but if we were as rafe was saying, if we were as rafe was saying, if we're going to have a kind of grownd policy grown up science informed policy , you would all of these , you would look all of these things, wouldn't say things, you wouldn't say everything legalised, everything should be legalised, everyone all the everyone should do it all the time. you wouldn't time. and you wouldn't say nobody anything any nobody should do anything at any time. you would look at what are the individuals, what the harm to individuals, what are society, but are the harms to society, but also are the contexts that also what are the contexts that make people want to take drugs, whether it's alcohol or cigarettes currently illegal cigarettes or currently illegal drugs. and so there you're looking at mental health and other broader health aspects. and i do think it's quite welcome that at the beginning when you were talking about the health aspect for addicts, i think that's a very clear that that should treated as that should be treated as a health issue. in countries that should be treated as a healththe

now, i'm to going bring in rafe, let me in my panellists.u first, but when i come to you first, but when i saw at the same time, as we saw this at the same time, as we see migrants being housed in luxury accommodation , we see luxury accommodation, we see people you know, people who have arrived here illegally are being given free medical and dental treatment and this reminds me of my own grandmother who spent the final years of her life. she was also a veteran and spent the final years of her life locked in a care home because of the pandemic and these people are heroes . and it's heartbreaking heroes. and it's heartbreaking to see this happen. we have failed as a country. and i know that alfred has said that he's still proud of his country. but when i saw this, i didn't feel particularly proud. i think that this is awful. >> it's heartbreaking. you know, i was just thinking how far we've sunk from 1919 and the first housing act when lloyd george promised to give world war i veterans homes fit for heroes. and now we have a 98 year old d—day

rafe, is this racist? any other ethnic group, in all three cases, they would have lost their jobs. they'd have cases, they would have lost theirjobs. they'd have been cancelled from television and likely would been arrested cancelled from television and lik> you know what say back >> you know what she'd say back to you? imagine if to you, don't you? imagine if you say to lauren james, you know, is a black woman know, who is a black woman in the team, it's absolutely embarrassing. like people embarrassing. it's like people years said, how come all years ago, he said, how come all the black? the sprinters are black? well, i'm know, it's i'm sorry. it's, you know, it's

of the mes songon futsal premier league, she scored six goals against the resistance of alborz and rafe shouri madha. iran's women's field hockey team cannot be allowed to participate in the asian championship, as the referees of the english football game in manchester and hemton have made a gross mistake in not announcing a penalty for the wales team. with this sports news, the time of the premier league games of the week will be held can you do it today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, when the single game of esteghlal is over and you have a good time, in the name of allah , the most merciful , the most merciful. hello again, the news at 18:00. the sales and distribution system is possible. the educational research and planning organization announced that all middle school students have already ordered their textbooks. starting tomorrow, wednesday, in case of definite registration in the school for the new academic year, they can refer to the sales and distribution system. distribution of educational materials order your textbooks

comes off to minnesota, told by jane it will not abandon the area or resupply, but was heading to the rafe with china is co. scott stopped it using volta calvin. katrina, you has molson. badging ton has invested into the philippines with some environmental . let's meet the device for administer and it seems that that meeting was a $10.00 to $1.00 and you did not go to the philippines plan because instead of receiving any sort of apology from the aging, china or administer released this statement and it reads, impart that china had no choice but to make the necessary responses. and the chinese coast guard implemented appropriate measures and according to the law. and the hopes that the philippines and china can be tough way. and that the introduction of any good policy goals is only complicated situation. now the so to say the forces that agent is referring to is the united states, which has since released this statement criticizing time is use of water cannons. and supposing the newest planes of this region, however, china itself claims almost the entirety of the results rich south china s

the incident happened, and the 2nd thomas show less of managed rafe. the china says it has indisputable sovereignty over the so called a 9 dash line. mox, beijing's claim of nearly the entire south china sea, the dense disputed by other countries in the region of 2016. you in tripe uno rolling, said the patients claims for groundless katrina. hughes has moved from beijing as which one is invested into the philippines. was some environmental, let's meet the device for administer and it seems that that missing was a $10.00 to $1.00. and you did not go to the philippines plan because instead of receiving any sort of apology from the aging, china's foreign minister, you release the statement and it reads in part that china had no choice, but to make the necessary responses. and the chinese coast guard implemented appropriate measures and according to the law, and the hopes that the philippines and china can be tough way. and that the introduction of any good policy forces only complicates the situation. now the so to say the forces that aging is referring

joining me tonight is the broadcaster ralph rafe heydel—mankoo and the former mp stephen pound.favourite people . how lucky am favourite people. how lucky am i? ralph and stephen, thank you so much forjoining us here today. how lucky are we actually ? so stephen, kick us off. do you think that this is not just wrong but unethical? yeah, well , i think this is profoundly wrong. >> and i think we've actually reached stage now where we reached a stage now where we simply say this far and simply have to say this far and no further. i think we are actually is asinine. is actually this is asinine. it is pure also inchoate. it pure art. it's also inchoate. it makes whatsoever. look, makes no sense whatsoever. look, let's of things let's get a couple of things straight. actually found straight. they've actually found a well, have to say, a mirror. well, i have to say, that doesn't necessarily that doesn't mean necessarily that doesn't mean necessarily that the place is full of gay men the mirror. men preening in the mirror. there's of women on board. there's a lot of women on board. hen

