good evening . 11:00 here with gb good evening. 11:00 here with gb news. in a moment, headlines. but first, let's bring up to date with the latest news headlines. and in the u.k, two people have been arrested on suspicion, sending malicious messages concerning the missing mother . two, nicole, a messages concerning the missing mother. two, nicole, a bully . mother. two, nicole, a bully. lancashire police received reports of messages being sent to wyre council , reports of messages being sent to wyre council, leading to reports of messages being sent to wyre council , leading to the to wyre council, leading to the arrest of a 49 year old man and arrest of a 49 year old man and a 20 year old woman. man been bailed pending further enquiries while the woman remains in custody , nicola pulley custody, nicola pulley disappeared , walking her dog in disappeared, walking her dog in st michaels wyre almost three weeks ago. she hasn't seen since . two serving police officers will face misconduct cases over way they handled reports of

indecent exposure by sarah killer. former police officer wayne cousins behind bars serving . a whole life order for serving. a whole life order for murdering sarah and has admitted three counts of indecent exposure. of which he committed just days before her death . the just days before her death. the independent office for police conduct says the new cases involve a met police constable and kent police sergeant who . and kent police sergeant who. one british person has died in ukraine the government here saying . the family has been saying. the family has been informed and, is in contact with local authorities. the ground. meanwhile, downing street has announced a national one minute silence to be held in the uk to mark the first anniversary of the invasion in ukraine on the 24th of february last year. meanwhile, nato has been discussing support for ukraine in cluding the possibility of sending jets to kyiv after warning it's seen a fresh offensive in the country . offensive in the country. secretary general ian says the

alliance will do all it can to help in need to ensure that ukraine gets weapons it needs to be able to retake territory liberate their lands and win this war and prevail as a sovereign independent nation . sovereign independent nation. meanwhile seems like a miracle in. turkey, a 77 year old man , in. turkey, a 77 year old man, been pulled alive from . the 212 been pulled alive from. the 212 hours after the deadly earthquake hit the region. but than 41,000 people are now known to have their lives in the quake which struck the south of the country , northern syria on country, northern syria on monday last week . uk charities monday last week. uk charities and organised nations are sending emergency supplies toys worth more than sending emergency supplies toys worth more tha n £350,000 to worth more than £350,000 to turkey. eight days after the disaster . turkey. eight days after the disaster. syria's turkey. eight days after the disaster . syria's president turkey. eight days after the disaster. syria's president has told the united nations. he's going open two more border crossings so emergency aid can

reach opposition controlled areas . and here the king been areas. and here the king been meeting volunteers from , the meeting volunteers from, the uk's turkish community. they've been sending aid to , their home been sending aid to, their home country and to syria after last week's earthquakes . king charles week's earthquakes. king charles visited a charity in west london to see efforts of residents working there to help those left homeless following disaster. and he told them how deeply sorry he was watching television pictures of earthquakes. he also visited a p0p up of earthquakes. he also visited a pop up in trafalgar square. it's called serious . and it's it's called serious. and it's a place for syrians come to and pay place for syrians come to and pay their respects to lost relatives . the quake . you're up relatives. the quake. you're up to date on tv online and dab plus radio with gb news. time now for headlines.

thank you, polly . good evening. thank you, polly. good evening. i'm simon evans. welcome to a headune i'm simon evans. welcome to a headline this valentine's day special, where we're going to wine , dine and romance wine, dine and romance wednesdays newspapers with the help of comedy wages in some areas . josh hawley and francis areas. josh hawley and francis foster. we have established this fact. foster. we have established this fact . before we get to the fact. before we get to the specials, let's a quick look of wednesdays from beijing . so wednesdays from beijing. so daily mail has never mind spy balloons at 60,000 feet worry about the chinese cameras six feet over our heads and camilla there who will be spending i don't know the time sparkly or leave party star mattel's labour's left we've been there before telegraph has sick note cracks down to boost workforce and prince charles receiving a rose from a the i have women face postcode for each rt

supply worrying for anyone who needs a little hormonal boost the express defy it army chief says we can stand up to and there is queen camilla and a controversial crown the star don't shoot a t they are pursuing the alien explanation for. the chinese spy believes those the front pages . so we're those the front pages. so we're going to pick for the best of those and investigate them in detail just we start with the daily mail yes i never mind spy balloons 60,000 feet worry about chinese cameras six feet over our heads. so we seem to be heanng our heads. so we seem to be hearing a lot about this, about the different chinese technology. but what's different about this report is that these are actual things that have already been banned from , you already been banned from, you know , our defence forces and know, our defence forces and whatnot . but actually it turns

whatnot. but actually it turns out that they're being used still by our police forces. so i the different constable areas are still using huey who i always hawaii juan while we always hawaii juan while we always cultural corp . and always cultural corp. and hikvision which is a various cctv cameras they're used by different forces and also drone manufacturers which have been banned are still being used by. so this is cctv is surveillance cameras on the high streets and businesses and so on in car and also the way they communicate with each other different places so that, you know that chinese technology is embedded within these forces even these different forces even though other places being pulled out. so i suppose one of the questions is, is, is there any suggestion that these cameras have a secret feed that is relaying information .7 because we relaying information? because we know while were doing know that while we were doing that, some of their other installations there's installations well, there's no reason that wasn't reason to think that that wasn't now. so there's no there's no proof definitive proof, proof. definitive proof, i suppose, difference suppose, is the difference between sort of buying

