good evening you with gb news. in a moment headlines. but first, let's bring you up to date with the latest news headunes date with the latest news headlines and the top story. hundreds of thousands of workers were taking today in walkout wednesday . it's been the were taking today in walkout wednesday. it's been the uk's biggest day of industrial action. in more a decade after half million people took to the streets from seven trade unions going on strike, pay jobs and conditions . teachers took part conditions. teachers took part in the action today. so did border force officials and bus and train drivers which caused widespread travel disruption . widespread travel disruption. education minister nick gave described the strikes as disappointing . it described the strikes as disappointing. it is disappointing. it is disappointing that the any one of those four unions has taken strike action today jeopardise children's education. they have

suffered two years of interruption during the covid pandemic. so this is the last thing children need and it's the last thing parents need. so they say, look, let's talk, let's continue talks about these continue those talks about these important issues. house prices fallen for the fifth month in a row, down by 0.6% on december. nationwide's price index shows the average home now costs over £258,000. annual price growth slowed to 1.1% in january, and that comes as bank of england is poised to raise rates for the 10th consecutive time tomorrow . 10th consecutive time tomorrow. full details of that throughout the day . gb news. now a failed the day. gb news. now a failed asylum seeker from iran has been detained in for killing an seven year old woman in her own home in north yorkshire . shaheen in north yorkshire. shaheen davis naron ashbourne befriended brenda blaney and lived with her in thornton le dale. she went on, though, to strangle the pensioner and he stabbed her

last january. it's understood his asylum claim was refused in 2017, but he couldn't be removed from the uk because there wasn't a deportation agreement in place with iran iran . borisjohnson with iran iran. boris johnson has been in the united states today urging leaders to further boost support for ukraine. speaking in washington told senior politicians there that president volodymyr zelenskyy should be given all the equipment he needs. he's asked them supply fighter jets, which downing has so far ruled out . so downing has so far ruled out. so god bless , america, for having god bless, america, for having the guts , the wisdom to help and the guts, the wisdom to help and implore you now to follow the logic of what you are all doing and give the ukrainians the tools to finish the job give them the deep fire artillery systems. give them tanks, give them the planes because they have a plan . they know what they have a plan. they know what they need do. and my god, they should they have the skill and the

bravery to do it . they have the skill and the bravery to do it. boris johnson speaking in washington earlier today. that set up to date on tv, online and dab radio. this is gb news people's channel. simon has headliners for you now hello, i'm simon . thank you, hello, i'm simon. thank you, ponty. welcome to headline news. joining me tonight, two stalwarts of the show. we have steve and alan and the big dog himself , steve and alan and the big dog himself, dixon. it is an a—list show. so let's take a look at tomorrow's front pages. we start with the daily . they have a new with the daily. they have a new law to stop school strike may have that's its intent at any rate daily telegraph focus the r.a.f. who are facing crisis overdrive for diversity. but the photograph is to do with the school strikes the guardian watchdog looks into school strikes the guardian watchdog looks int 0 £220,000.

watchdog looks into £220,000. bill johnson partygate legal advice the mirror when will care new dog attack terror not coming onto your screen for whatever reason the time times british gas breaking the homes of the vulnerable . the sun has footage vulnerable. the sun has footage after league . and finally the after league. and finally the daily star breaking news. the devil has moved to suffolk. that is the devil living in east anglia. then weather has just gone down from norfolk. or whether that's wider scale move anyway are the front pages. we will take a look at them in some detail . so see if we have detail. so see if we have selected the daily telegraph to begin with and a story we in in some detail when it first out. yeah so the latest update on this night actually as a reminder the headline are our

faces crisis overdrive for diversity and normally my favourite thing on this show is you find a story like this says you find a story like this says you can't even say christmas these days you read down it and it says, oh, look, it turns out. lots of can say christmas lots of people can say christmas this not one of those. is this not one of those. this is one actually, even if you one where actually, even if you are biggest supporter of are the biggest supporter of diversity drives. this not diversity drives. this is not the way do it. and so they're the way to do it. and so they're looking it. there's an looking into it. there's an inquiry i think the inquiry and i think for me, the thing tells you why thing that really tells you why it's so wrong is the group it's gone so wrong is the group captain, elizabeth nicol and. i'm the gender of i'm sure the gender of the person we're talking is person we're talking about is apposite the sex and the apposite here. the sex and the sex. oh, yeah. you got me. yeah stepped down in august because she this. a target that you she said this. a target that you cannot the armed cannot achieve now. the armed forces were to and deal forces were told to try and deal with diversity issue. but the with a diversity issue. but the r.a.f. went further when 30% were that to because were like that to 40 because what a of we explained it is what a lot of we explained it is that the only kind of diversity they're we know they're interested in we know about race, about religion, race, and certainly ethnic, ethnic and sex is height. i'm not sure about actually. i mean that's one of the things that some of the

forces and another force of sort of widen their recruitment criteria no longer have to criteria you no longer have to over potential criminals. yeah these you get to these days you can get to officers on each of officers standing on each of the shoulders raincoat. shoulders in a long raincoat. that's right . and that actually that's right. and that actually is policing . they is good community policing. they can address two criminals at once, of course, but i mean, i did tobias ellwood has been did see tobias ellwood has been reassuring us that this hasn't any kind of slip in operational effectiveness there's been no decline in standards. it rather that white men who were not taking boxes been discriminated against have 160 cases effectively a hiatus on any straight men. yeah i knew some people will make the argument saying you've had it good enough for long enough. no, i think the point is that there are certain jobs to be. as much as jobs where it to be. as much as you can have a certain force towards some intended goal, the main force having the ability main force is having the ability to planes really defend to fly planes really defend the country. suppose the point is country. i suppose the point is the diversity quota has to be achieved widening scope of achieved by widening scope of the recruitment , not by the

the recruitment, not by the actual standards . it's the actual standards. it's the people who were rubbish at being in the raf. yeah. i mean, i'm going have to translate few terms. it talks about the aspirational targets aspirational diversity targets that communists in that should put communists in there then positive there and then positive discrimination. stuff's discrimination. that stuff's called and. they called racism and. they talk about setting challenging about setting up a challenging goal about setting up a challenging goal. called a stupid goal. it is called a stupid goal goal. it is called a stupid goal, steve, it's goal, steve, because it's impossible still impossible because it's still largely white so how largely white country. so how can organisation have perfect diversity .7 numerically diversity.7 numerically impossible and steve has alluded to there in some companies or organisations. this would be stupid annoying, but here it's actually dangerous. yeah, i think that's fair. and also it does seem to me that there is a certain amount of demoralisation among the job among those who are in the job as well this can't help but reflect back on you. i wrote a piece few weeks ago suggesting piece a few weeks ago suggesting that wasn't that it may be wasn't irrelevant, that some of these pilots had shown up in china training the chinese how to defend themselves raaf jets and this is amounts to treachery and villainy of a terrible scale and is in defensible. but you can't help wondering whether it's not part of a sort of mental

