good evening headline is next. but first, let's bring up to date with the latest gb news headlines. the prime minister promised to bring in new laws to tackle illegal immigration . tackle illegal immigration. anyone who comes to the uk will not be to stay. making a raft . not be to stay. making a raft. announcements in the commons today , rishi sunak vowed to today, rishi sunak vowed to eliminate backlog in asylum claims by the end of next year to and halve the cost of housing migrants . he plans to relocate migrants. he plans to relocate thousand migrants staying in hotels and instead them into empty holiday parks , student empty holiday parks, student halls and surplus military sites

. now, four weeks of rail disruptions today as 40,000 empty union members began a fresh round of industrial action. staff will walk again tomorrow, friday and saturday in a dispute over paid jobs and conditions. network rail the government and the union have all been unable to reach agreement with workers rejecting . the latest offer of a 5% pay rise this year with another 4% in 2023. the secretary urged the union to reconsider their position and the royal mail accused the communication union of holding christmas to ransom this year as its members staged further strike action to staff walking out tomorrow. thursday on the 23rd and 24th of december in an ongoing over paid jobs and conditions . the two sides have conditions. the two sides have held talks in recent weeks but remain deadlocked . members remain deadlocked. members rejected what royal mail says is

their best and final offer of a 9% pay rise of 18 months to the channel now where police say they suspect gas was behind an explosion at a block of flats in jersey at the weekend. it was confirmed that the number of people who had died in the incident in st helier had risen to seven. ireland's police has named two people who are still missing. they are ken and jane. ralph a couple in their seventies and a six year old boy remains in a critical condition in hospital after he fell through an icy lake in solihull . three other little boys aged , . three other little boys aged, eight, ten and 11, died after being pulled out of the icy water in kings hurst. members of the public applauded a group of from west midlands police who marched through the town to lay flowers in tribute to boys. balloons soft toys and candles have been left by members of the community and prince and princess of wales released their official christmas card for

radio listeners. the image shows william and kate along a path in norfolk. hand in hand with their children prince george, princess charlotte and louis. the king and queen consort released their christmas card image last weekend . that's up to date on weekend. that's up to date on onune weekend. that's up to date on online and dab+ radio with gb news. now time for headliners . news. now time for headliners. hello, welcome to headliners . hello, welcome to headliners. i'm simon evans and helping us guide you through our selection of papers. i'm joined by the pick heart and royco of the comedy circuit leo kearse and roger monkhouse. i'm afraid i don't understand that . reference don't understand that. reference has something to do nineties sci fi anyway . let us take a look at fi anyway. let us take a look at tomorrow's pages. we will start with daily mail as ever and rishi, i'll fix appalling asylum farce. that grim news offset by

a cheerful image of the young royals marching through one of their territories . wednesday their territories. wednesday telegraph sunak and i will stop who get here by cheating that has a slightly less cheerful image. the guardian have gone with the 33 hours inside and nhs on the brink. why they chose 33.7 i don't know. inflation, i guess. usually 24. isn't it wednesdays , mirror house nurses wednesdays, mirror house nurses . we're doing wednesdays, mirror house nurses .we're doing this for wednesdays, mirror house nurses . we're doing this for you wednesdays, mirror house nurses .we're doing this for you . not .we're doing this for you. not sure you are. and once again, the royals in a park wednesdays times lives are at risk. nurses leaders tell , union chiefs. yep. leaders tell, union chiefs. yep. you could probably find some consensus on that issue. wednesdays express . can we have wednesdays express. can we have our country please? that am sure references to next commitment shaking the illegal immigration issue and wednesday sun has you've lost it lynch have told they're coming in hard the peaky

blinder in the front of the rmt star finally border collie car one pay for at least not afraid to tackle the big issues. those we are pages . so let's kick off we are pages. so let's kick off our deep deep dive into the front pages with the daily mail has got that one for is that what do you that's me . hello what do you that's me. hello leo. yeah. so it's the rishi sunak says he's going to fix the system. he says it's not. it's not right and it needs to be fixed. so he's got a deal with albania and there's going to be some of these i'll be the albania money to improve the economy and also of people at the airport to tell people not to get on the plane i assume and he's bringing back the sort of hostile environment and attitude immigration so if you're an illegal immigrant, you won't be able to get a bank, which will mean it'll be more difficult you to get to get work, you'll have to get to get work, you'll have to get to get work, you'll have to get work. cash in hand like bernardo came brazil ,

to get work. cash in hand like bernardo came brazil, going bernardo came from brazil, going back ireland . the industry back to ireland. the industry used to be run cash in hand and you basically gigs that paid in cash.i you basically gigs that paid in cash. i never trusted anything that went through the books. but it's all changed now. yeah, absolutely. well whole economy is now . is completely different now. yeah, work. i remember yeah, they all work. i remember being student away being a student walking away with pocket . of with cash in my pocket. of course. that. yeah, foster course. now that. yeah, foster was nice. yeah. and of course we talk about, know, other, talk about, you know, other, other trades . getting a pay other trades. getting a pay raise committee hasn't had a pay rise since about 1990. you cannot be unionised . this is cannot be unionised. this is what four poster said goes to ask three self—employed comics opinions about how to pay you talk about people who run a jewellery store in camden market. i lost my wallet recently , have to try and i had recently, have to try and i had cash but cars were being replaced. i realise . the replaced. i didn't realise. the number of places you literally cannot cannot them cannot pay, you cannot buy them will no longer take lots of pubs in the west end, will no longer take cash year from take cash this year it from society. we probably back society. we should probably back to of the asylum to the story of the asylum system . so the way you give it system. so the way you give it is you can use voice. yes. in

