of determine whether his use of force was acceptable . an force was acceptable. an alternative healer has been convicted of manslaughter after a 71 year old woman died following one of his slapping therapy workshops . hongshi zhao, therapy workshops. hongshi zhao, who has no medical qualifications , preached the qualifications, preached the benefits of hitting yourself to rid your body of toxins. daniel carr—gomm had been following his instructions and stopped taking her diabetes medication during a retreat in 2016. a rapist who threw a boy off a cliff to try to cover up his crimes has been sentenced today to life in prison. anthony stokes raped and sexually assaulted a girl multiple times between 2019 and 2022, when she confided in a boy . 2022, when she confided in a boy. stocks then threw him off a cliff miraculously , the boy cliff miraculously, the boy survived but continues to suffer ongoing health issues. the perpetrator was convicted of a number of crimes, and will now spend at least 19 years in jail . spend at least 19 years in jail. in the us, donald trump has said

the third world war could erupt if he loses november's election. that's as he welcomed benjamin netanyahu to his mar a lago estate today. it was their first face to face meeting in nearly four years. the former president of the united states said he wanted to mend an important political alliance with the israeli prime minister, who had previously congratulated joe biden on his election victory in 2020. but in spite of that, mr trump says the two have always been close . and finally, more been close. and finally, more news for you from the us tonight. the first tv advert from for kamala harris's presidential bid has hit the screens . screens. >> we choose freedom, freedom , >> we choose freedom, freedom, freedom i can't move freedom cut me loose. >> freedom , freedom. where are >> freedom, freedom. where are you? >> well , featuring that >> well, featuring that soundtrack by beyonce, who's given her blessing to the vice president, the ad touches on gun violence , healthcare and violence, healthcare and abortion while casting donald trump as a convicted criminal.

it comes as a new poll tonight by the new york times puts mr harris level now with mr trump, a stark turnaround from the previous poll, which had joe biden trailing by six points. those are the latest headlines for now. much more from the newsroom from tomorrow at 10:00 in the morning. now, though, it's in the morning. now, though, wsfime in the morning. now, though, 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 . slash alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at saturday's newspapers. i'm andrew doyle. i'm joined tonight by two comedians. one is available on all platforms. >> that's steve and alan and the recently disgraced and banned from x bruce devlin. this is apparently about hammers. he got banned about hammers. yeah. >> because you know that old

scottish phrase i'll take a hammer to you. yeah. well someone had put up about a tiktoker demanding free food and i just said take a hammer to her. and they banned me. >> well, they think you're inciting violence, but you're just being scottish. >> but i had very similar. well i had emojis. >> but then that undermines everything. >> but that's what i put in my appeal. i mean, this is ridiculous. look at the nuance. look at the emojis. how dare you treat me like this? and it's not the first time i've used that phrase. >> well, that is absurd. but you, of course, steve, are behaving well on social media. >> i'm available on all platforms. >> yes, truth social shut me down. brilliant. and next time i want to say something aggressive, i'll just put a winking emoji, i think, and then it's fine. okay, well, let's have a look at those front pages for saturday before we crack on the daily mail is running with an olympic story. la farce. there you go. a bit of french for you. the times has got olympics sabotaged. the telegraph has far left suspects suspected of olympic sabotage. same story. the express britain conned massive tax raid on way. and the guardian has millions of pubuc and the guardian has millions of public sector workers set for pay public sector workers set for pay rise. and finally, the daily

star has nothing compares. this is a story about a waxwork of sinead o'connor that has not impressed her brother. those were your front pages. okay, so we're going to kick off with saturday's daily mail. steve, what is the front cover looking like? yep. >> they go with la farce la farce, which is interesting because i didn't know whether it would be la farce or la farce because you know, you know what ladies be like, am i right? >> wrong room, right wrong room. but despite massive olympic security, arson attacks on rail network bring france to a standstill as torrential rain puts damper on opening ceremonies are timing. if they could have just overlap those two, yes, this problem would have gone away. did you watch any of the opening ceremony? sweet mercy. no, none at all. no, no. it wasn't good. i mean, i saw about five minutes and that was it. i mean, it was more like a kind of torture. if i categorise it as a la farce, i would say la farce if i was pretentious. but i'm not, bruce. i mean, there was a lot of people dancing around in the rain, and, you know, even the

cameras were sort of covered with the droplets because i suppose they hadn't anticipated that it might rain. but it's an outdoor event. you see, the french think of nothing. well, les farce, les farce. >> is that incorrect? is that superlative ablative? i don't know, but selena's back. celine has been there, so she's not stiff? no, she was moving around . stiff? no, she was moving around. so. because apparently she's got stiffening syndrome. she has. she has apparently so, which is very harrowing. and no one is making a joke about that. but she seemed mobile that maybe given her la cod liver oil. >> and you're quite a fan of celine. >> yes. can take a leave. i don't mind . i wish her no ill don't mind. i wish her no ill wasn't late. >> take a hammer to her. >> take a hammer to her. >> no, i wouldn't, because you know why she hasn't done anything to annoy me now, was it anything to annoy me now, was it a lady, lady gaga, lady gaga ? a lady, lady gaga, lady gaga? well, i thought they were meant to be doing a dua. and then because there was, there was things that were leaked where they were going to be on a little boat floating around together, but that had, gaga's piano on it. okay, so i don't know if there was only room for that and not celine. although ceuneis

