>> 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. and so the economics suggest that the polish immigrants have actually over, over, over. >> i've never met a polish woman or a man on a sick day. >> yeah. yeah, exactly. they get on with it. anyway, the point is, but what it did do is lead then arguably to brexit. >> that's what i was going to say. i was not to boast, but i was on. this would be like one of your school days anecdotes. i was on bbc question time once back in the old days, and i was sat next to diane abbott and i said exactly that. it was about 2018. we were all discussing brexit. the exact deal hadn't been made, and i said that i thought blair's attitude to immigration in, you know, people watching the demographics change in front of their eyes, but it being denied. diane abbott accused me of spreading

conspiracy theories. she specifically said conspiracy theories, but i was quite sure it was the case. and i think you're absolutely right. what what is always important with these things is that politicians acknowledge what's going on as well. it's when it comes out that afterwards that they have to explain why and explain. >> look, guys, if you want to retire and have a certain amount, we need more. if you're not having enough babies, this is what we have to do. >> yeah, they should have been telling people that in the 19805, telling people that in the 1980s, though of course, that's when they should have had the babies. >> but in the olden days of the party political broadcast, where the prime minister would come out with pipe in hand and tell the nation what needs to be done, are gone. maybe we need a bit more of that. but i would say that immigration of eastern europe has been a huge boon to britain and to ireland as well, and to my school when i was teaching. >> have a look at the times. josh. anything new? >> well, public sector plan to trade pensions for higher pay. this is an interesting idea that get more money now, and you wouldn't get as much money on the back end, but they but there's the unions are sort of split on it because of course it's a bit dangerous. they can

90, it's a bit dangerous. they can go, oh, we're going to get loads of money now. but but in the long term. >> and then when you get there they try and renegotiate. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> this is what i've tried to do. and it doesn't work. no. you have spent the money. >> yes it is gone. but we have a pensions crisis emerging in this country, partly from what we just talked about before. >> only way out of it is war, i'm afraid at this point, you know, for the west, generally speaking, well, get all the old people to fight. no. well, that would be one possible way of doing it. yeah, yeah. i mean, we potentially had a solution with covid, didn't we? and we bottled it. but i hope you're being deeply sarcastic. yeah, i do think that we are, you know, we have this kind of the pensions black hole, not just in britain, across the west. i mean, the social security pay, they say, has been the third rail in america for about 20 years. nobody wants to acknowledge it. nobody wants to acknowledge it. no one wants to talk about it. but the what do they call it, the dependent ratio. >> well, this is the thing. theresa may wanted to deal with it. and of course, arne slot backed down because of the immediate protests. >> third rail. as i say, the i

paper 18 post office scandal victims are given honours but wait for compensation still goes on. >> so this is possibly quite patronising. will give you a knighthood. yeah. you know money. the check is in the post, so it'll be in 5 to 7 working days. it's going to be stuck in a depot for about three months. yeah. is it? i mean, i'm sure some people are happy about this, but i saw the documentary. was it a few months ago that they had. and it was really horrific what those people went through. and i'm not a fan of compensation culture per se, but i think they have a legitimate, legitimate demands there and a really legitimate need for compensation. yes. morale, everything monetary, you know, so this does a bit for the morale. >> but no, you're right. as compensatory cases go, it's fairly clear cut that they lost out financially. apart from anything else. i mean you can at least put a price on it as well. >> you could put the price on it, but you're actually going to get that price. and no, but sir, enjoy the sir. >> sadly and finally 30s to discuss everything that's on the front cover of the daily star.

well, we've done it yet again. really? >> well, this really should have been the top story. yes, eggheads, we've cracked baldness. we kind of hear this every few months, but it's. >> did they still get in touch with you for this image? >> they haven't. no. it does look like now. it's very frustrating. now i've embraced the baldness that now suddenly there's a cure. >> how are you finding it? i mean, it's only been a couple of weeks. >> i remember you said you've got to wear something to bed because it's. you get freezing at night. i've totally had that. i haven't got, i haven't got a little hat yet, but i am waking up freezing. >> you want the nice cashmere? or at the very least, like a proper nice wool one. and you should get the ones that climbers wear inside their helmets. okay. they're very nice and quite, quite cheap. >> yeah. i'll get like some ski mask just to get my wife. >> you are like somebody from a from, like a gilbert and sullivan drama with a little wee willie winkie cap and a candle on a stick. yes. saying good night to your seven daughters. >> it's fine for the likes of you because you can just. you can wear that, you know, anywhere, can't you, with the little ribbon on it and that's it. >> yeah. i mean women, we have it all. >> well see, but would you if you, if there was a cure right

