nation with me, andrew doyle.ws from the states. joe biden has pulled out of the presidential race. let's remind ourselves of his statement. joe biden said it's been the greatest honour of my life to serve as your president and while it has been my intention to seek re—election, i believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my dufies to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president. to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president . for the duties as president. for the remainder of my term. i will speak to the nation later this week in more detail about my decision. so joining me now is gerry gunster, washington lobbyist and strategist. hi, jerry. thanks for joining lobbyist and strategist. hi, jerry. thanks forjoining us tonight. did this announcement come today ? did this come today? did this announcement come as a surprise to you, gerry ? to you, gerry? >> no, not at all, i think that there were a lot of whispers going on. maybe a

i'm your host , andrew doyle. tonight, our host, andrew doyle.onight, our two wonderful comedians are joining me. new york's finest lewis schaffer and cumbria's wayward son, nick dixon. are you both feeling well when you call me new york's finest. >> it doesn't make me feel good. >> it doesn't make me feel good. >> no, really. why not.7 that's a compliment . compliment. >> i don't want to be the finest. there's too much responsibility. >> new york's finest. you wouldn't have left the country and come here. >> that's true. new york's reject. that's what i should have said. all right, i'll say that next time. sorry about that, lois. okay, let's have a look at the front pages for friday. daily mail is leading with labour's £300 green energy bill saving lie. the guardian has got chancellor to reveal £20 billion shortfall in public finances. the times has got hospitals have gone unchecked for ten years and the express is leading with esther's heart lifted at hope of dying in favourite place and the eye news starmer warned against pension tax hit for 7

and i'm still andrew doyle. of course, but kerry and josh have switched bodies.y mysterious. >> i'm josh . >> i'm josh. >> i'm josh. >> hello, josh. >> hello, josh. >> thank you. it's nice being josh. it's really easy. >> do you feel a lot cleverer now? >> i do not. this is we're going to go into the story. are we going to talk about being josh? because i don't think this whimsical excursion. >> so we're going to move on to the first story. what is this, the first story. what is this, the independent? i believe we'll get to identity stuff at some point. of course we will. so, yeah, >> so this is the independent andifs >> so this is the independent and it's a fury over trump's vice president, running mate, jd vance and porn star name, by the way. >> well , jd vance. yeah. jd vance. >> what is jd vance said that's so upsetting. >> what's the okay for a start? for a start , he's the new vp and for a start, he's the new vp and he's, he's had a number of questionable things in the past, including suggesting that trump is , is hitler. and it's is, is hitler. and it's i

andrew doyle. the olympics are up and running.nwhile, concern continues to grow at the prospect of women being marginalised from their own sports. culture secretary lisa nandy said this week that there could be some circumstances where trans athletes compete against women. nandy suggested that individual sporting bodies could decide their approach, and both the football association and the england and wales cricket board for example, currently allow trans identifying athletes to compete in women's matches in certain situations, such as if they have low testosterone levels . so here to discuss this, levels. so here to discuss this, i'm joined by the journalist and author joan smith. hi. thank you authorjoan smith. hi. thank you so . i want to ask you about this so. i want to ask you about this because lisa nandy claimed not just a few weeks ago , that the just a few weeks ago, that the era of culture wars is over. and it doesn't look like it, does it? no. >> she's the for minister culture wars, i'm afraid. yes. and what she's doing

i'm andrew doyle. i'm joined tonight by two comedians.ne is available on all platforms. >> that's steve and alan and the recently disgraced and banned from x bruce devlin. this is apparently about hammers. he got banned about hammers. yeah. >> because you know that old scottish phrase i'll take a hammer to you. yeah. well someone had put up about a tiktoker demanding free food and i just said take a hammer to her. and they banned me. >> well, they think you're inciting violence, but you're just being scottish. >> but i had very similar. well i had emojis. >> but then that undermines everything. >> but that's what i put in my appeal. i mean, this is ridiculous. look at the nuance. look at the emojis. how dare you treat me like this? and it's not the first time i've used that phrase. >> well, that is absurd. but you, of course, steve, are behaving well on social media. >> i'm available on all platforms. >> yes, truth social shut me down. brilliant. and next time i want to say something aggressive, i'll just put a winking emoji, i think, and

andrew doyle. the olympics are up and running.le, concern continues to grow at the prospect of women being marginalised from their own sports. culture secretary lisa nandy said this week that there could be some circumstances where trans athletes compete against women. nandy suggested that individual sporting bodies could decide their approach, and both the football association and the england and wales cricket board for example, currently allow trans identifying athletes to compete in women's matches in certain situations, such as if they have low testosterone levels . so here to discuss this, levels. so here to discuss this, i'm joined by the journalist and author joan smith. hi. thank you authorjoan smith. hi. thank you so . i want to ask you about this so. i want to ask you about this because lisa nandy claimed not just a few weeks ago , that the just a few weeks ago, that the era of culture wars is over. and it doesn't look like it, does it? no. >> she's the for minister culture wars, i'm afraid. yes. and what she's doing is

