weather >> good evening. i'm ray anderson in the gb newsroom . and anderson in the gb newsroom. and we start with some breaking news. two people have been airlifted to hospital after a small aircraft crashed near the village of monkton in south ayrshire. the incident happened just after 4 pm, less than two miles from prestwick international airport . miles from prestwick international airport. h.m. coastguard airlifted them to queen elizabeth university hospital in glasgow, while police closed the a71 . nine police closed the a71. nine scottish fire and rescue service say they were on the scene for several hours. we'll bring you more on that as we get it. now, the prime minister says the government will increase defence spending to 2.5% of gdp by 2030 dunng spending to 2.5% of gdp by 2030 during a trip to poland , rishi

during a trip to poland, rishi sunak said the budget will reach £87 billion by the end of the decade. £87 billion by the end of the decade . addressing troops, he decade. addressing troops, he also said the uk defence industry will be put on a war footing. mr sunak called the plans the biggest strengthening of our national defence in a generation . generation. >> as churchill said in 1934, to urge the preparation of defence is not to insert the imminence of war on the contrary, if war was imminent, preparations for defence would be too late. i believe we must do more to defend our country, our interests and our values. so today i'm announcing the biggest strengthening of our national defence. for a generation . we defence. for a generation. we will increase defence spending to a new baseline of 2.5% of gdp by 2030. >> well, it comes as rishi sunak warned that president putin will not stop at the polish border if his assault on ukraine is allowed to continue. earlier, britain pledged its largest ever

package of aid for kyiv worth £500 million during the warsaw trip. the prime minister has been holding talks with the leaders of poland, germany and nato , warning that the defence nato, warning that the defence of ukraine is essential to our joint security. ukraine's president zelenskyy welcomed the package , which includes package, which includes long—range missiles, armoured vehicles and boats . well, on the vehicles and boats. well, on the day that five channel migrants died off the french coast, including a four year old child, gb news can reveal that more than 250 others have crossed to the uk by a small boat, got into difficulties off wimereux beach near boulogne, before 2 am. a number of other migrants were rescued, with at least one now critically ill, in hospital . critically ill, in hospital. five other small boats have now been received by border force and dover lifeboat, with migrants transported for processing. a further two boats were seen heading towards uk waters earlier . police were waters earlier. police were faced with violence at a saint george's day event in whitehall this afternoon when a group tried to force its way through a

cordon. mounted officers on horses needed to intervene when the group broke through a police barrier . the force earlier said barrier. the force earlier said that it expected some, quote , that it expected some, quote, far right groups and groups unked far right groups and groups linked to football clubs to attend the event. police say six people were arrested . for the people were arrested. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to news.com.au alerts now. as always, our headliners . always, our headliners. >> hello and welcome to headliners and a very happy saint george's day. >> he was turkish, by the way . >> he was turkish, by the way. >> he was turkish, by the way. >> that's my last night on gb news. this is your first look at wednesday's newspapers. i'm simon evans joining me tonight, two top comedians. firebreather scott capurro and merciless dragon slayer steve n allen. are

you. are you presenting that as a cross.7 yes, yes . a cross.7 yes, yes. >> like what are you noticing? what do you notice is different about me tonight? what do you notice, i don't know. you've a little bit younger. botox. >> if you say no, i'm parting my hair on the opposite side. oh, i hadnt hair on the opposite side. oh, i hadn't noticed. you guys don't really see me . really see me. >> do apologise. this would have been a very impressive tactic with the dragon, wouldn't it? >> yeah, certainly. the dragon stops because. what? and then that's when you have at it. >> we are absolute. we are in a new era of slayers. >> i look, could you say that everyone. everyone always says. oh, he was turkish. yeah. it was. dragons aren't real. that's the biggest problem. >> dragons aren't real. there was no such country as turkey back then either, you know. let alone. and anyway, he wasn't. i don't think it's a very if pronouns. yeah. there's a very there's a number of accounts on twitter that got into it on detail. but it's become the it's become more well known than the fact now hasn't it. it's become it's kind of inverted like a zombie lie that goes on regardless of how many times you disprove it. anyway, as long as