now. boom. get your hair back. >> would you do it. absolutely. yes you would. yes. i'd probably wear a wig if i thought i could get away with it. to be honest, a toupee i have occasionally browsed. >> okay, let's see if you appear on this. >> i had a i had on this. >>ihada|hada on this. >> i had a i had a fabricant style one in edinburgh for a while. i was wearing for the show because i was doing a holly willoughby impression. but the horrible truth was, are you okay? you remember that bit? but but the horrible truth was, whenever i put it on, i kind of preferred myself in it. yeah, i was like, i would if i just keep wearing it. will people stop saying anything after a while? but you can't get away with it. that's the front pages fully looked at, coming up decolonising the colon and the rest of the anatomy two. this is headliners only on gb news. see

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i'm simon evans, still joined tonight by josh howie and aideen mcqueen. so josh, we go straight into the deep end with tuesday's telegraphy and the blood pressure is set to burst. labour considers making the science curriculum less western centric and instead celebrates a diverse scientific global community. >> yeah, this is a this is the worst story we've had for a while. along these lines, labour urged to drop western centric science in school curriculum. so they have opened up the whole curriculum. now they're in power . curriculum. now they're in power. and you know what? everybody worried about? and i thought, no, no, they're not going to do any of this stupid stuff like this is all very 2019, 2020, black lives matter, whatever. and they have jumped in seemingly with both feet. there's led by feminist professor becky francis, and who's a policy expert who previously criticised blair for having an obsession with academic achievement. yeah, it's like that should that should

tell you everything. what's what's terrifying about this article. so they've sort of sent out questionnaires to a bunch of academic institutions, and they've all come back with the most insane suggestions. >> and one of them here is called the royal society of biology, which you would imagine would be a fairly august and serious and, and restrained. i mean, they're as bad as any of them or all of them. >> there's the royal statistical society. the royal society wants a more diverse and equitable model for mathematics education. what? it's all mental. >> and the thing i think, and this will come as we are of course, aware that we have somebody with education experience. my memory of learning maths, biology and the sciences generally was not a procession of dead white men. it was a succession of theories and more or less proven to be true. and this is what we currently know. occasionally a name like darwin might crop up, but it wasn't like and then we invented this and then we discovered this. aren't we great? it wasn't

a flag waving exercise. >> i think this is i actually like this. i think this is a very interesting way of exploring it. i think it's a bit you're a bit hasty in condemning it because we don't actually know what they're doing or how they're introducing this. i mean, i think it's very only condemn it after it's become law. >> exactly. okay. yeah. >> exactly. okay. yeah. >> i mean, it's very i mean, it is very interesting to study how certain people or certain countries advance more than others. i mean, like, you know, china was very advanced. they had china vessels and they didn't bother really with glass, whereas because the west hadn't been as advanced when it did get glass, you know, optical sciences came up. i mean, even take ireland and scotland. ireland is a very catholic country. not everything was in the latin mass. nothing was in the latin mass. nothing was in the vernacular. yes. you know, scotland embraced methodism. therefore the they had the, the mass and the english and then education thrived. i mean the things that scottish people invented as a result, penicillin, telephones, steam engine, raincoat, golf, tarmacadam and the hypodermic needle. >> ironically, very interesting inventions. but can i just interrupt on this? the point is

that that's all history of science. that's a separate subject. that's not the same as actually learning science. i don't remember it being important to know that alexander fleming discovered penicillin accidentally. i think that was the sort of thing my mother told me, rather than you would learn at school, it would be in what we used to do a lot of fun facts books. >> so when you were finished your work, i'm sure you were the good boys in school. the both of you. you would get a josh was at the back, you know, smoking splits and all. but, you know, you would give the children the fun facts and you learn these things and it's incidental, interesting knowledge. i don't think we should. i think you're worried that some feminist is going to come up and say, time is nothing but a construct of the patriarchy? the needles of her clock are just bludgeoning femininity like it's i don't think it's going to be like that. >> i mean, look at the royal society of biology here. they're saying here science is universal, and it's been carried out in all cultures at all ages. no, no, that is an absolute lie. i'm sorry. that is just a lie. and to try and pretend that again, it's the sort of equalisation of all cultures. of

