were forecasting the drop. were forecasting the drop. were forecasting the drop rather, which is down from 2.3% in april. the prime minister, rishi sunak, said today the news was proof the government's difficult decisions are paying off. laboun decisions are paying off. labour, though, warned the cost of living crisis isn't over and they said prices are still going up . a police constable working up. a police constable working as part of the prime minister's close protection team in downing street, has been arrested over alleged bets made related to the timing of the general election. the metropolitan police said the officer was taken into custody on suspicion of misconduct in a pubuc on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, and has since been bailed pending further enquiries . a spokesperson for enquiries. a spokesperson for the gambling commission said tonight there investigating the possibility of offences concerning the date of the uk election . a former fujitsu boss election. a former fujitsu boss has denied any responsibility for the horizon scandal because he said he was never made aware of any problems with the software . richard christwho told

software. richard christwho told the inquiry he felt aggrieved after initially believing the honzon after initially believing the horizon it system had been one of the company's major successes. he was chief executive of the company between 2000 and 2004, and says he always regarded the post office as a satisfied customer. more than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted by the post office and handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015. after fujitsu's faulty system made it look like money was missing from their branches . and the labour their branches. and the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has called just stop oil activists outrageous and said they should face the full force of the law after they vandalised the ancient site of stonehenge in wiltshire . a video posted online wiltshire. a video posted online shows two campaigners, both now arrested, running towards the 5000 year old monument, spraying orange powder paint over it as members of the public ran forward to try to stop them .

forward to try to stop them. rishi sunak called it a disgraceful act of vandalism . disgraceful act of vandalism. the desecration of the ancient stones comes ahead of the arrival of thousands of visitors for the summer solstice tomorrow. that's the news for the latest stories , do sign up the latest stories, do sign up to gb news alerts. scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts. time now for headliners . for headliners. >> hello and welcome to headliners. your first look at thursday's newspapers. >> i'm josh howie and tonight i'm joined by two comedians, the big gamma and paul cox and the people's dog, nick dixon. it's cox and dixon together. the six and cox. >> you're missing. you miss one open goal there. >> i just i just love the idea that i'm the big gammon and he's the people's dog. the people's dog. >> yeah, i'm proud of that. everyone loves dogs.

>> that's a lot of meat. >> that's a lot of meat. >> and i love the people. >> and i love the people. >> yeah, you can do. that's what people say about you. i love the people. >> my people. person. >> my people. person. >> what do you do when you're recognised .7 recognised? >> many people love me. what do you do when you're recognising the street? i just say thank you very much. and then i duck, because they throw an egg at me. >> no, that's not true at all. i'm not saying it's all vegetables. all right, let's have a quick look at the front pages. the daily mail is nothing sacred to the eco clowns . the sacred to the eco clowns. the telegraph, tory wipe—out, the times tories set to suffer worst poll defeat for 100 years. the guardian receives pledges to close gender pay gap once and for all. if labour wins i news tories despair as poll signals worse defeat in 200 years. and finally , the daily star finally, the daily star desperately seeking and those we are front pages . right, paul, we are front pages. right, paul, we are front pages. right, paul, we are going to begin with thursday's daily telegraph. this is obviously the big poll or

it's today's poll and there'll be another poll tomorrow saying something very similar. tory wipe—out wipe—out exclusive . oh wipe—out wipe—out exclusive. oh yeah, exclusive telegraph poll gives party just 53 mps and the pm and the chancellor are looking like they might lose their seats as well. now, with every day, as you've already said, we get a new poll and the seat total for the tories gets less and less and less. i mean, 53, that's less than the lib dems were predicted just just on this poll. they're by 50. but i don't know whether to feel sorry. well, nick, i do feel sorry. well, nick, i do feel sorry more for them because this will be the first time the prime minister losing a seat or because they're so close to the lib dems. i mean, which is the lowest point you could go ? lowest point you could go? >> i don't really feel sorry for them at all. i mean, i want to i want zero seats. i'm part of that brigade. >> i mean, you're so conservative, you want them to be utterly humiliated, utterly destroyed. >> yeah. i feel sympathy is on an individual level for rishi when he's really getting dragged about everything. like d—day. a little bit because i'm, you know, i'm not a monster. but

yeah, i do want, i do of course, know some some of them listen to my podcast. so i want those ones to keep those ones keep on and keep listening. >> yes. otherwise we won't be able to afford the internet anymore. >> there are a few toys. listen to the podcast so those ones should keep their seats. but everyone else can go. and yeah, it's incredible. i mean, in this poll they're talking about not only sunak and hunt losing their seats, but cleverly suella braverman penny mordaunt mogg. jenrick estimated priti patel, tobias ellwood, gillian keegan so it's just like it's everyone. i mean it's like a scene in goodfellas where de niro just whacks everyone. >> i think the daily telegraph is a superb newspaper and they're pretty even. i do wonder, however , that when these wonder, however, that when these polls get this disastrous, that it might be a way of nudging the tory voters and saying, look, this is a possibility , maybe you this is a possibility, maybe you should change your mind. i don't believe, actually. and i know you're, voting labour because it a tie . no, you don't know. i a tie. no, you don't know. i don't know that. i don't know that at all. i don't know that at all. and that's a fair point, josh said seriously, which made me feel bad. but i don't think they're all going to labour. i just don't . i just don't see just don't. i just don't see every other vote going to laboun every other vote going to labour. you're in a bubble, mate

