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course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from our wonderful, he says , trying to flatter them. says, trying to flatter them. studio audience. my comedian guests. this evening we have bruce devlin and cressida wetton , bruce devlin and cressida wetton, who . so this is the show where who. so this is the show where we often talk about cancel culture. someone does or says something that upsets someone and their career ends. it doesn't always work like that though. some people seem to get another shot where others wouldn't. phillip schofield will be back on our screens this week in a bid to relaunch his career. it wasn't that long ago that a scandal broke about his relationship with a younger runner that phillip himself called unwise but not illegal, which is how most of us would describe wearing socks and sandals. but he kind of had a point. he found himself out of work, out of favour, and having to queue up to see coffins like the rest of us. his resurrection vehicle will be a castaway style reality tv show, where the former this morning host finds himself on a desert island. like

not not metaphorically. they actually have made this show. why is it that for other people a tweet can see you fired? but if you're a tv show, it's tv star. you get your own show out of it. is it just jealousy from me? i mean, maybe i don't have a tv show on channel five and my unwise relationships are nowhere near as scandalous. is it a trend that's starting as well? how long till we see huw edwards on the repair shop? did matt hancock start it because he went on celebrity sas to be shouted at a bit, and then on i'm a celebrity so he could say he was just a guy who fell in love while eating a kangaroo gonad. it was a rare moment for that show, where both the contestant and the audience nearly threw up . and the audience nearly threw up. it's a new genre of tv called oh, but look, i've suffered too. if you get caught in a scandal, just go on a show where you have to get by without someone bringing you a latte from gail's, and you can claim redemption tonight . we will see, redemption tonight. we will see, as we do every week on this show, stories of real people who've had their voices unfairly silenced. so it kind of rubbed

salt in the wound to see someone with such power and contacts in the industry that he can turn a cancellation into hours of having his say on a national broadcaster. so even though i am a free speech absolutist, every so often you find yourself thinking, oh, put a sock in it, would you ? let's get some would you? let's get some questions from our audience. our first question is from email. mario sends this through and says , are the welsh government says, are the welsh government right to scrap these gender quotas? so this is the zenith is it's brownite. i believe members voted to scrap plans for gender quotas in the welsh parliament elections, despite concerns of false hope and taxpayer money being wasted. crestor, i'll turn to you first. what do you make of this? you're a you're a quotas girl. >> i absolutely am not steve, as you well know. well, it might be. that's the problem, isn't it? if that's why i'm here, we'll never know . everyone's far we'll never know. everyone's far too polite to tell me, but i'm very negative. well, are they right? well, yes, they were right, but they shouldn't have doneitin right, but they shouldn't have done it in the first place, is

my take. not a fan of quotas. >> yeah. and the bruce, are you worried about the taxpayers money spend on this? >> i mean, no, i've no interest in this story. i'd like to circle back to philip because i genuinely. he really gets on my pippin . he should shut up. he is pippin. he should shut up. he is a pious donkey. pippin. he should shut up. he is a pious donkey . and what we have a pious donkey. and what we have to remember is he came about because john lesley was in similar hot water with less sleazy people than him. so it's just come round to bite you in the bum and from what i hear, you like it. >> the, the and was he voted into the welsh senate? i'm trying to work out. >> i told you, i have no interest in that story. i'm about to philip yorke more philip later on. >> let's focus on the issue. >> let's focus on the issue. >> i don't think we should be over promoting on on gender or any of that kind of thing. >> no. oh, for a minute there, i thought you meant like promoting on tv. like we shouldn't be mentioning the concept. >> i thought you were going to say we shouldn't be over promoting women. that's what i was expecting. >> well, as a woman myself, well, a hybrid at least. but no talking about promotion. waitrose dropped philip's wine. there you go. not funny, but

true. >> i'm going to have to get one of those flip charts with string on it, like i'm trying to track a serial killer to work out what you're going on about. you go from so many topics. well, now we're on wine, now you're homophobic and you're against people with adhd. >> lovely. brilliant. >> lovely. brilliant. >> that's right. >> that's right. >> the serial killer. >> the serial killer. >> they tried it before, hadn't they? 2003. they did this and they? 2003. they did this and they stuffed a load of women in there who maybe didn't want to be in there somewhere in the senate. >> oh, well, we're talking about that. >> i don't even listen to katherine jenkins continue. >> and over time , there's now >> and over time, there's now more men in there again. and i just i think, i think it's you can try , can't you? but the can try, can't you? but the truth is women aren't as interested on average in politics. look, i work with some of the bossiest, most narcissistic men in the country . narcissistic men in the country. and while that's a lovely challenge, name them. >> name them. >> name them. >> i feel seen . >> i feel seen. >> i feel seen. >> no, they could have spent the money on better things , in my money on better things, in my humble opinion. quick follow up question. >> what's that got to do with phillip schofield? i'm very

confused about what we're talking about now. is that all right? let's crack on our next question comes from jeff. where's jeff? >> hello, prince harry has found a new vocation in life and is expressing concern about the effect of social media on the younger generation, and he is going to make representations to the media companies. indeed. >> well, the background to this one is that prince harry has called on tech companies to do more to protect youths from the harmful effects of social media, i mean, look, i know the drill here is normally we have to hate prince harry, but these are the words he's saying. not right. >> there might be some truth in it, but then, you know, it's his book not going to harm his children and all that kind of stuff. like, seriously, you can get it in waitrose. it's near philip's old wine. but the fact of the matter is he does speak some sense, but i just think that people aren't that minded to be sympathetic with them because he's a bit of a whining little bint. >> okay? i mean, he's not here to defend himself. >> no, no, no, no. and he's a very good friend of mine. we've

beenin very good friend of mine. we've been in birmingham all day, lap dancing. the tory party conference. >> cresta. do you any sympathy for him with. i mean he's got to do something to pass the time now. of course he has. >> of course he has. he's jumped on a good cause hasn't he, that other people with bigger minds have already written about? jonathan. hate's got a lot to say about this, and he's not the profile, though, so i suppose. >> well, no, exactly. >> well, no, exactly. >> with a bit of that. exactly. so he's saying lots of true things, but at the same time, it's got this naivety to it, because in the background i can hear online safety bill, you know, and i don't really i why can't he talk to the parents. why can't he say, let's do better parenting. let's monitor what our kids are looking at. yeah. >> but okay, so you're not meant to be on social media certainly for some of the platforms to the age of 13. so if an 11 year old is on there, surely we should be going after the tech companies in the same way that if a 15 year old tries to buy wine, we don't blame them. we don't try and just tell the parents you blame the shop. >> yes, that's a very good point, steve. but sorry, did i bfing point, steve. but sorry, did i bring up good points again? you did you did, mr logic, but it makes me very nervous. all of

this, yes. >> well, 15 year olds buying wine where phillip schofield's wine where phillip schofield's wine is going cheap. no, no, no, it's all done. oh, is it done? it's all done. yeah. they poured it down the sink. it was fabulous. anyway, it was five well before the revelations, but. >> so back to the to the story. that's going to be my job all evening, isn't it? i am the good luck. thank you. yeah. do you not think we. where would you put the restrictions then. is it on the tech companies or do you somehow what educate the parents. that always works. >> i think you would have to start with the parents, wouldn't you? because it's the parents that gave children the phones or the tablets or the access to the computer or whatever. so if they've not set up parental controls or any of that kind of stuff, then surely is that not on them? but a lot of parents just want an easy ride of it. so, you know, if their kid's on some unsafe boats, keeping them quiet, you know, like peppa pig the musical, who knows? >> when are we finally going to start blaming the kids, our next question comes from anton. what have you got for us, anton? >> do you think it's right that phillip schofield should return to tv? >> no. >> no. >> here we go. we're back to the schofield one. so, yes. complete isolation, no comforts, no safety. phillip schofield faces on a remote island. i've lived in worse places , though. to be in worse places, though. to be

fair, i'm from dundee. yeah, you can get a lot of emotion from it. so yeah, now you can actually go for it. >> bruce, i just think in general, look, he's right. he didn't do anything illegal. there is a moral question, but so many people knew about this for years. i've known about this for years. i've known about this for years. i've known about this for years since i started hanging about with itv people since about like 2012. so this isn't anything new. and the fact of the matter is, people in this profession, they save their own hide. so how many people had he turned against in their hour of need? and as i say with john lesley, he was involved with something to do with well, it was ulrika jonsson and her allegations or not. and that's how he lost his job on this morning. and then phillip came in through that. so like scandal is nothing new and phillip should be well aware of that. he's 62 and he's done very well from pretending to be a straight man all these years. but he has. that's the whole thing. and the thing that annoyed me about the confession on this morning was, oh, it's because i'm gay. listen, we get enough flack. don't make out as though your life's gone to pot just because you happen to enjoy the company of other gentlemen. that's not the case. the reason that you

made this announcement and, you know, take me to court or whatever is because you were found out the guy in question was going to go to the press. so again, he was saving his own hide. so i just think there's a lot of piety with phillip and a lot of piety with phillip and a lot of piety with phillip and a lot of insincerity, as far as i can see. i don't wish him any harm, and i hope he finds peace, but i find it ironic that he is so disgusted with the way he's being treated. >> yeah, i mean, are we going to see more piety in these hour long sessions on channel five? >> oh, it will be that horrible, sincere face. >> some people will. i won't be one of them. and we don't have to watch it, do we? i mean, good luck to him. i think what's going to happen next is the ratings might not be that great really, because i think even though i don't like the idea of this, i'll end up watching it so i can write newspaper columns bemoaning it and they'll somehow do really well out of it. >> i'm not sure. i'm not sure because of your promotion? no. well, just because everyone wants to watch it in that car crash you wrote, it's a real okay, so he's in the public stocks and we're all going to go boo and throw tomatoes. >> i just think it's a bit tasteless all the whingeing. but

