find out why angela rayner's new project could be the end of free speech in the united kingdom. how will starmer use his acting lessons to deal with trump and the latest lockdown accusations? and who is giving furries at pnde? and who is giving furries at pride? the snip? i'm josh howie and tonight i'm joined by two fresh faced whippersnappers on the comedy circuit , simon evans the comedy circuit, simon evans and louis schaffer, who together will take you through tuesday's top stories. this is headliners. but before tomorrow's news, let's go to tonight's headlines with aaron armstrong. with aaron arm strong. >> with aaron armstrong. >> very good evening to you. it's 11:00. our top stories a 15 it's11:00. our top stories a 15 year old boy who died after he was stabbed at a school in sheffield has been named locally as harvey willgoose. the

teenager was airlifted to hospital after the incident at all saints catholic high school just after midday. he died a short time later, south yorkshire police have confirmed. a 15 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody. the prime minister says his heart goes out to the victim's family. >> the terrible. >> the terrible. >> stabbing in sheffield is one where i think the whole country would want to reach out to the family, to the friends, to the school, the entire community. a young boy has gone to school and hasn't returned home. and so my first thoughts as prime minister and as a father are with the family. >> well, the prime minister was speaking in brussels, where he has addressed eu leaders over dinner, telling counterparts there should be increased military cooperation and greater industrial collaboration to strengthen defence on the continent. as europe's leaders, to do more to counter state threats, including vladimir putin's attempts to sabotage

vital undersea cables. earlier, the prime minister held talks with the nato boss, mark rutte, saying he wants deeper defence cooperation and an ambitious security partnership with the eu. his comments come as europe considers how to respond to donald trump's return to the white house, and the threat of tariffs on european goods. well, donald trump has paused tariffs on mexican and canadian goods for 30 days after both countries agreed a border deal with the us. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, says that's been postponed after he agreed to deploy 10,000 soldiers to protect the border and increase resources to stop the flow of the drug fentanyl heading into the drug fentanyl heading into the united states from canada. it follows a similar development earlier, after the mexican president, claudia sheinbaum, agreed to improve border security and clamp down on drug trafficking and illegal migration. and a 14 year old girl who stabbed two teachers

and a pupil has been found guilty of attempted murder. earlier, the jury saw cctv footage showing the pupil in the school hall where she appeared to stab the knife she later used in the attack into the floor a number of times. now the girl who can't be named for legal reasons, is then seen attacking assistant headteacher fiona euas assistant headteacher fiona elias and colleague liz hopkins. they, along with a pupil, were hospitalised after the attack at amman valley school in carmarthenshire last april. the defendant will be sentenced on the 28th of april. and that is it from the gb newsroom. now it's back over to headliners. >> 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.

>> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at tomorrow's top stories with three comedians. we're going to kick things off with a look at some of the front pages. first of all, we have the telegraph. raina to set rules on islam and free speech. the daily mail. what a time to be crawling back to the eu and the times pm won't back eu in trade war. now. more front pages to come in a second. but first, welcome simon and lewis. hello. i hope you're both well. we have a really big story here. simon on the telegraph. what do you what do you make of it? >> yeah it. >> yeah it. >> does i mean, it's the first hint. >> it's the first whisper. a bit of smoke is going up. raina to set rules on islam and free speech. they are setting. >> up a council. >> up a council. >> she plans. >> she plans. >> to create a council. >> on. >> on. >> islamophobia and is lining. >> islamophobia and is lining. >> up a former. >> up a former. >> tory minister to lead it. that would be dominic grieve. who has some history, some form on islamophobia has been involved with it before. of course, he fell out with the tories because he was a staunch

remainer and eventually he was stripped of the whip by boris johnson in 2019 for refusing to play johnson in 2019 for refusing to play ball there. so he sort of almost de facto a labour politician now, in my view. but it's a worrying sign. as i say, it's a worrying sign. as i say, it's it hasn't been formed yet, let alone come up with any recommendations. but obviously off the back of a week in which we've seen one man shot dead for burning the quran, however deliberately provocative he was obviously being another man arrested in manchester, despite the fact that there is no. blasphemy law in this country because he was considered to be. >> it was racial incitement. >> it was racial incitement. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> islam is not a race. >> no, exactly. >> no, exactly. >> so i mean, arguably we do need a council, a committee of discussion to clear the air on this. and if they have this council, then it comes down firmly on the side of free speech and, and refusal to, to drift back into medieval notions that that you certain texts are sacred and must not be disrespected. maybe that would be a good thing, but you can't help feeling at the moment the