landscape is being created where certain people are not feeling that they're valued perhaps not as as . they that they're valued perhaps not as as. they used to be as much as. they used to be a bit of a jump there some days i don't valued, but i don't don't feel valued, but i don't know if the chinese try to be a trace of value, we all know trace of value, then we all know you be straight off to you will be straight off to china. much as i'm saying. but it's fault. yeah, it's woakes fault. yeah, absolutely. the absolutely. moving to on the daily nic. yeah daily mail daily mail, nic. yeah daily mail got law to stop school got new law to stop school strike mayhem , so there's been strike mayhem, so there's been plenty of mayhem. we've a walkout wednesday and basically no one's at work. it's that's media people, obviously. and it mayhem is always used to describe an absence of activity usually i mean you something like friday is mayhem day like black friday is mayhem day . oh chaos. yeah yeah. and anyway so from tragedy. yeah. yeah, i see what you mean. so yeah, teachers essentially , yeah, teachers essentially, they're sort of playing truant and not telling miss because they're allowed to just go on strike without warning. the head teacher is going happen. and teacher is going to happen. and soon, to be soon, like i said, to be incredulous that militant unions are this saying are able to do this and saying this ridiculous and he's this is ridiculous and he's blaming being an blaming starmer for being an extremist the

extremist and supporting the unions so on. and i know the unions and so on. and i know the mick lynch weighed in on the strikes . i've seen the teachers strikes. i've seen the teachers strikes. i've seen the teachers strike and we are the strike and said, we are the working and we are back, working class and we are back, which little bit cringe. which a little bit cringe. you're more than most you're earning more than most middle people, yeah, middle class people, but yeah, many but hey, many train drivers are. but hey, i'm he's got he's got the i'm sure he's got he's got the down pat of his knee. oh yeah, i down pat of his knee. oh yeah, i do do it for you. i quite like it. a little tinge of nostalgia watching. but you do notice all this right wing bigot simon. well, and mentioned news gb well, and you mentioned news gb news yeah. and he news yeah yeah. and he said especially simon a simon especially that simon is a simon evans like well will in evans like well i will say in defence of the concept if you have a rule in place, as soon as a person earns a certain amount of money, you don't let them defend the working class. you mean the working can only mean the working class can only ever i agree. i think it's ever be. i agree. i think it's quite good that well played straight think straight leaders. and i think they shouldn't they. they should i shouldn't they. they to they should continue to represent of their represent interests of their class i don't class and their people. i don't problem that. i do problem with that. i do think it's quite interesting there is this kind of new a new culture of the sort low key strike of the sort of low key strike action. is kind there action. there is kind of there are it. there is

are various of it. there is there's a kind of doing no more than expected to working there's a kind of doing no more thanthat'sxpected to working there's a kind of doing no more thanthat's been ad to working there's a kind of doing no more thanthat's been around )rking there's a kind of doing no more thanthat's been around forng there's a kind of doing no more thanthat's been around for time rule that's been around for time but there are ways that people i suppose register their discontent without taking a day's and forfeiting a day's leave and forfeiting a day's leave and forfeiting a day's pay and so on. it's, it's a is it morally is it is it is it a constructive way of registering your your discontent? but the part i find hard to morally just say is this refusing to give basic information on when are going to say some terrorist even say because some terrorist even did didn't used to say did that didn't they used to say when were going to it when they were going to do it and going bomb bombers of and going to bomb bombers of right now it's like won't right now it's like we won't even say when we're going to walk of the schools, which walk out of the schools, which i suppose for parents who suppose is tough for parents who show school gates with show up at the school gates with their kids find that the day their kids find out that the day is that is. yeah, well, is off. that is. yeah, well, i would happen if even if the teachers who were going on strike the school strike informed the school because be in because rule would still be in place can't replace place that you can't replace that the would that teacher so the school would shut to the parents. we still have to find some other way of looking the kids. no looking after the kids. no scabs. saying. scabs. yeah, you're saying. i mean, rule. they're mean, not the rule. they're

talking no fair talking about changing. no fair enough. guardian. steve enough. the guardian. steve we have watchdog looking into have a watchdog looking into a £220,000 bill. just when . you £220,000 bill. just when. you thought you'd been ripped off enough partygate back. and it's a watchdog looking at the £220,000 bill for johnson's partygate legal advice . we are partygate legal advice. we are paying partygate legal advice. we are paying for the legal advice that boris johnson on this issue, which i mean , doesn't he do the which i mean, doesn't he do the proper thing, the honest and just go and get someone from the bbc to sort out a loan so he could pay himself the honourable thing is what he should do he could do single speech could could do a single speech could make that's make for £220,000. that's the sort used to charge sort of money used to charge stations at risk over same sex marriage . if you looked into marriage. if you looked into that all the i must admit that one or all the i must admit i'm know i'm not really a religious each time we're watching and watching some of the tweets and toxic putting out about this toxic was putting out about this and agreeing don't know and just agreeing i don't know why to join a club why you'd want to join a club that such issue with you. that has such an issue with you. yeah do you think, nick, yeah what do you think, nick, your question? talked your question? well talked about the well was the one i mean. well he was doing his best to basically that he supports as much same marriage he marriage as possible, but he can't officially support it because of his global

responsibilities church. responsibilities to the church. he a kind of dog he was doing a kind of dog whistle, if you like, the sort of side of the church of of woke side of the church of england. williams is pro england. rowan williams is pro trans described a trans and has described as a sacred yeah, know. sacred journey. yeah, i know. i mean, we had we a pride mean, what we had we had a pride flag on the altar. the other, which is a kind of perfect symbol, capturing of the symbol, the capturing of the church new ideology. the church with new ideology. so the church of basically run church of england basically run on thing. i it on the boris thing. i think it is bit much the public have to is a bit much the public have to pay is a bit much the public have to pay to work out if he's misled the public. i mean, can i get my money back don't care? money back if i don't care? i mean, i still care. the lockdowns, horrible rules, lockdowns, the horrible rules, horrendous, thing or horrendous, whole covid thing or the it. but i've the response to it. but i've never cared that about partygate. that's merely the inqu partygate. that's merely the insult top the injury insult on top of the injury really me. but we're all really to me. but we're all supposed still about supposed to still care about boris. he's gone off trying to supposed to still care about boria he's gone off trying to supposed to still care about boria job.; gone off trying to supposed to still care about boria job. you 1e off trying to supposed to still care about boria job. you know, trying to supposed to still care about boria job. you know, causing get a job. you know, causing nuclear something that is nuclear war or something that is true. the funeral tim true. and the funeral of tim nicholls. i didn't cover any of the story this the technical story when this was imagine had on the show was i imagine we had on the show when sort of regime is when it was sort of regime is obviously a very, very sad and tragic death, but more to the point it's an absolutely horrific brutal murder horrific and brutal murder caught camera, which seems to

