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gb. news >> it's 9:00. on television. on radio and online. in the united kingdom and across the world. this is mark dolan tonight in my big opinion. the eu wants to censor the internet. thank god we are out. the truth will get you cancelled . find out why in you cancelled. find out why in just a moment. in the big story, as labour begin their battle plan for the 2029 general election , is sir keir starmer election, is sir keir starmer all but guaranteed ten years in number 10.7 i'll be asking .

number 10.7 i'll be asking. britain's best known political double act, neil and christine hamilton. my mark meets guests are the brilliant comedy actors starring in a new play about eric morecambe, bob monkhouse and tommy cooper. expect laughs aplenty as we remember, three comic geniuses and in my take at ten, after broadcasters and journalists pretended that everything was fine with joe biden's health for years , when biden's health for years, when you and i knew he clearly wasn't right , is it any you and i knew he clearly wasn't right, is it any wonder that trust in establishment media is at an all time low .7 whenever you at an all time low.7 whenever you turn on your tv or radio, whether it's covid, climate change or the health of the president , you're change or the health of the president, you're being lied to. but i'm here to give you the truth . two hours of big opinion, truth. two hours of big opinion, big debate, and big entertainment. mark dolan tonight your perfect saturday night in. lots of fireworks to

come. but first, the news headunes come. but first, the news headlines and sam francis . headlines and sam francis. >> mark, thank you very much. and good evening to you. it's just coming up to 9:02. and the top story. well, we start with sport tonight. the england boss has issued a rallying cry to his players on the eve of their euro 2024 final. have a listen . 2024 final. have a listen. >> i'm not a believer in fairy tales, but i am a believer in dreams and, we've had big dreams. we've felt the need and the importance of that. but then, you know, you have to make those things happen . those things happen. >> and with the support from the king, the prince of wales and the prime minister, southgate's side are pushing to secure england's first major title since 1966. and while millions will be watching the game here at home, thousands of fans have travelled from far and wide to see the action up close in

berlin . berlin. >> didn't even get to celebrate the goal as soon as the second one, winning on the phone straight away right quick. let's just book from birmingham to get some from london. >> could be a chance of making history tomorrow. i was at the last final and we never won. i've been travelling following england since 2012 and i just want to see them win something. >> i hope that it does finally come home. we've waited a long time. i'm 44 now and hasn't been home in my lifetime, so i hope this time it comes home. >> in other news today, armed police have made what they call a significant arrest after the remains of two men were discovered in a pair of suitcases. the 34 year old man was detained at bristol temple meads station, not far from where that luggage was dumped at bristol's clifton suspension bridge on wednesday. other body parts have now been found at a property in shepherd's bush in west london, as that investigation continues . turning investigation continues. turning to the us and president biden's

insisting he'll keep fighting, telling supporters he's not just standing as democratic candidate, but he says he'll also win against donald trump in november's election. it comes after two standout mistakes , after two standout mistakes, though, at the nato summit this week where he referred to the ukrainian president as president putin and went on to mix up his own vice president with his election rival . but despite election rival. but despite those two mistakes, the uk's new defence secretary has defended joe biden's leadership of the nato summit. john healey, who joined the prime minister in washington, says joe biden's still got it . still got it. >> joe biden's record in office speaks for itself. he's brought nafions speaks for itself. he's brought nations together through nato and separately to stand with ukraine. he's brought nations together to try and press for a ceasefire in the middle east, and he's brought nations together to confront the aggression that we face from russia . russia. >> and just over a week into the job, and fresh from that nato summit, the new defence

secretary has promised a continued commitment to the partnership between the uk, the us and australia and welcoming australia's defence ministry minister to sheffield earlier today, john healey said the defence project is a fundamental part of the uk's future security and it can help drive the government's growth agenda. the uk, us, australia pact, which aims to equip australia with nuclear powered submarines, is expected to generate 7000 additional british jobs and at its peak there will be over 21,000 people working on related military programmes. 21,000 people working on related military programmes . hollywood military programmes. hollywood actor alec baldwin has thanked his supporters for their kindness after his trial for involuntary manslaughter was dismissed. investigators claimed he had a to case answer after a gun was fired on set that he was holding on the scene of the film. rust it killed the cinematographer halyna hutchins. in 2021, but the judge threw out that case over claims that prosecutors hadn't disclosed vital evidence. the actor broke

down in tears as that ruling was read out in court. >> the sanction of dismissal is the only warranted remedy the jury the only warranted remedy the jury has been sworn. jeopardy has attached , and a mistrial has attached, and a mistrial would not be based upon manifest necessity . further, the sanction necessity. further, the sanction of dismissal is warranted in this case. >> and finally, one last piece of news for you a major music festival has come to a dramatic halt after a fierce storm swept through the grounds and tore down a tent. footage. you can see here, filmed by witnesses, shows the panic as that storm hit, with people rushing to leave and even abandoning some of their belongings. star acts like james blake and royal blood were silenced as organisers at slovakia's biggest festival scrambled to evacuate the site. we know of at least 34 people who've been taken to hospital with injuries, while the remaining 30,000 attendees have now been evacuated on special buses. now been evacuated on special buses . those are the latest gb buses. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis, back with another

update at 10:00 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you sam. welcome to mark dolan tonight in the big story. as labour begin their battle for the 2029 general election is sir keir starmer all but guaranteed ten years in number 10.7 i'll be asking britain's best known political double act, neil and christine hamilton, after a bbc comedy show makes a truly obscene sexual joke about sir keir starmer's late mother . has the starmer's late mother. has the corporation finally gone too far? corporation finally gone too far.7 the language involved is shocking, but you might be surprised by my reaction. more on this shortly. my mark meets guests are the brilliant comedy actors starring in a new play

about eric morecambe, bob monkhouse and tommy cooper. expect laughs aplenty as we remember, three comic geniuses and reacting to the big stories of the day. we have my top pundits, political commentator benedict spence, the green goddess herself, broadcasting legend diana moran, and academic and anarchist doctor lisa mckenzie . plus, the most mckenzie. plus, the most important part of the show your views. they come straight to my laptop . gbnews.com/yoursay laptop. gbnews.com/yoursay apologies in advance. i've got a stinking cold. the voice is on the way out, but the show must go on and there's no way i was going to let you down. so much to talk about tonight and it's saturday, so we have some fun. you've been working hard all week . hopefully the kids are in week. hopefully the kids are in bed. you might have opened a bottle of something by now, and if you're joining mark dolan tonight for the first time, we have a golden rule, don't we.7 shall have a golden rule, don't we? shall i tell them what the

golden rule is? are you ready ? golden rule is? are you ready? we don't do boring. not on my watch . i just won't have it. watch. i just won't have it. a big two hours to come. let's have some fun on a saturday night. we start with my big opinion. you would think the eu have enough to worry about with the glorious uk having slipped from their grasp with brexit, you would think the eu have enough to worry about with a eurozone in the grip of economic decline, whilst the uk roars ahead, uk economic growth last month alone was double what was predicted. you're welcome and you would think that the eu has enough to worry about. with a migrant crisis on the continent . migrant crisis on the continent. that makes the crossings in the channel look minor by comparison. but true to form, the authoritarian instincts of this failing bloc once again come to the fore. this time in a needless battle with social

media entrepreneur, the richest man in the world and twitter owner elon musk , bureaucrats in owner elon musk, bureaucrats in brussels have decided to pursue an internet censorship campaign and restrict the activities of twitter, now known as x , this is twitter, now known as x, this is a platform which is the only unadulterated social media forum for free speech in the world. and they don't like that in brussels. the ridiculous accusation against musk is that by allowing users to purchase a blue tick mark to make their account official, it had misled users into thinking posts from those accounts are trustworthy by pursuing their dystopian digital services act or dsa. another probe is underway examining whether x or twitter has done enough to combat misinformation and illegal hate speech. now, they would say that they simply want to make social media a safe and trustworthy place for users. but it's my view that what the eu really

wants is they want the platform to go back to being a heavily censored government mouthpiece under the previous twitter management, censorship was rife with encouragement from joe biden's white house, silencing highly respected figures like doctor jay bhattacharya, one of the most renowned medics in the world from stanford medical school, whose own account was shadow banned so that users couldn't see his posts easily. and why was he shadow banned? well, because he dared to criticise lockdowns and it was under the old management that journalist alex berenson, on instructions from joe biden, saw his account suspended for the great crime of publishing official us government data about covid. the same old management at twitter permanently banned father ted. writer graham linehan for saying that men are not women. imagine

that men are not women. imagine that your account closed for down stating a biological and scientific fact, a fact which of course they like to characterise as hate speech. but of course the truth is now hate speech. welcome to hell. these are authoritarian thugs in the eu. hide behind the cloak of misinformation and hate speech as a way of protecting the narrative that they like to peddle , the vested interests peddle, the vested interests that they support , and often the that they support, and often the lies that they perpetuate. now, i'm personally very troubled by the crazy conspiracy theories and the genuine hatred that we see online. it's dangerous. it's damaging, and it's wrong. if you are breaking the law, you must be dealt with. but beyond that, the internet has to police itself. it's not for the authorities or governments to decide what is misinformation or disinformation. it's not for the