implementing from a from a discredited firm and actually having like an id installation in your firm, which is just funnelling your information back . what mean, it's a slightly . what i mean, it's a slightly different this is it's never entirely clear what exactly is being transgressed francis. yes, absolutely . think what absolutely. think what this shows how dependent how shows is how dependent how reliant we have on chinese imports chinese without imports and chinese without realise long term what that deal actually is. because a lot of the time buying these cheap chinese products . but there's a chinese products. but there's a saying in venezuela is everything that starts off cheap at the beginning ends up expensive at the end. also, alex, comment el diablo exactamente we were not see. yeah i think that's exactly right . i remember when we were right. i remember when we were at in a similar sort of situation with russia in the 19805, situation with russia in the 1980s, early 1980s, obviously the cold war still very much in play. russia were in afghanistan at that time and i passed my o—levels and my mum bought me a zeth o—levels and my mum bought me a zenith camera which was a russian brand, but it was the cheapest slr you could get. it

had a lens that took 3 minutes to screw on it had such a long screw thread solid brass. i did think that's a little bit dubious in even though dubious in anxious even though i was pictures film was taking pictures film unfortunately i was so ham fisted the light metre that i was. there's one more little thing here just the top. there is trans clinic scandal shows what happens when good people branded bigots for speaking out and this the travesty is and this is the travesty is about the centre. yes. and how books come out this way. supposedly it's excellent. it got star reviews and these got five star reviews and these book. no, sarah vine. no, it's not sarah vi's book. no, it's a producer who at the bbc. who. what are you. sorry yeah. she's bought out and, bought this book out and, revealed what's happened now. it's but it's it's obviously. but it's essentially medical essentially a massive medical scandal happened and scandal that was happened and how these children were failed by all the adults around them. and they failed, really, and it they were failed, really, with of fear that's with a culture of fear that's why culture of fear and the effect that people talk about cancel culture and they always the who've actually lost the people who've actually lost their being kicked out of their jobs being kicked out of their jobs being kicked out of the out of have lost the academy out of have lost their book professorships and so

on. it's the second on. but it's, it's the second tier isn't there's much more tier isn't it. there's much more worrying. the number of worrying. it's the number of people never you're people who just never you're just not to actually just not inclined to actually blow raise their blow the whistle or raise their head all. you know, there is head at all. you know, there is the worrying aspect of it, i think, think this is the think, and i think this is the problem. that when you have problem. it's that when you have people livelihood depends people whose livelihood depends on and they have on their jobs and they have mortgages and they have families to are they going to support, why are they going to support, why are they going to blow the whistle when the reality is that it's then going to negative on their to impact negative on their careers? actually interviewed careers? we actually interviewed one my show at one of the on my show at trigonometry the trigonometry of the whistleblowers this whistleblowers from this tavistock you very tavistock blog thank you very much and he actually made the point a lot of the people at the tavistock were more interested in ideology than they were in patient . yeah, it's a big like patient. yeah, it's a big like general trend in the world. there's an awful lot of things which an acceptable opinion is falling very early on and a consensus gathers around it. and anyone who speaks it, because i owe you a conspiracy theorist or other, a phobia or some of the times. francis talking about

acceptable opinions . keir acceptable opinions. keir starmer is trying to establish one. well absolutely key has paid a very, very smart game if you ask me whereby he has simply stood back said nothing, done nothing and watched the tories implode front of our eyes and he's actually done, he's made a very , very canny stance in he's very, very canny stance in he's actually said to the party, the hard left of the party you are the with me or you against me and if you're against then you need to leave because we're winning this election. and if he gets that element of party and he muscles them. i think labour are basically a shoo for the next general election. well, they should be issuing, although obviously of course this is very it echo neil kinnock it does echo neil kinnock battles with militants all those years ago and we assume that would happen. but i think they've their their they've had their blacks, their wed believe that. well wed now. i believe that. well this is years of my life this is five years of my life spending corbynites and now otherwise known as the comedy industry. josh yeah , parts of

industry. josh yeah, parts of it. and and this he has played a very clever game, not just politically with the tories, but within the own party. he's been very sort of gradually just change little bits and i wanted them to come in there and go, just kick them all out or whatever. but actually he's done something even cleverer, which is them be cranks. they is just let them be cranks. they cancelled themselves that way. i know we talk cancel know we talk about cancel culture, but they have done and said things that have allowed him i'm sorry, him to go, well, i'm sorry, you've just crossed line that be interesting in 2024 interesting to see in 2024 whether biden and trump axis whether the biden and trump axis will have gone the same way because biden is not an entirely different proposition in that regard he has also regard i think he has also inherited party which had is crank element and i think a lot people thought that was going to cause him a lot of trouble and actually kept a fairly i actually he's kept a fairly i mean it's the people it's lately it's the ones it's been the noise ones who've led themselves astray isn't it politically speaking to remain people created lot people of course created a lot of obviously feel that of noise obviously feel that it's attention economy, but it's an attention economy, but there's something to be said for

just quietly allowing people sort of run out of out of gas and out miles. well, and run out miles. well, absolutely. particularly you absolutely. and particularly you look politicians who look at these politicians who attracted to social media the things that create and the types messages and statements that create engagement on social media to be more media tend to be the more extreme. yeah, you do that, extreme. yeah, once you do that, you then start getting into a loop and making comment, often outrageous comment . inevitably outrageous comment. inevitably that to that means you're going to land yourself hot twitter is yourself hot water. twitter is not real world in daily not the real world in daily telegraph. signal crackdown telegraph. your signal crackdown to boost work . well, yeah. the to boost work. well, yeah. the government wants more people to work because want more people to earn money and pay taxes. and there's a real issue of people being signed off by that gp's that those numbers have gone up from two, 2.3 million, from 1.95 million over the last two years. a lot of that is mental health as well. and so now that just this is one of the things that they're looking at the government is to basically tell doctors to sign off fewer patients. but i don't it's sort of moves into slightly dodgy

