, yeah. i mean, he's not seriously suggesting. he's saying it'd be nice, but but it couldn't work because there's no open primary. that's why getting anything changed in britain is really, really hard. so he's not necessarily at this stage saying

that it's actually a reality. but it is very interesting, as you point out, that this rump of the conservative party, that is the conservative party, that is the only possible way forward. i think most people think reform aren't going to do that much even though they've tried, because the way our system works, the only chance is. but because there's no primaries as farage, it's kind of how do how does the actual conservative side of the party take over? it has to be done by the back door. >> couldn't he make he could make he could, you know, make change. as the leader of the reform party , if he were running reform party, if he were running in terms of the press and the media attention, you would get, you could get a message out there again and again and again, much more often than he does on the silly thing called never mind the ballots, which is, an episode, the reform party president farage made the statement , i president farage made the statement, i think it's the sun. it's their own. >> yeah, but then he's he's stuck being a pressure group forever, then, isn't he? rather than having an actual power that's the point. >> he wouldn't have to be a pressure group anymore. he would be an actual power monger. he would be someone, maybe allowed to debate with these two guys, which just sounds like he would really like to do. >> there's another word for powermonger. there's not quite the word, is it? what are they called? >> a power hungry monster? power? >> yeah. there's a, a liar. i

want to think of that word. fascist leader. yeah, broker. power broker. yeah, there's that, but i mean, i, i think you'd like to do is debate these two. >> although maybe he's afraid of debating them. yeah, maybe. >> well, he may conceivably , >> well, he may conceivably, genuinely have, like, you know, starting to plateau out or even go into decline. >> i felt a little bit when i read the story, and then i looked him up again. i listened to some of his statements recently. i can't help but think he's he's a teensy weensy bit of a coward, because if you really felt powerful and strong about this, he'd put his money there and he'd run . this, he'd put his money there and he'd run. i mean, this, he'd put his money there and he'd run . i mean, hear that, and he'd run. i mean, hear that, nigel, i news now, nick. i always want to call them. okay. the news, but i news they are to no one's great surprise. lucy allen is turning to reform. >> well, yeah. it's not a massive surprise as you say, because she already endorsed the reform candidate. so, lucy allen in talks to stand for reform after being suspended by tories. they weren't keen when she endorsed the reform candidate. that's frowned upon in some parties when you endorse a different party. and so now. but this might be reform getting a bit tactical because she could fight the neighbouring seat of brecon, which i roughly how it's

probably pronounced next to telford . right. yeah. because telford. right. yeah. because she gave up telford but now she's can, can sit in this other seat. so reform could win both . seat. so reform could win both. but if she won in brecon and adam the guy she's, advocated one in telford. so. yeah, it's quite interesting. and ties has said there's more conversations going on so there could be more defections. let's see. i mean, i'm thinking if, if, if farage were the running for that party, i think there would be more defection. >> i think they'd have more power. i think it would build. >> i don't know what the plausibility is that any reform mps get in, but if there are any get in, i would imagine they would have been mps already for the tory party rather than new candidates. right >> lee anderson, i, i think all all i hear voters say from both parties is they want change. and this is this change as you get there's at least there's at least as many tory voters who want who think the tories have been too soft, at least as many . been too soft, at least as many. >> i mean, what will happen with labouris >> i mean, what will happen with labour is that people who can be bothered to vote last time will be bothered to vote this time, and maybe the red wall will come

back. but i think in terms of people who are frustrated and disappointed with the tories, it's not that they've been too right wing , is that can you right wing, is that can you imagine anyone thinking that genuinely? >> i mean , i think the scottish >> i mean, i think the scottish have had it too. with snp, we all have and i think that's going to change drastically as well. yeah, well maybe i mean, still her fingers crossed for a return to monarchy , express now return to monarchy, express now scott, the anti starmer campaign from the left is gathering momentum. >> did the monarchy ever go away? diane abbott tipped to follow corbyn by sending against labourin follow corbyn by sending against labour in a nightmare for starmer. this is in the express, apparently . oh i starmer. this is in the express, apparently. oh i think my mic is not functioning properly. did i break it? >> okay well keep going scott. all right, diane abbott said today that she was dismayed by claims that she had been banned from standing again in hackney, nonh from standing again in hackney, north and stoke newington, she's frustrated by her own party. and again, they took it away. they took away the whip. they gave it back. now they're telling her. apparently they. keir starmer came out in the press today and said, i didn't say anything about her not being able to run. we haven't made that statement, that decision still not been made, which basically is saying that we're on hold about this.