state to be the arbiters of truth . not when we've seen such truth. not when we've seen such a one sided partisan and inaccurate characterisation of the covid 19 virus. climate change and even the cognitive health of president joe biden, the lies around all three of which i'll be tackling in my take at ten in just an hour's time, you won't want to miss it. now, the man behind this chilling campaign on the continent is brexit hating politician and eu lifer thierry breton, commissioner for the internal market of the european union . us political commentator union. us political commentator michael shellenberger says about him the plan is to censor independent journalists who debunk eu disinformation . breton debunk eu disinformation. breton hates our freedom because it exposes his lies. he hates our freedom because it exposes his lies . he treats 1984 exposes his lies. he treats 1984 as a guidebook. he is a totalitarian menace. his goal is totalitarian menace. his goal is totalitarian rule. shellenberger goes on to quote uk freedom

campaigner silkie carlo, who says censorship is always about power and never about truth. we had a lucky escape in 2016. the uk is currently number one in the g7 for economic growth. we have control over our money, our borders and our laws. we are sovereign and have escaped the clutches of this megalomaniac, unaccountable political bloc. this is a free country with a free press and freedom of expression, something now under threat in the eu. thank god we're out . do you think at some we're out. do you think at some point i'm going to have to get off the fence and really say what i think? your reaction, please? gb news communal say with me tonight for ringside action. it's the only show in town. delighted to have political commentator benedict

spence , journalist and model the spence, journalist and model the green goddess herself, diana moran and academic anarchist and ethnographer. a lady with letters before and after her name lisa mckenzie. great to see all three of you. lisa, whilst we're on, you . yeah, this isn't we're on, you. yeah, this isn't about elon musk. a lot of my viewers and listeners couldn't care less about this man. some people may not even know who he is, but this is about censorship, isn't it? and this is about the ability for any of us to say what we think on the internet. yeah, and i think twitter or x in particular can be very brutal and it can get very, very nasty. >> and there is some crazy stuff out there . but who is it that out there. but who is it that gets to decide who's who's allowed to say crazy stuff and who isn't? yeah. and i think over the last ten years of sort of social media, that's one of the questions that i have constantly asked myself, who is

it that gets to decide? and when you've got sort of 4 or 5 men that own all of this, you know, they own facebook, they own google, they own, twitter . if google, they own, twitter. if it's not free speech, then it's nothing, is it? yeah. because otherwise it's just some it's just a person with extreme power and wealth deciding what their take on things are and who they can shop and who they don't. and even though i have been mercilessly bullied on twitter, on x for many different opinions that i've held and even over the last couple of weeks, i've seen some horrific i mean, you were talking about many different things that come on twitter, but one of the things i saw this week was this sort of rampant holocaust denial. right? and thatis holocaust denial. right? and that is all over twitter at the moment. and i'm watching that thinking, oh my god, you know, but it's either it's either free speech or it's nothing. >> i agree with you there. you can't cherry pick, can you? it's like the flat earthers. the earth is not flat. diana moran.

but people are welcome to go on youtube and making an argument in a video that it is. >> absolutely. and i do watch youtube, but i have to watch the flat earthers. >> diana, have you gone down the rabbit hole? >> not yet, but i have to be honest at this moment i don't do twitter. >> well, that's why you've got good mental health, isn't it? >> i'd like to think. good mental health, isn't it? >> i'd like to think . perhaps it >> i'd like to think. perhaps it is. i think i don't necessarily look at some of the dreadful things that i know are on twitter. i certainly don't want to hear or see anything about myself. i never read what's in the newspapers about myself. >> the public like you a lot . >> the public like you a lot. you've got nothing to worry about. but it's not like benedict. his name is mud. >> yes, i have awful mental health because i frequently google my own name and i'm shocked to see what people think of me. i'm in the corner crying most days. i only rouse myself to come on your show. >> well, i'm glad you rouse yourself. the only one that says nice things i've actually heard you rouse yourself, but keep it

professional tonight. >> it's a family show. benedict. what was it? was it? i can't remember if it was george orwell or winston churchill who said free speech is about the right to tell. say things that other people don't want to hear. >> it's probably both. yes, coaching the other. and i think actually a lot of this speaks to what the european union is fundamentally, and it's where i think, you know , a lot of the think, you know, a lot of the sort of dissatisfaction with it came , for many members of the came, for many members of the british public, what does the european union actually ferment? what does it actually encourage? what does it actually encourage? what does it actually encourage? what does it actually do to create change, to improve things ? create change, to improve things? it doesn't actually seem to do any of these things. it just tells you what you can't do. it sets itself as sort of the standard of what people cannot do, not what they can do. it doesn't try to encourage things. and, you know, at least was pointing out, you know, we're talking about these tech companies, these social media companies, these social media companies, they're all owned by a select few. but where are they all based? they're all based in the united states. everything in europe is downstream of the united states, and all it can do is sit there and go, no, no, we don't like that. we don't like that. stop doing that. stop doing this. people resent that. ultimately, if the if the continental government that has

appointed itself over everybody doesn't actually contribute to the latest breakthroughs in technology, it doesn't make europe a player on the world stage . it doesn't create it's stage. it doesn't create it's help to create its own social media or its own ai capabilities. it just tells you what you can't do . what is it what you can't do. what is it for? >> well, indeed. diana, briefly, if you can, i wonder if we're being a little harsh on tier britain. this experience politician , experienced politician, experienced statesman. a man that i've read is , you know, of sort of is, you know, of sort of significant moral conscience and what he's worried about is lies on the internet which which are divisive and damaging and misleading, which could cause harm to users. he just wants to tackle that and make sure the internet is a safe space. what's the problem? >> i would agree with him and he's the one who calls a man a man and a woman a woman, which i certainly go along with, but i, i as i say, i'm not into twitter myself and it worries me that so many people get a very false

idea of what's going on in the world. i mean, through twitter briefly. >> lisa, he's not wrong. i mean, i mean, the internet is full of terrible things and lies and made up ideas, but you it's out the bag. well, i agree, i agree. >> i'm, you know, i'm reminded before we go to the break, i'm reminded of that old joke by woody allen, which is sex dirty? >> only if you're doing it right are nervous laughter from benedict spence coming up next in the big story, as labour begin their battle plan for the 2029 general election is sir keir starmer all but guaranteed ten years in number 10? i'll be asking. britain's best known political double act, neil and christine hamilton,

next. >> jack. >> jack. >> well, the big reaction to my big opinion of the doing a crackdown on free speech by conducting an awful attack on twitter, now known as x . this is twitter, now known as x. this is censorship in action. thank god we're out. strong reactions on the message board. gbnews.com/yoursay john. mark, what country are you talking aboutin what country are you talking about in terms of freedom? alan says, mark, the eu did nothing for us, g bash says mark what a load of twaddle. the end of your monologue was kelvin. kelvin? yeah. kelvin says. did this

clown just say we have control of our borders? well, kelvin, you're absolutely right . we've you're absolutely right. we've lost control of our borders, but we have the power to control them should we wish. and if we have a government that's willing to do it. and let's hope this one is. although i won't hold my breath , i'll get to more of your breath, i'll get to more of your messages shortly. but it's time now for the big story and the guardian report that labour has already begun preparing for its 2029 election campaign. you heard me right. 2029 election campaign with the party's political strategist, morgan mcsweeney telling friends and allies he wants to build a new coalition of voters and fight it like an insurgent party. sir keir starmer has only been prime minister for just over a week, but his team have already started putting in place the structures to win a second term. so are we looking at a decade of labourin so are we looking at a decade of labour in power? let's get the views of britain's best known political double act neil and christine hamilton. neil good to

see you. being the incumbent can be a political advantage at election time. could sir keir starmer be in power for a decade? is it possible? >> well, being the incumbent didn't do much good for rishi sunak, did it? and i think the same will be found in relation to starmer in 2029. i mean, labour didn't win this election. the tories lost it. the labour vote this time was much the same as it was in 2019. they didn't gain any votes at all. in fact, in some labour seats they actually lost votes to pro gaza candidates because labour are not headbanging enough on identity politics, you know, labour got no answers to the big issues of the day, like control of our borders, which you've just been talking about, ed miliband, a head banging eco crank as secretary of state for energy, is going to double down on net zero, which is the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in our lifetimes. they've got absolutely no idea whatsoever what the feelings of ordinary people are, and they certainly have no instinct for, supporting