territory. i don't know if that's going to if they've just picked out that particular one proposal of proposal because it's sort of headune proposal because it's sort of headline opposed to headline worthy as opposed to some other, which seems some of the other, which seems a little bit sensible like little bit more sensible like yeah, well, they've yeah, the article. well, they've got to be carrot stick got to be carrot and stick haven't they. think it is haven't they. i think it is possible not entirely possible it's not entirely beyond realms possibility beyond the realms of possibility that. amount that. there's a certain amount of malingering people of malingering that people discover enjoy being discover they quite enjoy being of, furlough of, you know, on furlough or whatever and have drifted towards and the reality is, towards it. and the reality is, of most us our of course, most of us in our fifties, i mean, we're all like on the in the gig economy, nobody gets to sign us off. but there certainly when there are certainly days when you up you think, is it you wake up you think, is it really you know, or is really worth it, you know, or is it to start thinking about it about to start thinking about powering down? but they've got to they've got incentives to they've got to incentives as well for people to well as i think to for people to one of the things they're talking about here is a one year tax exemption elderly tax exemption for any elderly people to work. yeah people going back to work. yeah that's a good i think. that's a good idea, i think. i mean, been saying for mean, i've been saying for a little while now kind of play a half i there half joking, but i think there is something that there could is something in that there could be intermediary stage between be an intermediary stage between when work and when you expected to work and you're entitled to pension you're not entitled to a pension and obviously old to

and when obviously too old to work and you're going to get a pension. there could be a stage where there are, you know, fiscal incentives. fiscal and financial incentives. your know, your taxable income, you know, the were adjusted the old tax rates were adjusted and encourage you to and so on. just encourage you to keep i don't know. yeah, keep going. i don't know. yeah, it's a good idea, simon. i the interesting thing, telegraph interesting thing, the telegraph story touch on is story really doesn't touch on is what known as great what is known as a great resignation or a significant of the population have taken retirement as a result that it's created a gaping in the economy particularly . those people who particularly. those people who are still active and fit enough to be able to work in fifties yet have a wealth skills that they know are going to be able to pass on to the next generation. and we see that a lot in world these days. there's a lot of people that it might as well be octopuses for all the parental engagement we get. so finally and we're going after zip this quickly zip through this quite quickly but a story about hrt but the i have a story about hrt supply. well a story about supply. well is a story about hrt and patients. well let's just call them what they are women living in a poor are less likely to be prescribed will have as mum have this. yes, we

will. let's let's alienate every single woman . gb news likely to single woman. gb news likely to be less likely to be prescribed hormone therapy as a reason wide spread shortage . this is just spread shortage. this is just another negative headline about the nhs it's looking more and more under pressure and we've got to start asking very, very difficult questions about reforming the nhs so it provides a better service not just for women but for everybody because it seems as if it's on last legs. and that gives me no joy to say at all. it's interesting with hrt in particular, because women just in the course of my aduu women just in the course of my adult life time, i've been aware of friends of my own age who've used been above the used it. i've been above the others, been alarmed by stories , now been discredited that , have now been discredited that it have increased the risk it might have increased the risk of so on. it of breast cancer and so on. it feels there's been a feels like there's been a learning process as what it learning process as to what it is, but is now pretty widely is, but it is now pretty widely accepted, i think as a really, you know, not just helpful, but pretty for pretty essential treatment for a lot that was essential lot of women. that was essential , the real story here , i'd say, the real story here is this class issue, when

is this as a class issue, when you gp's in wealthy areas you have gp's in wealthy areas getting three times their budget on than not. so the question is middle class going in and demanding it. yeah getting it as opposed to poor who just don't decide on of the but have no idea which demographic we're addressing this evening. but if there are women out there who feel they might be entitled to it, then i firmly encourage you go your gp at the go and badger your gp at the earliest. that's the front pages for and appreciate you us for ousd and appreciate you us in a few moments where we'll be undressing to find out what undressing them to find out what they're the canvas. they're packing the canvas. we'll a sec .

and welcome back to our salacious valentine's night headliners me, simon evans, also serving the cost of a valentine's dinner. josh howie and francis foster play their

dates for at home with a nice take.josh dates for at home with a nice take. josh start with the daily mail and what looks to be the most infuriating story of day, if not the entire year? yeah, absolutely. please face misconduct hearings over handung misconduct hearings over handling of wayne cousin's reports. so it turns a couple of days before murdered sarah everard , he went into mcdonald's everard, he went into mcdonald's and nick flashed them . they got and nick flashed them. they got the credit card people. the people in mcdonald's sent the credit to the police and his licence plate. and the police ? licence plate. and the police? nothing. yeah. and there are two things here. number one is, you know, so now it looks like the police who took that report and from an earlier report as well that was handed a copy his board for kent police is did they look up and see that that person was a policeman and decide to not pushit a policeman and decide to not push it further or? was it just utter negligence? and i think the main take is that these sexual aren't harmless. these seemingly innocent ones

