we want to introduce you to andrew doyle. his newest book is called new puritans how religion social justice captured the western world. before we get to book mr. doyle, introduce yourself to the american audience. okay. my name is andrew doyle. i'm writer. i'm a broadcaster. i'm a comedian. i have a show on a uk channel called gb news every sunday, which is called free speech nation. so i'm interested in the issues relating to liberal values and free speech, and i also write various comedic projects and plays and that kind of thing. so how would you describe as a channel? i would describe it as, i suppose. well, it was set up to provide within the media landscape in the uk. another alternative voice. in other words, we a problem in the uk with a kind of ideological bias shall say from the major mainstream media channels, not much. if i said, if you type bbc news, it's not really a bias of party politics because they do try their best to be impartial. but there is an ideological bias when it comes to issues that are now known

you're with andrew doyle.or in nana akua on gb news, on your tv and on your digital radio. next. algerian boxer amani khalife has advanced to the women's semi—final, but has this controversy highlighted unfairness in women's sport welcome back here with andrew doyle standing in for nana akua on gb news on tv and on digital radio. algerian boxer amani khalife, the athlete at the centre of a gender eligibility storm, has advanced to the women's semi—final after defeating hungary's ana lucia hamori yesterday and khalife was previously disqualified from last year's world championships over gender eligibility criteria, with boxing boss saying the olympics is destroying women's sports. now. the olympic organisers have doubled down on their decision to allow taiwanese lin yu ting, an athlete in the same position, and algeria's imani khalife, to compete. and the algerian olympic committee has filed a complaint with the international olympic committee over their treatment. so i'm bringing my panel back in now. welcome

andrew doyle. years years discussing debating , cogitating and arguing debating, cogitating and arguing about this important topic. thanks very much for joining me about this important topic. thanks very much forjoining me , andrew. >> thanks for having me, neal. >> thanks for having me, neal. >> i, i listened again , i >> i, i listened again, i listened for the second time to a speech that you gave, i think, at one of the oxford colleges. i'm not quite sure. and it was about freedom of speech. and you cited, milton and paradise lost . cited, milton and paradise lost. i wonder if you could, just, develop that thesis a little bit for us just now, >> well, the reason i was talking about john milton is because people obviously know him for his poetry, for paradise lost, one of the greatest epic poems in the english language, but he also wrote a very important tract on freedom of speech called areopagitica, which was a response to the state attempting to license, as in censor, all printed publications.

>> devouring books, being introverted. >> this is andrew doyle, right?s is andrew doyle, right? >> we're moving on. more mail and josh. josh, why are all these former sex symbols, what's happening to them? who are the sex symbols? >> well, basically, they're getting older and they're going off men . is that right? that's off men. is that right? that's the gist of it. well this is it. |, the gist of it. well this is it. i, emily bab al—mandab is the latest star. say she's decentring men and putting romance on the back burner. following julia fox, kate hudson, britney spears and drew barrymore. >> so a lot of what as they're getting older. >> well, there seems to be some correlation here between getting older and not being as fit. and then deciding that actually, i don't really want a man, even though maybe they've got no choice, i don't know. >> wow. >> wow. >> i'm just that some of these women that they've listed are they're quite attractive. >> yes. >> yes. >> sexy women . >> sexy women. >> sexy women. >> i think they're just playing hard to get. you kn

andrew doyle. nation with me. andrew doyle.politan police commissioner, sir mark rowley, has dismissed accusations of two tier policing in the wake of riots across the uk, calling it complete nonsense. >> it's complete nonsense. we have, commentators from either end of the political spectrum who like to throw accusations of bias at the police because we stand in the middle, we operate independently under the law without fear or favour. >> this comes as criticism came from figures including nigel farage and elon musk , who have farage and elon musk, who have slammed the prime minister, keir starmer, and argued that last week's disorder was handled more severely than it would have been if ethnic minorities were involved. so joining me now is author and family law barrister sarah phillimore . welcome to the sarah phillimore. welcome to the show, sarah. >> thank you . >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so can i ask you, you obviously as your t—shirt reveals, you are associated with fair cop, which is a group that sort of keeps an eye o