traffic is in all in the wrong direction. >> well, this is it. they're talking. they're 16 people going to be on this council. the person you've just mentioned wrote an introduction for the last council of this sort, which basically came up with this ridiculous definition of islamophobia being anything that targets expressions of muslimness or perceived muslimness, which is the most open ended statement ever. and they've got someone else involved, an imam who was involved, an imam who was involved in calling for a boycott of the lady of heaven, which are the 2022 movie. now thatis which are the 2022 movie. now that is not a great start, lewis. >> i don't want to discuss this. >> i don't want to discuss this. >> okay, so the council has already done its work on you, has it? >> it hasn't done its work. and that guy being killed has done its work on me. i know, i know, if somebody set fire to. >> and that's exactly why they did it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and that's. >> and that's. >> that's exactly why people need to stand up and talk about it. >> it's not my job to stand up. first of all, i'm not i'm not a citizen of this country, number one, and i'm a coward, and i'm a bit of and i'm a bit of a fool and i don't. and i think you

are, too, josh. and i think you should basically, basically, you should basically, basically, you should not be so involved. >> okay. well, i don't want to be hyperbolic, but i think that this is could potentially certainly i think it's a huge story. as simon says, nothing's been set in stone yet. but the ramifications for it. right. what if it went the wrong way? could be the end of western liberal democracy in this country as we know it. well, the reintroduction of blasphemy laws, particularly the protection of islam as an ideology. >> right. >> right. >> i think would be the end of our civilisation. >> for me, to be honest. and, you know, i mean, you can never be sure with lewis whether he's joking or to what extent, but i think a lot of people do feel afraid to put their head above this particular parapet. as far as i'm concerned, it's not the reintroduction of blasphemy laws that would mean the end of western liberal civilisation. it would be the protection of islam, specifically because islam, specifically because islam is counter to its beliefs, its tenets, its core beliefs are counter to western liberalism. and it's the it's the loss of the right to criticise those and

to suggest that those be reformed and to be to be revisited by the powers that be within islam. that would be a threat if, to be honest, you made it illegal to i don't know the kind of thing that stewart lee was doing on stage in, in jerry springer the opera, in which christ was subjected to various humiliations made to wear an adult nappy, and so on. if you were to reintroduce laws to prevent that sort of thing happening, i don't think that would present a threat to liberal democracy, to western civilisation, because that was part of western civilisation at one point, which we have thankfully outgrown. this is a very specific threat, and i think we need to go a little bit further and just say we mustn't have blasphemy laws and say we must be allowed to criticise islam because islam is problematic. >> i think that's a really good distinction, and i think we should also make another distinction here, that there is such a thing as anti—muslim bigotry. that is something that needs to be dealt with. arguably, there already are laws to deal with hatred towards muslims for being muslims, but we are talking here about an

ideology and they are different things. and of course, the word islamophobia is specifically designed to conflate the two. >> and keep in mind, josh, that this is a comedy program and i think we need to keep that in mind. >> there are plenty of funny things. >> to come. and you know what? it is really fun what you're doing right now. for you, it is really fun. but for the rest of us, it's not fun. >> fair enough. let's get on to some fun, lewis. have some fun with the daily mail. >> what? >> what? >> how much does it cost? >> how much does it cost? >> of course, the pound ten. it cost the pound ten. and then the telegraph is like, i think £3. £3.50. that's tomorrow. it's a lot of money for the telegraph. is, is this is. i love the daily mail. i buy the daily mail when i'm out and about because it's £1.10 and that's, that's it's £85 for subscribers. so if you want to save some money anyway, as trump threatens to. >> never actually read the daily mail. >> i don't because i get it online. it's free. it's kind of hard to you get. you just get the feeling what's in the news. >> i was just hoping you would just tell.

>> the story. sorry, sorry. don't talk to me. as trump threatens trade war with the eu. but hence i said it was a comedy programme. but i'm not comedic. i'm not, you know. so it's really horrible for me to, like, get on your case. at least you're bringing passion into this show as trump threatens trade war with eu, but hints at spare and sparing the uk. starmer begs brussels for closer ties at a palace banquet. this is keir starmer, this is the labour party. they have no place in this government, in this country anymore. was that too serious? is that too serious? i'm not afraid of them. i'm afraid of the muslims. we have couple. >> of good stories that might unpick. >> keir starmer i will, i will say this, i will say this which which. the fact is, trump is shaking the world. trump is a great man. and the more trump is a great man, the less keir starmer seems to be like a very little. >> so, simon, it seems to be that that starmer is sort of caught a little bit. he's got the eu he's trying to suck up to, he's got trump that he's also trying to make the peace