caught on camera, which seems to be arousing somewhat less of a sort of call for institutional change overhaul than than the george floyd killing did, which was, to my mind considerably less visceral . have you seen the less visceral. have you seen the attempts to you still it racism and white supremacy . attempts to you still it racism and white supremacy. he was seen in man of peace that it could still even those black officers killing a black five still will be motivated anti—blackness. be motivated anti —blackness. well, be motivated anti—blackness. well, i will. i mean, let'sjust well, i will. i mean, let's just say the broadest terms say this in the broadest terms and try and kind keep an open and to try and kind keep an open mind that if were to see mind to that if you were to see officers of any race killing somebody who society had deemed to be a second class citizen, the fact that they had internalised that ranking that hierarchy , you wouldn't hierarchy, you wouldn't necessarily argue against their i mean, their own race wouldn't argue that. so i actually don't think it's impossible. i don't think it's impossible. i don't think racism, of course. i think it racism, of course. i don't think . it was racism, to don't think. it was racism, to be course, the george be honest. of course, the george floyd killing either. i think it was disregard for a drunk, belligerent suspect that chauvin would have show to any such suspect in that sort of situation anyway . and also, he

situation anyway. and also, he just thought was, you know, just thought he was, you know, holding his neck on him because that's what thought were, the that's what he thought were, the rules. think it was rules. i honestly think it was a not miscarriage justice. not a miscarriage of justice. i he operated outside of his remit. i think it is remit. but you can i think it is possible for people within the police force to black suspect . i police force to black suspect. i know how to deal with blacks differently to deal with white suspects . think that is suspects. think that is possible? i'm not sure it did happen, it's not. if you happen, but it's not. if you watch the murder daniel watch the murder of daniel shaven watch the murder of daniel shaver, what about what shaver, i mean, what about what when white just when it's white cops just brutally murdering yeah, brutally murdering people? yeah, well, i still don't know why you're saying. i mean , but you're saying. i mean, but there's a good question. why is it not the same amount? i mean, it's creating sense of tragedy. it's not quite the same sense of anger. it's not quite the same sense of anger . you know, the and fact anger. you know, the and fact more rancour because the reason that they did it is because they were hired through our event process is we should have process is that we should have waited out right. know, waited them out right. you know, the reason, obviously. but the real reason, obviously. but the real reason, obviously. but the solution is to say that take the solution is to say that take the step from what the the step back from what the argument rid police argument is, get rid of police brutality and solve victims brutality and you solve victims of brutality. we of police brutality. i well, we finished section with , the

finished this section with, the son, and fuji chant and son, nick and fuji chant and linked. what's that about ? son, nick and fuji chant and linked. what's that about? yeah. this is about the shape of a football trying to get rid of the things like the super league in sort of in future is sort of uncompetitive fake leagues trying rid of people like trying to get rid of people like abramovich out abramovich always singled out basically who have basically dodgy who have questionable of wealth questionable sources of wealth and trying to just regulate things a bit more because it's this tension football this tension between football club local community and club being a local community and a massive global business. so it's and it's an ongoing. question and gary who's on politics, gary neville, who's on politics, is probably right about this, that you probably some that you probably require some sort regulation to stop that happening stop things like happening or to stop things like the league, especially. the super league, especially. yeah, would yeah, well that would be welcome. thanks. welcome. it would be. thanks. i care so little about football have this charter don't have this charter. go it. i've this charter. go for it. i've got get no no complaint from got to get no no complaint from me. that's a 2 to 1 and two me. okay that's a 2 to 1 and two to. no, in fact, the to. no, in fact, that's the papers out the way. coming papers out of the way. coming up, 12, the front pages, i should say lays down law should say 12 lays down the law a compelling everyone's a compelling why everyone's going of nick's going mental. i'm one of nick's favourite have favourite topics we have log burners riveting stuff we'll see you in a couple of minutes.

welcome back to headline is me simon evans and stephen allen and nick dixon. steve our first story from the interior comes from thursday's telegraph who one suspects will be sympathetic to vision for a police force focussed on actual crime. yeah actually i'm going to try and talk about this without mention , suella, because i think it's . , suella, because i think it's. but you've just failed. i forget . no, goodness. the first hurdle. yes, no game is also not my wheelhouse because straightaway people will already have their opinions loving or hating. but let's look the hating. but let's look at the things whilst writing things she said whilst writing about for the police. about her goals for the police. yep. so going through them, including police , should including police, should concentrate getting the concentrate on getting the basics tackling and basics right, tackling crime and keeping people safe. i know most people would with she people would. with that, she wrote, i'll police the powers and resources they need to combat behaviour and combat antisocial behaviour and crime comments by

crime. take the comments by commitments by all forces to attend every house burglary only people who don't like that burglars. so you can go through this see lot of this makes this and see a lot of this makes unless we start to become tribal about it and there are some things here that to things in here that start to become bit sound bitey. and become a bit sound bitey. and for this, worry that it for all of this, i worry that it is just sam by the way no follow through. it's not as if she's not known soundbites what not known for soundbites what was things said guardian was the things you said guardian reading, tofu eating worker. rosie home secretary rosie when the home secretary got problem with your source rosie when the home secretary go protein, .em with your source rosie when the home secretary go protein, things:h your source rosie when the home secretary go protein, things seemr source rosie when the home secretary go protein, things seem a;ource rosie when the home secretary go protein, things seem a bitce of protein, things seem a bit weird. issue for me, but weird. tofu is issue for me, but it's not necessarily a it's not necessarily is a lifestyle choice. that's probably different thing. but now you. i mean, now i agree with you. i mean, it's fairly straightforward. it is back to basics, i suppose we hear the time. don't we hear it all the time. don't we it's there's nothing to give hear it all the time. don't we it's anythere's nothing to give hear it all the time. don't we it's any hopes nothing to give hear it all the time. don't we it's any hope anything to give hear it all the time. don't we it's any hope anything willive you any hope anything will change. right, exactly. and particularly sort of robin, i like what she says. sometimes the the the phrasing can be off, but the direction of she says is direction of what she says is usually right, which has no control her like it. control over her own like it. similarly, most politicians that's the blob is running home offices. blob is the like offices. blob is the most like offices. blob is the most like of say she's of them she'll say she's against. then they're off to a

diversity course 5 diversity training course 5 minutes later whatever is minutes later or whatever it is . there is a quote where she says that should be scrapping the having new the insistence on having new recruits the police, having recruits to the police, having degrees actually degrees which actually makes sense need to be sense some jobs don't need to be degree but here's the degree educated, but here's the quote with that one quote from someone with that one might excellent emotional might have excellent emotional intelligence. ooh yeah. all of a sudden we've gone touchy feely on that. it's about emotional intelligence. they might well have , you know, an interest in have, you know, an interest in just getting career without wasting three years in accruing debt.i wasting three years in accruing debt. i mean, seems to be debt. i mean, that seems to be quite a basic sort of intelligence if want to join intelligence if you want to join the force. and there's no the police force. and there's no particular to learn in particular you need to learn in a l particular you need to learn in a , you couldn't learn a university, you couldn't learn on the job, then just get them straight there. straight in there. at the moment, you join the police moment, you can join the police and course whilst and do the course whilst you with police. three with the police. so three degrees over to the times now donald trump is plucking some low metaphorically low hanging fruit metaphorically , fruit , although low hanging fruit might anyway. might well be invoked anyway. he's attacking gender madness . he's attacking gender madness. yeah. what i would even say is that low hanging. say that low hanging. i'd say essential because is essential because this is obviously issue and it's obviously a huge issue and it's got nicolas rightly in kinds got nicolas rightly in all kinds of trouble . so it's donald trump