course, there has been science and china and to say it's universal. i studied anthropology at university. that's just not true. no. and saying things like that. this is from the royal society of biology. they are lying. this is who we look to. this is one of all these institutions here. it shows how corrupted they are, how they've been taken over. focus on how to teach our children. yeah, information and facts. >> you don't have to teach them the, the things that would make. there's no need. thank you. but there is no need within a classroom to expose a diverse, let's say, an ethnically diverse classroom to the fact that only a third of their classroom had ancestors who who contributed meaningfully to the history of science. just teach the science. you don't need to say. and incidentally, this came from the university of cambridge, like the last 48 things that we taught so far, nothing from the university of nairobi. sorry about that. not our fault. you don't actually have to raise that. you just carry on teaching. >> i don't think they're going

to go into that much detail. i think it'll be just like, incidentally, the zero was invented in india. now do your times tables. i think it's going to be a lot milder than what you're both anticipating. >> possibly a dean pole time in the mail now, so plenty of salt required. but starmer is apparently a right winger compared to most of his party. >> well, this is not a surprise to anybody really. if you just look at the man, if you were to do a google image search of centre stage, there'd be a picture of him, of keir starmer wearing a ulez, drinking a half pint of bitter and updating his linkedin profile on the toilet. so, i mean, i'm not surprised at this. it is usually the leaders of the of labour are usually more to the right and the leaders of the conservatives and usually to the left. it's a pattern that's been there for a while. i mean, he's hardly john prescott. he was hardly a trade unionist, but that's why he's got angela, isn't it? >> they always have to have one, don't they? tony had prescott and he's got angela rayner. you've got to have someone from the estates. >> yes angela rayner, my doppelganger. yeah. but i've been told which is good. but i

don't think people really know where they lie. i mean, have you ever done the political compass? yes. oh, it's fascinating. and i mean, it's interesting how they say so. they give him a score of 48, they give nigel farage 9tt, which is leaning almost towards mussolini over there. rishi sunakis mussolini over there. rishi sunak is 77. and then diane abbott scores four, which i don't know. does that make her the dalai lama or stalin? i'm not sure, but four is. >> well, it's only as you say, if it's on a political campus, you need an x and a y coordinate, surely? >> well, no, i don't believe in that anymore. >> i don't oh you don't okay. no. >> well, i think that's interesting. i don't think that thatis interesting. i don't think that that is i think he is a bit more left than this. like right in the middle. i agree, i think because they get the score from asking his councillors in his constituency, that constituency is their neighbour, he's neighbours with corbyn. that and their other and corbyn's other constituents, haringey, which is my constituency, they're all all those councillors are, a lot of them are just a bunch of cranks. so for them anybody is far right. he's a fascist, including

starmer. yeah. forjust for starmer. yeah. for just for being somewhat even reasonable. he's his political politics in university and onwards were definitely more on the left side of 48. i would i would put him at a, i put him at a 39. >> peter hitchens has got his number. can we briefly mention it's in the same story? elon musk has clashed with starmer over the idea that no foreign investors are likely. >> so this is people coming oven >> so this is people coming over, people saying, come build, build a factory in scotland. and he was like, no, because your government is basically pushing away loads of investment, which is actually not true. the government, they had a sort of come and come and invest in art , come and come and invest in art, and supposedly a bunch of 63 billion of additional investment from that summit. okay. so actually i think and also i think he's wrong in that a lot of people seem to be investing in the uk because of its stability, because whatever you might think of this government internally from the outside, they're in here now for the next four years or so. and compared to what's going on in france and whatever this is actually we're

pretty stable. >> plus there's lots of real estate. >> what you need to do is do what ireland do, ignore eu laws. you would have been able to stay in the eu if you just ignored everything and have a corporate tax rate of 12.5%, and then just allow google and isn't it. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> and then fantastic. >> and then fantastic. >> the anglo dutch irish sandwich or something it's called wasn't it. yes, yes. >> with a bit of maltese sprinkled in as well. >> well it is fair to say that musk is perhaps not utterly representative of the international investment class at the moment, but we'll watch this space anyway. the guardian josh, where joe biden uses the opportunity of jemmy carter's death to off his rival, suggesting he should try and be more decent like what he was. >> that's exactly what he does. yeah. biden says trump could learn decency from jemmy carter in the in a tribute address. so when asked in an interview, what about, he said, what could he learn? he said, decency, decency, decency. i would say maybe he could learn pro plus, pro plus, pro plus anything to