you're right. i mean that's what modern reality tv is. >> i suppose we should all chip in on some nice wine and watch it together. >> kylie's got her own range of wine that she does. we can agree. >> she does. >> she does. >> finally , common ground on >> finally, common ground on pinot noir is very good, but it's £29 a bottle. well, it's worth it if it's kylie , our worth it if it's kylie, our final question for the moment is from ryan . from ryan. >> good evening, is the u—turn by scottish police that male rapists can no longer be recorded as females? a victory for common sense ? for common sense? >> so interesting question. the background to this is that male rapists and sex offenders will not be formally recorded as female if they claim to identify as a woman. scottish police chiefs have insisted in a major u—turn and in a letter to holyrood's justice committee on wednesday, deputy chief constable alan speirs and said msps could be absolutely assured that male sexual predators would always be identified as men on police systems because they've never had a problem with this before. >> they've never had a problem with this before, isla, who know clearly there are cases where there have been problems with

this. and so we're kind of being gaslit, aren't we, by the scottish police. very weird. having said that , i think this having said that, i think this is progress, isn't it? and when people , when people, people people, when people, people being the scottish police start to kind of change their mind on this, i think we have to have a bit of grace, because there's going to be lots of people who will start changing their mind in the years to come. this is not going to age well, you know what's happened. like phillip schofield's wine there you go back to back to phillip schofield again. yeah. bruce. >> well, thank you . here on >> well, thank you. here on election night, i'm sorry to say, but the thing is, i'd be interested to know if the scottish police did this. if sturgeon was still in power. >> interesting . well, yeah. >> interesting. well, yeah. >> interesting. well, yeah. >> good stuff. yeah. you might not like me, but i'm right. >> so the prime minister has bold new plans to crack down on benefit fraud. but would such measures lead to spying measures akin to that of 007 silkie carlo of big brother? watch will join me

next. welcome back. so, sir keir starmer took a short break from mistaking war victims for engush mistaking war victims for english breakfast staples. the labour party conference earlier this week to announce brave and bold new plans to clamp down on welfare fraud at an admirable ambition. surely, but what does it mean in practice ? civil it mean in practice? civil liberty campaign groups big brother watch claimed that such measures would lead to invasive powers for the government to monitor your bank activity. so should we be worried ? i'm joined should we be worried? i'm joined now by director of big brother watch silkie carlo. so what should i be worried about ? should i be worried about? >> well, we should be worried about this. i'm really worried about this. i'm really worried about it. these are mass bank spying powers that we defeated under the tory government just a few months ago, that have been immediately reintroduced by the labour government, even though they were criticising them in

opposition. and it means that all of our bank accounts will be constantly spied for on no reason, under the premise of looking for welfare fraud. and it's important to say, obviously, we all want fraud to be dealt with, and the government already has really strong powers to investigate the bank account. suspects of fraudsters. but this is specifically for where there is no suspicion of fraud . so it no suspicion of fraud. so it turns the presumption of innocence on its head . it will innocence on its head. it will take away and end financial privacy as we know it in this country. it's an outrage . country. it's an outrage. >> is it just going to be focused on people? well, you would presume it would simply only be focused on people who are claiming benefits. >> well, that's a lot of people in this country. and it also includes pensioners, disabled people , carers and the banks people, carers and the banks don't have lists of people that receive benefits. and if they did, we'd have a kind of second class banking system. that would be something else to worry about, but what this means is then that anyone who receives a

benefit payment will be under extra, targeted monitoring. that's not just actually claimants, because parents of disabled children can receive their benefits. and indeed landlords can receive housing benefit on behalf of their tenants, for example. so we are going to see a lot of mistakes. we could see horizon style injustice because all of this will be administered by algorithms, it is a tory plan that failed under the last government brought back from the grave. and it's no wonder that, frankly , people feel like not frankly, people feel like not much in this country has changed. >> yeah, i mean, you did mention pensions, which is obviously a big slice of the welfare budget. i mean, there's not much so far that makes us look like labour have got a problem with pensioners, so they're probably fine. but the now, you mentioned the fact that defeated before but have to try and defeat it again. the trouble is look at the numbers you're up against in terms of getting something through parliament. it's really easy with a majority like starmer's got. yes. >> and that's what makes this really, really worrying because it is a complete step change in

this country. i can't emphasise what a change it is to not have financial privacy, to have extreme investigatory powers over your bank accounts when there is no suspicion whatsoever. so we have a petition running. i would urge anyone who cares about this to go to stop bank spying. com where we're running a campaign and we have to fight this fight. and i think all the public members of the public that care about this should, should take action, say something, do something, and we will have the fight of our lives in parliament and also the courts. if we have to. >> is there any way around it? i mean, i know this is not a consumer feature, but, you know, do we just use cash or barter with chickens? what's the way to not have your bank account spied on? >> well, it's really hard. i mean, everyone you know , mean, everyone you know, practically you need to have a bank account to receive benefits, and so there is kind of no real escape from this. this will affect the entire british population. and i'm sure there will already be people watching this worried about can i save up for my kids christmas presents? how much can i have in

my bank account? what if i get one of those letters through the door saying, you're under investigation? so you know, this will cause a huge amount of anxiety. and for the pensioners who, as you say, already have been under attack by this government, it needs to be stopped. >> so one of the ones that's talked about a lot is universal credit. you can't have more than 16 grand in the bank. as it is at the moment, i suppose you're not going to be monitored to the £1 over. but with the new system, is that the worry that it would simply be two checks get cashed at the same time, and it can suddenly end your benefits? >> it could be, but also they're going to be monitoring things like how many weeks have you spent abroad, under the last government, you know, we're still waiting to see the details of these plans. but under the last government, the criteria that they were looking for was secret. so we wouldn't even have known exactly what was going to flag someone for a review. but we do know that already that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are wrongly flagged for benefits reviews because of the algorithms that dwp have started using , adds

dwp have started using, adds population wide bank spying into the mix. we're going to have a real problem. so the best thing for the labour government to do would be to u—turn on this immediately. >> this is going to be a dumb question and totally unanswerable, but i feel the need to say it. how can you have a system where the criteria that's been checked is secret? that means no one knows what you've failed at. it seems absolutely ridiculous. >> it's completely kafkaesque, i don't know, do you choose kafka or orwell? because, you know, this is a surveillance state on steroids, and you know, keir starmer is a lawyer. not only is he a labour leader, he's a lawyer . he knows that there is lawyer. he knows that there is no other power in this country where you can do such an intrusive investigation, where there is no suspicion of wrongdoing whatsoever. this is a complete step change. and so if we if in the first 100 days of government, he's prepared to do that , what else government, he's prepared to do that, what else is coming down the pipeline? >> yeah, i mean, i know there are rules in place at the moment to do with tax , that if you are to do with tax, that if you are suspected of doing some sort of dodgy tax thing, then your bank accounts can be looked at. is it

not like a copy of that? is it vastly different from the powers that are already? >> it's completely different. those powers, quite rightly, already exist with regards to welfare, to so that, you know, and as a welfare claimant, you have to periodically provide bank statements and give all kinds of bits of evidence whenever dwp demands it. this is completely different . this says completely different. this says that constantly, on an ongoing basis, the banks will be looking into all of our bank accounts and then send flags to the government for the government to pursue investigations, so it also means that the banks are being deputised as part of this surveillance machine, which comes with its own dangers, because, you know, do we really want the banks looking at what we're spending on such a level to the point where they're trying to trigger criminal investigations and the repercussions of that, especially when they're then presumably trying to create subsets of benefits claimants? and as i've said, there are multiple reasons that that will go wrong. for example, landlords who receive benefit benefits

payments. and this is a really, really dangerous, slippery slope. and the other thing that it could do if benefit, if landlords now feel that they could be spied for on having benefits recipients in renting their homes, it could decimate their homes, it could decimate the housing market for people in receipt of benefits who already really struggle to get a roof over their heads. >> yeah, i mean, the bank that likes to say yes is now going to be the bank that likes to say yes to the government rather than to us. interesting. thank you very much for that. silkie carlo from big brother watch. thank you very much. up next, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from this wonderful. he says still creeping because it might work. studio audience and our vindication for a christian preacher who was wrongfully arrested after being surrounded by a mob shouting allahu akbar is this the beginning of the end of two tier policing? adam tash joins us to discuss her ordeal after this short break. see you in a moment

welcome back. so later in the show, i'll put my agony aunt hat and frock on and solve some of your unfiltered dilemmas. with the help of my panel, cressida wetton and bruce devlin. you can message us now gbnews.com forward slash your say and we will help you deal with all those some of the issues that you've got. two tier policing meanwhile has been at the forefront of the public agenda forefront of the public agenda for months now. arguably one such example of the problem was when ex—muslim christian preacher hattan tash was dragged away by police and kept overnight in a cell after being confronted by a muslim mob in hyde park. let's take a look. yes yes , yes .