asylum yeah yeah. like it's like asylum yeah yeah. like it's like a flow him and his ongoing asylum phone. yeah i think you play asylum phone. yeah i think you play with the room but yeah so keir starmer has come out and said that the majority of people coming across as illegal come across and the thing is they qualify as refugees. so yeah obviously that's it needs to be fixed. these people are genuine asylum seekers a lot of for a start there they're coming from france they've come through a lot safe countries to get here . lot safe countries to get here. a lot of them started off in albania which is perfectly safe and lot nicer than and probably a lot nicer than the i don't if they've the uk. i don't know if they've actually what middlesbrough actually seen what middlesbrough looks the before looks like before the before they come here. went they come over here. you went back. there recently. back. wasn't there recently. they they were from they came over, they were from ukraine they in ukraine and they were in nottingham they that one nottingham and they say that one of were not actually of them, they were not actually i'll at the door i'll take my chances at the door when start getting put up when they start getting put up in pontins. i think lot of them will be applying go into ice. will be applying to go into ice. hotels been repurposed the hotels have been repurposed the amount spent , hotels have been repurposed the amount spent, so amount of money being spent, so £5.5 million amount of money ever ready housing at the far right budget predominantly as well. so always there's an

upside as long is denying water to people in an if there's a reason that's the concern is just rhetoric at this stage but it's important is some decisive rhetoric at least, isn't it, because you do get the feeling the class seem to be quite with the class seem to be quite with the proposition that we just allow people to come in until the whole population pressure is, you know, is like a universal, until the universal, you know, until the water regular water. water levels of regular water. even rishi sunak's docks even here rishi sunak's docks the passive tent. isn't that it's problem. it needs be it's a problem. it needs be fixed. all well, frowns avoid the passive . wow, i home the passive. wow, i home secretary for the last few years we've been making the right noises and yet nothing has actually got done. he's making a hostage to fortune. there's only by making promises with two years before and we'll come on to something be done. commissioner statistical evidence is already a hostage to fortune . the leader of that. fortune. the leader of that. let's have a look at the summit next. what you want to do to get through these before the break but yes the sun leads on mick

lynch with the charming classic archetypal classic sun headline you've lost interest in that voice as anyone why that i pictured him of course with silly flat cap a and clearly it's a bit of a hatchet job isn't it? but time will tell when you see his house used be so harsh . your job please do. i so harsh. yourjob please do. i mean i when becky lynch was the kind of front page the sun but they have always of course come out hard against troublemakers but i heard i didn't see it but i heard on one of our rivals breakfast tv show this morning. lynch really kind of seem to be almost into militant office . almost into militant office. we're going to bring down the government , you know, rather government, you know, rather than just kind of we want what's best our members, whatever. you watch this space. sure, this will develop because our main fairness every interview fairness to him every interview he's such a tone with . he's such a hostile tone with. yeah he has begun to lose his

and i'm not surprised. and it wasn't long ago i fell in the summer he was regarded as being kind old but fairly kind of an old school but fairly authentic, sort of voice the authentic, sort of voice of the working people, know, is working people, you know, is against the progressive. the working don't want to do working people don't want to do any want to get any work and they want to get the a working the money. a working person. that's dream job. love to be that's my dream job. love to be a train driver. i'd love to get 80 year sit my boat 80 grand a year to sit my boat and guess i'm sitting down and i guess i'm sitting down right. increase in the right. no, only increase in the budget. if it who's in budget. yeah. if it who's in cash in suitcases like a union leader gets on trains don't even have wheel. how can have a steering wheel. how can be these should be be asking these should be replaced robots. thing is replaced by robots. the thing is a demands of the a lot of the demands of the unions aren't about money. unions aren't even about money. they want to stop and sort they just want to stop and sort of industrial mechanisation of industrial any mechanisation would the would replace human jobs. the true throughout, true drivers throughout, the world very privileged. world are very, very privileged. essentially it's even essentially in france, it's even more case. of course, more the case. of course, artists been replaced by artists have been replaced by artificial intelligence in the last or three weeks, roughly. i mean, there are people working on of desk out on this sort of writing desk out here who can produce like album cover art, like 98% of what anyone used to produce for. i mean, forjobs

anyone used to produce for. i mean, for jobs were were mean, writing for jobs were were in some way and actually had a lot of the jobs that people assumed would be mechanised. yeah. and robot sized haven't been and meanwhile barristers and solicitors and nurses and radio and commercial artists are on their it. yeah. i will also just mention simon jenkins, i think he wrote this in the in the guardian. he's an interesting quite like simon jenkins be a bit jenkins very seems to be a bit a hate figure in twitter circles. anyway, he pointed out the railways are nowhere near as crucial to the ongoing functioning country , functioning of the country, people assume, and they're absolutely lifeblood. in fact, something 6% of journeys something like 6% of journeys now are made by rail and 8% even of long journeys . and you would of long journeys. and you would absolutely think make them the vast journeys are vast majority of journeys are made by people in motor cars. yeah. and quite few of the young people who might be presumed, you know, prefer to go on the coach because it's about a fifth of price. yeah, yeah, yeah of the price. yeah, yeah, yeah you absolutely and not able is not able to sell the country to random random the idea that random random on the idea that he able to of derail he is able to kind of derail christmas or whatever actually a

little all here little bit these are all here but only the progress but only against the progress history is best. take history probably is best. take a look the mirror now. leo so look in the mirror now. leo so the mirror national . chart one the mirror national. chart one where my thoughts that i show is thank you for a fact the whole show isn't it. there is a story here. so in the mirror they're taking, they're at strikes, but they're taking another examples of the mirror is as quite left wing paper was the sun is right wing. but i mean, they're also talking about the strike talking about the nurses strike and people have more and i think people have more sympathy for nurses than they do for overpaid, fat, lazy train drivers do anything. so drivers don't do anything. so basically, the nurses have written letter and they see written this letter and they see they say, doing they basically say, we're doing this. going on strike this. you we're going on strike resulting in your death for your good. that seems to be the good. and that seems to be the tack of this letter. i don't know they're saying you know is vital to the nhs and vital to preserve the nhs and all kind of stuff i don't all that kind of stuff i don't know. they seem to be they've been offered 9% end of been offered 9% by the end of next year, sounds like a next year, which sounds like a pretty in line inflation. pretty that's in line inflation. inflation's to inflation's probably going to come down substantially above