stay awake. >> do you think he was emphasising or have forgotten he'd said it the first time. oh, that might have been absolutely. >> yeah. very good i wish i it was interesting that jemmy carter i mean he did he was quite compos mentis himself when he in trump's first term wasn't he. >> and he was convinced he was no fan of trump. he was persuaded that he was a russian. >> but then trump gave quite a nice soundbite about him and said that they disagreed. but he truly loved and respected this country, and i give him my highest respect and all that. sounding quite presidential, i'm personally not a massive fan of jemmy carter. he was obviously a terrible well, he was a pretty terrible well, he was a pretty terrible president, but i think he was in over his over his head, wasn't he? >> he was out of his depth. he funnily enough, he was a kind of proto trump in the sense that he was brought in to drain the swamp. he was an outsider. he wasn't a washington man. yeah, yeah. and that went badly the first time around. and but he had a great second act, you know, he a peace accords and so on that he hosted. yeah. you know. well it was and then built houses, you know, it became a kindly old man, all like a tolstoyan sort of saintly figure in his last decade. but i am

astonished that they're still asking biden questions. to be honest, at this point, don't you feel slightly shocked when you realise he's still technically in charge, still in charge of the free world? >> yeah, they should be asking, what day of the year is this? >> yes, absolutely. did you get anything nice for christmas? meanwhile, aiden, talking of decency, the guardian has trump losing his appeal to justice if not to his voters. >> i know this is federal appeal court upholds 5 million sexual assault and defamation verdict in setback for president elect. so he is clearly a sexual deviant, but he has not necessarily a deviant, a predator. predator is. what is the difference? tell me more. you seem very sure. you seem very sure. >> you seem very sure. >> well, the things for which he predates are not considered to be deviant. >> okay. yeah. >> okay. yeah. >> they just grabbing women wants them without permission. >> you should be p diddy's lawyer. that's right. fair play to you. but so he i mean i think it's possibly a reflection that people are so disillusioned with government that they continue to support him. and it is why do

leaders have this weakness for sex. you know clinton power, trump power, corrupting power, a lot of testosterone. >> there's a lot. >>— >> there's a lot. >> ooh, look at caroline lucas after that. and he says trump is in a very trumpian thing. said he denies the allegations, claiming he never met carroll and that she wasn't his type, which just shows a very weak understanding of power and sexuality. >> but also, it's like the idea would be like, oh no, i would do that kind of thing, but just not to her. it's not to say i would find that behaviour morally repugnant if she were blind. >> yeah, they did actually, i think slightly change the law in order to be able to bring the case.it order to be able to bring the case. it was over 20 years ago, would normally have fallen foul of the statute of limitations. i mean, they have stretched it. a lot of his supporters regard it as lawfare, as they call it, you know, because, well, civil litigation means that he doesn't have immunity. >> no. so regardless of him being president, president elect, whatever it is, he's going to have to cough up. he's going to have to cough up. he's going to have to cough up. he's going to have to cough up. it probably will. i wonder if it will go even further than this. >> it's interesting, though, in the federal appeals court, there was a $5 million verdict against

him, half of which roughly was for the assault, and the other half, actually two thirds for the assault and one third and the assault and one third and the other two thirds for defaming her. in a social media post where he called her allegations a hoax, $3 million for being called a liar on social media, which i would take. to be honest, i'd probably put up with that 3 or 4 times tonight, but, but, but in the civil case, $83 million defamation case. i mean, does that not just seem absurd to you even even if the defamation were, you know, you hold that it was he was i think it should be 70 million. i mean, very reasonable. i suppose they want to make it sting, but still. yeah. >> no, silly. >> no, silly. >> i mean, who knows how much it undermines the legitimacy. >> sorry, sorry. >> sorry, sorry. >> i mean, emotionally, how much this costs somebody who was attacked by a man of lesser status and wealth would get less. so can you put a price on this? it's not. it's a horrible what he did. and it's very unusual and strange and sad that he is the president, given that he. i don't think he's a good person, obviously. but there you go. >> still to come. still to come. why women drink and it isn't

their fault and why love is lovelier the second time around. this is headliners only on gb

and welcome back to headliners. let's have another quick look at the front pages this time . illustrated the this time. illustrated the telegraph pm nights khan in reward for failure. that's a quote from his enemies, not from the queen. king. sorry, i cannot get used to that. daily mail pm's reward for failure. as sadiq khan is knighted, the times public sector plan to trade pensions for higher pay. the sun now we want justice for our liam i newspaper post office scandal victims are given honours but wait for compensation still goes on. and the daily star eggheads. we've cracked baldness. the trick is to eat eggs, funnily enough. so

