of what he described as chaos. and mp5 of what he described as chaos. and mps debated the king's speech in the house of commons, king charles officially opened the new session of parliament today, setting out the government's planned programme of new laws. in total , 40 of new laws. in total, 40 separate new pieces of legislation were announced, with promises to get britain building, deliver greater devolution and a plan to tackle organised immigration crime. the government also announced a new child poverty taskforce. but the prime minister is facing pressure over not scrapping the two child benefit cap . sir keir two child benefit cap. sir keir starmer and rishi sunak both set out their intentions as the new session of parliament began , and session of parliament began, and we on this side of the house will hold them accountable for delivering on the commitments that they made to the british people. >> we will not oppose for the sake of it. but when we disagree with a government, it is our responsibility as the opposition to say so. >> this government has been elected to deliver nothing less than national renewal, to stop the chaos of the past 14 years. turn the page on an era of

politics as noisy performance and return it to public service . and return it to public service. >> the latest economic figures show inflation held at the bank of england's 2% target last month. that's the lowest rate for three years. all eyes now on whether or not the bank will cut interest rates over the coming months. the government says the data is welcome news, but they also said prices are high because of the economic chaos left by the tories . prisoners of left by the tories. prisoners of war were exchanged today following an agreement between ukraine and russia. 95 soldiers from each side were returned to their home countries. if you're watching on television, you can see these ukrainian men appearing emotional as they leave the coach and hug people as they get off, some of them crying as they hit the soil. president volodymyr zelenskyy said all of the freed prisoners were from the armed forces. he also thanked the united arab emirates for its help in facilitating the deal. it's the

third swap in seven weeks and the news here at home. a heat health alert has been issued for parts of england, with temperatures set to hit 30 c on friday. the uk health security agency alerts cover east midlands, east england, london and the south east from tomorrow to saturday. it warns that the expected hot weather may impact the health and social care sector , and is encouraging sector, and is encouraging people to check on their elderly neighbours. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. now it's gb news headlines for now. now wsfime gb news headlines for now. now it's time for headliners >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners. >> i'm simon evans, joining me tonight to add their unique spin

tonight to add their unique spin to tomorrow's newspapers are the thinking woman's crumpet , thinking woman's crumpet, stephen allen and the man who likes crumpets. that's nick dixon. does that mean? well, i think they're calling you fat, aren't they? but actually, i'm actually slimmer than reasonable. >> you know, many of the panellists, i don't know. >> do you, like, do you like crumpets? >> not really. i haven't eaten them in years. do you have, like, a copy of like a prayer book with butter drips onto the page? it's just a fragile. but i'm not that fat. oh, so it doesn't make sense. well you didn't take it personally. i am a conduit for the. oh, yeah? it's not you that that will stand up in court. let's have a look at thursday's front pages. i'm willing to take credit for these. how will these new burdens on growth help firms? that's the daily mail asking about the king's speech. the times pm seeks deal with europe on migrants . times pm seeks deal with europe on migrants. the times pm seeks deal with europe on migrants . the express red on migrants. the express red revolution bigger state and higher spending. the financial times starmer promises decade of renewal with bills geared

towards unlocking growth makes them sound like ducks. the eye news avanti first rail firm at risk of privatisation. the daily star terror of the killer stingrays. i don't think that was in the king's speech. those were the front pages . so first were the front pages. so first up, we have the daily mail. >> yeah, they go with, how will these new burdens on firms help growth? >> question mark. >> question mark. >> they say that labour's workers rights revolution will cost jobs and choke growth. this is part of the problem with capitalism, i suppose if you if you want to maximise growth, you actually don't want workers to have any rights. you could really do some good stuff then. >> so it's true to say more rights will impact growth, but it's the sweet spot that we're after as a society. >> is that quite right? capitalism? some would say its heyday was under henry ford's management of the of the great

car plants in detroit. part of his calculation was that he had to pay the workers enough that they could afford to buy cars. yeah, that's his decision. >> it's not their right. >> it's not their right. >> yeah, not a right. but you encourage the workers to have a decent standard of living. >> and then if you want to be a business that's massively flexible so that you can hire staff, get rid of staff, zero hours contracts can be good on both sides, but they're definitely good for the business. >> yes. i'm just, you know, just are they though because people might work better. >> they might consider themselves more, emotionally involved, more motivated. >> if a company thought it's better to not give a zero hours contract, it wouldn't do because they have the right to offer those different contracts. labour is, if you boil it down to rights, but that's like the daily mail has just gone on that there are avoiding some of the other bills. we'll talk conversion therapy later because there's a whole section on that. of course there is. have you seen this show before, i think some of the best ones that the king mentioned, he didn't write it himself, but they because 40 bills with the majority that labour's got, they could get these all through. >> they worst case scenario gets slowed down by the house of lords. >> maybe that one where they get rid of hereditary peers of the

house of lords. >> yeah. they might mention that a few times, but my favourite one is the budget responsibility bill, known as the liz truss bill, known as the liz truss bill, where they're making it for illegal anyone to do a liz truss again. >> imagine that as a legacy that you're known. you've got a bill named after you, because we don't want people to be able to don't want people to be able to do what you and yet you're still alive. >> that's quite unusual, nick. >> that's quite unusual, nick. >> yeah, i mean, it's a good point. >> steve says the king doesn't write it. >> similar defence to your auto queue based defence, i hated most of it. i mean, there's a lot of stuff about equality as the males picked up on, there was sort of the creation of fake climate jobs. i'm paraphrasing. there was the, scrapping of the no fault eviction for landlords, which seems a crazy idea to me. conversion therapy, as you say, ukraine getting a path to nato membership also seems dangerous. resetting relations with european partners means stahl wants to go back in the eu , wants to go back in the eu, working on the two state solution in the middle east. fine, but it's never worked. no hereditary peers. i'm against that. more female bishops in the house of lords, you say? >> sorry, you're against the change or you're against hereditary. >> i'm against the change. yeah okay. i want things to be as

