be able to kind of lock to be able to kind of lock myself in the mirror and understand where i've gone wrong and understand that this is on me. it's not on anybody else. there's nobody else to blame here in the us. >> robert f kennedy jr says he's suspending his independent presidential bid and will instead be backing donald trump . instead be backing donald trump. some of his family say that decision is a betrayal of their values, calling it a sad ending to a sad story. but the nephew of former president jfk believes his presence in the race would help democratic nominee kamala harris. speaking tonight, he sized her for not engaging in election debates . election debates. >> how did the democratic party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle .7 we know the election cycle? we know the answers. they did it by weaponizing the government agencies. they did it by abandoning democracy. they did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising american

voters . voters. >> here, the family of mike and hannah lynch, who died after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of sicily on monday, have said they are devastated and in shock. the british tech tycoon's 18 year old daughter was the final person reported missing on that capsized boat. she's being remembered tonight by her sister as cheeky and endlessly caring. from october, households in england, scotland and in wales will see their annual energy bill rise by 10%. regulator ofgem says an increase to that price cap is due to higher wholesale costs. it means families will spend an average of more than £1,700 a year now on gas and electricity. energy secretary ed miliband says he understands why people are concerned . concerned. >> i know this will be really worrying news for lots of families who will face even greater struggles this winter, andifs greater struggles this winter, and it's a direct result of our country's exposure to international gas markets that

are controlled by dictators. and thatis are controlled by dictators. and that is a legacy left to us by the last government. that's why this government has a plan to do something about it. our mission for clean , home—grown power that for clean, home—grown power that we control in this country and tents have gone flying at leeds festival today, which had to shut three stages because of strong winds brought by storm lilian. >> it's also knocked out the power of tens of thousands of homes, while trees have blocked rail lines and roads across northern england . that's the northern england. that's the news on gb. news up next, it's 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. >> it's your first look at saturday's newspapers i'm andrew doyle. tonight i'm joined by comedian steve n allen and nick dixon. you really are the chuckle brothers of gb news aren't you? well i mean you are. you're dead. oh it's one of them. dead. yeah. well, you're the, alive one. thank you. okay. do you know there are three chuckle brothers? >> but there's the one who's not really in the chuckle brothers thing, but like charlie, like oasis. >> yeah. you know, i should have said bros and been done with it. how are you, nick? very well. yes. >> very serious. apparently, according to your introduction, you have a serious quality. >> i'm very serious. very found. thank you. you just have deep philosophical depths, you know. thank you. >> that's what i like, lewis schaffer, like lewis schaffer. >> let's move on and have a look at the front pages for saturday. the eye is leading with new hs2 farce . that's a story that won't farce. that's a story that won't go away. trains too for high station platforms costing taxpayers an extra £20 million. maybe they have to buy stilts or something. the daily mail's got pensioners £500 energy bill hike after labour cuts. the sun has.

i'm so ashamed. that's about the chap who has been sending naughty texts to other women. the times has got. reeves feels the heat over winter fuel benefit cuts and the telegraph minister putin grip on russia russia is shaken. and finally, the daily star unexpected tea leaf in the blagging area, 1 in 8 of us cheats at self—service tills. shocking stuff. those were your front pages . all were your front pages. all right. we're going to kick off with saturday's papers by looking at the front cover of the times. steve, what have they got? >> they got? > they g o got? >> they go with reeves feels the heat over winter fuel, benefits, cuts.i heat over winter fuel, benefits, cuts. i mean by heat. one person, one labour person said, oh, no , i'm not sure about this. oh, no, i'm not sure about this. yes, this is rachael maskell , yes, this is rachael maskell, who's a former labour shadow minister, said that might actually think of voting against it. so is that it not a massive amount of heat? >> well, it's still apparently it's a front front page story .

yeah. >> well it's on the times and they've written up a quote from they've written up a quote from the times radio interview and see what they're doing. a lot of that, you know, keeping it within brand. but, you know, facing pressure. rachel reeves is facing pressure because it's the double whammy. it's the getting the scrapping the winter fuel allowance for the pensioners and also now we know that we'll be paying some extra money for our fuel, but it's still it has raised the spectre of should it be means tested, should all pensioners, regardless of what their income is, receive a winter fuel payment, which is not it's not historically been there forever. it's only tony blair that brought it in. no. >> like if you're like mish miss havisham or some old wealthy dowager and you've got you know, you don't need this kind of thing, do you? >> your references are so beautifully up to date. >> well, nick and she didn't she didn't get out much, though, did she, miss havisham? >> she might have needed the heating. >> that's absolutely true. it would have been a big house to heat as well. now, is it not the case, though, that this is a bit embarrassing for starmer, insofar as he did pledge quite, quite strenuously that he would cut fuel costs by £300? >> well, it's all embarrassing

for starmer. i mean, he's had the worst start of any prime minister probably ever. and, you know, he's i see him as an illegitimate prime minister hated by the country. >> but on this, i mean, he was voted in. yeah. >> voted in by a small percentage i know. and that's how our system works. >> it's how democracy works. it on the last every, every so often there's the survey of most popular politicians. and he's all for the last since the election. he's the most popular politician. you can't really have hated by the. >> have you seen how his approval rating has massively plummeted? >> and he's still, even after that plummet remains the most popular politician. have you looked at his tweets? >> every tweet he does gets brutally ratioed thousands of comments hating him actually on both sides. can we just can we not disagree that hated all politicians appear to be hated to some degree or another. they've all been hated. but starmer is the worst we've ever had. >> well, anyway, what's your view on on this issue? >> well, it'd be very embarrassing if they did a u—turn. they're already considering a u—turn, you know, and labour are supposed to care about people without much money, so it's particularly bad for them. it's got a sort of slight bedroom tax vibe, you know, with the tories. it's just kind of a very unpopular policy. and ed miliband, as we just saw in that