them. so the insurgents in the last election obviously were farage and reform . labour are farage and reform. labour are the very opposite of an insurgent party. they're just a kind of conservative left wing chue kind of conservative left wing clique who is more and more out of touch with ordinary working class people. so if the political system is now very fractured, and i don't think we can think of it in two party terms of tory and labour, in and out, the next parliament is going to be a make and for break the current electoral system, which has produced this absurd result where the liberals get 71 seats on fewer votes than reform , seats on fewer votes than reform, which win only five. so this is a ludicrous situation and can't survive for that much longer. in my view. i think labour are the party of the past, not of the future. >> okay, well of course keir starmer argues that he's going to stop the boats by smashing the criminal gangs. >> ed miliband says his green revolution will save money on

people's bills and create jobs. i'll be tackling that issue at ten in my take at ten. but christine , with reform likely christine, with reform likely splitting the right wing vote again at the next election , again at the next election, starmer is sitting pretty, isn't he ? he? >> well, i wouldn't say it's sitting pretty. i mean, if you look at the figures, he got 34% of the vote, eight out of ten people in this country did not vote for starmer. eight out of ten did not vote for the government. so that's hardly a ringing endorsement, is it? he's always has been making mutterings about trying to want to undo brexit. that's what he wanted to do when we first had the vote, 52% of the people voted for brexit and he thought that was something he could undo. 34% of the vote. he perfectly happy with that and he thinks he can go on for ten years. i don't think so. i think things will start to unravel and i think reform have now created a very strong bridgehead. they've only got five, but they are they're quite , individual are they're quite, individual people , shall we say. and

people, shall we say. and i think farage has got a good team around him and things will start to unravel. i mean, when you have such an enormous majority, party discipline breaks down just like that. and you will find on one issue after another that the troops, the labour troops become quite difficult to maintain . so i think the idea maintain. so i think the idea that i think you said, forgive me if i got it wrong, but are we looking at ten years of labour government? certainly not because they have a very, very small percentage of the vote and the whole the political tectonic plates are shifting and reform has washed them off. if that's a word i can use, wash them off. >> family show. christine, we've all had a drink. >> excuse me. who are you bashing off tonight? >> please don't bash anyone off. i thought you were a happily married woman . neil, put the married woman. neil, put the wine down. it's not helping. >> stop it, anyway, i've now lost my thought, but what have you lost? >> what? >> what? >> what? >> what i'm saying is that farage has completely put a bomb under the whole political

system. and he is not going away. he will get stronger and stronger in my opinion. and a lot of people, i think at the last election voted tactically. it was a massive vote against the tories. it was not a vote for labour and a lot of people. and i mean, heavens alive. we've got people who voted purely on the palestine gaza issue. what place does that have in a british general election? that's the problem. >> okay, christine, christine, i'm going to let you whack someone off while i talk to neil because i want to ask you, neil, you serve the conservative party for many decades. if you were advising them now, how should they respond to this historic defeat? do they go to bed with nigel farage? what should they do to prevent extinction? >> well, they should become a conservative party again. they lost the election a few weeks ago because they were the un—conservative party. you know, they they were elected as tories but ruled as social democrats for the last 14 years. and my advice to the conservative party

is not to ally with nigel farage, because clearly, you know, nigel has to be the supreme autocrat of any organisation that he's involved in. so there's no way in which there could be a merger or which nigel become could become the leader of the conservative party. but what the conservative party. but what the conservative party should do is loot the reform uk party's manifesto. of all the conservative ideas which they themselves should have been promoting for the last 14 years. and that's on low taxes, cutting regulation, delivering a full brexit, scrapping the net zero nonsense which is the biggest single threat, i think, to the british economy in the five years ahead and governing, as thatcher would have done back in the 1980s, learning the lessons that we learned so expensively then, but which were squandered after john major became leader afterjohn major became leader of the tory party in 1990, and then under cameron and all the muppets who succeeded him, you know, they have completely

failed to govern as conservatives. that's the reason why we're in the mess that we're in today. you know, labour actually making it worse. the only reason that labour won was that their slogan was vote for us. we're not as bad as them. actually, they're a lot worse. and that will be, quite evident by 2029. but the tories can't rely on that alone because farage and reform are out there as well, actually campaigning. okay kind of conservative ideas that tories ought to be campaigning for. >> christine. briefly. final thoughts ? thoughts? >> well, i think the last truly tory prime minister was margaret thatcher. i know that seems like ancient history to a lot of people, but it's true. and david cameron started this rot when he came in and he started saying to constituencies, you cannot choose who you want as your candidate, which always used to be the case. you will have either a, b or c, we will impose these people on you and the people that they were imposed upon. constituencies were basically small sd social democrats. they weren't

conservatives. and, you know, they're still they still did it right up till the 11th hour of this last election. i mean , this last election. i mean, rishi sunak bounced the election on on his own party. they had way over 100 seats who hadn't got candidates. and a lot of the candidates were imposed on constituencies, and the rest is history. let's have some proper conservative candidates. i mailable well, no, you are not. >> i've heard, i've heard, i've heard you're available for a very , very low price indeed, can very, very low price indeed, can ithank very, very low price indeed, can i thank you both ? you both look i thank you both? you both look incredibly well. always a treat to have you on the show. we'll catch up soon. my thanks to neil and christine hamilton. have a good have a good rest of the evening. they obviously will buy me that, that pinot grigio is flowing, isn't it? and that's not a euphemism, coming up with tonight's top pundits after a bbc comedy show makes a truly obscene sexual joke about sir keir starmer's late mother. has the corporation finally gone too far? the language involved is shocking, but you might be surprised my reaction. more on

next. >> have you got this? >> have you got this? >> delighted to have my top punst >> delighted to have my top pundits with me. i'm delighted to welcome benedict spence. diana moran, and lovely, lovely lisa mckenzie. and lisa has brought her best friend with her tonight . who's also. is he tonight. who's also. is he actually your hairdresser? yes. so he's the genius behind your beautiful hair. >> it is? >> it is? >> yeah. and it's his birthday today, so i think we've got a picture of lisa and wayne in our green room before the show. he's a handsome devil. happy birthday, wayne. >> happy birthday. a very wise man.

>> birthday, wayne. >> birthday, wayne. >> there you go. he's. he's in in the green room now. mainlining embarrassed . mainlining embarrassed. mainlining embarrassed. mainlining the bar. >> coffee. is that it ? yeah. >> coffee. is that it? yeah. >> coffee. is that it? yeah. >> that's not what i've heard. i've heard. it's. i've heard it's irish coffee, which is a very different thing , folks. very different thing, folks. after a bbc comedy show makes a truly obscene sexual joke about sir keir starmer. has the corporation gone too far ? you corporation gone too far? you will not believe this story. it's a radio four sketch show that sparked outrage by intercutting an obscene clip from the film the exorcist with audio of the prime minister keir starmer, talking about his late mother. an episode of satirical comedy programme the skewer, released on wednesday, includes a section lampooning sir keir starmer's repetitive messaging on the campaign trail , including on the campaign trail, including his frequent reference to having a father. that's a toolmaker. take a listen to the sketch. we've bleeped out the bad word. >> my dad was a toolmaker. he worked in a factory. >> it's true. my mum, your mother's touch is not a laughing

m atter. >> we matter. >> we couldn't make ends meet. >> we couldn't make ends meet. >> it's quite extraordinary. i mean, i won't repeat the actual word, but your mother xqcs xqcs in hell. it's an obscene image. and very offensive. but let's discuss this with tonight's top pundits. first of all, diana moran . should heads roll for moran. should heads roll for this one? have the bbc gone too far? >> far, too far. i think it's dishonourable. it's disgusting, i was reading all about the circumstances when he lost his mother, and, she eventually died, and his father came back and said, you know that mother, sadly, was now dead. well when i was a young girl, i came home and found my mother dying, and i had the same circumstance of my father coming into the bedroom later at night saying, your mother will not be coming home.