yeah, i think they she, i like her and i think she's i think she's kind of great. but i think that she's also as far as the current labour party is concerned, i think she's a bit too , toxic . too, toxic. >> bad at maths. she's too much of a room splitter. >> i think that they just don't know what might happen. i think there's an unpredictable unpredict ability about her showing up with two left shoes or whatever might happen . but or whatever might happen. but it's also. >> i mean, she does have the taint of the corbyn years more than anyone else, doesn't he? other than corbyn himself. there's the anti—semitism. >> i think they're afraid of that not going away. i think they want that just to leave the room. and she still connected to that? >> yeah. well, for just broadcast balance, she's not great because scott said she was great. so. but yeah, this is just this is starmer's ruthlessness, isn't it? i mean, corbyn, abbott now, today lloyd russell—moyle looks like he might be out . starmer is just might be out. starmer is just getting rid of anyone who's seen as too loony . as too loony. >> left too loony is quite interesting because he apparently there's been an

anonymous, or at least from our point of view, anonymous complaint raised against him. so it's not necessarily come from starmer, but the suspicion is that he's called. >> no, i'm not sure how much to say because it's ongoing, but i'm just saying let me just say that starmer is ruthless. that's all i'm saying. and also the other point highlighted by this piece is that starmer is going to have a very rough time with the left of his party. you know, the left of his party. you know, the idea that he's this sort of just godlike figure at the moment. this will run out very quickly because he's going to have because we know that the tories are an absurdly broad church that's collapsing. but labour are also incredibly similar, sort of very tentative coalition as well . coalition as well. >> summers are socialists. how left can you get really? >> well, starmer may be well, he's a blairite type, but he is as we've discussed on several occasions, he is just desperate to win power for the socialist lawyer. >> he knows it's been a long no no, it's got the division is between the ones that admit their views and the much smarter ones like starmer, who do stealth reforms like tony blair. he doesn't want all these people admitting their views. he's like, no, you don't do that anymore. you do stealth reform on air that he was a socialist. he did? >> yeah. about himself. >> yeah. about himself.

>> he did. >> he did. >> okay, let's put that to one side. what does abbott represent? well as you say, she i mean, her most notorious outburst that she got suspended for was saying that jews and travellers and gypsies don't experience the same kind of racism, that black people, prejudice and racism are different. yeah now, to be fair, i don't think that's the most ludicrous statement , although ludicrous statement, although she phrased it badly. but clearly, if you're black and you walk around , it's impossible for walk around, it's impossible for people not to notice that you're black, whereas it is possible for jewish people to pass ipsis forjewish people to pass ipsis the last 50 years, even to myself. so i know how possible black women are the least represented individuals in in legally in this country. >> yes, absolutely. >> yes, absolutely. >> so i don't think that was necessarily the problem. so i do think that there's something some other problem they have with her, if i'm honest. and also to be honest , the also to be honest, the anti—semitism thing doesn't really stick insofar as they are bending over backwards to cultivate the pro—palestinian corbyn attachment, i think, is at least as anti—semitic as i just don't. >> i think they want to pretend corbyn never happened. >> okay , welcome breath of old >> okay, welcome breath of old air to be breathed into the snp

campaign now in the telegraph. scott. oh sorry. nick. nick. >> nick, nick. yeah. it's me. don't worry. it's. nicola sturgeon to campaign for snp despite ongoing investigation into party finances. and there's this discussion over whether she's an asset or not. and john swinney insisted she is an asset for some people seeing her as not an asset. do you want sturgeon backing you at this point? is it just like, you know, is it the someone you want agreeing with you? you know sometimes on twitter, someone you don't want agreeing with you agrees with you. you're like oh, i'm not sure about that guy. >> that's an onion meme, isn't it? the worst person in the world just. >> yeah, just made a good point. yeah. so her real problem though, as you learn reading this was her failure to dual the a9. and she's apologised for that and she had to do that. she said there was a range of circumstances beyond our control. they didn't, sort out the jul between eight between perth and inverness. and that was the real downfall. it turns out i didn't realise i no, i didn't realise till reading this that was what did for her. but yeah.is that was what did for her. but yeah. is she an asset on the campaign? i don't know, i mean the whole party is falling apart. it can't do much worse. >> but there is a, there is a tradition, isn't there, in the snp that when a leader resigns or has to leave in jail, they are not only out of power, they