of trouble. so it's donald trump which madness frontline which in the madness frontline of right wing culture war that they're right wing they're calling it right wing cultural on the check the cultural i keep on the check the times days times isn't guardian these days i know what happened to i don't know what happened to the watched video today the but i watched a video today on this. i thought it was really goodit on this. i thought it was really good it was obviously had some trumpian exaggeration perhaps but good point. but it was a really good point. he just said no serious he just he just said no serious country telling it country should be telling it should in the wrong should never born in the wrong genden should never born in the wrong gender. never gender. that concept was never heard human history heard of before in human history and said it was all about things like puberty, blockers and surgeries these kind of surgeries and all these kind of things. was saying, things. he was just saying, let's do children, let's not do to children, i think literally true think collapse literally true and i think and sensible, i think is to rally his position rally his rally his position or rally his base whatever. and obviously base or whatever. and obviously he's to defend himself he's trying to defend himself against rather the against desantis rather than the democrats point. but one democrats at this point. but one would to throw it would have to say and throw it back him hasn't come out of back to him hasn't come out of the he's hasn't really the last. he's hasn't really just in the biden just emerged in the biden administration. this is a lot. i mean, we were drifting in this direction he was elected direction when. he was elected to this nonsense to try and stop this nonsense that he has is only got. but it didn't think didn't get much better. i think he's to slightly he's talking to a slightly longer historical he says longer historical scale. he says in human history, this is

in all of human history, this is relatively. but yeah, i mean, the is it's actually a the point is it's actually a really moderate position. it might be expressed trumpian might be expressed a trumpian way. this way. yeah we saw with this horrible this guy horrible case of this adam guy with that is in country with the face that is in country and scotland, it's this and in scotland, how it's this thing exposed, i think thing has exposed, i think i think wokeness at least this side of it could fall apart very quickly because nicholas sturgeon verge sturgeon said to be on the verge of today the scottish of quitting today the scottish express. she's falling express. i think she's falling apart over this transition. people wonder if people hate this and wonder if even lefty secretly vote for trump, if their parents and they're about stuff they're worried about this stuff and the biden and how mad the biden administration well, the big administration is. well, the big question is whether can question trump is whether he can convince republican friends that he's a safer he's he's a better he's a safer bet steve we bet than desantis. but, steve we need get into air pollution need to get into air pollution and interesting and mental health. interesting links. now, of the links. now, one of the victorians so grumpy. yes, victorians was so grumpy. yes, smog . yeah. didn't do anyone any smog. yeah. didn't do anyone any any harm . sure. someone will say any harm. sure. someone will say that research has at long term exposure even relatively exposure to even relatively low levels. that there's levels. they found that there's link pollution link between air pollution levels and anxiety and depression . it's a bit of a meta depression. it's a bit of a meta analysis, so they've got the data on these things and found you get higher incidence of you do get higher incidence of one. higher

one. when you get higher incidence of other. but the incidence of the other. but the problem with that is it doesn't actually prove a link. life's a little bit multi. you live little bit multi. so if you live in an area with high levels of air you probably air pollution, you probably in a built area. it could be to built up area. so it could be to do noise if you plotted do with noise if you plotted living a costa with two issue of anxiety next thing it will be banning kebabs. no, it's true. i was thinking the same was thinking exactly the same thing pollution hangs thing with air pollution hangs around just just around places that just just like unless they just dis obliging to human habitation . obliging to human habitation. but when you think they know at exactly the same point that, you know, it says a pollution can increase anxiety and depression, but so can living in a city in 2023. that's what i was going to say. yeah. very concrete say. so yeah. very concrete walls you walls facing you wherever you look. maybe worth look. well, maybe it's worth investigating. think it's investigating. i do think it's better if we can move towards cleaner air, obviously, but it might necessarily a mental might not necessarily a mental health crisis, not unrelated perhaps. the express perhaps. however, the express say creating pollution say those creating pollution with burning stove with the wood burning stove could face a 300 quid fine, which would certainly affect my mental health. the yes, very annoying and. the headline says

fury of ups and it has over 300 on the spot fines for, log burners. i don't know if it's if you're walking down the street with one of it's like an asbo situation and lands form form former is aslam government former mep is aslam government former mep is aslam government for saying what next that's for this saying what next that's fines a fish smoker slightly fines for a fish smoker slightly strange analogy see strange analogy but let's see what going for actually what he's going for actually i go for the fish smokers just for being mean. it but being smug mean. i get it but you know he's got this annoying tofu eating smoker yeah and tofu eating smoker so yeah and you can have it facing criminal prosecutions of fines of up to 2500 a day and we'll probably find like diesel cars like woods better or in five. well they've they've sunk this stuff straight into power stations they i into the power stations they i mean i met okay it was if the mean i met okay if it was if the skies london dark once skies of london were dark once again with with with wood smoke, i don't think the case. i don't think that's the case. is well, my first response is it. well, my first response to this it's all a bit to this was it's all a bit middle class life ever. you've used or in a used word chimney or in a sentence someone's you. sentence and someone's not you. i had one of my first roof terrace goes, you did it . then terrace goes, you did it. then you at the stats and wood you look at the stats and wood burners around of burners linked to around 50% of the in our air that

the carcinogens in our air that people are exposed to. and they link to them producing the same thing. not producing 50% thing. they're not producing 50% of they're producing of it. they're producing carcinogens of the kind they're not. well, they definitely are responsible for 38% of the particulate matter , our air particulate matter, our air pollution. so it's but that's what it says in one 4000 people have a proper wood burning stove. as a nation we did really badly because we're obsessed with open burning. yeah it was really bad because every other country thought, why would you have open fire? and we put have an open fire? and we put coalin have an open fire? and we put coal in the bill. bryson at home, absolutely jaw the home, was it absolutely jaw the conditions people lived in hundreds when they hundreds of years when they would know, the would have hope. you know, the only heating your home only way of heating your home was to have a fire, but they didn't have adequate chimneys. fluzone of it. they would just be of smoke be sitting there and am of smoke every maybe it's every day know. so maybe it's a bit linked with possibly bit more linked with possibly anyway, suppose the issue is anyway, i suppose the issue is that the bad ones are that these only the bad ones are good. well installed wood burning stove still okay burning stove is still okay these the these are this light of the full capstone . yeah. they capstone. yeah. yeah. they because the ecodesign line they call it is it made that tidily