inflation. wouldn't 5% inflation. they wouldn't 5% above i mean , i'd above inflation. i mean, i'd love to see them try and ask a committee for that. the reality is have a lot more that is nurses have a lot more that the has instinctive the nation has instinctive sympathy nurses, but if you sympathy for nurses, but if you look at they have their reward package as dickensian package is quite as dickensian you might have been led you better not sick over the better not get sick over the weekend. yeah definitely. a case of slipping some ice know but i think everyone would like to see nurses capable of enjoying reasonable quality. i mean they do a lot of overtime and they are obviously we get paid for it the way are exposed to the the way they are exposed to the kind that you're not kind of abuse that you're not you have signs up in you know you have signs up in the telling you not to be the train telling you not to be mean to me, honey, get to the drive it. yeah. i mean, try. yeah, know, all true. and of yeah, you know, all true. and of course vulnerable course we save almost vulnerable time. there is time. and consequently, there is a lot public sympathy. but you know, a places of know, in a few places of elective when more and elective surgery, when more and more people's grandmothers affected strikes, then course affected by strikes, then course we'll see long public we'll see how long the public good think good will last. and think probably we probably possibly last. we could try and get the star very try and get onto the star very briefly. but telegraph briefly. but the telegraph managed least three managed to cover at least three or four dozen stories on its

front page, but we've done the main one there, roger, with sunak. but there's something down quite down the bottom that's quite interesting. is the interesting. this is the allegations surrounding sister space. remember, sister space was the charity she had by button goes fulani, who was the centre , did it with nile rodgers centre, did it with nile rodgers was , it palace, rice . from good was, it palace, rice. from good last month. was it a little while ago ? this couple of weeks. while ago? this couple of weeks. couple of weeks. only weeks ago. anyway, i apparently there are questions to be answered about the integrity these these are trying to unwelcome attention. it seems like an extraordinary shot in the foot but it seems to taking an awful long time really given that all this stuff can be found out by popping round to the shopper. according to the allegations. lot of allegations. given that a lot of this be out by just this stuff can be out by just going online fleet street going online, taken fleet street quite a long time to get round to this list, which just read exposing the irregularities in their accounting you know a week ago. yeah i think it's just, you know, amateur hours and they

revealed some pretty revealed some some pretty incredible you sort of incredible so i mean you sort of expect stuff from from charities. i was actually i went to work for hungry council. i was in charge of monitoring a charity and they they were charity and they were they were billing were invoicing billing they were invoicing multiple times for the thing multiple times for the one thing to all different funding to all the different funding streams five streams they'll get you five times money buy times the money if they buy a photocopy and it seems like the same of was going on same kind of thing was going on here, you sure, should here, you know, sure, you should build you tens of thousands of pounds for this website. and it was done a favour, know, was done for a favour, you know, on whatever. and then, on wix or whatever. and then, you the stuff is you know, all the stuff that is being she's getting being sold. she's getting a family members to do sales of she herself the she's got so many marlene she's many names marlene here she's like jackal she's so like carlos the jackal she's so many needs she's many needs because she's basically she's got she's better in to go in the good the bad the you know the store know she's like you like doing her own account. these are all in, you know, all police officer is terrible. parliament i mean, i do sometimes think is it necessary we have quite so many charities in this country. it's almost impossible to monitor them all. it seems like a very

easily hackable system. yes. so many people want a lot of money out of occupying professional positions within those a lot of charities , major charities own charities, major charities own amounts of money, which people giving money on the street be very unhappy to hear about. and the amount of fraud. remember kimmel but mangaluru was. she's called one who like called the one who looked like a hot balloon and she she was hot air balloon and she she was you also these people you know, and also these people lauded the social lauded they get all the social kudos for running a charity. well, take as well, look, just take it all as taxpayers money and, just putting it the pocket or the putting it in the pocket or the brother had experience. the brother had that experience. the thing the word batman thing of putting the word batman , which i did, i would , her name, which i did, i would like to have seen what they she's or what she's going to be swinging from a rule that's going be some structural the going to be some structural the very quickly with the daily star , who have got a different take on day's events. yeah, yeah . a on day's events. yeah, yeah. a border collie has crashed the car. it was never going to end well. it was an english border collie . so it was an open border collie. so it was an open border . open border to help people

come in. but they are the most intelligent dogs. if you were going to get published one was first land rover. that's the picture of the way. oh, charmingly i'm disappointed not lady in the window that would be the better. it's probably like what's that? is it the dunning kruger something? kruger effect or something? people who are slightly well—informed think they're experts stupid , too experts in the stupid, too stupid to realise that they're . stupid to realise that they're. she was labrador but . no, it she was a labrador but. no, it couldn't drive a car. the border collie was. didn't leave collie was. they didn't leave handbrake on by the stones so it knocked the gearstick into neutral so the car could drive all the way up top of cars are so automatic now i only have to approach my car and it just all its doors fly anyway that's what we have got from the front pages we. have a short break now . we. have a short break now. well, that's what you'd see the newsagent after the break. we get them to open up and find out what's inside much like my car it seems we'll. see you in a couple of minutes .

welcome back . headline is with welcome back. headline is with me, simon evans. my comedy condiments this evening on leo kearse and roger monkhouse. so roger wednesday's telegraph now they're calling you a salt and pepper pot. the two wednesdays telegraph and it's not looking like a very winterfell for richie as sunak. well this is the news which is has become evident over the last few polls that i've read that labour apparently on track, according to latest opinion poll for the what, apparently a 314 seat majority at the next general election swing . i mean, that's election swing. i mean, that's the biggest swing in history, isn't it? of course it won't , isn't it? of course it won't, because polls will narrow for various reasons that inevitably happen. but of course it's been such a dreadful year for the tory government that it's not particularly surprising to see this happening. do you ? the name this happening. do you? the name of polling organiser in

of the polling organiser in savanta and the electoral count killer stuff sounds like a made up thing to test slightly, doesn't it? i'm given the source, i.e. the telegraph, the data creditable credible , data creditable credible, absolutely absurd hopes so. anyway peter hitchens has a great quote on polling. i want to wonder what you think of this, leo. he says polling is not a means of learning about pubuc not a means of learning about public opinion. it's a means of influencing public opinion. all right. interesting yeah, we're certainly a bit both, isn't certainly a bit of both, isn't it? this this also has it? well and this this also has an interest. scottish an interest. the scottish national according to national party, according to this gains an extra seven this poll, gains an extra seven seats, which give them all seats, which would give them all but four of scotland's 59. westminster constituencies. and obviously snp would say, obviously the snp would say, well, this is a proxy vote on independence that would, you know obviously tip them into know, obviously tip them into having of a mandate . having sort of valid a mandate. valid mandate. but but you something that nicholas sturgeon has never had . i two years is has never had. i two years is a very long time politics sorry three years. oh three yet but not now. i'm sorry it's three

