>> you're with gb news. it's 11:00. in a moment. headliners. but first, let's bring you the latest news headlines. and tom tugendhat has confirmed he's entering the race to become the next tory leader , insisting he next tory leader, insisting he could win the next general election . he's announced that he election. he's announced that he would be prepared to leave the european convention on human rights if it was necessary to restore control over the uk's borders, he said he's not just running to become leader of the tories, but running to become the next prime minister shadow home secretary james cleverly announced last night he's also running to take the party's top job. others are expected to join the race. nominations close on monday. a man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving following a car accident which left six people dead, including two children. shane roller and his partner shannon morgan , and

partner shannon morgan, and their daughters, aged just nine and four years old, were all killed when their car collided with a motorbike. the crash happened on the a 61 near the village of mapplewell in barnsley in yorkshire, on sunday afternoon. the married couple on the motorbike were named as christopher barton, who was 56, and 48 year old janine barton. they were both also killed . kent they were both also killed. kent police say the stabbing of a british army officer near barracks in gillingham is not being treated as terrorism at the moment, but they are being supported by counter—terror specialists . detectives are specialists. detectives are continuing their investigations after witnesses reported hearing screams for help just before 6:00 yesterday evening, near brompton barracks. locals rushed to help the uniformed officer who'd been stabbed multiple times, just as the attacker, who was wearing a mask , fled the was wearing a mask, fled the scene on a moped. a suspect was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder about 20 minutes later, after being pursued by members of the

public, police recovered knives at the scene. the victim, aged in his 40s, was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries. he's in a stable condition. meanwhile, a police officer who was filmed kicking the head of a man lying on the ground at manchester airport has been removed from operational duties. the male officer is seen holding a taser over the man who is lying face down, before striking him twice. greater manchester police said firearms officers had been subjected to a violent assault before this, where they were punched to the ground, but it also acknowledged the concerns of the conduct within the video. two men were arrested on suspicion of assault, the video. two men were arrested on suspicion of assault , assault on suspicion of assault, assault of an emergency worker, affray and obstructing police, while two other men were also arrested on suspicion of affray and the assault of an emergency worker. three officers were taken to hospital for treatment, with one female officer having suffered a broken nose . in the united broken nose. in the united states, there have been

pro—palestine demonstrations in washington tonight , with the us washington tonight, with the us flagged, burned down and replaced with the flag of palestine. all this as president biden is set to address the nafion biden is set to address the nation from the oval office tonight. meanwhile, a new opinion poll shows that kamala harris has a two point lead over donald trump, according to the survey by reuters and ipsos. that's a change from last week, when trump was two points ahead of joe biden . and just lastly, of joe biden. and just lastly, a diver has discovered a bronze cannon on the shipwreck. shipwreck of a warship that was destroyed by a gunpowder explosion in 1665. the 17th century ship, called the london, formed part of a convoy sent in 1660 to collect charles ii from the netherlands and restore him to the throne. the prized cannon was buried in silt and clay on the seabed where the protected wreck lies. in two parts, just off southend pier in essex. those are the latest gb news

lie—ins for now. time now for headliners for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your early look at the next days papers with three comedians. >> i'm stephen allen and tonight we've gone oh, jeez. >> it's like that film where captain picard met captain kirk, although kirk died at the end. >> spoilers. it's leo kearse and nick dixon out of the two of you, which one would you say is kirk and which one's picard.7 >> i thought you were going to see which which one is likely to die by the end of the show, obviously, leo, that's what i'm implying with the question. >> you're both kirks, aren't you? >> you're both kirks, aren't you.7 that's >> you're both kirks, aren't you? that's the problem. i'm definitely kirk. yeah. i don't like star trek. star trek is so great, but it's communism in space.i great, but it's communism in space. i knew leo would hate it.

i thought he would say it's for nerds and bullied school nerds because they don't have money. nerds like communism because they think that eventually, you know, you're you're the women will be distributed the same as the money and they will get some. that's what star trek was mainly about. >> i don't know if there was an episode. >> maybe i missed the next generation nine episode where they did that. there's the subtext across the whole of the series and also across, if you look for it, across the whole of communism. that's why. that's why everybody, all the people who support communism are ugly, making me like communism. >> now it's a record time. >> now it's a record time. >> it's a personal best from going from a thing someone mentioned to you talking about communism. you got there within less than a sentence. yeah, it's the new pb cracking on. >> right. >> right. >> let's take a look at thursday's front pages . the thursday's front pages. the times goes with labour plans. thousands of offshore wind farms. the daily mail says is this the end for our copper coins ? the guardian revealed coins? the guardian revealed rich western countries lead global gas and oil expansion. the telegraph , tugendhat i'm the telegraph, tugendhat i'm ready to leave the echr express

senior army officer stabbed outside barracks. the daily star says. jaw swims up the thames and those are the front pages. let the analysis begin. first we have the express leo suella express. go with senior army officer stabbed outside barracks. so this is the dramatic moment. an alleged masked moped knifeman was arrested over the stabbing of an army officer in front of his wife in front of the army officer's wife. not he hadn't brought his own wife along to watch him. but yeah, this is a lieutenant colonel who was who was horrifically stabbed and apparently is you know, he's suffering from serious injuries. his wife tried to, you know, apprehend the knifeman and stop the knifeman. the knifeman was armed with two ten inch knives, apparently. and it was funny. immediately, there were, claims that this was a mental health, related issue , but i don't know related issue, but i don't know how they can, you know, i don't

