good evening. it was gb news. in a moment, but first, let's bring you the latest headlines. and tomorrow , chancellor will tomorrow, chancellor will announce his spring budget with full coverage right here on gb news and he's pledging to tackle labour shortages and get people back into work . it's all labour shortages and get people back into work. it's all part of his new plan for growth for the uk . he's expected to promise uk. he's expected to promise a plan that will remove the obstacles that stop investing . obstacles that stop investing. jeremy hunt is expected to announce boost to the tax free allowance for pension to stop over 55 from taking early retirement . that as well as retirement. that as well as announcing parents on universal credit receiving funding upfront instead of having to claim it back. he's also expected to unveil a multi pounds funding package for , the expansion of package for, the expansion of free childcare that provide 30 hours a week to parents, children under two years old.

well, our other main story on gb news today, a woman has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for perverting the course of justice after falsely accusing a number of men of rape . 22 year old elena of rape. 22 year old elena williams had also created a facebook post alleging she'd been a victim of an asian grooming gang . preston crown grooming gang. preston crown court heard three of the men she'd falsely accused rape had attempted to take their own lives. and at the of her accusations, there were mass protests in her hometown of barrow in furness in cumbria , barrow in furness in cumbria, with some businesses forced to close , williams will serve half close, williams will serve half the sentence prison . the us the sentence prison. the us state department tonight summoned the russian over a collision of a russian fighter jet with a us drone over international waters. the us military . the drone was on military. the drone was on a routine civil lands mission in international airspace when two russian jets tried to it over the black sea . according to the

the black sea. according to the us military , the incident us military, the incident resulted in the complete loss of the us drone. the white house has said the incident was unsafe , unprofessional and, reckless . , unprofessional and, reckless. the controversial social media personality andrew tate has had his bail request denied by a court in romania. his bail request denied by a court in romania . tate and his court in romania. tate and his brother tristan are being held over alleged sex trafficking in the country, which is criminal investigation now means he'll remain in custody until at least march the 29th. the pair were taken into custody in december and haven't yet been formally . and haven't yet been formally. and lastly, the queen consort met a young ballet dancer today and he's set to star a new disney documentary . camilla met disney documentary. camilla met antony, mardy when she visited elmhurst ballet school in birmingham. the 13 year old nigerian had received a scholarship from the school after a video of him pirouetting in the went viral in 2020. well is now making a documentary all

about him and the queen consort him very good luck on tv online and dab+ radio. this is gb news the people's channel. time for headliners . headliners. hello. welcome to the headliners. i'm simon evans and you're first and most entertaining look at wednesday's newspapers is here joining me for tonight we're blessed to have two of the top topics comedians in the country's capital and a roger monkhouse . capital and a roger monkhouse. so before we get into the front pages, gentlemen, you've both been through papers for the last few hours. anything in particular jump few hours. anything in particularjump out or just go .7 particular jump out or just go.7 oh, i'd particular jump out or just go? oh, i'd read that rishi sunak head was a coke addict and he brought some coke back from mexico city with him. but it

turns out nothing it was coca cola that he said to that he became addicted to while studying at stanford he loves it and he thinks that the mexican coca better because it's coca cola is better because it's cane and corn syrup. cane sugar and not corn syrup. that's because i was that's interesting because i was reading a biography of thomas mann , german novelist today , and mann, german novelist today, and as you do, his mother, who brazilian used to emphasise to them that they should only eat that were sweetened with brazilian sugar. yes. so, you know, it's this thing isn't it true that about coke before . but true that about coke before. but i thought when he he brought coke back, i thought, well, that's how see so skinny is that's how we see so skinny is he snorts a bit between meetings. yeah. no it's not that cool. world leaders, coca cola, those well, those donald trump as well, something could probably something they could probably connect when again connect with when he wins again in caffeine in in 2024. a lot of caffeine in it, to keep them away. it, too, to keep them away. yeah. syrup really a lot yeah. corn syrup is really a lot of confections . it's so of confections. it it's so broad. everything just like campers. i do, like maple syrup. i it's a bit of. oh, yes, but my goodness, the taste in that there's a richness to it you feel like it's feels like it's proper food at the same time

diet isn't there some of the models do whether take that models do whether they take that and and pepper and yeah yeah and try and pepper and yeah yeah lemon juice yeah it could be healthy that would make about three without roger you had a oh the story i liked was that of rishi sunak family who were apparently spoken by a policeman . in on the edge of the seven related talk . no, not character related talk. no, not character , not even in error. no because apparently the two year old dog was often lead. and i feel sorry for him because it feels like every time filmed doing something normal . yeah, he gets something normal. yeah, he gets it wrong . like he's not backed it wrong. like he's not backed up with that. see, bill. exactly, exactly. been fined for that and. he's in trouble with this. well you've to be careful with dogs of literally a large bodies of water, haven't you ? bodies of water, haven't you? because when they go in, you go after and tragic consequences in all the wild fowl as well on the serpentine genuinely is a stupid thing to but of course he's used to walking dog presumably in his

own massive acreage. richmond deer park probably goes chasing shelter and this think he's he he's accustomed breaking rules i mean he he illegally coke coca—cola he let his dog wild i think he just he lives in a different world it's a it's an aristocracy let's have look at wednesday's front pages of those stories will appear i suspect the daily mail kick off free pre—school childcare in back to work and was lionised while fiona bruce is hung out to dry. very interesting. it's not entirely coherent question the guardian hunt's 4 billion child care bay to get parents back to work and the king knighting a member of queen then which is amused the picture editor, the telegraph hunt faces revolt over tax rise in budget the times more free childcare to parents back in jobs is becoming clear, which is the big story. the metro, however, have with