traditional and old fashioned as possible, even though they help. don't help me at all. >> the funny thing is, they only help the aristocracy. it is obviously irrational. it's stupid. and possibly it's not the most important legislation, but it's not been bad , has it? but it's not been bad, has it? it's actually worked quite well. they tend to know to keep quiet unless it's something they know about, like grouse shooting or something. >> but the idea of like your, your dad or your granddad was really good. so you should get a say in things. yeah, it is flawed, isn't it? >> it's not the main thing in the speech. i mean, i'd be more worried about almost everything else. i mean, they're getting more female bishops in the house of lords. is that, is that important enough to be in the or is that hate women of all the bishops from the house of lords, why do they suddenly get a pass? >> that is the odd thing i would, but only because of their woke. >> if they weren't, i'd just make it all bishops. they call the house of bishops. >> one time the bishops were the most reliable sea anchor against reform and progression that there was, wasn't it? about nowadays they're less reliable. i obviously you couldn't reverse engineer the house of lords, but you know, it's like a constitutional monarchy. >> bishops are very progressive, given they can only move diagonally. i just thought of that chess joke, guys. at 5 am.

>> quite well known that joke, is it? yeah well, i take it back. that joke, but not in the house of lords. what about the. i regret my words. yes. sorry what was the other one you said early on? there was one that you went through, and, the two state solution. >> resetting relations, no . >> resetting relations, no. hereditary peers. ukraine. path to nato membership? >> no. >> no. >> none of these. climate, no fault eviction. >> no fault eviction. that was the one. i didn't notice that. so the idea is that landlords can't just throw out tenants. yeah. >> which i think is so bad. i mean, how can that possibly work? you bring someone on knowing that you might be stuck with them forever. maybe. i'm not looking at the detail. yeah, i mean, to be boring. >> it's not that you're stuck with them forever. it's for people who want to sell the property. so they'd evict the tenants and sell the property because it's easier to sell with the sitting tenants. whereas now what you'd have to do is either try and sell it like that or just wait for the. >> you totally should be allowed to do that because it's your house. >> yeah, i kind of agree with that. although i can imagine that. although i can imagine that in six months time with my daughter now living in rented accommodation. anyway, what's going on? i've never been landlord. >> i'm just an objective. the

times has pm seeks deal with europe on migrants. so good old keir starmer, you know he likes the eu. this is actually a nightmare for people who think starmer wants to get it back into the eu. this, this piece because it said he wants to reset britain's relationship with the eu. then there's sentences like starmer will also seek to opt in to the eu fingerprinting system. but as you're reading it, you're just getting incensed over there isn't it? yeah. >> you don't dot dot, but it's basically that starmer's idea is he'll he'll work with with europe on this. >> it says he'll they're discussing a potential agreement to allow the uk to send back some small boat migrants in return for accepting a number of asylum seekers from europe. and asylum seekers from europe. and a number, i mean, what is the number? that's the key thing, isn't it really? >> is it more or less than make their way over indigenous anyway? yeah, yeah, it's more or less than a million. >> it'sjust less than a million. >> it's just like less than a million. >> it'sjust like a number. less than a million. >> it's just like a number. so, so rory stewart a couple of weeks ago. >> yeah. saying 350,000, 0.5 percent of the population on annual basis. and actually, in a way, when you say 0.5% of the population on an annual basis, it sort of sounds all right, doesn't it? sounds like you should be able to absorb that. but actually, that would with compound interest, which is

tends to be a thing that humans do, isn't it? you know, i never referred to it. >> refer to that at all. >> refer to that at all. >> telegraph next, >> telegraph next, >> they go with starmer unveils his big stay at britain. of course. but this story down here, biden says he will quit only if there's a serious medical issue. can i raise my hand?i medical issue. can i raise my hand? i think there's one. there is. i think there's one already. >> but he can't think or talk. >> but he can't think or talk. >> that might be one of it. yeah.i >> that might be one of it. yeah. i mean, this part of me, for a while i was thinking, well, it doesn't matter now because of what happened with the attempted assassination. this is it's over and done with. but actually, the more i think about it, that just strengthens the trump core vote. yeah. and the trump core vote. yeah. and the issue is all about those undecideds, about those swing voters. and surely the biggest problem for those is thinking they can't bring themselves to vote for someone who is not mentally all there to be president, which is a low bar because we all remember the spitting image sketches to do with reagan. >> i don't think there are very many undecideds. what there are are people whose motivation to go out and vote. that's always the key. it's the ones who stay at home. we don't bother. i do think that seeing trump come

within a of his life is likely to be motivating. and i do think that biden's , you know, collapse that biden's, you know, collapse and deterioration. i what i'm saying sorry i just to finish the thing i think biden is going to lose more votes because of that than trump will win votes because of that. yes. yeah. that's possible. >> there's an argument that although it's a massive boost for trump, it's a slight boost for trump, it's a slight boost for biden. you handle it reasonably well. and also it's just harder to is it harder to just harder to is it harder to just oust him at this point logistically what do you do? but then again, there's this poll that, 65% of democrats want biden to withdraw 30. only 37% of democrats think biden can win versus 72% of republicans thinking trump can win. so yeah, obviously everyone wants him gone except biden. who didn't biden say it'll take god almighty to get rid of him, which he might actually do at this point. >> 20 year old boy on a sloping roof. >> yeah, yeah. well, exactly. i mean, who knows what could happen. you can't predict anything, obviously, in american politics at the moment. so obviously the received wisdom is it's a total trump win now. but anything could happen i haven't i mean the polls apparently