i >> -- >> i, -- >>i,i >> i, i think hm >> i, i think i've, i tell you, what i spoke to was talking about bubbles. my barber today said he's voting reform. there's a secret reform vote coming. >> and this is north london, yeah. that was like in a different part of london. we won't go into it. it's london. i have to hide now because of all the people that throw eggs at me. but matt goodwin did a poll with people polling 1228 people, 35% labour, 24, reform, 15% conservative. so that's huge. if true , if that's still a phrase. true, if that's still a phrase. >> well, there was another poll that said that the reform party would get ten seats that , that would get ten seats that, that farage would win by, by quite a large percentage. but then this particular poll, which is a larger poll, it's 18,000 people, says that the reform are going to get no seats. so i think it's really it's all to play for. yeah and there's also a piece it is all to play. >> there's this extra piece at the bottom that says kemi is the future of the party, simply because no one else survives, only her and tugendhat in this poll are predicted to survive. >> are you? i'm a kemi fan, i like i've never voted tory, but

i've. but i think tammy, kemi. tammy. that's putting them together. tom and kemi. yeah, get them married. but i think she . i think everything i've she. i think everything i've seen of her, she seems to be a very good communicator and she talks common sense. she's also a politician , and in this role you politician, and in this role you do get to hear about politicians and their behaviour , when and their behaviour, when they're not in the house. and she is a she seems to be a politician that people talk highly about. okay. on both sides. really? where do you hear that? you know, around the bazaars on the down low. right. what's, what's the daily mail going with nick? they've got. >> is nothing sacred? oh, my god, to the eco clowns . and of god, to the eco clowns. and of course, this is just stop oil spraying stonehenge henge with orange paint. i mean, if you could pick a more beloved monument, what are they going to spray next? poppies. you know, everyone loves stonehenge. it's just, you know, it's just one of these great monuments. just so . these great monuments. just so. it's so english. it's just part of our heritage and history. and so it's the most unpopular thing they could possibly do. what did i say? you said england. oh, i always say that when i mean, i'm sorry, british. i meant, just don't want to get ofcom. the point is it was it's this weird

mixture of people with just stop oil as well. it's always like posh students with old people with nothing better to do. and that's what it says. again, it's an oxford student with a 73 year old from birmingham, so it's a weird combo. and what they've managed to do is alienate even the lefty dweebs who like this kind of thing. i keep seeing all these posts. guys are normally support just stop oil, but i think this is going a bit faster. they've lost even those idiots who speak like that. yeah, no, but i mean those those straw men have been destroyed. >> but i mean, stonehenge is part of our not just the british cultural heritage, the world cultural heritage, the world cultural heritage. >> yes, it's easily the biggest monument. depher. there's a lot of talk about lynching . lynch. of talk about lynching. lynch. am i saying that right? lichen probably. that's on the. that's on the stone. >> it's endangered. >> it's endangered. >> yes. endangered. like scientists come from all over the world to study it. so they sort of go , but then you see all sort of go, but then you see all these people kind of going, oh, it's just orange dust. and it's that's not the point, is it? no, it's not this is you know, i am as the people's cameron, quite outraged about this. genuinely. it made my gut turn when i, when l, it made my gut turn when i, when i, when i saw it, the idea you

had to clean it. i, when i saw it, the idea you had to clean it . yeah. yeah, i had to clean it. yeah. yeah, i was out there. it's your colour watching it. yeah. orange is my colour. or stonehenge . my colour. or stonehenge. my colour, i don't know. but what i do know is that this is outraged me. it'sjust. how far do know is that this is outraged me. it's just. how far would me. it'sjust. how far would i go? it's a serious question. you seem outraged. i am. this is some would say . seem outraged. i am. this is some would say. i don't think i've ever seen you more livid. this is. this is livid. furious this is. this is livid. furious this is. this is livid. furious this is livid. is your emotional state ever change? no. my emotional state is kind of loud and overexcited. >> it's loud. an emotional state. that's the nearest you, paul state. that's the nearest you, paul, in therapy. like, how are you feeling, paul? loud. i'm feeling like when stonehenge was assaulted with that orange paint i >> -- >> let's go back to the point, because the lunatics have overtaken the asylum. josh have they? they have. well, i don't think they have necessarily taken over the asylum. they seem to be throwing paint on the asylum . i mean, they haven't asylum. i mean, they haven't they're not. they haven't got free. interestingly, stonehenge , free. interestingly, stonehenge, the, the people who run it are like they're going for it. they're like , we're going to get they're like, we're going to get you, we're going to put you in jail. they tweeted out. they didn't say that. but they they're taking this very, very

seriously and rightly so . seriously and rightly so. >> i wouldn't mess with ancient sites that where druids have been. sites that where druids have been . do you know what i mean? been. do you know what i mean? if you just don't want to get don't mess with people who can don't mess with people who can do voodoo. ancient druid sites, nafive do voodoo. ancient druid sites, native american burial grounds, you know what i mean? these are just some basic. >> well, you've got a lot of druids who are very unhappy because it's summer solstice tomorrow. >> you don't mess with gandalf when he's in a mood. you know what i mean? no. >> well. fair enough. moving on to the guardian, paul reeves, who pledges to close gender pay gap once and for all if labour wins , and also saying this will wins, and also saying this will be the last big job in government a woman has never done. we've not had a woman in charge of the nation's finance. of course, she's pitting herself to be the chancellor, interesting , because i think interesting, because i think it's quite easy to close a gap that i don't really believe exists. there are a lot of there's a lot of nuance to the pay gap there's a lot of nuance to the pay gap situation, and there are laws in place which prevent it. now, if you take into fact, if you take into consideration all the data , like, pregnancy the data, like, pregnancy working less for various