russian jet down's us drone sounds like anti some warfare. they call that the daily star pair grills let's eat more nuts fair for but not for us okay are the front pages . so let us kick the front pages. so let us kick off with the front page of the guardian. scott well hunt's a $4 billion. i feel sorry for pound child care bid to get that pretty much i to i. they are pretty much i to i. they are pretty much i to i. they are pretty much what he wants people back working looking after the kids so he's going to offer some 30 hours a week to parents for i to 2 year, one and two year olds. right here. so it's called there's a term for it, but it's back to back child care. so your kids dystopia . yeah, there's kids dystopia. yeah, there's this. they're looking after children removed from that parent summit . but but what it parent summit. but but what it says will have those thank you

for what i wonder what happened where they're three years old i think they sent them off to work that point which is so great and. i think we all like free kids. i want kids for free too. yeah, it's expensive. i yeah, it's expensive. well, i mean, suppose sharing the mean, i suppose sharing the burden of spreading the costs and difficulty and the and the difficulty and the disruption parenthood, disruption of early parenthood, we of course, as a nation we are of course, as a nation not replacing ourselves at the moment. so is an incentive moment. so this is an incentive if encourage people to have if to encourage people to have children. costing well, children. it's costing and well, it's quite big lump, isn't it, it's quite a big lump, isn't it, out of the 4 billion, it's a lot. no, i don't. the money, it's like it sounds like you do when they're that young is putting pressure mothers to putting pressure on mothers to go work we might to go back to work we might want to well the workforce is depleted yeah evidently they weren't up especially mothers to back to especially mothers to go back to work . yeah. and to reinforce the work. yeah. and to reinforce the workforce and basically not enough labour and in fair re that 4 billion will pay for it so yeah get over it again , again so yeah get over it again, again and again. also one year old stephanie do one of those a couple two year olds when they can start talking. oh nobody's

claiming it's fun to stay at home it's but i do think it's possibly important part of becoming i don't know i don't know know at know it's just i don't know at what point they benefit from socialisation to say and socialisation have to say and one that seems quite early i'm quite well quite old fashioned well you'll be home within a 30 be at home within just a 30 hours week. you won't be. we hours a week. you won't be. we had. no i suppose it depends if get how many different you have as you of as well, whether you kind of assigned one the that you assigned one the way that you are school , a child where are with school, a child where you you're the care you know well as you're the care option, we if we option, you know, we had if we were quite lucky we're quite middle class i suppose but we had a there's better word had a nanny there's better word for although do think that for it. although i do think that we bit sort victorian we sounds bit sort of victorian or whatever. we had a nanny who had children of ours and one had two children of ours and one and other from of and one other from the age of about six months. and that was really think if really nice know. and i think if i a voucher that i could i had a voucher that i could spend towards that rather than just off towards some sort just going off towards some sort of facility where they're put into a filing cabinet for 8 hours. job is to nurseries hours. my job is to nurseries and i think i was stimulated and benefited from child care at six months about months. months old from about 18 months. yeah, i i8 months old from about 18 months. yeah, i 18 months and i'm yeah, i see 18 months and i'm at the years and only a

the first two years and only a few hours a as well. all few hours a week as well. all that nine, nine months to that first nine, nine months to the to two yeah they're the to two years. yeah they're talking. slept in a drawer. i talking. i slept in a drawer. i turned out you slept a turned out okay. you slept in a drawer it that millions drawer but it says that millions of people not turn out. okay it says until the gardens are that millions of people are still grappling with the cost, including class people including middle class people are with after are really struggling with after their kids while they work. so it's affecting people from all financial, childcare . make it financial, childcare. make it impossible to go out to work. what have you got, roger? what's your front page? oh, my front pageis. your front page? oh, my front page is . the me say. oh, it's page is. the me say. oh, it's the telegraph, which is all about the budget across once again . supposedly hunt is facing again. supposedly hunt is facing from backbenchers who are unhappy about the hike . in unhappy about the hike. in business tax , up from 19 to 25, business tax, up from 19 to 25, which is indeed massive . and which is indeed massive. and whilst he's giving away 4 billion potentially with the childcare offer, yeah, it's a massive imposition upon small

businesses, particularly to face a corporation tax of such proportions. i mean been coming a long time so i doubt really whether there will be a backbench revolt . but i can backbench revolt. but i can understand the concern , not understand the concern, not least because didn't think jeremy hunt campaign against hike in tax a long time ago when they were having a when he was trying to become leader. yeah yeah very possibly. well they have short memories. i indeed have short memories. i do indeed have short memories. i do indeed have memories. i mean my have short memories. i mean my only hope is a fervent hope is there are not only tax is coming now in time for them to be removed but in the build up to the next general election, which is likely to be may 24. right. so we may looking at a year of pain and then they can whip away and we can float up like a cork to the surface. this is our our comedy club is going to close those i can the places that we perform in all sorts of businesses are really struggling because they've got capital to

deal with and with an imposition of corporation tax as well. this is i mean, it looks an awful lot a rachel reeves budget, doesn't it it's very hard to discern any clear waters as it was in 2019, just before pandemic created a mess of everything. but soon next budget after the red wall votes had shored up the government , that was considered government, that was considered to be borderline . yeah. and as to be borderline. yeah. and as well it is quite hard to find people to vote for if you want to have a low tax efficiency. they didn't exist now. no it's you have a front page of the times. scott what are you going on there. i can't remember. let me look on front page of me look on the front page of time. migration bill risks time. the migration bill risks adding trauma . child refugees . adding trauma. child refugees. there's some deep concern by rachel sousa, who is the child care commissioner for england , care commissioner for england, and she wants to have an urgent meeting with suella braverman about what braverman means. she says things like in what