that and not celine. although celine is so thin she wouldn't take up any room. she's like a human metronome now. >> i don't want to be unkind, steve. but you remember the sort of danny boyle opening of the olympic ceremony in london, which was so spectacular? this looks kind of trashy by comparison. i mean, i'm just saying, as an outside observer. >> no, i think you're right. i mean, i didn't watch this because i don't really just don't care about olympics, to be fair, >> but it's going to be difficult to top throwing the queen out of a helicopter. you're not going to top it ever. oh. never again. no, no. >> well, talking of tom daley and cardboard beds, was he there in a cardboard bed? yeah. there was something to do with him in a cardboard bed. and the other divers actually. >> can i just i think i was wrong there, >> the french were meaner to their royals than just throwing them out of. >> yes, they did a lot worse at it. yeah, they did a lot worse. okay, well, we're going to move on to the front cover of the express. bruce, what have they got? well, this is britain's second massive tax rate on the way. >> so this is basically what keir had promised pre—election. we're not going to increase taxes. we're not going to do this. but that's exactly what they're going to do okay.

>> we're going to see a lot of this aren't we. you know, various sort of sniping from the tories and labour, labour saying that you left us with nothing and etc. this is all to do with rachel reeves department, isn't it? >> yeah. and it's jeremy hunt saying, hang on. >> no, she's wrong about this. she says there's a £20 billion black hole and he says, no. and he says, this is all just a big con so that she can raise taxes. >> jeremy hunt, the man who was in charge of the highest tax burden since the second world war, is saying, these people, they want your tax money, but it's a bit, he said. >> she said, shouldn't there be transparency when it comes to the britain's finances? when you're in opposition , you get you're in opposition, you get quite a lot of the info as well. you know you do don't you. yeah, yeah. pretty much all of it i think. so i'm not sure where this surprise is coming from. okay. all right. very interesting. let's move on to the front cover of the next papen the front cover of the next paper, which is the guardian, who's got this one? >> it's me. they have millions. it's almost the same story, just a different slice. >> millions of public sector workers set for a pay rise. well, they're taking a different. that sounds quite

positive to me. the way that they're phrasing that. if it weren't for the fact that someone's got to pay for it, well, there's that which adds into this £20 billion massive hole that needs filling. but so actually, just to get all the ducksin actually, just to get all the ducks in a row here. yes, this is an independent review. this is an independent review. this is an independent review. this is a separate body that then suggests how much pay rise it should be. you are right to claim that a 5.5% pay rise is inflation busting. yes, you compare it to inflation. now they've not received pay rises for so long that if you were to compound up the inflation, since then we've been through 11%. so 5.5% isn't inflation busting. if you average it out over that period. yeah. but my understanding is that rachel reeves wasn't expecting it to be that high. this was an independent body that sort of set this this amount, and they'd earmarked much less for public sector pay rises. and that's silly and that's. well, yeah. but they hadn't anticipated it. but they hadn't anticipated it. but then on the other hand, bruce, is it not right that teachers and nurses should get paid properly for what they do? >> they should, along with the line of inflation, shouldn't they? >> well, i just think they're underpaid as it is. they've not

received a pay rise for so long. it's not just looking at inflation. >> now. >> now. >> we've been through 11% inflation. those those prices haven't come down. this is this always gets talked about with inflation. it's when inflation drops prices don't drop. yes it's true over by the cops and saying well my rate of acceleration drops. >> why am i being done for doing 90in a 30. >> okay. well we've just got time for the last paper for this section. the front cover of the star. >> yes. and this is nothing compares and, quote unquote, a god awful waxwork of sinead o'connor marking the first anniversary of her death is being scrapped after her brother said it looks like something out of the thunderbirds. >> i mean, it does look like something out of the thunderbird. >> well, it looks like a waxwork that's had an awful lot of botox. >> yes, exactly. >> yes, exactly. >> no, it does though, which is not accurate because sinead o'connor didn't do that. no, she didn't do anything like that. she was able to move her whole face. >> exactly. so i mean, it's look, it's the gesture was a good one wasn't it, steve? >> i mean obviously, but then it was a bit like when they did the victoria wood statue. that was a

disgrace as well. >> yeah. it looked nothing like it. so i mean, gesture aside, get it right. get it right. well, steve, are you a fan of sinead o'connor? that one song? >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> which actually which one? >> which actually which one? >> the celine dion one. >> the celine dion one. >> which one? oh, nothing compares to you. yeah. the prince. the prince one. although, to be fair, her version sounds. it's more emotional to listen to it. yes, yes, his version just doesn't quite land obviously. but i feel, i sort of feel i mean, it's the brother saying he hates the wax and that's fair enough. you know, it's a terrible waxwork. it is terrible. somehow they've made a waxwork that looks more like an e—fit than a human. yes, i yeah, yeah. it's not, it's not good. i'll take a hammer to it. you would. yes. is that going to be the slogan is a theme. all right. well yeah. hammers aside. that's all we've got time for in this section. join us after the break for the latest from greater police. a threat to free speech and politicians