reasons, women, the statistics will show that everything is about equal if you don't take into that, it just looks like, women are earning all women and all men. yeah. yes. so i mean, nick, i imagine you're really up on this stuff, aren't you? yeah. >> i mean, well, jordan peterson , like, i went around your flat and they were just all these charts everywhere. >> yeah. gender pay caps and no women, yeah. jordan peterson famously in that interview with cathy newman, said, well, it's a multivariate analysis. the analyses have been done. and the point was he did he did concede that it was one. apparently it is one factor, but it's one of many, many factors. and it's not the main factor, you know, just the main factor, you know, just the fact of being a woman. so yeah , it's nonsense doesn't yeah, it's nonsense doesn't really exist as paul says. but so that makes it a very easy win for labour. and what you've got to watch out for with labour will be this kind of thing. it will be this kind of thing. it will be this kind of thing. it will be not the economics, because we're going to get on later to actually they may be sort of quite stable and cautious fiscally. it's going to be the cultural revolution. look out for this document called a new britain, which gordon brown has written, by the way, gordon brown, an unelected prime minister who lost a general election, never won a general election. 20 got a tory.

>> shouldn't be talking about no i >> -- >> well, -_ >> well, i'm m >> well, i'm not a tory, but as we said, i want this total destruction. so give me a break. but why is gordon brown writing this document? and if you look at it, it's all this kind of thing. they want to get rid of the house of lords and what they really want to do. in the document. they want to sort of make it impossible to reverse all of their cultural and sort of legislative changes. and the quangocracy they're going to build. that's what to watch out for. >> this is one this is one person's document. that doesn't necessarily mean it's a pretty big person in the labour party. no, no, but it doesn't mean it's necessarily indicative of what's actually going to be happening just because one former politician writes something. >> well, i'm sure blair's on board. and blair told starmer what to do. so yeah, it is it is going to happen. but it's just this kind of thing. there'll be the race equality, which we don't need. we already have equality. then there'll be things like the gender pay gap. so it'll be all these kind of cultural messing, just making the world just a bit worse for everyone. we'll be right here to hold them to account if they don't use ofcom to shut us down. >> it's all immeasurable stuff, though, isn't it? the gender pay gap? well, i'd say it is measurable. it's not though is it? because they don't take into. it's like saying we're going to stop the moon farming

cheese. going to stop the moon farming cheese . same thing. yeah. cheese. same thing. yeah. exactly the same thing. go with it. there's two other stories i just want to very quickly cover. we've got the, the korea, north korea and russia pact, which is kind of a big deal for world affairs, where if one attack gets attacked, the other one's going to step in, which is a big deal going to step in, which is a big deal. the interesting thing to see there, of course, if, ukraine, because they have been doing attacks on russian soil, if that means that north korea is going to be stepping in to that. and the other one here, which is a sort of follow up to another story we covered about a week ago, is rishi sunak. this is this time it's his protection officer. put a flutter on, about the timing of the election. and this was , last week. we had his, this was, last week. we had his, his aide who did it, and now it turns out that it's not a good look, is it? it's not. no. exactly. don't don't speak aloud in the car. right right. that is the front pages examined. join us after the break for news about british kids health. the latest mp suspension and we find out makes mrs. starmer sick. see

welcome back to headliners. your first look at thursday's newspapers with me. josh howie still joined by the dynamic duo paul cox and nick dixon. first up, it's thursday's guardian, and paul has starmer read the room here? well, john johnson and sunak should retain covid evictions or convictions. sorry, says starmer . labour leader says says starmer. labour leader says tories calling for amnesty on rule breakers are not are out of touch with people who paid a high price. i think he is out of touch. high price. i think he is out of touch . i think he is personally. touch. i think he is personally. my touch. i think he is personally. my personal opinion is that all covid convictions, convictions related to the covid rules should now be quashed. i think look what he's trying to do there is conflate the tragic deaths of people with what happened at number 10. let's say cake and all this sort of stuff.

deciding lockdown . yeah. and deciding lockdown. yeah. and yeah, that's a joke. yeah. but at the end of the day, the two one, you know that if you if bofis one, you know that if you if boris johnson hadn't had that party, the cake hadn't been eaten. those very tragic and sad deaths still would have happened. there are people out there that got fines for meeting in groups of seven or, you know, going for a walk longer than an hour to quash it all. yeah. it was it says here 55% of those of those 28,000 people, were people under 30. >> yeah. so disgusting. >> yeah. so disgusting. >> yeah. so disgusting. >> yeah. it's disgusting. and fines , you know, boris johnson fines, you know, boris johnson got fined £50, but the average fine was £6,000 going up to 10,000. >> a lot of them fell apart in court because it was all nonsense. yeah, it was appalling. it was an appalling time. and starmer can shut up really, because he wanted longer, harder lockdowns. also, he was caught at some sort of party, hence the nickname sebby's corner. >> that's slightly different. >> that's slightly different. >> come on man, we've been through that a thousand times have we? yeah >> that whole thing was just i just wanted to say sebby's corner . corner. >> okay, it was good. but come on, let's not go. let's not go down that road again. >> i don't want to go down that