years since the 2019 general election. yeah. sorry he's making incredible. but the fact is governments last much more than ten years ever. do know if it is showing its age, isn't it? even for a partisan? i would say i'm honest. i would prefer labour to get a sizeable majority so that don't have to parlay with the in order to get i mean that would be the disaster after a campaign and especially after sturgeon has positioned herself in the way that she has it. it'll be interesting to see whether the labour party make inroads into that majority in scotland it that snp majority in scotland it seems like whether this is it go to the idea that labour used to be a real force school used to be a real force school used to be scotland in all but a few small differences were weird lib dem preserves. well yeah , but dem preserves. well yeah, but the working men and the steel yards and the vote very much within our lifetime. it's only a general scotland's being gripped by this mean this sort of the single issue independence. and it's i mean there's no big grip

but the people is becoming off of a sort of whistle for people to motivate people to vote. it's almost it's almost, you know, the evangelical vote in america. thatcher, the dear leader . it thatcher, the dear leader. it yeah, yeah . it's a bit of yeah, yeah, yeah. it's a bit of a anyways that the main story the main story is wins with some caveats it's looking like catastrophe for the tories sewn up. well this is i'm supposedly i go to everything north of lincolnshire incredibly go for those red and yellow you boris johnson is a parody the bookies favourite to replace after the next election hilarity so 24 could be an extraordinary of a very small majority. yes could be a hilarious weird what year is this leo over to wednesday's guardian nominative determine is of sam bankman—fried is grilled by the famous yes so he's the founder founded the crypto exchange and being charged officially charged with investors violating campaign finance laws so this was a it

was a crypto exchange and exchange is supposed to be you see if you your or you just matches buyers with sellers so it can lose money but he also had a hedge fund called alameda and was it was basically taking from from fdx from the exchange and then gambling it losing it so they've lost billions and billions you know we're talking we're talking overall 10 billion and they also they're also embroiled giving political donation like famously, i think they're one of the biggest donors to the party. yeah. and you know , those also giving you know, those also giving money to the republicans is a very strange way . yeah, exactly. very strange way. yeah, exactly. so he was to get was lobbying politicians to relax crypto which in retrospect it seems like i'm kind of glad didn't but interesting this arrest actually stopped him from testifying in front of congress so he was on his way to congress first. his

opening line was going to be look i left up. yeah he. then again, he would have spilled loads of beans and loads of stuff about, you know, connections. democrat is and connections. the democrat is and justin being justin conspiracy and him being arrested right before gave arrested right before he gave evidence conspiracy is evidence the conspiracy is already there i mean the laundering has been pretty much pretty identified. you know , the pretty identified. you know, the money flowing back to the democrat party it taxpayers democrat party, it is taxpayers money basically. money that's flowing basically. so would set up so michelle moon would set up and that's already been been and so that's already been been identified and going to be identified and he's going to be epstein disney yeah. i mean, if he was , i would not put money on he was, i would not put money on him because like 12. have you seen girlfriend? oh my goodness . he should. he obviously , you . he should. he obviously, you know , you have the opportunity know, you have the opportunity taking the opportunity, get a better looking girlfriend while was still a billy that is the weird thing other stuff you're always having to make up they're for very well. people for us. he's very well. people have been analysing photographs him desk in extreme him at his desk in extreme detail and like really zooming in thing is for certain in on. one thing is for certain is that he is wearing patches which essentially which deliver essentially ritalin something of that

ritalin or something of that kind of adhd kind you know one of those adhd like amphetamines essentially like amphetamines essentially like 24 hours a day . yeah. yeah. like 24 hours a day. yeah. yeah. they kind of are like, yeah. well, that book was buzzed or something about about the yeah. the. so being totally and completely off it sounds like this this kind of this section of wall street is operating under very similar conditions and making similarly sort of wise decisions . yeah. you know, wise decisions. yeah. you know, what was another another angle to this is the politicians are investigating these donated tens of thousands of dollars to the politicians who are investigating them. obviously, thatis investigating them. obviously, that is a conflict of interest as well. well, watch this space. that's going to be very interesting. if go over interesting. what if we go over to times, it seems to the times? times, it seems our concerts are not satisfied with discussing their with just discussing their private lives, with alexa listening in. these are listening in. these these are chinese tech firms, which i frankly have never heard of before, a move, therefore struggled to pronounce correctly , but they're not too challenging . all that confusion challenging. all that confusion and who are vision sounds . you and who are vision sounds. you should be from the deep south

and perhaps would be a glasses company. they these these are two tech firms apparently because this is the nature digital technology isn't it. they they can tap all sorts of information which they shouldn't be able to and because of course all chinese firms are. however superficially autonomous they might be, are in fact just arm's of the chinese state. they are now in possession of all sorts of which could conceivably used in appropriately and. this is specifically sort of crimes statistics in this country. in this case cctv monitoring. so it's about frankly, shoplifting something as mundane as that. yeah this specific data just data is data is data accumulated and there's some extraordinary cases around the world, huawei and so on in particular feeding information back massive know it's like yeah so poor yeah and

the thing is i mean data can be misused so i mean like before the before world two the netherlands gathered all data on its citizens, you know, around demographics and religion and all rest of it. was just all the rest of it. it was just to provide better services and who had citizens. but then when the german troops win and the they had this data, they knew exactly where the jews were greatly expedited their genocide and.the greatly expedited their genocide and. the orwellian invasion of a dystopian overweening state. of course has an official bureaucratic process saying all these things. yeah, but it's not inefficient anymore. it's a formidable piece of software. consequently the sorts of bizarre and apparently inconsequential data can be used systematically . yeah, we have. systematically. yeah, we have. i think the most surveillance cameras of any country, not not in china. i think like london has the most of any city, not in china, something like that is an extraordinary amount going on. i do also notice i just like the name of the place, the civil