escalate, right? yeah, absolutely . and just letting absolutely. and just letting them go , which is what it seems them go, which is what it seems like they've done . then you can like they've done. then you can see the literal disastrous who say they i mean neither of those possibilities look good , but if possibilities look good, but if there's any suggestion that they look the other way because he was on the force, i mean there should be some central they type in someone's name or a credit card or any kind information. if there's any association with police. it'sjust immediate police. it's just an immediate red they start red flag and they start investigate. i mean, you would he a reputation apparently investigate. i mean, you would he theeputation apparently investigate. i mean, you would he theeputatofi apparently investigate. i mean, you would he theeputatof stonewall.( investigate. i mean, you would he theeputatof stonewall. he among the staff of stonewall. he was known as the penis. yeah. i mean, you know, i've as that. but it's not a general attitude , very, very worrying story anyway. slightly better news . anyway. slightly better news. francis over to the guardian refugee charities know who is to for liverpool turning out to be a far hellhole. so that's encouraging. yes leaders are urged to take a stand after violence outside knowsley asylum hotel. charities are condemning

demonise refugees after home secretary accuse of victim blaming and blaming sort brother man for using a words like invasion to . talk about the invasion to. talk about the boats coming from over the channel and. what has actually happenedin channel and. what has actually happened in particular instance is there was crowd outside of this hotel knowsley a very upset and very angry because they that one of the residents in the hotel had propositioned an underage go. there was footage had been shared around on twitter and. this incensed people and there was a say think was was the footage discredited yet. well the police investigated it and no charges were brought so it was unclear was an entirely satisfied you know but okay he's released with no further action but yeah i mean yeah yes he did something but they didn't actually . yeah but they didn't actually. yeah but they didn't actually. yeah but can't prove it. so i think

there was also a suggestion to be fair that the i mean there was also a suggestion to be fairthat the i mean it there was also a suggestion to be fair that the i mean it was interesting this story in the in the guardian of course where they kind of go, oh, these poor asylum seekers, they live this hotel and they have to cross a busy road to get home. and i'm like, well, you see this? but yeah, and the actual a—roads with traffic on it. but also i mean and i'm this is does not justify you violent confrontations with police but the locals have lost hotel which had a swimming pool it had gym it have various facilities which they use with their families and also which was just like a source of revenue and kind of the sense that they a part the sense that they lived a part of where people wanted of the world where people wanted to stay a instead of, to stay in a hotel instead of, you the, the changing you know, the, the, the changing in use just creates a change in, doesn't it? of course. look, i completely agree with you and i think the thing that we need to remember is people blaming suella braverman. and i actually saw the government and the conservative government are at fault not dealing the fault for not dealing the illegal immigration, for not having an immigration system that works for not actually

deaung that works for not actually dealing with people who come over here illegally and actually having some kind of legal system where there were penalties involved. no. and they have they years away from finding one. and of course again saying that the albanian has dropped massively because they that thing through that now. that's right technically of what's called a white as i know that it's a white zone as i know that it's a safe country mean they safe country now. i mean they can be sent back straight can just be sent back straight away. they can go back. they made in impact made a difference in the impact on it. well, that's a that's a good story. maybe there is a beam light there. but i agree beam of light there. but i agree with you in way, francis is with you in a way, francis is not rhetoric is it's the not the rhetoric is the it's the presence, situation and presence, the situation and the problem first is problem in the first place is very, very patronising. the way these charities discuss the issue . telegraph now, josh, it issue. telegraph now, josh, it looks like the nuclear is getting the green light d nuclear power to get status as britain races eu to hit net zero. so i mean i'm sort of the seventies 80 i remember the days when nuclear was bad people

protesting and my mum was out there protesting and now i mean, i'm coming . yeah all of that. i'm coming. yeah all of that. absolutely. and now it's good. yeah. so well, i suppose there's the difference between weapons and energy, but i know what you mean. there was a fear that it would bring about end of the would bring about the end of the world, chernobyl and what not. but another but now would. there's another report that came out that wood fires that was fires turn out, that there was erm around and we've erm was it around and we've missed a target because of all these middle class people buying these middle class people buying these stuff. so these wood fires and stuff. so what's is bad was bad is what's good is bad was bad is good, but this is important because given green because being given this green status actually allows more funding go into it and as well. so the question, of course, who's going to pay for it, but also is it going to be foreign companies coming in and essentially energy. energy systems? well, that's been the case for a long time. i george osborne was in talks with the chinese. i remember, which is why need that's an why i think we need that's an element the old saying speak truth is this to infuriate truth is this used to infuriate my dad possibly he's watching truth is this used to infuriate my reveningibly he's watching truth is this used to infuriate my revening seething watching truth is this used to infuriate my revening seething astching truth is this used to infuriate my revening seething as we ng this evening seething as we speak that we would we

speak which was that we would we would have nuclear would say we can't have nuclear is safe and the french build is not safe and the french build nuclear power stations which is nearer london than . most of nearer to london than. most of our nuclear power stations would have have nuclear have been they have nuclear power along the power stations all along the that the north atlantic and channel coast from which we buy electricity. you know so , we're electricity. you know so, we're more at risk than we would if we were buying if we building stations in the peak district and what something else has this issue into sharp release is russia's invasion of ukraine. yeah, because there are so many countries , particularly germany countries, particularly germany , who are dependent on russian energy . and the moment you are energy. and the moment you are dependent another country to sell you energy is a moment you're in hock them. we do seem to have lived through a couple of decades of being really complacent about that sort of nofion complacent about that sort of notion of jemmy used to for notion of jemmy used to work for the nuclear did the for the nuclear he did the for nuclear power before they started doing it. that is a great deal france as we say with the telegraph further proof, not all scientists are really working the future betterment of