know if the mainstream media have got some sort of psychology unit that can tell from a couple of photos if somebody's, you know , suffering from mental know, suffering from mental health issues or if the police can tell just from from scanning a crime scene because it's got, you know, obviously a shockingly reminiscent of the tragic stabbing of lee rigby in woolwich some time ago. i mean, is it going too far out there to say, you know, if you do something like this, you're not the full pack of what's in the head, right? you can assume your mental health is not ideal, is what you're saying? well, no, because there's a lot of people who commit crimes like this to pursue a political or ideological aim. and that also might not mean i'm not going to name i'm not going to name the people you know, but i think i think we know. yeah. nick, your thoughts on this? well, it's tncky thoughts on this? well, it's tricky to talk about it. one, legally, because it's ongoing and two without getting cancelled. and that's the that's the sort of line. but you know. yeah, it's just it's another quaker from ambleside causing trouble for quakers. yeah yeah. it's those quakers again. it's. yeah.i it's those quakers again. it's. yeah. i mean, look, things are getting horrible in the country, that we all know many of the

reasons and it's getting very nasty. and we saw that police incident as well with them stamping on the person in manchester airport. but the guy had allegedly broken a woman's nose, or one of them had broken the police officer's nose. some people were saying the police were too harsh, but i just think we're at a time where the police have got to get very harsh or it's going to just kick off on the streets in a horrible way. yeah. and speaking to friends or in the police, apparently morale. well, this is the met police, but morale is at an all time low. and the sort of long serving officers who are equipped to sort of deal with the rough and tough stuff. they don't want to do it anymore because they're not, you know, they're risking their job and they're risking theirjob and their reputation every time they go out and deal with something. you know, if somebody assaulted a police officer, broken her nose, i think it's fair to go in and, you know, deal with them pretty roughly, but if those officers decide to step back and not get involved, who's going to protect the country? who's going to who's going to be that thin blue line? the big difference as well is the cameras, isn't it? the fact that now everyone films

everything from every angle, the multiple angles of that incident that you can find online? yeah. but they also brought in body cams to sort of show, oh, police are probably being excessive. most of what it showed is that actually police were telling the truth. and jobs absolutely horrific. yeah. right. and then probably left. the left were like well i'm not sure about body cams, but yeah, it's absolutely horrific for police out there. we there's this two tier policing and there's a danger of politicised policing. what the police need to do is start getting the real the people you should be getting and then deal with them harshly. that's why i'm not against the manchester thing with what we know about it so far. and this is another horrific thing obviously, but we can't say too much about it. >> okay, we'll move on. nick to the telegraph. >> what are they going with? yeah, this one's less legal trouble. this is a tugendhat. i'm ready to leave the echr and of course, tom tugendhat has entered the conservative race and he's known as a one nation wet . wet being my subjective wet. wet being my subjective opinion, i guess, but he is known as being on the one nation side. and it's surprisingly, perhaps not surprisingly, because he's trying to get the right on board. he said he would leave the echr because it may stop us controlling our borders , stop us controlling our borders, which is something even rishi

sunak wasn't quite prepared to say . sunak sort of hinted that say. sunak sort of hinted that he might. so tugendhat has gone a bit further than sunak, but obviously he's up against kemi and people like that, so he has to say something . he claimed in to say something. he claimed in the piece that actually there's no division on gender. they said they all know what a woman is. they all want lower taxes, they all want better national security, they all want to cut down energy bills. so he claims that they're broadly aligned. it's just certain certain issues. although it doesn't feel like that in the tories. i mean, it feels like they're massively divided to me. but yeah. is it still near enough to the election that we can say, well, why didn't you do any of those things for the last. oh massively. he says they've lost trust. and the big question is, well, why should we trust you now? oh, now you're going to lower immigration and taxes. but you didn't then and you had 14 years. yeah. so or even worse, you didn't when you could have done. but now you say you will when you can't. exactly. it was very convenient. >> did that even make sense? >> did that even make sense? >> it felt like it did almost leave it as a tattoo then i guess politicians are always better in opposition, aren't they? you know, they're they've always got all the solutions when they're in opposition. but i think, you know, labour, you can see just the fact that their

new and they've still got some enthusiasm for the job. they haven't been in there for 14 years. they're actually, you know, getting some stuff done. it's probably all the wrong stuff. but at least they're, you know, they're getting stuff done. yeah. >> that's nice. >> that's nice. >> leo can can look at the daily mail. >> what have they got? >> what have they got? >> so the daily mail have is this the end for our copper coins? so as the treasury orders, no new coins for the first time ever. and expects to mint no extra one piece and two two piece in the coming years, the future of the one p and £0.02 coins has been thrown into doubt. so how? well cannabis dealers weigh out their produce now it's going to be a disaster. i don't know, apparently a lot of these coins are in circulation and there's enough in circulation . nobody's really in circulation. nobody's really using them anymore because we all pay for stuff with our phones or with bitcoin or whatever. and 6 in 10 of the uk's one p's and two p's are used once before being left in a jar or discarded, and 1 in 12 are just thrown into the bin. >> i mean, that's ridiculous. would keep them in the jar. >> why don't you throw him in the bin? it makes absolutely no sense. that's when a coin is really on the ropes, when you're

just chucking it in the bin . really on the ropes, when you're just chucking it in the bin. i'd rather throw this away. this is actual money. i'm just going to bin it. and it's not that you can make a wish when you throw it in the bin. no, your wish is you had more money. probably because. why are you. well, maybe you're rich if you're just chucking coppers in the bin. but yeah, my only concern is two things. i mean one, on the one hand, i don't use when there was last time i saw a copper, i can't remember, i don't really, you know, you get them in little bags, you put them in a bag, then do nothing with them, leave them in a drawer. then one day throw them in a bin. but not even copper anymore, which is annoying. they do stick to magnets now. really? yeah. have you tried to magnetise them? see if i can see you doing that at home. and i do experiment on a sunday, but my worry is we're heading to the cashless society. of course, where we end up cashless society. digital money. and you have to like, pledge allegiance to tony blair to get yourid allegiance to tony blair to get your id card, which is also your money. this is just what blair said is going to happen. this is, i'm quoting verbatim. yeah. the last time i was at a fair, i went on the, you know, the sudey went on the, you know, the slidey shelf thing with the two p's. yeah. and so i put, you know, all these two p's, and