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first look at saturday's newspapers. i'm andrew doyle. i'm joined here by steve n allen and bruce devlin. we're going to start this section with saturday's times. steve, the latest on the greater manchester police situation. yeah they go with police officer under criminal investigation for manchester airport stamp. well ain't that a kick in the head. well watchdog says too soon. he probably is too soon, isn't it? so the watchdog says that this armed officer filmed kicking the man on the ground, may face charges, and has also been served with a disciplinary notice. yes. that seems appropriate so far. it turns out you're not meant to kick someone in the head if they're already on the floor. goodness who would have thought it? this is a shock to some people. the independent office for police conduct are already looking into it. some argue, and i was listening to a thing earlier on today. some people said that because there was like a weapon in play. yes. the risk is that this guy could have got his hands on the police. right. weapon. but then surely that firstly, he's already lying on the floor. this is the best, the least opportune time to grab a weapon. and also, that could be said of any time

any armed police turn up. so why aren't we seeing more head kicking? yeah, it doesn't quite fit. i mean, i would i would say it's never acceptable for police officers to be stamping on people's heads, obviously, now, of course i do take on board what andy burnham said, which is that we haven't seen the entire footage and he has, and he's saying there's more context here than we know. i mean, we do know that this man had broken a woman's nose, had punched a policewoman in the face, and, you know, a violent attack at an airport can get you shot, you know? so there's maybe more here. i still stand by if the situation is under control. someone's on the ground, restrained. there's no excuse for stamping on someone's head. i just don't see that. how that could be the case. but i defer to the judgement of the people investigating. what do you think, bruce? no, i completely agree. >> and i think if we'd seen, you know, the preamble , for want of know, the preamble, for want of a better thing to the situation that was posted online, yes, we might have a greater understanding. it's still not the right thing, but we might see more of how that has come about. but no, i do think it's inexcusable. yeah >> okay. right. let's move on to

this next story . now, this >> okay. right. let's move on to this next story. now, this is in the daily mail on saturday, and labour are talking about undoing the tories moves towards protecting free speech. bruce. yeah. >> so the tories were to bring in a law against cancel culture at universities, and now it could be axed under labour, because labour feel that it may or may not be a burden. education secretary bridget phillipson i think that's how you pronounce her name, announced she is considering repealing the legislation designed to protect the freedom of speech. >> it's kind of a shocker this because there was cross—party support for this higher education freedom of speech bill. they'd appointed arif ahmed as the free speech tsar, which would give people the opportunity to complain, you know, if they were mistreated for exercising their academic freedom. and bridget phillipson writes, this statement doesn't present it in parliament, just sneaksit present it in parliament, just sneaks it through a day before parliament goes into recess. it is all very underhand, i mean,

if you're going to have a, a law to strengthen free speech and then you avoid the democratic process to cancel it, that's a problem, right? yeah. and what bothers me about this is there's another example of people arguing it's slightly missed angles. >> so labour say they want to protect students from bullying and harassment. >> yes . fair and harassment. >> yes. fair play right. the law is about stopping things like no platforming. well, this is a different argument then, isn't it ? surely already a university it? surely already a university can ban bullying without saying that you can no platform or stop people's freedom of speech. there's just a thin little overlap where someone would be using a freedom of speech defence to harass or bully. yeah, but the problem is that allowed a lot of the people who have this ideology where they they believe that censorship is they believe that censorship is the answer. they would say that causing offence is a form of harassment causing offence is a form of bullying. right? that's i mean, that's the kind of thing that people have said. think about the people who've been no platform like julie bindel like kathleen stock lost, was forced to resign in the end. joe phoenix, you know, was harassed by her colleagues. so there's obviously a problem in

universities that this was going to at least partly sort out. it wasn't even a great bill like they were. it was a it was a kind of an attempt to do something about it. so i just worry about i've been worrying about labour for a while with this bruce. so they're actually just going to be waging their culture war all the more now that they're in power. >> but then what i don't understand, can you say taking offence is being bullied ? offence is being bullied? >> lots of people do say that. >> lots of people do say that. >> yeah. so i really don't agree with that, particularly in a university where you're going to be hearing ideas you don't agree with. but this is the whole point. like where does the discourse, where does you know, where is the discussion? we were speaking about that earlier before we came on air. and just, you know, people have really set views. they think one thing and yeah, none, none of this makes sense. >> no. yeah. dodgy stuff. anyway, we're going to move on now to more labour news. this is in the telegraph, steve, number 10 is going to make the international criminal court's life a bit easier. yeah. >> labour will not challenge netanyahu's arrest. >> so previously, the

international criminal court made an application for an arrest warrant against benjamin netanyahu. so in theory, if he comes to the uk, would have to be arrested. but don't worry, we're not arresting anyone at the moment because the prisons are full. so by the time he ever turns up, we'd have forgotten how to arrest. and also he won't turn up and he definitely would not arrive at manchester airport. can i ask what the point of all this is? well there's not really one. i suppose it's about sending a signal because this is not an arrest that would ever happen. it's more about sending a signal. and i suppose, well, it depends where the point starts. the point for labour is they realise their biggest enemy is from within. they can't afford to lose support to the, the anti—israel sentiment. so it's a political thing. so i think it's political thing. so i think it's political from them. and also it doesn't matter because it's an arrest that will never be enacted. so the arrest is a message, a signal being sent to someone who can't afford to listen to the signal because he's too busy trying to get the support of his right wing in his own parliament to try and stay in power there. well, also, why is the icc suggesting that a head of state should be arrested when he enacts the country's right to self—defence?

