thank you so much, lionel shriver. come, our shriver. dating apps ruining romance. >> you looking at me? >> why are you looking at me? >> gb news. >> well, have dating apps ruined a generation's love lives haven't ruined mine. >> do you know a dating app is not really well. >> so discuss apps i've got on my phone. >> you don't even know how to use whatsapp. psychologist and social commentator. doctor pam spurr co—founder waks spurr and the co—founder of waks social ms sale. good social dating app ms sale. good morning ladies. we're very short on time. but let's come to on time. but pam, let's come to you. dating apps ruined the you. have dating apps ruined the romantic world? >> no, they haven't ruined the romantic world. if you look at imperial college research from last year, it showed that 33% of relationships, recent relationships, recent relationships had started online. that did include dating apps , dating websites and just apps, dating websites and just flirting on, you know, social media platforms like x. but as a psychologist,

and i think that is indeed a picture of lionel shriver, she says that transgender it is a social manias on the eve of nato's 75th anniversary, we cannot play russian roulette with nato funds. the guardian. supreme courtjudges add voices to call for an israeli arms ban, including brenda hale, among 600 lawyers, academics and retired seniorjudges warning the government is breaching international law by continuing to arm israel. and benjamin netanyahu faces global outcry over the killing of aid workers. the daily mail, quite a different story. mps caught up quite a different story. mps caught up in naked honey trap sting. serving minister among those feared to have been targeted by a hostile state. that's all from us tonight. i'm back tomorrow. till then, goodbye. i'm joined now by michael capponi — founder of aid organisation — global empowerment mission. we'vejust heard from families of some of the aid workers that were killed. what is your reaction to the deaths of world central kitchen aid workers in gaza? of world central kitchen absolutely heartbreaking what's happened here. we've b

the brilliant lionel shriver has based her latest novel around this very topic, and i'm very pleasedook at tomorrow's front pages. coming shortly . but right pages. coming shortly. but right now, a shocking new study has revealed that schools are defying government guidance. they are allowing kids to change their gender behind their parents with one parent parents backs, with one parent even finding out about their daughter's gender change at a parents evening. remarkable rules banning schools from excluding parents in request from children to socially transition came into force in december, but analysis of more than 600 schools in england has found 73% of them are ignoring this guidance. so it comes just weeks after a similar study found more than a mere 28% of schools in wales were informing parents if a child expressed a desire to change gender. i'm joined now by the legendary author lionel shriver, whose new novel mania, digs into the way that the school manias, like the spread of extreme gender ideology in our schools , come to ideology in our schools, come to dominate the world

world famous author lionel shriver joins us on that patrick christys tonight, 9 to 11 pm. be i >> --hese days, we're all divided . and that seems to be divided. and that seems to be true of the sexes. with a new report suggesting young women are becoming increasingly left wing whilst blokes are shifting rightwards . so what's going on? rightwards. so what's going on? are men going to have to a gay party to find a partner they actually agree with politically? let's ask tonight's a—team. we've got liz kershaw, pat sharp and peter lloyd. what's going on here? you are a lady. we can confirm that you identify as a woman. still, liz kershaw , i. woman. still, liz kershaw, i. >> by the way, can i just pick up your news team? because i heard it before i left and it was in front of me just sitting here. it's really sad. there's been a body found in salford and they don't know what gender it is. hello? it's got bits. it's what sex. either male or female. the gender. well how would you know what that is? it's what somebody expresses while they're alive. >> well, yes, that is correct. >> well, y

world famous author lionel shriver joins us on that patrick christys tonight, 9 to 11 pm. be i >> --hese days, we're all divided . and that seems to be divided. and that seems to be true of the sexes. with a new report suggesting young women are becoming increasingly left wing whilst blokes are shifting rightwards . so what's going on? rightwards. so what's going on? are men going to have to a gay party to find a partner they actually agree with politically? let's ask tonight's a—team. we've got liz kershaw, pat sharp and peter lloyd. what's going on here? you are a lady. we can confirm that you identify as a woman. still, liz kershaw , i. woman. still, liz kershaw, i. >> by the way, can i just pick up your news team? because i heard it before i left and it was in front of me just sitting here. it's really sad. there's been a body found in salford and they don't know what gender it is. hello? it's got bits. it's what sex. either male or female. the gender. well how would you know what that is? it's what somebody expresses while they're alive. >> well, yes, that is correct. >> well, y

. >> you know, the novelist lionel shriver. the of person shriver.river, she's american, of course. she wrote an piece . an absolutely brilliant piece. it's one of those pieces that only a non—specialist can write . only a non—specialist can write. she says, hey, guess what? if we need lots. if we're going to have lots of electric cars, we need more electricity , and need lots more electricity, and no one's thought of that. it's true it's not just in true that and it's not just in the uk, it's in the us as well. even in the us , the national even in the us, the national grid cannot keep up with the electric vehicle revolution, it seems to me, and even the technology behind the electric vehicle revolution can't keep up with the electric vehicle revolution. again, i'm not, you know, some kind of cassandra about this . i do think evs are about this. i do think evs are part of the solution. i'm not instinctively anti moving away from petrol and diesel cars if the technology is there, but it strikes me that the technology isn't there. you can see that in

world famous author lionel shriver joins us on that patrick christys tonight, 9 to 11 pm. be there ie 25 minutes after 6:00. this is dewbs& co with me. nana akua. i'm in for michelle. you've been keeping me company until seven. political commentator benedict spence and visiting professor at staffordshire university, tom buick . staffordshire university, tom buick. right. staffordshire university, tom buick . right. well, i mean, this buick. right. well, i mean, this is a big topic, but i'm just going to quickly read some of the messages that have been coming in to me from you . and coming in to me from you. and i've say your your views i've got to say your your views are quite interesting today because also a lovely because it's also a lovely message the top there saying message at the top there saying from glenn saying, i just wanted to say how it is to see to say how great it is to see you on a weekday and what a treat on friday, said anne. looking forward to nana hosting dewbs& right no, dewbs& co. thank you. right no, but listen. on the protest, lee said tired of foreign said i'm

lionel shriver transgenderism is a social media just saying it aloud, which is good.hat's well, you know, i mean, we've known that. but now you're known that. but now when you're seeing the front page of seeing that on the front page of a newspaper, people very a newspaper, people get very upset of social upset about the idea of social contagion comes to this. contagion when it comes to this. >> clearly. yeah, >> but it's clearly. yeah, that's right. >> it's at 4,000% >> i think it's at 4,000% increase girls . yeah, increase amongst girls. yeah, amongst young girls. anyway, so seeing kind of stuff. seeing that kind of stuff. anyways, from lionel i'm a anyways, from lionel and i'm a big his work , i actually big fan of his work, i actually looked that person up make looked that person up to make sure that that had been born a woman, and it was lionel is a girl's name. >> you hear my pronouns. >> you hear my pronouns. >> are you impressed? it was a woman who was born and still woman. >> yeah. there we go. no. how rare? no misgendering on this show. >> indeed. >> indeed.