are not only out of power, they are absolute poison to any future campaign. put them in a cell. i mean, to some extent, of course, clinton was like that after his sex scandal in the 88 that he couldn't really get behind his candidate. and do you remember that? >> yes. yeah. and he wanted an independent scotland as well. >> that was broken, wasn't it, in 2000. it was. yeah. yeah 2000 when, he couldn't really get behind al gore and they said they could have made the difference if clinton hadn't left under a cloud because it came down to 48 votes in florida or something. but anyway, this is beside the point. is sturgeon poison or is she held in some esteem as a great player who finally had. >> well, you know that if you saw the picture in the paper in daily mail, they showed a photo of john sweeney with with dark clouds brewing behind him . yeah, clouds brewing behind him. yeah, it looked so ominous and it felt as though wicker man. yeah, some people the dark clouds are laboun >>i laboun >> i think. >> i think. >> i think some of the scottish might miss her because she seems like from a simpler time, when they were more sure about what was happening, always happens. >> yeah. meanwhile scott also in the telegraph, that brief full flush of full spectrum uk representation looks likely to get another knock in wales.

>> yeah, i read the story and i had to read it about four times. i still can't make much sense of it, but apparently this a welsh candidate, this, conservative leader in wales , has mr gething leader in wales, has mr gething has made a few mistakes. he's been a politician in and he's facing a motion of no confidence after just 70 days in office. he's been a bit, careless in his a lack of shrewd strategy. and he's been accused of leaking messages to the media, he's been accused of other things. >> and so he accused hannah blythyn of leaking messages to media. but the thing he's in trouble for is, is the campaign donation being not completely by the allegedly accepting a something, something to do with a campaign donation that wasn't completely by the book. that's why he's in trouble for. >> yeah, a fairly minor , administrative. >> they were covid inquiry messages that were leaked by this woman. >> and he was briefly. >> and he was briefly. >> he was sort of totemic, i suppose , wasn't he? suppose, wasn't he? >> so he accepted a donation from a man convicted of environmental offences when contesting the leadership. so it's kind of a fairly mild. but he could be out incredibly

quickly. yeah. you know, and all these sort of unelected leaders could sort of be out, you know, humza yousaf's gone sunak could be gone. >> i can't remember the, the chap's name, but the, lawyer nazir, who had made his name dunng nazir, who had made his name during the grooming gangs as a lawyer. but anyway, he was sort of celebrating. i remember this was discussed. did you not discuss it? was it leo, that he was. he was like, what would be the word? sort of triumphal , the word? sort of triumphal, serenading of the arrival of ethnic minorities in every post humza yousaf in scotland. we had a first minister of colour. i think he's he's, he's half african. i can't remember senegal.i african. i can't remember senegal. i can't remember where he comes from. and there was just there was the kind of all the, all the, all the aces lined up basically on the fruit machine of, of representation briefly. and now it's all going again. it's all, you know, short lived. anyway, we're at the halfway point coming up. why i and my ilk are to blame for everything. and the latest searing insights from the hay on wye literary festival. we'll see

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welcome back to headliners so, nick, we're into the second half. over to the guardian now, where it turns out their least favourite demographic is responsible for 99% of global warming, namely, jeremy clarkson i >>i -- >> i was going to say, clarkson. you've beaten me to it. this is pure clarkson. >> yeah, clearly who they mean. >> yeah, clearly who they mean. >> and it's the yeah it's wealthy white men. uk's biggest transport polluters study finds. so it's brilliant for the guardian . yet another reason to guardian. yet another reason to hate white men. they must have a whole department on this. but can you find anything else on white men? >> wealthy white men is a specific kind of them. right. >> the clarkson oh, it's oh, it's the rule. yeah, of course it's the rule. yeah, of course it's their cars. how dare they. they emit so much. it's the richest o.1% they emit so much. it's the richest 0.1% in britain. emit 22 times more than than more than from transport. than low earners. sorry, i messed that up.and earners. sorry, i messed that up. and 12 times more than average. so this is people who earn more than 100,000 travelling and they're travelling and they're travelling on like double the distance each year compared to those who are on under 30 k. now, i've not left the country since 2017. make of that what you will. yeah, but i'm not. i'm