>> because it's sending a signal, isn't it? >> they're doing, they're doing, it's all noise and absolutely no light, or it's all heat and no light. yeah. and of course, this comes off the back of david lammy restoring funding to unrwa. yeah. at least david lammy made some noises, saying look, unrwa looks like it's a mess. looks like it's corrupt, but there's no other system that's what he said. yeah. it's needed. there's no other body that can deliver the aid. so at least he wasn't going like, these guys are absolutely brutal. yeah, but perhaps they should wait for the investigations to complete. yeah.in investigations to complete. yeah. in the french, one had completed . okay. all right, completed. okay. all right, well, let's move on now to the guardian next, which, bruce, this might even stop you moaning about the trains to edinburgh. >> well, it won't actually. and i can go into our story where i complained about a woman who had her feet out, which i thought was absolutely disgusting. when i said to the woman that was taking the tickets, i said, are you going to do something about that? because she was kicking her feet and i'd lost out on a seat for long for first class, and i said, i'm not sitting here. i'm going into first class. charge me if you want,

but i'm not for paying it. and she didn't come near me again. >> well, no, you shouldn't be getting your feet out on. no. >> well, exactly. i don't think you should be getting your feet out anyway. i digress. so this is to do with the french rail network. hit by arson attacks before the olympic ceremony. so this is alleged that france's far left, i believe, are to do with this. although no one has claimed what has gone on. right. but they have targeted a whole well, basically the whole network. yes. in order to throw off tonight's. >> yeah. and they can't really afford this. it doesn't look like, you know, france, it's struggling as it is with holding this olympics clearly. yeah. from watching the ceremony they don't even have a stadium from the looks of things. and it's been a bad day for them. it really impacted their train network so badly that early today. it was as bad as the uk's. so. wow. that's how bad. there's some lovely things in the article. yes, it kind of blames the far left, but also they won. there's a time to stop protesting. it's when you do really well in an election. well, they sort of won. they sort of cosied up to people who had some. they've shared points of political agreement, but that now would be the stupidest time to protest, wouldn't it, when

you've done the best. also, the evidence for it is like similar things have happened and the far left did it in another country once in germany. and also they could blame it on russia. but my favourite thing in the entire article is someone saying other than the timing, there's no evidence that it's linked to the olympics, that timing does quite a lot of linking it to the opening day of the olympics. yeah, i think other than the timing, isn't it? but that's a bit like going back to the thing about the universities i saw on twitter before i was banned, someone said, i'm for all free speech as long as it's the right kind of free speech. >> yeah. which you kind of think does that not put that on its head? exactly exactly. >> okay, well, let's, end this section with looking at the express on saturday. and this is to do with, some mudslinging among the tories. what's going on? kemi badenoch, accused his opponents of alarming dirty trick campaign against her. so the tories absolutely ripped themselves apart with all this infighting before the election. let's take a look to see if they've learned their lesson. yeah no, no. so she's taken aim at the petty and pure air campaign that has been mounted against her by another, by another leadership contenders

campaign group. yeah. contender or contenders? we don't know exactly who, but what we do know is they found some messages from two thousand and seven, some comments on a website, and then leaked them to the to the press, leaked them to the to the press, leaked gave i suppose so this is that offence archaeology kind of idea. it is. although to be fair, she said the stuff . yes. fair, she said the stuff. yes. so let's bear that in mind. steve. what did she say ? she, steve. what did she say? she, she she called people idiots. yeah is that really the best you can find i think. and she also said that diane abbott was a racist hypocrite . well, keir racist hypocrite. well, keir starmer himself said that diane abbott's comments, which led to her losing the whip, were in fact racist. yeah, right. so what's so bad about these comments? good job. starmer is not standing for leader of the tory. some would say he could. >> also, there's a claim that a guardian journalist contacted people to try . people to try. >> and actually it was the quote to try and get someone in her old department, get someone to make accusations of bullying against her. and the make makes you think, well, just come up with some lies. but no, the journalist was saying, i've

heard rumours of bullying. will someone want to come forward? so if you if you never want to be accused of bullying, never bully, do you know what i mean? so look, i think there's enough to smear. i don't think there's much here at all. i think if someone went through everything you'd ever said or texted or emailed and that's all they could come up with, then say that rather than going like, oh, they're out to get me and it's mud. and what was the well, it is pathetic. it's yeah, but then you've continued the intro war. yeah. but what they should do, surely if you're going for the, you know, the leadership contest, just say what your policies would be, how you can improve the party and then people can decide which is best rather than let's see what they've said in the past so we can try and discredit them. i mean, that's just kids play, isn't it? makes sense to me that how would that work? >> they've sent out seven leadership packs to seven members of the conservative parliament. sorry, the party that want to become the leader. yes. so i might put in for the eighth and. >> well, i think you'd be a fine leader. >> yes. of any a lot worse. yeah, well, exactly. >> imagine how busy they'd be

doing the archive things. wow. said before with bruce, the hammers would be just the tip of the iceberg. oh, no. >> in fairness, i've been through that. lots been dumped . through that. lots been dumped. >> just delete the whole back catalogue. yes. just be safe. okay. well anyway, that's all we got time for in this section, but in part three we've got trump avoiding harris , judges trump avoiding harris, judges avoiding outdated a christian losing his court case. don't

welcome back to headliners. your first look at saturday's newspapers. we're going to begin this section with the independent. donald trump running scared from kamala harris. bruce. is that right? >> so what happened to any time, any place? kamala harris trolls trump as he backs out of debate. trump's campaign team won't commit to debating harris, at least not yet. blaming wait for it. democratic instability. so this is to do with the fact that