road because i understand the angen road because i understand the anger. people can be angry with sunak and johnson particularly, and i can understand that. but the larger point, as paul says, it should all be quashed . it's it should all be quashed. it's not just it's not a case of letting off people because they're powerful, because in this case, all the laws were nonsense. and as lord sumption pointed out at the time, you don't have a moral obligation to follow the law, he said. you have a legal obligation to follow it, which is a tautology. it's meaningless because it's the law, but you don't necessarily have a moral obugafion necessarily have a moral obligation to follow an unjust law. and these were unjust laws. >> yeah. as we and yeah, as we saw, just again, the youth being unfairly targeted. but my personal way through this is to keep the convictions for sunak and johnson and then everyone else is fine. >> well, you have a lot of sympathy with that, to be honest. >> yeah, but i understand he's sort of. starmer is caught a little between a rock place. i don't think he is actually i think haaland a rock place, rock and a hard place. both of those places are hard rock cafe. i just don't i think i just think he's deliberately conflating the two things for political gain. and he's what he's. one thing i

hate is when he ignites that emotion. he says , all these emotion. he says, all these tragic deaths, right? we all agree with that. like we don't agree with that. like we don't agree with that. like we don't agree with that, but it doesn't really matter. you know, two guys going out, you know, meeting when they shouldn't have done and having beers in a park. yeah >> who are these two guys. >> who are these two guys. >> where's his hampstead. he's like, oh like look i experimented during the lockdown in the showers. that's £6,000 fines on now thursdays . fines on now thursdays. telegraph next. and nick were okay. as long as france is w0 i'se. woi'se. >> worse. >> right. absolutely. so britain could become an island of stability. i like that as macron debt crisis consumes france, says ubs, which i think is a financial firm. so shahab jalinoos almost certainly not the pronunciation is saying that we could flip from being thought of as europe's problem child, which is his phrase, certainly not mine. but the idea is, you know, we've been naughty and done brexit and everything, but actually we could suddenly be more stable because you've got le pen and you don't know what's going to happen with that. you've also got the far left, his sights, and you've just got debt as well. they've been sort of profligate. italy and france

have have borrowed more than they than they should have. they've been in breach of budget deficit rules. so the idea is, okay, europe's a bit of a mess. we could actually be quite stable. as i mentioned earlier, laboun stable. as i mentioned earlier, labour, whatever their radical cultural revolution, they will they will enact. they're actually might be quite fiscally cautious. so people might see britain as relatively stable suddenly compared to dodgy europe. yeah. >> well isn't the thing here, paul >> well isn't the thing here, paul, that also not just in terms of fiscal responsibility but there should be this idea of political responsibility and stability because there's not going to be these crisis, you know, we're not going to have brexit to deal with. hopefully we're not going to have like another pandemic or anything like that. and the energy crisis in ukraine. so there's the chance now that we're going to whoever's in charge will actually do some governing. yes. really good point. and i think because we're over those two humps, we will see more and more positive stories about the fact that we are standing alone, have autonomy. we're not having to go to the eu commission. we're not part of a massive bloc that

relies on all these different people and all their different politics. to be successful, we will stand alone. and i know a lot of people don't like the isolationism, but for me, in terms of stability and consistency , raisi we are going consistency, raisi we are going to see europe , i think over the to see europe, i think over the next ten years become more and more inconsistent because of what we've kind of been through, what we've kind of been through, what they're going through . it what they're going through. it always seems to be the case. and they and they're this huge bloc, and they've got to go through the eu commission every single time . yeah. time. yeah. >> well, is that when farage destroys starmer? and that's going to be new in a few years? >> i do like how macron, said his, economic minister warned that a victory for mrs. le pen's party would risk a liz truss style debt crisis. and it's. i just think the fact that she has become shorthand across the world. yeah is not a great call, is at least i know who she is. there was a little video about rishi sunak today. no one in america knew who he was.

>> there we go. so, you know, silver cloud, back to the guardian. and paul, do you feel seen? sorry, i did. well, no, no , “0, seen? sorry, i did. well, no, no , no, it just made me laugh. they don't know why. they don't know why i'm laughing yet. uk children shorter, fatter and sicker amid poor diet and poverty, report finds. so the average height of a five year old is falling. obesity levels have increased by almost a third, and the number of young people being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has risen more than a fifth. the report by the food foundation has said. and i'll tell you what the guardian are loving this. they are loving this because this creates a whole new generation of victims. josh. and they love a victim. however, what we have in this country, i think, is an abundance of food and we have to see this across the west, but it's unfortunately a lot of cheap and unhealthy food. and there is, a perhaps some would argue, a lack of education when it comes to healthy eating and what how people should live their lives. but this comes a

little bit back to the nanny state for me. you know, there are people out there who have a choice. there is a lot of choice for them, and they decide they want to eat unhealthy because it's yummy and you've just finished a gb news shift and you know the lights are bright and there's milkshake and meat and you know , you just don't know you know, you just don't know who you're talking about. no. is it me? and but anyway, what i'm saying is there is a lot of choice out there. unfortunately there's a lot of unhealthy choices, i'm not sure we're going to end up with this massive epidemic, but we do need to teach children to eat. probably just better food. we don't cook enough, do we? well i mean, look, you say this and paulis mean, look, you say this and paul is saying he's not sure we're going to end up with a massive effort. we're in it. this is already happening to our children. what? nick? i mean, come on. there is a balance here, of course, between nanny state and but there is also the rights of our children to live healthier lives. >> yeah, well, the stats are shocking. i mean, the idea that babies born in the uk today will enjoy a year less good health than babies born a decade ago. thatis than babies born a decade ago. that is shocking. but i don't think it's, you know, people