haven't registered a huge seismic shock. >> there's maybe half a point of difference but not massive. it's just a question, as i say, whether people feel motivated to go out. but there is i mean, he was in he's had a couple of these serious interviews, right. one on one interviews recently, one guy said to him, you know what would happen if that happened again? and biden said, i don't plan on it happening again. and you think , did you again. and you think, did you then plan on it happening last time? it was because it was a bad plan. yeah. so, so oh, god. the level of i don't know what to call it is it ego? is it narcissism? is it is it just vanhy narcissism? is it is it just vanity or is it or is it actually is he genuinely deluded as to the state of his deterioration? >> it's definitely some ego there, because i think the quotes, if it's the interview you're talking about, is where he said, if god almighty came down, i might think about might if god's turned up, it's time to stop saying might listen to what he's saying. >> god is already revolving trump's head at the crucial moment. i think he's obviously made it. >> god's picked. >> god's picked. >> yeah, he's exactly . finally, >> yeah, he's exactly. finally, nick, we have about 30s to discuss the daily star. >> oh, i need far more because

it's about stingrays terror of the killer stingrays. and the idea is we've got this mega heat wave. i always seem to keep missing these mega heat waves. we have, but it's 30 c heat wave is bringing the stingrays to our beaches. is bringing the stingrays to our beaches . wow. but not the famous beaches. wow. but not the famous puppets, it points out. but the killer. yeah, the aquatic stingray. >> things that, did for i know crocodile steve. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> great man, was it cpa? yeah yeah, i mean, i yeah, i think i would be a bit i mean, i live on the brighton coast. that's your problem. be. that would be pretty scary, a stingray. >> i live in hertfordshire. i think i can tell if it's made it all the way inland. to me. i'll win that fight. >> don't go in the sea. as a general rule of thumb. >> also a nice picture of alan hansen looking well there on the golf course. oh yeah, just encouraging to end with. i always liked alan, big lad, that's the front pages expertly appraised in part two. labour's tentative approach to trans conversion therapy and taylor swift single shaping our economy . we'll find out how .we'll find out how in a

welcome back to headliners. so, steve, thursday's daily mail. among the chaff of the king's speech. this may be feel significant ? significant? >> yeah. this is the sticky wicket. labour reveals plan to ban trans conversion therapy abuse. it's like this. double negatives already in the king's speech to allow people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity. so the phrase that they use in this article is, they want a draft bill important . it's not just a bill important. it's not just a bill important. it's not just a bill anymore. they want a draft bill. they're messing around. some of these ideas which would block action to change cure or suppress, which feels like the weakest one on here. someone's sexual sexuality or gender id. so it's going to come down to definitions. how do you define someone suppressing someone's sexuality or gender identity? yeah. whether that would allow people to have a discussion, a challenge in discussion. it does say just sorry, the gay

conversion therapy from years ago, which most i suppose there is a consensus has been reached that that there is something slightly off about that. yes. when you say this is the problem with this story, when you say conversion therapy, you imagine the i will pray away the evil spirits, pray away the gay. and that's in general considered to be a bad thing. although, you know, i was looking online on wikipedia, it doesn't list this nafion wikipedia, it doesn't list this nation as having that as a specific law against it. right? only as one pending. so i didn't have time to go through. >> i think it was a bigger thing in america, wasn't it? there was quite a lot of it. >> and there's loads of countries that actually have banned it. but i say we're down as pending and that might be why this bill, this pressure for it to go through. but what they're bringing with it is the gender id stuff. now they do list a legitimate psychological support treatment or non—directive counselling. the big worry is that even talking therapy would be included as conversion . it be included as conversion. it looks like that would mean talking therapy isn't, but what the non—directive. >> so anything that isn't absolutely affirmative like

affirming the patient's preference , belief, delusion, preference, belief, delusion, whatever you want to call it, because directive counselling, telling someone, telling them to what do. >> it's both sides of this, isn't it? you're you're saying that you. surely that would also mean affirming. it's too strong. yes. disagreeing is too strong. unless obviously i do understand that. >> you know, i accept that gender identity and sexual orientation not necessarily the same thing, but if you have a young person who is expressing confusion, they often express confusion, they often express confusion about both of those together. yeah. and in to order legitimise one aspect of it, you might have to suppress one of the others. right. >> it's going to come down to definitions of all of these words. and the worry is if you don't phrase it well, you've got a law that bans something that shouldn't be banned. >> nick. >> nick. >> yeah, i mean, yeah, i think you've covered it. well, the misleading fact that it's called conversion therapy, it's really just about speaking to kids and saying, are you sure you want to do this irreversible, crazy thing? >> so i think that'd be allowed

under. unden >> no, that's my paraphrase. but, but i do think labour can conflict on this. but i think what's happening is they they've got the sort of mad form of view on it , but they're got the sort of mad form of view on it, but they're kind of moving to the blairite view. he's said, you know, a man is a man, a woman is a woman. wes streeting has said it upheld the puberty blockers ban, but they've still got the anneliese dodds sza, sultan of mad element of the party they haven't quite quashed yet, but i feel like maybe they will. even the guardian admits this will be naughty. this bill. so i think, you know, i think maybe, maybe they gradually kick it into the long grass, i don't know, but it was in the king's speech that's a bit weird, i don't know, >> one swallow. nick does not make a summer, but according to the independent, a single swift has broken our economy. >> yeah, there is that. so, taylor swift effect stops inflation dropping below 2% as calls grow for rate cuts. so taylor swift is messing up our entire economy. so the popularity of taylor swift's recent tour of the uk has had a butterfly effect on the uk economy, helping push up the price of hotel stays and in turn, keeping in turn keeping inflation at 2. so we're trying to we're hoping it's going to