not admitting anything but but but some. but they use a lift. no no no nothing and but the clarkson's of this world are just emitting so much. >> but i think it's good because women go for it. he's the sexiest guy in the uk. true. yeah >> he's a they like high emissions. >> yeah, they like it. it's the maybe you should emit some more things. >> yeah i need to emit more. >> yeah i need to emit more. >> find some people to be like ever so slightly serious. >> what they're basically they are they are trying to divorce two things which are actually closely correlated , which is closely correlated, which is economic activity and burning carbon. right. yeah. saying they're acting as if these wealthy people are just driving around for the fun of it. right. some of them are on 100,000 a year because. >> cause they providing value. >> cause they providing value. >> yeah, yeah . >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> they've got to go to do deals. >> they might be using farm equipment for all we know. they're growing stuff. you know, they're asking you to picture somebody in a range rover and i'm quite happy with that. >> range rovers are thirsty. but if you're doing like 50,000 miles a year in a range rover, yeah, you might just be going a rugby matches and point to point. but you might quite equally be visiting various factories. >> you might be running a farm

delivering organic. yeah. >> yeah. there's that too right. >> yeah. there's that too right. >> yeah. there's that too right. >> yeah . they want you as we >> yeah. they want you as we know, simon. they want you in a mud hut eating the bugs and poor and never leaving the country. >> long house. yeah yeah. now we're really going deep into the right wing memes tonight. hey, on. why, oh why again? now scott, extraordinary scenes in the guardian. as a pulitzer prize winning author of indian extraction, now living in italy, questions the nationalist agenda of donald trump. who would have thought , well, of donald trump. who would have thought, well, in the guardian, this person at the hay festival , this person at the hay festival, promoting their work. >> jhumpa lahiri, she, said , >> jhumpa lahiri, she, said, oompah, stick it up. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> okay. there's that , she said >> okay. there's that, she said that. what's that question all about? she said, you know, where are you from? that question comes up a lot for her, and she writes in english and italian. she is i think i told her this earlier, but i think she's from the us but grew up, grew up in italy, now lives in rome . she italy, now lives in rome. she was. no, sorry. she's born in london, moved to the us and then

lives in rome. so she speaks two different lengths. >> and she's ethnically indian, of course, which is what people mean when they ask her that question. >> and obviously she's very well versed, very well educated. she meets a lot of people different, media, you know, things happen around her. yeah, she book tours and all that stuff. and people ask her, where are you from? and she finds that sort of origin question to be. it's highly she's i think she says, what's the point , really? what does it the point, really? what does it teach you to know my story, which is complicated and i don't think you really care. and when i do tell you what do you know more about me? >> well, maybe. but i will say this. i looked her up here just because i hadn't heard of her before. she's written a number of books. she's done well. pulitzer prize winning her most well reviewed and, much reviewed book on amazon, about 10,000 reviews, very nearly five stars is specifically about a boy who is specifically about a boy who is of indian heritage. growing up in america and doesn't quite you know, he's trying to work it. so it's clearly a question she is interested in, which i think is legitimate. but when i what angers me is that a certain kind of left leaning progressive person sort of tries to cast doubt on the legitimacy of this

discussion when it is had by anyone who doesn't share their political views, they like discussing it. and then as soon as anybody kind of goes, well, i'm from america and i've been here for three generations, she sees that as something that's toxic. >> she also said, what is this question? what? how do we make america great again? she said, it's as if you're saying america was great at one time, and it's not now. and i think she's in a way saying it's because , she way saying it's because, she might feel a bit like it's because of the diversity of the nafion because of the diversity of the nation makes it seem different to someone who's been here, like you said, for three generations, it's no longer the america they knew when they were younger, but also, i think that she is trying to distance herself from her work in a way that artists writers do. she's saying, my work is not me. writers do. she's saying, my work is not me . i created this, work is not me. i created this, but you're asking me this question because you want to know more about the story. what you should just do is just read the book. >> well, then she shouldn't go to a literary festival. >> yeah, it's what you say. it's people like identity until the right wants to do it. or until white people want to do it. the problem is, the left's been obsessed with identity for years, pushing on everyone. and then there's inevitably a backlash when other people go, oh, maybe we have an identity. it's like, no, no, not you.