will say it's the tories or whatever or the guardian here say poverty and deprivation. but when people were poor in the sort of post—war era, even in rationing, they were healthier. so the ultra processed foods, i'll give you definitely. and the lack of nutrition, but a lot of it is just sort of is the cultural decline. it's illiterate children who are never going to contribute to the economy, shoving cake into their faces. i just wanted to say something. i mean, leo would say , let's just say it's ultra processed food, because i think that's basically what it is. a lot of it. yeah. >> what do the government do or do the government do anything to step in to solve this issue ? step in to solve this issue? >> see, this is why i say it's a cultural issue. you know, in the past it used to be, i'm sorry to sound like some sort of cliche, but the it used to be don't eat to your meal times, meals at the tables and all that. so there was also a culture of this kind of thing. but yes, the processed foods, definitely. that is the part where the government presumably will do something. so what can we hear about sugar taxes, don't we? and things like this. but it's very hard to deal with it that kind of level. i think without people also taking action themselves. that's my view. i mean, how can you really stop it? do you tax it? do you

just make it illegal to have taxation or. >> yes. or you put certain, not labels, but you have to make certain foods consist of a certain foods consist of a certain percentage of non processed . i mean once it's processed. i mean once it's processed. i mean once it's processed it's processed. but the point is that from reading that book, ultra processed people is that there? it's the substitution of these inferior , substitution of these inferior, less nutritional sort of protein staples. instead and pretending that there's all these corn syrups and all fructose stuff and all this, there is a lot of junk. >> and maybe, maybe we ban a few of those practices . the of those practices. the companies always find a way around it. the only problem? well, okay, that's what governments should be doing. >> moving on to the express. and today, the shoddy vetting will turns to labour. >> yeah. so this is labour suspends candidate ahead of general election over pro—russia posts. and this was a guy that shared an article from a russia today about poisoning . and today about poisoning. and russia were denying that they had, that they were involved . i had, that they were involved. i know, i know, they said the toxin used in the salisbury poisonings was never produced in russia. and i know when i'm

looking for my poisoning news, russian poisoning news. i always go to russia today and their objective shows. >> but this is back in the corbyn era . we should point out corbyn era. we should point out this is when all the poisonings happened, right? it's not like it's sharing it now. >> no. right. ijust think it's sharing it now. >> no. right. i just think it's funny that it's like, you know, like they've got they're going to be like, yeah, we did it, guys. and it's just so ridiculous. look at this article guys. it's completely objective. was it from cathedral today. yeah. and it also says putin is great, that's the next article, so yeah, apparently he also said something like the real issue is that right wing jews in the labour party and outside the party object to the fact that corbyn is a consistent supporter of palestinian rights. so it was dunng of palestinian rights. so it was during that rather ugly, got that bit right joke . that bit right joke. >> no. i mean, what's interesting about that is the way that that was framed and going through all of that and seeing that stuff at the time, that wasn't the issue that corbyn was a consistent supporter of palestinian rights. that's fine . it was how he was that's fine. it was how he was a supporter of those palestinian rights, i.e. he's friends with hamas, hezbollah. they're his buddies. it was a bit rethy. yeah, it was the right. so it's not that you can support palestinian, right? i support

palestinian, right? i support palestinian rights, but you just don't do it in an anti—semitic way. anyway, that's the old news. let's move on to this stuff. i think this is interesting. paul because and i want to get a little bit cranky here myself. wouldn't it be cool if they deliberately had left him in. this is up in the in scotland ? if they'd left him scotland? if they'd left him there knowing he probably wouldn't win . so that just wouldn't win. so that just a week or two before the election, they go, oh, look at this stuff that he said he's out of the party. and then the labour party gets to look like they're, they're they've cleaned the house and they've got , they're house and they've got, they're getting rid of their cranks. so this was quite a quick action that they did shows that they're not who they were five years ago. now i'm not saying that is what happened. but it does play quite well. it's good optics for starmer, that's for sure. but there's no surprise that back then that they i mean a lot momentum pro—communist pro—marxist anti—west that of course there were people within the labour party elected labour party that thought these things that would have been pro—russia, they would have held russia in

very high regard, and they would have lapped up all that sort of stuff. so the fact that we that that did occur, we shouldn't forget . we shouldn't forget forget. we shouldn't forget because, keir starmer himself backed corbyn. now there are so many puff pieces about how we did that, because he could foresee the future and he could get himself into power, and then he could get rid of the corbynites, and then he could bnng corbynites, and then he could bring labour back. and do you know what? it's panned out that way. there's no way that's what he planned, though, because he just. i just don't believe it. okay, well, he just went with the wind. that is what happened. he seems like a clever bloke, but we'll see. right. we're at the halfway point and we've got lots of goodies to come. we've got open presents, french transphobes and the greatest sitcom of modern era. see you