so in this instance, i feel really sorry for starmer that somebody is so foul to make a humorous program of that. >> well, benedict, i might surprise you with my thoughts on this because the language was offensive and i think the item altogether was misjudged. i wouldn't put that show out myself. however, spare me the pearl clutching from the cancel culture crowd who now want the show. you know , axed and show. you know, axed and everyone involved fired. this was not a commentary on the late mrs. starmer, the poor woman who had a terrible illness. this was an intercut clip from a video, which was meant to be a sort of surreal back end of a starmer clip. i think. >> i don't think that there's any topic that is necessarily off the table when it comes to humour, but i think you take your reputation into your hands if you choose to go down a certain route now, sometimes a joke will come off on a very fisque joke will come off on a very risque subject, sometimes it

won't. that's up for you to judge . this clearly wasn't very judge. this clearly wasn't very good. and what i'd say is it reflects more broadly a situation where bbc comedy actually isn't very funny anymore. once upon a time it was. it did have a very good reputation . now the sense of reputation. now the sense of humour has gone, even when they try to do very safe things. it's not very funny. and clearly here they've tried to do something fisque they've tried to do something risque and it's also not very funny. so i think that it's it. my funny. so i think that it's it. my stance is always if you want it, if you want to give it a go, you know, by all means try and see if it'll make us laugh . see if it'll make us laugh. sometimes very risque jokes do. this hasn't ultimately very bad taste. >> okay. >> okay. >> and listen, i'm not going to defend the gag, but i will defend the gag, but i will defend the gag, but i will defend the programme makers right to make it. lisa, i think, you know, i've been a comedian. it's one of the things that i do and have done sometimes you write a joke and you say it out loud, and it's only when the words leave your mouth, you realise, whoops, i shouldn't have said that. and the guy that creates the show makes it. it's called john holmes, an experienced broadcaster and comedian, you know , you win comedian, you know, you win some, you lose some. i just think that possibly there's a

slight overreaction here. >> yeah, i actually agree with bernard. the purpose of a joke is to make people laugh, even if it's a sharp intake of breath and you go. and then you go , and you go. and then you go, that's quite funny. yeah, ricky gervais does that brilliantly. i was watching, extras last night, and you don't realise how close that gets. actually and i think that's the difference between something that is just shocking and then it's not funny afterwards or even, you know, and i think that's the difference. the bbc, i've got to admit, probably in the last 15 years, has not been great at humour as it, you know, the mash report , which was awful. i never report, which was awful. i never understood that. i never understood that. i never understood that. i never understood that. why, that was a comedy programme. and you know, it's quite, the bbc is quite i don't know, it's lost. i think it's lost his humour. >> i think the mash report had its moments. i think mrs. brown's boys is awful. so even though we can have a discussion

about which one you see awful. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> mrs. brown's boys i adored. >> mrs. brown's boys i adored. >> yeah. here we go. she's my hero. yeah. you see, mrs. brown's was superb. >> where i come from, it's really funny. and everybody likes it. they went to the live show. >> i think you all need to have your heads. >> well, there you go. >> well, there you go. >> listen, of course, the bbc would argue that they make hundreds of hours of comedy every week on the radio, on tv, with a huge audience of millions. but let me know what you think. has bbc comedy lost its way gbnews.com/yoursay at 10:00. why the media is lying to you day in, day out, non—stop 24 over seven. that's my take. at ten, i'll explain why at ten you won't want to miss it. but next up, my marc meets guest are the brilliant comedy actors starring in a new play about eric morecambe, bob monkhouse and tommy cooper. expect laughs aplenty we remember three comic geniuses

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>> yeah. >> okay, folks. lots to get through. let's start with this. it's time now for marc meats and following a hit movie. a live play following a hit movie. a live play based upon the life and careers of eric morecambe, tommy cooper and bob monkhouse is set to take the edinburgh festival by storm. the last laugh is by top writer and director paul hendy, with bob goulding as eric morecambe, damian williams as tommy cooper and simon cartwright as bob monkhouse. the last laugh will be at the assembly george square studios in edinburgh, more or less for the whole of august. at 1:20 pm. i think it is lovely lunchtime lunchtime show, which means you can get on the beers straight after you can. i'm delighted to say that damian williams and simon cartwright, tommy cooper and bob monkhouse join me now lads. great to see you. >> great to be here. >> great to be here. >> nice to be here, >> nice to be here, >> listen, you've all starred in solo shows about these individual stars. yeah. so, damian, why did paul decide to

bnng damian, why did paul decide to bring the three of these men together into a play? >> well, do you know what it started when? >> so i did a one man play. well, it wasn't a one man play. it was a play about tommy cooper called being tommy cooper. and bob had done morecambe in the west end and toured it, and bob was directing simon in a play about, bob monkhouse and me and paul went to see it. and i remember in the interval he said, i've got these guys, i've got you that does tommy, i've got you that does tommy, i've got bob, that does eric, and i've simon does. you know, there's got to be something here. we've got to do this, got to be something. and anyway, he, you know, he went away and he came back with the short film the last laugh. and that's where it all started. >> well, it made so much noise. i think we unfortunately, we don't have a clip of the film. but of course, what you want to do now is go and see the live show in edinburgh. anyway, but here is a clip, a short clip of tommy cooper in action. do you remember 33 years ago? >> yes, at the cambridge theatre in london. we were in a show

together called sauce piquante. quite right. we were on £25 a week each, which they cut to 50% after the first week, £12, ten shillings. and i shared a dressing room with you, man mountain , and he had a shirt mountain, and he had a shirt off. this is our tom. and he gave me a stick of like, makeup , gave me a stick of like, makeup, like an orange makeup. and he said , would you write back on my said, would you write back on my back this ? so i wrote back on back this? so i wrote back on his back and he put his shirt on and said i should stop the confusion . confusion. >> brilliant stuff. well, of course we will talk about tommy cooperin course we will talk about tommy cooper in a moment, but actually that clip focused very much on bob monkhouse, who of course you play bob monkhouse, who of course you play simon. bob monkhouse was an accomplished broadcaster, game show host , accomplished broadcaster, game show host, and a celebrity really, wasn't he? and an actor as well. but people forget what as well. but people forget what a brilliant stand up he was. >> i think comedy was at the heart of everything he did. i mean, he needed laughter and if you read his beautifully written autobiography, crying with

laughter, you get some real insights into what was his driver for life. and it was getting laughs. and the film, the last laugh and the play the last laugh is all around trying to understand the psyche behind these comedians. why were they hunting for comedy? why were they looking for laughs for and bob monkhouse? people wouldn't know unless they'd read the book that he had an emotionally depnved that he had an emotionally deprived childhood and so the audience was his family and the laughter was approval. and that's probably a psychology that's probably a psychology that a lot of comedians will use, even to this day. >> most definitely. how much of the real bob monkhouse do we see in the show? >> all of it. right? totally. i mean , i had the absolute mean, i had the absolute privilege of knowing bob for some, 18 years almost. and i appeared on an episode of bob says opportunity knocks back in 1989. so that was the britain's got talent of its day. and i remember bob monkhouse giving me a masterclass in how to impersonate him, because in those days i wasn't acting, i

was doing impressions and i always remember, you know, sitting with him in his dressing room and he was saying, simon, i'm just trying to think how i'd tell this joke. i probably sniff, no, i wouldn't know. i tweaked my cuff and i'm just thinking, this is incredible. this guy's analysing what he would do. phenomenal. >> truly . was it was he a happy man, >> he had his tragedies. i mean, certainly he, you know, he went through divorce. both his sons passed away while he was alive, his his eldest son, gary, had cerebral palsy and died in his 40s. his other son, simon, died of a drug overdose . so a man who of a drug overdose. so a man who had a lot of tragedy. but here's the thing. he was the old guard. he was that school of get up and go. so even if all of this was going on, he'd still go out and do a sensational live cabaret and you'd never know. >> and he was a great stand up right until the end . there's a right until the end. there's a fantastic gig of him in soho. yes, later. the albany. the albany. yes. and this was in front of an audience of very right on hip comics. and they were crying with laughter. and

he held his own. nothing cheesy about it. no, dad jokes. now, let's take a look at tommy cooperin let's take a look at tommy cooper in action. another genius. >> he comes in tomorrow night. he may not come in. i don't know. well, you don't know, do well, he may. he may not. but you can't blame me, can you? i don't care , i don't want to say care, i don't want to say i don't know the fella i don't. i don't know the fella i don't. i don't care if he comes in. makes no difference to me. but if he came, he came in, got the beer, put the drink the beer. put the clap on the car to turn the people around. he's. you're a bunch of idiots and you're a bunch of idiots and you're a bunch of idiots and you're a bunch of fools. and this man said, just a minute. i'm not a fool. he will join the idiots over there. then thank you . over there. then thank you. >> we were tight for time, but we had to run that clip because

every second is hilarious. it's comedy gold now. damian. >> yes? >> yes? >> this is a man you know, we consider tommy cooper to be the definition of funny. bones. the man who walks on stage and you're laughing, but actually, he resented the idea that there was no work involved . was no work involved. >> well, yeah, because everyone used to say to him, all you've got to do is walk on stage and people will laugh. and he used to say, yeah, but you don't know what it takes for me to actually walk onto that stage and be funny and to turn up. and those people are expecting me to be funny, and you know, it takes a lot for him to just walk on to that. well he said he took a long for him to walk. a lot of effort and a lot of practice to just, you know, to go out there first off, you know, and be funny and material and the timing and all of that. >> yeah. is he is it a great example of the geniuses who made it look easy? yes. >> and also, he didn't know. he didn't understand why people laughed. he didn't know why he was funny, but he was i mean, he was funny, but he was i mean, he was just funny. people laugh. >> we've got some footage of the last laugh. >> oh, there we are. >> oh, there we are. >> look at this. >> look at this. >> isn't that fantastic? >> isn't that fantastic? >> it's an incredible movie. and