that's what she's concerned about. she mentions trump, etc. she says there's no non—negotiable right to belong to a place . i think there is to a place. i think there is a right. i think if you're from a place, it does mean something and there's nothing wrong with that. and anyone can take some sort of pride in where they're from, it's completely normal thing to do. >> i was surprised that she said this, because i think her story of origin is quite interesting, actually. yeah. it's unique. yeah. and i, and i suspect most people who ask her about it are genuinely interested. >> and, you know, it's a talking point conversationally, isn't it? >> it's kind of where you start after you discuss the weather. >> i read something interesting, though i can't remember what it was. it was a tweet. but anyway, somebody was saying, that, we talk about cities and countries and, and, you know, where are you from, really? and a lot of people feel that regardless of what their colour is or whatever. but this guy was talking about really investing in a city when you when you decide to move there and really making out. not like you're kind of, i might live here for ten years and then move on. but really kind of leaning into that, getting involved in civic pride, like picking up litter or, you know, painting out graffiti or whatever. and i had to be honest and think actually, you know what? i've lived in brighton now for nearly 20

years, and we haven't done that very much. i have treated it very much. i have treated it very much. i have treated it very much as, okay, this is somewhere i'm going to live in for a while and then moving on. >> well, you're your neighbours are quite annoying though. i, i'm just as a guest i think played there, but that is a question actually that can really set an audience off a little bit if you ask someone in the front row, so where are you from? and people in london, especially can be quite defensive about it. >> yeah, it's true, london does feel like it's itinerary. nick the metro now, is it wrong that whenever i see stories like this, i fear for my daughter and at the same time, career, career options, possibly for my son? >> well, it's online sextortion guides teaching gangs to blackmail teens by posing as women. and bizarrely, there a lot of them seem to be nigerian. i don't know why that is. it's a cliche and a joke, but actually two of the people mentioned in the article were and it's a very disturbing trend. a young man actually, you know, took his own life based on this . it's utterly life based on this. it's utterly horrific. i know a young lad who was tricked by this as well, who was tricked by this as well, who was helping me with my podcast. it's quite because they say they've got pictures on you or they've got pictures on you or they create fake pictures and then they, they, some of them can get in and send pictures to

all your contacts. things like this go on. so very disturbing. >> women who request nudes from young men, is that right? i think young men, women , they or think young men, women, they or they pretend to be. >> that's one. that's one. it happens to women . happens to women. >> one friend of mine, this happened to her. and there's a comedian that has a great bit about it where he says this happened to him, and they said, we're going to release these photos of you, you know, showing all your sexual behaviour. and he's like, go for it. i'd like you know, release it all. the funny bit about it is i want more attention, actually. but of course most people's lives, they see them as being destroyed. no, of course. and actually when you're saying intimate photo to someone, you're hoping that that intimate relationship grows just between the two of you, not between the two of you, not between you and everyone you know? >> there was a, a lawyer friend of mine who told me he was involved in a case where if you go onto one of the major, sort of like pornhub or whatever, an interface where you see pornography, that's all kind of just what it is. but there are links that advertise where, where you want to go a bit deepen where you want to go a bit deeper, apparently, and a lot of these apparently are able to catch capture images of you and then blackmail you . this, i then blackmail you. this, i mean, it seems so obvious. it's

a big site, but it's a massive business. >> it's good that you said apparently several times there. that was that was good. >> i don't want to go deeper. i get , but a lot of people >> i don't want to go deeper. i get, but a lot of people barely make it through the ends. >> a lot of a lot of them. >>— >> a lot of a lot of them. >> a lot of a lot of them. >> a lot of young people spend a lot of time online and they're lonely and they think they found their soulmate. >> yeah, well, let's hope that maybe we've saved a couple of potential victims. scott, the times now the walls are closing in, not on donald trump, but on gender affirming care. by the sound of it, yes. >> the department of health published emergency emergency legislation preventing prescription of puberty blockers from private clinics. this is in the times they focused on the clinic, that was mentioned in, doctor hilary cass's cast report run by doctor helen webberley. it's a it's an online clinic called gender gp, and this doctor assigned as a, quote unquote, dangerously high levels of , hormones unquote, dangerously high levels of, hormones to kids were going through issues and she said, you

know, puberty blockers, she said in the statement, can be used for all sorts of things precocious puberty, the wrong puberty , infertility, cancer. puberty, infertility, cancer. and they're used for all sorts of reasons. and they're they're a medical miracle. she makes it sound like. and they can also help kids with their, you know, their their gender. >> so you're still pro. is that what i'm no i'm not because she uses ai what i'm no i'm not because she uses al to talk to these kids. >> yeah. and i think that's a real problem. i think it's mentioned in this report. and i think when you're dealing with kids, especially in a situation that's so, so, so particular to them, i think ai is probably not a great especially because they're online already. so there's already a wall between there's already a wall between the two of you. >> what do you think, nick? it feels like the pendulum is swinging a bit on this. >> yeah, i mean, it's a great thing that they've closed this loophole to , you know, allow loophole to, you know, allow people to still give out puberty blockers. it'sjust people to still give out puberty blockers. it's just amazing how quickly it's gone from you were cancelled if you were against it to now they're actually banning it. although of course i welcome the change. >> yeah. under 16 actually. >> yeah. under 16 actually. >> so more health news in the effort nick. less controversial perhaps. unless of course, one feels that blindness is a punishment from god. yeah. >> this is merck signs 3 billion