she's challenged him to debate. he's declined . apparently he's declined. apparently they're neck and neck polling wise at the moment. >> i find that very hard to believe. yeah. >> and she'd also raised a huge amount of money and like about 48, 72 hours. >> so i think what's happening here is the democrats are really throwing their weight behind kamala harris because they don't have a choice. she was an incredibly unpopular candidate when she ran with the primary, had to drop out of the primary to avoid the humiliation of basically getting no votes. and everyone's thrown. and you've seen the media in america just basically saying, wasn't she wonderful just coming up? they were slagging her off like a couple of weeks ago. she's not a good candidate. she's a very mediocre candidate. i don't think that trump is scared of debating her. i don't think that's right. what do you think, steve? well, why do you think that he doesn't want to do this debate? well, i think if you've prepped all of that time to be up against biden. yeah, you've you've barely even needed to go to the gym. do you know what i mean? and so things have changed. she would make more sense, yes, than joe biden. well, i mean, they're claiming it's because they don't think that she will necessarily be the

nomination. >> yeah, but the last time they had a debate, none of them were the nominees. >> no. that's true. i mean, i don't think, you know, i don't think either trump or harris would be that impressive in a debate. but i don't think trump would lose. i have to be honest. kamala harris is not impressed. me. yeah. although there are loads of clips that like as soon as she was announced, people on on social media were posting clips of her not making sense and some of them were actually fake. it's a shame there was one about tomorrow will be the today of today or tomorrow. and that was a fake one that was fake. i'd already had the tattoo, so i'm rather upset about that. that's like, i mean, they'd both do word salad. it would be entertainment. they should do it. i think she should be grateful she's not up against jd vance in a debate. that would be a white. i mean, he would destroy her. >> is he the man that's had all the botox has he had botox? someone's had botox. well, i'm sure someone has, bruce, but i eyeliner as well. >> well why not i think that's just a heavy eyebrow is it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but the funny thing is, it's interesting that you say that she might not be the candidate. so i was watching lorraine. she

wasn't presenting. it was christine lampard. yes. and she had a woman watching her. yeah. she. yeah. she's down the road. she. yeah. she's down the road. she had a woman on that reads asparagus. yeah and she kept throwing up the east park. no, there's a point to this throwing there's a point to this throwing the asparagus and it kept coming back. his aim and that's what i'm hearing. a lot of people think that michelle obama is going to be brought out this was the rumour. >> there was a moment where people were saying hillary clinton might swoop in. i mean, imagine that that would be so dramatic. but i think, no, i think it is going to be kamala harris at this point. i don't think there is an alternative there, but i just don't think she's impressive. and i think, let's be honest, even joe biden said that she was hired because of her immutable characteristics. well, he was the timeline is he said he would definitely pick a woman of colour. yes. picked her. which is like, joe, shut up. like if you if you wouldn't have said that out loud, you absolutely shouldn't have said it. you've spiked your own ball. >> but then did spike your own ball. i'm going to write that down. that's good, but did he not think he was a woman of colour at one point? >> actually, yeah. >> actually, yeah. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. well, you know, but he was getting he was getting confused. i do think an

open convention would have made sense because she still could have won, and then she would have won, and then she would have been free of that albatross of the. why were you here? yeah. i mean, would have beaten the big problem. she actually faces is that she just hasn't been very good and she hasn't been popular amongst democrats or democrat voters. that's why i'm very mistrustful of these polls, because i, you know, i'm just putting it out there. it might be that the media in america are spinning it a certain way because they they just desperately want her to be accepted and they desperately want her to win. they say, media, i mean, american media also includes fox news. so it's not like all media is left bias. no, that's true. the overwhelming, media presence, i would say is left wing bias, wouldn't you say? i mean, fox is an outlier to be honest. that's also why it's so popular, because all of the right leaning audience gravitate towards it. so it gets the highest figures, but that doesn't. but that's because there's not many of them. i think i can believe that there's been some movement in there's been some movement in the polls because everyone's been thinking, this guy's nearly dead and he's running, and we don't think he's going to do particularly well. so i know i think she's a better candidate than biden, but that's only because she's sentient. do you think she's a better candidate than trump, do i think no, no obviously not. i just don't think there's a comparison. okay. and i'm not a fan of trump, but i just think she's so

bad that i, you know, i think maybe it would have been better for them to bring michelle in. she would have she would have stormed it. it would have been great. yeah. anyway, we're going to move on now, to the telegraph now, steve, and this is the equal treatment bench book . can equal treatment bench book. can i get a copy of those? we should get. we should here, shouldn't we. judges told to avoid, saying asylum seekers and immigrants. yes, the or you're not going to get a show here, then, are you, new guidance sets out politically correct terms. of course it is. it's the classic story that comes around every so often. yes, a couple of times a yeah often. yes, a couple of times a year. there's the new words in the dictionary story. a couple of times there's words you can't say, no story. and this is the one for judges. judges say, no story. and this is the one forjudges. judges in one for judges. judges in england have been advised to avoid terms also, such as gaze and lame. and i grew up in a time when the word lame was used to mean something was a bit naff, and now it means one. now it's like you've got a sore leg, but the generation above me, i believe, used the word gay in the same way that went through that phase. so it's right that we should get some movement on these things. i mean, having a guideline for judges of this kind isn't doesn't strike me as all that bad. i mean, but some of it is so pointless. so this