they don't touch my full english daily mail, kick us off with the headunes daily mail, kick us off with the headlines with the front pages. biggest boost for defence in a generation. the telegraph war footing as pm ramps up defence spending. there is the prime minister lying on his lawn. guardian prime minister to raise defence spending and put arms industry on a war footing, the times uk to spend more on defence. they've all gone with this one. the i news tories unveil uk's biggest hike military spending for a generation. the daily star finally they have gone off peace. kim jong un's favourite imperialist launches war on slugs. those we are from pages . slugs. those we are from pages. so, steve, as heraclitus said in one of his famous fragments, war is father of all things and king of all things. he renders some gods , others men. he makes some gods, others men. he makes some slaves, others free. well, the

cleansing fire of war is upon us all. seems that way. >> and do you know who to thank? the daily mail. >> and do you know who to thank? the daily mail . okay. victory the daily mail. okay. victory for mail campaign is how they go with it. it's a victory for them because they a while ago said you know what? you should spend more on war. and now rishi is doing they go, well, clearly it's just because of the daily mail. there's no other factor that might have led to this becoming a political outcome. but the headline biggest boost for defence in a generation, they the 75 billion is going to be the new spending. it says a boost to combat russia iran and china threat. let's not forget nonh china threat. let's not forget north korea because these are the crank nations. it is catching on. >> crank is coming. >> crank is coming. >> this will be my legacy . so >> this will be my legacy. so the defence spending is going up 2.5 up to crinkle somehow. >> maybe libya or something. >> maybe libya or something. >> we can invite a few more. yeah i want to nail on the end. get some there for libya. >> would they ever do to you okay laughs maybe then so 2.5% of the gdp target which seems about the right numbers. >> yeah. the few things in this that feels like what we should be spending . how much again 2.5.

be spending. how much again 2.5. 5% of that is supposed to be the minimum nato contribution, isn't it? >> so that's why within. yeah, it's about right. >> yeah. also, i keep moaning about trump and the trump effect of having america trying to, you know, dangle the not spending any money on ukraine, which is going to impact us. so it's good that we're spending this. russia's already got its economy on a war setting. yeah we don't want to have to do the same. we don't want a situation where our factories get commandeered to make war things, because we don't have factories . and that don't have factories. and that would be very difficult. we'd have to call up china and say, could you make some weapons that we can attack creek nation? and they wouldn't like that. and i'm a bit keynesian when it comes to my economics. so the idea of spending on defence. >> absolutely. that's all fine. let's stimulate demand among the armed services. however, the question is where do you spend it? isn't it? because, i mean, we know, for instance, that every few years we discuss whether trident is the best use of all those tens of billions, but also just generally i was watching a netflix drama called the three body problem recently in which a naval commander is asked to speak off the record about his new battleship , and he about his new battleship, and he says it's a ridiculous, old

fashioned piece of technology , fashioned piece of technology, ridiculously exposed and vulnerable to any number of much cheaper offensive systems. and if he had the money, he'd spend it all on drones. these are if he had the money, he'd spend it all on drones . these are the it all on drones. these are the kind of questions, aren't they, that, what do you think , scott? that, what do you think, scott? do you have a view on this? >> oh, i'm still surprised that they used, defence spending as a ploy they used, defence spending as a ploy to get people to vote for them because an election is right around the corner. we all know. yeah. >> and that's what margaret thatcher, the daily mail media. >> that's what this is about. i know it's them, but that's what this is about. i think he's just he's trying to get people to listen to him, and he's trying to seem strong. and everyone thinks he's weak and he's on his way out. so he's trying to kind of improve his geriatric, gentlemen, i would agree with that. he does seem weak. he seems physically weak. and he's been obviously palpably weak with the with the sort of dribbling invasion that's been going on over the channel for the last three years. but at the same time, you have to this is a serious issue. and i think he's not alone in feeling that the world is cooling or warming up, depending on which metaphor. yeah, the cold war is definitely on now.