then i won all these two p's, and i was like, oh man, this is the worst prize ever. stay in the worst prize ever. stay in the bin. yeah yeah, yeah. >> and then finally, nick, let's see what the star's going with. >> big news, big news. jaws swims up the thames. so it's a picture of a massive shark in the picture. it looks absolutely tiny, but that's only presumably part of it. it has a shark has been spotted wending its way up the thames in london, and you never hear the word wending anymore. the last time you heard the word wending was when you won a blue peter badge in the 80s. that'll be wending its way to you. you know what i mean? that's the only time i've ever heard that phrase, because there's not very many sharks and they wend, they wind, i see, so don't go in the sea is the bottom line. i think we've known this for a while. ever since jaws. there are big squids in there. yeah, there are sharks. don't go in the sea. that's my bottom line. >> it's a it's not even the sea. >> that's the don't go in the thames, obviously, because it's all poisonous. >> but yeah, that's the thing. this story is fun. >> now give it two days. it'll be dead. >> yeah, because it's always the way it goes. >> either it gets distressed, it thinks it's definitely got. >> it's definitely got diarrhoea. probably. go. we know that for sure. that was a great thing when eddie izzard swam the thames he constantly got

diarrhoea from the faecal matter of london. really? that's a nice fact.i of london. really? that's a nice fact. i really enjoy people watching at 5 am. also, if he is, if he's wending his way into london, he'll probably get stabbed. so i feel a bit bad for the show. >> loki is up there. >> loki is up there. >> i get the feeling that i'm not sure if you can. well, apparently it's also the hottest july in recorded history. it's like, did these scientists not know we've got the ability to go outside and see how warm it is? it's not the hottest. anything ever been the hottest july this year on the night time. it's been warm at night when you're asleep, it gets really warm and you don't notice. as soon as i shut the door, it's like toy story. well, the temperatures come out . that's the front pages come out. that's the front pages covered in part two. starmer's honeymoon is over. the young are going for farage, but not just with milkshakes. >> and be mean about harris. so it'll be

>> welcome back to headliners i'm stephen allen here with leo kearse and nick dixon to the daily mail. leo to get balance. i'll say this before we start. >> it's since starmer already

helping solve childhood obesity . helping solve childhood obesity. >> oh nice. nicely done that. so you could spin it so corbynites have branded keir as sir kid starmer. they've done a little pun there as he suspends seven mps for rebelling over the two child benefit cap. so i think the snp brought a vote and you know he didn't want he wanted it to be on his own terms. so he didn't want to, you know, take the knee to the snp. so but the labour left have accused the prime minister of using the vote as a macho virility test. i did one of them. i got 1,000,000% as the party is plunged into fresh crisis ahead of his first prime prime minister's questions grilling today. so yeah, apparently i mean, the story is he's already struggling to keep a lid on furious labour infighting . so seven mps have infighting. so seven mps have defied infighting. so seven mps have defied him , one of the rebels defied him, one of the rebels put on ice and they've been suspended for six months as a result of this. one of them, zarah sultana, who i thought was a parody character for about a yeanl a parody character for about a year, i thought, i keep seeing her tweets coming up and i'm like, this is ridiculous. you

know, this is beyond the realms of what could possibly be believable. you know, on next podcast, the current thing. thank you very much. nice plug. you know who agrees with you? leo is as a kid, starve because he obviously doesn't make sultana much either because she comes from the loony left of the party. i mean , i'm not sure party. i mean, i'm not sure about the actual policy. we do need to encourage a high birth rate, though, not amongst sponging people who just exploit the benefits. i was wondering what you were going to say there. oh, sponging people who exploit benefits, but i do like the sort of ruthlessness of it . the sort of ruthlessness of it. it's this is what the tories always struggled to do. this is someone who sort of understands power. it's like, boom, you just get rid of them. that said, johnson did do it in that in his ruthless phase, he suspended 21 mps, didn't he? at that time, about the eu? but could dominic cummings point out boris had that ruthless streak when he felt he was under threat? but starmer is being very blair. he's in there, he's getting rid of the far left people and just and i respect it in that way in and i respect it in that way in a sort of grim respect for the ruthlessness of and he's got the majority that, you know, allows him to get rid of some of the people and crack the whip over, over the rest of them. and i

think, you know, what's really going to help kids? i think it's a good idea to help kids. there's a lot of kids who are in poverty. i know it's relative poverty. i know it's relative poverty. it doesn't necessarily mean, you know, there is poverty in terms of like, you know , in terms of like, you know, 19405 in terms of like, you know, 1940s poverty. but what's really going to help them is lower taxes. and also controlled control in our borders, because, you know, if you've got 1.2 million new people coming in every year, there are people that need to be fed. there are people who need somewhere to live. so rents go up. there's inflation. so i think controlling all of that is key to having a sustainable british population where everybody can afford food, everybody can afford food, everybody can afford to live a decent life. >> do you think it was also a show of strength in terms of numbers because he suspended starmer, suspended more mps than the independents who are trying to club together and reform. >> he's just he's got so many to spare. >> it's like in that mad max, have you seen the new mad max film that furiosa, whatever it's called, where one of the guys just, like, sends one of his war boys to go kill himself because he got so many. >> it is a kind of get rid of them look a lot like that. yeah.