yes yes, yes. >> rah rah rah i get back, get >> rah rah rah! get back, get back , get back , miss tash who is back, get back, miss tash who is who is director of defend christ critique islam and told that she was being arrested for criminal damage under a public order act, 1986 for wearing a charlie hebdo t shirt which depicted the prophet muhammad. >> she was subsequently strip searched and kept overnight in a cell. none of the demonstrators around her were arrested. she has now been awarded £10,000 in damages for a second time for wrongful arrest. we're joined now by christian preacher hat and tash to discuss the ordeal. thank you very much for coming on the show. so look, let's put the challenging question to you. first of all, you must have known what you were about to do and where you were going to do. it would upset some people. >> well, of course i know it's going to upset some people because i'm at speaker's corner where people come there knowing that they are going to be upset. i go there knowing that muslim

people are going to attack lord jesus christ, and i get upset about it. and then i continue the discussion. so if people are kind of going to be so much hurt, their feelings are going to be hurt so much, then they shouldn't be there. and, there is nothing wrong for me to wear the shirt of muhammad, or there is nothing wrong for me to carry a book which has problems in it. >> yeah, i was going to say, how is that technically technically considered criminal damage? wearing a t shirt? >> no, actually, criminal damage was just a second before you put the video up . i had was just a second before you put the video up. i had a was just a second before you put the video up . i had a quran with the video up. i had a quran with me. muslims stole my quran. we called the police to come so that they can, like, bring my quran back from the thief. so that's how police approach the quran i was holding has holes, physical holes in it . so physical holes in it. so apparently that is criminal damage. so i damaged my property. the one i paid for it got damaged. that was the criminal damage or you can

interpret that as i allowed my property to be stolen from me. therefore first i got arrested and then by the time i arrived the police station, it became that i committed a hate crime. wearing a t shirt that has the picture of muhammad, right? >> i mean, i would say you could make an argument about having some sympathy for the police that what they might be trying to do first goal is to try and avoid a problem, and therefore they move you away. but they kept moving you away. it's not like they simply separated you from the area. tell us what happened when you were detained overnight . overnight. >> but before that, i don't think i can show any sympathy to police or justify their action, because in that case, police needed to turn the crowd and then tell them to stop it or try to go and get my stolen book. but police gave my stolen book to people who stole it . and to people who stole it. and police has been doing that for the last four years actively at speaker's corner, so i was taken to the police station while my property stayed at speaker's

corner. my property was damaged and stolen , and they were still and stolen, and they were still at speaker's corner. i was strip search. strip search like they took all of my clothes on and then checked me out. and then 4:00 in the morning they questioned me. at that stage. they took my glasses from me as well. i couldn't read anything, and around 9:00 in the morning they told me i can leave . they told me i can leave. >> so what's your reading on their motivation? what do you think was happening ? think was happening? >> well, it's been happening for the last minimum of four years at speaker's corner. so police is not willing to or doesn't know how to control the muslim crowd who comes to speaker's corner with their feelings. therefore, for them, it is very much to easy shut down a christian speaker who is simply practising her freedom of speech, so police is kind of working, it seems policy is working, it seems policy is working for muslims and police is simply obeying what muslims

are willing to do , what muslims are willing to do, what muslims want police to do. so, policies has not been upholding my rights . has not been upholding my rights. and police expressed to me that they are not there to protect me. so, not sure how to interpret that, but i'm going to keep throwing these points at you, which are really annoying, but i'm just trying to see if i can get a bit of wriggle on this. >> do you have maybe not. sympathy might be too strong a word, but look at the numbers. it's easier to arrest or detain one person than all of the other people. there yes, the police are outnumbered effectively in that situation . that situation. >> police is not outnumbered there like i am not talking about you. turn up the speakers corner . i'm about you. turn up the speakers corner. i'm talking about the police who has authority to control the crowd. police didn't even told anyone to stop or move back. >> do you think the police been doing that for four years? >> minimum of four years at speaker's corner? >> yeah. do you think the police are fearful in some way ,

are fearful in some way, >> i'm not sure if they are fearful because they have they have got authority. they've got the power. i think they are not willing to do what they they supposed to uphold. my rights, but they are not willing to do that. and the other thing is, if police simply find it to easy remove me from the corner, and then that will calm the crowd. they wouldn't keep me until in the morning. they wouldn't search me. they wouldn't take my glasses from me as well as they wouldn't take me to interview at 4 am. they would simply let me go. but no , they wanted to show go. but no, they wanted to show the muslims that yes, they are willing to, make sure muslims are feeling happy and safe at speaker's corner while i was the one who is not safe. >> so while all of these things have happened to you now, which effectively prove your freedom of speech is somewhat at risk, the question that is posed do you still do it? do you still go, well , people

you still do it? do you still go, well, people are offending you quite a lot. >> i watch your programmes. i watch, 11:00 programme as well, that doesn't mean you should stay silent. i am christian by default. i want to tell people that jesus christ is lord. people need to worship him, and i want to have open debates and discussion with people who disagree with me, and i don't live in pakistan. i don't live in saudi arabia. live in pakistan. i don't live in saudi arabia . last time when in saudi arabia. last time when i checked, england is identified as great britain, so it is difficult to just let your very bafic difficult to just let your very basic rights to be taken from you, and no one would want that. so i don't want people to take very my very basic human rights from me because their feelings are being hurt. that's just wrong in every level . wrong in every level. >> well, we'll see you there at some point again soon. thank you very much for that. and thank you for coming on the show. let's get the views of the panel let's get the views of the panel. when you hear that story and we're talking free speech, are you not worried for how things are going? >> yeah, and that seems really

excessive and all over a t shirt. which other people have done far worse crimes to fashion. look at laura ashley for all those years and not one arrest, but i do. i mean, that does like to be strip searched and then interviewed at four in the morning really is that is that at all necessary. yeah. >> is it i mean, the fact that there was ten grand payment means that. i mean, look, at least the system recognises something went vastly wrong. it was almost like some of those steps were a punishment rather than any argument about slightly bizarre , isn't it, that they bizarre, isn't it, that they would think that was appropriate, why take a glasses as well? i mean, that's it's those details. it seems like what's going on there. >> i think that sounds a bit like what we used to call a hate crime, actually, steve, >> hate crime against the myopic. >> against the myopic. i was thinking of the christians, but no, you're right. the myopic. yeah, absolutely. i mean, very upsetting. it's speakers. it's speakers corner , obviously. speakers corner, obviously. i mean, that's the point. >> what was she offended about the 11:00 show? because i presume she meant headliners. i can't help but think i was included in that . included in that. >> she watches it, didn't really enjoy it. >> well , she got her glasses

enjoy it. >> well, she got her glasses for it because then you're getting the whole thing. >> yeah, that's the only reason she leaves the house to make sure she doesn't see any of the repeats. i'm not sure if that was implied, but it's the message i took from it. no, so it is. it is a worrying situation. but look, come on, the police numbers issue. if you were a police officer in that situation and you've got one person and you've got everyone else being all very shouty , who else being all very shouty, who are you going to move away? >> no, but she's been doing it for four years. on day one, they should have said no. that's before you start as my dad used to say, and nip it in the bud. it's just been allowed to go on for too long and that's what people are so upset about in general, isn't it, with policing? yeah. >> still two tier. >> still two tier. >> i just don't understand why they didn't take a man. sorry. why they didn't take a man, why they went for her specifically, you know. oh yes. no, not like that. wow. no, no, no, we've done philip. we're done, you know. come on, we have to move on. so. >> yeah, well. interesting stuff. well, thank you very much for that. coming up next, two just stop oil activists are locked up for throwing soup

again over a priceless van gogh that was back in 2022. you may remember. will the eco maniacs ever give up a just stop oil spokesman and a renowned art critic will be going head to head? stay with

us. paul us. paul, welcome back to free speech nation. lots of you been getting in touch with various things we've been talking about. barry gets in touch and says it's speakers corner for goodness sake. what a rubbish force. if they just do the easiest thing that's on our last topic. also, mike joins in on this and says if someone had put holes in a bible and was shouting, i might make a remark as i go past. interesting. what would the police then do about it? also, nicola gets in touch about the other topic of the government having a little look at your bank account. my bank account says nicola, never has anything in it anyway , i mean, anything in it anyway, i mean, that's why you want to keep it

secret, wouldn't you? you don't want people finding that stuff out anyway. keep them coming. it's gbnews.com/yoursay to get involved. moving on. earlier this week to just stop oil, activists were jailed for a 2022 attack on a classic van gogh painting with tomato soup. phoebe plummer and anna holland have received two years and 20 months jail term , respectively, months jail term, respectively, for causing over £10,000 worth of damage to the priceless, although i guess we could work out its price extrapolating that £10,000, the 1888 piece in court, plummer said my choice today is to accept whatever sentence i receive with a smile. it is not just myself being sentenced today or my co—defendants, but the foundations of democracy itself . foundations of democracy itself. what do just stop oil eco warriors expect to achieve with these stunts, as well as criminal damage? what is the cultural damage of such behaviour? well, i'm joined now to discuss these points further with by art critic and editor of art review magazine, jj charlesworth and spokesman for

just stop oil, doctor kush . just stop oil, doctor kush. nneka, thank you very much for coming in and. so i mean, have lessons been learned now? i guess because now there's a court summary. we're not going to see this anymore. is that what's happening? >> well, i think the question that phoebe asked when she carried out that action is what is worth more art or life? and i think it's a pretty common sense answer. if there was a fire in that gallery on that day, would you be going to save the painting , or you be going to save the painting, or would you be going to save the child that's in the gallery? obviously, what we need to take from this is the fact that our planet, our home, is on fire and we're not doing enough to protect lives. so i work as a doctor in the nhs on a day to day basis. i spend my all of my time trying to protect life. and now in the evenings and weekends, whenever i have spare time, i try to do that with just stop oil. >> but have you not made a false dichotomy there by given a choice between saving a baby or

some art, i would save a baby, but the act that we're talking about might not save the baby. effectively. you're saying save a baby or save art, but what are you going to do is throw some soup? well, none of them are going to be saved by the soup throwing. >> so right now, hundreds of thousands of people are dying because of the effects of the climate crisis . and nothing climate crisis. and nothing valid, but nothing that anyone has done so far has been able to protect those lives from being lost. so what i'm saying is, yes, because other things haven't saved them. >> will sewing, throwing soup save them just because others haven't? it doesn't prove that soupis haven't? it doesn't prove that soup is a solution . soup is a solution. >> i don't know, but i think it's worth trying. i don't think that we should take throwing soup at art off the cards. when it comes to facing what is an existential threat in terms of the climate breaking down. >> okay, jj, from the art point of view, how do you have what's your reading of this case? >> i think the question for me is why do that act to kind of take that that platform, get in the public eye, get it into social media to kind of throw stuff at a priceless painting attracts attention . so i mean,