deal for kate bingham backed ideas. biotech so kate bingham known for the vaccine rollout of course and now she's working on this this she's merck have agreed to buy ibio which is a start up backed by kate bingham anyway. and they work on age related macular degeneration and diabetic macular oedema. so it's going to be great results for people with these eye conditions. >> i think it's quite interesting that , i mean, i interesting that, i mean, i supported this story, that it is, a huge business in this country, and it's one of those ones which i think we could arguably kind of trump it a little bit more that biotech and, and pharmaceutical is massive business worldwide. obviously especially if you can tap into things that people get once they're diabetic because that's not going away any time soon. it's extraordinary how much i don't know. it's i find it intriguing just because it kind of clashes with the high street vision of britain as somewhere that's shabby and half of everything seems shut down or vandalised or lying in ruins. but in fact, clearly some businesses are going places behind the scenes, i would love a little bit of us biotech and

pharmaceutical wealth, wouldn't you? >> it's open for investment. go for it. >> yeah, yeah, i you know, i have a plan to pave over everything from cambridge to norwich down to ipswich and back across again, the silicon fen. you know, i think this should be the big area for investment. instead of levelling up into the nonh instead of levelling up into the north east, you can get there in an hour on the train to cambridge . cambridge. >> you've got a plan obviously. >> you've got a plan obviously. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> well you always hear these things. we heard that, you know, the old street is going to be the old street is going to be the silicon valley. and then it's singapore on term's. none of it ever quite seems to happen. although we do do this stuff as you say. we don't emphasise it though. >> no it's true. we need more positivity. there you go, rishi. that's one for you. this is, our final section coming up. we have all the news that's barely fit to print. why? marriage is better than chemo. why i'd kill for a good night's sleep. i'll

and welcome back to the final section of headliners. we have scott capurro , nick dixon to

scott capurro, nick dixon to take us through to midnight. the daily mail have an unexpected health benefit of marriage to offset the long term weight gain and erectile dysfunction, it's more likely to save you from cancer than chemo. amazing marriage. i know, and i've heard this before. i'd read something about this before where married people tend to be a bit healthier because they eat better, they take better care of themselves, they sleep more regular hours. they eat at a regular hours. they eat at a regular time . they are more regular time. they are more likely to attend their doctor's appointments and keep scheduled appointments and keep scheduled appointments and keep scheduled appointments and to maintain family relationships. and also , family relationships. and also, there's this thing about depression, loneliness, which makes people die younger. >> but i have two questions about this. firstly does this mean that if you get cancer and you're married , you've got you're married, you've got a better chance, along with chemo of surviving it? or does it literally mean that if you've got one person who's got cancer and they take chemo and the other person's got cancer and they just remain married, that is not going to actually cure them, is it? is it fine. >> they found that married, patients are up to 33% less likely to die of cancer than

unmarried patients in this study. >> so here's what i think is the correlation . partly being correlation. partly being married, yes is good, but also the kind of person that gets married is the kind of person thatis married is the kind of person that is already like a little bit less risk averse. they're already those kind of people who are probably not hanging around in bars, drinking and smoking at 2 am. in their 50s. right? >> right. i can't decide if this is a compliment or insult to me. that's all i've been thinking about near you. that's all i've been thinking. i refused to read the piece because it's two things. it's my it's my health anxiety, and it's an attack on single people. so i refused to read it on both those. but it's basically saying i'm going to die of the things i'm most terrified of. so i refuse to. yeah they did. yeah. it's all about me. i know, i know, no, the producers put these stories in to hurt me. did you not? no. >> i understand that you are the hunter s thompson of gb news, essentially, you know, but i think that it just encourages people to get married and which i think is nice to read because there's so much discouragement. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah, that's that's true. more people should be absolutely ushered into the. yeah. encouraged more health news now nick, in the daily mail. this, i have to say makes so much sense to me. yeah >> this is insomniacs eight