humanity . yes, this is in the humanity. yes, this is in the telegraph like you said, use egg producing . female producing. no female says scientists and calls to phase out binary language so the merged male and female be phased out in science because they reinforce ideas . sex is binary, reinforce ideas. sex is binary, which of course it is and it is. and also that doesn't phase it out. it changing the terms . they out. it changing the terms. they remain binary, don't they? well course. you know, so as course. and you know, so as always, with these things , it's always, with these things, it's completely meaningless going to obfuscate what it is that we're talking about . and it's just talking about. and it's just it's laughable. it's beyond parody . so it's laughable. it's beyond parody. so we're it's laughable. it's beyond parody . so we're not it's laughable. it's beyond parody. so we're not going to use male anymore. we're going to use male anymore. we're going to use things such as sperm producing is what josh likes to be known as pig. so they do mean i know this is if you read those books know about the books you know about the transition it's always intense and you still control they say that the size of the that yeah the size of the gametes this is the crucial thing which is the male and the female but words male female sex. but the words male and more or less and female are more or less non—binary male. non—binary than the words male. the word sperm producing or egg producing that they are synonym

for those qualities within an organism. so all you're doing is changing the word. we all understand . and male means sperm understand. and male means sperm producing . you're allowing that producing. you're allowing that word to be captured by gender, ideology . and this is this is ideology. and this is this is credited , which is what angers credited, which is what angers me, you should say activists say. but no, even the telegraph says expert that say experts in what it was and it says some it should also say some scientists . this isn't like all scientists. the person who's the spokesperson , guess what? a spokesperson, guess what? a doctoral kind did at the university of bristol. so even got a phd yet so i'm not even a canadian formed online found each other on twitter and now they're bringing this document there's going to be like a living document so they can be i mean, it sounds like parody. they're saying terms invasive or non—native species when referring to plants and animals could be xenophobic and is absolutely insidious and could be replaced with newly arrived

or fresh off the boat. they suggest this went back. oh, i just valentine news now in the sun and the eternal to make men take responsible for their sexual behaviour . it takes a new sexual behaviour. it takes a new twist indeed new male contraceptive taken 30 minutes before sex could be a game changer for birth control or i should point out this only works if you take it before. yeah not after. like with women. but it quite quickly because we're off quite quickly because we're off quite quick. so you got to take a chance before you think you're about to get lucky. yeah. 2 hours to half an hour. yeah. take the pill if it's a long weekend and you know somebody going to happen. a male going to happen. yeah. a male japanese. it is interesting. japanese. but it is interesting. this first one, they've got this is they've been carrying out the experiments mice you experiments with mice as you should got 91. it should do. yes it's got 91. it works for . yeah, 91% stops. works for. yeah, 91% stops. pregnancy. i it said researchers found the drug was 100% effective at stopping pregnancy in male mice after the first 2 hours. i think i can see where

the problem is anyway that's all for part two coming up in part, the snp likes to drink a woke literature cracked down on cate blanchett cancels cancel culture good luck we'll see you in a couple of minutes .

so welcome back to headliners let's kick off the third quarter with a shot of scott tisch hypocrisy in the times yes indeed the essay copy those have they've gotten some really enthusiasm haven't they those of let's put male rapist into female prison. fine have done a another brilliant idea whereby going to shrink the scottish economy even more so it's down to the size a thimble by region see the visibility of products advertising alcohol products

advertising alcohol products advertising alcohol products advertising alcohol so and this has created a storm of criticism because there are a lot of people are saying in wake of burns night all the snp was saying was don't forget to have a whisky. well, at the same time consult on plans that would put the national drink into the corner and under the counter . corner and under the counter. and what it seems to be is a badly thought out policy from the snp who haven't really through what it is that doing all the long term implications of this policy. well, they have a lot of they have a lot of form for various state sort of measures, don't they? sturgeon to like that sort of thing. and there's been a lot of discussion over their minimum pricing and their they do their approach. they do obviously problem obviously have a few of problem areas. are a few people do areas. there are a few people do like possibly bit too much of like possibly a bit too much of the but there's now the stuff but there's also now this a suggestion this suggestion or a suggestion there discovery that the there is the discovery that the snp themselves sell branded i think whisky in june with with yes on the on the label to encourage you to think about voting for freedom and escape in

westminster world while you're drinking the stuff that they're going to ban as soon as they're independent enough do so yeah i mean the interesting thing is also whether actually cover also whether they actually cover this scotland this story all in scotland because the out there is because the media out there is so captured snp how of so captured by the snp how of the newspapers they influence through their advertising their leader they're very hard to criticise of that. no they are they're all very hard to. and as we know a very famous chain of comedy clubs, if you criticise them and. comedy clubs, yeah , them and. comedy clubs, yeah, well let's get up and take a stand . josh, the daily mail now stand. josh, the daily mail now has news of yet more wastage . has news of yet more wastage. the nhs though at least not £1,000,000,000 worth of unusable ppe. i suppose no more than 10,000 pride pin badges ordered for scottish nhs are lying unused in storage. wow so this was essentially to it was all about respecting you. they keep on saying this here it was to so to respect the event of trans people but yeah how do you