with as well. i quite like the fact that that trump came out and said, oh yeah, no, the uk, we like the uk. that suggests that trump that starmer has actually done some very good sucking up to trump so far. >> no it does not. yeah it does. can i, can i talk about this i'm sorry. let's you have something. >> to say. well i can ask simon. >> to say. well i can ask simon. >> ask him and then i'll tell you i'll tell you because. because british people have the weirdest idea about trump. he does not like this country. he left his country. he's typical of the way he. >> loves us. sorry. simon. please. >> that's right. yeah. >> that's right. yeah. >> sorry about that. >> sorry about that. >> i do think it's quite interesting that, i mean, you present him as being caught between two stools, but that is the nature of diplomacy. and on a world stage, it's not unusual. yes. >> that's a good point. >> that's a good point. >> i do think we're in a reasonably strong position at the moment that not only is britain not in the eu, with which trump has the second biggest trade deficit, that he's trying to rebalance, that the biggest one is with china and with with britain. he doesn't have one at all. we actually are he has a slight surplus with britain. so we're in a very strong position in that. in that regard. the pound had a big surge yesterday. we know that the tariffs that he's presented

to mexico and canada are already been negotiated into a into a month long freeze. >> that should be we should just quickly say that's been the latest development. canada is not printed on any of the papers yet because it happened so recently. but canada have basically gone. oh yeah, okay, fine. >> the interesting thing was i was on this show, this very show in this very chairjust. last in this very chair just. last night in your position, and we were agreeing that we couldn't quite see what he was trying to bully canada into. it was quite difficult with mexico. it was obvious because there have been a lot of anger about the southern border becoming remarkably porous and fentanyl making its way up, along with. they're not sending their best. >> but i will. >> but i will. >> tell you, canada's a pretty innocent. but apparently now trudeau is putting a ten 000 force strong force on the border there. >> no, no, you you don't know what you're talking about. british people don't know what they're talking about. canada is a malevolent force in north america. they're worse even than mexico. >> they're filled. so what is he trying to achieve? >> he's he's trying. first of all, when i remember him 40 years ago, i was walking up

avenue. yeah, people, not. >> your trump story again. >> your trump story again. >> please. no, this is another one. and i remember because donald trump was speaking about the trade deficit that that the people in the power positions didn't care about the trade deficit. but it's the most important thing. we need money and we don't. we're giving it to canada. >> so it's all about. >> so it's all about. >> the trade deficit. they're making 200 million, billion pounds a year off of us number one. that's canada. number two is america is fed up with the world being all snigole. and look, we're so much better than the americans. we americans don't care about us. meanwhile, we're paying for your defence, for england's defence. we're paying for england's defence. we're paying for nato. only two countries were paying. >> we're talking specifically about canada here. >> canada. >> canada. >> because he was saying the drug. issue and there's only 1% of fentanyl. >> goes to canada and canada. are people filled with negativity towards america . and negativity towards america. and donald trump doesn't. he wants. >> a psychic punishment. >> a psychic punishment. >> it is. he's fed up with them. and number two, i know the number two. donald trump is not britain's friend. he's not the enemy he doesn't care about. he

doesn't care about. >> well, the interesting thing, simon, as you were saying, is that in terms of this trade deficit is that we just don't make anything. yeah. yeah, absolutely. >> we're a service industry. we don't even export very much to the eu. in truth. you know, when everybody was going oh my god brexit. >> well so maybe that's why he likes. >> to go. >> to go. >> what do we export exactly. well it was like insurance. >> some whisky and cheddar cheese. >> but i do think. >> but i do think. >> we bring in we british people go to america and bring a little sassiness. >> can i hear from simon? >> can i hear from simon? >> no, because i don't think he knows what he's talking about. he knows. he knows. i shouldn't say that. you know so much, simon. he's brilliant. he's the smartest guy on our fiscal. listen, am i right? but you don't know anything about america. he's an, lewis schaffer. and i'm not even on the main programs. >> i should be on. simon. what i want to hear. that's as simon evans knows nothing about america. can you please tell us about the times and a british america. can you please tell us story, which lewis obviously knows nothing about? >> yes. there are some things i don't know. you don't ask me about. >> the nhs. >> the n hs. >> the nhs. >> nhs withholds nottingham report to protect killers

privacy. the nhs has refused to pubush privacy. the nhs has refused to publish a report exposing failings in the treatment of a paranoid schizophrenic who killed three people in nottingham because of patient confidentiality, the times has learned. well, that is obviously going to strike some people as also rather convenient. yeah, as it often does when one proves these things, they're always relatively watertight. and unless you have a specialist legal degree, you might struggle to unpick the hypocrisy, but it always just seems to go in a certain direction, doesn't it? >> well, this is it. the tragedy of these, these three lives, two particularly young at the beginning of their young adulthood. and, and the fact is that they won't even show the families this information. that seems very dodgy to me. >> the nhs is the second worst organisation in this country. it is, it is, it is number one, second worst. >> who's number one? >> who's number one? >> i don't know, but i know, i know there's got to be one