on how. >> on now. >> i like that, keir starmer says that a labour will conduct a strategic defence and security review in the first year in the government in the first year a review. watch cnn, it's all, yeah, we're in trouble. >> who is there, who is shadow defence secretary? i should know that. >> it's, john healey. oh. >> it's, john healey. oh. >> john healey. yeah. okay. named after the roller skates or the poet . okay, well, moving on the poet. okay, well, moving on to the express. scott, what have you got in there ? oh, right. you got in there? oh, right. >> the express, it's really good. it's a story about. it's about time. do civil service job cuts to pay for the defence boost. rishi sunak said we don't have to borrow any money or take out any loans. we're going to cut 70,000 civil servant jobs. that's how we're going to make this happen . this happen. >> that's good. i thoroughly approve of that a lot, isn't it? 70,000 gone like that. really? yeah, absolutely . they'll find yeah, absolutely. they'll find other work. they'll find work in consultancy of some sort. really all those women maybe on the lecture circuit, all those. >> all those ex housewives that are the ones working in the family up in, newcastle up there. you know, their husbands haven't worked for decades

because of the mines. >> do you think it's a little bit like that big? it's going to be like, i think it's northern 44 all over again. civil service communities hollowed out. >> they're going to cut northern jobs. >> all they wanted was their sons to follow them into the office. no. >> isn't that a peter cook and dudley moore sketch, actually isn't it? yeah, yeah. the inverted version of a poet. yeah i mean, i do i have a particular prejudice against the civil service. >> the whole of parkinson's law is predicated on his observation of the way that jobs just proliferate in the civil service, regardless of how much work there is for them to do. it just happens. it depends how there's cuttings done, though, because this is only a few weeks after we covered a news story here that i would be used to replace people. >> yes. now, if there's one thing we know governments in this country can't do is anything to do with it. if they try an it project, it costs us about 11 billion and fails. yeah. so bringing in al , which yeah. so bringing in al, which would be the trickiest use of it would be the trickiest use of it would i? >> i mean, i have a half brother who sent me his, pop psychedelia album that he created in a single day on al, and it's fantastic. it sounds exactly like quicksilver messenger

service, but if you want your civil service, sure that if they can do that in a day, i'm absolutely sure country will be saved. but seriously, i mean, you know, chat bots, that's what 80% of the civil service is anyway, isn't it? >> chat bots? >> chat bots? >> chat bots? >> chat bots, just chat chat bots . bots. >> all they do is slow you down before you get put through to an actual person . yeah, they never actual person. yeah, they never resolve anything. they just go, oh, what do you want? they don't understand. a few times and then they say, oh, let's put you through to someone. >> do you ever? i was talking to one today on an online service, which was actually terrific. and i was very happy. but i better not say the name, but i do always try and ask it a couple of questions to see if i can make sure it's a person. do you do that? no ratherjust go, this do that? no rather just go, this is my problem. this is what i bought and i regret or something. >> i wonder if we could use ai >> i wonder if we could use al to replace the cabinet. yeah yeah, that would be a start. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> an ideal one. yeah. >> an ideal one. yeah. >> this was what dominic cummings wanted brexit to happen so that we could introduce. and it's been that would be great because it was the big tech conference thing. >> rishi sunak said. don't worry, i won't replace your jobs. and if his job is the first one to go, yeah, sweet. >> and then we wouldn't need a cabinet either, would we? and we

