the girl was not injured during the incident. in other news, three teenagers have been charged with the murder of a 17 year old boy in bedford. thomas taylor was stabbed near bedford bus station on wednesday. 18 year old ahmed adam and two other males, aged 16 and 17, who can't be named for legal reasons, have been charged with his murder. a 60 year old man was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender but has since been bailed. the boys remain , have bailed. the boys remain, have been remanded into custody and will appear at luton magistrates court on monday. detectives have made three more arrests over the weekend. bedfordshire police say they've increased patrols in the area following the absolutely shocking incident, and continue to appeal for information. reform uk leader nigel farage has accused the health secretary of attempting to conceal the reality of grooming gangs after he claimed the public discourse

could risk vilifying certain communities. wes streeting had said that the rhetoric around grooming gangs risked causing a second new zealand mosque massacre. mr farage told the telegraph newspaper that his remarks were insulting. that's now as labour mp dan carden has broken ranks from sir keir starmer, joining manchester mayor andy burnham in his calls for a national inquiry into the scandal. an off duty policewoman who was killed by a lorry as she helped at the scene of a crash, epitomises the very best of british policing, a senior officer has said. pc rosie prior was standing on the verge of the a19 at bagby, near thirsk, with the driver and passenger of one of the cars involved when the lorry collided with them yesterday morning. miss prior and a 41 year old man, ryan welford, from knaresborough, both died at the scene. the 65 year old lorry driver was

arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. he has been released under investigation. a teenage boy who was a passenger in mr wilford's car is in a serious but stable condition in hospital. the uk health security agency has extended its cold weather health alert for all of england until tuesday. amber alerts will now run until january the 14th, meaning a rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions, is likely. temperatures dropped to —13.9 degrees overnight, but the met office has said that the cold spell is coming to an end. those are your latest headlines, but now let's get you over to josh 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/alerts. >> good evening. i'm josh howie and this is free speech nation. >> hello. >> hello. >> this is the show where we take a look at culture, current affairs and politics, and when necessary, we push back. it has been a seismic week of victories against regressive progressive policies, but the fight for common sense continues. so join us as coming up on tonight's show. the civil service have decided that it's not transphobic to express gender critical views, but only after settling an employment tribunal. i'm joined by director of advocacy at sex matters, helen joyce and employment lawyer peter daly. plus, why is europe's largest teaching union subsidising trips to palestine? i'll be asking journalist nicole lampert. and are the changes at meta a victory for free speech? we'll be asking the director of the social market foundation,

theo bertram, and of course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from our wonderful studio audience. my our wonderful studio audience. my comedian guest this evening are christa wetton and kerry marx. hello, hello, welcome, welcome. how are you? are you all right? well. thank you. yes. you seem well. when i saw you two seconds ago. outside. i'm fine. how are you? i haven't changed, everything's wonderful. and. kerry, how are you? it's your first time on free speech. >> nation doesn't change over two seconds. i've noticed this. she's very, very unchanged. yes. yes. it's my first time on free speech nation. and my first time i've been allowed to talk to people. thank you very much for this opportunity. i don't want to over try and ingratiate myself with the audience, but you all look beautiful. >> that's it. classic. >> classic. >> classic. >> yeah. two people are at work, then? yes. so welcome. and how are you finding the stalls? it's are you finding the stalls? it's a different kettle of fish behind the desk. >> first time. i'm not thinking so. that's all. we always get the sinking chair. there we go. >> right. we're going to start with some questions from the

audience. our first question is from ryan. hello. >> hello. good evening. all. is it right that the taxpayer is bailing out stonewall? >> yes. so why is the taxpayer bailing out stonewall? this is this week. new accounts reveal stonewall are now more dependent on taxpayers money as its finances suffer, prompting calls for from public bodies to end for from public bodies to end for public bodies to end their support for it. the lgbtq+ plus another few letters, i imagine lobbying group reported a deficit of more than £800,000 as income fell, while it was forced to use up half its reserves. new accounts show. so, yeah. what do you think about this? i mean, it seems incredible. they're getting i think it's about £620,000 they're getting from taxpayers. >> i mean, i think stonewall i was a big supporter of. but years ago, since they were ideologically captured, i think they've deserted gays and lesbians. and i think lgb alliance has taken up the slack of what stonewall used to do. and i think it's absolutely abhorrent that the taxpayer is supporting stonewall. just let them go to the wall. >> there we go. yes. so i mean

cresta it's what is it. >> it's not like oh 600 grand. no sorry. we don't have that. if it was free i'd. i wouldn't take it. if it was free. i don't want them. i don't want them anymore. >> well yeah. you say you don't want them, but it's also that they've been so entrenched within the public. it's not just the money. it's also they've been entrenched within public institutions. >> i'm stunned that that they're not making money because i thought their whole business model was to go in and say, you need to know about this and we'll do you a course. and i thought, oh, can't fail. but apparently it can. >> well, you say that it's not free, but it's going down a little bit. i believe last year or the year before it was 2.9 million and now it's only 2.4 million. >> boo hoo. >> boo hoo. >> to hell with them as i say. so lgbt originally it was a few years back. lgbtq ukip two sza and then now i think it's as long as pi, you know and still growing and yes, you're right, they started off as a very good charity for gay charity. and then they started

self—identifying as a trans charity and, and became and from that became trans obsessed. but with the ideology. and we're no longer a charity but an activist organisation which reaches a point where they're, they're, they're saying, i think hundreds of teachers agreed that or in schools agreed that teachers shouldn't even use the words boys and girls anymore, which must have made, you know, classes very interesting, you know, for biology and so on. so, yeah, well, they've spread is insane understanding of biology, human nature and so on. it's it should never it should have always been laughable. but it went beyond their remit. and so what's happening now is of course companies are pulling back from it. and the question is should the public still be paying is should the public still be paying for it? i'd say no. how do you feel? >> there we go. >> there we go. >> there we go. >> there you go. see, i was right. >> i think that this audience, this audience might be slightly biased by being here, but yes. a stonewall spokesman said many charities have financially struggled because of covid and the economic downturn, and stonewall is no different. however, our work to advocate for lgbtq+ equality has never

been more important as rights are being rolled back globally. we are. oh god, it goes on. we are confident that support will increase as wider society rallies against the increasing suppression of rights globally. so it seems like they're focused very much on this globally now as we know. well, no, this is what they seem to be pivoting to because of course when we got in this country, we got marriage rights and full equality rights for homosexuals. you would think that that would be the job was done. and that's arguably why some people say they pivoted then towards the trans stuff, because they saw that that was a way to keep going. and now it seems like they've always had a meeting go, let's stop worrying about the trans. let's focus on the global issue, which is ac