respect what does that mean? like when you actually uncover it , what was it to like when you actually uncover it, what was it to wear one of these badges just to say if famous, i respect it. i respect trans people you are a trans you're a trans man. that means you're a trans man. that means you're a trans woman or a trans man. yeah. the problem is if wearing that badge is meant to mean that you think that that person a literal member of person is a literal member of the if this is the opposition. if this is thing, it? the badge is thing, isn't it? the badge is clearly polluted unless clearly very polluted and unless you're read the terms you're willing to read the terms conditions to you conditions that apply to it, you probably shouldn't wearing political badges just get political badges that just get handed a huge plastic handed out in a huge plastic bag. is part the bag. so this is part of the problem. what talking problem. what we're talking about very beginning of the about the very beginning of the show, what happened in tavistock, just tavistock, where people just go along stuff because along with the stuff because they be they want be they want to be they want to be a good person and they don't want to rock the boat. havel's green going yeah i green groups are going yeah i was and this is was going to say and this is a problems when you politicise institutions our institutions the reality all our institutions the reality all our institutions utterly institutions should be utterly apolitical. nhs should just apolitical. yeah nhs should just be there to care for people and the education should be the yeah education should be there the police should there to teach the police should be law and be there to maintain law and order . i be there to maintain law and order. i don't to and order. i don't want to and i don't think the vast majority of

people in this country want to see badges . they don't see rainbow badges. they don't want to see pride flags . it want to see pride flags. it comes institutions all comes to their institutions all we care about is these people are doing their job. and also it are doing theirjob. and also it seems to be a very uneven spread. i remember not. i may not believe the nhs, but there were certainly some large scale institutions which were getting quite cross. if you a quite cross. if you wore a crucifix around visible crucifix around you, a visible sign sort of, you know, sign of any sort of, you know, religious affinity. well, i mean, that would bother me particularly. i was in a hospital somebody was hospital and somebody was wearing a something to demonstrate were demonstrate that they were christian a priest christian if it was a priest coming me, then i'd be coming in to see me, then i'd be yes, yes. particularly as are jewish on to catch the day. stay with the daily mail now. florida appears epicentre appears to be the new epicentre of the american culture war. well, yes, absolutely. so florida schools are considering ban on hundred and 70 plus books about black historical and lgbt . so thousands of books that currently under review. but i florida public schools over content deemed to be to be contentious by ron desantis air

and so what has happened is left and so what has happened is left and right has turned education into a culture war and the problem is with education at the moment both in the uk and in the us, it's not doing right by children, children's education should not be political in any shape or form. so difficult to get a group and i'm talking as a former teacher to get 30 kids into a classroom and for them to all learn and for them to come progressing in their education. this is it seems like i mean, the part is to get kids to read at all. right. absolutely. get kids to read some kids will read a dozen a week, but there'll be others who scarcely one or two per yeah you put a certain per term. yeah you put a certain number of under their number of books under their noses i'm not i've never noses and i'm not i've never imagined any of these books would be banned. it's more a question of which are question of which ones are naturally included, isn't it. put onto the shelves and you know, they will just go for one

or two which have a bright shiny cover part of cover rather than being part of the of a integrated the mix of a sort of integrated educational. is educational. there is a potential mean. i remember there was one book when i was a kid at school when i was six or seven that was about a monkey that went to space and it was like an absurd of it had cult like absurd of it had a cult like following, you know, it was literally in the literally fought in the playground came playground when it came back into know, to into the library, you know, to see would out. i see who would it out. again, i had no particular political message but you can imagine how certain become of i certain books become kind of i don't know elevated rules, you know the do know what i mean? the books do tend that power for tend to have that power for kids. you do have to be quite kids. so you do have to be quite careful about which ones are going the, you know, going to part of the, you know, the that churn. well, i was going to the thing here is going to say the thing here is just the concern to not throw just the concern is to not throw the with the bath, because the baby with the bath, because some books probably were some of the books probably were representing a black and latin of people who and it was good that people could see that their ethnicity reflected in these books and whatnot and even own family structures whether it

does to us whatever the problem is that so much propaganda got put in and sift through it so you have the waterstones the other day putting one of its books out as a children's, which was just ideological but had this terrible picture, this drawing that went out , drawing that went out, self—loathing sort of reality. and it was just like, yeah and i was going to put this in front of it. if you read that book among dozen others in the course of a month, probably a massive problem. but there is a genuine risk that, you know, some kids will or three books per will read two or three books per term and one of is about, term and one of them is about, you transgender activism. you know, transgender activism. it of starts loom a bit too it kind of starts loom a bit too large their lives. i think. large in their lives. i think. yes, absolutely. i know. and i would argue that, you know, would also argue that, you know, books discuss really have books that discuss really have no place in primary school, particularly in the early years. i agree the if metro now josh two days in raging company season story comes from hampshire wow this kind of this story so confusing so black teacher told not doing enough to

promote diverse city is handed £70,000 for the enduring the of having been told that well actually yes so she was giving an english essay and it was monitored for like half an hour and. one of the feedbacks was that she wasn't challenging a racial stereotypes and she said well i think me being here is challenging a racial stereotype i don't mind don't i'm not so sure what a black teacher like that's like that's just the way . depends what the conversation was well exactly that was i suppose. well exactly that they were trying to bring it in artificial but she was the diversity they wrote diversity person. they wrote an email the email saying throwing the equality diversity black equality and diversity black comment too. so because comment and me too. so because that person had done that , she that person had done that, she then found the email and was able to sue the school . what is able to sue the school. what is going on? i mean, why don't you just judge a teacher by the ability to teach? how about we do that? and then we ignore their race and they are actually going to become escape passage unless you introduce these kind of things, you create an