could sell that off as a hotel like dermot o'leary, mirror. steve, what do they got? they're going with jill dando again. >> yeah. jill dando exclusive. because no other newspapers are really looking at this story from 1999. key witness says that man she spotted running minutes after the star's murder is a serbian assassin . this person serbian assassin. this person saw the picture that they ran yesterday or the day before. and said, it's him. i'm good with faces, even though it's from 1999, she says, i'm bad with names. good because olmec . names. good because olmec. olmec. it's a difficult name to be good with, isn't it? yeah, but , i mean, be good with, isn't it? yeah, but, i mean, they are be good with, isn't it? yeah, but , i mean, they are really but, i mean, they are really going in on this story when no one else. >> because he's hot. that's why she remembers him. she says that she remembers him. she says that she says, well, i was gonna say if you didn't, if you couldn't speak english, if you were, for instance, serbian, you looked at that front page, you'd assume that front page, you'd assume that was announcing an engagement. >> yeah, they quite well matched. >> there's a little bit i think the lesson here is if you're going to kill people, don't be attractive. >> yeah. don't you get away with it. >> well, he didn't get away with it. he's in jail now. i want to know who called the hit in. that's the point. i'm sorry to speak of it. so sort of flippantly, but 25 years. >> is that clear? why did they kill her? for what purpose? >> well, yeah, according to the

crime wave or what was it, crime watch, crime watch, crime wave, which is very much part of a crime wave. >> that's why they killed her. no modern tv people are into that. she's very popular on that show. and it's a very popular show. and it's a very popular show itself. and then she was just going home, wasn't. she's just going home, wasn't. she's just her little workout gear. yeah, she'd been to a shop and she was walking into her home like she's up going, but you have to wonder, like, who did she know? how dangerous was she? >> well, the mirror, which is really obsessed with this, gives us a hint and says it's revenge for a strike on serbian tv studio. 16 people were killed, or 15 people, and they. sometime before 3 pm. on the day of the killing, there was a message tell your prime minister. in belgrade, 15 people were killed, 14 more to go. >> and so, she was mistaken for tony blair. is that what you're suggesting? >> was this during the, conflict in in former yugoslavia? yeah >> blair. when blair had, had initiated that. but why is shoos her out of everybody. >> that's such a strange. yeah. yeah, i guess she's she's available. >> well, perhaps that's part three of the mirror's expose. we'll see tomorrow. finally the daily star, scott. and, you've got about 30s to race through the slug war. yes.

>> apparently, king kim jong un's favourite imperialist launched his war on slugs. un's favourite imperialist launched his war on slugs . alan launched his war on slugs. alan titchmarsh, who i guess is not a fan of north korea , the article fan of north korea, the article implies, also is not a fan of slugs. they are never going to be his friends, he says. never. and, king charles agrees that him to him, slugs are a quote , him to him, slugs are a quote, pain in the bum. >> put them there. >> put them there. >> he he names specifically hostas. and i know that is a fact. we had hostas and you can't the slugs just go through them. >> but the wildlife trust wants people to appreciate slugs for what they are. >> adorable stories like that. recently, there's been love seagulls enjoy wasps, chris packham says. enjoy killer hornets. they're called killer. i'm not a fan . i'm not a fan. >> i prefer killer hornets. the slugs don't sort them on your lawn . that's the only thing. lawn. that's the only thing. sorting slugs is quite good fun, but it does kill the grass very quickly. >> are they good for you? >> are they good for you? >> what? eating them? no you don't have to sort them in order to prepare them for frying . no, to prepare them for frying. no, just a little barbecue. >> you're having a little party? i don't know , delicious, right? i don't know, delicious, right? >> that's the front pages coming up. abuse and disrespect at the

cenotaph and news from whitehall on saint george's, day. two separate stories. see you there . separate stories. see you there. well

and welcome back to headliners with me, simon evans, still joined by steve van allen and scott capurro. so scott, two tier policing or just good old fashioned dust up with the filth. this is the daily mail live from whitehall, apparently there is some, chaos in whitehall today during the saint george's day rally. do we have any footage of it ? it only any footage of it? it only lasted for about less than 30s. really? orgy bargy, i would call it, rather than chaos, i think. so whatever that means, it's a charming term. and i think they were trying to push past the zone. they were meant to keep the. and it hadn't even started before 3:00, before the whole rally thing started. and they just, i think, wanted to cause a bit of trouble , like have a bit bit of trouble, like have a bit of a rough and tumble fun is