circumstances she's asking would the power to remove unaccompanied asylum seeking children be used , end quote, how children be used, end quote, how decisions will be made about which children rehoused in home office rent accommodation while transfer. so this is a just this woman who is with child welfare in this country and. that's her job. i've seen people talking about and saying that actually the government , it's very the government, it's very difficult. government is has difficult. the government is has attempted genuinely to exempt children from the harsh penalties which are going to be inflicted on albanian gang run. and so when they try and come over with genuine refugees, but this will create if of course incentives which might work against them, i mean, that's always the trouble if you try an incentive to take some children with. exactly. yeah, with. yes, exactly. yeah, yeah, yeah go here. no you can get yeah you go here. no you can get ten grand. get the dinghy ten grand. you get in the dinghy 15 we'll throw a 15 grand and we'll throw in a youngster showing up. be very hard to say, isn't it? never neven hard to say, isn't it? never never. how discern from the never. how to discern from the figures read. what figures you read. yeah. what percentage of people coming over on the small boats , authentic on the small boats, authentic asylum. many does the

asylum. how many does the reality that i think most people , probably most news use it , probably most gb news use it anyway recognise whenever you anyway recognise is whenever you see photographs evidence of these landing on the these boats landing on the shore, they do seem be shore, they do seem to be predominantly is often referred to as two teenage men all statistics you don't see a lot of under 20 children going have september of this year. yeah 46% were albania in. yeah and of course that is designated a safe country . there's no way in the country. there's no way in the world they are legitimate, questionably purposes questionably run runs purposes and 90% were male . yeah now and 90% were male. yeah now a very substantial number of those coming over on small boats are people males between the age of 20 and 40 attempting to enter the country illegally in order to take part in criminal activity . what percentage? activity. what percentage? i don't know , but sizeable. don't know, but sizeable. anyway, in this section , the anyway, in this section, the daily star, roger the daily star. what's this one? bear grylls? let's eat more nuts. this bear grylls made the completely reasonable observation that we should be

eating animal, heart, lungs and testicles if we want to live a healthy life , he doesn't mean healthy life, he doesn't mean awful . it's awful as far as healthy life, he doesn't mean awful. it's awful as far as i can see. very good. well, a former generation used eat the whole beast, and it makes sense entirely. we throw away so much. it's disgusting. italians see the whole thing? yes. we should . in brazil, you say . when you're in brazil, you say to husband's were to my husband's mother were hungry. rips off hungry. she just rips off chicken's makes a hole and chicken's head, makes a hole and all everybody good they win to the all the hooves well for the boy all the hooves well for some of it yeah lipo blew me the hero of ulysses . ulysses. is hero of ulysses. ulysses. is that his ? that's how he's that his? that's how he's introduced as a man who and he gives a long list of all the unpleasant of animals, in particular in the faint tang of urine, in particular that can be very, very good . lots of unique very, very good. lots of unique nutrition of pigs. knuckles are delicious . i will also say delicious. i will also say i like nuts as . well, so i don't like nuts as. well, so i don't want peanuts. yeah nuts. yeah. it's a frighteningly and there are a lot of in there draining the planet of water also they're bad for you just so you know nuts nuts nonsense they'll use

they're for you know right on time for you're right that is so good. oh gentlemen, that is the front pages explore coming up after the we've got after the break. we've got china, feelings. drug china, our feelings. why drug addicts alleged 2008 addicts get a cold. alleged 2008 all over again. we'll see in a couple of minutes .

freaking me home. welcome back to headline is with me simon evans joining me tonight are excellent comedians scott cooper and roger monkhouse. so we start our internal investigations with wednesday's telegraph . scott wednesday's telegraph. scott looks like the snp loves just as long as they stay in england , long as they stay in england, they do . they're not pulling they do. they're not pulling their weight on migrants because it offers more hotel spaces than all of scotland . the party snp all of scotland. the party snp by way, has provided hotel

spaces . just 500 migrants spaces. just 500 migrants compared with 600 currently being housed top london boroughs telles so 500 migrants in the hope these are illegal immigrants again they arrive with their asylum applicants. yeah yeah. the thing is that the same people we were talking about previously but the scottish off to the earlobes with ukrainians and syrians saying they did their part. yeah got so many of those so i think in fairness this is party politicking it this is robert jenrick the dispatch and in actual fact, it's the home that decides where. yes the asylum seekers are dispersed right . so seekers are dispersed right. so really to give some more to scott. yeah, totally within the remit that is a very lonely they have a population roughly 5 million in scotland is it mostly distributed between a lot of base and the are expensive anyway they cost a lot of money 500 people in 5 million is a very low . yeah, yeah yeah. maybe very low. yeah, yeah yeah. maybe they're holding it back as the final penalty . the threat of final penalty. the threat of sending them to scotland as a deterrent. maybe the migrants