equal treatment bench book says you should say person seeking asylum rather than asylum seekers . now that's that means seekers. now that's that means the same. that means exactly the same. you're out of touch, steve. i know that it means the same as a gcse english holder. sorry. a person who holds gcse english. well i'd like to get the opinion of a homosexual. bruce. what? >> well, shall we form one? >> well, shall we form one? >> well, shall we form one? >> well, i mean, they're everywhere. i mean, no, but apparently i can't say that. i can't say a homosexual. i could say a gay. no, i can't say a 93v- say a gay. no, i can't say a gay. this is the thing they say you can't use the word homosexual. surely all euphemisms for it are worse. i've written down a few, and none of them i'm allowed to say on tv . on tv. >> can you say a gaggle, a gaggle of gays, a gaggle of gays, a gaggle of gays? i think we should bring it in because it says here that you can say dyke or queer may be used by gay people, but then i know so many people, but then i know so many people that object to the word queen >> yes. oh, absolutely. and i know many lesbians that object to the word dyke. >> it's contested. >> it's contested. >> the idea is that if you're gay yourself, you've got a license to use those terms. but, like reclamation. yes, but a judge in a court case wouldn't

have. what if the judge was gay? exactly. well, the judge could . exactly. well, the judge could. >> he could have spiked his own ball. >> the judge is sort of representing the state, and, you know, so isn't meant to be a person as such. i think that's fair. >> so you wouldn't get a gay judge. maybe they're at home reading the there are gay judges. >> what about that? judge rinder is he he he is out. is he is he a real judge ? a real judge? >> is he out? >> is he out? >> he was one of the people on strictly that doesn't seem to be affected by it. >> right. well, there we go. the curse. let's let's move on now , curse. let's let's move on now, before we get into trouble. this is a what's this one? this is another story about knife crime. jolly stuff. what's this? yes. >> more than a third of young murder victims are black. a report finds as number of children hurt by knives rises 47% in just ten years. yes. and this is a study. you know, it's awful. and this is a study by the youth endowment fund. the chief warned in its latest report that serious violence involving knives has increasingly risen in years, impacting some of britain's most depnved impacting some of britain's most deprived communities. >> and of course, black males are particularly vulnerable, according to these statistics.

and steve, there hasn't been much of a discussion about this because people are very nervous about being called racist. pointing this out in fact, you know, when we had these stop and search debates, a lot of black campaigners were saying, no, we have to acknowledge that this is to prevent the deaths of young black people. it's not a racist policy necessarily. what do you make of that? yeah, even in this, one of the suggestions is what they call a hot spot policing. yeah. and even someone will look at that and find a way of saying, well, that's just racially profiling. >> so yeah, of the, the helping people is seen as part of the problem. >> look this article is amazing. it's got so many angles to it. it's got so many angles to it. it's about the police not being able to do enough because of numbers and whatever policing decisions are being made. but the bit in here that really stands out for me is people who are from a poor background are more likely to be impacted by these crimes. and that is the nugget that's the kernel of actual truth here. >> the higher up the system, racism is the issue that then you'll find that people from an ethnic background are more likely to be in the strata of society that are considered to be poor, right? >> it's poor people being

affected by the crime. but if we pretend we can solve it through other angles, no , you solve it other angles, no, you solve it through the link between poverty and crime. well, i think that's absolutely right. and i think but then, on the other hand, police shouldn't feel that i mean, you know, i think if police are stopping and searching certain people, they're doing it because they're worried that there's a higher preponderance. right? it's not because of skin colour or necessarily i mean, there might be some racist police officers who engage in that kind of thing. yeah, but but surely there has to be something done about this problem, you know, what is it that the police see as okay to stop and like what is the criteria if you see what mean? >> because obviously we would like to think it's not based on someone's skin colour or whatever is it, you know, a behaviour or. yeah, it's a good question. >> i mean maybe it's to do with location, maybe it's to do with, you know, young men in certain areas of london. but, but there is a real problem with, i mean, the knife crime, the statistics are quite incredible the way it's escalated over the past ten years. i mean, what does that say about society? >> well, there's also i don't want to get to malcolm gladwell on it, but if you talk about a problem a lot, you make the problem a lot, you make the problem worse.

>> so by having news, talking about knife crime, you'll make people think, oh, i better take a knife out with me. and then that feeds into it, people. if someone's carrying a knife, everyone else thinks, oh, i better carry knives too. so you get some, like, exponential growth of this, of this problem. but you can't solve it by just by looking at the knives. i understand it's knife crime, but you know you're not going to get rid of knives. it's the first invention humans ever did. the problem is the criminal. yeah, yeah. okay. well let's move on now. and this is another, cancel culture story . bruce. one of culture story. bruce. one of those things they say doesn't happen, but it has. >> but, the guy was on with ben earlier , so it's the christian earlier, so it's the christian teacher who was banned from teaching for misgendering a female pupil who identified as a boy. i'm and he's lost his appeal to get his job back. >> and it sounds i mean, just reading the article, it sounds really innocuous . he was saying, really innocuous. he was saying, well done, girls to the class, that doesn't sound like harassment in any way, shape or form. am i missing something? no. that individual moment. i mean, i don't know if this extra

information that the school was thinking about, but that surely can't be considered. it can't be, can it? because then you've got a situation where you can be found guilty of harassment for sticking to the guidelines that have been given to schools. well, now, this article also says that the guidelines this this trial started before the guidelines came into place. yeah. so they're saying, you know, had the tories guidelines about, you know, that the teachers should not be compelled to use preferred pronouns because there are all sorts of reasons, religious, feminist, whatever those reasons might be for why you wouldn't do that had they been in place. this this wouldn't have got to court. is that am i getting that right? that's what they're saying. but that doesn't make any sense to me, because if one of them's wrong, then isn't it either you've just had a court case thatis you've just had a court case that is wrong, or you've made some guidelines that are wrong just because the guidelines came out afterwards. if we're looking to answer the question, is saying this thing harassment ? saying this thing harassment? yes, it either is or it isn't. this is going to be a real problem. i mean, the quote here from the judge, just because misgendering a transgender pupil might not be unlawful does not mean it's appropriate conduct for a teacher. this is going to