starmer is known as the mad max of parliament. i imagine, if that's the way it goes. >> nick, on to the times. >> nick, on to the times. >> nigel farage has been connecting with young people online. >> you can lose your job as a >> you can lose yourjob as a newsreader doing that. yeah. so it's a good point. it's more on the 30s voted reform than tory study finds. so a post—election study finds. so a post—election study of more than 35,000 voters found that 9.5% of 18 to 30 year olds supported farage's party, 8% voted tory 18%, or almost 18% voted green, which is incredibly worrying. and you think, have they actually checked their policies? because it's not all just about the wales anymore, guys. some of it's about destroying the country and undermining the west. but young people love that. they love. they've really taken this sort of critical race theory, the decolonialization stuff, hook, line and sinker. and now they want to destroy the uk. yeah, thatis want to destroy the uk. yeah, that is that is my concern as well. but there's a claim here thatis well. but there's a claim here that is it really that radical because ukip got a similar they got a 9% in the 2015 election. i think it is still significant because we've had so much more anti—right wing propaganda since then. right? since brexit and

trump, it's all like become verboten to even be on the right. so to still get 9.5% amongst young people who are worried about fitting in, i think is significant. but the fact that it's dwarfed by the greens does worry me, and it seems to be more young men, isn't it? i mean, it says here 12% of men back reform compared to 6% of women amongst 18 to 24 year olds. so it's young men. it's what we know. they see farage on tiktok think, hey, he's pretty cool, he's pretty funny and they but will they vote for him is a question as well. this is not quite clear whether it actually converts into voting. will they even vote? they might like the idea of voting for him. but you know, there are even no houses. but but it would be funny for labour to reduce the voting age. and then they all voted for farage would be amazing. that would be bants. yeah. >> is this story story? >> is this story story? >> burying the lead a bit? because actually it's about the massive collapse of the tory support in that age group. yeah, really, it really is. i mean, the tory support has dropped by 20 percentage points in just under a decade for the for the under a decade for the for the under 30 ones. and i think, you know, the average age of a tory voter now is something around. it's like 81 or something like that. so basically, you know, if you can cast that vote before

you can cast that vote before you climb into the casket, that's handy. do postal, please do postal voting. you never know . do postal voting. you never know. there's a chance they die. i find that very ageist. next you'll be saying that joe biden wasn't fit to run america. but. but what? we're seeing across europe, you know, like the afd parties like that and, marine le pen's party in france, the national rally or whatever they're called , they're getting they're called, they're getting a lot of support from young people because young people are seeing that this you know, this neoliberal mainstream parties are just abandoning them and aren't acting in their best interests at all. so i think that's going to happen in the uk. i think people in the uk, young people in the uk are waking up to that as well. they probably don't realise that they're not supposed to like it, you know what i mean? they're just like young people. they're on the internet. they don't care what the mainstream media is telling them. they look at their lives, they look at the mess like their countries, and they 90, like their countries, and they go, yeah, okay, i'll go with that guy. yeah. >> all right. leo, the independent knife crime is on the up. and for our posh viewers, that's not using the starter one when it should be the fish one. >> so knife crime offence is rise and shoplifting reaches a 20 year high in the latest police figures, knife crime offences have risen by 4% since

last year, with a notable increase in the number of robberies involving a bladed weapon, which are up 13%. meanwhile, the number of shoplifting offences has risen to a new 20 year high to almost almost half a million offences. now this could be i mean, i used to work as a criminal intelligence analyst and this could be because, if you've got a drug habit to sustain, which many of us do working on this show, then burglary or you know, burglaries are risky thing to do. there's a high risk of it's treated quite seriously by the police. car theft. you know, there's not much you can nick from a car that you can sell anymore. there's no radios, there's no satnav or anything anymore. so shoplifting is a quick and easy way and isn't punished very hard. and it's a way you can quickly and easily get, you know, enough to sell down the pub to get some money, and again, the robbery is involving a bladed weapon. it's, you know, it's obviously a more serious offence. it's a way to get money or get phones that you can then turn into money.

there's you know, it's not like the old days where you could nick dvd players and sell and people don't have those things anymore. no streaming. >> but also it feels like we've had the war on knives for so long. >> let's try and sort this problem with the knives and look at these stats. it was blooming knives going out. they're doing all those crimes on their own. yeah i was listening to this on an app and it kept saying it sounded like it was saying shoplifting. and i realised that would be a great name for combining knife crime and shoplifting is shoplifting. so i'm going to claim that as my own neologism . but yeah, yvette own neologism. but yeah, yvette cooperis own neologism. but yeah, yvette cooper is blaming this on the disgraceful dereliction of the last tory government on law and order. but she's also not saying all the other things like mass immigration, all these things we don't want to talk about and our labour are really going to do anything about law and order. the tories. and i hope they do. maybe they will, i hope they do. and let's wait and see. yeah, i can't see keir starmer suddenly turning turning into buckley. maybe, maybe because he can get away with it and he's not a nasty party. he's a nice party so he can do you want. maybe he will and maybe who knows? >> nick, the guardian republicans want no personal attacks on the woman trump has already called dumb as a rock.