what it looks like. but i don't know, they, they did seem to be i mean, i couldn't see all, but they looked like they were being kettled in a fair bit. the police really took a swing at some of them. yeah, i think they've been frustrated because they've been frustrated because they haven't been able to, you know, flex their muscle in the last few months with the protests going on. >> well, this is the thing that everyone's going to draw, comparisons with, isn't it? and isuppose comparisons with, isn't it? and i suppose those comparisons will not really sort of survive or hold up, perhaps. >> well, no, i think there is an element of two tier to it because today's one was doesn't have all the baggage. no one firstly would be arrested for being openly turkish or whatever i >> -- >> openly a dragon. >> openly a dragon. >> yeah, that would have been a problem. but the other the saturday protests, the palestinian situation is about the way that the police have a fear and that's what's manifesting itself. it's not about the i know we're now talking about a different story, but it's not about you. the words the police officer used with openly jewish, the problem is that there's the police are effectively realising they are policing a powder keg by arresting the sparks. and that's arresting the sparks. and that's a very short time plan because it doesn't solve the problem in

any way to not have the bravery to say you've got the right to protest, but you break the law, you get arrested . even if we're you get arrested. even if we're arresting someone from the side that might kick off that is what is required. so that might have been there today because there's no fear. >> no. that's right. the funny thing is, the old fashioned thugs aren't the ones that people are afraid of anymore, are they? because we've seen it and we know it doesn't escalate beyond the old fashioned sort of football violence . football violence. >> yeah, i think and i also think that these guys were a bit worked up because they they felt as though i saw i watched an eight minute interview that the times produced speaking to some of the people that were there and everyone they spoke to felt whatever this means, that their country has been taken from them and they want it back. and then when asked for specific examples , people couldn't give any, but they all said they would for vote tommy robinson or whatever his real name is, were he to run for prime minister so i think this is a sect of people, and i think they're, they're frustrated. >> but it is interesting that, isn't it? but they've been talking for years now, decades arguably in america in

particular, about the danger of awakening racial consciousness in the white majority that they say the more that you get black lives matter, or the more you take any individual racial minority and you elevate the importance of that as a sort of organising principle for those people. there is a danger that the white majority start to think, well, then it's about time . and this is what i feel is time. and this is what i feel is happening in this country. i don't remember there ever being saint george's day riots at all when i was. i just feel like or any kind of activist i feel like though you can't have both, because if what you're saying is accurate, then you might say a majority of white people feeling as though their power or their country's being taken away from them already they're putting themselves in a higher position of power. >> so already they've taken that role on and they've created the fryston, whatever it is. i mean, they've said it's a competition between you and us, when in reality people that are living minority groups. i grew up in one myself. you know, you just want equal what everyone else has. not more. well that's interesting, but we'll have to move on for this time. >> we'll come back to that

possibly, the express takes us from whitehall to one of the lesser provincial senators , but lesser provincial senators, but still a cenotaph in rotherham. >> yeah. should be treated with respect. >> rochdale , rochdale. you're >> rochdale, rochdale. you're quite right. yeah. rochdale. rochdale. there's a link. row row, row. the, should be treated with respect. three teens behind the cenotaph. graffiti. avoid prison and i'll come back to that part of the headline again. it's in the express. but adeem ahmed and our man tariq, they've been named one more hasn't been named because he's under 17. that's good. there's no way i'd get three names right on the trot, they've been given six months referral orders and some fines and they put free palestine on the cenotaph. they avoided jail. look, it's the same rule. as i said before. simple rule. you can have a peaceful protest . you can't peaceful protest. you can't spray stuff on stuff and you get arrested for spraying stuff on stuff. and it wouldn't even have to be about a protest. like if the cenotaph had daubed on it, would you marry me? tracy in the same way that people do on a sheet over a bridge that would get you nicked as well? the headune get you nicked as well? the headline tries to make it look like, oh, you hanging's too good