i'm andrew doyle. i'm taking you on a journey through saturday's newspapers with my two comedy crewmates, leo kearse and steve n allen. do you like the nautical introduction there? yes. yeah. is that a salute? yeah yeah. you're a military man, aren't you, steve? >> i thought that was all star trek though. you were talking about crewmates. oh i see, i thought that's right up my street. >> that's where your mind goes. >> that's where your mind goes. >> not wearing a red shirt. i'll get through this one. >> how are you, leo? >> how are you, leo? >> yeah, i'm not bad. >> yeah, i'm not bad. >> i'm. no stranger to seamen. >> i'm. no stranger to seamen. >> okay, let's have a look at the front covers before we crack on. >> so saturday's daily mail is leading with global. >> it meltdown shows peril of going cashless. we'll get to that in a moment. the telegraph holidays in chaos after global. it meltdown. this seems to be the theme the times has that same story. it companies error could be terminal for getaways

. >> welcome back to free speech nafion >> welcome back to free speech nation with me andrew doyle.we've got a brilliant studio audience here. let's get the most out of them . we've got a most out of them. we've got a question coming from nick. hello, nick. hello >> hello, everyone, the police force in northern ireland. next in line to be indoctrinated. >> okay . and this is the story >> okay. and this is the story that the psni have been receiving training in northern ireland to believe that male and female is a social construct, which is what you need in northern irish policing. you need that understanding queer theory of what you need . really? theory of what you need. really? >> yeah. and the idea that the male and female, which are biological categories based on things like chromosomes and have you got a willy or not, that's that's not you know, that's not something that's really debateable. i mean, i can't believe the same people who call me a climate denier are saying that, you know , you can change that, you know, you can change from being female to male. you can maybe, you

we've not had you on although you've been on under a different administration, i think under andrew doyle's, stewardship. but what is your sort of historical, political loyalty? do you have any at all? well, won't answer. >> i know. >> i know. >> when i was, when i was youngenl >> when i was, when i was younger, i was, i was a communist because we were all stupid when we were young. yeah. no, no. hoppy and libertarian wearing a libertarian hat. >> so would you feel there's no you don't feel represented on the potential on the ballot at all tomorrow? >> no, not not even a little bit. because it's all government and i don't want one. >> no, i mean, the closest would probably be reform. we would actually shrink the state a little bit for you, but yeah . i little bit for you, but yeah. i mean, what do you think, lewis, is it is it worth casting a protest vote in the hope that the tories register that they've lost more people to the left than to the right, than they have to the left? >> well, i don't think voting for reform would be a protest vote, i don't think i think if they get three, 4 or 5

welcome to free speech nation with me, stephen allen, standing in for andrew doyle.est news. not available with us at the moment. then we'll plough on to. this is the show where we take a look at the culture, culture, the current affairs and politics. and we don't mince our words, we don't mince. and of course we have the latest from the loveable culture warriors. but according to our new government, the culture wars no longer exist, don't they? all right, coming up elsewhere on the show tonight, we all woke up , the show tonight, we all woke up, didn't we, with

there aren't yellow people and purple people, but no andrew doyle does a whole host of material about no one that's mauve or yellow or any of that kind of stuff. more's the pity . i would stuff. more's the pity. i would like to meet someone mauve. >> there was a blue person in paris last night. >> yeah, but i don't think they were authentically blue. that wasn't a good shade on them. >> under these lights. >> under these lights. >> i think we can maybe achieve it, now moving on. actor richard ayoade has defended graham linehan, known affectionately as glitter. he's the creator of comedy classics such as father ted and the it crowd, which ayoade started. ayoade described linehan as a man of great principle. now, linehan has been widely cancelled for his stance on gender ideology and support for biological reality. glenn glener is opposed to giving children drugs, hormones, puberty blockers and unnecessary surgery, which, as we've already discussed , sounds like common discussed, sounds like common sense, but it made glitter very unpopular with ugly blue haired communist freaks who ever

i'm open to those conversations, but we fail if we become obsessed with andrew doyle. >> let me quickly in this violence against women and girls. apparently there's 2 million victims every yeah there's 2 million victims every year. there's 2.3 million perpetrators every year, 20% of all police recorded crimes are unked all police recorded crimes are linked to violence against women and girls. they reckon that the fastest growing groups of victims and perpetrators are aged 16 to 19. there's a few things i just want to throw out there. so one of the one of the issues that i've got about this issues that i've got about this is the lack of data. we don't seem to really understand who are perpetrating these crimes. often when we start trying to track a lot of police forces, when they start trying to track the sex of the individual, because i bet my bottom dollar it's men doing this, you can track the data. however, this person decides to identify . so person decides to identify. so this person could decide to identify as a female that goes down as female on female crime. and you mentioned th