clip, bizarrely thinks that net zero is the answer. he's blaming international gas markets with the answer to that then, is drill more and have nuclear. but his answer is somehow net zero would boost britain's energy security. wind farms in 20 years are the answer for him. >> zero affects the poorer people the most. >> yeah , it's a terrible idea. >> yeah, it's a terrible idea. >> yeah, it's a terrible idea. >> isn't it the case that all surveys show that most working class people are now not labour supporters? by quite a margin. >> yeah, right. the yeah, all the graphs show if you're the more money you make, the more likely you are to vote labour. the 70 000 plus a year bracket is the most the under 20,000 is the least. yeah. and the inverse is true for reform. so reform are the working people's party now and labour sort of party people. >> so given that is the case, steve, shouldn't they be doing more about these kind of things? fuel issues and looking after the poorest and the elderly? >> and yeah, well there's two fuel issues here, isn't it? people are conflating them, but trying to get fuel prices down rather than letting the cap get higher. definitely. yes. priority number one. let's put that right at the top . i still that right at the top. i still think as much as it's an awkward thing and people will get all angry because they will quote, i know a pensioner who's really

poor and they can't live without this fuel allowance, but it needs means testing because as you say, there are some havisham's who can very much afford it. yes. how do you means test? it may be a better way than this, but having it linked to universal credit is not a bad shout. >> he's blasted havisham's i tell you, they'll be the ruin of the country. let's move on to the country. let's move on to the guardian. front cover of the guardian. nick, what have they got? yeah, well, they've got fears of cruel winter if welfare fund help ends. >> so they're covering that as well. and then you've got kamala there or kamala harris with a chance to start chart a new way forward. harris looks to a brighter future. so it's very kind of we love harris where the guardian now this was the democratic convention right. >> yeah she's she's she's officially been nominated. >> and she did a speech that apparently wasn't totally awful. i haven't watched it yet, but the spectator said it wasn't completely awful. she, you know, it was vaguely coherent. and she seemed sober. so. yeah. but what they haven't gone with is rfk jr has endorsed trump. i did see the guardian on their live updates on their website called rfk jr's speech meandering, said that his siblings had condemned him. then they had a thing underneath with his wildest campaign moments and his voters saying that he's playing

politics so very against rfk jr. sky news called it a sad ending to a sad story. so what's interesting, the guardian in the past, one imagines, would have been quite pro. rfk jr as a kind of lefty candidate, the kennedys. yeah. and of course , kennedys. yeah. and of course, but now they're sort of so establishment. they're pro the you know the democrat establishment but anti rfk jr. and by the way he dropped out and he cited the incredible corruption of the dnc. i've said this on another episode. but there was lawfare against him. they were planting people in their campaign. they spent millions to take him out. >> and well, i mean, steve, isn't this a bit of a game changer? i mean, rfk was polling, i think they were saying up to 15% of the vote at one point, and he's not going to stand in the swing states, is my understanding. yeah, this could be that thing that swings it for trump, right? >> it is. if you look, i mean, there had been a slight if you believe the polls and as soon as you as soon as they say something you don't like, all of a sudden we say, well, who can believe polls? yes but it had there had been some movement. kamala harris was doing well in some of those states only by a few percent. but if all of the people who would have been

voting for kennedy go trump, it's flipped. it's back to the other. >> very interesting. there's so many twists and turns with this election campaign. okay, we're going to move on to saturday's telegraph, steve, what is on the front of that newspaper? >> so while they've got many stories, the really interesting one is down here. it's bbc used paedophile drivers for 30 years. i. okay, you're gonna have to explain that. yeah, because you see the headline and you think they that they're paedophiles didn't even drive themselves. it's not what it means. it means they were using a car company run by a convicted paedophile which employed convicted paedophiles from the 70s. look, we all know murky 1970s. what a mess. but up until 2006. i'm sorry. >> i don't understand it . >> i don't understand it. presumably they did not know that the car company was owned by a convicted paedophile. i refuse to believe they knew that. >> i don't think it was. it's i don't think it was like paedophile cars. >> no, no, it wasn't called that. but the thing about that is, you know, in a way you can understand insofar as this is someone who presumably convicted, served jail time and then goes out, goes back to work, whatever. and unlike a

teaching job, you do run natural checks, dbs checks. you don't run checks on chauffeurs, do you? >> well, apparently. apparently not. that's what we're learning. >> if i could call a taxi, i'm not going to run a dbs check. >> and like you say, it probably not going to run a dbs check. >> and like you say, it probably wasn't obvious. it probably wasn't obvious. it probably wasn't obvious. it probably wasn't like. like jim'll fix it wasn't obvious. it probably wasn't like. like jim'll fix it company. it probably didn't just company. it probably didn't just say on the side. you remember say on the side. you remember that when that was that was in that when that was that was in trouble. it was just a cement trouble. it was just a cement mixer, but it got caught up in mixer, but it got caught up in the fray. but like this probably the fray. but like this probably wasn't like that. but this guy wasn't like that. but this guy wasn't like that. but this guy was paid millions of pounds to wasn't like that. but this guy was paid millions of pounds to run a chauffeur service. he had run a chauffeur service. he had convictions and this is so sick. convictions and this is so sick. included raping a child at included raping a child at gunpoint. the bbc is just gunpoint. the bbc is just absolutely mental. >> but wait a minute, the bbc. i absolutely mental. >> but wait a minute, the bbc. i stand by this. i don't believe stand by this. i don't believe the bbc. >> i'm not saying they knew. i'm the bbc. >> i'm not saying they knew. i'm just saying why is it that so just saying why is it that so many people there seem so dodgy? many people there seem so dodgy? >> i mean, that's a totally >> i mean, that's a totally different question. but you know, i do. i you know, i do different question. but you know, i do. i you know, i do think this is a it's a weird think this is a it's a weird one, isn't it. >> credit where it's due. they one, isn't it. >> credit where it's due. they stopped in 2006. so since then stopped in 2006. so since then they don't think they've been they don't think they've been hiring paedophiles as drivers hiring paedophiles as drivers through a third party company. through a third party company. >> well, there's your silver lining. we always try and look >> well, there's your silver lining. we always try and look for it here. okay, let's move for it here. okay, let's move on. finally, to the front page on. finally, to the front page of the sun on saturday. nick, i of the sun on saturday. nick, i don't fully understand this don't fully understand this