i'm andrew doyle. do stick around.rmed discussions on politics and the arts. now is vice president kamala harris's campaign strategy of focusing less on policy and more on other aspects, helping her to reshape the presidential race. i'm going to be joined by my political panel to delve into the battle for the white house you may not be able to afford a ticket to glyndebourne or the royal opera, but british hard earned taxes have paid for citizens of prosperous shanghai to see traditional chinese opera performed by an all female cast should foreign aid be allowed to continue? i'll be discussing this with the former secretary of state for trade, lord peter lilley. has australia abandoned womanhood following a landmark case down under ruling in favour of a trans identified male who was kicked off a social networking app meant for only women, our trans rights overtaking women's rights. joe barton will be here to share her thoughts. and last but not least, we're going to be belatedly celebrating national burger day. i'll be

slash alerts. >> welcome back to free speech nafion >> welcome back to free speech nation with me, andrew doyle very gracious studio audience. who have we got first? lee, where are you? lee, hello. >> hi , andrew. i'm just back >> hi, andrew. i'm just back from the usa, where i completely missed the comedian who courted controversy. so my question is , controversy. so my question is, should a comedian ever be cancelled? >> this is a fellow. cancelled? >> this is a fellow . you're >> this is a fellow. you're a fellow american. this is a reginald d hunter has got in trouble for a show at the edinburgh fringe. i'm sure you've been following this this week . what had happened is he'd week. what had happened is he'd made a joke about israel . two made a joke about israel. two israeli audience members heckled dunng israeli audience members heckled during the show, saying they didn't like the joke. and then he responded. but other members of the audience started shouting abuse at the people who heckled . abuse at the people who heckled. that's my understanding. of course, it's very difficult if you're

i'm your host , andrew doyle. tonight i'm host, andrew doyle.ight i'm joined by the very talented and handsome leo kearse and also stephen allen. are you both okay? >> were you being sarcastic there? >> no, i was begging you up to let him down. >> i think because you're a comedian, that's a joke and i'm not. >> it's a joke. >> it's a joke. >> i'm not actually. whatever it was the night. >> as long as we're all agreeing i'm handsome, then we can carry on with this. >> well, i was trying to imply that you weren't. that was the joke. but maybe we shouldn't analyse the jokes. we should just tell the jokes. what do you think, leo? i agree you're actually offended now, aren't you?i actually offended now, aren't you? i can see why you're. >> i think it's a hate crime as well. i think we should get some laws on this. well, you know what? >> we're going to talk a bit about hate crimes for comedy in about hate crimes for comedy in a while. but let's start by looking at those front pages. we've got the daily telegraph first on friday. it's leading with gps

i'm andrew doyle.till joined by adult human female cressida whetton and women's olympic boxing hopeful josh howie. will you go the distance, josh? thank you. i think you will. anyway, we're going to kick off with friday's telegraph. a woman has been arrested for spreading false information. have you been trying to sell your magic crystals again? cressida. >> brilliant woman arrested for spreading false information about southport attacker. there's no crystals in this story . so 55 year old woman has story. so 55 year old woman has been arrested after allegedly spreading false information. so when the stockport stabbings happened. yes. fairly quickly, some false information appeared on the internet quite a lot. yes. >> and was spread by a lot of people. >> exactly. it went viral. can you say that about a piece of misinformation? i suppose you can. so it was claimed that he was a muslim illegal asylum seeker. yes. >> on the m16 watch list. >> on the m16 watch list. >> and none of this was true. and, you

welcome to free speech nation with me, andrew doyle.s is the show where we take a look at culture, current affairs and politics. and of course, we'll have the latest from those loveable culture warriors whose motto is be kind or else. coming up on the show tonight, who is to blame for the riots following the southport stabbings.7 was it social media? we'll the southport stabbings? was it social media? we'll discuss this with barrister sam fouls, who blames far right tropes and free speech campaigner toby young. we're going to go down under, we're going to speak to the ceo of google, who recently lost a landmark case and has the decline of religion led to the rise in wokeness? author and cultural writer helen pluckrose joins me in a short while. and of course, i've got my fabulous comedian panellists tonight who are leo kearse and paul cox . are leo kearse and paul cox. hello both. yeah. >> good. thanks. >> good. thanks. >> are you happy, leo? >> are you happy, leo? >> yeah. i'm happy. good. >> yeah. i'm happy. good. >> i'm always worrie