come down. borrowers want it to be lower. meanwhile, taylor smith's swift is messing with it and she has some very good songs. but the obvious answer is bannau from the country. i mean, ihave bannau from the country. i mean, i have the economy. >> a good friend of mine took my daughter to see it, and they both said it was amazing. and my mate i've been to see springsteen with on a few occasions said it is very like a springsteen. she is the new springsteen. she is the new springsteen. she's misrepresented as a sort of feminist icon. it's actually a massive feel good kind of rally vibe. >> she's not the new springsteen, except maybe in her politics. but yeah, she's good at what she does anyway. >> that's slightly to one side destroying our economy. it's not really the butterfly effect, is it? it's a major effect. i mean, it's a it's a it's a single cause, a direct cause and effect origin of a substantive effect on hotel prices . although on hotel prices. although i would say as a touring comedian, i've been very struck by how high hotel prices have been since the end of covid. they just don't seem to have gone down. and i do not understand why or how. and my wife says, well, they're trying to claw back the money they lost during covid. well, we'd all like to do

that if it was just a question of putting your price up, i would have done that too. but if i put my price up, people don't pay i put my price up, people don't pay it. >> so i hate to poo poo, but this whole love your whole thing. i'm mainly it's a fibre thing, i there's no actual evidence in here that says taylor swift caused it. you can call it butter butterfly effect. >> part of a picture of taylor swift on the front cover of a magazine. >> how do we get a boring story about inflation to be interesting? blame it all on taylor swift. i did listen to a double album. i downloaded it just because i do a radio show in the afternoons. i wanted to know about it. i was struck by how many break—ups she's been through and none of them were her fault. statistically, that's impressive, and every single sweater that she has, i think she has like she must have about three wardrobes full of left left items of clothing. >> every single boyfriend leaves a scarf. >> although she said she'd hit a new sort of level in her songwriting, she wrote a break—up song that was entirely fictitious, so she didn't have to actually go through it. so now she can just churn them out. that's fabulous. >> she's moved beyond. she's just transcended, the

independent now, nick, good news for anyone or possibly bad news. i didn't really understand the story, but, anyone who wants to to travel europe, i don't know what the point of that would be now anyway. well, i glazed over a bit because i don't leave the country famously, so it's eu to water down brexit travel checks for british passengers as new border plan delayed again . border plan delayed again. >> so the eu were going to do these stringent post—brexit checks on holidaymakers, which would lead to these massive delays. but now they're not really going to do it until november. as a last resort . my november. as a last resort. my i've completely made this up, but i think it's because starmer's in and then he's got this nice relationship with the eu now says we'll wait on this thing. but it probably isn't that. >> no, ijust that. >> no, i just think it's an it thing. they can't get the tech working in time. this and the headune working in time. this and the headline this is the independent. so it shouldn't be the most ranty headline. but it is. they're making it all about us. this is not this is an eu issue to do with third party countries. right. and we are one. >> yes. >> yes. >> so what do you expect to happen? we get some sort of special treatment just because. >> so the independent is ranting against the cruelty of the eu as if we're being punished. >> i mean, they're making it more of an interesting story by

by reselling it like that. but it's not. it's this the rule for third party countries. we are one now, but it's all facial scans and stuff. the tech. we can't even get printers to work as a society. no that's true. >> i saw the term travel checks and immediately just remembered my old american express ones. i still have one worth £10 from 1987. souvenirs, good news steve, for people who actually want to get anywhere in wales as well. >> fantastic news. joy in wales is 20 mile an hour blanket speed limit is scrapped after £32 million spent on it. a year of angen million spent on it. a year of anger. welsh government's biggest ever petition was signed by it. now this forget the number of people who signed it, signed by the family of the minister who championed the policy . that is shocking until policy. that is shocking until you realise it's quite easy to get your wife, in—laws and teenage kids to hate you. so actually that's not that much of actually that's not that much of a flip. well, especially if they're having to drive at 20mph. >> i mean certain certain laws, you know, have a sort of nebulous distant effect , don't they? >> but you feel that one. well, i think you feel that because our roads aren't built for it and our cars aren't built for

it. and there's a what's the rule is something like 2, 10% tolerance, which is two miles an hour tolerance. if you're going through a speed limit, if you're going at 70, you can get up to 77 accidentally. and that's fine. no, it's terrible to watch the i drive home, home, home. >> but to where i stay in london after midnight. obviously out of this show, empty roads, you know channg this show, empty roads, you know charing not what's it called? the fulham palace road is one, andifs the fulham palace road is one, and it's just ridiculous. you feel like you're stalking. so there's somebody walking down there's somebody walking down the road and you feel like you're kind of about to jump out. >> it is too slow. >> then you get arrested for. >> then you get arrested for. >> it's like there's a real sweet spot between that and kerb crawling. >> speed camera david pleat effect going on. >> there's a speed camera near near to where i live because there's a school there. it's a 20 mile an hour zone. it's the bottom of a hill. so whenever i go cycling, i enjoy setting that thing off at 22 miles an hour, whereas cars would be slamming into a child crossing the road. well, i'm a cyclist . well, i'm a cyclist. >> there's no i wouldn't mind at all if they had timing cameras that operated during school hours. i mean, i think that would be reasonable, but but this is these these are welsh