another study on problem drinking in tuesday's daily mail, and it sounds like another little piece of female agency just got dissolved in biometric data. >> thank you for giving me this story, because i am two and a half years sober, one day at a time and i am a woman. yes, indeed. >> gave up in the middle of the year as well. that's interesting. >> well, i had to give it gave up on me. but anyway, this is it. time for my story. so. well, this is a non—story, really. i mean, it is interesting to study women's cycles and to be attuned to them because when you are late, everything is affected. you're more vibrant, you're more creative, you've got more energy. so when a woman isn't ovulating, for instance, she'll dress in a more modest fashion. she'll be attracted to a more mild mannered man who'd be a good father like josh clark kent. >> yes, but then that's when i go out on the pull. >> when? when she is ovulating, she's attracted to more swashbuckling, testosterone filled daredevil like yourself. that would flick you away in a second. >> and is that a fact? >> and is that a fact? >> that is. well, they say that

there's a propensity. i do find myself and it is interesting to be tuned. so yes, when you are in that you might drink more, it's, it's, it's almost sounds and i know hormones change a lot in women and they are more there are more hormones in the mix. >> it sounds as if testosterone is higher in the mix then when you're ovulating as well, because that's the risk taking hormone as they say. yeah, it definitely is. >> and that's why you have such a swashbuckling nature as a man that you just go forth and conquer. and yeah, which is i think it's great to be aware of these things. i mean, still, having said that, i would say when i go to my recovery groups and the like 70% of people are men. so addiction does affect men. so addiction does affect men more, possibly because of their risk taking behaviour. well, this is it. so it's just an interesting story. it just means watch out girls. >> do you think that women should take a little ovulation chart with them to the bar and let them have that before they, you know, and they go, can i just check your you say, watch out girls. >> i say watch out, guys. because what it is if a woman is drinking lots, it means she's

about to ovulate, which means that that is like the danger time. so if you see a woman binge drinking, don't get steer away. and i would say in talking about the testosterone, it doesn't mention it here, but it's a very interesting bit of information. when women drink, their testosterone levels increase and their and that gets to a point where they're, they're it's a base level of what men are. so and women just can't handle testosterone, which is why women just get wasted and like, start fighting and get argumentative and stuff like that. so now, men, we exist on that. so now, men, we exist on that space all the time. women can't handle it. which is why i get female hecklers. i don't point at you as a female, but women hecklers are the worst. yeah, we know that it's true. >> because if you're a male comedian, because you you don't. i think for women as well. surely go at them hard enough though. well, if you're a woman on stage and there's a woman heckling you, then it's a fair fight. but if you're a man on stage and a woman is heckling you, but you can't defeat a female heckler is my point. >> because you are patriarchs. >> because you are patriarchs. >> yeah. it's not. not because of that. it's because there is no getting through in reason. a bloke you can shame.

>> yes, you're digging now. >> yes, you're digging now. >> it's awkward in general, but i think it's. it definitely. just watch out. and people do. i have an app on my phone that tells me when i'm ovulating. it tells me when i'm ovulating. it tells you the cycles, you observe things, so people are getting much more in tune with it. it's very fashionable. and i'll i'll send you the link to the app. >> i feel slightly jealous or envious that i don't have a cycle. i've just like i have one cycle. i've just like i have one cycle from birth to death. that's it. >> yeah, well, that's a rumour because men talk about women. oh, she's very hormonal. oh, hormones affect women. yeah, testosterone will cause you to start fights and wars. yeah, absolutely. you can't be hormonal as well, boys. >> good news for cash, organists and various species of celebrant. now, josh, if not for the fertility crisis, sadly in the fertility crisis, sadly in the times. >> yeah. older couples bucking the trend of falling marriage rates. so marriage rates have gone down about 20% in the last 30 years. but amongst people over 50 it has gone up 22% for men and 36% for women, which is which is really interesting because i guess it would suggest that if you've been through it