constabulary there to say that quite a bit, along with the nuclear constabulary , i'm sure nuclear constabulary, i'm sure it's just it's just a form word. anyway, wednesdays , this is a anyway, wednesdays, this is a possible test case . the right to possible test case. the right to remain unvaccinated on spirit and philosophical grounds. yes so folk here homeworkers workers who lost their after refusing to get vaccinated a winter . they get vaccinated a winter. they said the turn down the vaccine due to the spirit and philosophical beliefs , they philosophical beliefs, they said, which they concluded that god was going to persuade god will protect us from the coronavirus. i mean, to be honest, that's that's my belief. well, so far that works. but you know, those two anyway, judge has ruled that they were fairly sacked. you know this is this is a worrying on a couple. i a bit worrying on a couple. i mean understand you want mean i understand you want people with vulnerable people dealing with vulnerable groups vaccinated to, be groups to be vaccinated to, be protected or whatever. but this is compelled medical treatment. it's a precedent. and friends in the nhs, you know they were subject same sort of subject to the same sort of coercion get, to get the coercion to get, to get the vaccine and also care work is

quite intimate thing, you quite an intimate thing, you know, wiping someone's know, you're wiping someone's bum and stuff. bum and washing them and stuff. so, know, it's actually so, you know, it's actually you take one away and replace take one person away and replace them that be them with person that can be more more more of more damaging to more more of a risky work to struggling to get staff in first place. yeah, i've got to say, i do feel conflicted about this. if my elderly parent was care, i'd be concerned was in a care, i'd be concerned about members of staff refusing to . but then, although to. but then, although i understand that a right and it's something we learned since and it wasn't entirely at the time, was it but have learned since was it but we have learned since that vaccinated doesn't that being vaccinated doesn't preclude possibility preclude the possibility of being of transmission . being an agent of transmission. so a it's not more so it's not a it's not more about the vaccine now. yeah i have to say when we lived in a previous house in hove, our back garden sort of beside of it backed onto the back gardens, a couple of care homes and you would people out the would hear the people out the back having a break and back garden having a break and chatting and it wasn't encouraging encourage . not encouraging no encourage. not sticking with email . well it sticking with email. well it sounds suspiciously a familiar attempt to reframe the ongoing story of twitter executives held

to account for their mendacious meddling ways. that's my spin . meddling ways. that's my spin. our good valuation. quite a mouthful . the ongoing saga of mouthful. the ongoing saga of elon musk and the twitter files and is the story particularly of ya'll wrath which is great name has been forced to flee his . has been forced to flee his. $1.1 trillion home. the million million got to be yeah yeah this is either okay thank you. so it's 1.1 is either okay thank you. so it's1.1 million which is partly to bedrooms and two bathroom. i can't help but think could it on better or else what happened in where he's trying to manipulate the direction of stay i'm sorry but that's a bizarre price however he's about to be as a mansion. yeah it's up to down here in central to rita. what can i tell you , anyway? can i tell you, anyway? apparently he's had flee his home because elon , i'm not home because elon, i'm not alone. has shared his faces

which kind of suggest that under underwriting should be able to access the app grinder as you will ross to lisa susan and also a tweet which he sent out in 2010 wondering aloud whether it always wrong for a teacher to seduce a pupil. yeah, i mean he's a bit of all three. he's got a history of tweets like that and common comments like that and common comments like that and common comments like that and this, this guy who was in charge, google, twitter a huge problem with child sexual exploit station and this you know despite the incredible censorship focus , you censorship and the focus, you know, censoring conservative voices, banning donald trump for pretty spurious reasons , they pretty spurious reasons, they had a huge problem with child sexual . and when elon took over sexual. and when elon took over he found that the department that deals with that had been defunded . so were defunded. so they were completely focusing on say listen conservatives doing listen conservatives are doing nothing and obviously if nothing but and obviously if this guy charge of safety this guy is in charge of safety on twitter . so you know yeah this guy is in charge of safety on twitter. so you know yeah i'm just sounds like a bit well we're not saying forced to flee

. i always think it's like the cursing you and jordan peterson interview you know where that goes on youtube and there's million comments just going oh my god, handed you your arse my god, he handed you your arse there. newman and channel there. cathy newman and channel 4 immediately frame it as misogyny , stick you know, misogyny, stick abuse, you know, when fact it's just quite when in fact it's just quite yeah don't anyone have to yeah i don't want anyone have to flee home. but obviously flee their home. but obviously you a degree of you just come under a degree of scrutiny having massively exceeded is his remit and on saving the elon musk go in every and displayed stuff that's in the public domain i think absolutely he made information free is what he's doing with his twitter files. he's making information free and some of those controversial some of it makes people angry. yeah, this guy his home. guy deserves to flee his home. there's pitchforks and the ya'll the real wrath case. we will keep an eye on that . part two is keep an eye on that. part two is oven keep an eye on that. part two is over. but news part three is moments away. we've got the pope not on a rope but on a bit of a bummer. cambridge dictionary no longer what a woman is. and it's the whole point. you've always to see very much in line with

cambridge dictionary definition trans versus trans woman. trans man versus trans woman. we'll you in a couple we'll bring you that in a couple of minutes .

and welcome back to headline as wednesday is may allow leo and the pope seems to see the river tiber foaming with much blood. i bet no one's going to call a racist though. yes so boring story here about the pool by the pool these these a bible guy he's a religious guy obviously is going to be talking about bibles. he says he's got a dire vision for the world with omens of even greater destruction in desolation. this is what they say. will all religious say. this will all religious people see all the time before. the evil around. like, the evil was around. it's like, you know, this is this is a bitter filled rumbling bitter filled with the rumbling of injustice, of war growing injustice, famine, poverty suffering. famine, poverty and suffering. it's do you want it's all right. me. do you want to in guardian? to call him in the guardian? like in years, popes have gone a bit. see if you haven't, like