environment which there's going to misunderstandings environment which there's going to nare nderstandings environment which there's going to nare goingandings environment which there's going to nare going toiings environment which there's going to nare going to start people are going to start to feel what been this way. feel what been pushed this way. and i fought back and when i like fought back harder way and before you harder that way and before you know it, got why did get know it, you've got why did get kicked out of being a teacher. well i was found not guilty on all charges swiftly on independent. frances independent. now frances said we'll this one done before we'll get this one done before the break. cate blanchett has about the latest film she's in. although unlike me, i bet she hasn't actually watched it . hasn't actually watched it. well, this is cate blanchett who has come out and talked about the importance of freedom of speech in the arts. and she the point if you don't read all the books are slightly offensive because of what they say in a stock article context. then you will never grapple with the minds the time and we are destined to repeat stuff. destined to repeat that stuff. a very sensible, very articulate point for the spanish . i point of view for the spanish. i can remember his name read out . can remember his name read out. bernard would drink old wine and keep old friends. yeah it's a very good slogan. very interesting . in this film, which interesting. in this film, which is about a female conductor, a

world female conductor, orchestra conductor . no world orchestra conductor. no world famous person who who is sort of allegations from her past of sexual assault, of being a predatory lesbian, which i think is quite anyway . i've seen a few is quite anyway. i've seen a few movies . yeah, it's i don't know. movies. yeah, it's i don't know. i saw it. i didn't feel like it . any punches on cancel culture at all, to be honest, it was much more to the extent that it worked at all. it was much more like a kind of psychological sort of investigate thing. the, the, the, the, the kind of strange dispute of borderlands between psychosis it's now rumour and, paranoia due to mean setting. yeah, honestly, i wouldn't go and say it was it was nearly 3 hours long and i'm somebody likes classical music somebody likes classical music so i god knows what what most people would make of it but you know it's kind it's leapt on this cancel bandwagon a bit i think because it thinks it will sell tickets. i feel like there is a movie be made of that is a movie to be made of that kind that warns against dangers. yes, yeah, yeah . no, i mean and

yes, yeah, yeah. no, i mean and the more celebrities that speak up about this kind of stuff, i think the better it's. not bad that she said this. that's absolutely true. time a quick break that is coming up in the house before i get cancelled in the section we've got dead the last section we've got dead . how being dumped can really mess you up. and an update to the dating dictionary. we'll see you in a couple of minutes minutes .

welcome back to the final part of headliners just the girl dylan has sad news for anyone who gives a about sugary drinks branding. this is sad news is. who gives a about sugary drinks branding. this is sad news is . a branding. this is sad news is. a lilt has vanished from . the uk lilt has vanished from. the uk rebranded as a totally tropical fanta . that childhood ruined . fanta. that childhood ruined. that's exactly what it is. is die. you know, i want to do this so i'm going to do that too. but i going to do impression of

someone that so team are totally tropical did you used to have a race accent. well it was canbbean race accent. well it was caribbean accents . you can't do caribbean accents. you can't do that now. but i was doing of someone doing that, i was actually doing it myself it pineapple flavour so the flavour stays the same it's exactly the same except they took the they tried the same chemicals all this stuff but it's not like that any and that will have some fun when do they bring him back. i'm bongo. yeah no. so, yeah , i'm bongo. yeah no. so, yeah, they drink it in the congo simon. i believe they do. so look at the state of their political stability. so there's an advertisement. but the interesting thing about this story is what they don't mention. so this the guardian mention. so this is the guardian in in the daily mail. in the in the daily mail. they're saying that there all these complaints of cultural appropriation and racism and the old adverts and that's why they've done this. but the audience just went, yeah , audience just went, yeah, they're calling it it just they're just calling it it just they're just calling it it just they a few inches. they do it to get a few inches. it's like when they banned cream and bought it. do you and then they bought it. do you remember that. and then graham norton got behind it it came

norton got behind it and it came back do you mean by back with a what do you mean by salad? cream. basically salad? cream. hines is basically like mole vinegary version of like a mole vinegary version of mayonnaise. no for people. we used i mean, the sun used to have it. i mean, the sun makes continuing on a metabolic disorder thing. steve disorder thing. france, steve said sun with the said the sun with the opportunity for some execrable puns. indeed, opportunity for some execrable puns . indeed, they have themes puns. indeed, they have themes have stolen around 200,000 cadbury creme eggs before cops have managed to crack case first one in so they've never themes have nearly ruined easter by stealing all these cadbury creme eggs from an industrial estate and it looks like easter is going to be the spout so the sooner tweets out that's going to annoy an egg pun sorry. and anyway, this would be somewhere like it inside because assault feels like a pumpkin, you know what i mean? inside an egg and you have to break them and. yeah yeah, yeah. so anyway these sweets were worth around £40,000. i think you have to £40,000. and i think you have to shell out for that. oh no, i

hate more jokes , but anyway , i hate more jokes, but anyway, i absolutely despise cadbury's creme eggs. i think they're disgusting. oh salad. cream? yes. how you will they go well with salad cream and lilt combination . the sweet spot combination. the sweet spot aren't they so good? i do like them. i the way that they're often sort of like leek a little bit it's got to get just right long form. yeah it's got to be right daily mail now have to say i am somewhat lost in admiration for this chap. gosh, yeah, yeah . lottery winner husband keeps kind of like a valentine's day romantic story where husband keeps lottery secret when secret from his wife before she finds out, then she falls for divorce and sues him and essentially title there, that headline is story that sums it all up. he won story that sums it all up. he wo n £1.2 million, but in the won £1.2 million, but in the end, obviously, yes, you can . end, obviously, yes, you can. yeah, you are in 2021 and then he a secret gave some of the

