well it was a new blasphemy by a guy humza yousaf who was the first minister, but he started this law when he was justice secretary. and it's been i mean, i went up to scotland on april first with my comedy night. we a night of comedy unleashed and we told problematic jokes because the police in scotland in readiness for this law had been undergoing training of how to deal with jokes that people offensive. so we went up there and told a lot of offensive jokes no. one arrested us and it was fine, but technically, they could have done under the new rules. scary stuff. i think. have you ever been canceled because of your views? yeah, no, i don't think i think partly because my job has always been to express honestly, if i was still a schoolteacher, as i used to be, i wouldn't be able to express in the way that i do. or if i did, probably would be canceled. i'm in a very privileged position and i'm canceled. i never have been. i can write what i genuinely believe at no risk to myself. i mean, there are jobs. i'm not going get. i'm not going to get onto a bbc comedy panel show anytime soon

actually the sort of more...the snp leadership, nicola sturgeon and then john swinney and then humza yousafou know, had had got a bit to sort of corporate a bit too sort of comfy in power and didn't really want to... didn't really want to charge forward with the cause anymore. and of course, what's also happened is that their political support has fallen away very, very significantly. and independence, while people still care about it in, in, in great measure in scotland, it is nowhere near the sort of prominent issue that it was. and lots and lots of polling would tell you that actually scottish voters don't want to keep talking about the constitution. and that's one of the reasons why the snp have had so many problems. so we will move on and look ahead, henry, perhaps. well, it's a big few days for the government. i think. tomorrow is the investment summit. obviously the build up to it has been, uh, a little cloudy for reasons we talked about earlier. but nevertheless, i think the government hopes that this will be, um, a real kind of declaration of intent both to british voters about how

whirlwind, i think is the best way to describe it, because i quite literally, in the days before humza yousafigned as first minister, was making further plans about what would be my gentle scaling down of political activity. and i was actually on the day that he resigned, giving a reflective speech about 25 years of devolution in scotland down here in london. and that was an opportunity for me to perhaps reflect a little bit from my experience of being a member of the scottish parliament since its foundation, and also the only member of the scottish parliament that remains, who actually voted for the scotland act, which established the scottish parliament. so, you know, had a particularly strong vantage point to reflect on all of that. and then the world turned on its axis and ifound myself back into frenetic political leadership. we're going to talk about some of the things that you've been confronting, but have there ever been moments where you thought, "that decision to retire from the front line of politics was quite a good one. i should have stuck to that"? well, there are... obviously i

protesters marched through london over the weekend, including the former scottish first minister humza yousafeven brandishing banners in the support of the terror group hezbollah. police eventually made 17 arrests. tonight i am asking, does britain have a terror problem? let me know your thoughts. go to gbnews.com/yoursay. tweet me @gbnews. while you're there, go and vote in our poll online right now going head to head on this hour. member of the revolutionary communist party. it's fred weston and the senior research fellow at the henry jackson society, barak sinner shapps. thank you very much. great to have you both in the studio. as well. barak, i'll start with you. when you look at stats like that, especially amongst the younger people, do you think we do have a home—grown terror problem there? >> i think it's i think we have to first understand the incubator for what ultimately is terrorism. >> so when you've got social media, which is the virtual equivalent of people graffitiing on public toilets, right on the back of that foreign funding, foreign sponsored disinformation efforts by iran

>> it's all backed up, of course , >> it's all backed up, of course, by useful idiot himself, humza yousafe to a gaza aid agency. while members of his family were stuck in the war zone . he denies any in the war zone. he denies any wrongdoing. but the scottish government is conducting a review of the processes involved. >> we say here enough is enough issued the arrest warrant for netanyahu, get him on trial and let's hold him to account . let's hold him to account. >> there are middle eastern countries that ban public support for hamas and hezbollah, and who refuse to take refugees from gaza because they think that they might be terrorists. but right here in britain, support for hamas is growing among young people. please tell me again how multiculturalism has enriched all of our lives. let's get the thoughts of my panel let's get the thoughts of my panel. daily express columnist carole malone, journalist and broadcaster benjamin butterworth, and the former chairman of the conservative party , sir jake berry. chairman of the conservative party , sirjake berry. carol, party, sirjake berry.

well it was a new blasphemy by a guy humza yousaf who was the first minister, but he started this law when he was justice secretary. and it's been i mean, i went up to scotland on april first with my comedy night. we a night of comedy unleashed and we told problematic jokes because the police in scotland in readiness for this law had been undergoing training of how to deal with jokes that people offensive. so we went up there and told a lot of offensive jokes no. one arrested us and it was fine, but technically, they could have done under the new rules. scary stuff. i think. have you ever been canceled because of your views? yeah, no, i don't think i think partly because my job has always been to express honestly, if i was still a schoolteacher, as i used to be, i wouldn't be able to express in the way that i do. or if i did, probably would be canceled. i'm in a very privileged position and i'm canceled. i never have been. i can write what i genuinely believe at no risk to myself. i mean, there are jobs. i'm not going get. i'm not going to get onto a bbc comedy panel show anytime soon