prefer kensington because the museums and stay museums are better and they stay open know, the open longer. you know, the scottish tend close scottish tend to close their museums funny well, museums a funny time. well, compared to the african kingdom to which it was being proposed, rule of course. and yeah. do you think, would you think scotland might be a sort of neck and neck with row andrew maybe think we're warmer they've better farm opportunities. they could opportunities. yeah they could find, i mean they could start inhabiting some those islands inhabiting some of those islands off of the hebrides off the coast of the hebrides jura . i wouldn't mind if some of jura. i wouldn't mind if some of those are distance, utterly underpopulated. my friend has a condo there. does all condo down there. she does all right. yeah it's a lot right. yeah. yeah it's a lot like. yeah fabulously like. yeah it's fabulously beautiful. and beautiful. wild of course. and the why it's unpopulated the reason why it's unpopulated or relatively depopulated compared the rest of the british isles is because it's in large part uninhabitable . yeah, there part uninhabitable. yeah, there is that . let's go to wednesdays is that. let's go to wednesdays . mira. roger this is a sorry tale. oh, this is a grim. grim story. this is the woman in barrow in furness who has faked various incident and made

outrageous claims . rape and various incident and made outrageous claims. rape and had been and abused partly by supposed muslim gangs. been and abused partly by supposed muslim gangs . and supposed muslim gangs. and partly by others as well she's abused, she's she's faked own injuries and she says on tv buying the hammer at tesco that was that was a i mean that's a fairly funny you hit herself with a hammer yeah she said we're caught on camera over you see your hands a hammer now should be as trivialising. but it just struck me as a detail. but i suppose this is this is i suppose, though an illustration is it not of why it's wrong to. simply take alleged victims of crime as rape. yeah and hate crimes . well the face crimes. well the face necessarily is size and it takes

so much more time and effort to untangle these things once they can be done so quickly and easily and so many can be aroused. and these , they say aroused. and these, they say their lives were ruined. it sounds perfectly plausible. one of the terrible, terrible they might discourage women the might discourage women in the future reporting rape and future from reporting rape. and of course, that will, of course, happen. and she is directly responsible on responsible for that's going on in stories this right here. in stories like this right here. i mean, i'm not it's right or wrong, but it's a hefty. so you're age. young you're that age. yeah. young yeah. sounds of a yeah. yeah. what sounds of a little bit like really excessive spiralling attention you say they run away with it, but it led by three men attempting suicide and it destroyed their lives. oh, it's one guy lost his business. one of the men was chased down the street, you know, harassed and things thrown at him, and yet imagine a fantasist telling a lie and the whole thing's spiralling out of control and lie upon lie compounds situation the way talk psychological audiences in australia during the festivals right telegraph now roger china

mocking britain's relationship with america and australia . this with america and australia. this is of course the brokered orcus deal which in australia the uk , deal which in australia the uk, the united states concerning nuclear submarines and supplied to australia and china is understand play i suppose . us understand play i suppose. us and sees this is inevitable decline following brexit. that's right? yes, that's right. well they've haven't got and this is from the putin playbook to play to the liberal intelligentsia and the anxiety or to the chattering classes in this by mentioning brexit often as possible . but this of course possible. but this of course follows the integrated . where follows the integrated. where rishi sunak defined china as being an epoch defining challenge to. international order. it didn't call them a threat he held back from calling them threat. and interestingly, some tory backbenchers think that that's not enough right. so and duncan—smith is going to

raise the temperature a little bit more. in fact, it's really well, of course as far as he's concerned . doesn't matter though concerned. doesn't matter though really does it well, really i suppose. does it well, the rhetoric is as long as agreements that been made agreements that have been made between countries, i between various countries, i think more tory think it matters more to tory backbenchers else . backbenchers than anyone else. the is what do you . the rhetoric is what do you. well, the chinese threatened . well, the chinese threatened. they said that the us and the uk are planning a time bomb that they're going to regret in the future they steal . so think future if they steal. so i think that what chinese are afraid that what the chinese are afraid of, always is, taiwan. it's of, as always is, taiwan. it's close to australia . they don't close to australia. they don't want a nuclear subs. china undoubtedly have ambitions. want a nuclear subs. china undoubtedly have ambitions . that undoubtedly have ambitions. that part the world across the part of the world across the pacific we be pacific which we should be concerned but taiwan a national pride thing and they're not going not a nuclear going to like not a nuclear submarine necessarily best submarine is necessarily best deterrent. suppose it's deterrent. well i suppose it's part the part i think it's part of the part i think it's the best we've got. and also, is this an agreement will get us into war hundred into a future war a hundred thousand miles away. where thousand miles away. oh, where we times around we live, joe, four times around the planet first the daily mail now someone has found a way now just someone has found a way to bring their computer to swimming pool. that's great.

swimming pool. oh, that's great. i love this story. this is a really positive story, isn't it? this the tiny computer this is the tiny computer server, the size of washing server, the size of a washing machine used to machine that's being used to heat swimming in devon. heat public swimming in devon. this is essentially this a very modern spin on, the age old potential of all industry and the excess heat that it produces to benefit society and always remember from the 1970s in soviet eastern europe , you would soviet eastern europe, you would have factories and the access from the factories would hate the village or the town, but it's rather wonderful thing if you go to reykjavik, which iceland is famous for its outdoor spa and its bubbling, sort of sulphurous fumes and so on. but their most famous and popular outdoor bathing facility is actually a cooling is a cooling water firm for palestine, you know, and they would just go to lounge about it. i like this story, though, because apparently it's just 2019. we've lost 60 public pools in the uk and a lot of the pools are closing because they can't afford to heat the water and they can't afford, especially