money sisters. i mean that is actually extraordinarily level of self—discipline, isn't it. that's like kind that's like the kind self—possession but self—possession you have. but i think cultural thing think it's cultural thing because another person won a huge amount in china. he because another person won a huge amount in china . he went huge amount in china. he went dressed up in a nike yellow suit of cartoon character , and then of a cartoon character, and then he said, i'm keeping my identity secret because i thought, well, my wife and my son to find out because going to take because it's going to take all of away. wow of that drive away. wow interesting. i i mean, interesting. i would i mean, i used i don't even play used fancy. i don't even play the lottery. but i did the fantasy. if i if won, i i would do that a not do that for a while, not indefinitely. yeah. you know that. i would have a couple of weeks not saying weeks of just not saying anything just going anything at all and just going about business about my business just occasionally, know, occasionally, you know, upgrading bit or upgrading a little bit here or there few . yeah . to there on a few. yeah. to sandymount air france, as it turns out losing your hair and being broken hearted and not just poetic metaphors. no indeed was indeed indeed indeed . so is was indeed indeed indeed. so is how being dumped can affect you physically from rosie to a super high libido and it's the story

is all about the ways having your heart broken can affect your heart broken can affect your physique . and it can do , your physique. and it can do, your physique. and it can do, you know, broken hearted which that like a ventricle or something. is that right or a lack of those which we can indulge. we can do all stunned according to the nhs ventricle. yes. and the symptoms mimic those of a heart with sufferers experience sudden intense pain, shortness of breath , heart rates shortness of breath, heart rates painfully so. i thought i've been heartbroken before now, but beginning to wonder whether actually i wasn't that bothered. i've never, never had actual like chest pain , shortness of like chest pain, shortness of breath. but did you lose weight ? because it turns out that you can lik in the first can lose like £5 in the first month after being dumped. yeah. so it could be like so that be an it could be like look i know sad, but come look i know you're sad, but come this is good for you see only fit and together with the. yeah exactly and no not a burden on the nhs but it almost means that in some it increases sex drive

by a ridiculous amount. so you feel like getting frisky after is happening every two weeks. a&e that sounds more plausible to me because you're just broken up.the to me because you're just broken up. the chances are you weren't having great sex beforehand and you were sort of suppressing. i mean, maybe were, but you were probably suppressing when you were it fine, but were pretending it was fine, but now realise, but now suddenly you realise, but it's and i'm going to it's not fine and i'm going to go and have some sex. that doesn't seem too surprising. the one i a little bit one i found a little bit shocking one picture of a shocking was one picture of a bloke just a whole of bloke who just lost a whole of his hair. like a like a, like a neurotic hamster. yes, yes. and is that. yes i was dumped. chronic dump for finally josh a handy glossary for all of us navigating the online dating world if only to keep an eye on our daughters. this interesting tinder australia releases dating dictionary of terms here a couple them benching is when you keep someone on reserve bench. yeah base flags which means that bafic yeah base flags which means that basic going to be boring as they've got some base flags date

dates of which is where you basically just ask each other like interview questions almost the date. oh yeah. now this the eco dumping . now this is dumping eco dumping. now this is dumping someone because of the lack commitment to the environmental cause. yeah. what's nice ? wow. cause. yeah. what's nice? wow. that's a whole world dedicated . that's a whole world dedicated. and then there's frugal flirting, which i've managed to sustain for years and. and afforded food dating as well. when you keep prices kids and fishing. so cut fishing , which fishing. so cut fishing, which is where you are totally different kids and fishing is you've changed aspects of your physical. yeah that's what we all do yeah that's what everybody does. all kids everybody does. we're all kids having , kind of like having a haircut, kind of like losing weight or holding fishing. just to be clear, is that like a really distorted picture or something? totally. you're totally different individual with fake individual. the men with fake photos . oh, yeah. i got photos. oh, yeah. so i got married . what? kitchen fishing married. what? kitchen fishing is basically a push up bra . so is basically a push up bra. so what do if you show up at the day and you've catfish somebody they kind of go, hang on, you're not this yeah that's just

not this bloke. yeah that's just trying you bloke. yeah, trying to tell you bloke. yeah, yeah. kids and fishing. i yeah. but kids and fishing. i actually went out with a girl and. she'd stretched the photo , and. she'd stretched the photo, so expecting something so i was expecting something like when i there like this. and when i got there , she'd obviously like , she'd obviously gone like that. was like that. that. and it was like that. anyway that it for anyway convenient that it for tonight's show . anyway convenient that it for tonight's show. thank you. anyway convenient that it for tonight's show . thank you. let's tonight's show. thank you. let's take another quick at wednesday's front pages daily mail never . wednesday's front pages daily mail never. spy balloons at 60,000 feet worry about the chinese camera. six feet over our heads. the times back me or leave me sorry back me or the party. well, that's not a valentine's message. that's keir starmer talking to the labour left telegraph have signal crackdown to boost workforce the ai women face postcode for hrt supply the express defiant army chief says can stand up to putin. that's all for tonight's show . thanks to my valentine , show. thanks to my valentine, howie and francis foster , you howie and francis foster, you can wish your loved ones happy that we find out tomorrow night. andrew doyle is in the grown up seat with leo kearse and the

debut of bruce devlin will be with janine for that. thank you very much and goodnight.

we' re we're set to hear that inflation will slow as the government fights to keep prices down. a very good morning to you. welcome aboard. it is 6:00 on wednesday, the 15th of february. this is breakfast on tv news with eamonn holmes and isabel webster and leading our news this morning, the latest inflation figures will be released the next hour with released in the next hour with the predicted to fall . the the rate predicted to fall. the prime minister has vowed to cut inflation in half by the end of the year to ease the cost of living britain's living crisis. britain's equality watchdog has announced it will end its monitoring of