anyway make you get yours checked out. this is one of your silos, steve. i imagine missing radioactive capsule about the size of a sugar cube lost and amazingly in the australian outback previously because i saw it on this show is disgusting it dropped off the back of a lorry as it being driven off a long road in australia which us is great because that's far enough away that just enough to prevent all of these things really. exactly. mean that's the exactly. i mean that's the question asked question that needs to be asked now are you letting now why are you letting radioactive things just fall off lorries but that's their attitude suppose. now attitude i suppose. but now they've which is they've to find it, which is impressive. 870 miles stretch of road. radioactive road. they had radioactive detectors. over it, detectors. so you go over it, they and then wait. they detect it and then wait. really geiger counter. mean , really geiger counter. i mean, phew. found it now phew. they've they found it now it just means everything else in australia can you. so this australia can kill you. so this is. true. yeah if i've is. that's true. yeah if i've mentioned that i've been eaten by a large though we could be looking exciting thing looking at a very exciting thing which terrifying kangaroo. which by a terrifying kangaroo. yeah. last when we yeah. as said last time, when we cover unfolding story, it cover this unfolding story, it caused burns and radiation, but so does living in. yeah but they

found tiny few millimetre capsule in the outback but they couldn't find it in their hearts treat novak djokovic. that's that's thing but the other just shoehorning in my agenda find it in there but he did come back and the other thing that bothered me just lastly is stephen dawson said we have quite literally a needle quite literally found a needle in now that's in the haystack now that's a metaphor what metaphor that's stacked of what you it's a rubbish you and also it's a rubbish i was saying this to steve earle is rubbish in these retiring that a needle in a haystack is no to anyone nobody knows no use to anyone nobody knows what nobody's what haystacks. well nobody's hunted in a hunted for anything in a haystack over 100 years. haystack in over 100 years. don't will be the don't you think this will be the kind they'll say like kind of they'll say it's like looking a capsule out looking for a capsule out looking for a capsule out looking caesium on the looking for caesium on the outback he. i think not outback isn't he. i think not just for a pebble on just me looking for a pebble on the beach or possibly looking for a leaf in the forest or something. a needle something. i mean, it's a needle in a haystack. it's just such a it's like little symbol for a floppy disc where you your floppy disc where you save your memory. kids know what memory. yeah. the kids know what it but thinking, if it is. but i was thinking, if i lost it. firstly, if i lost a needle in a haystack, buy a new needle. i'm doing all right. but

the i would rather trying to find this because if a needle was beta radiation, was emitting beta radiation, a lot find. yes, that lot easier to find. yes, that absolutely well, that is absolutely true. well, that is complete after break, we complete it. after the break, we have of family have a selection of family unfriendly. have six mad unfriendly. we have six mad rodents. possibly rodents. we have possibly the worst impress anyone i've worst way to impress anyone i've ever we will see in ever heard. we will see you in a couple of minutes .

and welcome back to headline as we're halfway through. let's get back into it next. i know how you reacted to this in the metro, but speaking a parent i love any story that makes me look good and this one really delivers. yes copper leaf chicken. after refusing to buy ticket a ryanair flight, ticket for a ryanair flight, a sort budget to home sort low budget sequel to home alone two, i suppose. oh, yeah, yeah. it's absolutely shocking. i now the is you have to i mean, now the is you have to pa y £25 for a lap seat, which pay £25 for a lap seat, which does seem to be take the, you know, a little bit because just your lap, isn't it? yeah. well, maybe you a cushion or maybe they give you a cushion or something, not

something, right. it's not really so can see why really a seat so i can see why that bother. but these people tookit that bother. but these people took it a bit far. i'd just say the belgian passport holders, their bear their belgian. so let's bear that they left their that in mind. they left their child just in the story, child behind just in the story, be it they they basically they had passport had to rush to the passport control didn't want to pay for the see so they just ran the extra see so they just ran through control leaving their baby workers baby and the workers were somewhat we've never somewhat they said we've never seen this is seen anything like this this is ryanair in mind. they've ryanair bear in mind. so they've seen most but we go seen most things. but we go we're the video which we're showing the video which airport is it? again, it's in tel tel aviv , ben—gurion tel aviv. tel aviv, ben—gurion airport in tel avi, and they take it to belgium they didn't want to bring their kid along. shocking i mean, now, presumably, of course, they'll deaung presumably, of course, they'll dealing the police. no dealing with the police. no wonder happen the wonder what can happen to the baby go baby now, because they'll go i mean, presumption has to be mean, the presumption has to be that they're just not aware these people. if this these people. but if this could they have of they possibly have conceive of what the outcome they what might be the outcome they were looking for, did they think they would just go, oh, fine, take with you? you know, they take it with you? you know, they did baby later did take the baby back later very fast. be fast. they actually made that. and then, oh, the parents did take the

kid. there just go, oh, kid. so there are just go, oh, go take it home with you do go on, take it home with you do know when you complain know like when you complain at the or something and the fairground or something and you fight. yeah, you try and create fight. yeah, no, i've just thought of this, but in negotiations, you but in all negotiations, you have fair to walk away. so have to be fair to walk away. so they 25 quid. out of they will. 25 quid. i'm out of they will. 25 quid. i'm out of the babies. art of the deal the babies. the art of the deal about you, steve. can't tell about you, steve. i can't tell you, you want. yeah. yeah, you, don't you want. yeah. yeah, well, you been to just well, you ever been to just abandon only just he's ten abandon it's only just he's ten months old and i can walk quick and he crawl. so i wouldn't and he can crawl. so i wouldn't get him. but no, get an apple for him. but no, i'm not planning on take away. that's the first stupid thing. don't put babies on planes. now, as that, i'm all in as simple as that, i'm all in favour stops babies favour of anything. stops babies being . being on planes, off flying. that's good rule, isn't that's a fairly good rule, isn't it? kid doesn't like it. it? the kid doesn't like it. everyone on the plane doesn't like opt out. it's bit of like it. opt out. it's a bit of a grim brothers tale. this one, though, it's a sort of though, isn't it? it's a sort of hansel gretel or something. hansel and gretel or something. abandoned the check abandoned the child at the check in sure you bring its in and make sure you bring its heart with you. stay anyway. it's a thursday guardian now and it's a thursday guardian now and i decide this simple i can't decide if this simple humanity step to humanity or another step to maoist revolution. maoist cultural revolution. nick, you oh nick, what would you say? oh which one this? the. oh,

which one is this? the. oh, sorry, this steve. sorry, sorry, this is steve. sorry, isn't yes, this is the isn't it? yes, this is the italian grandparents . italian italian grandparents. yeah. and italian courts . they yeah. and italian courts. they found in favour of children who did not want see their grandparents. yeah now in my day we just had in families we didn't to legislate it. didn't need to legislate it. it's happens. this is it's always happens. this is crazy, these taking it crazy, these kids taking it right. i'll see you court. right. i'll see you in court. yeah, but it was the. the other relatives, the grandparents and extended members. right extended family members. right who then in a lower court. who sued then in a lower court. the court found in favour of effectively visitation rights of grandparents . so then they took grandparents. so then they took it up to the supreme court, said, no, that's you don't have to force it. this is a phrase they use unwanted and unwelcome cannot be imposed the way they feel. i mean when you put it like actually it sounds quite reasonable and some peace some some children have experienced huge amounts of stress, actual distress from being forced , distress from being forced, attend, you know, family gatherings , people they don't gatherings, people they don't like. i mean we all kind of recoiled occasionally from the occasional sticky case directly. but some people suppose have worse going on. yeah, but i