. >> welcome back to the free speech nation with me andrew doyle.l, we've got this very, i have to say, very attractive studio audience here tonight. i know sometimes they can be horrors, so thank you for coming in. let's get some questions. our first question in this segment is from omolo. omolo, how are you.7 >> omolo, how are you? >> good evening . my question is, >> good evening. my question is, what do you think about the deteriorating situation in israel and iran? are we in an unsafe world now? >> oh, wow. it's a big question. and of course, there has been this escalation. now hasn't there? you know, in terms of iran, in terms of hezbollah sending more rockets now over to israel, so, josh, this is all obviously off the back of the, successful assassination of the hamas leader in tehran. yeah. and iran has said has claimed israel has crossed many red lines now and will retaliate. is it now inevitable that we're going to get this conflict with lebanon? >> well, war has actually been going on since october seventh. and, you know, hamas is a is an

welcome to free speech nation with me, andrew doyle. the show where we take a look at culture, current affairs and politics. and of course, we'll have the latest from those lovable culture warriors as they continue their honourable mission to try and suck all of the joy out of our existences. but coming up on the show tonight, we're going to be speaking to natalie bird, who was suspended by the liberal democrats and prevented from standing as an mp because she stood up for women's rights. investigative journalist and broadcaster andrew gold will be to here discuss his new book, the psychology of secrets , and the psychology of secrets, and fiona mckenna from fair play for women in sport will be here to discuss the gender row, which has overshadowed the women's boxing at the olympic games in paris and of course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from this rather lovely studio audience and my comedian guests. this evening are cressida whetton and josh howie . okay, how are you , joy? >> good, good. just back from l

they liked book i'd be doing something very wrong so they hate it and that's fine by me you see andrew doyle on gb news, host of free speech nation there, his newest book written under his own name is the new puritans. religion and social justice captured the western world. thanks for spending ait's and os helen raleigh. she is the author of this book, the broken welcome mat america's un-american immigration policy. helen raleigh you have a chapter at the beginning of the book called foundation of our national identity. why do you go back to luther and the founding of the country? when you talk about immigration? well, i think very important because we always talk about as a country of immigrants. and i think many people misunderstand that as what does that mean? and some argue, oh, we're not so i think it's very important to talk about something because america, to a immigrant like me, means so much more. it's not a just a country. we come, make a living, raise our family. it's a country we represent the ideal. i know that's kind of is now very popular nowadays, but it's actually it's mean

. >> i'm andrew doyle. i'm joined tonight by two comedians from opposing ends of the spectrum. i won't say which spectrum. it's louis shaffer and nick dixon. are you both happy and full of joy? are you both happy and full of joy? no, no. and why is that , louis? >> you don't want to hear it. nobody wants to hear about family problems. how your wife is like your girlfriend is like just. >> this is the problem with you, louis. when people say to you, how are you? it's just a pleasantry. and you go off on a big lecture. well, don't care. i'm punishing them for not caring about me. nick, are you happy? >> i'm great. i've just been on a holiday, you know. yes. >> where did you go? oh nowhere. nowhere. it's the best. >> my holiday was typical. andrew i, you know, did weights, five mile runs. i read about cyclical history theory and the inevitability of civilizational collapse. just a normal holiday. >> what a lovely holiday. you should. you should try a john grisham, though. anyway, let's move on and have a look at the front covers of thursday's newspapers. we've got the daily mail w