times more likely to commit murder. of course it makes sense to you because you're an insomniac who's killed many times. yeah. say experts who claim disrupted sleep makes us prone to lashing out. and of course, it does. anyone who has not slept for a few nights, you go absolutely mental now. it says people were eight times more likely to commit homicide at 2 am. slight issue . there at 2 am. slight issue. there might be that you're on the street at 2 am. with weapons. if you're that kind of person, you might be a bit homicidal anyway. >> woken you up, i suppose. again. right. >> and you're very angry and you've got like, whatever you keep by your bed. yeah, but yes, i mean, and the risk of suicide also rose fivefold at 3 am. so, you know, people it disrupts people's decision making function and so on. stress anxiety, all the things that i have basically i mean, i'm an insomniac with all these symptoms. it does keep coming for me is at least two things that i for me is at least two things thati can for me is at least two things that i can think of one, loss of sleep, like 2 or 3 nights in a row definitely lowers your iq. >> it's been proven to at least like ten points. >> you can take the hit, but not all of us can. >> so that is the that is that is part of the skill set that you need in order to weigh up the consequences of your actions. right? so a lot of people would kill if they

thought they could get away with it. but it's the part of the brain that kind of goes, if you kill, what are you going to do with the body? and before you know it, you know they'll be. >> i think also because you lie in bed sometimes and you start to obsess about certain things, and you think the only solution is to end this person's life. >> yeah, i, i can think of probably take that to air. >> i think this has been known for at least edgar allan poe. right. the father of horror writing half of his of his first person accounts of murderers, the first thing you notice is they're not sleeping well. right. that's the very first thing that happens. then they start to hear the telltale heart, you know? >> and then they blame birds like ravens . like ravens. >> just the voices get louder and louder, don't they? they get louder. >> nevermore . that's what he >> nevermore. that's what he meant. no more nevermore. scott, as someone who has at least half as someone who has at least half a dozen online personalities, and that's before we get to the non—verbal furry ones. i not you find this immensely troubling. >> well, apparently half of gen z are living a double life with a totally different persona online. it reminded me, you know, whenever you're doing a stand up comedy, oftentimes people meet you after a show. they say, is that you on stage? and we all have probably said,

no, that's not me. yeah, yeah. what you saw is like his family or whatever it is. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so i'm not. but of course it is us. yeah. it's the it's more us actually crisis up to 11. >> it's. you exaggerated a bit. >> it's. you exaggerated a bit. >> it's. you exaggerated a bit. >> it's more of who you are really. i think you crank it down to get along with people. >> so you do. yeah. yeah but a new study has found that 75% of gen z are disconnected with their real selves. >> and the research was commissioned by lenovo as part of a work, for humankind project entitled the little red nipple in the middle of the keyboard instead of, i guess you could call it nipple. yes, i guess, andifs call it nipple. yes, i guess, and it's called meet your digital self. they're introducing people to who they actually are, and they found that people who feel comfortable with who they are online, they they feel they won't be judged via the internet. while there are a certain percentage of people who feel like they are being judged by people they're in contact with, and so they kind of make something up about themselves, or they say things about themselves that are just really not true. >> i mean, i think we've discussed this before, but i think a lot of the strangeness of the last few years, in particular, trans actually is something that could only have happenedin something that could only have happened in a world which does have this digital dimension ,

have this digital dimension, where it is so easy to pretend to be something you're not. yeah, manipulate images, especially if you're a weird zoomer. >> and by the way, well done to scott for assimilating and saying z instead of z. i appreciate it, but, but of course i'm millennial, but these zoomers are weird. they're afraid of, ordering on a menu. they can't tie their shoelaces, and they live a completely false life online. >> the thing is, i think what's strange about this, to be able to lie a lot before the internet because people couldn't research you, now they can find it. that's the thing. now they can find anything out about you. >> different kinds of lives, different kinds of lives. but everyone i think the young people, they instinctively understand the show reel thing. you know, you have your show, really have your blooper reel, which is just for the friends on your first date. >> you do your ten best. you're your top ten best stories, and then half of them are made up. >> and yet, the obvious thing is that we all know is that our friends only really love us for our flaws. yeah, hopefully they'll find that out in due coui'se. >> course. >> if you told your friends what you really thought about them, you really thought about them, you wouldn't have friends. >> but show is nearly over. let's take another quick look at thursday's front pages. the daily mail have revealed the crown's case against lord lucan. the walls are closing in on lord lucan telegraph abbott i will