story because i don't story because i don't know who this chap is. can you explain? >> i can, it's the headline is i'm so ashamed. it's a former footballer, jermaine jenas, who's now a pundit on football pundit. >> he talks about

behaviour and he has to see his therapist. i love this sort of idea. i think it's the therapeutic culture again. everything's like you just he's just someone who had an opportunity as a former footballer and sort of slightly, was slightly badly behaved, like all footballers and former footballers. not all, but many are. it'sjust footballers. not all, but many are. it's just it just looks like a non—story. >> it looks like someone, you know, he was sacked for it. so it's okay. someone just texted someone and flirted in a gauche way, which is kind of normal, particularly for ex—footballers. i should imagine normal on this show. yeah, you have to stop texting me like that because i'm finding it a bit oppressive. but. but steve, is that all it is? there must be more to it, right? >> here's what i think it is. right. it's the bbc, isn't it? now realising that they've been in the for news not doing enough about a few stories. yes. and it's just bad timing. you've been the flirty texter when the bbc are going, you know what, we need to actually show that we shut this stuff down straight away, but it's ruined someone's career. >> consensual. no, but it's just a moment, isn't it? >> he's basically been caught up in paedo choppergate. it's like he hasn't done anything. no, no, but, you know, in the. of course he hasn't. but you know, when like people over steve saying they're overcompensating now because they, they've done all these bad things. so you know,

you know like the height of the metoo era, you could just get cancelled for, you know, brushing past a woman in a shopping market, you know, supermarket in 1976. it's that kind of thing. yeah. he's done nothing that much. but in the kind of culture of we better clean up the bbc, that's what you're saying? yeah. >> off the back of huw edwards. and they knew the arrest was happening and why didn't they do it? i know i've heard of people who work at the bbc who are not wanting to work there now. they are not happy about the huw edwards situation. >> so, so basically you're saying people are unable to distinguish between this, which is so, so different from that, but they just lump it all together? i mean, just to clarify, when you said, is it off the back of huw edwards, that was a metaphor. yes. is it even cheating? i'm sorry. flirty text is that it's not cheating, is it? >> it's micro cheating. it's not, is it? >> it's not. is it? i think you should go to therapy. if he wasn't flirting as a footballer, we wouldn't. it would be weird. all right. okay, well, that's the front pages examined, but it's the front pages examined, but wsfime the front pages examined, but it's time for a break. join us in part two as we reflect on starmer's first 50 days prime minister, a radical deportation solution

welcome back to headliners. it's your first look at saturday's newspapers with me. andrew doyle and the burke and hare of gb news steve and alan and nick dixon. >> i know which one's the hair. >> i know which one's the hair. >> there we go. we're going to begin with the daily mail. keir starmer's government of service might not be serving the electorate. what's this. >> so to the yeah the daily mail it's really important to remember it's the daily mail right. in these words labour is accused of ignoring safety of uk residents. oh terrible. why would they do that to us as number of foreign criminals released from jail to walk britain's streets reaches record high of more than 17,000. but they didn't release 17,000. oh, this is the this is the beauty of it. official figures show that at the end of june, what was the thing that happened in july that might have meant that labour took over then. so let's bear that in mind. 17 k on the streets, the well—known labour government era, when i think rishi sunak, that labour leader was in charge, it's the first time they've released figures

since 22, when it was 12,000. so dunng since 22, when it was 12,000. so during that period, which is definitely a tory period, there's been an increase. the daily mail still manages to blame labour. i think your bias is showing so, but i agree, if the rules are if you're a criminal, you you know, if you're a foreign national and then you get convicted of certain crimes, you can be deported. it should be it should make our streets safer and also help with the figures. >> yeah. they shouldn't be wandering in the streets. >> no. clearly. conservative mp neil o'brien said nothing that labour has planned at the moment is going to make this any better. say better than what? better than the tory era. but just just to say there's just let me have a couple more digs, okay? >> go for it, »- >> go for it, >> dominic raab came up with a plan, but liz truss was the one who nixed it. bear that in mind. and then we're the home office say we're committed to deporting foreign national offenders who aim to remove them from the uk. so maybe they will do something, maybe they won't. but at the moment this story is just wrong. okay, but wait a minute. >> so if we say that most of the vast majority of these were under the tories, however, the escalation from vast majority, all of them though, isn't it from 12? well from, say roughly

13,000 to 17.5 thousand in a very short space of time. is this connected to them releasing a lot of people so that they can lock up mean tweeters? >> figures show that at the end of june, end of june, by the end of june, end of june, by the end of june, end of june, by the end of june, they weren't in power until july. >> okay. fair enough. >> okay. fair enough. >> july the 4th was the election. >> well , how much worse has it >> well, how much worse has it got that we don't know. the figures don't tell us. well, i'm just saying. >> yeah, but that's an unknowable, though, nick. >> is it? i mean, it is the case, isn't it, that a lot of people who are in this position get out of being deported by falling back on the european convention of human rights, which is something starmer has absolutely said he's not getting rid of. >> yeah, that that is the big problem. the echr i mean, this is obscene. it's i'm calling it operation gotham asylum . you operation gotham asylum. you just released prisoners. >> and steve's point that it was mostly tories. >> i do take that, but but i do also take your point that starmer now is putting in all these new political prisoners, and that is bound to exacerbate the problem. but i actually wrote down the same as steve neil o'brien going off about, you know, we need to leave the echr. it's like you did have 14 years to do it. so yeah, i do think that's a reasonable point because dominic cummings said,