>> well, he put it in quotes, so he's presumably just quoting someone else. steve, how dare you? yeah republican leaders urge party to avoid racist and sexist attacks against harris. and the argument is go against her for a terrible record and a terrible character rather than her immutable characteristics, which seems like a reasonable approach. i mean, she's going to play approach. i mean, she's going to play the card. i'm a woman, i'm a black woman, and all this, and they're going to hit that really hard because it's basically all she's got. and there's this issue about abortion and, you know, and the republicans are seen as being like nasty on abortion. now, ever since roe versus wade was overturned, trump's actually rolled back his vision and said, i'm leaving it up to the states. but they will use that constantly. and so, yeah, i think it's reasonable to just go at harris for her complete sort of non—entity status. i mean, no one voted for her really in the primaries. she was terrible in that no one actually wants her. the media is doing this massive snow job now, telling her, oh, she's amazing. and brilliant and we in 10s ago, everyone knew she was useless . everyone knew she was useless. we've all got to go along with that. so yeah, i agree. i mean, it's probably a stronger tactic for them to just hit it on

everything else. and the question is, will people, will this identity politics work ? this identity politics work? will, for example, black men seem to have like really gone to trump now. mike tyson announced he was voting trump. i can't see him going back to kamala. but black women vote for kamala. they're definitely going kamala. yeah, so it's just identity politics versus competence. i mean, can you imagine kamala harris dealing with putin or zigi? it's just terrifying. like you need to be unburdened by what has been it's like, what are you talking about? and laughing and then laughing hysterically. and the chinese are going, what is she doing? this is offensive . no, this is this is offensive. no, this is what she does. it's like, oh yeah, yeah, she's not even good at golf. she's brilliant at golf. yeah, i think the identity politics is not that much of a worry, is it? it's not as if trump's never won an election against a woman before. yeah, yeah. but i mean, with hillary, i don't think they're banging on. i guess she was banging on quite a lot about being a woman, but now banging on about being black, being , you know, probably black, being, you know, probably she's probably gonna invent some gender and sexuality as well. and being a woman, it's, yeah, it's almost like a trap. it's like they've got this candidate who's just going to bang on

about being, you know, a black woman. you know, this is such a such a big deal. and obviously for the left, who are completely identitarian and judge people purely on their immutable characteristics, judge people purely on their skin colour rather than the content of their character or what their what their record is. they're going to vote for kamala. all the all the childless women who are the biggest threat to civilisation , biggest threat to civilisation, i think we can say without any controversy are going to be channelling their curdled empathy into the wrong direction, into, you know, horrific communist policies. she's i mean, she she's the sort of original di hire. so, you know, although it would sort of draw out trump and make him, make him appear like a bad guy if he was attacking her like that, i think she'd avoid that trap. and just like comedians do it, everybody, everybody else is going to be doing it. so you don't need trump doesn't need to don't need trump doesn't need to do it. and just very briefly, one point the di hire thing, some of the left is sort of saying that's like a kind of synonymous with some sort of racist attack. but it's not. it's about merit. and lots of black people hate di because then you know, it implies that

they're not there by merit. so they're not there by merit. so they they hate that as well. and women. >> leo the daily mail asylum seekers complained they were kept in prison like conditions. >> now, if it was like a prison, you'd have been released already. so for asylum seekers , already. so for asylum seekers, sue the home office over prison like conditions at ex—raf base used to house migrants. so it's good enough for our military, apparently, who risk their lives to protect us. but it's not good enough for these asylum seekers. so they say they were caged in prison like conditions and plagued by scabies and squabbling. migrants would fight one another in food. cuz, i mean, i don't know if it's necessarily the government's fault or the home office's fault that the migrants squabbled and fought each other and the food queues. fought each other and the food queues . but barristers queues. but barristers representing the four men, who are probably paid for out of our taxes through legal aid, you know , every step of the way know, every step of the way we're paying for this, they all stayed at this former airbase, between july 2023 and february 2024. they claim it was seriously inadequate and that gunfire from a nearby shooting range had triggered traumatic memories for some who must have

seen rambo three. that's got a lot of gunfire in it. it's not very good. yeah, it's just a very good. yeah, it's just a very 2024 story, isn't it? i mean, it's less suing. the asylum seekers are suing the home office. i mean, if they win, it's a new level of anarchic tyranny. you know, i have used this phrase before on the show. this would be i've used the phrase the apotheosis of an arc attorney, but this would be the true zenith of an arc attorney. but i'm not a complete monster. they should have locks on their doors. we don't have locks on the doors that would stop some of the fighting, presumably, right? yeah. so that's my concession to being a liberal. that would make it even more like a prison. true >> that's part two. >> that's part two. >> all done in part three. >> all done in part three. >> broken windows is still a computer i >> -- >> long shot. and threesomes on trial . threesomes on trial. >> find out more

next. >> welcome back to headliners. now, nick, we go to thursday's daily mail. the windows crash caused by die in it. >> surely not a problem, because have you ever called an it desk? >> you know what i'm saying,

right? it's. did die. crash. 8.5 million computers. crowdstrike probed for sidelining its white male coders. so it's a classic mistake. obviously, we know coders should be autistic white men. basically, the panel here, we could easily have been coders just with a slightly different brains. you could probably do it now. steve, i'm a linux man. >> it's true. yeah >> it's true. yeah >> oh, i could see you coding away. so look, the i nearly killed the president. now it's nearly killed the internet or whatever. i mean, 8.5 million computers, but this this conservative legal action group, america first legal has launched this action, but they're not claiming that it directly caused the outage or whatever. or the crash , but they are saying, crash, but they are saying, look, this, this crowdstrike are using they're doing all kinds of d—i type things on their website. they talk about commitment to building a diverse workforce. they use this interesting phrase, a progressive atmosphere that promotes black diversity. now i'm a mere layman in these matters, but this is a bit of an oxymoron. black diversity. i mean, how diverse is the colour

black? i mean , it's black? i mean, it's extraordinary. so everyone's sick of the i, i mean, and they say here, look, it's patently unlawful, deeply harmful and immoral. and there's decades of case law. hold that. but we know that it's not about what laws exist. it's who enacts the laws and who gets to decide, in carl schmitt's phrase, who gets to decide the exception. you know, who gets to actually enact the laws and choose which ones they actually follow or not? yeah, interesting. a lot of conservative pressure groups are suing law companies for their illegal dei, strategies , because illegal dei, strategies, because the law firms then advise lots of clients. so it's more effective than, than going after big corporations, but yeah, this is i mean , the impact of dei. is i mean, the impact of dei. i think it's obvious when you watch, you know , disney and you watch, you know, disney and you see how awful everything is and how, you know , dei just how, you know, dei just crowbarred in, but, you know, nobody dies from, from it's not a sort of mission critical thing. what we're seeing now is more complex systems failing, such as this, you know, computer thing , whatever it is. and also