not be intimidated by starmer express. you've buckled hunts win as labour backed down on tax rise . financial times europe has rise. financial times europe has a tiny fraction of the air power needed to guard nato's eastern flank the i news. abbott dares starmer you just try and stop me. the daily star finally with third world war. those were your front pages. that's all we have time for. thank you to my guests, scott capurro and nick. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar . the sponsors of weather solar. the sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello. good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's going to be another showery day tomorrow. the showers will be much more focused across eastern areas and it should stay a bit drier across the west. that's as high pressure is slowly building in from the west. but in the east low pressure is still in charge and that will continue to bring some pretty heavy outbreaks of rain to parts of southern

scotland, northeastern england. through this evening. that's where there's a weather warning in force until the early hours of thursday. heavy rain will push into parts of wales , push into parts of wales, possibly the south—west of england as well. by tomorrow morning. so risks of outbreaks of heavy rain by tomorrow morning. a fairly mild night, though temperatures only dipping down as low as 11 or 12 degrees for many towns and cities. so a mild start to the day, but it will be quite a cloudy day and there will be some heavy rain around across the north—east of scotland. actually, it will turn much drier than it has been today through tomorrow morning. some brightness across parts of the central belt as well, but elsewhere further south across northern ireland, northern england as well. cloudy, with a risk of some showery outbreaks of rain. it's particularly this band across central england into parts of wales where it could be quite a wet start to the day. there's also a risk of some heavy showers breaking out across the south coast. first thing some areas will stay dry and i think across the west it will get drier through the day as the rain becomes more focused across central and southeastern

areas of england. low pressure still not too far away from the east coast, and that will be dragging in more in the way of cloud and onshore breeze as well. so that will bring a cooler feel tomorrow for many of us. but still in the sunshine, temperatures climbing up to the high teens, that's not too bad at all. it will still feel fairly pleasant. there'll be more in the way of sunshine to start the day on friday, particularly across western areas in the east. it's still going to be a fairly cloudy day, with some outbreaks of rain that could turn heavy as we head into the afternoon, but signs of things improving for the weekend. much more in the way of sunshine to come and temperatures climbing towards the low 20s. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

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christys tonight. >> decision has been taken to bar diane abbott. >> labour in chaos over diane abbott. >> do you feel comfortable about what's happened here with diane abbott? >> no. not particularly. i think this has gone on for a very long time. but should she be allowed to stand for labour? >> and one of my teachers actually suggested to me that i look at apprenticeships. so i appued look at apprenticeships. so i applied for a number of apprenticeships. but the one i. >> the tories will scrap mickey mouse degrees. the lib dems ed davey's running a wheelie . weird campaign. >> i'm not asking for anything other than i've done them some huge favours over the years as a party. give me something back. we might have a conversation. >> is nigel farage about to do a deal with the tories? >> people were chanting death to america. >> some people were not everyone, but some people were. >> find out what a prominent member of the muslim faith had

to say about that. and can you spot what's wrong with this? >> i've been a centrist conservative all my life , but i conservative all my life, but i think the party's really changed, and i think the last 14 years has done a real damage to the country . the country. >> on my panel is the director of the popular conservatives , of the popular conservatives, mark littlewood, activist and landlord adam brooks, and author and journalist rebecca reid. oh, and journalist rebecca reid. oh, and what do you think is in these balloons? i will reveal all very , very shortly. get all very, very shortly. get ready britain. here we go . ready britain. here we go. young people don't know what's about to hit them . next. about to hit them. next. >> and the news. at just after 9:00, labour veteran diane abbott has vowed to be the mp for hackney north and stoke

newington tonight. she said for as long as possible she was telling a rally of local supporters in london tonight that she will always stand with them. earlier sir keir starmer said labour had not taken any decision to bar diane abbott from standing as an mp. meanwhile jeremy corbyn launched his campaign to be re—elected as the independent mp for islington nonh the independent mp for islington north tonight. the launch has been hosted at a community centre , which was officially centre, which was officially opened by the politician in 2018 as part of a social housing project. he's vowed to be an independent voice for equality , independent voice for equality, democracy and peace . well, the democracy and peace. well, the prime minister's been hitting out to hit plans by junior doctors to stage another round of strikes next month. members of strikes next month. members of the british medical association will walk out for five days starting from the 27th of june. speaker this afternoon, rishi sunak said it was politically motivated action and not in the interests of patients or staff . or staff. >> today's action by the junior

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