now it's going to be live. and yes, what a treat for everyone at the edinburgh festival. there's millions of people go up there every every. well, yeah. a million people i think. go to edinburgh. yeah. >> in august. yeah. apparently i'm so looking forward. >> you're going to be sold out because details of the show what about tommy cooper, the man? i know it's an obvious question, but was he the same off stage as on do you know? >> apparently, yeah. he was always on people that knew him. comedians that talk about him, they say he was always on. he was always performing. he was. and it was hard to when i played him as an actor, it was hard to find footage of him not being tommy cooper, the performer, because there's very little there's one clip of him being interviewed somewhere in a seaside resort where he's just talking normally, and in that, and i've sort of grabbed hold of that every time i play him, just to see what he was like when he wasn't being tommy cooper. >> a very, very clever man, obviously. yeah very clever man. nobody's fool. >> just a funny. was he a funny magician, tommy cooper? no, he was a very accomplished magician. he had to know. he had to know how to do those tricks in order to do them wrong. so he had to. he practised and practice and practice everything he did. he knew exactly what he was going to do when he was

wandering around picking stuff up. he knew exactly what he was going to pick up. well, it just looked like he was going, oh, i broke that. but he knew exactly what he was doing. >> and of course, eric morecambe features in the show as well. yes, i've only got a couple of seconds left. what are you most excited about regarding the show? for my viewers to go and see it, i think it's that opportunity to pull those legends together and explore what was behind the raison d'etre for comedy. >> you know, it's funny, it's poignant, it's warm, it's nostalgic, it's all of those things. yeah, but we understand that tommy had funny bones. bob was a scientist with comedy, and it's looking at those differences, and i think it still applies to modern comedians . so there's something comedians. so there's something for everyone to write. >> i think what's great about the show is that there are three geniuses, three legends, but very different performers, very different men. let me tell you that the last laugh is by top writer and director paul hendy , writer and director paul hendy, and it can be seen at the assembly, george square theatre, george square studios in edinburgh, george square studios in edinburgh, 1:20 pm. for the whole of august, head to the

fringe website. next up my take at ten. see you in two. >> thank you. i hope that was. >> thank you. i hope that was. >> hello there. good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast provided by the met office . after largely cloudy met office. after largely cloudy first half of the weekend, we do still have some outbreaks of rain to contend with into this evening and overnight, particularly for the scottish borders and northumberland towards the north york moors . towards the north york moors. there could be some heavy pulses at times, so do take care if you are travelling here. elsewhere it is a largely dry night. some clear spells for particularly northern ireland down towards southern areas of england and wales , where here we could see wales, where here we could see rural temperatures drop down into single figures. most of our towns and cities, though, will be holding up in double digits as we start off sunday morning. but really, the best and the brightest of the conditions first thing very likely to be across the southern portion of the nation. actually quite a decent amount of sunshine here. first thing. and a very nice start to the second half of the weekend. still got that expansive cloud and rain outbreaks across northern england, but northern ireland seeing some bright spots and actually parts of central scotland into argyll and bute and the southern highlands not

faring too badly either. the far north—east of scotland , though north—east of scotland, though much cloudier with some drizzle. murky conditions around particularly long coastal areas as we see that northerly feed of air filter in that cloud. the rain across southern scotland into northern england will gradually ease a bit and turn lighter as we head throughout the day, generally turning patchy. but it is going to be cloudy and fairly dull and dreary still throughout a good portion of the day, and feeling quite cool underneath that. still temperatures only around 15 to 17 c. elsewhere in the sunnier spots, parts of central scotland down towards southern england and wales, we could see 2120 three degrees celsius. so a bit more pleasant and a bit warmer here. if you're hoping that the new week would bring something a bit more summery, i'm afraid i'm going to be the bearer of bad news because we've got another area of low pressure arriving from the southwest on monday. this will be bringing bands of showers, some of those looking like they could be heavy with some thunderstorms, even some hail in the mixture as well. pushing into southern areas of england and wales, the northern half of the uk seeing the brightest, probably best of the brightest, probably best of the conditions first thing on monday. so certainly for northern england it will be a much better start to the day

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away. >> it's 10:00. on television. on >> it's10:00. on television. on radio and online. in the united kingdom and across the world. this is mark dolan tonight. it might take a ten after broadcasters and journalists pretended that everything was fine with joe biden's health. for years, when you and i knew he clearly wasn't right. is it any wonder that trust in establishment media is at an all time low? whenever you turn in your tv or your radio, whether it's covid, climate change, or the health of the president, you are being lied to. but i'm here

to give you the truth. in my take, at ten in just two minutes time, the majestic princess anne returns to public duties . and returns to public duties. and the good news? the country has been waiting for the princess of wales. princess catherine will be in attendance at the wimbledon men's final tomorrow . wimbledon men's final tomorrow. plus the prince harry awards row rumbles on. i'll get reaction from the queen of us royal reporting kinsey schofield. plus tomorrow's newspaper front pages. it's a packed show, lots to get through. why the media is lying to you day in day out, 24 over seven. all of that in my take at ten straight after the headunes take at ten straight after the headlines with the incredibly honest sam francis . honest sam francis. >> very good evening to you. it's just after 10:00 and leading the news tonight, as we have been . we'll talk sport.

have been. we'll talk sport. gareth southgate has admitted he wants england to win so much. it huns wants england to win so much. it hurts as the squad prepare to face spain in the euro 2024 final tomorrow. earlier, the england boss issued a rallying cry to his players on the eve of their showdown against spain. >> i'm not a believer in fairy tales, but i am a believer in dreams and, we've had big dreams. we've felt the need and the importance of that . but the importance of that. but then, you know, you have to make those things happen . those things happen. >> well, with support from the king, the prince of wales and the prime minister, england are hoping to end their 58 year wait for a major trophy. and thousands of fans have travelled from far and wide to watch the game tomorrow in berlin. and we've been speaking to some of them . them. >> didn't even get to celebrate the goal as soon as the second one went on the phone straight away, right quick. let's just let's just book from birmingham. had to get some from london.

>> could be a chance of making history tomorrow . i was at the history tomorrow. i was at the last final and we never won. i've been travelling following england since 2012 and i just want to see them win something. >> i hope that it does finally come home. we've waited a long time. i'm 44 now and hasn't been home in my lifetime, so i hope this time it comes home. >> in the us , president biden's >> in the us, president biden's insisting he'll keep fighting in the race to the white house. it comes after two standout mistakes, though, at the nato summit, where he referred to the ukrainian president as president putin and went to on mix up his own vice president with donald trump . but despite those two trump. but despite those two mistakes, biden has told his supporters today in detroit that he's not just standing as the democratic candidate, but he'll also win november's election. >> you probably noticed there's a lot of speculation lately. what's joe biden going to do? is he going to stay in the race? is he going to stay in the race? is he going to drop out? here's my answer. i am running and we're going to win . i'm not going to

going to win. i'm not going to change that here. >> racing commentator john hunt, >> racing commentatorjohn hunt, whose wife and two daughters were killed in a crossbow attack, says the family's devastation can't be put into words. john and his third daughter, amy, have thanked people for messages of support they've received since the women were targeted in their home in hertfordshire on tuesday, 61 year old carol hunt and her two daughters, 25 year old louise and hannah, who's 28, died from their injuries. it comes as a 26 year old man, carl clifford, has been arrested on suspicion of murder in birmingham. a man has been charged after a huge haul of gun parts were found hidden in a car being shipped from pakistan . border force officers pakistan. border force officers at london gateway port discovered the components, which investigators say could have been used to build or adapt deadly weapons. 39 year old yassir khan was arrested for attempting to import firearms and charged earlier today. he'll appear before birmingham magistrates on monday.