thing, whatever it is. and also the secret service and boeing and the secret service. and this is, you know, now it's getting now it's getting real. you know, people were having a real impact on the economy, a real impact on people's lives as well. and people's lives as well. and people say, oh, it's misogyny. it's racism. if you don't like the, you know, dei is explicitly itself racist and sexist and all the rest of it, the argument will be more persuasive. they didn't use that voice, but sorry, carry on. and funnily enough, the reason there's so many trans people, trans women, you know, women like me in the world of computing and programming and software development is apparently. and i read this on twitter, it's probably true, is because it's easier to get a male coder and get him to transition than it is to get a woman to . i instantly to get a woman to. i instantly believe that the men are good at coding. is that so bad to say then? autistic men are brilliant at coding. we love them. what's wrong with that? everyone's got different skills. it's not a problem though. i was offended what you said about disney, because i really enjoyed the last 18 star wars films about how white men are evil star

wars, 18 white men are still awful . awful. >> leo the telegraph the biggest war of our time continues. israel versus the bbc. >> so israel complains to the bbc over a report of a death of a disabled palestinian mauled by a disabled palestinian mauled by a military dog and israeli idf dog as this was a man with down's syndrome mauled by an idf attack dog in gaza. so the bbc just reported it. as you know, this this disabled palestinian guy who's been mauled to death by a dog. but they didn't mention that prior to attacking the man, the combat dog had detected terrorists in the family family home. that detail was omitted from the bbc piece, which gives, you know, an important bit of context. it's like the guy getting kicked in the head. it's like when you find out he broke a police or may have broken a police officer's nose, a police woman's nose. it changes the context and also the family had refused to leave the area. they'd been

given a warning by the idf to leave. so they, you know, add leave. so they, you know, add leave if the idf were coming into my town, i'd probably leave and then go back when they when they when they gone back, i'm not sure. i mean, it says the combat dog had detected terrorists. i mean, he's presumably trained to sniff out explosives and stuff. i don't know if he can sniff out terrorists. they're not made from a different type of person, different odour. >> they often have a different cologne. >> yeah, that might be what it is. >> any sympathy for the bbc on this one? >> nick? >> nick? >> just try and see if it can scrape some balance out of you. >> yeah, i am a little torn on this because the bbc have been clearly anti—israel. i think it's almost i think you can say that they didn't want to call hamas a terrorist organisation and so on. my certainly my subjective impression is that they have been pretty anti—israel. but then you look at this story, of course, it does sound horrific. i mean, when they're saying there's not sufficient context. still, this kid with down's syndrome or whatever who was left to die still sounds it is still bad. but the bbc, yeah , they went but the bbc, yeah, they went they had the headline the lonely death of a gaza man with down's

syndrome. of course they changed that to gaza. man with down's syndrome attacked by idf dog and left to die, mother tells bbc, which is a bit more sort of strictly accurate, but it's still pretty horrific, even with all the facts. it's not great. yeah, but war is horrific . yeah, yeah. >> nick, the daily mail and brain fog and pains might not be caused by long covid. it could be that you're four years older and you've had two kids since then. that last bit is more of a me problem. >> yeah, you. so i was thinking the same. it's long. covid cannot be blamed for constant tiredness, brain fog or muscle pain. study suggests . it's like, pain. study suggests. it's like, yeah, maybe you're just a 40 year old human. you know those are the symptoms. and lo and behold, anyone with common sense heard long covid and they had covid. they went , that's kind of covid. they went, that's kind of bs, isn't it? it just sounded like bs. and now it officially totally is because they did a study and they just found that there was no difference between those who tested positive and those who tested positive and those that hadn't. and, you know, the average participant was about 38, which proves what i said about a 40 year old, 68% of the patients were female. i'm

just i that means i'm not even going to comment on it. but you just laughed. that means i'm not even going to say anything. i'm just reading facts. i'm just reading your facts. but people. well, i'll give you one thing. long covid has also been thrust into the spotlight recently as ben affleck's daughter argued in favour of mask mandates. i mean, that was just narcissism run amok, wasn't it? but look, it always i always suspected it was always i always suspected it was a way of people working from home who didn't want to go back to work. so they said, i've got long covid and this study just proves me right. really? >> doesn't that study more prove that if you get a virus, you can have chronic fatigue and covid is not a worse virus ? is not a worse virus? >> yes. not virus, not unique. yeah, yeah, that's the same thing. it's not a swinging the lead working from home thing. >> it's you get a virus, you might get chronic. >> yeah, but no one talks about long flu or long cold. >> yeah that's the error. but the conclusion isn't like oh they were making it up. no, no. >> you can feel rough for ages. definitely. but no one it's not a thing in society is it. but i've got a friend who got long covid and so she works for the nhs. she was in the hospitals when they didn't have the ppe, didn't have vaccines and all the rest of it. so she got it in the