ones were even in on the country roads as well. right. >> it's an absolute no. yeah and that's a nightmare. especially a nightmare in my lambo. it's just not meant to go that slow. but yeah, everyone hates this. even the taxi drivers. our law isn't as extensive as wales, but every taxi driver i speak to hates the law here. it's not workable. the only thing i might be open to is a complete removal of cars. because i was reading peter hitchens book, the cameron delusion , and he has this very delusion, and he has this very poetic passage on why we should never have brought in the motorcar. and i start to think he's absolutely right. yeah, but i can't go for this safety thing or this climate emissions thing, which is the reason they cite. but i can go for sort of total, i mean, reversal going back, i remember seeing like traffic plans for removing, cars entirely from like, well, they've sort of done it around trafalgar square for instance. >> you know, it would be possible, but it very rarely works. it really becomes that kind of barcelona vibe . does it kind of barcelona vibe. does it in london. you know, when you get rid of cars instead, what you just get is a load of vagrants and pigeons milling about. >> we've got some of the safest roads in europe. we've got some of the best tech in our cars these days. you would imagine

cars will get quicker. yeah. they're not. there was no episode of tomorrow's world where they did like four miles an hour. no. why are we going this way? >> well, it's entirely hostility, isn't it? they're making it a hostile environment. idiocracy. we are at the half way point . in two minutes time, way point. in two minutes time, we move on to musk's migration. the of day and latest on slope gate. we will see in

and welcome back to headliners next train to big news from california in the independent . california in the independent. elon musk has been tested beyond endurance. yes. >> we've just had big news that apparently biden has been has covid. he's tested positive. so we wanted to get that in there. just to show we're aware of that. but let's also do this musk story so it's many will follow. elon musk predicts mass exodus from california . so yeah exodus from california. so yeah i don't know if you saw this. this was great. he basically there's this ludicrous rule that

means that schools can just do what they want with your child and suggest that they change genden and suggest that they change gender, and they don't have to tell the parents. and musk has basically said, if this happens, well , he actually said basically said, if this happens, well, he actually said this is the final straw. yeah. because of this law and the many others that preceded it attacking both families and companies, spacex will now move its hq from hawthorne, california, to starbase , texas. and in a follow starbase, texas. and in a follow up post, he said, i did make it clear to governor newsom about a year ago that the laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave california to protect their children, and has also been a funny sort of thing where, newsom, in reference to a previous meeting musk had with trump, says, you bent the knee and musk said to him, you never get off your knees. so that's an exchange that came off the back of it. so yeah, and i see musk point, you know, people are going to move to texas because especially because texas doesn't have income tax. i mean, how mad is that? what a place. just paradise. >> there's an awful lot. there's two big things going on lately. i mean, for some time now, people, people like joe rogan, of course, moved from california to texas. texas seems to get them all. and i'm assuming that is the tax regime.

>> yeah, i think that's that sales tax is the sales taxes. >> instead, it might have been waiting for a sort of moral stand that he could take, but i do think it's genuine because he also had his his son, who was, you know, became his a daughter. >> this, vivienne, hannah wilson who said i no longer wish to have anything to do with musk in any way. so obviously it's a personal thing as well for him, but also quite a lot of tech bros coming out for trump lately as well, right? >> or swinging into against newsom in particular. and that's quite a significant because i think most people felt in the 2020 election, to the extent that there was shenanigans going on, an awful lot of that came out of silicon valley rather than a traditional media. yeah yeah, yeah. >> peter thiel is obviously big on trump. there's a whole list now, as you say, of donors and bill ackman's come across and interesting, isn't it? >> i don't know whether that's whether that's about the policies or it's a tax bit in there as well i'd imagine. >> yeah. honestly because i've not read up loads about elon

musk. i didn't know that he had a trans child. i mean, there's a couple of things when i read this article. firstly, it's got so many kids, i suppose it's difficult to keep track of them all. the idea that his latest one that he used, you know, the weird name with the a and the e, yeah, maybe that's just because that's the kind of name that you don't ever need to worry about changing. but to read this, that this child doesn't want anything to do with their dad. dad's richest person in the world. yeah, but that's a weird thing, isn't there? >> that there's quite a lot of very wealthy celebrities in california in particular, who have trans children now, or non—binary or special in some way. >> something in the water. >> something in the water. >> and. well, i think it's some kind of weird reaction to the level of celebrity that the parents have , isn't it? we all parents have, isn't it? we all know that there, you know, girls with daddy issues or whatever. there's always that kind of. but they seem to just know it's, i don't know, surely the most obvious explanation is it's a status thing for the parents. >> yeah. and they're sending them to these radical schools, which tend to be in places like california. this was this crossroads school, which the musk blames the case of his son. i mean, yeah, you're laughing at the name crossroads. yeah it's just it's in the name, wasn't it? it was right there. >> wobbly walls. i think there's

i think there's something weird going on, but i don't think we're disputing it. it'sjust. we're disputing it. it's just. you're right. it's status or it's the new kind of rebellion. right. but they're just not comfortable with just kind of going, yeah, it's great. i'm rich . rich. >> you know, it's in the will though, you know what i mean? i'd stay at least in touch enough to be in the will, >> this is not disconnected, steve in the telegraph further evidence that diversity, equity and inclusion is, in icu, if not actually d—e—a—d. >> yeah, it's going the way of, windows vista. microsoft decides diversity no longer business critical claims sacked manager. that's important. the tech giant says it's committed to promoting equality and inclusion. and that remains unchanged. but part of this will be whoever's just been sacked. bit throwing some stones. but actually if your mission if you actually are really key on having all of this diversity, equity and inclusion, you don't need some special department to do it. it's that core to you. you'd do it automatically. in fact, having a special department just means there are more people to hire