over the last 18 months, heating bills businesses bills for businesses gone through more through the roof, much more money domestic, right? money for domestic, right? i mean, can save some pools. mean, we can save some pools. yeah. so in london, every time you download put on, you're helping local cafes helping to feed the local cafes are in my mind six months from now it'll be a story about very because you got over to wednesday's telegraph for more schadenfreude very wealthy schadenfreude some very wealthy people experiencing the downsides canny downsides of their canny investing entire us banking system on way down. system is on way down. apparently chaos good has emerged because these this bank, this silicon valley bank tried to sell some of its bonds. it bought about years ago. and the bonds had the interest rates are going so far up, they were money. yeah. and when people had rather in rather large investments in those savings of over a quarter , those savings of over a quarter a , those savings of over a quarter , a lot of people went to get that money and the us that money out and the us government stepped in said, government stepped in and said, wait we'll cover the wait a minute, we'll cover the money. lost up money. you've lost up to a quarter million people were up in that facebook and in arms that own facebook and instagram . so biden stepped in instagram. so biden stepped in and said, know what, we'll and said, you know what, we'll cover all it. yeah. so they're trying stop trying to trying to stop trying to stop a

bank run. but i've seen people saying that there was never going bank run because going to be a bank run because this such a singular case, this was such a singular case, because it they always say because it was. they always say that well because. that investment as well because. no, i mean, the vast majority of banks, million, 250,000, banks, 250 million, 250,000, which be you know, the which would be you know, the standard amount of cover would be more than adequate. and most people don't. more than a quarter million just quarter of a million just sitting the bank in silicon sitting in the bank in silicon valley but well, they valley do. but they well, they did that. that's the did exactly that. that's the way it was a very singular situation. and they successfully launched propaganda campaign very you very quickly to say, oh, you better us out. otherwise better bail us out. otherwise people confidence in people will lose confidence in that. like, no, they would that. it's like, no, they would the vast majority of banks and people with bank accounts would have the standard. have been covered the standard. but themselves are but people people themselves are dumb lose confidence dumb enough to lose confidence and read print the and not read fine print in the wall street journal there a very very 2008 all over again. the reason that it starts in one sector and then there's contagion and we have to see whether it whether it's rotten beneath surface. the beneath the surface. that's the question interest question. is rising interest rates, are catching people rates, which are catching people out all over world? well, out all over the world? well, people thinking now that the banks lower rates or stop

banks will lower rates or stop raising something raising them because, something was think the was happening. but i think the opposite true. i think opposite will be true. i think the federal economy chieftains in the us to try to cover themselves and they'll kick interest up a little bit higher. they do. i mean, there was no problem with interest rates per say in 2008. that wasn't the issue.i say in 2008. that wasn't the issue. i don't see the issue with this front. it's that the government doesn't people government doesn't want people selling to selling bonds they're going to take kick interest rates take if they kick interest rates up, doing they up, people doing it. but they have to deal as well. have inflation to deal as well. and were formally intending and they were formally intending to use interest rates to suppress but now suppress inflation. but now they're frightened to rise interest rates. so you might get a where have a situation where you have stagflation, inflation continues andisnt stagflation, inflation continues and isn't control all without the same time. no well that's to look . to the same time. no well that's to look. to trump's back the same time. no well that's to look . to trump's back little look. to trump's back little sneezes and why tokyo is the best place to lose your wallet? we'll see in a couple of minutes

yeah. welcome back to headline is straight into wednesday's telegraph now roger everyone's favourite mad uncle is heard about critical race theory donald. trump has told in iowa that will ban critical race theory being taught in the us school . the former president school. the former president says he will bring back common sense as well as stopping trans competing in sports. he's great campaigner. he's back. he's very good at this sort of thing and. he's throwing meat and drink to his base of red meat. so does it not feel a little bit like six months ago this was was bigger than him. florida it flared up. where is his main rival for the nomination? desantis is very popular it just feels to me slightly like he's just repeating very obvious. yeah right where i want to keep out of women's sport and all that stuff he keeps. yeah that's kind

of happened but his have been dean of happened but his have been dealt ago i would dealt with a year ago i would have that was probably yeah have said that was probably yeah yeahi have said that was probably yeah yeah i would bring that up. his ratings have amongst ratings have fallen amongst self—identified republicans 91 to is still quite high, but to 80% is still quite high, but it's falling. think that he's it's falling. i think that he's seeing diminishment, seeing a diminishment, diminishment diminished diminishment a diminished diminution . wow. that's what it diminution. wow. that's what it is. i and think that also he's worried that even though he's going back on twitter, nobody seems to really care. oh, is he back on twitter. yeah. i don't know. that is. oh, i thought using no, was been giving using it. no, he was been giving as much apparently he hasn't is getting tweet he's remained on his own truth private that's beyond cry to cause any of whirlwind controversy but he categorically shouldn't be underestimated. you he's far ahead of desantis as a potential republican candidate among republican candidate among republican voters . and republican voters. and apparently i we were saying this in the interval, apparently he leads biden by four points in, a potential runoff against biden . potential runoff against biden. but what they will they will

weaponize the synthesis in a down everything as well. so they will just say this hasn't announced his running for president. and i don't think and also biden's it's a he's going to be unlikely this in his presidency in his 30 years he's going to be very unpopular that would destroy his chances. of course we must on gentlemen the rugby news skunk in the garden penod rugby news skunk in the garden period concerns lead to a kick change. i'm assuming that's a larger . why do i get change. i'm assuming that's a larger. why do i get this story ? why do i get the story ? the ? why do i get the story? the ireland women's team they've they've decided to wear navy shorts in this year's six nafions shorts in this year's six nations becoming first home nafions nations becoming first home nations team to announce a change from their traditional white shorts over period concerns us they're worried about staining so wear blue shorts and a barely in november wimbledon announce it too will drop the tournament's strict white dress code and allow all female players to wear undershirt. all female players of all sizes all female play rather than sort of those who are part female. but you