appear before birmingham magistrates on monday . the son magistrates on monday. the son of asia's richest man has tied the knot in what's being dubbed the knot in what's being dubbed the wedding of the year. anat ambani has married his long time girlfriend in front of global celebrities, business tycoons and even politicians. among those invited to four days of celebrations in india are well, bofis celebrations in india are well, boris johnson, tony blair and kim kardashian , while adele, kim kardashian, while adele, drake and the beckhams are also on the guest list. and finally, some royal news for you. the princess of wales will attend wimbledon's men's singles final tomorrow and she's going to and she will present the trophy. it will be her second public appearance since her cancer diagnosis was announced last yean diagnosis was announced last year, after she attended trooping the colour last month. kate has been in a patron of the all england lawn club since 2016. those are the latest gb news headlines . 2016. those are the latest gb news headlines. for 2016. those are the latest gb news headlines . for now, 2016. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis. one final update at 11:00 for the very latest gb

news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> dot com forward slash alerts . >> dot com forward slash alerts. >> dot com forward slash alerts. >> thank you sam. welcome to mark dolan tonight, the majestic princess anne returns to public dufies princess anne returns to public duties and as you've just heard the good news, the country has been waiting for the princess of wales. princess catherine will be in attendance at the wimbledon men's final tomorrow . wimbledon men's final tomorrow. plus, the prince harry awards row rumbles on. i'll get reaction from the queen of us royal reporting. kinsey schofield plus tomorrow's newspaper front pages and live reaction in the studio from tonight's top pundits this evening with ringside view. we have political commentator benedict spence, the green goddess herself , broadcasting goddess herself, broadcasting legend diana moran , and academic

legend diana moran, and academic and anarchist doctor lisa mckenzie . a packed hour those mckenzie. a packed hour those papers are coming, and a top westminster insider on the big political stories of the day. but first, my take at ten. the joe biden story shows how the media lies to you all the time , media lies to you all the time, non—stop. i'll explain why in a moment, but let me give you some background. the covid 19 pandemic woke me up . it made no pandemic woke me up. it made no sense that western democracies were adopting the unproven chinese communist party policy of lockdowns in what proved to be a disastrously failed experiment to stop a bad virus . experiment to stop a bad virus. it made no sense that children who face no mortal threat from covid or indeed serious symptoms, were locked out of schools and playgrounds. it made

no sense that our faces were masked with filthy, flimsy devices whose holes were between 501,000 times larger than the virus itself . and whilst the virus itself. and whilst the media's job is to probe and question government policy dunng question government policy during the pandemic, all the main tv channels and newspapers rolled over to government ministers serving as propaganda outlets to sell what in my view, proved to be a doomed policy. look at no lockdown, no mask mandate. sweden, who boasts the lowest excess deaths in europe, including their scandinavian neighbours. some people still believe all of it, like those poor souls still wandering around in the park with a mask on. we'll probably never get those people back . well, we're those people back. well, we're seeing the same thing now with climate change. now i'm concerned about the planet and it's clearly heating up with devastating consequences. i'm

pushing for what i call smart net zero, which takes into account the economy, the will of the people and evidence based science. if you're asking me to bin my perfectly good 15 year old prius, you better tell me why and back it up with the numbers. but as with covid, the media is fuelling hysteria around the issue of climate with some tv and radio networks and newspapers profiting from revenue from green industries by telling you that the earth will have burnt down by next tuesday and high profile broadcasters and high profile broadcasters and journalists earn brownie points from their elite peers by signalling their virtue and backing this questionable war on fossil fuels with international energy expert gary lineker this week applauding ed miliband's plan to reduce oil and gas exploration in the north sea. of course, these wealthy celebrities will be insulated

from the inevitable cost of the so—called green revolution and politics. politicians like ed miliband will be long out of power if and when this wild plan to bet the house on flaky renewables proves to be a costly mistake, you can sense the media's current disappointment that the uk has had a relatively cool and wet summer, because it deprives them of selling their message of climate armageddon. a cool july doesn't really fit the narrative, does it? but don't you worry, once those temperatures pick up, you'll be seeing those mad red weather maps which are there to give you the impression that the country is basically on fire, rather than what we used to call summer. those tv weather maps used to be light yellow in colour, with the same temperatures that we've got now , but now there are dark now, but now there are dark crimson red. that, in my view, is propaganda. it is manipulation, and it's dishonest. they think you're

stupid. so whether it's covid or climate, the template of exaggeration, obfuscation and downright lies on the part of our media establishment has been set. and we've seen it most recently in relation to poor old joe biden, who should be sat in a care home with a cup of tea watching reruns. episodes of the golden girls, thinking about when to have his next piss, not sitting in the oval office leading the free world. and yet , leading the free world. and yet, media commentators in the united states were telling us just weeks ago that biden is at the height of his powers, whip smart, as sharp as he's ever been. what a pack of lies. smart, as sharp as he's ever been. what a pack of lies . even been. what a pack of lies. even our new prime minister did it this week in washington, with sir keir starmer claiming that biden is not senile and too not old to be president. in fact, according to the pm, apparently he's on great form. do me a favour. is this great form ?

favour. is this great form? >> and now i want to hand it over to the president of ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination. ladies and gentlemen, president putin couldn't have picked vice president trump to be vice president. did i think she was not qualified to be president? so let's start there . so let's start there. >> it's been clear for a while that biden was not mentally fit for high office. i've been saying it since 2020 on my old talk radio show , but the media talk radio show, but the media have covered this up, making mugs of all of us. but it's useful as it shows you how they work and what to look out for. never forget that great line from george orwell's book about government control. 1984. the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. it was their final , most it was their final, most essential command these days. if you want the truth , you'll you want the truth, you'll struggle to find it on television, on the radio or in

newspapers. is it any wonder that establishment media is in terminal decline ? but fear not, terminal decline? but fear not, because i will always tell you as i say it. and let me tell you, i've been in broadcasting for over 20 years. i got into current affairs journalism in the last 5 or 6 years, and i've received pelters for dropping truth bombs, but i'm going to keep doing it because it's essential and you won't get it anywhere else. so your reaction, please gbnews.com/yoursay i'll get to your opinions in a moment. but first, tonight's top punst moment. but first, tonight's top pundits political commentator benedict spence, the green goddess , broadcasting legend goddess, broadcasting legend diana moran, and academic and anarchist doctor lisa mckenzie , anarchist doctor lisa mckenzie, benedict spence. the media is lying to us day in, day out. no wonder it's dying . wonder it's dying. >> i think we need to remember that the media tends to follow the crowd. is this idea that the media quite likes, and i think a lot of political activists, that it's the one that sets the tone.

but ultimately it decides to follow what it thinks is going to be profitable. and that's the key thing, isn't it, that it's largely about selling stories. it's largely about profit , where it's largely about profit, where it does sort of end up pivoting into attempting to, if you like, influence political outcomes. i think it tends to backfire. so for as much as we can say that the media is lying to us, and i think probably is, i do think that they will not end up getting the end result that they, that they want from this. yeah most definitely. >> diana moran . we've been lied >> diana moran. we've been lied to about joe biden haven't he. >> haven't we, >> haven't we, >> well , i >> haven't we, >> well, i mean, we're just watching that every second. and the media are making, watching that every second. and the media are making , such a lot the media are making, such a lot of fuss about it, of course. and that's selling newspapers , that's selling newspapers, magazines, programs as well . but magazines, programs as well. but really, at the end of the day , really, at the end of the day, surely his wife should be saying , surely his wife should be saying, darling, enough is enough and

time for him to stop. darling, enough is enough and time for him to stop . surely time for him to stop. surely there must be somebody else who can take his place. and probably the same could be said for trump as well. >> well, i think it's certainly a fair point with regard to joe biden, although i think doctor jill biden should have said, darling, it's time to step down in 2020, not 2024. lisa mckenzie . in 2020, not 2024. lisa mckenzie. >> yeah, i watched, the speech he did on thursday. i think it was live. and i just sort of went, a sharp, you know, that sharp intake of breath. and i think everybody in the room did it as well. i think what also shocked me this week is the fact that george clooney can tell the most powerful man in the world to give it up. i mean, george clooney is an actor . what? where clooney is an actor. what? where are we in the world when this can happen? you know, an actor, somebody who is there purely for entertainment, pretends to be

other people can actually tell the president of the united states, arguably the most powerful man in the planet, that he should resign. i mean, where are we? >> but lisa, can can you acknowledge my point or disagree with my point that biden is an example of how the media lie to their readers, viewers and listeners? my viewers and listeners? my viewers and listeners are not stupid. they know that this guy isn't right . know that this guy isn't right. they've known it for a long time, but i'm not sure it's i'm not sure it's just the media. >> when you're saying the media is lying. >> they haven't called out his obvious senile dementia. >> i mean, some some which has been there for years have, yeah. >> i mean , some elements of the >> i mean, some elements of the media have. i don't think this is just the media lying. media have. i don't think this isjust the media lying. i media have. i don't think this is just the media lying. i think this is sort of a structure, a power structure, because why is why are why, you know, who is running america? does anybody actually think it's biden? does anybody actually think he's day to day making the decisions? because i actually don't. is thatis because i actually don't. is that is that a truth bomb? is it a lie? is it a conspiracy

theory? you know, he's not running america when you see him making his own comments, he gets them so horribly wrong and he goes so vague. >> given a script and he's perfect. but again, i think to go back to all of this, there is a sense from within parts of the media establishment that they need to sort of do the moral thing and sort of call for biden to go, and they're sort of scrabbling around and thinking, oh, well, we're going to tell people that, you know, kamala harris is a viable alternative. >> as i say, when they try to go down that route, it tends to backfire. and actually, they did this with hillary clinton as well, actually. but this is what i mean when i say the media exists to sell stories. actually, this is a phenomenal story. this is really going to get people involved and engaged, and that's why they're sort of following it to a degree, if you like. and they did the same thing with trump and it was too only late that they realised, oh, this goes against our moral ethics. they did it with sold so many stories over there. >> they did it with brexit. >> they did it with brexit. >> brexit. >> brexit. >> yeah. well let me tell you that i think when it comes to