you know, you've just got to leave the echr because these people are gaming the system, which they have. but no one had the guts to do it. >> why didn't they? i mean, what i don't understand about the tories is they didn't really do any of the things that they felt they wanted to do. whereas as soon as labour comes in, bam, they get rid of the higher education freedom of speech act overnight, just before parliament goes into recess. so you can't even have a debate about it. they are just brutal with their. it's because labour have an actual ideological agenda, whereas the tories are just sort of see themselves as their sort of manage badly managed decline. >> that's what i think the difference is. >> i mean, that is a real worry, isn't it? we're going to move on to this story, which is the telegraph and this is about deporting criminals as well. what's this one about? >> yes. germany considers paying criminal afghan migrants to return home. and we were going to cover this story, of course, before the breaking news, which we don't know enough about yet to really comment on. but it is interesting that they're talking about this. this happened after about this. this happened after a police officer was killed by an afghan migrant in june. so of course, once it affects actual, you know, which is horrific, obviously. but, you know, it's interesting that that was what galvanised him into action. it seems you can kill a lot of citizens before you can kill a

police officer, but it's obviously equally awful. and so now it's pushed them into actually doing something about it. >> but why do you need to bribe people to leave? isn't deportation pretty much forced? like, can't you just do it rather than saying, oh, please do it, here's some dosh. >> they have a they have a problem getting rid of people. i mean, it doesn't it's germany doesn't normally repatriate doesn't normally repatri ate people doesn't normally repatriate people apparently to countries where they're threatened with death. so they stopped deportations to afghanistan after the taliban took power in 2021. there's also this ludicrous thing that, oh, they'll suffer extreme poverty in their home country. so but then we found out they were taking holidays there. they've been going on holidays, which has been organised by there's these groups that organise holidays for afghans to go back home. so it's like, so you're going on a holiday to this place that's too dangerous for you to be. so it's completely absurd, i know. and the payment system does sound bizarre. although at this point i would say anything that sends some people back because europe needs to do something. but i guess urgently. >> steve, i get it. you know, when, when, when people have serious threats to their life by sending them back, then, then that's a different matter. but if you're killing people on the streets of germany or wherever it is, then you sort of exempted

yourself from that compassion. >> yeah, you'd imagine . and also >> yeah, you'd imagine. and also the money won't help the situation, will it? the idea that if we send you back, you are at the threat of violence. but we'll give you some money. what, so you'll get mugged as well? >> but maybe they're not at the threat of violence. as nick says, maybe it's a lie because they're going on holiday there. >> then the money wouldn't make a difference, would it? i mean, what's likely to happen? it's like the £3,000 to go to rwanda that that second scheme to make it look like anyone went to rwanda. what are you going to do is pay for their return flights? >> okay, well, we're going to move on to the express now. and today marks 50 days under our new labour government. steve how is it going? >> this is going to be another one where i don't end up being too harsh about keir. so i look forward to the hate online that i always get when i do these. keir starmer this is the express that says it. keir starmer reeling. he is. oh he's look at him real as labour membership hits ten year low under his leadership. oh he's reeling in this guy. sir keir has been deau this guy. sir keir has been dealt a crushing blow. their words just weeks into this it slumped to its lowest in ten years. is he reeling though. let's look at it again. some of

this could be like the gaza effect. but a lot of this is it's lost 37,000 members last yeah it's lost 37,000 members last year. the membership is now 370,000, yeah. >> but you can't pull this thing you did last time because he was in power. >> he was he was a leader. >> he was he was a leader. >> he was actually leader then. >> he was actually leader then. >> and when it was a lot higher was when jeremy corbyn was leader. and this is ed miliband's fault. they changed it so that, you know, you get a become a member, get a vote and the corbyn happened because so many people of that political group thought let's get someone like corbyn in. yes keir starmer. he's not going to be going, oh no, come back. he must be so grateful that these people who love some corbyn are no longer involved in the party. this is win win for him. is he missing the money? not so much because actually they've had some big donations in there as well. so i don't think he's reeling. >> you know what, steve, i just don't i haven't met anyone who is enthusiastic about keir starmer and i've met his wife. what do you think, nick. yeah. >> great point, yes, i think he's very unpopular. steve's going to deny it. i do think that some of this is due to that thing where under corbyn, they let everyone in every single nutter in for a quid or

whatever. so some of it will be a result of that. but he does seem very unpopular. on the left is unpopular because of the winter fuel thing and because of israel and amongst normal people. he's unpopular because of the terrible response to the riots and the attack on on the british working class. so yeah, i do think memberships will fall apart. starmer will continue to plummet. i know you love him, but his approval rating is plummeting thing. >> if me actually trying to find you love him from the story doesn't mean i love him. you want to marry him? i'm not saying he's not. unpopular. i'm saying he's not. unpopular. i'm saying he's not. unpopular. i'm saying he doesn't give two flips whether he's unpopular or not. he he won't miss these people. >> well, the danger, though, is that he's occupying the increasingly flimsy iceberg of the theoretical centre. he's losing the left. he doesn't have the right, of course, and that's shaky ground that macron tries to occupy, but it's not clear that it really will exist. >> ain't really no the express are wrong in trying to paint. oh he's reeling. >> oh i love that word reeling. bnng >> oh i love that word reeling. bring it back. he's not he's having a he's having a good reel. he's keeping it real. let's move on to labour's from labour's progress to an update on the tories. nick how are they. this is in the telegraph. yeah. >> labour voters would rather back reform uk than tories. so