actually reassuring to see them having . oh absolutely. yeah. having. oh absolutely. yeah. well see st john the divine and the revelation . this is the book of revelation. this is the book of revelation. this is the horror of babylon. then the muttering of tongues in his homily, said, could homily, pontiff said, could i just bit of time just call? it is a bit of time filled with. the rumbling of war, injustice famine, war, growing injustice famine, poverty and suffering. but this and disconcerting time. there are of even greater are arguments of even greater destruction and, desolation. happy christmas . yes, the pope happy christmas. yes, the pope said, settling into his solid gold throne and crushing a few crumbs , his silken robes. this crumbs, his silken robes. this is a this is a connected poll finds two in five americans believe we are living through the end day. yes. do you think ? the end day. yes. do you think? that's surprising or is that just all americans have always thought? have they evangelical . thought? have they evangelical. it's an evangelical christian country and indeed always throw like this. yeah let's just it himself that didn't eclipse the clean reading of the gospels. it indicates . yeah so okay no news indicates. yeah so okay no news there . roger, wednesday's there. roger, wednesday's telegraph has upset the definition of woman. i would like to see their definition of

updated personally. every lexicographers christmas dream come true because obviously compiling and redefining words has become contentious. an exciting and newsworthy endeavour. exciting and newsworthy endeavour . they've this is the endeavour. they've this is the language dictionary which has redefined its definition of woman as beyond adult human being, which it formerly it's now an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth. now be interesting to know how much lobbying has gone on prior to this decision and how these decisions are made and these definitions , if it is if it is definitions, if it is if it is meaningfully the cambridge dictionary, won't have needed dictionary, it won't have needed much cambridge much lobbying because cambridge university is has been as captured institution has captured as any institution has for time , natural is for some time, natural is becoming very thing . becoming a very circular thing. i are i mean, definitions are difficult. are always difficult. they are always little we will little bit circular. we will work the other words that work with the other words that available and available now. they try and construct a sort of meaning from the words you already but the words you already know, but like wages. female now like all the wages. female now do know i mean? he's do you know what i mean? he's going go. a woman is a person

going to go. a woman is a person who did adult who identifies who i did adult who identifies as a female. they've only as a female. well, they've only got get female and then he's got to get female and then he's done the whole is done isn't it. the whole is afloat. you mean you're still attaching that attaching to the idea that female biological female indicates a biological difference between women is a sort sociological sort of sociological constructed, you know , gender constructed, you know, gender preface? it's almost as if the people doing to know what they're doing well, love well is like one of the one of the lobbyists pushing to get this definition jane definition updated. dr. jane hamlin , be a man or hamlin could, be a man or a woman. nobody can tell these things. she probably doesn't. he or doesn't or she they whatever doesn't know themselves . they these know themselves. they say these these are clear, concise and, correct, clear and concise is an aduu correct, clear and concise is an adult who lives in identifies as female, though they may been said to have have a different sex at birth, said have had less like basically doctor in the assigned rubric it the notion that adults because well we'll call that one a girl shall we just make it up the whole chromosomes go the way you can do that i. think that's a very good leigh griffiths. isn't it

fair. that's, i mean that's, i mean johnson might have defined a woman originally, it would have been cambridge dictionary need to grow a pair ironically so roger wednesday's male i'm asking you to help me to understand this one because i really have this is we follow in the trans steam but i cannot understand was going on here at all how is this is i mean it's very to take seriously but very hard to take seriously but this is it has gone viral this is a video evidence of why trans women people who were born male should not be allowed to compete in ice tournaments with people who are born female. but this one, even more bizarrely , this one, even more bizarrely, this is why i'm confused. there is a trans woman, okay, we understand thatis trans woman, okay, we understand that is a male bodied person who will often compete in female events and has some upper body strength advantages, but this occasion person they knocked occasion the person they knocked , if understanding it , if i'm understanding it correctly , was a trans man, as correctly, was a trans man, as in born of competing as in born of and now competing as a man. yeah. so was this like mixed sex, ice hockey ? that's

mixed sex, ice hockey? that's already insane. i just think this is a wonderful victory for women or for the oppression. i know it's a victory for . the know it's a victory for. the puck, that's who is out. two out of five americans believe that. and the date really is a canadian guy who i like actually jonathan, i may try and track him down on this. he's an editor or a journalist says, but i think he's one of the editors of quilliam, which is good online because sort of opinion and comment source australian run i think is sort tackled think and he is sort of tackled this has been up a fairly this one he has been up a fairly consistent thorn in the side of trans and jordan trans nonsense and jordan you know canada leading the way on most of the dystopian developments. let's get developments. anyway let's get onto the next story, leo. we have a quick visit to my hometown to see how sane and normal everyone is behaving at bright university this of year. well i mean may guess the little so brain university suggested staff refer to christmas as the winter closure period to avoid

offending students who are non—christian. you mention them renaming ramadan the eating and drinking period to avoid the offending students who are muslim is absolutely insane. why would they assume that students who christian, who are? who aren't christian, who are? no, let's face it, like it used to be a christian country would get offended. it's an absolute christmas is one of the greats that great things transcends religion because presents and stockings and advent calendars asking you to singapore which i'm sure you have, which is a place of ceremony and different ethnicities and, of course, they celebrate christmas as an enormous festivity. celebrate christmas as an enor christmas festivity. celebrate christmas as an enorchristmas lee festivity. celebrate christmas as an enor christmas lee kuanstivity. celebrate christmas as an enor christmas lee kuan yewy. celebrate christmas as an enor christmas lee kuan yew was this christmas lee kuan yew was his name . great genie, the his name. great genie, the presiding genius of singapore's rise to fame. he was extrude and airily pragmatic about these . he airily pragmatic about these. he absolutely defined everything and how it would operate and absolutely eliminate the possibility of inter—ethnic strife essentially is an absolute genius of everyone's free that. but because we are all becoming singapore, we like it or not a phrase. i'd just like to sentence. i'd just like to phrase that

to read another phrase that could offence. according could cause offence. according to nine page enclosed to the nine page enclosed language document to language guidance document to lecturers millennials lecturers is millennials snowflakes. i have oh a of millennials at this time of yean millennials at this time of year, especially. i do have a theory about this, which is that christianity has been naturally and gradually denatured over the last years, probably since last 250 years, probably since roughly, but especially since the americans , coca—cola and the americans, coca—cola and santa claus and the department stores christmas has been a commercial event and a drinking event for a in this country that is not necessarily immediately appreciated by muslims and hindus and people of other minority faiths because . their minority faiths because. their faiths are still quite robust and toxic, yet they actually believe in the book and their festivals are perceived as religious festivals. so the thing oh they get to take christmas offer as a holiday boost. we don't get ramadan as a holiday. we have to do you know what mean they find out actually has pagan all exactly this is what needs to happen to all the rest of them i'm pretty sure at brighton university they get ramadan off the problem is so

we've got these equality of diversity and inclusion departments and they want to do it originally to it originally intended to be a shield to protect people , shield to protect people, prejudice they're a and prejudice and know they're a and they've got to work for themselves . so we break these themselves. so we break these nine the tag nine page documents the tag people they force people compelled speech got a code christmas. this is an obligation on fire all of them fire all the muslim the trains, every car. yes. again, a quick break now a minute. told if you like. we'll see you in of minutes see you in couple of minutes after the .