don't know. it feels like this state is intruding in what really should be parents you really should be a parents you know, parents home is that castle kind of thing. it's freedom association, but is freedom of association, but is sort sort of imposed will sort of sort of imposed will impose freedom of speech. it's a bittersweet complicated state but it's a italian but but yeah, it's a italian story as well because of course, they've got their ageing population. most people are grandparents have grandparents there and they have it, have a nice it, they have a nice relationship with them generally it, they have a nice reltlive ship with them generally it, they have a nice reltlive in p with them generally it, they have a nice reltlive in the ith them generally it, they have a nice reltlive in the sameem generally it, they have a nice reltlive in the same housesrally all live in the same houses together to some degree we sort of package off all people. having i'm not sure having said that, i'm not sure my granddad, a very difficult man, would have man, i'm not sure i would have been to be forced spend been like to be forced to spend time you know, like tyson's time if, you know, like tyson's nearest job reminds me nearest job fair, he reminds me of without the soft of him without the soft side. it's of think of. so it's kind of who i think of. so i'm not sure. i mean, should he force someone to hang out with their grandpas. no, just can i just get my head around you just get my head around what you said? if they've an ageing population how are they who are they. this they. grandparents to. yes this is isn't it. and also is a tricky isn't it. and also you would say there are more grandpa there you. but grandpa than there are you. but that question that that might be the question that there grandparents and there are more grandparents and

children think children then would think the state to state would be starting to favour the grandparents. but see that was always going the other way. mere. but steve's way. it was a mere. but steve's looking not that looking for. it's not that pyramid down it's pyramid is upside down it's mature onto thursday times neck and i know why you i've given you this story but further evidence young in want of evidence of young men in want of a surely surely shaft a wife surely surely shaft around the world. yeah. soaring bride prices push china's grooms into debt. and it is important story. chinese men in the city of poutine appeal. it's probably something like that. poutine rather appealing to authorities to kerb skyrocketing bright prices. so basically there's a traditional wedding gift that you have to give, but the price of it is averaging 94,000 uk pound sterling and can reach as high as 241,000 in this particular area . this is just to particular area. this is just to be clear , the chinese dowry is be clear, the chinese dowry is given by the man's family or by the man to the bride through because traditionally a dowry as understand it in the west is usually given bride's usually given by the bride's family. yes, this different. and because of the one child policy they've they call they've had and what they call in cultural preference for

in the cultural preference for male children it means male children, it means there's a ratio issue, there's a bit of a ratio issue, there's too many so now the too many men. and so now the average price in china average bride price in china overall is 8300. but in the city you're supposed to provide a flat of money, at flat instead of money, even at the no, we have to give a the fees. no, we have to give a flat and this is this is my favourite the so those favourite part of the so those if bride a college degree if the bride a college degree it's aroun but if it's around £18,000 uk but if they don't have a high school diploma it's to 12,000 diploma diploma it's to 12,000 right. do you think will be right. what do you think will be the around you the other way around because you know really want an know do you really want an educated most men apparently prefer wives not to be a threat to me of but people in to me of course. but people in china in places like that. but yeah, mean, so don't know. yeah, i mean, so i don't know. it's problem, steve. what it's a problem, steve. what that's lot of money. that's an awful lot of money. i mean, i have to say i mean, that is i don't know exactly what wealth disparity in wealth disparity is like in china, be way above china, but going to be way above the of the average the means of the average chinese, especially in the rural areas. this happening. if areas. this is happening. if this over here, this happening over here, i would be delightfully so. you think how much you've just saved? yeah it's got to put a lot of pressure on finding the right one as well, hasn't it? i mean, how many can really

justify of your justify like five years of your wages? keep a spreadsheet amongst a useful way to sort of screen out scrubs it, but, you know, stop saying if you can't afford a £94,000 gift, you've already out of the picture. it's interesting how transaction it becomes now naked it is when becomes a now naked it is when it's when i first seen as an outsider's mean i suppose there is of transactional is a lot of transactional element to british or western wedding you know a lot of yes but they pretend that it's a romantic indication but it's china there's less messing around like put it on the around is like put it on the table the highest by the table the highest case by the way million. that turned way £2.27 million. that turned out to be fake. it was a fake post. could been real in post. it could have been real in related, northern australian related, the northern australian male keen on sex. there male is also keen on sex. there themselves to death. these are marsupials they are. yeah there's a bit of a gearchange at there's a bit of a gearchange at the end of that sentence . it the end of that sentence. it sadly it's these animals endangered male quolls coles and i don't know but they're not quote a bit racy but a bit bigger than a rat if you want to. but also marsupial rats, if they've been mating themselves death that's the thing they

because they would rather mate than sleep right lads the male northern so i think the northern thing around look at him pretty cute i would if i were a lady once horny he does look horny just make that one he's about first base isn't it. where themselves have in one season and i totally agree that's actually good advice while you're young go for it because you're young go for it because you reach a stage where you'd have a cup of tea. but we've all seen estimable documentaries, haven't we? where the you know, the come their first the stags come to their first there's they just cannot there's and they just cannot wait to clash and announce wait to, to clash and announce themselves . i wait to, to clash and announce themselves. i don't wait to, to clash and announce themselves . i don't know whether themselves. i don't know whether they have that kind of element it that was the interesting it but that was the interesting part to me is that the largest mammals known to exhibit similarity breeding strategy similarity a breeding strategy in which an organism dies after it first reproduces. i mean it's a strategy that's quite it is a strategy to you on behalf of the genesit strategy to you on behalf of the genes it you've got to have your dawkins head on it's selfish gene it's operating the strategy not not the not the individual. yeah. more of an individual i'm

saying. i mean this little saying. but i mean this little praying mantis we're familiar with only fact that the with that only the fact that the female the the you female bites the head of the you know, the moment of know, at the moment of copulation and there are quite a few other of lower where few other sort of lower where they you know, they get like that, you know, let's spiders well. how much let's spiders as well. how much would you pay for that right? oh, that's nice. you the oh, that's nice. you had the you put muslim neck and it's off put a muslim neck and it's off now on the face. it this seems a heavy handed way to impress people then again they make people but then again they make the cut of cato's jib. so i don't know who can say yes. stray dogs massacred with poisoned parts as morocco tries to impress before world cup . to impress before world cup. beth it's a sort of psychopathic way to impress on me. look, i've murdered all the for you . murdered all the dogs for you. yeah, so, i mean, and we shouldn't laugh anyway, because, of course, horrible to kill of course, it's horrible to kill loads but they've loads of dogs, but they've sort of backfired because of. but it's backfired because it because many stray it was because so many stray dogs obviously they think, dogs and obviously they think, well when fifa are coming we'd better rid all these stray better get rid all these stray dogs. well, now all they dogs. yeah, well, now all they have is we all know they've got the and we know they the stray dogs and we know they murder sort of murder loads dogs and sort of dog dog murder