as a poll of more than a thousand labour voters and it was done by arden strategies. and although the second most popular because these were labour voters was the liberal democrats and the greens, but still reform fared a lot better than the tories . still reform fared a lot better than the tories. i think it was reform around 14% and 6% had the tories as their second choice. so it's not that surprising because one everyone hates the tories, especially if you're labour and i suppose two, you might have that red wall vote. that's more likely to go across to reform. as i said before, the stats show that if you're under 20,000 a year, 14% voted reform and it sort of goes up like that. the more money you have, the less likely you are to vote reform. so that makes some sense. and actually, just as a quick anecdote, someone stopped me on the street in the heart of communist north london, the most middle class leftie north london place, and they said, oh, i love the show headliners and gb she was someone that had voted for corbyn as an independent, but if he had not been standing, would have voted reform. so the patterns aren't as we sort of imagine. they're not as simple as you imagine. people are voting for things like

authenticity and they just hate the uniparty. >> yeah, well, things are changing politically, aren't they? there's no denying it. >> well, it depends whether you think your left wing economically or socially. there's two different things. there's two different things. there aren't strategies i think are the ones who did. wallace and gromit as well. i just thought i'd throw that in. but, is that because we were talking about miliband earlier? yeah, it must be. he's got that look. he's good, isn't he? but it says my favourite thing in the whole article. its findings would appear to support the claims by mr farage that reform is a more credible opposition. if we defined the opposition as the preferred second choice of people who voted for the winning party, which seems like a really terrible way to define opposition. >> okay, well, look, that's the end of part two, but do join us in part three for academics in favour free speech, the un, not so much. carol vorderman's latest ramblings don't

welcome back to headliners. it's your first look at saturday's newspapers. we're going to start this section with the telegraph now. and apparently sex is

changeable. did you know that? >> we all knew it. i think andrew, deep in our hearts. so transgender woman wins case in australia against female only app australia against female only app roxanne tickle who was born male but has identified as a woman since 2017. so long was awarded £5,000 after suing a women only app which had blocked her. so. and she claimed or he claimed or whatever. we're saying that it was an unlawful and discriminatory exclusion from the giggle app, and it's stolen. the last three years of my life. i hate it when an app steals your life. >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's so bad. i mean, i've spoken to saul grover, who runs giggle. >> this was, you know, on my show she was doing an app, a social media platform for women in the wake of the metoo scandal. you would have thought it's not very controversial that it's not very controversial that it wasn't at all to do with trans issues, nothing like that. and then all of a sudden, this bloke who calls himself roxy tickle decides he should be able to go onto the app, even though it's for women only sues her when she says, hang on a minute, this is for this is for birds. and then it all kicks off in the

court. >> and she founded it. by the way, she's not just she's the founder. why on earth should someone get to just use her app? she should just be able to decide it. >> so what's disturbing about this, steve, is that the judge has said sex is changeable and that does mean now, according to australian law, it is illegal basically for women to have their own spaces . that's what it their own spaces. that's what it sort of means. >> i'm surprised none of us have done the joke that sex is changeable. it gets worse after you've been married. i mean, that's a very good one. how have we not done that yet? i don't know, i'm the only married person here. that's why, isn't it? yeah. it's like. yeah, but this, this is unmarried. it would be nice if we could, you know, originally when people started talking about these issues, they they patronise you by going gender is actually different to sex. actually. yes. yes. you know, if would have stuck with that. so you can have your changeable gender and your non—changeable sex. we could have had a solution now. it would have meant that you could have argued whether you can when you can opt to who uses your app, you can opt to who uses your app, whether that's based on sex or gender, different argument. you come up with a solution. >> you could have an app designed for a multiplicity of genden >> they're both non—changeable, but the problem here is that

because what's really happened is in 2013, the australian government, the dying days of the government, they introduced new legislation which basically brought gender identity, whatever that is, into the sex discrimination act, so that it was covered as though it were sex. >> and so this judge has said, but what this judge appears to have done is conflated. the two and said that actually, because they're both together in the legislation, you can actually change sex, but you can't know it's mad. >> and it proves, doesn't it, that the old thing, there are no morally neutral institutions. you know, people sometimes imagine the judiciary is morally neutral above this. they're ideological. they're completely part of the managerial state. and my other point, slightly sillier, is that women have invaded our spaces for a long time. have they? perhaps they deserve this. >> which space of yours? >> which space of yours? >> the men gentleman's club. my gentleman's club. i do. i don't belong to any gentleman's club. they don't. they don't let northerners in either. but. but they're trying to get it. look at the garrick club. they were like, oh, we want to get into the garrick. >> the difference is the people you're not allowed in. the women

who wanted to get into the garrick club weren't pretending to be men. >> no, but they want they want to conquer men's spaces. football. they've ruined. >> we just needed nick to go on his misogynistic rant. >> but i'm against this, obviously. but i'm also against women, so i'm torn. >> yeah. it's difficult. >> yeah. it's difficult. >> steve, do you want to give some balance to this by pointing out how much you adore women? >> i'm a big fan. i've. i text loads of them all the time. >> i know you do. yeah. >> i know you do. yeah. >> and it's not just it's not physical, but it is cheating. >> well, anyway, sal grover is going to be on my show on sunday again, so we'll give an update there. but apparently she expected it to go this way. so it's going to go to the high court and then hopefully it can get sorted out then. but this is crazy. >> and also was it five grand? but originally, tickle asked for 100 grand or something, i think. >> i think he's got ten grand. >> i think he's got ten grand. >> oh australian dollars, which is probably not that much. £3? what, a 200,000 aud? >> yeah, man. no, it's just 10,000. >> all right, we're moving on now. this is a large number of academics have acknowledged that free speech is necessary for universities. it shouldn't really have to be said should it, >> no. but education secretary bridget phillipson, accused of