allowing all year got any female player who'd like to . yeah they player who'd like to. yeah they previously had to wear a white have they. yes they have traditional. yeah yeah but no more because guess the women were never the reason . i just were never the reason. i just don't know how they've managed to get with it until now. it seems. don't know where the media is being discreet enough not highlight moment where the media with them but you know unpleasant trolls would have spotted it if there were any evidence i mean they, said gary lineker, having an awkward moment off the side of the pitch 40 years ago. that was hot. they they that maybe they saw they show that maybe they saw that episode of new that awkward episode of the new sex and city series where charlotte, a moment in her white trousers herself less trousers she this herself less ice is all you need roger less inclined to face off against the scrumhalf not knowing whether she was menstruating . not that. she was menstruating. not that. wow, that's probably picked up on that fairly early on. yeah. yeah out news now . oh, yeah little out news now. oh, male and i for one, cannot wait to my boy scout snitching badge

. this is this is an argument on good morning where the clean up britain found has compared snitching on people who litter to reporting a stabbing or mugging in a heated you see i'm i'm a labour terrier my instincts and i passionately oppose the police state all its manifestations but i'm completely on board with this. yeah litter disgusts me . and yeah litter disgusts me. and i think £1,000 fine is too little. i think. oh what about tasing cities? hey, tasers, at least i'm. and also perhaps prison also sorts of penalties. could be it should be euthanized. i talk extensively about the national highways being a disgrace. i couldn't agree more. absolutely the motorways and i'm told it's dangerous to pick up litter on the side of my choice. we have the biggest prison population in western europe getting ever. there's an opportunity to deploy them productive olds. productive or three year olds. they're fit the

they're little. they fit on the side the freeway. you know, side of the freeway. you know, the thing is i see young people, young parents throwing rubbish out just tossing out is newington just tossing things street things in the street on the sunday i yeah. what about sunday i think. yeah. what about your about? their your kids. what about? their future. i care future. what about why do i care much? don't. i can't stand. much? i don't. i can't stand. children. care about children. and yet i care about this. it's not just the unsightly mess itself, it's the signalling of stupidity. it's signalling of stupidity. it's signalling of stupidity. it's signalling of indifference to other but lack of social responsibility . yeah. i'm responsibility. yeah. i'm reminded of the zero tolerance thing from the blair years. it does work, you know, when you show pride in your neighbourhood, there aren't broken windows and there isn't a little drama to help i mean, they remind people they do to wear masks during the pandemic. it's what about the it's like, what about the society? about graffiti? society? what about graffiti? where on that? where would you stand on that? because a very similar because i think a very similar thing. graffiti like thing. i know some graffiti like county whatever. it's the county lines, whatever. it's the art part of. well, no, art genuinely part of. well, no, i mean, the line stuff, it's tagging for, you know, drug deaung tagging for, you know, drug dealing purposes. so tagging for, you know, drug dealing purposes . so that's tagging for, you know, drug dealing purposes. so that's a different but just people that what happens . yeah it's a marker what happens. yeah it's a marker yeah you know how ridiculous i'd never realised that it was a

marker but i think the two things go very much hand in hand. as soon as you start seeing graffiti up in a neighbourhood, i think the littering and vice littering recedes and vice versa. banksy's graffiti worth quite isn't it? you quite a lot, isn't it? well, you can something is can usually tell something is has artistic aspiration has got any artistic aspiration or that subjective course? or is that subjective course? and that's where the problem lies in a sting. yeah. you can't you can tell? well you just say is it gcse grade three or staying literary news now scott the japanese have got a much more generous approach they're . more generous approach they're. amazing as always, honest tokyo sites have handed in £25 million in lost cash over the last year, a total 3.7 million million items are handed in, including more than 300,000 wallets and purses. someone in a box to the police, the metro and police department with £227,000 of cash out . maybe they were afraid of out. maybe they were afraid of it. and did it get up? we don't know. didn't say . but go to say know. didn't say. but go to say .japan know. didn't say. but go to say . japan is an extraordinarily trust society for whatever street crime is very low. there

very low, utterly conformist society. of course, it goes down to the very marrow you're going to the very marrow you're going to paint as a slightly as sort of feeling of imagination. they never produced the beatles. did they know culturally there is a cost , such conformity ? they've cost, such conformity? they've made some good movies. i mean, i think what it is, too, is in tokyo , least two very, very tokyo, least two very, very area. and people have learned to get along. and one way is to just kind of create your own private space. i've worked in tokyo and when you go into the into their tube and you see all these people coming to you first, you're a bit thrown off, then realise it all sort of then you realise it all sort of works. right. unlike ours works. yeah, right. unlike ours . well, i'm not sure about tokyo , just looking at that headline. that's main. don't that's my main. i don't think that's the correct really the word tokyo . tokyo. i really as word tokyo. tokyo. i really as honest trotskyites i think tokyo billions . apparently there's billions. apparently there's been a russian house burglary there recently, but it turned to

be. yeah, it turned out to be a group of people who just been albanian let out of prison from the philippines. but it was being run by a couple of expat japanese who've since been brought back to japan going to face some pretty serious criminal charges, like a great thriller project strange fetish news now , young people who've news now, young people who've grown up with the cheapest , most grown up with the cheapest, most efficient music delivery systems ever conceived are wasting money. the intervention of ridiculous think this is the return the record vinyl sales have outstripped cds for the first time in 35 years. i'm baffled by this is this you know this makes me think of cycling around on 24 things it's just bizarre but who buys cds anymore? it would be a cd, but i buy them. they're cheap from you. guess everyone's getting rid of them. but if you stream, you know, every basically free cds , unlovable things , they cds, unlovable things, they always will go as soon as the case gets cracked or whatever .