before, you're going to maybe be optimistic and learn from your mistakes. >> yes, i'm just trying to work out how it can be 22% for one and 36%, maybe because you're they're marrying different ages. they're not all. yes. they're not both divorced necessarily. then that would that would imply. right. >> yeah. so it's anyway i think it's what's the down in the article and this is what you're alluding to as well. is that the mean age of, of the average age of when people get married is like has gone up again to about 31 and 32. so this is very bad because we need to be having kids and starting late like that is not good for our society. >> and yet it's regarded as just completely unsayable, isn't it? you know, to advise people to say society, listen, you need to do this. you know, it's extraordinarily rude. it's ought to be. i think it is. >> it's a very sensitive topic. i mean, i grew up in the 80s and the 90s and it was absolutely shoved down my neck. go to university, go to university, get a degree. don't let a man

look at you. don't let them near you. and then, you know, our generation found huge fertility problems. >> yeah, not as bad as china, but but yeah, similar. i don't know what to do at this point. i think we can probably hope that al comes through and works out ai comes through and works out how to clone them quickly. you know, get them up on their feet. >> but i'm happy for the older people getting married. that's really good in terms of having someone having a partner. yeah. through i think people are realising that it's nice to be with other people. >> i mean, there is there is there an argument for the sort of run around? do you remember run around the old tv quiz show for kids, where they all had to select an answer from a multiple choice and sort of stand in a line depending on which answer they chose? and then there was a bit where they go when they could all see who had chosen other answers. they could go run around now, and they all could. they could change their mind if they wanted to. i do wonder whether marriage should work like that sometimes. you know, after 20 years you kind of go, no, no, no blame attached, you know? do you feel like you could. is your wife watching this? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> swingers party. >> swingers party. >> just throw it all up in the air, you know. yeah.

>> that's the bowl. yeah. what's going on? >> i do think there is that thing, like they say, you know, there's a trend among people with young children that they don't name them, or they just give them a provisional name, and then they choose their own name at 12. oh, my god, you don't like that. >> no, i do not. >>— >> no, i do not. >> i quite like that idea. >> i quite like that idea. >> no, no. children. >> no, no. children. >> children should be told what they are from an early age. it's not a gender fixed thing. it's just like you call your child sebastian at the age of 12. sebastian at the age of 12. sebastian goes, i just don't feel like a sebastian. can i be a richard? >> it's confusing though. i had this because i always thought my name was aideen until i was 12 and i was in a swimming gala, and i was in a swimming gala, and then i went and got my birth certificate, and it turns out my name was moira. the gaelic version of mary and aideen was just my middle name. wow. i have to sign all my documents as moira and i don't relate to being moira. >> but you've remained aideen for commercial purposes. >> yeah, moira is just smoking benson and hedges. she's not a glamorous woman like aideen. yeah. >> staying with the fertility crisis. aideen or moira, it seems companies could be doing more, according to the guardian. but then again, couldn't they

always again, this is this is very interesting because again, as a self—employed person, i suppose i have a small amount of bitterness about this. >> yeah. can we have it all? you know, can you have the career and maternity and maternity leave and, you know, your fertility? it seems like you have to make a choice and stick with it. and we want our lives to be perfect. and if we can't have a child, people go to extreme lengths to have one and spend an awful lot of money and go through a lot of pain. >> so i suppose we're talking about ivf, broadly speaking. >> i suppose what they're talking about is people having time off ivf. you know, often they have miscarriages as a result. yeah, i would imagine that most employers would be quite sympathetic to that. >> they won't need like months and weeks off. it's more like if you have to go out for a couple of hours to an appointment at the hospital without much on top of that, i think the but the, the, the emotional cost is, you know, it's a bit of a what to call it isn't it. up and down. >> it would be really hard. and so 19% of managers basically

have some kind of formal policy, but 35% of companies don't have these policies. so it makes sense for them to be there just so that people can know what their options are. >> it's an easy win. i would have thought. absolutely. the companies. yeah, yeah. >> so it's like i'm ovulating. you ring your husband, you have to go home. that's it. bish bash bosh. nice bit of a break. >> i think it's going to catch on ivf. i think it's going to become more and more popular actually, even possibly among people who don't technically need it. yeah, because i think they're going to quite soon be able to elevate the degree of choice available to you, get like 16 embryos. they'll be able to tell you quite a lot about which one is the best. this is my expectation. i am likely to be smeared as a eugenicist now, but i suspect that technology is coming down that pipe. bad news is the only thing coming down that pipe is bad news in the express. for those of us going on a strictly no twiglets january diet. josh, it turns out fad diets can be bad. >> who knew? yeah. new year warning that clean eating diets can trigger dangerous addiction.