in the line of duty. you know, she's right in the front line when, you know, it was just her and the people who work in tesco's who were going out and risking risking their lives for us, and she had a horrific time with it. she's had all kinds of problems with her joints and her problems with herjoints and her lungs and her heart. problems with herjoints and her lungs and her heart . and so lungs and her heart. and so i think, you know, you can get horrific covid can cause horrific covid can cause horrific problems. well, i take back everything i said. you can have horrific long covid, but guess that's different from like this. this is just like brain fog and muscle pain and stuff. that's just general sort of like fatigue. yeah how about this? you can have horrible it can be real in some instances like the one you mentioned. other people are just saying they have it. yeah. good. we've agree, >> nick, the daily mail and woman thought she could migrate to the uk to be with her two lovers. i suspect someone's about to get roasted. >> oh, woman loses bid to move to uk to join her two male lovers and vows to take legal action against british government for discriminating against polygamous relationships. i mean, the insanity of this. so she was from south africa and she's she says this is unfair because

polygamy is legal in south africa. i've got an idea . so go africa. i've got an idea. so go live in south africa. i mean, am i? i hate to ever say that because we do things a bit differently. we don't like it here. we don't. >> stop bringing you weird perversion. >> leo is the only foreign pervert that should be allowed in the country. this is my. this is my position. it's absolutely ridiculous. you don't get to, like, sue the country because we don't want to, like, observe your absurd relationship. that is my take. sorry. i mean, in terms of, like, weird ideas that could be harmful to the country that people bring to the uk. this is pretty low down the list. and also, i don't i don't understand, you know, if there are people like the uk recognises, polygamous marriages, if they're, if they're formed or they're signed off in a country where it's legal. so annually nearly bought a house off a guy who had two wives, and there are two beds in the master bedroom was it was the master bedroom was it was the deal that one of his wives would stay in the house. so why did you not go through it? i don't know how they know the all the all the, building regs and

stuff were fake and brown paper, you know, brown envelope jobs and stuff. so we decided to walk away rather than buy it. and also he's lying to us about stuff. so we thought, you know, you can't buy a house of somebody lying, but that's getting away from this, this story that is almost louis shafer levels. >> i thought you would have liked this story, because if all people applying to move to the uk required two spouses, you'd halve the number of migrants. this could be the best plan that the government could have to finally get the figures down to the tens of thousands, and also mean more women coming. >> oh no, it's two men, in this case, two men in this case. yeah. take out the two men so they'd be busy. >> so it would leave more women left over in the uk? oh, yeah. >> would it? because you're bringing in more coding mind. we can't even follow. >> it tells you a flip chart thing in the in the break. but meanwhile we are three quarters done still to come reading , done still to come reading, smelling and knowing when go go to the toilet. say now, dunng say now, during the ad

b low. welcome blow. welcome back to headliners and leo. straight into thursday's guardian. do you still read? for pleasure? i do fan mail. i read that email a thousand times by now. >> so more than a third of uk adults have given up reading for pleasure. study finds half of adults in the uk do not regularly read for pleasure, suggesting that journalists and people who do studies on this have given up maths because a third have given up and a half don't . so i don't know how don't. so i don't know how they're , i don't know how they're, i don't know how they're, i don't know how they're working. >> a sixth don't do anything. they. >> yeah. so social media distraction, lack of time and difficulty focusing are factors in my poor performance tonight. and the decline of reading for pleasure, but i think more people are reading for pain. so maybe it's a balancing out. >> yeah. newspapers >> yeah. newspapers >> some of it is ridiculous. i mean, 23% of respondents agreed with the statement, i cannot find things to read that interest me. that's called being dumb. but some of the things are more valid. i mean, 17% need guidance on to how choose books.

go to nick dixon dot net. i've got my top ten novels. i used to read 100 novels a year. my whole thing. i've got an ma in literature my whole life. but then now i even i have stopped, but. and i occasionally still do. and i need to do it more. but i listen to audiobooks for non—fiction. but fiction. i think you have to read. but the idea of people just it is sad. the decline of reading for pleasure. do you guys even read fiction or is it just all just far right political? just i just read i go on twitter and read that and that's fact. that's the problem. it's all fact. it's so hard to come off and actually read a book when you've got twitter just filling your mind with horror. >> and also they've done this thing these days where they take like works of fiction and they make them into films and they're like, really ? brill. yeah. so i like, really? brill. yeah. so i do that. >> you can see the stuff, you can see the stuff. >> some of the actors and actresses, they're all very attractive. so i'd recommend, well, you're all philistines. better than i read it. and the people in my head are terrible. so it's much better. >> the one that's a separate problem, >> nick, the daily mail big hair slows you down when running. i'm off to the paris olympics. i'm a natural. yeah, true. >> i mean, how could we have not seen this coming? athletes

competing in the 100m at the paris olympic games could wear hair caps. that's capitalised . hair caps. that's capitalised. that's why i've shouted it. why? to level the playing field, scientists claim, as research reveals, flowing locks slow you down by up to 0.07 seconds. and at my level , steve, that makes at my level, steve, that makes all the difference. i mean, this comes from heriot—watt university in edinburgh, and they figured out this genius thing don't have flowing hair, and everyone knew it made a difference in certain sports like cycling and speed skating. but they didn't in track and field. very interesting story. yeah and some people have got really like an aerodynamic hair as well. but swimmers i think swimmers shave themselves and you know do as well. yes cyclists do. and also if you've got a car that's going to be in a race, you wax it. so it's nice and smooth and the air goes over it smoothly. so yeah, it makes sense for runners. you do need every advantage these days as well, particularly if you're a woman competing against loads of big men in your sport. >> yeah, that slows them down. yeah. >> that's why that's what it is . >> that's why that's what it is. it's not the fact they're up against biological men. yeah the long hair, but actually the biological male genitals aren't