case gets cracked or whatever. just look. they look dismal. yeah. vinyl have a slightly sort of artisan about it. it may be. oh, the cool reality of it is of course quite the of the nick and untraceable of course from that generation i'm gutted because gave away boxes and boxes which i now suspect would have been worth quite a lot of money if i simply had the storage to hang on to it for 30, i would at least stop my daughter going out and spending 18 quid for a new one. wow this newly mixed music sounds so much better than vinyl though when reproduce though guy when they reproduce this the thing this i mean. well the thing about some go that about vinyl some people go that they analogue sound but they like the analogue sound but all digital when all mixed in digital when transfer analogue in order transfer into analogue in order to get it back on there but stuff loses doesn't because stuff loses doesn't it because other compacted and other files not compacted and you you can pick it up. you lose if you can pick it up. good luck i cannot tell the good luck to i cannot tell the difference with you difference be honest with you with my 57 year old is quite happy with the i have cds at home i own and still listen to i stream them just so i can put

them on with my phone so i've made my vote devices. sounds great. at 9 am. yeah that's it for this section coming . up in for this section coming. up in the final part, we've got an ugly duchess painting that is, if you want a girlfriend, you need to order a cheeseburger, not just a regular burger and a unique way to never forget your clubcard . i'll see you in clubcard. i'll see you in a couple of minutes .

i'm and welcome back to headline aso scott . now this week's aso scott. now this week's brazen publicity gathering revisionism brings more. well, first, can i ask, can we say transvestite. can we say that word is out? all right. so all right. apparently an ugly justice painting was turns out to be a man as the. a forthcoming exhibition suggests quintin mass is an old woman hanging in london's national gallery. may actually be a male

. have you visited? no. i have this evidence . very famous. oh. this evidence. very famous. oh. oh i seen that. oh, everyone always . i'm sure oh i seen that. oh, everyone always. i'm sure i'm not the first person to say so. it is clearly norman tebbit, isn't it? a lot of people thought that had some sort of disease called paget's where parts of your face become deformed, but apparently no, it's not that. it's enlarged jawbone because it's a guy because it's quite easy without being unnecessarily cruel. it is not for an accomplished painter to do a painting a portrait of a deluded old lady believes herself to still be attractive and endearing, but is in fact not without looking so obviously masculine , i think. i mean, that masculine, i think. i mean, that stuff that's not picture that is not a painting to . my mind of not a painting to. my mind of a you know, a man dressed as lamb it's a satirical painting, obviously. yeah. but it's satirising what the theory used to be that it was a woman who was part of best but refused to accept that. right and it is in

accept that. right and it is in a pair with the you see the other one that she's opposite. it is her husband who she's who is apparently not always exhibited to her. but exhibited next door to her. but done same time, or maybe done at the same time, or maybe is or him here in in is actually or him here in in normal times. but no, they don't look quite. but she i mean, she just looks so absurdly masculine. it's only because she has the big boobs, has the big, the big boobs, which immediately go. which would immediately go. that's drag. that's not just woman in drag. that's not just woman in drag. that's like it's like a mockery of drag. did see that big boobs make her look masculine in as well that's the thing well as i know that's the thing that throws you off the other one is your fetish. yes you were. yes. some people just do do masculine . just do they not look masculine. just shows scene. a woman looking shows the scene. a woman looking remotely masculine, not in remotely that masculine, not in that particular way. i've seen women like strong jaw or women with like a strong jaw or whatever, know. not whatever, you know. but not i mean, it's i don't know. hard to say why is just in this is plausibly transvestite. oh yeah yeahi plausibly transvestite. oh yeah yeah i absolutely that. yeah yeah i absolutely is that. yeah you so it couldn't you think. okay, so it couldn't just a very, very just be a very, very unflattering portrait or indeed perhaps a true if you go to an unflattering portrait of a of old woman to satirise things

that we've discussed and just don't think that's what you do. you know where they're going to reunite it with the old man painting in in a diptych. but it is revisionist though isn't and you do wonder whether the something is it might be just baffled content theory baffled by the content theory obsession posing itself obsession it's posing itself upon. got me right. upon. you've got me right. you've got a drive but it's couples, older and women couples, older men and women start look the same. no, no, start to look the same. no, no, ginger sort of goes go. your wife starts to look like a golden retriever. all right, roger you're not going to be greeted at the door when greeted well at the door when you return home. romance now and yet example date yet another example of a date shaming exercise gone wrong. what they is exactly it, isn't it? it's a date shaming exercise on tock. i'm not sure justifies the phrase new story at all. this is a who went on a bad date apparently and has posted it on twitter . this is apparently and has posted it on twitter. this is daphna diamant , daphna dam, lamont actually, i was in my desk in the gym and she sounds like a character from guys and dolls and she