dog and anti dog murder protesters. the streets. yeah, yeah. as well. this is yeah. as well. so this tank is isn't it sydney. is it isn't it. was it sydney. is it the most dog ridden. i mean by african standards even these animals in a dog ridden table. there was a these three i saw something they were trying to said they want to become the first african nation to be free of rabies. and they think getting rid of stray dogs key so that one that is not that that is the one that is not is when you see that i mean especially i don't know if i have what the hell sentimental i do about there stray dogs do feel about there stray dogs are and i don't see are a menace and i don't see i mean if you know they were killing anyone's pet that would be horrific obviously. it be horrific obviously. but it sounds like these are essentially we're essentially that we're just unused well, to be very unused to that. well, to be very fair yes. they say attacks fair yes. they they say attacks on children and risk of rabies, which kills an estimated moroccans a year. there is. moroccans a year. so there is. and is a horrible way to go and that is a horrible way to go there i don't think there's there is i don't think there's a worse than. no, but if worse disease than. no, but if they were the reason they if that were the reason they if that were the reason they culling animals, they were culling animals, that's one thing. but to say three for the fee for slightly horrible. well sometimes these things can trigger, you know, progressive actions have been

long overdue. that is part three done with after the break. why tom jones cancelled his welsh rugby season ticket. what happens when you botox your eyeballs possibly mulling over whether we should take headliners to the edinburgh fringe this summer. see in a couple of minutes .

and welcome back the final part of headliners for tonight at least let's go to thursday's now stephen why why why wouldn't they be singing delilah should have started lower was wah wah wah we go beautiful really you think about singing . it is. yeah think about singing. it is. yeah well it's choirs won't be song about murder the tom jones classic because well it's a welsh rugby matches in there

won't be being sung at the matches in the wake of allegations of sexism racism homophobia welsh rugby union. it very much feels following those accusations they've said well we won't sing song again as if that's going to solve all of that. they've dropped the song from its matchday repertoire . from its matchday repertoire. i'll that song. i'll be singing that song. i mean, thing if just mean, there's thing if it just emerges from the terrorist or whatever, it's a different thing. if it's on the on the hymn sheet and you are condoning wife's murder. hymn sheet and you are condoning wife's murder . yeah, to be fair, wife's murder. yeah, to be fair, he obviously regrets it, doesn't he? in the song. yes, true . it he? in the song. yes, true. it torments him even . but also torments him even. but also i presume no women were murdered in the making of the song no ally in the death becomes the two of them die. and yet that's not been banned. it's an old fashioned murder about it, isn't it? of a kind , i think even in it? of a kind, i think even in the sixties probably struck a little bit among, you know, i can't engelbert humperdinck, i don't have don't know, maybe would have done felt the knife my done but i felt the knife in my hand and laughed no more. hand and she laughed no more. but story and the but back to the story and the point is that it's a murder

ballad you say well there's a context is the war context. i mean, you know jemmy carr makes a have a is a joke we have a ten is a statement same with jeremy clarkson when he writes a column on spain that been on spain that she'd been unfaithful the context unfaithful you know the context being a song being a business as it is a song where's the detail you are you condemns domestic kind condemns domestic of any kind i mean response to a mean that's response to a song it song it's almost like an it is a song it's almost like an a graham poll lyric or something. yeah, he's driven insane. it's a nick cave insane. it's like a nick cave murder. don't it murder. but you don't take it literally. chris bryant literally. also chris bryant says he agrees with getting rid of it. so know that it's of it. so you know that it's wrong chris bryant wrong because chris bryant saying good rule of thumb. saying is a good rule of thumb. i do. do feel that there's i do. i do feel that there's a there's an unwelcome trend here. so low, sweet chariot so i swing low, sweet chariot they which complained was they which they complained was was not racist was racist. it was not racist like a cultural appropriation was because it's a sort of link to slavery. to slavery, spiritual silencing . but these spiritual silencing. but these things are this is culture things are this is how culture naturally sort of flows through and space is it let me pick me with songs a little of week saturday night. that's the wrong with that. no, it's going to be. there was a revival of welsh, i

suppose the manic preachers or something like that or something like that maybe, or yeah. handbags plaid rags. yeah. handbags and plaid rags. stereophonics. stereophonics yeah. they're well something i think. yeah yeah. when it happens football tend to happens in football i tend to think is psychotic minky think google is psychotic minky . just naming. well . yes. it's just naming. well a super ferry. i don't know. yes that's a good one. let's get some of them off. when i was in football, i tend to get sort of middle class policing of workplace culture when it happens i'm bit more happens in rugby. i'm a bit more confused because the yeah. so posh, sure what it is posh, i'm not sure what it is probably quite like being told they're not allowed to sing things know probably double things in know probably double its telegraph noun its popularity telegraph noun making it was making it if you thought it was hard a camel pass through hard for a camel to pass through the a needle just wait till the of a needle just wait till you graham is managed you see what graham is managed to through yeah well, to get through one. yeah well, no known if it's no one's ever known if it's camel rope if the translation camel or rope if the translation is but luckily this is is correct. but luckily this is still place either way still in place either way because it's the needle is focussed on. and i'm glad because gone out way because he's gone out of way here. botox here. so he took botox injections to help him engrave the lord's prayers. 273 the smallest lord's prayers. 273 words micro words and graham, he's a micro artist, hi what he does artist, not as hi what he does he actually even though he's he he actually even though he's called short. yes i know

called graham short. yes i know it's it might minefield be extraordinary though is not even that it to it that that part it said to me it that he injections to his he took injections to stop his eyelids of skid eyelids to just sort of skid what he did he is like a green go is literally squeezed go that is literally squeezed into a needle, right. into the eye of a needle, right. yes. it has the lord's yes. and it has the lord's prayer . it can be said to prayer. it can only be said to make sure that you go to the really part is that he takes beta blockers his beta blockers to lower his heartbeat to 20 beats per heartbeat to just 20 beats per minute works between minute and works in between beats his hand beats to ensure his hand a steady as possible while taking the so eyes don't twitch the so his eyes don't twitch and. even then, he's had to restart a few times because he's messed up. he's do the messed up. he's got to do the whole thing because he can't. he's a really needle installation that would throw you anything like a you off. i mean, anything like a car going past or. yeah, i love this story. it's where christianity and obsessive compulsive disorder. yes, but even he is admitted , goes even he is admitted, he goes if there were couple of there were just a couple of words it would be easy with words and, it would be easy with 273. wouldn't try like 273. it's i wouldn't try be like that at he knows that again. at least he knows it. okay i a bit for him but it is now valued at 50 grand. 50 grand which is pretty for grand which is pretty good for year's wages because the gold itself obviously god blessed