broadcaster, comm rafe heydel—mankoo. te, ralph rafe heydel—mankoo.ming out of harry in japan. happier on his japan. he looks happier on his own, he? just me really, own, doesn't he? just me really, that thinks that it's kind of old mean, we'll old smiley harry. i mean, we'll know if it's really the old smiley harry if we see him hitting bars of downtown hitting the bars of downtown tokyo few time, won't tokyo in a few hours time, won't we? civil service has we? but the civil service has grown by almost a quarter in just seven years. we now have a wage bill around £17 billion. wage bill of around £17 billion. 520,000 employed 520,000 people employed in our civil employed 520,000 people employed in our civil people employed 520,000 people employed in our civil people in employed 520,000 people employed in our civil people in the employed 520,000 people employed in our civil people in the lastloyed 520,000 people employed in our civil people in the last fewd more people in the last few years alone to our civil service than we've got in the entirety of o

rafe heydel—mankoo.ve me don't write this, me. okay? i don't write this, but . but would you believe that but. but would you believe that not everyone feels the same way? i know coming now. in i know what's coming now. in fact, in india i am currently pubuc fact, in india i am currently public number one and i public enemy number one and i will be reading some mean indian tweets very shortly. i'll explain everything in a little bit. patrick christys gb news, the people's. channel >> welcome back. it's 551. you're watching patrick christys on gb news. now in yesterday's show, i reacted to india landing a spacecraft the moon by a spacecraft on the moon by calling on them to return the £23 billion of foreign aid that £2.3 billion of foreign aid that we sent them between 2016 and 2021. and i would like to take this opportunity to apologise to nobody and double down on that . nobody and double down on that. i do think it is actually time that we had our money back , but that we had our money back, but you wou

thank you indeed , rafe. very you very much indeed, rafe. government's right to end the grade inflation that we saw during the pandemic. but that doesn't make it easier for those who have received grades that well, not as good as they'd hoped and may not get them into their university of choice . their university of choice. >> no, we're back to the situation that we always had, that exams are not exact. people will underperform on the day for all sorts of reasons, and particularly those kids who had a hard time in the pandemic may well have underperformed substantially. so we need to be saying, what do we do to help those kids back to where they should be? industry is very good at that. industry really likes kids who are kids and puts less weight on on exact exam results. but universities find that quite difficult to do . difficult to do. >> rafe do you think too many students, too many sixth formers are getting the top grades ? it are getting the top grades? it seems to me that not a quarter of pupils should be getting a's and a's stars . w

and rafe heydel—mankoo, i that.e certainly harder to argue the case, it , when have case, isn't it, when we have seen happen right under the seen this happen right under the nose of the museum? are they capable of looking after antiquities that other people say they want to happen ? say they want to happen? >> it's never happened in any museum that's something like this has a stolen. it's not nothing . never one last fact. nothing. never one last fact. >> respond to that if that's okay. >> an artefact 2000 artefacts. this is shame. >> an artefact 2000 artefacts. this is shame . oh, okay. this is shame. oh, okay. >> all right, look. >> all right, look. >> the british. the british. let's calm things down here a bit. the british museum what bit. the british museum is what we encyclopaedic museum. we call an encyclopaedic museum. right? like the louvre, right? places like the louvre, the metropolitan museum in new york. these are places where we have world history on display . have world history on display. okay? and th

my colleague , a senior my senior colleague, a senior fellow rafe heydel—mankoo fellow there, rafe heydel—mankooy thing on saturday that is a far more plausible plan. but the problem with this is that people, you know now feel that this is entirely window dressing with what, an election in maybe a year's time, just over a year's time . if this was such a good time. if this was such a good idea, why did they not come up with it? well, actually, 13 years ago, i mean, we now having i think it's about 15,000 illegals already this year. we're sort of on on course to have another record . and i think have another record. and i think that really what it comes down to, bev, is that people just don't want these people here. it's as simple as that. but this is seen as a triumph is how are we dealing with them? i mean , we dealing with them? i mean, how not are we stopping them, but how are we dealing with them? and it's a completely different argument. and people want to how you're to going want to know how you're to going stop know? isn't stop it, you know? yeah, isn't that the point? >> what we have is

thinking about race before ability , by the way, race before ability, by the way, as gb news contributor rafeoo pointed out over the weekend, according to the 2021 census in england is 4.2% black, 13% of the lionesses are black. three players out of the 23 member squad. so actually that's three times more than the population, which i would say is more than represent active as social commentator. constantine kissan wrote about this is what happens when you tolerate , happens when you tolerate, encourage and incentivise race baiting in the media. >> this is why the diversity agenda needs to be dismantled brick by brick . it's stopped brick by brick. it's stopped being about fairness a long time ago. it'sjust a being about fairness a long time ago. it's just a new form of racism now . racism now. >> is it any wonder these conversations are taking place in the media on a regular basis when london's failed mayor, sadiq khan, is caught out having equally discriminatory conversations? so this weekend , conversations? so this weekend, his team was exposed for warning against the use of a picture of a

thinking about race before ability , by the way, race before ability, by the way, as gb news contributor rafeoo pointed out over the weekend, according to the 2021 census in england is 4.2% black, 13% of the lionesses are black. three players out of the 23 member squad. so actually that's three times more than the population, which i would say is more than represent active as social commentator. constantine kissan wrote about this is what happens when you tolerate , happens when you tolerate, encourage and incentivise race baiting in the media. >> this is why the diversity agenda needs to be dismantled brick by brick . it's stopped brick by brick. it's stopped being about fairness a long time ago. it'sjust a being about fairness a long time ago. it's just a new form of racism now . racism now. >> is it any wonder these conversations are taking place in the media on a regular basis when london's failed mayor, sadiq khan, is caught out having equally discriminatory conversations? so this weekend , conversations? so this weekend, his team was exposed for warning against the use of a picture of a