for him. you can't do anything these days. they actually pleaded guilty so you wouldn't have got jail time anyway. they receive the fines and the referral thing there was interesting part, a court case that what a trial was meant to happen about whether this had a racial element to it. the cps dropped it though, for evidential reasons . there's a evidential reasons. there's a debate to be had there. there's a racial motivation to the protest. but was the cenotaph the totem for the race they had a problem with? so i don't know. >> there's the question, i suppose, scott, is whether they're using a war memorial to make a specific point about our indifference to the to the dead of palestine, or whether it just happens to be in the centre of town. >> and it's a good i think both i think they went to the centre of town and found the biggest thing that they could spray paint on. they also stole the spray paint and the brushes that they used as well. >> yeah. nick from anywhere. why go to a bargain place? >> yeah, they got a bit of taste, but i mean, they stole i mean, the obvious. >> and most people would feel the poetic justice is to make them scrub it off again, isn't it? >> you know, the fine wasn't very big either. it's certainly

not going to cover the cleaning of the thing anyway. >> at least they've been nabbed, worrying news now about the health of the nation's children, or possibly the credulity of the nation's gps. >> well, almost a million children will be claiming health benefits by the end of the decade , amid a surge in reported decade, amid a surge in reported autism and adhd cases among boys , the telegraph reports. they're saying here, too, that the increase they think is potentially about the lockdown, that some kids have not recovered from their anxiety levels during the lockdown and anxiety, stress. and also, i found this out today. if kids are feel ignored or if their parents aren't looking after them properly, that can promote autism in children. so they think that they think so. yeah. no, i, i yeah i found out from a doctor today i didn't know that ehhen doctor today i didn't know that either. but if kids are abandoned in some way or i abandoned, i would question that. >> i don't want to like a neurologist in particular. well, yeah. but there are you know, there are different views. come, i remember a few years ago, a guy called oliver james wrote a lot of books about, how parenting was basically causing autism. and there was a huge pushback. furious, quite

rightly, because if you were a parent who had an autistic child and you heard that it had been mistakes you'd made, possibly just through laziness or, you know, poor advice, i don't think that's a healthy well, i don't think they're saying that's the only cause of autism, but it can be, i think, and also and this article does go on about the anxiety of the kids have suffered during the lockdown and i mean, i have i have friends who have children who were quite profoundly autistic by the age of two, it was obvious. and they were good parents. there was no question at all that they had done anything. >> well, they're not in the article, but, but, but you know, you can't cause the same thing it's either caused. >> i mean, it remains slightly mysterious, but it's either caused by, you know, mutational load or some kind of, you know, defect of that kind or it's caused by environmental factors. and if it is caused by environmental, you have to be really certain what they are before you. you know what i mean? it's like saying about, you know, that it's caused by vaccines or something. it's, it's potentially harmful, i think, but to this story about how much it's going to be costing a lot of this, i think

it's interesting that people under 18 require so much anyway, because you presume if the parents are paying for it, it's just a cost to the parents. >> the actual money we're talking about is on average about three grand anyway, so it's not huge. it's multiplied by the numbers we're dealing with. but this dla for under eighteens, it's not means tested. and that's the bit why are we still not having means tested things. i thought the whole principle of universal credit was to get all of the systems aligned so that you can means test everything. the argument against means testing is always it would cost more to means test than it would to than you'd save. but if you did , one you'd save. but if you did, one means testing and make all of those savings. you should be sorted out. why are we still. >> i would do that. i would do that in a moment. i do think it would. it would make sense. you have to recognise as well, to some extent, i think possibly going back to your gp and so on here, that the more number of treatments come available. i don't think there's ever been a case in medical history when more treatments become available and demand for them goes down. this is the, you know, the fact that adhd and so on is something now from which you can get prescriptions and you know, various, 70,000 mitigations. yeah, it's a lot.