attracts attention. so i mean, we can have a discussion about climate crisis or climate change in terms of what it does to do this. it basically draws everybody's attention to the idea that high culture or fine art, or things that we value very much aren't actually as valuable or as important as the one thing that we've all got to focus on, which is climate crisis. and i have a bit of an issue with that kind of the way in which that's essentially saying, look, everything you thought was important, it's saying, look, everything you thought was important , it's less thought was important, it's less important than being being completely committed to this one issue. >> but is that what you think is happening? and i'll let you answer. but my reading of it would be i mean, it's worked. it's not saying that art isn't as important as the environment, which, you know, again, you could have that debate, but if you'd have just filled in a form and sent a letter to an mp, you wouldn't be sat here talking about it. so it clearly works. you get the media discussion for sure. yeah. >> but i think that's that's part of the i think part of the tactic here is simply that if you're not going to win an argument with the public, or if you're not going to win the

argument by kind of building a big democratic movement to get the things that the policies that you want implemented. and by the way of course, you know, the reality is that a lot of politicians great big section of the political establishment is totally in favour of a lot of the things that just stop oil and other activists are calling for anyway. and the reality is that what this does is essentially take over the public realm. right? so that's that's the thing that's that's the that's the tactic. it's saying we're going to just take over everybody's attention and we're going to even even things that you think are sacred, right. or things that you, you cherish very much. they're not as important as the fact that we can take that space and get our message out there. i think there's some really some issues there's some really some issues there about, you know, the takeover of public debate and the takeover of public space. >> are you trying to win hearts and minds of people , and minds of people, >> not of the people in the art gallery . but what we can see is gallery. but what we can see is that it's had the intended effect. >> so, if so, and what is the intended effect? >> the intended effect is to get

policy change. and actually, what we've seen now with labour is that they have ended new oil and gas licences, which is exactly what that campaign's main ask was, >> so on that two points would be, do you think the reason that labour have ended that, do you think it's throwing ? i know i'm think it's throwing? i know i'm making it seem too childish, but do you think it's the protests that have brought about that change or the general election, which moved from a tory government to a labour government, brought about that change? >> you're not going to be able to tease it apart. but what what wasn't being talked about three years ago was oil and gas licences. i'd never heard of oil and gas licences. i'd be surprised if most of the people here had heard about oil and gas licences, but just stop oil droned on and on and on. every single time that a cultural action was taken or a slow march took place , all that we focused took place, all that we focused on was one clear demand to end oil and gas licences. so we've got that conversation started. we've won that demand. yes. and so now our next demand is actually of the labour government to sign up to an internationally binding treaty, a fossil fuel non—proliferation

treaty, because there's no point in us going this alone . what we in us going this alone. what we needis in us going this alone. what we need is for countries around the world to go with us. >> so do you give, should there be a period for the government to have a think about this before more soup gets thrown? or is there ever an end to the demand when that one gets fulfilled? is this forever just going to be a case of like, these acts will take place? >> well, look, i would love to not need to be going around throwing soup on things. >> you're the one who's making the need. it's not a need. you're you're. your aim is perfect. >> if the politicians did their job, which was to protect public health, then we wouldn't need to step up and act. you were talking earlier about our act. >> is. is linked to the outcome. >> is. is linked to the outcome. >> yeah, yeah. and i can't say how much of a percentage of an influence it had. but what i know is that for decades, action has not been taken effectively enough on the climate crisis. and then shortly after, quite large scale disruptive actions started taking place. we saw the

conversation focus in on a clear issue that was the continued licensing of oil and gas. and now that the public is on board with that having ended , right, with that having ended, right, do you think that art at some point could end up being safe or from what you're hearing now, do you think, well, this is just going to be ongoing forever? >> well, i think that there is a bit of an issue with a certain group of activists who think that it's their right and their duty to basically constantly, pull off these stunts , take over pull off these stunts, take over pubuc pull off these stunts, take over public debate, take over the media cycle for things that actually are not necessarily policies that are not actually that popular. right. it's not necessarily true that the public is with us, with just stop oil. the fact is that the political establishment or the political class, broadly speaking , is establishment or the political class, broadly speaking, is in sync with these kinds of policy demands. i would question whether, when it comes down to the idea of like cause and effect, i would really question look at it the other way around. i think activists like just stop oil are actually doing are essentially repeating or parroting or projecting what is

already a kind of consensus around policy, around climate policy . policy. >> but it must have been the case that those policies weren't enacted otherwise. >> well, i think i think there is a bit of an issue because i think actually a lot of people, you know, the public is not necessarily totally on board with this. and there's a big split between ordinary people who have to deal with the consequences of certain policy changes and initiatives, and politicians who are far more broadly speaking, in you know, you know, signed up for a lot of things which are actually going to kind of hit people down the line in terms of what the outcomes of those policies are for, you know, everyday life, whether you get to drive a car, whether you get to drive a car, whether you get to drive a car, whether you get to fly, you know, go and take an aeroplane on holiday, whatever. so there are things that, there is, i think, a serious split between how people view the activists. and i think a lot of the frustration with just stop oil was, was coming from the public. i think it was quite genuine that if just stop oil was just

getting in the way of you getting in the way of you getting on with your day , right, getting on with your day, right, it wasn't clear to a lot of people that that was a legitimate way to kind of make your message quickly running out of time. >> we've got less than a minute. you must have seen the newspaper articles that have done some surveys saying that actually some of these acts are putting people off. do you worry about that or is it surely there's an argument for a change of angle? >> so people don't need to like just stop oil to hear our message and our message has gotten through loud and clear and actually , people do not like and actually, people do not like the actions that we take. and i take that on board like nobody likes being disrupted. >> not be better to do an action that people liked, and then they might like your argument because of that. >> well, if that got through the same level of media coverage , same level of media coverage, then by all means, i'm ready to sign up for it. but this sort of action is what gets us the media coverage that is necessary to get this discussion running out of time. >> but okay, fascinating discussion. thank you. jj charlesworth and spokesperson for just stop oil doctor kushinagar. it's the end of the first hour of free speech nation . first hour of free speech nation. >> a brighter outlook with boxt

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next year. those are the latest gb news headlines. more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> welcome back to free speech nation. let's get some more questions from this audience. our first question comes from sir sexy. name this one steve. >> thank you very much. oh yeah. do you think a white actor should play heathcliff in the forthcoming wuthering heights film? >> interesting question. i'm glad you clarified the wuthering heights film, not the cartoony thing . that would have made it thing. that would have made it a very different thing. so yeah, a new wuthering heights adaptation has been dragged into a controversy after a white actor was cast to play the dark marks. heathcliff. interesting stuff, is this the kind of stuff that

keeps you awake at night, bruce? >> no. and i only know the song. yeah, i've not read the book. when you listen to kate bush, what i know, which is ironic, which what? >> hugh of heathcliff do you imagine she was singing about? >> i don't know, i don't listen in colour. i just like the tune. >> that's that's normally it's. people say, i don't see colour. you don't listen. >> listen. no, you're that progressive. yeah absolutely. although i have to say, one of my friends has just got in touch to say i look completely grey. so thank you for that. roman but yeah. no, i don't listen in colour . i yeah. no, i don't listen in colour. i just enjoy the melody. but no, you've read it, haven't you? read yeah, yeah, yeah, i can't because i don't have time. >> i have read it. i mean i think the issue here really is that he's australian obviously is that we can't have people roaming around the moors. oh, cathy, cathy, come back to it. that's not how we imagine the dingo ate my cathy, is it? i don't know, i mean , are we going don't know, i mean, are we going to have colour—blind casting or not? we can't make up our minds

about this, can we? as a society, sometimes it's in vogue to stray away from what? what was initially written. other times it isn't. and then there's this whole question of what ethnicity was he? the book references him being gypsy romani origin, we've had black actors playing him in the past. i mean , that's a lot of fuss. i mean, that's a lot of fuss. >> and yet, i mean, i totally agree with all of the path that we're walking down, but i suppose you get to the end of the path and you do think, you know, what if they if they remade, you know, rush hour and someone played jackie chan's character and, you know, it was a white guy with stuff around the eye area, you'd be against it, wouldn't you? >> i certainly would, yes. >> i certainly would, yes. >> so you know what i mean. it is a spectrum and it's a bit abandon. >> jackie chan. i've never seen rush hour, by the way. but wouldn't you just abandon that altogether and start again? and you know, how dare you! oh, really? >> no. but yeah. no, i take that point. but in general, there are there are some ethnicities playing other characters that you'd go no , come on. well, so i you'd go no, come on. well, so i guess there are some areas that you could complain about. >> yes. i think that's like white chicks . white chicks. >> yeah. have you seen that?