caving in to cancel culture by shelving plans for university free speech law. as more than 500 academics have written a letter, they love a letter to academics. they know where the address goes and where the date goes wrong with the letter. >> i like a good open letter. >> i like a good open letter. >> i like a good open letter. >> i can't do it without clippy joining in. it looks like you're trying to write a letter all right. don't force trying as the you know i can't do it. but a government source said universities already have obugafions universities already have obligations under the law to protect freedom of speech , and protect freedom of speech, and we will hold institutions to them. now, that doesn't pass the empirical test, does it, of. all right. let's just remember recent history. if those laws are enough, we wouldn't know what deplatforming is. but we do know what deplatforming is. the source also said we make no apology for opposing the tory's hate speech charter, which would allow anti—semites and holocaust deniers free rein on campuses. so at the moment, walking around a university campus as a jewish person, it's a walk in the park. in it, you get to look at the protests, you get to just enjoy the scenes. so for two reasons. the two arguments fall down on

this. >> they have no argument whatsoever. and you know, labour just basically are not fans of free speech. let's just be honest about this. and, you know, they came in, they ditched this bill, which had been years in the making, an awful lot of work. they just completely it's complete political vandalism. and they got rid of the bill without a debate. they did it the day before parliament went into recess. this was a really dodgy move, i think. and they're even trying to say it would cost too much to implement. no it wouldn't. that's a lie. that's a flat out lie. >> yeah. as you say, they're against free speech. they're against free speech. they're against any freedom really, aren't they. and it's particularly appalling that that thing we make no apology for pausing. the tories hate speech charter, which would have allowed anti—semites and holocaust deniers free reign because, as we all know. yeah. as steve said, i mean, jewish people are far less safe when leftism reigns free on campus and is allowed to do what it wants with no pushback. and the classic example is bret weinstein at evergreen college, when he was not allowed to set foot on the campus as a jewish professor at his own university . professor at his own university. you know, and that kind of thing is typical. >> yeah, very bad news. i hope they can rectify this at some point. anyway, we're going to go to on the guardian now, some

unsolicited advice from the un. >> nick, this is so annoying. so uk must kerb rise in racist hate speech by politicians and public figures. un says so for some reason the un is sort of weighing in, not who. >> who are they talking about? >> who are they talking about? >> they're talking about they obviously mean people like farage, don't they? they mean politicians. they don't like. >> i haven't heard any any uk politicians saying racist things. what are they talking about? >> i've got no idea. >> i've got no idea. >> i've got no idea. >> i've read diane abbott a while ago. >> i read the whole thing and i still don't know andrew. i mean, they say the uk should consider making a formal apology for its involvement in slavery. i mean, we did end it. there was also that, i mean, this is coming from a turkish academic. you might want to check their record on human rights. you might want to check if the ottoman empire has made an apology. no they weren't. >> they were the empire of peace. >> yeah. empire of peace. completely absurd. if they're going to. come on, i do. i do think we need outside international help at the moment, but we need it to stop british people being persecuted by starmer and getting these absurd sentences. but we certainly don't need them to intervene. telling us this. it's the usual they're trying to sort

of lay the groundwork in my opinion, to go after things like x and to go after people like farage. what are you laughing at? >> i can see your notes. oh, oh yeah. >> i can't say that on the telly. >> yeah. we can't read that out loud, but steve, the thing about this is there's no examples given, which makes me think there are no examples. yeah and what's the point? you know, the un makes this kind of ridiculous statement. no one's going to do anything. it's not like we're going to say, okay, you're right. let's ban a few politicians at the un. don't happen to like, yeah, i love the idea of not giving because if your argument is you've been saying racist things and then someone says, no, we haven't, you're. >> yeah you have. and you come out with the list. that's how you win that argument. it's a wonderful thing called quotation. >> well there is it. >> well there is it. >> yeah. but there including invaders, illegals and slogans such as stop the boats. so apparently we're just, you know, we're getting like, children stabbed all the time. not necessarily by migrants. i understand that some of it's not. but we're having all these crimes. we've got this horrific situation in the country, and some turkish guy from the un is telling us we're not allowed to say, stop the boats. do we have to welcome the boats? >> but we're in a world where the countryside is considered racist now. so you could just advise that someone goes for a

walk through the lake district and you'd be called a racist. yeah. or is that just me being bit. >> well, i'm from the lakes, and that's where i learned. yeah, i learnt my ways. >> all right. we're going to close this section with the guardian now. and carol vorderman. nick, what's she up to. oh well with numbers is it. >> no. she's had another opinion. it's neglect of working class has decimated tv industry, says carol vorderman. it's a bit of a sort of logical leap, but she's talking about how basically tv has. i mean, there's an interesting stat, only 8% of people in the british film and tv industry were from working class backgrounds. of course, it's true. social mobility has been absolutely decimated. it's been decimated by the left and by the destruction of the grammar schools. but but her sort of take on it is somehow it ends up being nigel farage's fault. >> the media is predominantly middle class. i think that's a fair point. no, that's absolutely true . absolutely true. >> but but it doesn't sort of fit with her new sort of like i'm her new sort of pro—labor thing. >> but what are you talking about? she says it's partly responsible for the riots. what's she talking about there? >> yes. that's this bizarre claim that there's a patronising claim that there's a patronising claim that there's a patronising claim that somehow working class people look to social media in lieu of being represented on tv ,

lieu of being represented on tv, and then they see lots of incitement and then they go out and riot. it's absolutely absurd, steve, does she just think working class people are like these really empty headed drones? >> because that's what it sounds like. she's saying to me. >> yeah, there's a logical leap there. but the core of this story, i know we don't like carol vorderman. we're meant to hate everything she says. what's she saying in that first bit is true? that tv is prejudice against working class people. >> you worked in tv. i admitted that we all, we all agree on that. >> agreed with that, i said i don't agree that i hate carol vorderman. don't know where you got that from. >> no, but do you know what i mean? normally if the if the headune mean? normally if the if the headline has carol vorderman, it you have to find a reason to disagree. but no on this. >> no, no, that one point was right but the rest of it was nonsense. >> what about all the other stuff about the riots and the and the idea that working class people just act on cue from social media? yeah, i don't believe i don't agree with that. >> right. but so we're all agreeing. actually, let's not jump agreeing. actually, let's not jump over the thing of we do need to hold tv account. >> no, i agree with that. i was the first thing i said. there's no social mobility in things like tv to find the thing she did wrong. >> but let's circle back a bit

