unless you're, you know, prince william, nick, the sunday telegraph and america's visas for highly skilledave been defended by checks, notes. >> an overachieving south african. go figure. >> yeah, well, this is massive. so this is elon musk threatens war with maga republicans. and if you've missed it, it's all been kicking off on actually, ironically, elon musk's own platform, twitter x for a long time. it's about the h—1b visa. and it's a kind of civil war in the trump movement. so on the musk side, he's claiming that we need these visas to bring in the top talent. he calls it the top 0.1% of engineers into america. and he says he's come in this way and he's been in favour of it. and against that is the kind of argument. no, it's about american jobs first. and in fact, these visas don't even work because you have like, accountants coming on these visas and all sorts of things. so the system is a scam anyway, is the counter. and philosophically, america is a nation, not a sports team. so musk has compared it to a sports team saying we have to compete with china and so on by having the best

so the daily telegraph, nick telegraph has energy bills may rise in nuclear power push. >> so you may recall how our lack of nuclear power meant that our bills rose because putin could , you know, target our could, you know, target our energy prices. but now having nuclear power will make our bills rise. so it's a kind of a flowchart where everything ends in less money in your pocket. a triangular flowchart with a sort of nuclear power thing . yeah. of nuclear power thing. yeah. because we all lead to more while they build these things. and also apparently our companies have the highest industrial electricity prices already in the europe or the world. >> terrifying chart that was in the ft a couple of days ago that everyone was sharing on that absolutely absurd. our industrial power costs are something like four times what they have in america, right? >> so there you go. so and labour claims, of course this will cut bills eventually. but this is obviously this has been disputed. the idea is eventually everything's clean and perfect and low bills. but that seems like a long way off. >>

so the daily telegraph, nick telegraph has energy bills may rise in nuclear power push. >> so you mayrecall how our lack of nuclear power meant that our bills rose because putin could , you know, target our could, you know, target our energy prices. but now having nuclear power will make our bills rise. so it's a kind of a flowchart where everything ends in less money in your pocket. a triangular flowchart with a sort of nuclear power thing . yeah. of nuclear power thing. yeah. because we all lead to more while they build these things. and also apparently our companies have the highest industrial electricity prices already in the europe or the world. >> terrifying chart that was in the ft a couple of days ago that everyone was the ft a coup

nick, the telegraph, what have they got treating us on the front page?legraph has pm drops pledges as economy stumbles. so i'm sure you're all aware of starmer's milestones today. they're absolutely epic milestones that came out. i've been buzzing off them all day, but. but the telegraph has picked up on some fairly, to me, relatively minor things, which is the energy supply was supposed to be 100% carbon, low carbon. by 2030, they've reduced it to 95%. there was an interesting moment where journalists tried to say, so thatis journalists tried to say, so that is a change, isn't it? starmer tried to deny that was a change, which is extraordinary because there's definitely a change. i'm no mathematician, steve, but i can count to five anyway. and he also had pledged to it, vowed to have the highest growth, economic growth in the g7. that's now an aim rather than a vow . g7. that's now an aim rather than a vow. but g7. that's now an aim rather than a vow . but yeah, those are than a vow. but yeah, those are the parts the telegraph picked up on. other people

nick, the telegraph, what have they got treating us on the front page?legraph has pm drops pledges as economy stumbles. so i'm sure you're all aware of starmer's milestones today. they're absolutely epic milestones that came out. i've been buzzing off them all day, but. but the telegraph has picked up on some fairly, to me, relatively minor things, which is the energy supply was supposed to be 100% carbon, low carbon. by 2030, they've reduced it to 95%. there was an interesting moment where journalists tried to say, so thatis journalists tried to say, so that is a change, isn't it? starmer tried to deny that was a change, which is extraordinary because there's definitely

okay, let's have a look at the telegraph, please. nick. okay. happy. e telegraph have that same story again. >> tory wall with farage over fake numbers. inverted commas of coui'se. >> course. >> and they've also got public sector pay premium triples after rises under starmer. so who would have thought the public sector 6% more than the private sector 6% more than the private sector they're making, which is three times the start of the yean three times the start of the year, almost a new pay gap to worry about. now i know who the gender pay gap anymore this comes from. who are they? what are they called? it's very, very small. they're called resolution foundation. and they found that they're saying that labour has launched a major expansion in the public sector, which is a fairly labour thing to do. it's not that surprising, is it, that it's very labour. i mean, i mean, that's all there is to that story. i want to talk more about stonehenge, unless you've got any burning comments on that. >> jonathan, i've got some burning comments for stonehenge. 1529 0

okay, let's have a look at the telegraph, please. nick. okay. happy. e telegraph have that same story again. >> tory wall with farage over fake numbers. inverted commas of coui'se. >> course. >> and they've also got public sector pay premium triples after rises under starmer. so who would have thought the public sector 6% more than the private sector 6% more than the private sector they're making, which is three times the start of the yean three times the start of the year, almost a new pay gap to worry about. now i know who the gender pay gap anymore this comes from. who are they? what are they called? it's very, very small. they're called resolution foundation. and they found 1531 00:09:35,

first things first, though, let's take a look at what leo and nick will have to work with on friday's front pages. the daily telegraph pm pics. mandelson to win over trump. the i extra water bill hikes will follow 36% increase unless labour kills failing watchdog. the daily express has giselle's brave message of hope after horror. the metro i have no regrets on the same story. the independent freedom for aung san suu kyi, and we've got the daily star , who goes with daily star, who goes with world's bossiest boffin. afterlife is real interesting stuff. well, let's see what. let's see if we can make sense of this one. we can start with the telegraph. first of all, leo. >> so the telegraph leads with the story that the prime minister has picked mandelson, peter mandelson, a name you might remember from a couple of decades ago, to win over trump as the sort of ambassador to washington. it's an interesting choice, given that peter mandelson, mandelson was previously the bbc commissioner and described mr trump as a bully and a mercantilist. i mean, your one hope is that, you know, trump doesn't have dictionary. >> is that