>> yeah. have you seen that? >> but isn't that inherent? >> but isn't that inherent? >> i like that film. >> i like that film. >> that is the plot of the film, though. if you only had, imagine your version of that where it's white people dressed up as white people. it feels like there's less to actually have as a plot . less to actually have as a plot. >> well, we'll disagree on that. okay. okay okay. >> fair enough. but on this particular one, like all the films, have always had him as played by a white guy from one film ever. yes. >> i guess it's not normally was he a real person? no, but what we're talking about then, because his, his , his the colour because his, his, his the colour of his skin is significant in the book, in the book, that's what's not being mentioned here. >> it's not in the song. i haven't said it. >> i think i mentioned in the song it's not in the song, not evenin song it's not in the song, not even in the 12 inch. so is it like steve really watershed , like steve really watershed, sort of his trigger phrases? i shouldn't have said it. oh this is why he's never allowed in subway again , subway again, >> who's the serial killer now ? >> who's the serial killer now? >> who's the serial killer now? >> oh, question. jeffrey dahmer, bob sievers, what question have you got for us? >> i don't know how i can save

you from that, the question is, is it all about david lammy? >> is it all about david lammy ? >> is it all about david lammy? well, he might think so because david lammy makes you the ukraine conflict about race and his experiences as a black man, interesting way of looking at it, isn't it? when talking about these these issues on the world stage, it turns out it's about david. >> yeah. what was his point as a black man? i'm thinking about my ancestors who were in chains, and therefore that informs the way i see russia colonising the ukraine. i think that was his position would have made more sense if at the end of it, he started talking about wuthering heights. >> absolutely . and there was a >> absolutely. and there was a music bed . music bed. >> who's going to play david lammy, yeah . it's just it's not lammy, yeah. it's just it's not a very sophisticated way of looking at it, is it, david? yeah. >> why do you think he took that, that angle? i've watched the clip and thought like, does he genuinely view everything about him first or is he. i don't want to get sued for this. but you know, bluffing sometimes i'll do that. give me a topic i

don't know anything about. and somehow i'll turn it back to a my life story one so i can fill for a while, which is great. >> and i think that's a skill on you. but given that he's a politician, i sort of assumed he'd have done some reading about the area. >> yeah. bruce, give us a good example of me asking you a topical question. you making it all about you instead, haven't i? >> i'm i?- >> i'm i'm i? >> i'm i'm what does danny minogue design on qvc ? minogue design on qvc? >> yeah, i'm sure this in some way does relate to it. i don't know what i mean. it's not going to be as good as kylie's wine. >> it's a petite, strange. oh, what? do you have any experience of petites? >> i don't even know what a petite is. >> petite is if you're a shorter person. oh, is that what they're called? a range of ladies clothes for shorter people? because danny's a shorter person. >> no, she's not, is she? >> no. she is. >> no. she is. >> i thought she was taller than kylie. >> there's not much in it. well, you know, have you ever met kylie? i'm. >> no, because i have, and it's all about me again. you're right. >> oh, it does feel good. >> oh, it does feel good. >> take it back . >> take it back. >> take it back. >> our next question i love.

it's just a fact check. i've just been told that my age. she's five foot one. i love that they fact check that. as if that would be like. >> i can't believe that's the biggest thing, isn't it? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> kylie's not that big though, is it? >> our next question is from john. what have you got for us, john, >> are gay, transsexual and bisexual people more likely than anyone else to suffer from dementia? >> interest that pause you gave of the word gay left us all worried. were you going to go? so the background to that story is lgbtq people are indeed at higher risk of dementia and depression than their straight peers, according to a study. this is research from the yale school of medicine that found that a group had a 15% higher risk of brain health problems. >> i bruce, sorry, are you who said that? who's speaking? are you feeling? are you doing all right? >> i'm feeling okay, but you seem very depressed. are you gay ? seem very depressed. are you gay? just a wee bit. that's why we'll

talk about it after the show. >> in the sense of being a happy >> go in the s en se of be in g a ha ppy >> in the sense of being a happy go lucky, cheerful, happy go lucky, gay used to be in my day. >> focus. let's keep it up to date. i think this is outrageous. and also, they've basically said that all lesbians are well nourished. if no. but they have , they've basically they have, they've basically said 41% of lesbians. they say not me. by the way. so don't come for me, okay? i'm busy . not me. by the way. so don't come for me, okay? i'm busy. i'm 41% are morbidly obese or obese. no, no lesbians. did you read this as well ? you're no, no lesbians. did you read this as well? you're a no, no lesbians. did you read this as well ? you're a real this as well? you're a real swot, sandy. >> yes, i am a swot. swot, sandy. >> yes, i am a swot . they said >> yes, i am a swot. they said that the daily mail this is that 40 gay women had a 41% higher chance of being obese than straight women. i think what the article is getting at that we looked at is that gay people, possibly on average , have possibly on average, have a lifestyle that might be less healthy . now, in your case, you healthy. now, in your case, you do like a drink and a party. >> haven't had a drink for three weeks and we're all astonished. yes for the rest of you, what i'm guessing is i once heard that gay men are overrepresented in the arts because they

historically were less likely to have children to stop them doing it. >> and i wonder if there's something in that, whether gay people, think that they're going to ruin their own life by becoming alcoholics because they can't have children. >> naturally . can't have children. >> naturally. no, can't have children. >> naturally . no, this can't have children. >> naturally. no, this is a nice environment, isn't it? >> naturally. no, this is a nice environment, isn't it ? feet environment, isn't it? feet being trotted out tonight. >> the other thing is, it's a load of nonsense. and it's just yale making up some woke stuff. so we feel sorry for gay people. i don't know, i don't feel sorry for gay people. >> they bring it on themselves. oh, god, look at this audience . oh, god, look at this audience. totally gay. they've behaved appallingly. totally gay. they've behaved appallingly . they've fallen appallingly. they've fallen asleep. their phones have been going off. one man nearly choked. he was so gay. this is outrageous . where is my uber? outrageous. where is my uber? >> is it not a classic case of at least it's correlation, not causation , isn't it? surely no causation, isn't it? surely no one's looking at this survey and going, if you want to lose weight, be slightly less gay. >> that's actually a really good marketing thing. >> it might work. >> it might work. >> just be gay monday through wednesday, like paul mccartney's meat free mondays. well, absolutely. and have you cheap meals at the weekend? >> fair enough .

>> fair enough. >> fair enough. >> well, the other gay person got a better crack on next on free speech nation. >> british cultural icon dame joan collins spoke exclusively to gb news about how woke culture has gone mad . myself and culture has gone mad. myself and my panel will have a look at this fabulous ladies

next. welcome back to free speech nafion welcome back to free speech nation . so british cultural icon nation. so british cultural icon and star of the stage and screen here. and hollywood dame joan collins sat down with gb news andrew pierce earlier this week to give her thoughts on what's been going on in the world. she took the opportunity to slam woke culture and lament how we've all lost our idiosyncratic british sense of humour. let's take a listen . take a listen. >> tell me, about the modern world now. >> it's very fashionable now to call you all actors, but on the

whole i like to be called an actress. >> it's a very pretty word . >> it's a very pretty word. it's. and it's feminine, and i consider myself to be feminine and a feminist. consider myself to be feminine and a feminist . and why should and a feminist. and why should we be called female actors? i find it demeaning. >> and do you think this wokery thing has got a bit too much of this? >> wokery good god, yes, you know i do, i do, i think it's gone out of control. yeah. really you can't say anything and people get offended . we've and people get offended. we've lost our british sense of humour. >> okay, let's run this past our comedian panel. cresta. what do you think? joan collins can't say that she wants to say. >> oh, i wasn't expecting that. >> oh, i wasn't expecting that. >> i know it's a tricky question. i think that in the car on the way in, i think. >> didn't we have a discussion the other day that she had some views on outing her now about trans, that she wasn't very happy to talk about, and she felt inhibited. the thing is, you never know what people don't say, do you? you don't know when they're editing. that's the point. we've just got this culture that makes people check themselves so we'll never know what great, potentially bigoted pearls of wisdom we might have got out of her.

>> and before we get back into the, you know, has wokeness affected comedy? the first point she made about being called an actress rather than an actor? as actress rather than an actor? as a comedian, do you prefer comedienne or i do female comedian? >> well, it's a bit of a joke, isn't it? among comics that people say that. but i take her point. she's saying. she's saying, why would you if you if you say female actor, you're making the man the default, aren't you . and i've often said aren't you. and i've often said there's nothing more misogynistic than feminism, do i mean that? i'm not sure. i haven't decided. what was the question? do i think she should be called an actress? well, it's up to her, isn't it? yeah it's up to her, isn't it? yeah it's up to her, isn't it? yeah it's up to the comedy thing, then. >> bruce, look , you strike me as >> bruce, look, you strike me as someone who doesn't have to worry about what you're saying. says you'll get away with it, surely. do you self edit? >> no . he started taping things, >> no. he started taping things, haven't you? >> don't do that. >> don't do that. >> phone calls in comedy clubs? >> phone calls in comedy clubs? >> yes. are you worried about the hate crime though? >> so i was so in the beginning with the hate crime thing. i did write to every club that i say

write to every club that i say write phoned and said, listen , i write phoned and said, listen, i know i say i apologise for the use of language. oh sorry biatch. biatch. sorry i'm. you know, as a woman, i'm allowed to say that female dog. ehm. what was i going to say? and i did say can you record my gigs? and there was only one club that said no, we don't do that and we're not going to do it, and the hate crime bill in scotland hasn't come to anything. ehm yeah.in hasn't come to anything. ehm yeah. in the main i think anyone can make a joke about anything, but you have to remember there are people that are going to be there for the purposes of being offended, and these people do come with them. wow, i thought that was joan backing up the bigot truck. ehm, but you know, these people do come with the mindset that their offence, whatever it is , even though just whatever it is, even though just they're stupid and they haven't got what you've said is more important than what you're actually saying, if you see what i mean . yeah, but i think you i mean. yeah, but i think you can say what you like, but you have to accept the consequences of that. >> the idea. i think when people use the word woke and it's a pointless word because it means different things to different people. exactly. but the thing that we're kind of talking about, and i think you've hit the nail on the head, these