>> welcome back to headliners and kicking things off with thursday's guardian. where nick, we've been lied to. and it turns

out biden is actually in his 50s. >> absolutely. yeah. videos of biden looking lost are a viral political tactic. low level manipulation. this the guy who a lovely little a lovely little piece . yeah, but i said it like piece. yeah, but i said it like that because, you know, of course i just desperately defending biden. i mean, it's an absurd piece. the piece tries to tell us that really all these videos of biden are just edited, andifs videos of biden are just edited, and it's just it's manipulating us. and they even they're very nice. they even say, look, it even helps to trump, too. and it's the guardian trying to rescue a desperate situation. they have this ludicrous candidate who's obviously not up to it cognitively. so they have to it cognitively. so they have to say, oh, what can we do? oh, we'll say it's bad editing. but we've watched extensive footage of biden. it's bad. whatever you do, you could watch a three hour documentary of him sat there and you'd be like, we've got something here that shouldn't be. >> look, he just he just came down. i mean, he's not that old. if he can, if he can do a parachute jump into. but that's not him. oh that's the. >> no, he's the one wandering off in a minute. and ursula, now again it looks like he's wandering off. >> but when you look at the wider shot, he's actually talking to somebody or he's going off to say hi to somebody. it's not like that's the whole point. look, he's doing a thumbs

up to somebody who's waving. >> he gets sort of ushered back in that looks really bad. no, ho. [10. >> no. >> okay. now that that's very interesting because that clip there for me proves exactly what this article is saying. now i'm not defending the fact that biden is a little bit old and seems a bit doddery, but the reality is the wider shot of thatis reality is the wider shot of that is he isn't just kind of randomly walking off to nowhere. he is looking at somebody and doing a thumbs up. >> then he puts his sunglasses on incredibly slow. this one's worse. this one is frozen in complete well , who's that guy? complete well, who's that guy? >> who's that woman? who's that beautiful woman in the, gold dress ? dress? >> who is it? who's that really popular vp there? yeah but, you know. no, he's completely frozen here. look, he can't move. no, here. look, he can't move. no, he just can't dance. >> he's got a terrible sense of rhythm, and he doesn't want to show himself off. >> i feel bad he's all. but he can't move. and he shouldn't be leading the free world. >> so—called, i don't know, i think that he knows his limitations. >> moving, speaking, thinking, leading a country. >> okay, here we go. so here he is now. and he's going to sit down now we've all look what happened here. >> josh, he had a little accident okay. >> that's not he could be. that

does look like he's had he's had a little fall. he's had some follow through. that's what he looks like. he's worried on that particular. i admire your attempt to be kind there, josh, but i respect the elderly and so do we. and we respect them so much. we don't think that when they become old and infirm, they should be in charge of the free world and put in that position, i genuinely don't. if he was happy that skydiver was paying no attention to joe biden, joe biden was not looking down. he was. he was wandering off. he didn't know what to do. he wasn't . if you look at the wider wasn't. if you look at the wider i just watched, that's why. no, not that shot. there's a wider one of him. how wide have you got to be? he's there. >> he can't say words. >> he can't say words. >> i'm not saying that. every single one can't speak. but that particular one is the look. you think that he's just literally talking to a ghost or there was someone there, but it's still weird. >> okay, there's the other one that the d—day one where he just turns around randomly. then the others all have to turn around to make him look less weird. all right, then there's all the ones where he can't speak and he says the most important thing about america is shani louk. and you're like, what is that?

>> the world's in trouble, right? imagine if you're on a plane that's in trouble and they said, don't worry, joe biden's flying the plane . you are not flying the plane. you are not going to be going on about oh, well, there was there might have been a skydiver there. you're going to be thinking, we're all going to be thinking, we're all going to be thinking, we're all going to die. well, i feel the same way as if trump was. neither of them have. >> trump is a tremendous pilot. >> trump is a tremendous pilot. >> he's many people are saying he's one of the best pilots, one of the best as well. it's an interesting article because the gist of it says at the end, you're just going to believe what you want to believe and you'll see what you want to see. so i guess we've just proved that right. the telegraph now, paul that right. the telegraph now, paul, for a story about la transphobic. yeah i'm a brilliant french accent. it was it was brilliant. i don't know what it meant, emmanuel macron accused of being trans transphobic. i think candace would disagree. candace owens thatis would disagree. candace owens that is given previous stories which have all been denied. so french president faces criticism after calling self—identification laws proposed by the far left party as completely ludicrous. what we're what's happening here now is there seems to be a collective wakening up on the

left and centre left of politics across europe. last week we had tony blair saying, like, men have penises and women don't. and, you know, as if, as if all of a sudden he's made some profound statement and people like us, every single one of us on this panel tonight have been saying that for years. and now macron is saying it now . we were macron is saying it now. we were trendsetters. really. we were. we knew that men had penises for anybody else. >> if we were saying it just for no reason, just going around, men have penises. you'd be locked up . locked up. >> i mean, it is. there seems to be this a collective agreement. now, i assume it's the illuminati or someone in the wef. they're saying, look, now's the time . revert back to plan a. the time. revert back to plan a. yeah, men have willies. it is an interesting point, nick, that do you think that, france has seen what's gone over here, seen what happened to the snp and are thus kind of catching up much quicker. >> france has always been a bit less woke. the main reason, i think, is because they don't speak english, and it's harder

for them to import american culture, cultural nonsense . the culture, cultural nonsense. the woke. yeah. so they've been a bit less woke and macron's in trouble . you know, he's trouble. you know, he's threatened by le pen, so he. and as you say, paul, there's been a general kind of rolling back. and he said it's completely, completely ludicrous. things like changing your gender at town hall, which i like. and. yeah. and as you say , blair just yeah. and as you say, blairjust said and blair said in that really weird way, he said, a woman is with a vagina and a man is with a penis, which is really strange face, but you've got one of his players said it. starmer naturally agreed with tony, as he always does, but it is interesting because he had this cervix gate a while ago. now he is agreeing. so i do think there seems to have been, as you say, amongst the regime, a certain rolling back of some of the most egregious excesses. >> there's a lot of biological textbooks that are going to need to be changed back again. mel next. and nick, why shouldn't women in the north go to museums? >> good question. so great north museum could become second cultural institution to restrict women from seeing sacred artefacts as critics blast absurd virtue signalling. so what you have here is certain indigenous communities just don't ever talk about the indigenous communities of europe, but of other places like aboriginal australian people,