break and welcome back to headliners your final segment, roger and in news now from wednesday's man horribly cruel fate for 13 year olds, patiently awaiting their first gasp. children born in new zealand after 2009 will never likely be able smoke under a radical plan . they're going to

radical plan. they're going to move the of consent is that what it is when you're allowed to smoke. yeah they're going to move up and up and up so it will always remain out of i mean, tantalisingly out of at some point they might in the news. yeah. but some point they must just ban them altogether. right. that can only that can be a transitional phase when there will be 20 rolls then 25 year olds all. but some point olds with all. but at some point when only 17 year olds are allowed to buy tobacco. it will be . oh let me tell you be very few. oh let me tell you a story about the days, because the money they make your cancer, they make your emphysema and then if the cure that stuff , do then if the cure that stuff, do we get to smoke again? andrew i think i actually think smoking is rubbish some people is rubbish i know some people like but i think it's like doing it, but i think it's really stupid rubbish and it really stupid and rubbish and it smells. as a libertarian smells. i was as a libertarian really against smoking ban really against the smoking ban and rest of it. but i and all the rest of it. but i haven't, i haven't missed in restaurants and yeah, it's very nice be smoke free, i have to nice to be smoke free, i have to admit, in comedy, admit, especially in comedy,

when went in when you if you have went in with throat and the room with sore throat and the room was of and it's was full of smoke and it's against every principle, i hope they in many ways. but they are in many ways. but i also i had read that nicotine, if it was it from if it was isolate it from tobacco is quite a useful sort cognitive enhancer perk up comedy tea, you comedy down cup of tea, you know, or whatever so. know, coffee or whatever so. i did try vaping recently did try the vaping recently tried a couple of tried vaping for a couple of weeks just see and i didn't weeks to just see and i didn't enjoy that either at all. just flat made me head swim. i think enjoy that either at all. just flat actuallye head swim. i think enjoy that either at all. just flat actually have d swim. i think enjoy that either at all. just flat actually have to ;wim. i think enjoy that either at all. just flat actually have to ;wir sortthink enjoy that either at all. just flat actually have to ;wir sort of1k you actually have to be sort of addicted it from an early age addicted to it from an early age like deeply embedded in it. it's not can i not something you can with i think probably is best in the back the business and if people are to they're are addicted going to they're going get the somewhere. going to get the fix somewhere. so this will lead to sort so this this will lead to sort of black market smuggling of the black market smuggling that is that counterfactual is interesting how vaping is taken off, to say how off, but i'm amused to say how schools demonise but i schools demonise vaping but i mean know you would mean i don't know you would start when you haven't start vaping when you haven't previously so tobacco previously smoked so the tobacco companies people addicted companies to get people addicted by 12 i didn't by the age of 12 i it didn't they historically that was their plan you know and think if plan you know and i think if they that it will be they can screw that it will be i new zealand seems to be an interesting test case for all sorts of it does seem like a

joyless that doesn't joyless place does that doesn't it incredibly wealthy, though, it? incredibly wealthy, though, at leo wednesday's at the moment leo wednesday's times when mothers are expecting they shouldn't expect social media to be help. yeah so they've done a study apparently having a support group and really to ask questions of your new mother as better than going on social media. that's it. that's the whole story. so really much of stories , the really much of stories, the measure, the cortisol, which is stress hormone and yeah, i've noficedis stress hormone and yeah, i've noticed is my wife gave birth nine weeks ago and so she goes on online forums to get advice and then people become and argue nobody wants to back down on any points know people come in really judgemental about everything little i until my children were 27. where are you stopping you know all that can is mumsnet twitter for is mumsnet is like twitter for hormonal women. it's right in there in knowing how kind of stressful it can be to get caught up in an argument on twitter, you didn't want to get involved in you know i mean that and that about nothing you know just about the front cover of

some or something and some magazine or something and whether designed. whether it should be designed. but you care but i something that you care about much as your is about as much as your child is health. i mean you're already just below read, aren't you, before you doing before you start doing mean, i think there's a lot to said think there's a lot to be said but think it, you know, but i do think it, you know, support networks because the thing is traditionally of course you mother would you have had your mother would come in and the aunts and you know that whole hillary clinton it a village you it takes a village thing you don't people are don't get that anyway people are very you know very isolated you know very, often mother couple often the mother is a couple hundred miles there's hundred miles away. there's a lot to be said for going down your local hall when we your local church hall when we were say pub, i thought were going to say pub, i thought you were going to say having a couple of these until this whole thing over god over the thing blows over god over the trip, pub group trip, the toddler pub group metro and now and some more cheerful news for those by the recent surge in aspiration of suicide and it's in canada looks like the human hatchery is on its way looks a already this is a sinister isn't it this is the world's first artificial womb a creepy glimpse of pregnancy in. the future this is it's just

true it's astounding it's that this is like the future arm or its horror . it's not been built its horror. it's not been built yet. we should emphasise is our piper. there's a scientist a serious fertility life should be able to grow 30,000 babies a yeah able to grow 30,000 babies a year. she's sorry. we need more children . yes, that's right. children. yes, that's right. interestingly they're kind of pushing the particularly that need more children and especially the kind of women who currently don't have children, which are the highly intelligent profession , qualified, ambitious profession, qualified, ambitious career women . of course, those career women. of course, those are the genes we want is, you know, let's be droid fertility are the genes we want is, you rates, places like japan and south korea need some sort of handmaid's tale type system. wow. this is more i think it's this again. you think you had 30,000 court hatcheries. you seen that will have to be included in cambridge dictionaries of a woman and of course those isn't going to be run by bernard my i do find it