people who think that they're upset is the biggest thing in the entire world. we should just learn to ignore them. >> they just seem so ignorable. but, you know, something in life, and i mean this quite seriously, there is an off button. not literally, but metaphorically. stop involving yourself. you're not important. i remember being at a gig and a woman went, you've triggered me. and i went, you've triggered me. and i went, you've triggered me. and she went, how? i went, what you're wearing. and she just turned and walked away and i thought, i'm just i'm not getting into that. it's ridiculous. i actually quite like the shoes. but anyway, we'll move on. ehm, i wasn't going to give her the, the, you know, the satisfaction, but it's like, stop coming out then, you know, go, go to the theatre, go and see something that you know, you know, some people might have read the kate bush song and you'll know what you're going to say. in the same way, if you go to a panto, you know what you're going to see. don't come to comedy. if you're worried about . comedy. if you're worried about. it was like bianca del rio, who is from who is fantastic. did you go and see her recently? brilliant. i mean , honestly brilliant. i mean, honestly makes me look like julie andrews. she is insane and just nothing. you know, joan rivers lives and thank god for it. and a friend of my friend said that was really offensive. and it's like you knew what you were

coming to see grow up. >> yeah. so oh, look, stand up comedy i think is one thing we're probably things might settle down where we can get away with saying more things on stage, in a room where someone has to turn up to the, you know, and buy a ticket. it says comedy on the ticket. you want to get a tv show commissioned. that's a different thing in this modern day world, isn't it? >> i would imagine so, steve. yeah, not my area of expertise, but yes, i think that's more censorial than stand up, stand up. >> you can kind of push back. and if someone, you know, insult their clothes. >> a colleague of ours was saying recently that years ago when he was doing stand up, you would say in the stand up club things that you couldn't possibly say at a dinner party, and now it's the other way around. >> nice. >> nice. >> yeah. i think you can say whatever you like as long as you wink at the end . wink at the end. >> let's not test that right now. i feel i feel like i'd have to do a lot of apologising. just because people on listening on radio right now. >> what about you, steve? seriously, just wink or don't wink . wink. >> i'm not me and kylie, as you know. but so, i mean, yeah , i'm know. but so, i mean, yeah, i'm not sure if how much joan collins impact life gets

impacted by these issues, but a lot of us, although she would like to come and do headliners, we'd be very happy to have that. >> she won't do. i am totally on that night, by the way. >> i don't care because she's not allowed to say what she wants to say. >> she'd never, never go, oh no, she wouldn't, would she? yeah, that's true. >> but yeah, i mean, if you look at some of the comedies that aren't reshown now because of some issues, and on this show we will have talked about, you know, the episode of fawlty towers. but there's also things like series three of league of gentlemen. no one ever talks about how that is. no, that's never getting shown again. and yet we like loads of stuff. >> well, the stuff with what's his name? walliams. and matt lucas. yes. little britain , and lucas. yes. little britain, and rightfully so, i think, because some of it was just in my opinion, quite, quite racist. >> yeah. matt lucas is the yeah, he was the racist in that show. yeah. the transphobic one was david walliams. i think they really distributed it. the lady. >> yeah. yes. >> yeah. yes. >> yeah. yes. >> yeah. it's interesting why if this stuff would ever get. yeah we'll get made. well fair enough. we'll see if we can get joan on headliners. but till

then next on free speech nation, ex—boss and free speech warrior elon musk teases that he may get rid of the block button for his social media platform enhancement or hindrance for freedom of expression. commenter, commenter and social media buff jess gill joins me to delve into this in a moment. stay

welcome back to free speech nation. lots of you getting in touch, keeping coming through . touch, keeping coming through. someone called steve. it's a sexy name, says david lammy. is really spelled david lammy or is it meme? i don't know, you can't tell. these days in the modern day world, la meme . because he day world, la meme. because he wants to trend on social, it could be either another viewer says heathcliff, can't he just use a tanning booth , alistair use a tanning booth, alistair says , out of curiosity, is says, out of curiosity, is anyone present ever offended by

anything said on gb news? we can ask live audience have you ever been offended by anything said on this channel? no, just it feels like i've put you under pressure. what's that? sorry. >> only what i've said myself. >> only what i've said myself. >> oh, that's the only reason you turn up here is to be offensive. thank you. and i'm sure we've enjoyed the paperwork that ofcom makes us jump through. keep them coming through , keep them coming through, gbnews.com/yoursay to get involved. now x, formerly known as twitter boss free speech crusader and meme king. meme king you can't tell these days. elon musk has suggested that he may axe the block function on his social media platform. posting on his platform, musk wrote hi time this happened. the block function will will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing public posts . critics argue that the posts. critics argue that the move would be a victory for stalkers and harassers and make people less safe online. is it a step forward or this is a step backwards? well, i'm joined now by political commentator and social media buff jess gill

joins us. are you pro block or anti block? and by the way, before we get into it have you blocked me? i have not blocked you okay. >> good. maybe after this maybe after this. yeah. >> so what do you think of this move. >> yeah i think essentially it is the right move not to be taken lightly because of course, oftentimes a lot of people block for the sake of, you know, preventing stalkers and harassers. and that's completely legit. but the block button isn't the only way you can do that. there's the report button as well. if something is taken too seriously, the reality is that the block button has been utilised by triggered leftists like james o'brien, like claudia, web , like, a professor claudia, web, like, a professor at king's college london i recently got blocked by. yeah, all my professors hate me. all my leftist professors, they blocked me. >> the common theme is the professors, >> just all these leftist political commentators, they must spend hours going on twitter. just block, block, block anyone who disagrees. and it just creates an echo chamber. >> okay, but the idea of you saying, look, if things get taken too far, you can report. well, that's only if things get

taken too far on a tweet or a post. as i guess we call them now. what happens if it's someone that you've got non—twitter based beef with, and you know that this person is a problem in your life, you want to block them. you can't report it because there's no tweet to report. so in the old days you'd block them and then they'd have to use their fake account to read your tweets, but now you'd be losing that that. so there's another group of people maybe being less likely more vulnerable. >> yeah, that is a good point. and it's something that we have to consider. but at the same time, if you're sharing vulnerable information, then maybe you shouldn't be sharing it. >> i'm not saying necessarily that the information is vulnerable. it's about what people can do, isn't it? if every time you post, someone wants to get involved and just say something at the end of it, it's going to ruin your experience online. that was one of the great things about, look, let's be honest, working here, you can do a shift and you go home and there's just some people who've decided that they're just going to say some nasty stuff. so you just click blocking and then you don't have to worry about them anymore. that could go. not that i'm the biggest, most vulnerable person in it, but that's just an example. >> yeah, i think we've all had

our fair share of awful twitter tweeters, but at the same time, it comes with the job. that's the point of free speech, quite frankly, that you are opening yourself up to having negative comments. i've received loads of negative comments , but at the negative comments, but at the same time, and i'm sure it's the same time, and i'm sure it's the same with you, we wouldn't be, you know, commentating right now if we weren't aware that there could be pushback. so i think that's just something you have to take in mind. and like i said, if it does go so far, reporting is always the thing. and maybe that user isn't isn't suitable for twitter if it's that far. but there are just some mean comments where you just have to have thicker skin. i guess . i guess. >> okay, i mean, you, you frame it as it being an issue of the left that they are blocking . left that they are blocking. surely people on the right also see a tweet from someone who's deciding to, you know, say something particularly left wing and they'll easily block. i mean, it's a useful function that people of both sides have surely enjoyed . surely enjoyed. >> yeah, i'm not saying that no right winger has ever blocked anyone. right winger has ever blocked anyone . i of course, of course anyone. i of course, of course they have. i think the point goes more towards that. we've allowed this leftist echo

chamber to arise, and i think the block button has been a fundamental part of that. again any criticism on many political commentators who say they have tough skin, who say you know, they want to speak to the public, and james o'brien , not public, and james o'brien, not to name names, is a great example of that. he just blocks anyone who disagrees with him, and especially when it comes to members of parliament as well, who are meant to represent the people. and then they go about blocking the people who they're meant to represent. so i think that's an absolute joke. yeah. >> i mean, that taken to its extreme, is something we've actually been through. there was actually been through. there was a court case in america where donald trump wasn't using the official presidential. that's a weird sentence. the official presidential twitter account. what kind of a sick world do we live in? but he was he was using his own blocking people, and it went through the courts to actually work out whether that was allowed to prevent a citizen from reading the president's tweets. and i suppose on a smaller level, the same thing happens with our mps. >> yeah, absolutely. although i would disagree with that. i think it's musk's choice as the

owner of twitter or as the owner of the business rather than the government. and at the same time as well, if this block button, if the block feature being removed, is this massive issue that destroys twitter, again, he will have to suffer the consequences of that. if people want to go to a platform where they are allowed to, they are able to block stalkers and people who harass them or even just mean comments. and there are plenty of other platforms for that. >> yeah, and i suppose it'd be able to afford it. it'll be all right if twitter falls, he'll still be able to afford food. not a problem, yeah. the idea. it's interesting that you described it as creating a left wing echo chamber, which you could say that twitter was that pre elon musk. but surely now, i mean some people are saying if anything it's become more of a right wing echo chamber. >> i wouldn't say it's a right wing echo chamber. again, if you're a right wing account, you can still see other left wing comments. in fact, i think a lot of people on the right, because they fundamentally value free speech. they go out of their way to find and respond to the left

wing attacks . when i speak to wing attacks. when i speak to some of my left wing friends, they actually have no idea about they actually have no idea about the right wing arguments. and i think actually, maybe it's because the left don't do their due diligence when it comes to finding those arguments, and responding to them, and that's because they want to just have this echo chamber. and i think that's fundamentally because why do they need to respond to right wing comments? because they're not represented anywhere in the mainstream media, and they can just block the right wing comments on twitter? >> yeah, that's a problem with the algorithm, not the block feature, though, isn't it? like the algorithms on social media in general give you what you want? that's the problem. >> yeah. but i think also if you have political comment, if you have political comment, if you have political comment, if you have political content, you will see a range. and i think on my twitter feed, i'm not sure about yours, but you do see a range of it. i see loads of pro—palestine comments for example. and again, like i said, i think even if the algorithm does favour a certain group of content , you can have group of content, you can have that ability to go out of your way to find that content as well. yeah, yeah. >> and we're talking about this

through the lens of free speech. but actually this it's kind of not free speech. you are free to say. so this is about the freedom to stop people reading what you've said. it's almost the opposite of free speech. it's being able to control your own speech . but surely it's own speech. but surely it's something you think you've got the right to do. >> i mean, i think when you post something on twitter, you are aware that other people can access it. again, i still, i think it's still a feature, but you can still make your account private as well. if you want to limit who you can see. but to the point of making your account pubuc the point of making your account public on twitter is that you're allowing anyone to see it. and i think that's what it is. but again, if we want to talk about free speech, i think the issue is more so you're stopping people from responding to that. you're not giving them a voice to respond to what you say. you're saying that this is my speech and no one dare to respond. and i think that's the issue . issue. >> interesting. have you ever blocked anyone? >> yes, i have admittedly. >> yes, i have admittedly. >> can you tell us who and why, >> can you tell us who and why, >> again, just mean comments.