maori, zulus and so on. they have certain artefacts that are not supposed to be seen by women. and now the idea is we're so woke that of course these things trump feminism in the oppression hierarchy. so it's like, oh no, we've got to care about our. then they weren't allowed. they were misogynists. so we have to be in a we have to honour that or something like that. that's basically what's going on. the patriarchy is back, baby. as leo likes to say in this very unlikely form of you can't look at that, you're a woman. woman. >> woman. >> basically, whatever wave of feminism are in seem to really dislike women. and the more woke museums are, they're at the pinnacle of woke museums for some reason. i don't know if that's because they they're the people who work there. they've just graduated from doing some sort of cultural studies, sociology or whatever it is, and they're carrying all of that with them into that job. they're essentially saying they're disconnected from the real world. these primitive indigenous communities who believed that women shouldn't be able to see these masks were

right. and now, in 2024, we should take modern, intelligent women out of the process of viewing this in a museum . it's viewing this in a museum. it's obscene. it's weird . and it can obscene. it's weird. and it can they not. they need to step back and look, you know, perhaps somebody should just replay them what they've said and say, look, you're losing the plot now . you're losing the plot now. you're competing with your you know, this is a race to the bottom in terms of progression. progression died a long time ago. just this . we're in ago. just this. we're in a modern age where people are intelligent, can look at this objectively . see? yeah, well, objectively. see? yeah, well, it's cultural relativism and it's cultural relativism and it's decolonisation . it's decolonisation. >> yeah, that kind of thing. all right. >> on to the times. and paul, this is like peter pretending he didn't know jesus. >> indeed, mrs. brown's boys funny question mark. bbc comedy chief dodges question. this is john petrie. he was asked, at a showcase in london on tuesday whether he found brendan o'carroll's , bbc one comedy o'carroll's, bbc one comedy funny and if he would choose to watch it now , he did dodge that

watch it now, he did dodge that and later on said, you know, it was he he, brendan has produced this iconic comedic character , this iconic comedic character, mrs. brown's boys. not for me, however, i am very aware that millions and millions of people view it, enjoy it, and find it very funny. it gets high ratings all the time. i don't think anyone should have a monopoly over comedy. it's extremely subjective. if it makes you laugh, it makes you laugh. it's not for me , but nobody has the not for me, but nobody has the right. i don't think to say, this is this is good, this is bad. whatever. you know, people find it funny. so what do you think of the terrible mrs. brown boys? yeah. >> it's awful. comedy is objective . if paul's not been objective. if paul's not been doing it as long as you and me. josh, comedy is objective. there is a subjective element at the top of like, do you prefer chris rock or dave chappelle? but most of its objective, as you learn when you go around doing the clubs. but mrs. brown's boys is terrible, but it's not for anyone with an interest in comedy. it's for the general viewer. i was watching it at christmas once. i was like, okay, what's all the fuss about? i flicked it on. i was like, oh, it's the same innuendo four

times in a row, i see. so it's a very low iq people, but i realise it's actually for i'm only joking, it's for the family. so your grandma's gonna be able to watch it at christmas and a ten year old. so that's so broad that it can't really. it's just broad entertainment. then i flicked over to peep show and he's talking about wearing the same suit at a funeral and a wedding, so it's like a boner. and i realise, oh, i think this is the mainstream. this is not the mainstream, this is a sort of dark, weird comedy for people with an interest in comedy. mr mrs. brown's boys is just for sort of general family viewing for people who don't care about comedy. >> well, that's it, it's totally fine. the interesting thing for me is later on in the article, how john petrie for bbc basically lamenting how that he's not been bought these scripts from production companies and, and that's the reason why, as opposed to the fact that the bbc has spent the last sort of 15, ten, 15 years not nurturing its comedy talent. and, and so i came over to gb views, but you can check out josh howie. he's losing out on bbc sounds. just one section to go. and what was starmer wearing? shrinkflation of intimate

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welcome back to the final section of tonight's headliners let's get straight into thursday's mail. and, paul, is this propagate all over again? no, i don't think so. actually, squirming . keir starmer says he squirming. keir starmer says he will be supporting scotland in euro match tonight amid claims he shunned wearing an england shirt to avoid losing votes north of the border. rule one posh people should not have anything to do with sport. not posh, but don't involve horses. his dad was a toolmaker, but he's a he's an he is an odd like if i was trying to pretend i was into football, he really is into football. so we, you know, it's not about class or anything like that here. however, let's put it into context. all that stuff aside, the man is trying to become the pm of the uk. of course he's going to say he will be supporting scotland as

rightly. he should in that position if he becomes pm. you know i wouldn't, but i'm not running for pm. you wouldn't really. i'm not interested in whether scotland win or lose, really. i quite you prefer them to win over because obviously when you if you've ever watched the football in scotland, they all support the team that's against it all depends how much you've been subjected to the racism of the scottish, the, the, the very visceral hatred the, the very visceral hatred the scots have for the english, particularly when it comes to sport. i've seen it in family and when you , when you, when you and when you, when you, when you witness that you're subjected to that regularly , you soon lose that regularly, you soon lose interest in whether they're doing well or not. what about you, nick? >> in scotland? no, i had i have scottish cousins and we grew up on next to the border with scotland. i would i would support scotland broadly against most other teams except obviously england. so yeah, i think, i don't think of course i would definitely when it's england versus scotland, i want to beat them and be like, hey, yeah, but if it was scotland versus czech republic, i support , i quite like that. >> starmer says here, look, i

