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welcome to the show where we take a look at culture, current affairs and politics. and when they go mental, we push back. and there's lots of mental illness tonight in the first houn illness tonight in the first hour. a group of anti—racist campaigners claimed to have been attacked and targeted by anti—racists. what is going on.7 the home secretary writes to social media bosses asking for the removal of violent material accessed by the southport killer. is this censorship or sensibility? and church goers are left outraged after a york minster agreed to host a concert for an extreme heavy metal band, often using sacrilegious imagery. should places of worship ever be used for such things? and of course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from our wonderful studio audience. my comedian guest this evening are paul cox and adam kumars. welcome. how are you? i'm good. thanks, josh. >> i'm good. it's february. >> i'm good. it's february. >> yeah. good to see you. >> it's always good to get

january out of the way, isn't it? i don't like the wish life away, but january is a right kick in the old taxes. yeah, just endless gloom. >> fortunately, i earned so little last year that i got tax. >> rebate to be celebrating. but yeah, i get it. >> that's like the benefit of being poor. >> yes. yeah, exactly. >> yes. yeah, exactly. >> how are you? you're right. >> how are you? you're right. >> very good. you know, i got a little rebate myself, but. >> well, thank you so much for asking where i was last week. yeah. it was my. it was my son's bar mitzvah. >> lovely. >> lovely. >> which was great. so i'm even poorer than ever, having spent every money cent i own. anyway, look, let's get some questions from our wonderful studio audience. thank you for being here, guys. who was our first question from? oh, there we go. >> hiya. >> hiya. >> hello. >> hello. >> is sadiq khan a man or a woman? >> yeah, that's. and you're denise, right? yeah. thank you. denise? yes, it's sadiq khan, a man or a woman. it is difficult to know. i think it depends on any given day, really. this is because the mayor of london, sadiq khan, appears to have deleted his he him pronouns from

his ex bio. >> yes. weird isn't it? >> yes. weird isn't it? >> it is weird. although they have been i don't. if you've seen the latest, they've been reinstated. i don't know if they've been reinstated yet, but he has made a comment about it saying it was a mistake. >> well, i've always assumed sadiq khan is a teenage girl. he behaves like one. he has the politics of one. i mean, i think any grown man who has pronouns in their bio should be on register. >> there we go. before and after. there we go. they just mysteriously disappeared when he realised they were rubbish. >> it is odd. i think it's odd. i think it's very performative as well. i don't think i mean, is he a serious politician? that's up for debate. it's not for me to say i know what i believe, but he's the mayor of london and i know, i know as mayor of london over the last eight years, that that that has meant purely to appeal to whatever minority group you think you're going to get the most votes from. but it's a very, very serious job. there is knife crime through the roof, all sorts of crime through the roof. people feel very unsafe in london. and the idea that he would be or anybody would be focusing on their pronouns to me is a waste of time.

>> but that's what people have done. but him taking them away, even though he's saying it's safe. i just want to read out a quick spokesman for sadiq khan said this seems to be a technical error which will put right as soon as possible. yeah, those three words happened to just be deleted. it suggests, though, that it was a fad. >> yes, yes, i think it's like anyone who's got pronouns in their bio, i'm not particularly passionate about it. i just think it just seems a bit silly. i attribute these to skinny jeans. we all went through the phase, you know, or goth era, and then you sort of grow out of it. and i think the fact that people have pointed out, oh, it's gone now. he's putting it back in now. he might have him for another year or two. so. >> well, that's it's interesting you say that. my what i think is that the people who've got pronouns, they should be forced to keep them forever. >> yes. >> yes. >> and that way, ten years from now, you'll be able to tell who's a coward and who's stupid. >> right. >> right. >> and it's just. >> and it's just. >> like a tattoo. yeah, yeah. weird. okay. yeah, i think, yeah, i think it's just it's

just a fad. and i think, you know, the more, the more we just ignore it, and it's not even bringing attention to it. maybe everyone else will just forget that it was a. >> the problem was it's a fad. but arguably it was also compelled speech at the time. yeah, because many people were forced to actually implement them. >> that's a great point. by the way, adam, all jeans are skinny jeansif way, adam, all jeans are skinny jeans if you eat enough cheese. but people were compelled and often, you know, i read i read a lot of articles associated to this story this week and people were saying within we were never compelled or told to do anything, but if you didn't, then you were in trouble. it was like you you were saying you were against. >> yeah, well, our next question is from stephen. >> good evening. would it be fair to say that the bbc is biased? >> yes. so this is a group of news watch winning permission to seek a judicial review of the broadcast regulator. ofcom's alleged refusal to investigate pro—eu bias in bbc coverage of brexit. so yeah, this is. >> yeah, i mean, going on without any evidence, of course, and purely for satire, i would

say personal opinion that the bbc, ofcom are very much in the bbc's pocket. the evidence i would anecdotally present is that they are very pro—palestine, pro—eu. ofcom know the bbc, so a station, an output that's supposed to represent the whole of the uk. yeah. >> i've got to say ofcom are not here to defend themselves. >> they're not here to defend themselves necessarily. >> a question of them being in bbc's pocket as them going along with it, or actually just following the official rules, by the way, which i have to point out are that you can they can investigate particular programmes or connected programmes or connected programmes like a series. but what this is argument is about is the overall, when they look at the totality of the figures and the presenters that they had. >> yeah, i think it's important to say they're damned if they do and they damned if they don't. ofcom, that is because no matter what they do, they seem to come under fire. i don't think they help themselves though. >> okay. what do you think about this? >> yeah. i think it's no

surprise that the bbc is basically perceived or i guess openly seems to be like pro—eu or these sort of agendas, because a lot of people within the bbc, whether it's presenters or people at senior figures, have these views and i think quite naturally, as much as we like to say, you know, any organisation should be impartial, humans famously are not. so they end up pushing the way they feel. so unless we get rid of those people and get people who maybe a bit half and half with their beliefs, i think that's going to continue. >> okay. yeah. fair enough. well, our next question is from mike. >> hi, josh. hey. should french gynaecologists be forced to try to examine parts that don't exist? >> yeah. wow. so this is the story of a french gynaecologist, doctor victor aquarian. and he was suspended from practising for a month for refusing to treat trans women, saying he is only trained to treat real women. now, mike, you've seen this story. yeah. it's mental right? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i think he said, how do you examine a gap ? basically it's, examine a gap? basically it's, you know, the health service, evenin you know, the health service, even in france, needs to spend

its time better than doing silly things or trying to. >> yeah. i mean when he says the gap. but i should point out that the, the trans woman or man has not been through any surgery, so he's coming to be seen by a gynaecologist with all of their bits. it's and then it's going and then getting very upset when the doctor says, well, actually, i haven't been trained to deal with your biology. >> well, it feels like a fetish, doesn't it? if you're going to a gynaecologist with a penis and