so this is doctor nicolette bogart, a phd student who was a model for five years and has now become a brainbox . and become a brainbox. and essentially it's just focusing on certain types, like just fish or vegetables or green foods. whatever it is you can have then deficiencies in other ways. so it's all about having a balanced diet, which is what everybody always says balanced diet, food pyramid, blah blah, blah, blah blah, orthorexia. >> and i've noticed in because i hang out in recovery communities, let's say it's a new thing. people are so obsessing about either eating organic, eating keto that they it becomes detrimental to their lives and they have to talk about it. yeah, i mean, i did keto for a while and i got so obsessed with it. i mean, i'd stopped menstruating, you know, i lost some hair, several friends because there was no crack and i had bad breath. i was the louis schaefer of ireland. >> i think the worst thing about being on it is that you just talk about it all the time. i know, i know, to be fair though, louis has great hair. >> yes, he does have great hair

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>> and welcome back to headliners. let's kick off with tuesday's male and neuroscience news where even by the standards of this evening's fair. josh, this one sounds like implausible reheated slop. >> i don't know, well, maybe reheated. yes. top neuroscientist reveals intriguing reason why brits are getting uglier and how to stop the change happening to you. i don't know why it's brits specifically, because what they're talking about is mouth breathing here, and what it does is the argument is that you do that and your chin goes back, and then you get like big bags under your eyes, you get bags under your eyes, you get bags under your eyes, you get bags under your eyes. well, and it changes because you're so basically close your mouth is the gist of it. >> people actually tape their mouths. now, some people do that well to sleep because it can give you bad breath. >> if you if you breathe your mouth open, it gives you bad breath. it can rot your gums. so

there's a lot to be said for that. but this is the bit that i didn't. there is a bit of science here, which is that it's actually better to breathe through your nose in terms of it's it goes into the oxygen quicker. and the even though obviously breathing your mouth is more volume, it's actually better. you're going to get more oxygen through your nose when you're doing sports and things like that. >> do you ever find yourself mouth breathing? >> i constantly did it when i was young, but now i do. i do the mewing. they call it where you push the palate of your tongue up to the top of roof of your mouth, and it strengthens your mouth, and it strengthens your faith. >> oh, okay. so that's actually trying to build facial structure. yeah, i know a lot of adolescents genuinely get into that. and boys in particular, they all want to look like rob lowe have that kind of special. >> they're having gum aren't they. or something. yeah. chewing something. >> the reality is as i try and explain to you, i've got a 17 year old son and he has absorbed this information. if you want to build a, you know, anything from jawline or whatever, you've just got to do total body workouts or build all your muscle in total and lower your body fat. that's the only way to do it.

>> your jaw, though it will if you are like grinning. >> if you lift a lot and you don't overeat, your jawline will look good. >> but that's probably cause you're going like, yeah, that's what it's. >> yeah. and then you have . >> yeah. and then you have. i clench my jaw . so, you know, clench my jaw. so, you know, thatis clench my jaw. so, you know, that is deliberately as an exercise or as a i started it by accident. yeah. because i was given out to as a child for having maybe you should get a pipe having maybe you should get a pipe and then you could just chew the pipe stem. wow, that would be amazing. i've got the jacket. now i just need the pipe mail again. >> and it seems dutch scientists are analysing british data to see what effect veganism has on our young men, presumably to see whether it's time to invade yet. >> so i don't know why the dutch scientists are analysing brits again. the brits are getting uguen again. the brits are getting uglier. the brits are unhealthy. now this i read the story. initially i thought, oh, this is a story about how veganism is unhealthy, but actually the story is more about how the food, the processed vegan foods we eat are unhealthy. so if

you're eating fresh fruit and vegetables, you're fine as a vegan. however, if you're eating all that soy processed, you know, bacon and all of these kind of cheese, you know, these kind of cheese, you know, these kind of cheese, you know, these kind of i can't believe it's not an udder. whatever they have thatis an udder. whatever they have that is actually quite unhealthy. and then you have this phenomenon of the soy boy. yeah. now, i don't know how scientifically correct is that, but that's the idea that these vegan, effete men, you know, have are growing mammary glands and they have very low sex drive and they have very low sex drive and they have a very low sperm count. now, if it's true or not, i don't know. but i do think these foods aren't they're very genetically modified. so this is not surprising. but it's not necessarily meaning that veganism itself is bad, but it's specifically amongst poor vegans. >> yeah. and i don't know how many poor vegans there are. >> well, i mean, unless they're not even able to afford meat. and so they're trying to make it into a choice. >> maybe. but it feels like vegan seems to be very much a choice of a middle class thing. >> so poor vegans try and squeeze this last story in before we go. josh. yeah,