itself of obviously god blessed she means yeah amazing. it's seems like an utter waste of time these days. they can put individual silicon atoms on a substrate so it doesn't matter how. small. you think you're writing? well, maybe is. maybe he is the last person. he will be the last human operative in that sort of sphere, at that scale for good reason atheist for using so he's going to be coming another thing that's going to be eliminated by ai is the art of yeah but not even good engraving is it. tiny engraving. go and watch microfiche. if what you're into. i do i do worry a little bit about things like that because i saw a video recently of set of tombstones. now you get a slab of granite. it can be done by essentially a 3d type of and they can create in like an etching of , a really lifelike etching of, a really lifelike image of your face or whatever on your too. now i'm not sure that's a classy thing to have not, but it would be way beyond the means of anyone but

millionaires previous clay. and now of course i suppose a couple grand something like and grand or something like that and they feed it through they just, they feed it through and fingers, you you and the fingers, you know, you can yeah this guy can picture it. yeah this guy will it in about two years. will do it in about two years. yeah he's in story now. steve and i will guardian. no idea and i will say guardian. no idea who wrote , but we a who actually wrote, but we a i once again into into normal human activities is another update actually because previous on this show we were talking about this chat gpt thing now means that you can just say i but can you write my essay for me and it will and it'll do a really good job. in fact, there was a story a couple of nights ago students in australia who fail an exam because they were caught using ai basically because they admitted it in america. reading they america. i was reading that they tried ai america. i was reading that they tried al to take a tried to get al to take a medical exam and it passed it wasn't they were just wasn't cheating. they were just seeing this is the seeing if it has the this is the chatbot analysing like x chatbot also analysing like x rays and things as well because i know they're good at that, probably the part of probably just the aural part of it, you what's the bleeding it, you you what's the bleeding time now open.

time kind thing. but now open. i have actually produced a tool to let you identify if something's been created and it doesn't work very well so one of just a ask a.i. if it can work out if it's a.i. if it can work out if it's a.i. because would be the way to solve it. basically what they've done basically at the done now basically at the doesn't work very well to identify humans there's going identify humans so there's going to iterations and it'll to be a few iterations and it'll get better and and better get better and better and better and and better. then go and better and better. then go to the chat and say, you write me an essay that can't be detected. it'll probably detected. is and it'll probably do interesting. do that. interesting. nick the daily takes to daily star takes us up to manchester where it seems wanting a polite and attentive is sort of is regarded to some sort of fetish you case says uk fetish. yeah, you case says uk city manchester manchester japan inspired maid cafe slammers hooters for incels now surely that's just hooters because it's just access to beautiful women and you have to pay and get by. but i suppose in hooters there are some good old boys who go down there who do break up of waitress. i don't. alpha's there as well, but yeah. anyway, as well, but yeah. but anyway, so a councillorjoanne. so this was a councillor joanne. oh yeah. joanne harding who knew slum this place said that. i

mean, i don't know that they're wearing face mask, but she wearing a face mask, but she said fresh is this? said what fresh hell is this? i said, you know, somerset maid cafe, misogynist or cafe, it's like misogynist or whatever. but the cafe didn't like because they say it's like this because they say it's based culture. it's based on japanese culture. it's based on japanese culture. it's based japanese based on popular japanese phenomenon, dressed phenomenon, where staff dressed in maid costumes, actors, servants customers as servants and treat customers as if masters in a if they were masters in a stately home. essentially, japan's is our japan's nerd culture is our former class system . yeah, yeah, japan's nerd culture is our fo you�* class system . yeah, yeah, japan's nerd culture is our fo you like. s system . yeah, yeah, japan's nerd culture is our foyou like. and.tem . yeah, yeah, japan's nerd culture is our foyou like. and this . yeah, yeah, japan's nerd culture is our foyou like. and this is’eah, yeah, if you like. and this is a fairly otaku, which is the kind of that without the nice silver tableware. said they all drink tableware. i said they all drink bubble just as bubble tea, which is just as terrifyingly sugary , less in terrifyingly sugary, less in reading but yeah reading and worse. but yeah basically they're saying, look, this is just a nice family restaurant on a japanese theme, whereas other people saying it's a sort sexist hellhole. oh a sort of sexist hellhole. oh well, that's manchester. we'll see if it expands. see see if it expands. finally. see if our own brethren if one of our own brethren lambasting edinburgh lambasting the edinburgh fringe for expensive. for being too expensive. i suppose answer is to suppose the obvious answer is to start , i suppose. this start your own, i suppose. this is richard herring said he's boycotting elitist boycotting this elitist edinburgh saying only edinburgh fringe by saying only people with wealth can afford to go there an audience member go there as an audience member or comedian . and it's kind or as a comedian. and it's kind of this stops the

of true. this is stops the working doing anything. if working class doing anything. if it's if it's like unpaid internships, if you can't afford to live off mummy and daddy's money, you can't get into the so can't get into the gig. so i kind of think funny thing is about the edinburgh, i mean it is very much you know a free market is there are a few entities that control the larger venues to venues but there's nothing to stop and putting on stop you going up and putting on a free fringe show is things like cost accommodation, like the cost accommodation, isn't it's the of taxes isn't it? it's the cost of taxes getting that sort of getting around and that sort of thing creating. this thing that is creating. and this is, suppose, just what leaches is, i suppose, just what leaches onto event after period onto an event after any period of very difficult to of time. it very difficult to legislate against that. i'm not sure i can see richard sure i can see why richard is angry upset. you angry and upset. i mean, you obviously have a beef with richard anyway. it is a terrible person, he's in this person, but he's right in this case yet comedy, become case and yet comedy, we become woking like woking for rich people like alistair daughter. alistair campbell's daughter. yeah. jack yeah. and luckily, like jack reacher two. i will never go back. well, will going back back. well, i will be going back this and i mean, i'm in this summer and i mean, i'm in one of those rather charming little tents on george little spiegel tents on george street, will street, which i'm hoping will kind with the kind of re—engage with the spirit fringe. but it is spirit of the fringe. but it is difficult you older with difficult as you get older with it well, not to just look

it as well, not to just look back and think it was better when you were young of me and rachel, fifties. rachel, well into our fifties. anyway, for anyway, that is all for tonight's show. let's take another quick look at thursday day's front before day's front pages before we go daily law to stop daily mail had new law to stop school strike the daily telegraph went with raaf faces crisis over drive for diversity 160 former pilots suing them guardian watch dog looks into £220,000 bill for johnson guardian watch dog looks into £220,000 bill forjohnson legal advice the times had british gas breaking into homes the vulnerable. you have to take my word for one. and finally, the south there it is, british gas trotting up late . finally, the trotting up late. finally, the sun had footage after leaked an attempt to limit toxicity of ownership . so on. that's all we ownership. so on. that's all we have time for. thank you to my guests, steve and. me and nick will be back tomorrow night. we'll be joined by josh howie. and remember that headliners. and remember that headliners. and if you're watching the 5

am, repeat stay tuned for the a.m, repeat stay tuned for the breakfast show just the break. it's been a pleasure. see you again tomorrow. goodnight.

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