>> yes, it's a lot. >> yeah. 70,000. >> and well, i mean, they're going to hear about it. they're going to hear about it. they're going to hear about it. they're going to think, well, a lot of people, most parents at some point think my child is not paying point think my child is not paying sufficient attention in school. his grades are suffering . let's get him on drugs. you know, and i think there might be need to be a some sort of middle tier where i don't know, prescription charges are adapted slightly to the fact that it's you can get them following a prescription, but you have to get you have to commit a certain amount. do you know what i mean? yeah. you know. right. it's almost like a kind of, like a, like a, like alcohol, which you have to have a license to sell it, but also so, you know, you don't get it on the state, you know. you know what i mean? >> so it's still over medication. i do worry just because of the example of america. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> let's just give them more coca cola and frosties. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> look how good i turned out. what are you talking about? jesus i news now, steve. >> two of the world's most powerful influencers clashing over keir starmer's head, starmer should stop chasing the sun's endorsement. says murdoch's ex son in law, who is

himself a freud. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> matthew freud, matthew p&o. so you can do his family tree as well and be impressed. so here's the deal in a in a podcast , he the deal in a in a podcast, he was saying that keir starmer has been he's advising me against chasing a labour endorsement, but in a really cryptic way, because here's the quote i think if you live in a playground with bullies in it, if the bullies aren't your friend, you lose your lunch money. better to ignore them. so for this metaphor, murdoch's the bully and lunch money is the endorsement. and starmer is trying to make the bullies his friend. he's not trying to play with the bullies but not be friends. so he's trying to save his lunch money that way. plus, also, he's probably on free school meals this whole metaphor falls to bits, and also ignoring a bully is hardly famous if in the middle of taking your lunch money, ignoring them famously. the way to stop it, i'm sure. but you're right. >> it's a really poor metaphor. it's very confusing. >> there's someone who's good at pr for that to be the way he gets. >> whose father had a great great grandfather had a few good metaphors himself, i think. >> well, the freud family have been phenomenally. i think of

all, bizarrely, considering that freud was absolutely the persuasion that your adult personality traits were rooted in the specific experiences you had as a child, the degree to which his particular intelligence was clearly a heritable factor has basically disproven all his theories. >> but i like emma. she's nice. >> but i like emma. she's nice. >> she's a nice lady. but yeah, it's a bit strange because he does. he advises it's a bit strange because he does . he advises starmer to does. he advises starmer to ignore the media. i think what he's saying is focus on other stuff because the media will come. your way when they want to. yeah, and there's no way you can. it's a wild beast and we all know that. i mean, we're in the business. we know how insane it is. even this, the small degree of this tiny studio, this teeny tiny channel, i mean , teeny tiny channel, i mean, still, we have our thumb on the scales of the nation. >> yeah, but but the reality is, murdoch, 12 year olds, they hire to do the news here, run around like the chickens with their heads off. >> and, you know, that's just here. so i think he's saying you can't really manage that. just put your presence out there, put your policies out there. >> and i agree, which is what all agents say to comedians and everything, isn't it? >> don't try and play the media,

just try and get your own story straight. but the truth is , the straight. but the truth is, the sun is not the power. it was in the 1980s. i don't know if you lived here there, but it was understood that the sun could i think no particular newspaper is no, no. >> and i think that's what that's what he's saying in this article in the way. >> well, that's the halfway point reached in the second half, bringing law to the masses and the limits. despite what i've just said to heritability. we'll see you in a couple of minutes

and welcome back to headliners so, scott, we have the times. now. they suggest that courts sit in pubs and libraries, which bnngs sit in pubs and libraries, which brings new meaning to the words sober as a judge . sober as a judge. >> yes. maybe that's where the term comes from. because judges of all types used to sit in pubuc of all types used to sit in public buildings and they don't now. and dame anne rafferty, a former court of appeal and high court judge , has suggested a