very aerodynamic, so it holds them back. not be so swings and roundabouts literally. they should give the biological females a handicap when they're competing against the trans males who are encumbered with this extra burden. >> that's why i waxed mine. leo the independent. do men like the smell of fertile women? it doesn't matter. stop. scent marking my garden. debbie hahahahaha. >> men may not actually be attracted to fertile women. scent study finds . well, speak scent study finds. well, speak for yourself. so previous research, including one published in 2018, suggested that straight men's attraction to women's body odour may may vary over the ovulation cycle, peaking around the fertile window, which makes sense , but window, which makes sense, but it is a case of, you know, what makes sense? guiding the study because in this research, 91 straight men rated the scents of 29 unfamiliar women at different stages of their menstrual cycle by hiding in a toilet. no on they rated them on attractiveness, pleasantness and intensity. they say it's simulating a first encounter. i

mean, it's not exactly simulating a first encounter, is it? you know what i mean to dogs. yeah there's normally like, you know, you have a half a half a pint of fosters or something, and you know what i mean? like, i mean, what can you say? it's obviously not the, the fertility that attracts us to women. it's their ideas and career achievements. what, what why did you say that? because it's this thing. there's this meme on the internet that actually men are allegedly don't care about those things. women they only care about looks. so it's a kind of joke about that, but it's a very deep internet joke. i regret saying it. >> i zoned out the actual story. it makes sense with one species that hides fertility cycles in women , because you want to have women, because you want to have pair bonding long term. this is why you don't have like a big bottom that glows red like some other primates. i do. all right, there you go, nick. the telegraph . and time to throw telegraph. and time to throw that old condom out of my wallet. >> well, that seems separate to this, but yeah , miracle new this, but yeah, miracle new anti—hiv jab could revolutionise virus protection. so lena capovilla , let's say, is this capovilla, let's say, is this new, incredibly effective vaccine? i mean , they say it's vaccine? i mean, they say it's got vaccine like potential. so presumably that means it doesn't

work and the government are going to pressure you to have it for no reason. but in actual fact, you have a stroke two weeks later. this is one of the good ones. so it's, they gave it to 2134 women, and they and it was it worked in every case or something. so yeah, we could have a cure. and i've written a note here. i can't read because i've got i've got hiv. no, i haven't the i this is my last ever show. 20s >> any thoughts on it, >> any thoughts on it, >> eazy e, got hiv from freddie mercury, according to a song that i listened to. but yeah, the downside of this is it could increase risky sex and increase stds. increase risky sex and increase stds . okay, well that's stds. okay, well that's something don't do that. non hiv avoid on the weekend. fun story to end on. >> yeah with that mental image. let's say the show's nearly oven let's say the show's nearly over. so let's take another quick look at thursday's front pages for you. we start with the times and labour plans. thousands of offshore wind farms. the daily mail goes with is this the end of our copper coins? guardian revealed rich western countries lead global gas and oil expansion. the

telegraph says tugendhat i'm ready to leave the echr the express goes with senior army officer stabbed outside barracks and the daily star jaws swims up the thames. so do watch out for that. so we've got time for. thank you to my guests, leo and nick. we are back tomorrow at 11 with andrew doyle in the chair. louis schaffer and nick will be back, so good luck with that. if you're watching at five in the morning, stay tuned for breakfast until the next time. have yourself a good one. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello again and welcome along to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. gloomy skies overnight and into the start of thursday. for many of us, outbreaks of rain. but it will turn brighter later on. now. we started wednesday with a ridge of high pressure . didn't ridge of high pressure. didn't last long. weather fronts are now moving in from the west and they are thickening up the cloud

in many parts of the uk and bringing extensive low cloud to western parts and southern parts of the country with hill fog, coastal mist and areas of rain and drizzle. nevertheless with the largely cloudy skies overnight, it is going to remain mild in some places, rather muqqy' mild in some places, rather muggy, 15 or 16 celsius first thing, but if you're in the south and southwest, expect a gloomy start to thursday. a lot of low cloud covering the hills, bringing some mist and fog to coastal parts as well, and some more persistent and heavier bursts of rain into south cornwall and south devon through the morning . wales cloudy and the morning. wales cloudy and damp, the worst of the drizzle and low cloud over the hills. likewise for northwest england, but for scotland and northern ireland something a little brighter. first thing, certainly for eastern scotland. some sunny spells coming through largely dry here, showers pushing into western scotland and through the morning we're going to see things cheer up. across the northern two thirds of the uk, the cloud will lift. there will be some cloud breaks, although

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>> good evening. well, it was the first prime minister's questions today for keir starmer . questions today for keir starmer. but i've got to ask the question. is there any opposition ? because it appears opposition? because it appears to be the uniparty. yes. rishi sunak agreeing with virtually everything. do we need a proper opposition to have a healthy democracy? well biden's out of the way. it's kamala harris, is she going to provide real opposition to donald trump, or is she actually under scrutiny, going to really struggle up against a guy who was a really tough opponent? the royal family finances are really in very, very good shape, and the reason for that, of course, is the crown estate's own a lot of offshore seabed, where wind farms are going up and they're making vast profits. but do the royal family give us real value for money? plus, i'll reveal tonight exclusively here on gb news. another farage de—banking story . all of that comes after story. all of that comes after the news with polly middlehurst.

>> nigel, thank you and good evening to you. well, the main story from the gb newsroom tonight is that police in kent say the stabbing of a british army officer near a barracks in gillingham isn't being treated as terrorism at this stage . as terrorism at this stage. however, they say they are being supported by counter—terror specialists. detectives are continuing with their investigations this evening after witnesses reported hearing screams just before 6:00 yesterday evening . locals rushed yesterday evening. locals rushed to help the officer, including his wife, just in time to see the attacker, who was wearing a mask, flee on a moped. the suspect was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder about 20 minutes later, after being stopped by members of the public. being stopped by members of the pubuc.the being stopped by members of the public. the victim, aged in his 40s, was taken to hospital with serious injuries. the home secretary, yvette cooper, says she's being kept up to date on the investigation. >> this is an appalling attack on a serving soldier