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adam: absolutely. another brookings study says 44% of jobs in america qualify as low-wage.e are moving against a tide of bad jobs in limited opportunity. that has this knock on effect socially and civically, and how we cannot focus our lives on community the way we once could, or on families. civic organizations. these are one of the things that robert putnam was talking about, places americans congregate, things that are good for democracy, of people meeting and having social lives and being parts of their community. that has dissipated. over work and identification with your profession has stepped in to fill that void in a way that probably is not good. it is fueling, in many instances, a loneliness epidemic. alissa: yeah. writers, creative professionals, and journalists are not alone. do you see that now in your own work, the over-identification with your labor and volatility? adam: it is hard to paint a picture of sadness for journalists to get to travel around the country occasionally and talk to interesting people, but there is a lot of fred kerley in the work. what i

adams. violence reached the floor of the united states senate where preston brooks of south carolina, a congressman, savagely beat an abolitionist charles sumner with his cane. members began carrying knives and pistols into the chamber. meanwhile, the nation's chief executive, james buchanan, did nothing. >> a house divided against itself cannot stand . i believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. i do not expect the union to be dissolved i do not expect the house to fall but i do expect it will cease to be divided. it will become all one thing or all the other. >> political violence, a divided country, it's like the mark twain quote, history often repeats itself. if you watched all of his films back to back they calculated it would take over 200 films back to back they calculated it would take over 282 hours or a full nine days but if you have a spare nine days to watch them in a sitting, what you would witness is proof that generation after generation, history is rhyming before our eyes. >> martin luther king was shot and killed tonight . in this difficult day and

adams. violence reached the floor of the united states senate where congressman preston brooks of south carolinationist charles sumner with his cane. sumner sympathizers said brooks knew canes. members began carrying pistols into the chamber. meanwhile, the nation's chief executive james buchanan did nothing. a house divided against itself cannot stand. i believe this government cannot endure program minutely half slave and half free. i do not expect the union to be dissolved. i do not expect the house it fall, but i do expect it will cease to be divided. it will become all one thing or all the other. >> political violence, divided country, it is like that mark twain quote, history didn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. a truism ken burns himself has talked about on this very program. "the new york times" calculated that if you watched all of ken's films back-to-back to back it would take over 232 hours, a full nine days, but if you do have nine days to spare you will see generation after generation history is rhyming right before our eyes. >> martin luther king was shot and was killed tonig

walmart, i think that is the thing is by it is not brooke mentioned contractors, i mean it is grants, government grants think of money underneath all that. adamk yeah. i think the message here is very clear. we're getting back to business. enough with social engineering with distractions if dei out esg should be on chopping block as well, i think already is, we are seeing that in aboard rooms corporations getting back to business of being in business. it is not about doing you know, right by various social mories it is doing right by shareholders there have been so many distractions past four years an administration that wanted to prioritize again all this social engineering the other thing i really am not happy about i am glad that we are getting over this dei we were usings discrimination to fight discrimination, discriminateing to elevate others not the way it works, meritocracy do the best you can do the could be guess to best person best qualified the only way we should run our lives, or businesses, ourselves, so, yeah, i am thrilled with this. maria: absolutely. one hundred percent, let's slip in a break my next guest operatives preside

adam brooks and kai wilshire. tonight on the show two tier nhs for those who have no right to be here. >> labour hates the working class. >> keir starmer is as guilty as anyone over the grooming gangs. >> why are the police putting women's safety and dignity at risk with their gender bending nonsense? >> it's 6 pm. and this is the saturday five. >> and finally quitting. labour councillors should stop playing student politics. >> that's right. kai is going to go in on those 20 councillors that quit the labour party. good evening everybody. this is the saturday five with me, alex armstrong. and before you ask, i know everyone's burning to get to know where where on earth darren grimes is. well, all that chatter about butterworth's adventures in syria and the middle east last weekend, i half expected to darren to embark on his own little crusade. but no. our very own political maverick isn't gallivanting in the foreign lands. he's decided to wage his own cultural war right here on home soil. he's up north, gates cras

and littlewood, landlord and activist adam brooks and writer and broadcaster nina myskow. i wonder how much money do you think prince harry has just come into. >> son.7 the flagship title for rupert murdoch's uk media empire, has indeed engaged in illegal practices. >> get ready britain, here we go. knives don't kill people. deranged lunatics do. next. >> good evening. it's just gone. 9:00. these are your headlines from the gb newsroom. russia has responded to donald trump's ultimatum to end the war in ukraine. the us president said russia will face high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions if president vladimir putin does not end the war. posting on his truth social, trump expressed his love for the russian people and his good relationship with putin and then issued a direct warning to stop this ridiculous war. russia's un envoy has said the kremlin would need to see what trump thinks is a deal comprises of before proceeding. he said. it's not merely the question of ending the war. it's first and foremost a question of addressing the root causes of the ukrainian crisis.

we've got businessman and activist adam brooks and we've got broadcaster nina myskow. start with you. you know, we're going to get stuck into the actual votes that happened later on at 10:00 pm. but the way that the media has gone about this, the timing of that channel 4 documentary, i think your peroration there, patrick, was particularly apposite. >> what's happening here is this is a complete threat to their paradigm view of the world. and the view goes something like this from the liberal metropolitan media that a multicultural society in which people of all faiths, cultures, backgrounds, beliefs merged together will be better than the sum of the parts. in all cases, we are now learning through hard reality. that is not true. that doesn't mean that you need to be a monocultural list. i mean, i would say the indian community has integrated into the uk sensationally, the jewish community sensationally. but i'm afraid that the entire melting pot doesn't work. and channel 4, if you like, are basically the equivalent of the flat earth society refusing to believe photogr

tonight, i am joined by the director of popular conservatives, mark littlewood, landlord and activist adam brooks and broadcaster nina myskow. oh, and can you tell me, please, what on earth is going on here? >> just wonder. i can't see it on the menu, but where do i get the five guys from? >> get ready britain. here we go. the establishment media are laughing at grooming gang victims. next. >> good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines. it's just gone 9:00. labour mps have tonight voted down a tory demand for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs. the commons opposed a call by conservative leader kemi badenoch for a fresh probe into historical child sexual exploitation by 364 votes to 111. >> the ayes to the right were 111, the noes to the left 364. so the noes have it. the noes have it. >> unlock mps voted down an amendment to the children's wellbeing and schools bill proposed by the conservatives, which would have looked to force a statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. shadow home secretary chris philp has responded, saying it's important to find out the truth. >> we need a nati

we've also got superstar gb news panellist adam brookes back on the show. he's the triple threat you didn't know you needed a pub landlord who can serve you a pint with one hand, while verbally knocking out the far left in the next. yes, adam is ready to fight for your right to enjoy an old, good old english roast and take down those knife crimes while he's at it. and yes, kai wilshire is back. the only way we could lure him here this week was faking auditions for the wokeist man in wales. and when he's not on tv, he spends his time in the countryside handing out non—crime hate incident reports to anyone walking their dog in his turf. so let's get this show on the road. each hosts outlines their argument about a chosen topic. then we all pile in and things get a little bit scrappy, as you all know. and of course i want to know your views, so please send your views in to gbnews.com/yoursay. and don't forget to put your questions in forget to put your questions in for ask the five. no topics are off limits other than calling me errol flynn, which i've had qui