climate covid and joe biden's cognitive health, we've been lied to by establishment media. your reaction ? your reaction? gbnews.com/yoursay but coming up, the majestic princess sam returns to public duties and the princess of wales, catherine will be in attendance at the wimbledon men's final tomorrow. plus, the prince harry awards row rumbles on. i'll get reaction from the queen us royal reporting kinsey schofield

next. it's time now for us. news with the queen of american showbiz. royal and political reporting . royal and political reporting. kinsey schofield and kinsey. good news. the icing on the cake for wimbledon. a very special guest in the audience . guest in the audience. >> i mean, i think we've been so excited at the idea of the princess of wales returning, >> she is expected to return to wimbledon tomorrow for the men's final and present the winner's

trophy, the princess of wales has been patron of the all england club for eight years now. she took it over from queen elizabeth, who had served in that role since 1952, a club spokesperson had told us a few weeks ago and i believe we actually spoke about this, that they were giving the princess as much flexibility as possible when it came to an appearance at wimbledon , saying, we're hopeful wimbledon, saying, we're hopeful that the princess will be able to present the trophies, but her health and recovery is the priority and that they were just giving her as much flexibility as she needed because at the time, a few months ago, or was it just a month ago now, she told us that she did hope to attend the occasional engagement here and there over the summer, but she had urged the public to bear with her because, like many cancer patients, she had good days and bad days. >> well, indeed. well, i cannot wait to see her in action tomorrow. the tennis is one

thing that's a sideshow. comparing compared to getting to see the princess of wales watching tennis and of course doing her royal duties and hopefully continuing in her recovery, speaking of recovery, another heroic princess returns to the front line. >> that's right, that's princess anne. she returned to public dufies anne. she returned to public duties this week. this was the first time we'd seen her since she suffered a concussion. they're calling this a phased return to duties. so expect princess anne to be gradual as well . although i would say far well. although i would say far more aggressive. she is just so determined to get back to work because that is who she is. but the 73 year old princess spent five nights in a hospital after she was struck by a horse. this was back in june and she made an appearance at the riding for the disabled association's national championships. the association is celebrating its 55th anniversary, and princess anne became a patron of that organisation all the way back. in 1971. she became president in 1986. the princess, of course,

an olympic medal winning equestrian, and this is obviously a sincere passion for her. she presented nearly two dozen awards and she met with the winners. and it was actually really cute because the prince and princess of wales sent via instagram and twitter a message welcoming princess anne back to royal duties, calling her a super trouper, adding so great to see you back so soon. >> she is such a fabulous person. i'm such a big fan of princess anne, prince harry, not so much the row around an award that he received this week rumbles on, does he have a to case answer? can you tell us about the story and why people are so cross about it? >> i mean, here in america over 77,000 people signed a petition asking espn to reconsider giving prince harry this pat tillman award for service , i think that award for service, i think that what you're saying is harry and meghan's fairy tale in the states, it's coming to an end . states, it's coming to an end. this american experiment has proven actually to be a pr

nightmare for harry and meghan. with the times writing i believe it was today. the title was amid award backlash as america falling out of love with harry. and to that i'd say mark. clearly the times has not been watching our conversations over the last few years , because we the last few years, because we can tell you a very bluntly , can tell you a very bluntly, yes, they quote newsweek, which has been very favourable towards harry and meghan. they recorded reported that it meghan's popularity, her fan base appears to have collapsed almost completely, with just 1% of boomers feeling very positive about meghan. it cited a yougov poll in may showing that she was disliked by 65% of britain, including 45% who viewed her. who's views of her were very negative. so, you know, you saw a lot of backlash over prince harry accepting this trophy. this was a war hero who this trophy was named after, who lost his life in afghanistan, sacrificed himself for a bigger

cause. left our left. the glitz and glamour and the money. and people really feel like prince harry is now chasing the dollar versus living the life of service that pat tillman lived. and that is where you're really finding frustration here in the states. and that is why you're seeing people really disappointed in prince harry for actually going through with this and accepting this award . and accepting this award. >> although the guy did set up the invictus games , which is the invictus games, which is there to recognise injured servicemen and service women. so do you not think in some ways he was an appropriate winner ? was an appropriate winner? >> well, i think that he would really appreciate you giving him that much credit. but four years ago, mark dolan, prince harry couldn't even figure out how to pay couldn't even figure out how to pay his own phone bill. he didn't own a couch. so i highly doubt it was prince harry that single handedly set up the invictus games. something tells me that those men in grey suits had a lot of a lot to do with where did the porta potties go ? where did the porta potties go? how do what are people going to wear wristbands ? are people wear wristbands? are people going to wear lanyards? i mean, prince harry is not the one

making those decisions. it was the royal family. it was the palace that put together the template for prince harry to have the invictus games when they were quite frankly, sick of naked vegas romps. they had to give the guy something to keep him busy. otherwise he was going to continue to embarrass them. is the invictus games an incredible cause? yes. thank god the royal family funded it and helped him to create this incredible cause. i'm sure that he's learned a lot through it. hopefully it's humbled him and moving forward, you know, i hope that he i hope that he really utilises it to elevate those those veterans that participate in the cause. >> and briefly , kinzie hollywood >> and briefly, kinzie hollywood actor alec baldwin accidentally shot dead his director of photography, the lead camerawoman on the set of his film rust. but this week he walks free. case dismissed. will he act again ? he act again? >> oh, yeah. i mean, 40 years in this business. he's got plenty of friends in high places. he is an award winning actor, but the

prosecution messed up big time. and alec baldwin is not going to have to face the consequences that halyna hutchins family really wished he was going to have to face. and hopefully the prosecution sitting back and looking at some of their errors today. >> one rule for the elites, another for us. kinsey. we'll catch up in a week's time. my thanks to the queen of us showbiz, royal and political reporting kinsey schofield. next up, tomorrow's papers with full pundh up, tomorrow's papers with full pundit reaction . also in the next houn hour, my top westminster insider. see

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sunday raw for the lie—ins the day of destiny is here. to time end 58 years of hurt. let's get reaction from my top pundits. i'm delighted to have benedict spence, diana moran and doctor lisa mckenzie and diana. this is just the pickup that the country needs. victory tomorrow in the euros , isn't it? euros, isn't it? >> well, i've certainly got a friend who's sitting in the green room who along with you, would love to think that it's going to happen. yes. i mean , going to happen. yes. i mean, it's putting a smile on many people's faces. i'm not really a great football person myself, but i want them to win a cos i do . do. >> well, it goes without saying that we will be across the match because mark dolan tonight clashes with the game . but what clashes with the game. but what we're going to do is we will bnng we're going to do is we will bring you goal updates the moment they happen, and also we'll be speaking to fans. we've got a reporter at one of the big fan parks, so we'll have lots of fun. and of course for the final

result, whenever it comes in, i'll get reaction from former england manager and premier league manager. a total legend of football. the one and only sam allardyce, big sam on mark dolan tonight straight after the game. so the minute the game's over come straight over to me and we will go football all the way unless we lose. and then we'll talk about ed miliband, listen, what do you think? will you be watching the football tomorrow? lisa, >> do you know what this is the first tournament in a long time. i've actually watched and i don't know why. i'm not usually a big england supporter. i'm not. i'm just not a patriotic person. but i have actually got behind them, and i think it's the players. i like the players. they look like a britain that i know they represent represent the yeah, they look like an england that i know so. and they act like working class boys. yes. working class. you know, i've seen lots of these memes about this week about what would england look like without immigration. it's like, what would england look like without the working class? >> yeah , that's exactly right.