cause huge difficulties . there cause huge difficulties. there are all sorts of reasons why people won't will use pronouns for biological sex, and have that as a strict rule, and we are surely infringing on people's protected beliefs by law. if we say otherwise, surely what? any thoughts? bruce? >> no. i'm going back to the interview , cause i'm not interview, cause i'm not necessarily sure. has this guy gone on to teach again, >> that i don't know. >> that i don't know. >> yeah. no, that was the thing that i was trying to listen to outside, when he . when he was on outside, when he. when he was on the show. yes. >> i'm not sure when it was meant to expire or will it expire? >> i mean, that's pretty detrimental. and as much as, you know what school is going to take a more, you know , thinking, take a more, you know, thinking, yeah, what i was going to have the publicity from that. >> that's all we've got time for in this section, but do join us in this section, but do join us in the final section of the show for risks associated with celibacy, developments in cutlery r , and why it's cool be tight. now, don't go anywhere

welcome back to headliners. it's your first look at saturday's newspapers. and, steve, we're going to open this section with a story about slap therapy from the daily mail. do not try this at home. so the headline inside dangerous world of slap therapy, which promises to improve blood circulation and release toxins from the body like every made up rubbish. what is slap therapy ? rubbish. what is slap therapy? it's exactly what you think it is. so it's getting slapped. someone slaps you and say this is good for you. and if you're the kind of person who hates western medicine and is into alternative therapies and toxins , alternative therapies and toxins, yes, you need a good slap. so in many ways this is synergy. this is the perfect overlap. the problem is there's someone who's doing it. this hongkai zhao who's a slap therapist. yes has been found guilty of be causing death. yes. not through slaps. no. to get this clear slap therapy. if you want to do slap therapy, no one's died yet of slap therapy. no. knock yourself out is exactly part of how you do it, i believe. but so, you know, slap and blood circulation things go red. and then. oh, so

it's not like you're feeling a bit ill pull yourself together. yes. and then. no, that's not what it is. no. but. what this absolute fool said was there were two people who were diabetics . two different cases. diabetics. two different cases. yes. and he said, stop taking your insulin . the slaps will your insulin. the slaps will sort you out. on for goodness. and they died of not having the insulin so found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter. yeah. and then some. yeah. that's not just negligence . yeah. it's just negligence. yeah. it's telling people to not take one of the types. then why did they go along with that? i mean that seems idiotic. well, the woman who's died, the grandmother in britain, she was 71, and she had like a serious fear of needles. right. | like a serious fear of needles. right. i understand that's a horrible situation. so did she think this guy was a medical professional? everyone. >> well, he she believed in what he was selling. yeah, it's the slapping equivalent of cupping. >> yeah, well, he shouldn't have. shouldn't have said that. should he really? but it's got nothing really to do with the slap therapy has it. other than he said that would be sufficient to heal the woes. yeah. people are buying into this alternative. i've never heard of this. the no. because it's nonsense. of course it is the best part. just for a bit of

levity. the best part of the story it says slapping is often carried out in person, just with a hand, although some use specialised slappers with large protruding bumps. my favourite kind of slappers . kind of slappers. >> the only slapping thing that ihave >> the only slapping thing that i have is going back to it was kirstie alley, the actress who employed, fridge slapper in the 90s, she was someone who was fond of a snack, and any time she would go to the go towards the fridge. yeah, that was a job. >> a fridge slapper. >> a fridge slapper. >> yeah, i would love that. >> yeah, i would love that. >> well, you should apply for. yes, gb news. >> maybe i need one myself. well. >> no comment. let's move on. the telegraph. bruce, can you explain this one to us? no because i never have. >> so it says what happens to your health if you stop having sex? wow, it says nearly a third of people in the uk are sexually inactive. no one i know, but could it be for good you? or is it harmful to your overall well—being? and is it what's the verdict? well, what it's basically saying is particularly for men that indulge in a horizontal refreshment or perhaps some kind of solo

activity, the release is very good for clearing your tubes. yes, and that is good for lowering cortisol and stress. >> and i like the way you're being very euphemistic. yeah, it's very good, very broadcastable. >> well, thank you, because i'm thinking 5:00 tomorrow morning when people will be getting slapped awake. exactly, and a hammer taken to them. but anyway, i digress. so yeah, there are many benefits to it, but apparently i think it's something like a third of relationships and marriages in this country are sexless. okay, steve. >> steve. thank you. well, having kids is listed as one of the reasons that you find you don't have the time. that's true. i didn't realise that having a release was so good for a man when is it? yes. ad break, by the way. oh, for goodness sake, this is getting. this is getting too saucy. >> no no no no, genuinely. because you're kegel health is very important because it prevents things like prostate cancer and all that. oh, that is true. >> i get mine slapped by a special professional. there we go . go. >> should we share the uber to soho right now? >> this is a clever new gadget in the independent, steve, can you tell us how this sorcery