and you've got to worry who you're doing it, so yeah, one sacked manager sent an email saying that how the attitudes have changed. it's a trend. >> but are they not? >> but are they not? >> are they is there not an actual substantive? are they not closing a department? >> no. well, they got rid of four of these managers. >> right. okay. >> right. okay. >> and this is the trend that you're seeing in this kind of sector of thinking. yeah. it's not worth spending the money part of it. look, even if you think this diversity is a key goal for microsoft, loads of these businesses, businesses were also doing it to be seen to be doing it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and now they've realised maybe it's not going to impact sales. so we don't need to show as much . zoom recently told as much. zoom recently told staff earlier this year that they dismantled their dei team and its zoom, so there's no way they were told in the office, were they? that would have been just stay at home. why don't you?ifs just stay at home. why don't you? it's a trend and it's at the very least we know the showy part of it is disappearing. >> yeah, that's what it is. it was a fad. and so, you know, you prepare to take a hit financially and say, hey, look at us. maybe you got all sorts of funding from it. now that's gone, then they're just getting rid of it. i mean, yeah, metro and tesla dropping their dei

teams by 50% or more. it's just fading away . everyone's fading away. everyone's realising we don't need to do this rubbish anymore. even tractor supply and then john deere both came out having saying we're not doing dei anymore. pretty much. so agricultural vehicles are done with woke so it's gone . with woke so it's gone. >> although they've quietly moved all the jobs to mexico while all the fuss was being created about that on the top, i don't know. i think i have a feeling that that's something like john deere has been, a source of quite a lot of anger on the right, i think. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> and the ones that have like the program tractors. so you're effectively you don't own your tractor. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's a bud light thing. they're meant to be on our team and they're doing all woke stuff. but many tractors for, you know, tractors for trump or something. yeah, but yeah. and a lot of it came from george floyd. i'm amazed that telegraph are still saying the murder of george floyd. that's very much disputed. i think. but, don't want to get into that now. >> well, i don't know. i mean, it might be disputed by the coroner, but it was found to be murdered. yeah. so fair enough. yeah, i know what you mean. independent. now nick, some pretty damning evidence that too many men are wasting their lives. >> yeah, men still outnumber women in reality tv production

roles, new research finds. so this comes from banijay entertainment. every woman studios and wait for it. entertainment. every woman studios and wait for it . the studios and wait for it. the geena davis institute on gender in media oh my god, that is a thing i learned tonight. >> that's what you were made up. >> that's what you were made up. >> but it's yeah, she was in that baseball movie about the women playing baseball during the war, and that's where it started. the little. >> yeah, that's where the rot set in. >> i bet it was called that for a while. >> i mean, so look, look, it's women are outnumbered in reality tv and that's got to stop. everything has to be completely equal forever. total communism. now so i don't know. i mean, there's this report behind the scenes women's representation in unscripted television in the us , unscripted television in the us, uk, brazil and france. why is that a report? who is doing this work and why do we don't have to be equally represented in everything, do we? i mean, apparently we do. so i'm seeing the percentage though. >> so i was listening to this thinking, i take i take the direction they're going in, give me the stats so they found according to the report, the men outnumber women 58.4. oh, that

8.4. >> it's not horrible, is it? >> it's not horrible, is it? >> no. and it's less than the number by which women outnumber men in universities. >> although steve in america, only 16% of the roles are filled by women. >> so that's a terrible. so it's a it's a terrible thing filling roles. >> what, you mean like in catering? >> i how dare you. i think one theory is that women are actually getting the cool fictional roles they can still get hired as, like, actors in films and tv. it's like reality tv. it's not exactly the highest status, is it? i like it, but you know, if we could solve this by getting rid of some reality tv shows, i'm on board with that. >> that's a d, i think, but not the apprentice that should come back. >> my bio steve slope gate update now in the times secret service investigated after blaming shooting lapse lapses on health and safety. >> this is so good. again, if i've written comedy for ages, if i've written comedy for ages, if iever i've written comedy for ages, if i ever wrote this, they'd think this is ridiculous. so kimberley cheadle, the director of the secret service, had apparently decided not to guard the position on the roof because sloped, you know, like roofs . sloped, you know, like roofs. and that could pose a risk to

the safety of officers. is there anything else that might pose a risk to the safety of the officers, like someone shooting in the general direction of where the officers are, apart from which the place where they did take up a position was more sloped than that roof? >> anyway, i mean, it's a lie. it's an outright lie. there are two things going on here. one, there's the eminently, you know , there's the eminently, you know, comic rich environment of the sloped roof, healthy safety, but slightly more concerningly. there's a sort of second order effect of just disbelief and suspicion, isn't there? >> yeah. because, as you say, if it's not a lie, why would you say it? because you're either going to look ridiculously incompetent or you're lying there. the only choices really, aren't they? i mean, they check the building from inside. >> it's like it wasn't like she panicked on the day or something. this was the interview was a couple of days later. she's had plenty of time to think her story through. >> yeah, very disturbing and odd, but it can it could just be maths. i wouldn't rule out these just massive incompetence. one thing they point out, they said, well, look, it's not women's fault because in the past there were assassinations of us

leaders before women routinely served on security details. he could cite that you wouldn't really want to cite jfk, though, because that's so obviously dodgy inside job. i wouldn't say it that one, but maybe reagan or something. >> but i don't necessarily have a problem with the woman directing the operation, although this particular woman certainly seems to have made an absolute pig's ear of it. but seeing some of the women, for instance, literally trying to put their physical body in between trump and not coming up to his chin, you know, that's problematic, isn't it? >> she should have gone into reality television, solve two problems at once. i'm just thinking out loud here, guys, but i cannot i cannot work out a scenario where there's any plausible malice. >> i mean, as you say, it's one of those razors, isn't it? there are a number of razors you're supposed to use in these things, and one of them is like, never ascribed to malice. that which can be explained by incompetence. and just just to be clear, you mean occam's razor you're not talking about is another one. no, there's another razor. that's it's a that's not, i don't know, occam's razor is you use the parsimonious explanation, the one that requires the least unlikely. anyway, the point is, i'm