slightly alarming i do i do think we all you know we're slipping into that it will happen one technological convenience at a time this is it you don't need. yes like a dictator with some mad scheme you able to go. of you need to be able to go. of course could and the course you could use and the advantage the hatchery you advantage of the hatchery you don't have nine months of walking around like you walking around feeling like you you you're about to you know like you're about to topple horribly sticking. topple over horribly sticking. you your all you can select your child all but exactly take it all online. yeah nobody's you and no one's going to don't child birth and is the ruined scar the planning holidays knowing when it's going to come when it will be delivered it's soon when probably get the morning slot the afternoon slot before you know people are because i've been waiting inches all past eight morning baby eight this morning and the baby still don't think it'll be eight this morning and the baby stiigood don't think it'll be eight this morning and the baby stiigood be on't think it'll be eight this morning and the baby stiigood be like think it'll be eight this morning and the baby stiigood be like aiink it'll be eight this morning and the baby stiigood be like a battery be as good be like a battery chicken compared to a nice sort of bar you been of cotswold leg bar for you been chlorinated , leo. now it's your chlorinated, leo. now it's your turn over to wednesdays . it turn over to wednesdays. it begins to look at perhaps england's lgbtq friends that been causing all the aggro in houston as a map of the year. so

england fans have made it through the world cup with no arrests for the first time in history . gordon, go right back history. gordon, go right back to coach so yeah , mean this to the coach. so yeah, mean this is a huge blow to national pride should imagine you know nothing filled my heart with pride more as a brit than seeing fellow countrymen throwing white chairs around and in a tone fomented in montpellier. but yeah, this is i don't i think i think we've we've sort of suppressed the hooliganism which is made football a lot less interesting because hooliganism was always the most exciting it was a bit i mean, it was a bit of edge football in the old days. it has when you get three women on the touchline, the game at half time, our latest primark outfits and his own, i don't think, because we don't have that safety felt pressure of safety felt that pressure of punching in the face. punching each other in the face. yeah. tournaments yeah. football tournaments we had instead so you know had brexit instead so you know the you know what they bubble the you know what they bubble the an absolute the wallpaper is an absolute fact as well football fighting you the fighting after you know the fighting after the match definitely raised match that definitely raised testosterone there's no no

coincidence that we again are struggling with . 20 six struggling with. 20 six hooliganism was a radical i think whatever whatever is the old days i do miss it but it is it i mean i still used to enjoy well knowing that the england football fans could hold their own regardless of how the club. you know, the would go you know, the side would go disgrace itself. three nil down to belgium at time, but the to belgium at half time, but the fans live . the scorecard fans would live. the scorecard is that of course there's is simply that of course there's no alcohol and the cost of going out that was very large part out that was a very large part yeah especially when you yeah yeah. especially when you were down christmas nobody would say no, that's say jail in qatar. no, that's true. that is a very good point, actually hanoi i do actually yeah. the hanoi i do think it's actually been more successful having the world cup at this time of year than i thought it would. i was like doing that traditionally world cup is. but no, it's actually been quite good watching football during winter. football in a pub during winter. yeah, i've given that fair play. well think we're going to well i think we're going to finish up now. we're back with wednesdays male the season of christmas snow because christmas party snow because it's back after a couple of years induced shyness. years of covid induced shyness. and say, of course gb

and i will say, of course gb news an office as news is technically an office as so. this is the so. yes, it is. this is the horrendous news that people apparently ask of apparently might actually ask of themselves christmas. themselves at christmas. thank heavens thank heavens. fleet street has finally uncovered this. have you ever had an office job? no, i've never, ever had an office job. i'm about three years, 1997 to 91, something like that. and the christmas parties they were. yeah, it's not a thumbs. christmas parties they were. yeah, it's not a thumbs . yeah, yeah, it's not a thumbs. yeah, it was. we've all haven't where you had to marshal christmas do it this time of year comedians as comedians and they are clearly horrendous places in their there is always festering and sexual tension manifests itself like like like halloween on one night as girls have a couple of beers and they come in you know they had to wait for me this the last one just the middle aged ladies who rarely out and after a glass or of white wine suddenly become lame cook with a what was the artist

used to do? those pictures of middle aged beryl cook yes, middle aged beryl cook yes, middle aged beryl cook yes, middle aged on him. but yeah, he's exactly astrocytes. we've all started to think, you know, good old fashioned, robust carry film star sexuality. that's what's missing from the british culture days and hooliganism. yeah, exactly christmas parties had . yeah, great. and you got to had. yeah, great. and you got to photocopy your arse , you know, photocopy your arse, you know, the whole thing . well, i have no the whole thing. well, i have no idea . the gb news, of course, is idea. the gb news, of course, is a not quite 24 hour news channel. and by the time we get off air, everyone's gone home. so very rarely that we have an opportunity for a decent snog . opportunity for a decent snog. all i'm saying is if the if the powers that be want it to sort of just passing a few sort of you know like like like, you know, like the stripper grammys but just dressed as office workers. need workers. i don't need be a policewoman , you know. i don't policewoman, you know. i don't need to show jemmy like someone who looks like office worker who looks like an office worker .then who looks like an office worker . then you to see graham. . then you get to see graham. yeah we have time for yeah that's all we have time for financially are russia financially. are russia available? good social available? an all good social media. we'll be getting some clips been simon clips up shortly been simon evans we'll back. clips up shortly been simon

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doesn't it? i'm given the source, i.e. the telegraph, the data creditable credible , data creditable credible, absolutely absurd hopes so. anyway peter hitchens has a great quote on polling. i want to wonder what you think of this, leo. he says polling

it's mark dolan tonight and for the brilliant mark steyn tonight, tomorrow and thursday , tonight, tomorrow and thursday, a busy show. in my big opinion monologue. schools and businesses closed because of a bit of snow . everyone and their bit of snow. everyone and their granny on strike and customer service has gone back 20 years. britain isn't working. more on that in a moment. households in north london borough of islington will have that access to heating and hot water restricted in a bid to save cash . this the start of energy rationing. a common sense