>> good evening. it's 11:00, which means >> good evening. it's11:00, which means it's time for tomorrow's newspapers tonight. join us over the next hour to find out why this is going to be banned from your child's curriculum, why these women are victims of their own biology, and why this young man has signed his own death warrant. i'm simon evans. tonight. i've got comedians josh howie and aideen mcqueen taking you through tonight's top stories. this is headliners. hello, and

welcome to headliners, your first look at tomorrow's top stories with three comedians. before we dive in, let's take a quick look at what josh and nadine will have to work with on tuesday's front pages. the telegraph pm night's khan in reward for failure. the daily mail pm's reward for failure as sadiq khan is knighted sounds like the same story. the times pubuc like the same story. the times public sector plan to trade pensions for higher pay. the sun now we want justice for our liam the eye newspaper. post office scandal victims are given honours but wait for compensation still goes on, and the daily star eggheads we've cracked baldness. do apologise. some of those papers seem not to have appeared on your screens, but hopefully we'll have that sorted by the time we come back to them around half way through. so that's the front pages fully

looked at. let's let's take a looked at. let's let's take a look at the daily mail in our first degree of detail. >> josh. yes. >> josh. yes. >> so pm's reward for failure as sadiq khan is knighted. of course. sadiq khan, the mayor of london i appreciate for our viewers across this wide and great land a story about london starting off might annoy them, but i also think a lot of people are annoyed by sadiq khan because he has not done his job. arguably, he's been mayor here in london since 2016. since then, knife crime has gone up 61% and london is just the worst place than before he came in. >> would you have any particular failures that you feel particularly strongly about? >> well, i feel like his definitely. when it comes to like knife crime, you can see generally in the streets that that, that, you know, muggings and whatnot have definitely increased. and, and then i think there's been like a 70% increase in council tax that goes to city

hall, whether that money's been well spent. i just remember for me, i remember seeing him actually in a press conference, this is probably about four years ago saying knife crime is better. yeah. and then there was someone in there going, well, actually, these are the figures. and he just wouldn't accept them. and you're like, if you won't accept the problem. >> knife crime has improved in one specific regard, which is that the paramedics teams are incredibly good now at saving people's lives, stopping them bleeding out on the scene. and it's disguising the amount of violence that's taking place. apparently. i don't know, aiden, have you got a view on this? well, don't you don't have to go down the knife crime route. there are other aspects to being mayor, i guess, but there's. >> it seems a bit premature. he's already doing the job. yes. you meant to give somebody a prize for just doing you meant to give somebody a prize forjust doing their job? prize for just doing their job? i don't think so. is this either it's going to encourage him to be better. like the way i would give student of the year when i was a teacher to the worst child in the class, or it's going to make him lazy. who knows? >> but i always suspected teachers of doing that. but it was never made official. i was i was never made official. i was i

was thwarted time and again when i was quite convinced. i think it is interesting and i don't know whether i think you're absolutely right. you should not be given the award late at night while you're still in the job. that very much feels the south gate is the other famous one, and even though he didn't actually win a trophy, he got us to a couple of semis and a final. i think that was quite impressive. and now he's out. thatis impressive. and now he's out. that is the time to give it. but also with sadiq khan, i think there's something slightly more ephemeral, intangible about being a good or a bad mayor. and khanis being a good or a bad mayor. and khan is so controversial he has failed to bring one of the world's great cities together. there are an awful lot of people who feel he's a divisive character. he often seems bad tempered, high handed, with certain interviewers and so on and in various. do you want to meet this? no, no no no, he's not a warm guy and he's focusing constantly on this kind of diversity thing. >> yet at the same time, arguably you've got these marches going on every week under his watch and also really quite unnecessarily aggressive rhetoric towards donald trump, which obviously not surprising

that he feels that way, but it seems unnecessary, i think, as the mayor of a of a what do you think about that, i suppose? >> well, you know, diplomacy is important. i mean, the mayoral title, it's interesting. he's not a fun guy, like at least bofis not a fun guy, like at least boris johnson. i don't think he was a good pm, but he was a good mayor. he was a great, fun mayor. >> unfortunately, he was a classic example of the peter principle. he should not have been promoted beyond that stage. but he did well at mayor and they thought, oh, maybe he could, you know. >> but there are a few boris johnson projects that were kind of wasted millions the, the high pressure hoses and the bridges should have been allowed to use those. >> they should have changed the legislation. they should. it should have been like one of those things where you could have bought it now, like, oh go on then. yeah. the daily telegraph 18 i think you have so pubuc telegraph 18 i think you have so public we have the pm knighting again and then we have public sector takes three times as many mental health sick days. >> so this is interesting to me because when i worked for the pubuc because when i worked for the public sector as a teacher, i was an ardent social. >> do all your bits. start with this, with this. >> well yes. >> well yes. >> yes they do all your all your mental health stuff. >> two more and then i'll finish

with the teaching one. but yeah. so i was an ardent socialist. i was a member of the labour party. and as soon as i became self—employed i started thinking things like, do we really need ambulances? >> but, you know, there is some truth to that, isn't there? there really is. i have not had a job. i mean, this is a job, i guess. but, you know, i have a i don't know, maybe. do we have maybe we do have sick pay. i've never really investigated it, but i have basically been self—employed for 27 years. i had, i think, covid about a week before christmas, certainly a really nasty flu. and i was like, you know, pretty close. >> came in and gave it to all of us. >> us. >> i gave it to everybody. i brought it round, i handed it round. no, but i went, i had gigs, i had writing jobs. none of them would have been paid for. and so i didn't miss a single day's work. you know, there is no doubt i would have had a week off working. >> i suppose it's up to us to get health insurance and, you know, like insurance against sick pay and etcetera, etcetera, which i haven't gotten yet. but yeah, it does definitely. in the pubuc yeah, it does definitely. in the public sector, there seems to be more of a trend towards duvet days and self—care, you know, andifs

days and self—care, you know, and it's a very gen z thing as well. we've rebranded things like it used to be saying, you know, back in my day, we used to pretend that a grandparent was dead and then you could get a sick day, but now they just say, ihave sick day, but now they just say, i have to mind my self self—care day. yeah, i have to watch my boundanes day. yeah, i have to watch my boundaries being triggered. i was triggered the other day. >> triggered anything else on the daily telegraph where they've obviously got the same story about the big, well, big story. >> blair ignored migrant warning to open borders. so this is some documents that have been released. and essentially john prescott and jack straw were like, don't do it. this was when poland and all the were opening up the borders, and we were sort of the one country that didn't put in any kind of traditional controls. yeah. because blair was persuaded, persuaded of the economic interests by blunkett and that arguably, even though there is an argument, of course, economically, that that has led to a lowering of wages in certain fields. also, i would also argue that polish people have actually contributed a lot.

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