it's not that i, you know, obviously no one likes a mean comment and i have i've had people like , photoshopped my people like, photoshopped my face on like random things like fat people and loads of random stuff. >> and obviously i thought that happened to me once, but it was just an actual screenshot of hosting this show. when they do a side angle on headliners, they never do a side angle. you don't find out until you do this. but okay. so yeah, i mean, look, that's that's getting close towards look, that's the stuff on social media that can impact people's mental health. >> yeah of course. but again , >> yeah of course. but again, that's something i'm willing to take as a public figure . well, a take as a public figure. well, a political commentator perhaps, but i think the difference is that i'm willing to put myself out there. and if it wasn't on twitter, i could still, you know, find these comments elsewhere. people can still write into for gb news example, people can still write and just say my name and then is an awful person or whatever. they can still have their speech and me blocking them actually isn't going to do anything other than me not seeing it. they're still going to be able to see that.

and in all honesty, if me having some, you know, mean comments is the price we have to pay for getting rid of the block button , getting rid of the block button, i'm willing. i'm willing to pay for it. >> i'm going to have such fun in the car on the way home. when i find your twitter account . thank find your twitter account. thank you very much for that. social media commentator jess gill. you very much for that. social media commentator jess gill . all media commentator jess gill. all right, next on free speech nafion right, next on free speech nation . what does keir starmer nation. what does keir starmer eat for lunch ? hostage. hostage eat for lunch? hostage. hostage roles. that's too funny. it's too funny . the tories can't too funny. the tories can't spell churchill and labour just loved to party. plus, i'm your agony aunt for the evening with unfiltered dilemmas. back in a moment

welcome back to free speech nation. lots of you have been getting in touch with various topics. we've been talking about. joseph, thank you for this one. joseph says they

should go and chain themselves to the chinese and indian embassies. the biggest world emitters that's talking about just stop oil. nigel says, probably not that nigel, but nigel says you don't have to read what anybody you don't like posts. it's as simple as that. yeah, but then where would the anger come from? and coral says, such a funny show tonight with steve and crew . oh. thank you. steve and crew. oh. thank you. check checks in the post. i'm kidding. it's a bacs payment, keep them coming through. gbnews.com forward slash your say to get involved and it's time now for social sensations. this is the part of the show where we look at what's been going viral this week on social media. first up is this video. uptown funk you up uptown uptown funk. >> you up .

>> you up. >> you up. >> why do they so if you were listening on the radio just thinking, you know what? why is the world ended? this is karaoke at the party conference. oh, why do they do that? >> well, i think because they want to enjoy themselves. they should stop emily thornberry clearly is a bit of a goer. i've always thought that about her. i think she likes a heavy gin. she likes a fistful of twiglets. she likes a fistful of twiglets. she likes fun. she's a busy girl. and i think if she if she's had the best remake of a film i've ever seen , a few good twiglets ever seen, a few good twiglets if she's had a very heavy conference, you let her pop on that sparkly bomber that she got from shane dotcom and i like her jig from shane dotcom and i like her jig around with anas if she wants to go. emily marvellous hair. it's so thick. >> am i being a killjoy then? looking at that thing? we're meant to respect these people. >> boris has got it completely wrong. oh, how rude. >> would it be okay if the conservative party conference. >> no it wouldn't. i think

karaoke is evil and wrong. oh, no, i'm not. i'm not at all. final offer. >> really? yes. do you want to phone a friend? >> i'll always think. oh, you do these things. you must be outgoing. absolutely not. no control freak. and i would hate to be doing that. i don't know why it appeals to them. >> no, i think it's up to them. it's not something i would do, right? i mean, on the issue of a woman of her size, she moves well. bruce surely i can see that it's another woman of my size. thank you very much. stop it's not panto yet. grow up. it's not panto yet. grow up. it's a good way to burn off calories as well. >> i suppose . >> i suppose. >> i suppose. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> she's speaking of political balance, which we should bring to the show , there's a video of to the show, there's a video of priti patel and nigel farage. let's take a look at this one. oh oh, look at this last year. >> and, oh, look at that. i mean, really, if you're doing so much dancing, it's all elbows and shoulders. >> can i just say emily clearly has a natural sense of rhythm . has a natural sense of rhythm. >> really? if we were to pick one out of the two, we have to go lord alli. >> i think at least nigel is

wearing his own face in one of those earlier clips. they're all wearing nigel farage masks. that's a bit weird, isn't it? >> oh, like i am john malkovich. yes, i did that on a flight, leaving dundee dressed as lorraine kelly once. no, i did , lorraine kelly once. no, i did, why? just for fun. >> okay . i believe you know it's true. >> did it match your passport? >> did it match your passport? >> i don't think they asked. how can i say? because dundee airport's really small. it's like a portakabin. and the person that gives you your tunnock's wafer is the person that checks you through. it was me and my niece and nephew when they were a lot younger. it was good. >> fair enough. well, there's another video to get right about. let's take a look at this one. >> i call again for an immediate ceasefire in gaza. the return of the sausages, the hostages . the sausages, the hostages. >> it's just the best mistake to make , isn't it? it's. it's been make, isn't it? it's. it's been funny for a week. this is great. >> you know, the funny thing is, i know where all the money has gone. now, we don't know this, but keir is actually in the uk version of drag race this season, and he's had to spend all that on wigs and costumes and all that kind of stuff. so it's all

tax deductible. >> all right, so put them under a lot of pressure and is this a real sausage or an ai sausage? no, no that one's real isn't it? i mean, you mean there are a! clips these days? that's the problem with al. we don't believe a genuine gaffe when we see it. >> that's the thing. because i saw hillary clinton being interviewed about one sean combs, and i didn't think those were necessarily the words that hillary would have said of her own volition. >> did she mention sausages? >> did she mention sausages? >> she didn't. but i think sausage is word. >> let's move on. i shouldn't have even said i should know. i should know not to even let you start , because i have to. i have start, because i have to. i have to apologise for it afterwards. what do you mean? it was. did you enjoy that clip? >> i did when i first saw it again, i thought it was. i made the assumption and found out later that apparently it was real. do you think at home him and victoria use that as an in—joke and he let it slip? i mean, why is he saying that? the words they're not that alike. >> well, hostage and sausage, it feels like they could be a phonetic anagram. >> i'm not convinced. and there's a lot of very conspiratorial people saying the whole thing was a was an on purpose mistake, really, because pork sausages? no yes. all

right. yes. that. no. >> that one that one offends both sides equally, doesn't it. that's the beauty of pork sausages. >> why? >> why? >> because . because muslims and >> because. because muslims and jews don't eat pork. >> oh , god. right. sorry. you >> oh, god. right. sorry. you have to think all the time on this. you can neverjust coast. this. you can never just coast. honestly, it's doing my head in too much. yeah, it's been it's been actually that makes sense. sorry to interrupt because i remember being in the middle east and they had pork beside the sausages at the buffet. there were. and i thought, why are you doing that? of course it comes up. but that makes perfect sense. >> thank you. blows my mind that you worked in the middle east. >> i know, and i'm still alive. >> i know, and i'm still alive. >> okay, surely you didn't do anything like this when you were in the middle east, did you? >> kind of. yeah. okay. >> kind of. yeah. okay. >> you can't go back. actually, you can go back. >> yeah, i just give them a wink. >> lorraine kelly can never fly back there. >> no. absolutely not. she's brought this all on herself . brought this all on herself. >> all right, move on to the next one then. here we have another for us to enjoy . another for us to enjoy. >> divas. you all wanted to see more of me. this elephant armour is slaying the house down. if

you're having a minty baby, take some time to admire the pavia diorama dioramas. some time to admire the pavia diorama dioramas . give me life . diorama dioramas. give me life. girlboss. this civil war armour is giving gigachad energy hella educational. make sure you flex on all your friends. dripped out in our fresh gums. hit us up my guys, we are low key flexing with free entry . slay i mean with free entry. slay i mean thatis with free entry. slay i mean that is so good, isn't it? >> it's the royal armoury museum. they do a bit of public social media publicity. it works. i could sit watching him talk like that all day. >> really? i'm so done with it. really? yeah. it's been littered. we need something new. it's all this demure and mindful nonsense and he's not slayed anything in his life, let alone anything in his life, let alone a dragon . a dragon. >> well, it's polished off a couple of dinners, i imagine. >> are you saying gigachad is high brow? >> what ? gigachad? >> what? gigachad? >> what? gigachad? >> yes. that suit of armour had gigachad energy. >> look at you throwing me with your facts. no one's interested. >> i think he's delightful.

