david oldroyd. bolt. what's the problem?ple are getting aerated about this. as far as i'm aware, phillip schofield is not in holy orders. he's not an elected politician. and therefore, why is anybody looking to him for a virtuous lead in how to live a life? what i think was particularly loathsome was the way that he dragged his poor wife on television while making his admission of his sexual preferences and forcing her to stand there. i thought that was really incredibly cruel. and in that regard, i think he does deserve castigation is it brave to come out as gay in 2022? >> i mean, elton john, elton john did it in 1976. yeah. >> and making your wife go along with it was dreadful, i just don't really see the fuss about it. if he goes on channel five and you don't like him, don't watch it. >> okay, well, linda, what do you think about this? you're a sort of an esteemed media observer. what's your view? >> i think that narcissism is often an overworked word, but i think that's what he is. he is a narcissist because he seems to

reaction now from sajid qureshi , david oldroyd and lisa qureshi, david oldroyd and lisa mckenzie.legraph? sir keir starmer breached rules over clothes that donor gave his wife is this a scandal that's going to grow, do you think? >> well, it's adding to the impression that already exists after a very short time that this labour government is sleazy. why was lord alli buying clothes from sir keir's wife? it's a rather odd thing for one man to do to another's wife if they're not having an affair, which i would hope. there's no suggestion of here. and why did he have a pass for downing street? very, very. >> access. all areas pass. >> access. all areas pass. >> very few. which we understand he no longer has. very, very few people ever have those. certainly not donors usually. that was rather odd . i think that was rather odd. i think there's a growing sense in westminster that there are the trope always used to be that when it comes to scandals, the labour party have money scandals because they don't have enough of it. the tories have sex scandals because they have too much of it. an

the historian and danube institute fellow david oldroyd, and the author and broadcaster eamonn archewelluch double barrelled today, david, all three of us, labour doesn't care about illegal migration, does it? >> i don't think it does particularly. and i think that this is recognising the fact that if you proportions six months to six months, what's actually happened is that the number arriving has doubled, and i think this is recognised by those who are, as it were , those who are, as it were, providing the migrants because they know that there won't be a big political kickback, at least the last government. i think, failed fairly miserably to deal with this. but at least there was some kind of attempt to do it. at least there was some kind of rhetoric that this was understood to be a great problem. and robert jenrick has raised the issue of terrorists coming through in the guise of these migrants. >> he has they don't do anything to track that well. >> and i really don't understand why not, because it seems to me that if we have, as we have a very large sea border, and if we have, as w

i'll also be joined by my panel historian and broadcaster david oldroyd, bolt and political commentator matthew stadlen . as commentator matthew stadlen. as even commentator matthew stadlen. as ever, let me know your views. it's a crucial part of the programme mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now it's your favourite time of the day. the news bulletin with sophia wenzler. >> jacob thank you. good evening from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 8:00. these are your headlines. the foreign secretary has announced over £600 million worth of support for ukraine, while the us secretary of state has announced $700,700 million. david lammy and antony blinken have been in kyiv today on a joint trip, calling it a critical moment in the war with russia. their visit follows reports that joe biden will lift a ban on british storm shadow missiles being used on russian territory after iran supplied ballistic missiles to russia . ballistic missiles to russia. back in the uk, labour is facing mounting pressure from within its own ranks to reverse cuts to the winter fuel payment in today's exchanges. at prime minist

historian and broadcaster david oldroyd. bolt and political commentator matthew stadlen. in. it seems to me that if you go around saying to everybody, we're all doomed , everybody, we're all doomed, international investors are going to believe you and they're going to believe you and they're going to believe you and they're going to think, well, if you're all doomed, you can be doomed without my dollars coming to invest in your country. >> well, i hope you'll join me in expressing the very profound hope and wish that that isn't the case, because we're all in this together. i agree. >> i want the economy to work. >> i want the economy to work. >> we desperately need the economy to work, and we desperately hope that the chancellor, rachel reeves strategy and keir starmer's strategy and keir starmer's strategy as prime minister, i think they do what we have been saying black hole. >> we have to hope that they win because if they win, we win. we always want a strong economy. thatis always want a strong economy. that is true. >> the concern is that the tories have effectively

and who better to discuss them than the historian and broadcaster david oldroyd? show. welcome back to the show. of course, david. so what have you been looking at this week? >> well, this week was a great week at the proms, which is drawing to its close. last night i had the great privilege of heanng i had the great privilege of hearing the rolls royce of orchestras, the berlin philharmonic play at the albert hall, the first half with the most intriguing soloist i've heard this year. the icelandic pianist vikingur olafsson, who is very well known for playing bach. last night he was playing the schumann piano concerto, which is a work of the mid 19th century, quite virtuosic, full of fireworks and pathos, and it was a really interesting mixture of a pianist not known for this sort of repertoire and seeing how he dealt with it. yes. i mean, as you would expect, the orchestra was magnificent. it really is one of those orchestral performances where you think it can't be better done. yes, they are so well drilled. the sound envelops you in a way that very few orchestr

the two historians, david oldroyd bolt and tessa dunlop, lloyd, thank you very much for coming in. classic socialism, isn't it? take away opportunity from people. make them do what the state says. state control of people's lives is a good thing. >> no, i mean, first of all, let's be clear. a council home is a home for life. it's a permanent home for that individual. and at the moment we have a crisis, not just of housing but housing tenure. we have the same number of bedrooms per head of population as we did in 1978. but what we don't have is the right tenure. if you look at the tenure, we have far too many private rented houses where people have to move every year. it gives instability to children, it gives instability for work. it doesn't allow communities to flourish, and we don't have enough council homes. and the problem is the quicker that you buy the build, the council homes, they get sold off and they get sold off and only about a third goes to the council and the rest the treasury. the treasury pockets into their black hole. so something needs to change. now there does nee

i'll also be joined by my panel historian and broadcaster david oldroyd, bolt and political commentatorentator matthew stadlen. as even commentator matthew stadlen. as ever, let me know your views. it's a crucial part of the programme mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now it's your favourite time of the day. the news bulletin with sophia wenzler. >> jacob thank you. good evening from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 8:00. these are your headlines. the foreign secretary has announced over £600 million worth of support for ukraine, while the us secretary of state has announced $700,700 million. david lammy and antony blinken have been in kyiv today on a joint trip, calling it a critical moment in the war with russia. their visit follows reports that joe biden will lift a ban on british storm shadow missiles being used on russian territory after iran supplied ballistic missiles to russia

oldroyd? bolt. welcome to the show, david. okay, david.ery briefly last week was sir antonio pappano's first week as chief conductor of the london symphony orchestra , where london symphony orchestra, where he's come from the royal opera house, covent garden . i was house, covent garden. i was lucky enough to go last sunday to hear him conduct. he had as his soloist the extremely celebrated chinese pianist yuja wang, who i must say, i didn't quite get the fuss about and it was a it's very apparent that already the ls0 and san antonio have forged a great rapport . he have forged a great rapport. he bnngs have forged a great rapport. he brings all of the verve and precision of an opera conductor of 20 years at covent garden, and before that , many years and before that, many years elsewhere to the orchestral repertoire and i predict off the bafis repertoire and i predict off the basis of that one concert, plus listening to reviews of the others, that this is going to be a seriously good thing for london. >> oh, well, that's great news. and th