weird. why is tv like working class people by basically patronising them in the most horrible way? >> yeah, i mean, i just think that's weird. >> so she was doing the alternative, mactaggart speech. the actual mactaggart speech made the same point, saying that the media needs to let more working class people. this is the win. finally, after all the identity politics that you've not liked, there is a movement to say we need to keep tabs on working class people to make sure there's enough work that never happens, or they say it occasionally. it never happens because we take our eye off the ball as soon as as soon as, like what they could have done from the very start. >> bbc in places like that is if they wanted a quota, have a quota that reflects working class. people say that only 7% of the corporation gets to come from private schools, because only 7% of the population goes to private schools. and by the way, you would straight away sort out any ethnic disparities and all the rest of it. as soon as you do that, because ethnic minorities are disproportionately represented in state school applicants. right. look at that. >> we found a solution by making sure we go back to that. >> steve, if you look at what actually happens, we saw that bbc internship story that the vast majority are not white. basically, it discriminates against white men particularly, andifs against white men particularly, and it's women and it's ethnic minorities that they prioritise in their intelligence. so

they're not doing it. exactly. and they're all posh. they're not doing this. so i hate to say it. >> okay, well, just one more final section to go. so please return after the break. we're going to be talking about a life changing painting. what comedians have had enough of, and some terrible fashion advice. see you in a

welcome back to the final section of headliners. it's your first look at saturday's newspapers. we're going to open with the sun now in an antique treasure worth a fortune. is it real, steve? what's this? >> it's a window cleaner. discovers first ever portrait of william shakespeare. it could be worth £200 million. this is steven wadlow, 58, window cleaner. he's struggles to be heard in the academic world because he's a working class tradesman. yes. and his dad was watching the telly and saw something and he went, oh, it looks like the bloke above our telly or whatever. and they had it checked. they've had it dated. it goes back to the right

age. they've had various checks and so it could be authentic. he's saying he's not being taken seriously. you read the darn thing carbon dated. i mean, someone's taking you seriously enough to do some tests on it. >> my issue with this is right. so they've dated it to 1595. so shakespeare would have been early 30s. yeah, but that's it. it looks nothing like him. i mean, that's my issue. >> he looks younger than early 30s. he looks like a kind of east london hipster. it does look a bit like him, though. not really. >> i mean, he's got a full head of hair and he probably went bald in his early 20s. >> that's true. but i want this guy to get £200 million. i think he i think he deserves it. >> yeah, yeah, i think it's one of those wishful thinking that because it's a guy who was alive around the same time, let's hope it was william shakespeare. it's a bit like that christopher marlowe portrait they found at corpus christi college, which probably isn't him either. >> we've just proved the shroud of turin is real. why can't this be real, andrew? >> well, we haven't proved that, but there's a lot of we have you missed that one, yeah. but, you know, you want it to be real because you want him to get the money. and that would be nice. yeah, i stand by it. doesn't look like him. he's got a different shaped nose. it's got. >> do you not think the people

authenticating might have thought that before? if they haven't authenticated? >> andrew, you're just basing that on. sorry. you're just basing that on other pictures of him. how do you know they're accurate? >> because i'm talking about the portrait at the opening of the 1623 folio, which would have been commissioned by hemming and cundall and ben johnson, who knew him perfectly well so that artist would have been working from a likeness of shakespeare. >> but what if it was a flattering or, you know, portrayal or something? >> okay, what about the, the bust at his grave in stratford upon avon that must have been approved by his wife. so it does look like him. and that looks nothing like this dude. >> is that from like late 20s to what he looked like later in life? look, i look a lot different. i, you know, i had hair. >> yeah, but you look so different. >> yeah, i had hair in my 20s though, so actually, he looked like shakespeare. >> yeah, well, we don't know. to be fair, we don't know when he went bald. exactly. >> have you seen young stalin? he just looks like a north london hipster. >> people keep saying he looks really attractive. >> he looks like a hipster. and you see how they go from hipster to absolute, you know, tyranny. >> yeah. yeah. well well, it might be, but i'm going to i'm going to on the side of caution with that one. let's move on to

this story. the eye news. it seems that the rest of the comedians are catching up to your view. nick. >> yeah, edinburgh fringe is broken and performers have had enough. well, we've heard this before. i mean, performers have been saying this for a long time because it's a complete scam. the whole thing is obscenely expensive. yeah, yeah. they're talking about a show called party girl, and they figured out that i spent £13,500 on it. they wouldn't make any money. this this whole thing. the landlords charge a huge amount. the venue, the promoter, the pr, all these things. you've got to have. and it costs people thousands and no one.the it costs people thousands and no one. the average person can't believe how much it costs. >> that's why so many rich people go there. >> yeah. and even though you do something like 30 nights in a row, you make no money and you get ill, you get ill, you get depressed and you get horrible reviewers slagging you off even though they don't know anything about cars. yes, i'm amazed anyone likes it. it's one of the most profoundly miserable experiences to go, and i'm so happy to have stepped away from all that and never have to go again. >> but also, you know, i won't even go to scotland anymore. that's how much i hate it. a nonsense, you know, because the awards are just given to according identity categories. we even had the head of the edinburgh awards this year talking about how there were no