first things first, let's have a look at what louis and nick will have to work with on thursday's front pages. so the telegraphick us off with echr let's heroin kingpin stay in the uk daily mirror i've got the old cammy back. the metro three friends killed by laughing gas driver. the i pensions protest grows for starmer after betrayal of waspi women. the independent fury excuse me, fury of waspi women as pm says you knew about pension change and the daily star. take one to your leader. excuse me. well, so we have a lack of consensus there. those are the front pages. what should we start with, louis? how about the. let's have a look. what have you got? number one is the times i think. yes. >> is the times. and it's good news. good news in the times. is a uk soldiers post to train troops in the ukraine. we must work with kyiv or kyiv, however you decide to pronounce it. i guess it's political now, says defence secretary. >> this is good news. >> this is good news. >> this is good news. this >> this is good news. this is a country with no money that's cutting right and left, except the people who deserve to be cu

we dive in, let's take a quick look at what paul and nick will have to work with on tuesday's front pages. first of all, we have the daily telegraph royal mail accused of faking deliveries. the times fifth of the forces can't be relied on to fight the daily mirror. honour the brave. the daily mail, king's message of national healing. the sun. good health, your majesty. and finally, the daily star. the return of the boffins. they warn of a techno meltdown on festive big day. so let's have a closer look at the front pages. we'll start with tuesday's daily mail. >> paul us feliz navidad, as they say in scotland, simon king's message of national healing. >> the king's christmas message tomorrow has been inspired by the way the uk pulled together after the southport murder and riots. now i am starting to wonder if the king spent the summer outside of the uk, or perhaps has just taken keir starmers word for it, because i'm not sure there has been a great deal of national healing as a result of southport and the tragic murders and of course, the subsequent riots. but let's let's stick with the spirit of christmas, shall we.7 it's, let's

nick will have to work with on the sunday front pages. the mail on sunday winter fuel minister's heating bill is paid by you. the sunday telegraphes with i blew the whistle on wallace, but nothing was done. sunday mirror families agony as number of missing people soars. the observer goes with pm to pledge ambitious new targets in labour reset the sunday express. modi orders £37 million of kit from from china, and i've been on those websites daily star sunday. cursed picture is at it again. >> plenty of news for us to get into there, but let's start with the sunday telegraph. >> so the sunday telegraph, they've got the headline i blew they've got the headline i blew the whistle on wallace, but nothing was done. i've got to be honest, if i saw a whistle attached to greg wallace, i would probably not blow it. but we're going to cover that in more depth in a moment. the other story they've got there is somebody waving what appears to be the isis flag or apologies if i've got that wrong, and it's just a different kind of islamic jihad flag over the city of aleppo in syria. so the civil war there, that's been sort of frozen for a good

our panel tonight — telegraph columnist and associate editor of the spectator, fraser nelson, and former shadow culture secretary thangam debbonaire. and of course nicks here. france is facing fresh political turmoil tonight, the minority government teetering on the brink, after the prime minister, michel barnier, forced through an austerity budget without a vote. there is deep concern on financial markets, the french borrowing costs have soared this past week, reaching the highest premium over german bonds since the height of the debt crisis in 2012. and we all remember what happened back then. the contagion spread right across europe. mr barnier�*s government does not have a majority in parliament. they depends on the support of the far right national rally. but tonight their leader, marine le pen, says she will support a motion of no confidence in the government on wednesday. here to unpack all this from paris we have catherine fieschi, political analyst at the robert schuman institute. good to have you with us, it will be a crucial few days good to have you with us, it will be a crucialfew days in good to have you with us, it will be a crucial fe

nick will have to work with on monday's front pages. the metro goes with assad falls. but what now? the express has delight in syria as rebels force assad to flee to russia. the telegraphssad flees to moscow. the male assad is toppled, but is worse to come. the guardian you can see the theme already. the rebels seized damascus as a sad flees to moscow. but the star goes with tis the season to be jolly windy, which i don't think is about the same story. so let's find out. josh , let's so let's find out. josh, let's get stuck in the guardian. yeah, big story of the day rebels seized damascus as assad flees to moscow and what you've got is a lot of people trying to sound like they know what's going on in syria. thank heavens you can carry on doing that. then i can just sit here and. >> yeah, exactly. so a lot of a lot of experts have been created overnight going, yeah, i know where syria is on a map. and so i can't pretend to be one of those people. i won't even say that i am an expert. assad killed half a million of his own people. some of them with chemical weapons. and the fact that he's gone for humanitarian purposes is a good thing. he was an evil human being. the qu

the telegraph carries an image of us billionaire elon musk with reform uk leader nigel farage and the party's new treasurer nickbacked reform and opened discussions about making a major donation to the party. the financial times leads on the death of a russian general accused of using chemical weapons in ukraine. it says that a ukrainian intelligence official told the paper ukraine's security service was responsible for an explosion which killed the high ranking figure. and inside of the papers today, in the times, there is some good news if you like a glass of wine a night. if you like a glass of wine at night. when! what is the news? apparently it halves the risk of having a heart attack or stroke. this is a research from the university of barcelona. i looked at more than a thousand spaniards who were at high risk of heart disease, with an average age of 69, and they were having a glass of wine, red as white and give them a greater protective effect than previously thought. just one glass. can you make yourself a and invincible by having more? no. a bottle over a week, it says. 0k. are you disappointed? someb