works? i can't tell you how it works, but it's great. spoon designed to enrich lives of dementia patients. so i remember this from my dad was still around. he had alzheimer's, and he lost loads of weight because he lost loads of weight because he went off food. and i thought it was about forgetting when to eat. and that's true. that is a big part of it. but so many sufferers of dementia have an issue where they can't taste as much. their sense of taste. oh, so they just don't want to eat go off food? there's a guy in the article who says, like he just eats toast because what's the difference between toast and having a sunday roast and the faff of cooking? so he just eats toast and then you get your loss of nutrients? yeah. of course. so it's so sad. there's a thing called the tasty spoon. it uses electro stimulation to enhance the flavour of foods. how? i would like one, please. for my cooking. but i mean, great. this i don't understand . that's the i don't understand. that's the thing. i don't understand how that means. if you if you've got a really terrible restaurant and you just put this cutlery out there, people will think you're you're gordon ramsay. and i don't know if licking a nine volt battery will do the same. i'll try later, but maybe don't try that one at home. >> maybe that's what the restaurant should be called. the tasty spoon. >> the tasty spoon. yeah, yeah .

>> the tasty spoon. yeah, yeah. oh, okay. well, that's interesting at least let's move on to this next story. this is also in the independent and bruce is, being stingy. >> cool. well of course, because a lot of people think that scots are stingy. they're not me. no, no no, no, i just a lot of people under consumption. why suddenly cool to use every last drop of shampoo and face cream? why, i don't know, you weren't using everything before, but basically what it's saying is every product we buy now, people have no shame in standing the bottle on its head. really. you know, taking a teaspoon to the face cream and all that kind of stuff because you're obviously looking at sustainability and the environment. it's also just thrifty. well, i think it's just sensible. you've paid for it. yeah. it's a bit like when you use coriander, use your stalks, not just the leaves. >> absolutely . good coriander >> absolutely. good coriander advice there. what about you steve? what do you make? >> i just thought this would be in northern. >> this is how i grew up. yeah. of course you turn everything upside down. of course you do. every little last bit out of it then, including granny. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> got to get your money's worth. but no, i love it because

actually i've often thought because we send this stuff to landfill. >> stupidly, there must be, like, tons of face creams and toothpastes. >> just now being buried. yeah, you should go get yourself down there . collect it all up. yeah. there. collect it all up. yeah. you'd have, you'd have a fortune. well you'd save yourself about £0.03. you would. well, it'd be worth the effort . well, it'd be worth the effort. let's move on to this story. this is the daily mail. this is a story about brits abroad. steve going on holiday. brits love to take their tea bags. almost half of holiday makers take a box of their favourite brew with them today. well, it's 44% good. it's yes right correct move. because if you go certainly continental holidays. yes. they don't know how to do tea. i remember once went to france. we went round all the shops trying to find like proper tea. no really weird lemony stuff going on there . years and stuff going on there. years and years ago i went to italy with my first girlfriend. so obviously years and years ago. yes how much of a late bloomer and her dad gave us a phrasebook that he had from the 1950s, and one of the phrases was, i have £2 of tea for my personal use. wow. so this is an old tradition. yeah. bruce, any thoughts on this? do you do this? >> well ?

this? >> well? teabags. yeah. no, no, i'm quite happy to see what the country offers me when i go. i'm. is it lipton's tea that you get everywhere. >> you get that absolutely everywhere. >> you do get that everywhere. and wasn't that who the guy in psycho drank the lipton's tea? >> is that right? yes. so what you're saying is it turns you into a psychopath. >> into a murderer? >> into a murderer? >> well, that's on that bombshell. that's all we've got time for. the show is nearly oven time for. the show is nearly over. let's have a look at saturday's front pages before we finish the daily mail. running with the olympic story la farce. the times has got olympics sabotage. that's about the fires. the telegraph has got far left suspected of olympic sabotage. they're adding more detail there. the express britain conned massive tax raid on way. at least according to the tories. the guardian millions of public sector workers set for pay rise and apparently the government can't afford . finally, the daily star afford. finally, the daily star nothing compares sinead o'connor's waxwork is not very good. apparently those were your front pages. that's all we've got time for. thanks ever so much to my guests steve n allen and bruce devlin . nick dixon is and bruce devlin. nick dixon is going to be here tomorrow at

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this . this. labour's £20 billion porkie pie. next . next. >> very good evening to you. it's just after 9:00. the top stories from the newsroom and we'll start with sport. 10,000 athletes are sailing down the river cen as the paris olympics get underway with a unique opening ceremony. these are the live scenes , unfortunately. just live scenes, unfortunately. just a shot of the eiffel tower for now. but earlier we saw the rain appearing not to dampen any spirits, as more than 300,000 people lined the route to welcome some of the most famous names in sport and in the last houn names in sport and in the last hour, team gb made their appearance with rower helen glover and diver tom daley carrying the flag on one of 85 boats. meanwhile, people

travelling to the french for capital the games are facing massive disruption after vandals targeted the rail network. more than 100 workers have been dispatched to repair high speed rail services around paris, and some routes will return to normal tomorrow. we understand. but 1 in 4 eurostar services have been cancelled and will be out of action over the weekend . out of action over the weekend. here, an alternative healer has been convicted of manslaughter after a 71 year old woman died following one of his slapping therapy workshops. hongkai zhao, who has no medical qualifications, preached the benefits of hitting yourself to rid your body of toxins. danielle carr—gomm had been following his instructions and stopped taking her diabetes medication at a wiltshire retreat in 2016. a rapist who threw a boy to cover up his crimes has been sentenced to life in prison. anthony stocks raped and sexually assaulted a girl multiple times between 2019

and 2022, when she