complained about her date, who took her to a burger bar and then refused to pay the $3 to have cheese on his burger. i'll tell you what, though , been on tell you what, though, been on dates with my wife. where i enquires to the price of things , then refused and i can see she looks at in a certain way this disappointed . maybe it's because disappointed. maybe it's because she knows talk about older women looking like dogs. there's she knows talk about older women looking like dogs . there's also looking like dogs. there's also i love how this article she's from daphne du monde from new york a merica which is now new from just but now is being said . but i have been on dates right where i've discouraged the person i was dating, sitting across the table from ordering and appetiser because there are two expensive. you know, i think if you're setting up home, it depends what age if it's going up know for a big yeah up you know for a big yeah course it's is think it's sort course it's is i think it's sort of it's kind of a turn on for somebody to be reasonable and good. you i grew got a good. yeah you you i grew got a cell off news now and it cell off of the news now and it sounds there might some sounds like there might some upsides to pollution after all

there is apparently mating of fruit reduced fruit flies has been reduced because getting because planet's getting warmer and because of and the fruit flies because of the levels fruit the ozone levels, the fruit flies smell each other as flies cannot smell each other as well as air pollution. it's not global warming. it's smells. yeah, well, it did, but but but i mean, the global warming, as they, say, partially because of they, say, partially because of the pollution, the air. yes. i mean, right. i remember o—level biology fruit flies were used in order to where you could conduct experiments real time about experiments in real time about genetic traits being because they offspring they might produce offspring young so quickly .thatyou could young so quickly .that you could do it on tuesday and by thursday you know a whole new apparently if they were able to see everything the organic matter of the planet would be drosophila within the space of about a yeah within the space of about a year. why are you going to do that now. because of the ozone. i think if species needed having its breaks be lessened, you know, we are all wild animals sniffing around another and sniffing around one another and that's the little fly this that's what the little fly this is much more nice as they would take retrievers like sheep. i did tv show for a network about

the truth about gay animals where i just interviewed these doctors and you know like around the world and animals choose each other by smell yeah yeah. and i've always said that i have a routine about how i find pedigree dog breeding rather disagree but what you think about it it's basically racism, isn't it. there's no a former partner of mine is convinced that we up so badly nowadays because we hide our own sense with expensive perfume. if you ever know when. i remember that when i was when i was younger. if you go to of what if you go to smell of what somebody actually smelled like, you could immediately tell whether you were genuinely attracted or not much attracted to them or not much more as genetically you should be to them or so a be attracted to them or so a list smells that i enjoy that list of smells that i enjoy that i'm even eager to miranda i'm not even eager to miranda roger good news for sex robots want to stave off age related decline. this is this is this is tonight's chat story . and has tonight's chat story. and has been invited to invent a sequel

to seduce and has done so well . to seduce and has done so well. i don't know how playable the game is i don't understand what was it called some some company, some place, some cliques. yes, that's right. if the version was called, some puzzle and then became some pleat, which is. all right . and that was a name right. and that was a name invented by. chet g. petty itself. so basically taken this sudoku sort theme, you've got boxes with numbers in, but you have to actually do sums rather just it sounds like a bit of a rip off of sudoku, but there go. yeah. well, you know, was a bit of a rip off of draft iceberg anyway . catch on. do you do any anyway. catch on. do you do any of that nonsense? i used to do sudoku a lot, but i don't do any of it now. i barely keep my social media quite surprisingly boring. sudoku after. you've learned how to complete the grid. i it's not as grid. i find it's not as satisfying as a crossword. for instance, really like york instance, i really like new york for nothing for this. there's nothing i think that is the god's game to

be honest. yeah. especially with the english language, which is so suited to sudoku seems so well suited to sudoku seems i don't know sort of it's not quite the right crosswords in other language but i've never even other language but i've never ever. but the end difference , ever. but the end difference, the ambiguities, the ironies the you know, the word synonyms and on a homonym and so on, you know, the echoes that uniquely lends to cryptic clues, i believe. so that my theory we've got one last story to fit in, scott. this is a bloke groceries that cost him arm if not a leg. yes well he he he tattooed his tesco into his arm. he's a superfan of tesco and dean mayhew 31, said he got the qr code firmly linked , inked on his code firmly linked, inked on his arm. so he could just go and do that. fantastic yeah, it saved him £18 over three year. i think tesco should feel empathy with remaining cost. if you think to the free bitcoin or something for yeah he. could have tripled that. going to pay for until you have you on your four heads wouldn't you. so the good at the

till i say good people are queuing to do this and it's like carrying phones we volunteer more the team too much time on his hand to be honest with it where there's something on his arm simon his hands. yeah. the show is nearly so let's show is nearly over. so let's take quick at take another quick at wednesday's front page just before go the daily mail before we go the daily mail pre—school childcare in back to work budget whether you like it or not the guardian hunts for billion childcare bid to get parents back to work. where they like it or not. the telegraph hunt faces revolt over tax rise in budget. they like it, not the times. more free childcare to get parents back to jobs by bear grylls eat more nuts. he actually means offal kidneys , actually means offal kidneys, liver, etc. and that is all for our show tonight. thank you to. our guests scott cafaro and roger monkhouse. i'll be back with . headlines tomorrow 11 with with. headlines tomorrow 11 with paul cox and dixon. if you're watching the 5 am, repeat, stay tuned for the breakfast show coming up just after the break.

meanwhile if you're watching tonight, sleep well. good night . i'm going .

perez to deliver his budget today. good morning . at 6:00. today. good morning. at 6:00. it's wednesday, the 15th of march. it's budget day . this is march. it's budget day. this is breakfast on goods with eamonn holmes and isabel webster here is what is leading the news this morning on this budget day , morning on this budget day, jeremy hunt will unveil what he calls a budget for growth with an energy bills freeze and free childcare for one and two year olds included in this package of measures right. olds included in this package of measures right . and our measures right. and our reporters will be up down