support scotland, but unless england were against them i think and that's sort of quite honest. nothing wrong . yeah. no honest. nothing wrong. yeah. no i don't think so. >> a couple of things though. well one, i love the name squirming. squirming starmer. folksy, totally squirm , but the folksy, totally squirm, but the idea of that he was wearing an england like plain white shirt, so he didn't see he was supporting england too much . supporting england too much. thatis supporting england too much. that is so starmer. you know, he, he has been known to make a who do you think it's. he has been known to make a poppy go missing on occasion. you know what i mean. it's so you think there's truth to it. i'll wear there's truth to it. i'll wear the white shirt, but not full england, you know, just because they were like, he's definitely got an english top because we've seen him in an england top before, it's more likely it was in the wash or he couldn't find it. >> or also if it.— >> or also if he's it. >> or also if he's going to be, if we do quite well in the tournament, he's going to have tournament, he's going to have to wear the same top over and oven to wear the same top over and over, maybe saving it for a future match. >> it was funny. it wasn't the competing football photos. ed davey was on that bus going away. sunak was like, but he had an england flag in a pint glass to get the farage vote. and starmer was more like centrist comedians. >> that's what it is. times now and nick, what's the solution here? perhaps everyone should stop committing seppuku. >> oh, nice. yeah, it's japanese. emperor admits his

family is running out of heirs. so it's quite a complicated situation in japan. this is a naruhito. something like that . naruhito. something like that. no, no, naruhito, i'd say. and he was racist. he needs. he needs a male descendant. obviously it's like the older, you know, king, the good old days. yeah, yeah. king henry problem, he needs a male descendant. doesn't have one. there's an 88 year old bloke. he's no good. and so the question is, should they change the law to allow a female descendant because it's japan? it's like. no. and the liberal democrat party are totally against it. i love japanese liberals . you know, it is to be liberals. you know, it is to be fair to conservative members of that party, but still they're like, i love that the debate they're having in japan, should we allow a women. absolutely not. we are the liberals. very different country, very much better country male now. >> and a warning for any readers eating breakfast. paul. women claim tampons have been hit by shrinkflation and say smaller sizes have made them think something is wrong with their bodies. so a woman, and this is someone who does a lot of this

sort of thing, has accused tampax of shrinkflation does a lot of what getting menstrual cycles? no, no, doesn't do that. but does shrinkflation is her thing. basically. what's she's saying is that things have got smaller over time, and we're being gaslit into doing kegels. exactly vie, whatever that means. so tampax are shrinkflation and claim that brand tampon are shrunk over time. now term tampon themselves are denying this, but and i don't know if it's true because i've don't use tampons. i'm one of those women even to sort of like if you get a bloody nose, they're quite useful. still don't use them then. so i have no idea. i do, however, believe that, you know, wagon wheels, monster munch and prime ministers are getting smaller over time. nice. so it's true. yeah. no, i mean, what do you think of this, nick? it's, it's happening everywhere. and really, you shouldn't. this shouldn't be happening here. >> it shouldn't. but they're not going to stop just because of, you know, women's bodies. they don't care. it's the forces of shrinkflation . anne. i know it shrinkflation. anne. i know it is. it is appalling. but i'm. i'm worried about tethered bottle caps. but that's that's a whole other topic. oh, man. >> male and nick, a story about

those sick women who find tall men more attractive. >> yes, fancy tall men. you're also likely to rate yourself as attractive. new study claims. now, i have no problem because i'm decent height. except people don't believe that on the internet. because i once stood next to leo, who's eight foot seven. but, the. i'm totally medium. but the point is, women who rate themselves as good looking, good looking are more likely to be drawn to smaller men. that's because taller men are like a tiny percentage of the population. they think, yeah, i'm awesome. i can get the top percentage. that's probably what it is. and the internet has made this weirder, and more people have become obsessed with it. >> yeah, but tall women i've seen with short men , which is seen with short men, which is quite an interesting. >> they just have to, you know, go out with anyone. >> your wife, taller or smaller than you? she's shorter than me. yeah.i than you? she's shorter than me. yeah. i look. yeah. you never really talk about her. the show is nearly over, so it doesn't exist. josh another quick look at thursday's front pages . the at thursday's front pages. the daily mail is nothing sacred to the eco clowns. the telegraph tory wipe out the times tory is set to suffer worst poll defeat

for 100 years. guardian reeves pledges to close gender pay gap once and for all if labour wins ensues. tory despair as poll signals worse defeat in 200 years. and finally, the daily star is desperately seeking. thatis star is desperately seeking. that is all we have time for. thank you very much to my guests paul cox and nick dixon . dixon paul cox and nick dixon. dixon cox in the house andrew doyle will be here tomorrow at 11 pm. with paul again and lewis schaffer. and if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast by. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hi there and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news is fine for most of us during the next 24 hours. clear overnight and then warm sunshine to come for many on thursday . in fact, sunnier on thursday. in fact, sunnier skies for the majority on thursday , although overnight thursday, although overnight there will be some thicker cloud arriving into the north and

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