we are back tomorrow at 11 with andrew doyle in the chair.back, so good luck with that. if you're watching at five in the morning, stay tuned for breakfast until the next time. have yourself a good one. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello again and welcome along to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. gloomy skies overnight and into the start of thursday. for many of us, outbreaks of rain. but it will turn brighter later on. now. we started wednesday with a ridge of high pressure . didn't ridge of high pressure. didn't last long. weather fronts are now moving in from the west and they are thickening up the cloud in many parts of the uk and bringing extensive low cloud to western parts and southern parts of the country with hill fog, coastal mist and areas of rain and drizzle. nevertheless with the largely cloudy skies overnight, it is going to remain mild in some places, rather muqqy' mild in some places, rather muggy, 15 or 16 celsius first thing, but if you're in the south a

thank you to my guest, carrie and nick andrew doyle will be here tomorrow at 11 pm. with carrie and joshay tuned for breakfast. good night . night. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. >> good evening. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office. heavy rain will continue in central areas overnight with rain warnings in force. but for many of us, it is going to be a mild night. we've got southwesterly winds as low pressure has been approaching from the southwest and band of rain is pivoting around this area of low pressure, bringing some very heavy rain to central areas of england. parts of wales as well, where there's a rain warning in force until the early hours of tuesday, we could see some localised flooding by tomorrow morning. further north it will remain largely dry overnight. there's quite a lot of cloud around though, so temperatures holding up into the mid teens for most of us. so a fairly mild start to the day on tuesday, but a pretty damp one for some of us, particularly where this heavy rain lingers where t

welcome to free speech nation with me, stephen allen, standing in for andrew doyle.e latest news. not available with us at the moment. then we'll plough on to. this is the show where we take a look at the culture, culture, the current affairs and politics. and we don't mince our words, we don't mince. and of course we have the latest from the loveable culture warriors. but according to our new government, the culture wars no longer exist, don't they? all right, coming up elsewhere on the show tonight, we all woke up , the show tonight, we all woke up, didn't we, with a shocking news of the assassination attempt of former president donald trump will be debating whether the political discourse in the us is to blame . we'll discuss why to blame. we'll discuss why internet sensation billboard chris is in a legal battle for the right to debate harmful gender ideology on x, formerly twitter, and we'll join our reporter live from the fan zone ahead of the euros final in which england are actually involved. watch out for those flying pigs. let's get the latest news now . lat

andrew doyle have a stroke. andrew doyle reform. you'll have a stroke . reform.nasty mate. >> honestly, nigel, the working class you'll ever. >> you'll have a stroke if you go on like this. hey, watch out for channel 4 soon. bye. bye bye. >> yeah, well, we'll find out later whether they're actors and whether they worked in conjunction with channel 4. >> this could go on for hours or something, right? i don't. no problem at all. yeah >> it means you're doing something. they may well be actors. they may well be actors, we've seen this before, but channel 4, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with it. >> yes, yes it. - >> yes, yes . it. — >> yes, yes . oh the >> yes, yes. oh the anger. >> yes, yes. oh the anger. >> the anger. well at least they're showing their anger in public. they're showing their anger in pubuc.the they're showing their anger in public. the political establishment are in fear in private as to what happened last night with those results in the elections and i said on the 3rd of june, when i decided to come out of retirement and get back invol

welcome to free speech nation with me, stephen allen, standing in for andrew doyle. let's cross now to get the latest news. not available with us at the moment. then we'll plough on to. this is the show where we take a look at the culture, culture, the current affairs and politics. and we don't mince our words, we don't mince. and of course we have the latest from the loveable culture warriors. but according to our new government, the culture wars no longer exist, don't they? all right, coming up elsewhere on the show tonight, we all woke up , the show tonight, we all woke up, didn't we, with a shocking news of the assassination attempt of former president donald trump will be debating whether the political discourse in the us is to blame . we'll discuss why to blame. we'll discuss why internet sensation billboard chris is in a legal battle for the right to debate harmful gender ideology on x, formerly twitter, and we'll join our reporter live from the fan zone ahead of the euros final in which england are actually involved. watch out for those flying pigs. let's get

paul coyte andrew doyle shawn seesahai coco gauff . short version? >> well, i'd just like to. i'd just like to say at home, in case you're wondering how it's spelt, it's spelt the usual way. okay, so we'll go on. we'll say that again. >> sandie vara paul coyte joel cauchi . winthrop. cod—zilla coco gauff. >> right. lovely stuff. so i think that's wales, isn't it? and how do you how do you vote? because you've got a bit of an interesting backstory in terms of your political journey, haven't you. >> yes, i've voted for plaid cymru all my life and since i moved to stoke on trent seven years ago, i could. i didn't vote last last election because i was disillusioned with all the politics. but this year nigel farage has come big and strong and he's making britain proud. and that's why i voted for today. all right . all right. >> well, there's quite a lot of that in this room. should we go for a walk? >> should we go for a walk and see what's going on? >> well, let's not walk very far just for now, because there's a chap here who's had a bott