>> yeah, that's exactly right. >> yeah, that's exactly right. >> do you feel that in some ways, the working class have been forgotten in this country? >> of course. i mean, there's a reason why they've called us the left behind, you know, we wasn't left behind, you know, we wasn't left behind. we got purposefully left behind. we got purposefully left out. >> yeah. and why is that? >> yeah. and why is that? >> why has that happened? that working class people are no longer featuring in the national conversation? >> well , i conversation? >> well, i think it's been for a long time. i think, working class people or the, the concept of class is embarrassing and awkward for middle class people because you cannot deny with class there are unfair disadvantages for some, but equally unfair advantages for others. so it's a it's an awkward conversation that middle class people don't tend to like. >> do you think the left are at fault partly for this ? because fault partly for this? because i've noticed that the left have become very focused on identity politics. >> of course they've pushed it and less so on poverty and the poor. poon >> yes, of course. and what they've done is they've pushed this idea that identity politics

is , you know, we can change. we is, you know, we can change. we can change things with tick boxes. we can change things with diversity policies . i mean, but diversity policies. i mean, but one of the things we've got to remember, class is not a protected characteristic. so, you know , i, i could , as you know, i, i could, as a working class woman, as a white working class woman, as a white working class woman, my, you know , disadvantage is never know, disadvantage is never recognised . recognised. >> do you think that the left have overlooked working class people who in principle should be their key political constituency? >> but that's precisely why. because they are the key political constituency. and the attitude has always been from the educated middle and upper classes who formed, you know, the hierarchy of the labour party for a very long time. >> the islington sort of chattering classes. >> who are these people going to vote for anyway? they're lumped with us. we can sort of get away with us. we can sort of get away with taking them for granted, because it's not like they're going to for vote the tories. whereas if you go for the strategy, then of appealing to minorities and you sort of look at what a minority tends to be, very often they actually tend to come from far more conservative

backgrounds than the labour party. but you give them something to appeal to and the fact that they are a lot of them, you know, a lot of people who come to this country do end up, if you like, as part of the working class, but with the added sort of category of being added sort of category of being a minority, and you sort of think, okay, maybe they come from the middle east or sub—saharan africa, maybe they're very religious, maybe they're very religious, maybe they have very sort of conservative social views, but we're going to give them a ticket to vote for us. we're going to give them votes. reasons to vote for us by giving them sort of special treatment effectively. and that's how we're going to win these people over from the conservative party, which is actually their their natural home. there's one of the things the conservative party has failed to do, which is pick up that minorities in places like london socially are a lot more conservative than even a lot of conservative mps. but that does mean then that, yes, the working class, they are no longer special. they're no longer people you need to win oven longer people you need to win over. they fall by the wayside. well, we are you get until you get something like brexit. yes yes. >> yeah yeah yeah. and then and then you have the working class electing an etonian prime minister in boris johnson. yes, yes. >> i mean, briefly, i'm going to come to you in a second, if you

give me one second, diana. but i just want to ask you about, a book written by paul embery gb news, star of course, i've read that book, and it's called despised. why the modern left loathes the working class. yes he's actually right, >> matthew goodwin has written interesting things about this as well . why? there's been an elite well. why? there's been an elite left, george orwell, who is the greatest writer britain's ever produced? probably world, actually. he actually wrote in the 1930s about the bourgeois left , and one the 1930s about the bourgeois left, and one of the things he says is when the bourgeois left come to the working class and say to them, what do you want us to do? they should we the working class should say, commit suicide. >> oh my goodness , diana, do we >> oh my goodness, diana, do we still have a class system in this country? >> well, i'm just listening to all of you talking. i mean, i'm all of you talking. i mean, i'm a working woman. am i working class. >> yeah. i mean this is. keir starmer struggled before the election to answer that question. >> what who are working people who he's always talking about. yeah i mean do you feel that the

class system has changed since perhaps you were growing up. >> yes, i do definitely. i was brought up in the country in somerset and yes , there was an somerset and yes, there was an elite crowd . we called them the elite crowd. we called them the mendip set. really? yes. >> why were they called mendip? >> why were they called mendip? >> well, i must be quiet. oh, you must not be quiet. >> was that a nickname? >> was that a nickname? >> the mendip set? >> the mendip set? >> no, i'll just be quiet. >> no, i'll just be quiet. >> okay. i'll google it later . >> oh, >> oh, dear, >> oh, dear, >> but anyway, so you had the elites? >> yes. >> yes. >> you did the. >> you did the. >> were they the kind of the ruling class ? the aristocrats? ruling class? the aristocrats? >> well, that was the problem. they were the people who'd inherited money, inherited properties. and then they had the us, the ordinary people. yeah. my dad was working class. we were ordinary children. and then obviously there were others who weren't so fortunate as ourselves. >> do you think that this new labour government will address the needs of the working class? >> i'd like to think so, yeah. >> i'd like to think so, yeah. >> i'd like to think so, yeah. >> i mean, that's certainly the

hope. that's certainly the cell with the starmer's focus on on on working people truant register. lisa. >> yes. >> yes. >> to save covid lost generation. i mentioned covid earlier in my take at ten. and, you know, one of the great harms of lockdown was the fact that a generation of kids didn't go back to school. >> no, no. and actually, it's not refreshing at all to see that the new labour is back amongst us, making lists of what working class people are doing wrong again, which is this is what this is . it's a new list. what this is. it's a new list. you know, this is shaming people . you know, this is shaming people. yes, it's shaming people. and it's also not understanding why children might not make it to school, and the poorer you are, you know, there will be so many different obstacles. why you might not make it to school, some of which might be you might not have the shoes to go to school. i actually know a family who shares a pair of shoes amongst their children , so that

amongst their children, so that is not, understanding the issues. why children? that's just making a list and saying, you know, here's a gold for star those that can come every day and here's a you're bad and these are children. >> okay. fair enough. well, listen, we've got lots more stories to sink our teeth into. and this one is, very, very interesting indeed. and it's in the sunday telegraph . liz truss the sunday telegraph. liz truss has lashed out at rishi sunak, former prime minister said that he trashed her record. well, i'll be speaking to a liz truss loyalist next. that's right. my top westminster insider, who's very close to the former prime minister. so we'll do that. plus more front pages. see in

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have a look at the mail on sunday. thank you. josh, day of destiny special. one last push to finish the job. not talking about keir starmer and the british economy. no no no no. this is england at the euros. mark dolan tonight will bring you rolling coverage of the game. we'll do a bit of politics as well. don't worry. it'll be a perfect blend. but you won't miss any of the action if you stick with us from eight, kate's wimbledon dates with the one spaniard we don't mind winning. great news, princess of wales returning to wimbledon for the men's single final tomorrow . men's single final tomorrow. independence. a devastation that can't be put into words. john hunt speaks out after his family were killed in a crossbow attack. that was his wife and two daughters. he just has one remaining daughter. there really are no words to imagine what he's going through. history awaits gareth southgate and his team prepare to take on spain for the euro 2024 title. i think our first major trophy since

1966 with black and white telly. imagine also scandal of underqualified nurses joining the nhs, the uk's under—fire nursing regulator is being forced to investigate fears that a third of universities may have released trainee nurses to work in hospitals, despite failing to carry out hundreds of hours of training . and the sunday times training. and the sunday times israeli attempt to kill hamas leader leaves dozens dead in gaza airstrike. truant registered to save covid lost generation and fans descend on berlin and harry kane points the way. those are your front pages, but what about this corker in the sunday telegraph, liz truss blames rishi sunak for trashing her records. former prime minister liz truss that was the last prime minister. but one do keep up, she has blamed the scale of the tories general election defeat on rishi sunak

trashing her record. liz truss, who lost her seat last thursday, becoming the first prime minister to do so since sir ramsay macdonald in 1935, says she was among the conservative candidates to have paid the electoral price for mr sunak's errors. writing for the telegraph in her first intervention since the devastating result, she said that she had kept her silence dunng that she had kept her silence during the election campaign to prevent further damage to the party, but felt she must speak out , right now, she party, but felt she must speak out, right now, she said more than 250 of us paid the electoral price for this. regrettably, over the course of the next five years, it will be the next five years, it will be the british people who have to bear the cost of this failing , bear the cost of this failing, singling out the 2022 tory leadership campaign in which she beat sunak on a tax cutting agenda.she beat sunak on a tax cutting agenda. she said sunak and his allies had sought a short term advantage in the conservative leadership contest by claiming that cutting taxes did not generate growth. this

abandonment of conservative principles not only led to him getting no credit from the voters for cutting national insurance, but also to led an even larger general election defeat as he continued to trash my record and promote labour's false narrative that the global rise in mortgage rates was somehow my fault . okay, well, somehow my fault. okay, well, look, let's get the views of our brilliant last word guest political commentator and director of the popular conservatives, and a man who has been a policy advisor to liz truss, mark littlewood. mark has liz truss got a point or is this sour grapes , sour grapes, >> she's got a very good point, hasn't she? >> mark, it's great to be with you. i'm glad that she kept her counsel throughout the general election. i'm sorry that she lost her seat, but then two thirds of conservatives did. so i think what she's pointing out here in the article is the conservatives completely lost their way. we were. rishi sunak

wasn't a tax cutter. and we went into the election saying, don't vote for labour because taxes will go up, spending will get out of control, regulation will go out of control, regulation will 9° up out of control, regulation will go up and immigration will get out of control. but all of those things have gone wrong under the conservatives, for a good number of years . so it was like, vote of years. so it was like, vote for us because it's pretty bad, but it will be even worse under the other lot. the particular point, there was one sentence you pointed to there about mortgage rates. some utter myth seems to have grown up that the truss—kwarteng mini—budget caused a spike in mortgage rates around the world, as this. this could affect anything in the united states of america. mortgage rates were going to go up mortgage rates were going to go up anyway , truss was unfortunate up anyway, truss was unfortunate that that happened exactly on her watch and was able to be badged on her. i've got no doubt, because it's in rishi sunak's interest and indeed keir starmer's that if england lose to spain tomorrow, it will be blamed on liz truss, but she has a good point. the conservatives

didn't run as conservatives. they lost