>> i think he's delightful. >> i think i mean, because i know you're both younger than me, so i. it's like that for me, that was like listening to a clip in foreign language where i can hear sounds, but i don't know what any of it means. if you can, you're young. do you, do you do you speak? do you say lit in sentences? >> guess what gigachad means, right? well, it's a no. >> i'm not million. it's billion. >> it means drunk. >> it means drunk. >> does it ? >> it means drunk. >> does it? yeah. you'd think i'd know that. >> yeah, well, clearly you've been out with me often enough, and neither of us have children. >> that's why i think that was . >> that's why i think that was. absolutely. yeah, i'd watch that guy doing it all the time. okay. right. meanwhile, moving on to this one. oh, this is good. spotted at the conservative party conference. worth remembering. that's where it was something you'd think that they wouldn't get wrong. take a look at this , it's an area named at this, it's an area named after perhaps the greatest leader. some would say even the great sir winston churchill is misspelled on a on a pretty vibrant sign and called out by the expresses christian calocane. it says, how do you pronounce what is it ? crutch. pronounce what is it? crutch. crutch. william. crutch hill .

crutch. william. crutch hill. crutch. william. crutch hill. crutch. that sounds like a place where you wouldn't want to visit too often, would you? >> well, some people might, it really depends on what your hobbies and interests are as a dyslexic person, i have empathy for the person that wrote this . for the person that wrote this. but you think there would be a fact checker to just say this is nothing to do with anyone's crutch? >> what have you typed into it? it would do a wiggly red line underneath it. you'd pay attention to that one slightly red line . red line. >> absolutely. yeah. or the, the, the paperclip that used to go doo doo. it looks like you're writing a letter. >> no wonder you don't know about giga chads. if you still thinking about that. anyway, i thinking about that. anyway, i think the express. what are they doing putting this on the internet? just just tell someone it can be corrected. so quickly. yeah. >> oh, but no, this is like people filming a robbery these days. no one gets involved and helps. they think, oh, this will do well on tiktok. >> and they just filmed the bebe and this could be an i imagine that we didn't even guess that first. >> oh, you think someone's deliberately it, i don't know, 2024. >> everything's a hoax right now. >> the part of the show where i

like this bit, we talk through your unfiltered dilemmas. our first dilemma is from chloe , who first dilemma is from chloe, who says, i've been friends with this , with this sarah, since this, with this sarah, since i was at college. and whenever we would go out, she couldn't afford a drink or food and i would pay for it. oh, nice. now she can afford it, but she refuses to pay for it. how do i tell her that she should pay more often? on i'll go to you, christa. but it feels like a man dilemma. >> it feels like a man dilemma. well, how do you pick the right person? >> yeah. how do you. but how do you how do you talk someone into, like. yeah we're through that phase now. you have to pay as well, >> well, don't hang out with her anymore. come on. i couldn't have that. i don't do conflict. i just let it all go in and have that. i don't do conflict. ijust let it all go in and in. i just let it all go in and in. eventually i'll have a stomach ulcer, but i won't have to go out drinking with sarah. >> that's true. any stomach ulcer, you don't want to eat that much. so you wouldn't go out all the time. and now you just tell her? >> yeah, i just tell her. honestly. i broke up a fight tonight on the elizabeth line. seriously? there was two people battering each other, and i went, could you take that onto the platform? people need to get

to the work. they left the. >> also, you could have said, could you just take that onto the central line ? that's more the central line? that's more central line behaviour isn't it, as piccadilly line, maybe, but the elizabeth line. come on. >> i know it's shocking. yvette cooper people in woolwich. it's a disgrace. >> so you just. would you drop the friend line or just say pay or just the friend line or just say pay orjust rob her? or just rob her? >> i would just say, look , you >> i would just say, look, you owe me a load of money, so either give me the money or start paying for stuff or i want like six nights out where you fit the bill. and if you're not going to do that, then get out of my life. get on the elizabeth line. i hope you're involved in a fight. sarah. >> yeah. this. sarah. our second dilemma comes from andrew, who says , me, not andrew. hopefully says, me, not andrew. hopefully not that we'll find out . me and not that we'll find out. me and my partner gave a spare key to our our to the house, to my wife's best friend, just in case we lost our key . however, she we lost our key. however, she keeps coming into the house without being invited. last week icaught without being invited. last week i caught her eating our food. i told her not to come into the house without being invited. our friend said i am being unreasonable. what should i do? >> oh my god, take the key for a start. yeah, go round the house,

steal whatever back you need to make yourself feel better. but. and get rid of her. she's scum . and get rid of her. she's scum. >> whoa there. >> whoa there. >> elizabeth, introduce to her sarah. yeah. >> see who's going to pay for what? fighting over a bucket of chicken. >> how would you deal with this, cressida? >> terrifying. i think maybe i do. you know what i'd do? i'd invite bruce round. i deal with that. yeah. it's horrific. i mean, why are you giving the behaviour? yeah, yeah. >> why are you giving the key? >> why are you giving the key? >> these people not know about a key box. you know this little box? >> you're an airbnb landlord? >> you're an airbnb landlord? >> yeah, exactly. just get one of those. if you're worried about you know, also, if you're worried that you might lose your key, grow up. try. try that. >> if you think you might lose your key, you shouldn't have a house. good point. that really is the bottom line. yeah, take some responsibility. have some dignity. who are you? >> no more locksmiths. if you lose your keys, you've lost the house. >> shut timpson's down. no! >> shut timpson's down. no! >> get a padlock . that's the >> get a padlock. that's the answer. that's the expo to me. you can't lose your keys. it's brilliant. you just have to know the code. if you don't know that, then you're in trouble.

>> yeah, it's easy to change the code than it is to change the locks, our final dilemma this week comes from john. my neighbour walks her dog at three in the morning every night, which wakes me up. what should i do about it? >> tell her. >> tell her. >> i mean, i'm presuming i hope i'm presuming. >> but what's the dog doing? is the dog screaming ? is it doing the dog screaming? is it doing noisy stools? is it passing urine at a rate of knots? that's like being, i don't know, some kind of cacophony. this seems made up. i'm not going to lie. but if they are three in the morning, i would get up at three in the morning and say, you've woken me. could you walk your dog during daylight hours, please? and the dog must want to sleep. >> yeah. i mean, i'd hope that this john mentioned it to the neighbour before emailing a television station. >> well, he wasn't able to because he didn't have his key and he was in some woman's house that had eaten all the cheese. so this has all been done very on the hoof. unfortunately, washing it down with kylie as well. i know that's going to hurt. no, just get them told. >> i only only met kylie once. how many times did you meet her? >> where did you meet her? >> where did you meet her?

>> the, the red carpet for the film holy motors. right. >> okay. she wasn't in. >> okay. she wasn't in. >> she was in holy motors. she wasn't in holy. she was in. she did a singing thing. >> she didn't do a singing thing that was the. what was it called? wish it was the green fairy. moulin rouge. oh, the. you're going to lie. do it properly. >> no. yeah. i didn't get to go to the red carpet at moulin rouge. look at my career. but a small film like holy motors. i got to go to that red carpet. >> yeah, that kylie wasn't in. she was. listen, fact check this, people. >> i'm being gaslit live on tv. it's one of the words right into gb news. >> i should, right? you should. >> i should, right? you should. >> what's the address again? outrageous. >> i'm going to be next week's dilemma. whatever this question was. what would you do about a dog? three? >> well, i'm a dog person, so i'd be very forgiving. if a dog needs a walk at 3 am, i'll let that happen. >> you're there . >> you're there. >> you're there. >> well, who's making the noise, though? is it the dog or the owner ? owner? >> very good question. yeah. >> very good question. yeah. >> i mean, if it's when you said painful stool, surely no dogs. >> we've all been there . come >> we've all been there. come on. we have a gay audience tonight . they've suffered. they

tonight. they've suffered. they suffered at the hands of substandard toilet roll. they're all on a budget. they've had no snacks tonight. look at these people. >> that's true. i don't know how they're still here after no snacks . that was an they're still here after no snacks. that was an admin error that i thought we'd pay for. yeah i don't know how this has ended up being the question, but just stay quiet. if you're doing at 3 am. in the morning, maybe they've got a noisy door. >> i mean, yeah, dogs aren't. why a dog shouldn't be noisy when it's being walked. i'm quite. maybe it's an animal welfare issue. >> they're all serious. well, that's about all we've got time for. thank you forjoining us on for. thank you for joining us on free speech nation . this was the free speech nation. this was the week where tom tugendhat tried to win over the tories with tats and tans. nice thank you for the panel and tans. nice thank you for the panel. bruce devlin and christa wetton. and to all the brilliant guests this evening, if you want to join us in the studio live then have a look at sr audiences.com. stay tuned for the brilliant mark dolan tonight which is on the way next. don't forget headlines are 11:00 o'clock tonight for a newspaper review until the next one. i hope you have a good one. >> that warm feeling inside from

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gb news. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines at 11:00. rishi sunak has addressed the conservative party conference for the last time as party leader. the former prime

minister apologised for the general election loss and joked about sir keir starmer's ongoing gifting controversy. >> it's such a hot ticket. i'm surprised that keir starmer hasn't asked somebody to buy him one now. >> i want to start by saying thank you. >> thank you for everything that you do for our party and the support that you have always given . actor and me. you all given. actor and me. you all work tirelessly during the election campaign , and i am only election campaign, and i am only sorry that i could not deliver the result that your efforts deserved. and as you know , as deserved. and as you know, as you know, this is my final conference as leader . and new conference as leader. and new leader of our party will be announced in just five weeks time. >> earlier, the conference kicked off with tory leadership hopeful robert jenrick criticising rival kemi badenoch for saying maternity pay is excessive. mrjenrick for saying maternity pay is excessive. mr jenrick responded to the comments, saying that the party should be firmly on the side of parents. following

backlash, miss badenoch later