trying. i have genuinely been trying. i have genuinely been trying to work out what could have what could. if you wanted to believe a conspiracy theory, what is the only. i cannot see one unless they just created an environment into which there was a space for an assassin to. >> oh yeah, that's the obvious one to take out. >> yeah, but they would still they would have just had to kind of go, there's a roof there. if anyone wants to. they still it would have still been like they couldn't possibly have recruited this kid. right. >> well, the kid could have been trained up. if you want to go there by one of these sort of. >> yeah, yeah, i'm just over time and then they allow the candidate as you can, but still how do you get a kid to go there on a roof and then go obviously brainwash him over time we will be blowing your on these california schools at elon musk. >> he went to and then coming up with some kind of conspiracy way of doing it. >> you come up with a better one than i'm not going up there. not with my bad back. no, this is such a bad plan. but this is more likely to be. they weren't doing the job very well. loads of roofs were left unprotected. right. but it's only whenever

you get a shooter on the roof that you notice. there must have been. >> they noticed for two minutes, right? you must have seen. you seen the split. yeah. >> there's also this thing that there's the scope thing. he had there's the scope thing. he had the hunting scope. yeah. there was known for like hours to my, my question and he carried a fully extended ladder all the way to the building. >> it wasn't it wasn't a ladder that you can collapse. i know and only builders do that. >> if my question and my question is there's been so much incompetence, i'm amazed that someone, even shot him back. you know what i mean? at that point, someone went, oh, i better actually do it then, you know, i'm surprised that's the bit, which is good. >> i guess it's good. but at that point you go, well, actually he's done it now. it might have been useful to i don't know, take him alive and subject him to, oh, interrogation. >> no. exactly. you always cut off the. i don't know what the phrase roof at any time all loose ends section to go. >> we have an army beasting. the latest longevity in mice and the eggs and the single

and welcome back for the final section of headliners. let's kick off with the time. steve some good old fashioned beasting has been caught on camera, and it looks a rather beastly. >> yep. army instructor who made trainee do press ups in puddle investigated. there's a video that shows the officer bent down, yelling in the face of a trainee . someone's been watching trainee. someone's been watching too many films as you first take on this, but the ministry of defence has investigated it. this took place at the army's infantry training centre in catterick, where recruits are paid 18 grand for 28 weeks training. just think of the money. i've done gigs where you're being heckled and all you do is mentally just think i'm getting paid way more than you. so i think the thing is, 18 grand is not enough to get humiliation like that. >> yeah. it's not it's not bad. maybe for an infantry just starting out school leaver or whatever , but it's certainly whatever, but it's certainly not. it's not being shouted at and belittled and humiliated. money. >> the i mean well, some of the things it was there was a lot of

use of the c word, but i watched episodes of the boys, so i'm used to that these days. and why are you giving me that bleep attitude? stop eyeballing me or i'll punch your head in. i mean it's not great. it's not professional. >> it is as you say it's classic officer and a gentleman or even animal house isn't it. drop and give me 20 bucks. that's what i do think of the big gun. i think that's probably it. >> well, they're not actually going to shoot you or punch your face, though when you get out through the training, they'll give you something, you know. >> yeah, i don't know, nick, i don't know. there's a i've never beenin don't know. there's a i've never been in the armed services or anything like that, but i know a few people who have and they are traditionally they believe that this is an important part of their. >> you seem like you should have.it >> you seem like you should have. it feels like you should have. it feels like you should have been in the raf. maybe it's just the moustache. well, yeah. i thought this was what the army was. maybe i misread this. i thought it was what it was about. shouting at people, calling them maggots. isn't that what it's all about, ladies? break them. yeah, yeah, and you break their will, and then they learn to respect authority. >> yeah, you got to beat them down until they're mush. and then you can sort of rebuild them as classic brainwashing. >> yeah. what happened to that kid? that's what happened to the

kid? that's what happened to the kid that shot trump. it's classic. you break them mkultra. i'm just saying things now. yeah ignore me. >> where we framed it as this is a conspiracy theory chat. or as you just went at the guy who shot trump. yeah, like it's a true fact. >> what about the. but what about the rest of the platoon? i suppose that's the thing, isn't it? was this guy particularly lippy it? was this guy particularly lippy or lazy or did he? you know, did he force this side, or is this just something the guy picks out? >> these are this is going to be on the officer, isn't it? not. yeah. yeah. >> did they need to order the code red? >> yeah. you can't handle the truth. classic longevity study . truth. classic longevity study. now, nick and the telegraph, this is very exciting news for anyone who's anxious about losing a much loved family mouse. >> yes, scientists discover anti—aging. holy grail that can stop cancer and grey hair in its tracks. but unfortunately, it's in mice. it's always in these blummin mice. mice. they just live in just high on the hog, aren't they? they get great health care and they don't even. they can end up living forever . they can end up living forever. humans will be dying off. but my shorter and shorter lives, because our society collapses.

mice just live in forever. anyway, it's into luke. luke in 11. perhaps which is this gene? and it's thought to be largely redundant in humans, but now it might be the key to solving ageing because in these mice it's just it's reduced muscle wasting, improvement in muscle strength, all the usual signs of ageing. so we might have cracked, we might have cracked it basically, but currently only in mice 25% be quite good though, wouldn't it? >> that's about right. you don't want to live forever, but an extra 20 years you do. >> but as long as you're not in pain, not not everybody would know. >> i don't want everybody living forever. oh good point. >> maybe, but not some of these lefties. yeah, i know what you mean. >> not the present generation. >> not the present generation. >> i would like to have the opfion >> i would like to have the option to live forever and to like. because i thought about it. i wouldn't want to just be have to live for it. like like, you know, like society is just a wasteland. everyone's died out and you're just there, and i kind of rock. i'm not sure i'd want to do that. yeah, you're right. >> the taboo against self—slaughter would have to be eased up somewhat, wouldn't it? i think if we. yeah. well, what do you think, steve? you're a scientist. it is always in mice, isn't it?