. >> it's your first look at saturday's newspapers i'm andrew doyle.ght i'm joined by comedian steve n allen and nick dixon. you really are the chuckle brothers of gb news aren't you? well i mean you are. you're dead. oh it's one of them. dead. yeah. well, you're the, alive one. thank you. okay. do you know there are three chuckle brothers? >> but there's the one who's not really in the chuckle brothers thing, but like charlie, like oasis. >> yeah. you know, i should have said bros and been done with it. how are you, nick? very well. yes. >> very serious. apparently, according to your introduction, you have a serious quality. >> i'm very serious. very found. thank you. you just have deep philosophical depths, you know. thank you. >> that's what i like, lewis schaffer, like lewis schaffer. >> let's move on and have a look at the front pages for saturday. the eye is leading with new hs2 farce . that's a story that won't farce. that's a story that won't go away. trains too for high station platforms costing taxpayers an extra £20 million. maybe they have

it's your first look at saturday's newspapers with me , andrew newspapers with me, andrew doyle.ined by leo kearse and jonathan kogan. so we're going to begin this section with saturday's telegraph. and keir starmer is playing david to the goliaths of tech. >> so tech giants will be forced to ban fake news under labour plans so firms could be required to suppress posts even if they're not illegal. this relates to fake news and also legal but harmful content. so this is the potential crackdown on tech companies would form part of a review of the online safety act, which was passed last year and was already quite controversial and quite, you know, it's so like all the all this legislation around hate crime and all that sort of stuff, it's so badly worded, vaguely worded, that phrase legal but harmful. >> i mean, we have to be honest, that did come from the tories. this whole online safety act came from the tories . labour are came from the tories. labour are just sort of beefing it up a bit in their very authoritarian way. the old schofield thing, unwise but not illegal. >> was tha

welcome to free speech nation with me, andrew doyle.is the show where we take a look at culture, current affairs and politics. and of course, we'll have the latest from those lovable culture warriors as they continue their honourable mission to try and suck all of the joy out of our existences. but coming up on the show tonight, we're going to be speaking to natalie bird, who was suspended by the liberal democrats and prevented from standing as an mp because she stood up for women's rights. investigative journalist and broadcaster andrew gold will be to here discuss his new book, the psychology of secrets , and the psychology of secrets, and fiona mckenna from fair play for women in sport will be here to discuss the gender row, which has overshadowed the women's boxing at the olympic games in paris and of course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from this rather lovely studio audience and my comedian guests. this evening are cressida whetton and josh howie . okay, how are you , joy? >> good, good. just back from

hot sauce with andrew doyle there. thank you very much, andrew. don't go too far.. let me know your thoughts on all the stories we're discussing today, especially if you're in your local pub watching us on your local pub watching us on your laptop. very simple. visiting gbnews.com forward slash your say and join the conversation. now there is really seriously loads more coming up. we're running out of time. campaigners in dudley are marking the first anniversary of the burning down and subsequent demolition of the crooked house pub. will we get the crooked house pub back? we love pubs here. all of that and much more to come. i'm dawn neesom, this is gb news. it's the weekend and you're britain's news hello, welcome back to the weekend with me. dawn neesom on gb news thank you forjoining on gb news thank you for joining me. hope you had a wonderful weekend out there. now this weekend out there. now this weekend indeed. campaigners in dudley are marking the first anniversary of the burning down and subsequent demolition of the crooked house pub . remember the crooked

but it's not michael portillo, it's me, andrew doyle.delving into concentrated, enlightened debate as we'll discuss politics, global affairs and the world of culture. the home secretary, yvette cooper, has vowed to crack down on people pushing harmful and hateful beliefs , including hateful beliefs, including extreme misogyny, as she announced a new approach to fighting extremism. but is she neglecting other areas to focus attention on gender issues? i'm going to be joined by a robust political panel to discuss this. it's been a busy 51 days for the prime minister, sir keir starmer. from riots to strikes. with renewed pressure this week over his government's decision to scrap the winter fuel payments. doctor roger gewolb will be here to share his thoughts and francis ford coppola's upcoming movie megalopolis has sparked controversy with a trailer showcasing harsh reviews of his iconic films. lionsgate has withdrawn the trailer after criticism for including false quotations, admitting we screwed up . journalist alexander larman up. journa

we want to introduce you to andrew doyle. his newest book is called new puritans how religion social justice captured the western world. before we get to book mr. doyle, introduce yourself to the american