because it's your specialist subject, the guardian. have news of a taiwanese board game. >> i'm very excited about it. yes. yeah. new taiwanese board game offers chance to battle chinese invasion. they reckon that taiwan's probably going to getinvaded that taiwan's probably going to get invaded by about 2050. that's when the that's when china wants to have their army at its peak, but they're working towards. so they launched a campaign. they raised like £100,000 on kickstarter, as i put the story, because i am obsessed with board games. i've got about 2000 board games, something like that. i'm going to go away now for a few days. i'm already. the thing i'm most excited with is taking a bunch of board games with me, not to play of board games with me, not to play with anybody, just i will play play with anybody, just i will play alone solo. it's called bless you and i will just have a big table, and that's what i'm going to do for the next four days. >> and will you be buying this one then? >> yeah, i will, i think actually it sounds really interesting. >> i mean like games are quite remember risk. that was good. >> yeah, i'd be a bit like that. but these are like more. yeah. everything's sort of the way to think about it is things like risk like monopoly is like black and white movies, like it's 100 and white movies, like it's100 years old now. like any art form they've developed, risk is like

1960s 70s. and now we're in the sort of scorsese period. >> well, that is a marvellous summary. the show is nearly oven summary. the show is nearly over. let's take a final look at tuesday's front pages before we go home. the telegraph pm night's khan in reward for failure. also gareth southgate daily mail pm's reward for failure as sadiq khan is knighted. the times public sector plan to trade pensions for higher pay. the sun now we want justice for our liam the eye newspaper has post office scandal victims being given honours, but wait for compensation still goes on. and the daily star eggheads, we've cracked baldness, eat more eggs. that's all we have time for. thank you to my guest, josh howie and aidan mcqueen. tomorrow is a gb news new year's eve special. but we'll be back the day after that. if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for breakfast. otherwise, thank you very much for your company and have a very happy new year. happy new year. >> there will be a light breeze in the morning leading to a warm

front. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello there! good evening. welcome to your gb news weather update from the met office. as we head towards the new year's period, it's likely to be unsettled. outbreaks of rain and some strong winds too, with multiple met office warnings already in force. so do keep an eye on those if you're travelling around for any festivities. but otherwise, this evening we've got a warm front moving into cold air. so not only bringing outbreaks of rain, but also some snow across parts of scotland, mainly across hills. but we could also see some flurries to lower levels too, in these outbreaks of rain slowly edging their way into parts of northern ireland through into the scottish borders. it's going to be quite heavy and persistent at times, so a very wet morning to start new year's eve. elsewhere it's going to be largely dry. plenty of cloud around though, and perhaps some drizzly spots across hilly areas. and for new year's eve itself, likely to be a very unsettled day, particularly across scotland, where we are expecting those heavy and persistent outbreaks of rain, some quite blustery winds, particularly around exposed coasts too, and also

snow, particularly across the north of scotland and shetland island as well, and also a very wet start across northern ireland, northern parts of england. once again, heavy and persistent outbreaks of rain at times, but elsewhere largely dry. though it is going to be a rather windy day on offer, particularly in northern areas under all that cloud and rain, as it slowly edges its way towards the south—east, eventually clearing parts of scotland, allowing some brighter spells to develop but still very windy here and still plenty of blustery showers on offer by the afternoon. once again, there's a chance these could be falling as snow at times two now by the afternoon, outbreaks of rain generally across northern parts of wales, northern parts of england, the driest of the weather, likely across the far south and southeast, and then for new year's day itself, once again very unsettled. further outbreaks of rain this slowly, once again edging its way towards central and southern parts of the uk, largely dry to the north of this, though plenty of blustery showers moving through once again, falling as snow at times, and it is going to be feeling cold and remaining cold for the end of the week or

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>> it's 9 pm. i'm patrick christys tonight. >> i often used to propose the abolition of the monarchy. >> does starmer hate britain? £800 million a year to mauritius. plus reparations to give away our chagos islands. is it just a coincidence that his mate is the lawyer for mauritius? i think not also 2014, when michael gove introduced the national curriculum, he erased any blackness from from the curriculum. >> the curriculum was essentially whitewashed and its problematic black culture, black history, black achievement. it doesn't feature on the curriculum or in education

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