>> yeah, it's always in mice. and isn't there a whole book on that or a website or something called in mice? >> i think the one with the ear on its back is the best picture, isn't it? >> yeah. i mean, i don't want to talk to speak badly of him because he could definitely hear me. that's the problem. >> but no, steve, if you thought that last piece of research might be of limited value, wait till you get a load of karaoke. blushing. >> let it glow. blushing is a gut reaction to your own karaoke. scientists prove for some reason by forcing teenage girls to watch videos of themselves. so research has got some teens made them sing karaoke, filmed it, played it back to them and filmed their response. well, these are a bunch of perverts. yeah, that's what's happening there. there's no reason to do this research other than i like watching embarrassed girls . embarrassed girls. >> yeah, >> yeah, >> and they they sang hello by adele. let it go from frozen. all i want for christmas is you. that's a banger. and all the things she said by tattoo picked because they're difficult, i don't know, i think i do a pretty good tattoo. and they all got embarrassed. the only important thing is that it seems from the area of the brain that's active is the embarrassment, isn't the blushing isn't caused by other

people seeing how bad you are , people seeing how bad you are, it's self—awareness. >> you're realising that you're bad, that shame , isn't it? as it bad, that shame, isn't it? as it used to be called. i think this distinction has been drawn for some hundreds of years, isn't it? but yeah, i think there is something about hearing your own voice. of course not many people do that as frequently as we do any of us in broadcasting or whatever. you get used to it after a while, but the first few times you hear your own voice, it's not what you think of at all, is it? >> i'm okay with the voice, not the face, though i don't see. i don't like seeing myself on telly. by the way, would the mouse with its ear on its back be a perfect target for assassination? that's what i'm worrying about now. because it's all here, isn't it? >> from now on, they're going to be loads of those mice everywhere at every speech, and you've got seconds now, steve, we've dropped a story, i'm afraid. >> nick. so i'm sorry about that one.the >> nick. so i'm sorry about that one. the chinese egg lady, so can you do this one for me? from the sun? as if i'm a 59 year old dad. >> yeah, i can do it in seconds, tinder, find your hottest selfies by using ai face scanning. this will maximise the upset and disappointment when you actually turn up on the date they pick the ones that make you look the best. why? you want a

picture that makes you look terrible . so you turn up and terrible. so you turn up and they're like, pretty good. >> no, you want to get past the first hurdle? >> yeah. no, it's set the bar low. >> this is like like scam but you don't want to. what is it called. fish eye them or something. catfish fat fish. yeah. you don't want like you pretending you don't know what the term is. what you want is to look friendly, rugged, but not necessarily handsome. you want you want to go for that kind of, you want to go for that kind of, you know. >> is that what you went with with that tache? yeah. >> this show is nearly over. let's take another quick look at thursday's front pages. daily mail how were these new burdens on growth help firms? the times pm seeks deal with europe on migrants. the express read revolution bigger state and higher spending financial times starmer promises decade of renewal with bills geared towards unlocking growth . our towards unlocking growth. our news avanti first rail firm at risk of privatisation. the daily star terror of the killer stingrays. that's all we have time for. thank you to my guest, steve van allen and nick dixon. nick is going to be back hosting tomorrow at 11 pm. with josh howie and paul cox. if you've been watching at 5 am, stay

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>>a >> a very, very good evening to you. it's 7 pm. on wednesday, the 17th of july. i'm martin daubney, filling for in nigel farage. well, parliament is officially open for business. the king's speech was the most legislative heavy speech for nearly two decades. the

government has pledged to be builders, not blockers, as it lays out its stringent plans to get britain building again by reinstating housing targets. but can the prime minister bash down the wall of mps already opposed to his plans? well, we'll talk to his plans? well, we'll talk to a nimby and a yimby. to his plans? well, we'll talk to a nimby and a yimby . labour to a nimby and a yimby. labour has pledged to halve serious violence over the next decade, with shoplifting at an all time high. will they succeed in bringing back more bobbies on the beat? and the prime minister has even resurrected rishi sunak's smoking ban bill, preventing those born after 2009 from smoking in their entire lifetime. however, the next generation's liberties simply gone up in smoke . gone up in smoke. >> good evening. the top stories from the gb newsroom. the prime minister, sir keir starmer, has promised national renewal after 14 years of what he called tory

chaos, as mps debated the king's speech in the house of commons today. it comes after king charles officially opened the new session of parliament, setting out the government's planned programme of new laws. in total, 40 pieces of legislation were announced, with promises to get britain building, deliver greater devolution and a plan to tackle organised immigration crime. the government also announced a new child poverty taskforce, but the prime minister is facing pressure over not scrapping the two child benefit cap. sir keir starmer says his government will solve problems, though not exploit them. >> the last king's speech was the day when the veil of his choices slipped, and we all saw a party. his party content to let our country's problems fester, content to push aside the national interest as they focused almost entirely on trying to save their own skins. but i defy anyone on those

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