male identifying individuals in the shortlist and the best newcomer. >> yeah. no male. >> yeah. no male. >> honest about it. now they don't care about whether people are any good at telling jokes. it's just about whether they tick a few boxes. >> i did last year and i realised all of the benefit is before edinburgh starts. yeah, just because basically you write a show and then you get a pr person who plugs it and you get interviewed in national newspapers, you get a bit of bump there. if i'd have cancelled the show on day one, i'd have saved so much money, freed up a bit of time. >> so on the other hand, i enjoyed it insofar as i developed a lot of material. you did lots of shows and it was fun. in the early days. i think things have sort of changed in the before times. >> it's also quite an arcane system. i mean, now you've got things like substack and these people are like worrying about reviews in newspapers, actual physical. this is bizarre. >> well, no paper's actually reviewed. the edinburgh fringe anymore anyway. >> no, it's online student blogs, blogs. it's mad. >> it'sjust blogs, blogs. it's mad. >> it's just a waste of time. don't bother. okay we're going to move on now. this is about jeremy clarkson's pub in the telegraph. what's going on? >> clarkson banned sir keir starmer from his new pub. he's branded labour a merry bunch of ideological nincompoops, says that if the pm turns up, he's not he's not welcome. this is

just a good way to promote your pub. it's a really successful pub. it's a really successful pub anyway, but congratulations, you've managed to write in the sun, then get written about in the telegraph. all just plugging this boozer he's got. >> yeah, but you know, because i went to that diddly squat farm shop and the queues were like two hours to get to buy a sort of bag of grain or whatever it might be. i mean, what why is it so popular? so these kind of this pub, which is going to be absolutely rammed, it's quite funny that he's barred keir starmer. it's a bit of a funny. >> he probably wasn't turning up anyway. so you know. yeah clarkson is a kind of folk hero to the people. >> and this this is a great move. and all people with pubs and small businesses should ban starmer. he's declared war on the british working people. he hates you and you should all ban him from your businesses. that's just my opinion. am i allowed to say that? that's my satirical, humble and satirical opinion that everyone popular than every other politician though, which you wait and see, steve, you and steve, he behaves very badly in pubs, or so i hear. >> yeah. okay, so the show is nearly over. let's take a quick look at saturday's front pages. so the ai has got new hs2 fast

trains too high for station platforms, costing taxpayers an extra £200 million. oof, daily mail's got pensioners £500 energy bill hike after labour cuts. the sun has got. i'm so ashamed. that's the former footballer who's been sending saucy texts the times has got. reeves feels the heat over winter fuel benefit cuts. it's the same story as before and the telegraph minister putin grip on russia is shaken and finally, the daily star, which has got something about people stealing from the bagging area . that's from the bagging area. that's all we've got time for. thanks ever so much to my guests, stephen allen and nick dixon. steve and nick will be back tomorrow at 11:00 with lewis schaffer. and if you're watching the 5 am. repeat then please do stay tuned because now it's time for breakfast. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update

brought to you from the met office through this weekend. it's going to remain fairly cool and wet for many of us on saturday. drier and a little bit warmer through the rest of the weekend though it's been a disruptive start to the day with storm lillian that's now moved away into the north sea. behind it is a clearer picture. we're starting to pick up more of a southwesterly wind that will drag in some showers to parts of southwestern scotland. many western areas of scotland in fact, as well as northern ireland through the first part of the night. but over to the second part of the night, the early hours of saturday, we look to the south, where a band of very heavy rain moves into many southern counties, lots of cloud pulling in from the south as well. ahead of that across the wales, wales and the midlands. now there is a rain warning in force for many eastern areas of england, particularly the south and east, where we could see around 60mm of rain falling throughout saturday morning and with lots of people travelling around, there could be some disruption on the roads and delays to travel further north. a slightly drier picture, but still some pretty heavy showers are likely for parts of scotland

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gb news. >> it's 9 pm. i'm patrick christys tonight. >> i've changed my party. we've changed our party. i've changed this party. this is a changed labour party. we're a changed party. >> we've had 50 days of sir keir starmer. i pick him apart and what a day to do it. >> we'll keep those prices down. we will not allow these rises to happen. >> that looks like a lie. doesn't it? because your energy bills are now going up. also . bills are now going up. also. leaving big brother britain police are ramping up facial recognition cameras. is this against our human rights . and.

against our human rights. and. jack daniel's has banned diversity and inclusion policies. this is the end of woke plus our school. >> we behave very much as a collective. we do not separate children. according according to race, race and religion, britain strictest head teacher got amazing results. >> time to bring back discipline in schools. on >> time to bring back discipline in schools. oh yes. and the bbc made fools of themselves at the democratic convention in america . democratic convention in america. >> my name is noah schwartz. i use pronouns like i'm just really excited that we have, like the first black woman that could be the president of the united states on my panel tonight is bbc and itv political chief john sergeant, entrepreneur, joana jarjue and political commentator alex armstrong. >> oh, and can you tell me why david lammy is getting ripped apart for this? get ready britain, here we go .

britain, here we go. get your wallet out because keir starmer is about. next. >> very good evening to you. it's just after 9:00 patrick up next. first though, a look at the top stories tonight. and investigators are turning their attention to what caused a superyacht to capsize and sink in sicily on monday. now that all bodies have been recovered, 18 year old hannah lynch was the last person rescue divers were searching for. she has tonight been remembered by her sister as cheeky and endlessly caring. the family have also released this photo of hannah and her father, the tech tycoon mike lynch, who has also died . well, news from has also died. well, news from the united states. in the last hour or so, the former democrat, robert f kennedy jr, has confirmed he is suspending his

independent presidential election campaign. instead, he's now backing donald trump , who's, now backing donald trump, who's, of course, a republican. in a speech in arizona in the last houn speech in arizona in the last hour, he has said his uncle relished debate and criticised kamala harris for not doing the same. >> how did the democratic party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle? we know the answers. they did it by weaponizing the government agencies . they did it by agencies. they did it by abandoning democracy . they did abandoning democracy. they did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising american voters. >> from october, households in england, scotland and in wales will see their annual energy bill rise by 10%. regulator ofgem says that increase to the price cap is because of higher wholesale costs. it means families will spend an average of more than £1,700 a year now on gas and electricity, energy secretary ed miliband says he understands why people are concerned. >> i know this will be really