court judge, has suggested a reform where we need, to restore pubuc reform where we need, to restore public buildings to what the proper use should be, gyms , proper use should be, gyms, schools, libraries, pubs should be used in off hours, as court, as courts. i like. and she said we could start with coroner's inquests and expand from there to public hearings. she said it would encourage the public to become more involved in their local community and what goes on.and local community and what goes on. and it sounds like a brawl, but it could be, a way to correct some of the backlog, too. apparently there's thousands of backlogged cases, there's a huge backlog, but this is one of the worst ideas ever because the backlog isn't because the backlog isn't because we've got loads of judges. >> you see them sitting around in gangs. yeah, just if only they had it for a courtroom. free. if one was available, they'd be doing some backlog out of barristers. >> right . >> right. >> right. >> so let's hope maybe we could actually just throw open the actually just throw open the actual cases to public voters. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> big worry. and i was thinking like the idea that we would then somehow connect more with the justice system . if it was in, justice system. if it was in, would people really value justice more if it was doled out in a wetherspoons? and probably yes. is the answer to that

question . and that's terrible. question. and that's terrible. >> wetherspoons have been doing sterling work, as we've discussed before , converting old discussed before, converting old municipal buildings like libraries and courtrooms into pubs. this would go full circle. now they can turn them back into courts. >> they've got a real backlog of rape cases and they really need to get on with it, because some of these, these, these victims have been sitting, waiting for their trial for years and years. yes. >> well, there are a number of reasons for that. funnily enough, i was thinking about it because one of the rival channels was showing a documentary about gary glitter, and of course that was a, you know, an extraordinary fall from grace. but that whole yewtree thing created a massive backlog of historic sex offences. many people would say, within the legal system, not terribly helpful, you know, compared to like trying to process cases that had happened in the last few years, going back to the 19705 few years, going back to the 1970s or whatever. i think that has caused a lot of that problem as well. >> but they're out of public defenders. >> pubs in the uk. >> pubs in the uk. >> yeah, yeah, they've had to put a lot of cases on backlog because there's no one there to, you know, defend anybody. >> the idea that you're going to get embarrassed is because you're doing it in a pub. no, do it in a coffee shop. baristas are close enough and they'll be

really sharp as well. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> you get really whipped through these cases, steve, it's bp one gp nil in the daily mail. okay >> gp 57. that's not the score. that's the age. okay, i put the age this early in it, but there we go. who was jailed for taking part in a just stop oil protest, is suspended from practising for five months after a tribunal ruled her fitness to work was impaired. i think they've absolutely hit this one on the head because ordinarily i'd be, so you can't strike someone off just for that. well, wait a minute. get into the details. unrepentent doctor sarah ben was jailed for. she did a few protests, but it was only one where they blocked a road in and out of a refinery, which stopped tankers , but also a worker who tankers, but also a worker who was asking permission to leave site for an urgent medical appointment. that seems apposite here, so sing it with me. you have the right to free peaceful protest , right? but if you break protest, right? but if you break a law, you get done for breaking the law. and that's what's happened. she's been unrepentant. she was sent to jail for the last one. no one has complained about the other protests. you run, you're a gp,

you do whatever you want, so it's not difficult really. and it's not difficult really. and it's the priority , the sense of it's the priority, the sense of i don't know, you know, that she values the environment more than an individual life. would you like to be an individual being seen by it? not right now. she can get unsuspended if she basically writes a letter saying she accepts what she did was wrong, but she's a gp. the handwriting, it could say anything . anything. >> the problem? >> the problem? >> yeah. they're worried that patients won't trust her because of what she did in that protest. >> yeah, well, they'll recognise her and go. hang on, you're the one that you're the one. yeah. >> and patients gossip, you know they do. >> but there is. >> but there is. >> i mean, that's the hippocratic oath, isn't it? do no do no harm. first of all, do no do no harm. first of all, do no harm. she did harm. she got in somebody's way when they were trying to get to the doctors. >> it's the hypocritical for her. >> she didn't know what she was doing. right? good. >> she messed up for 2000 years. finally times now. scott. news that will no doubt come as a relief to all our parents, well, children , as it turns out, are children, as it turns out, are less like their parents than we thought. they did a study , and i thought. they did a study, and i couldn't find the name of the study, but it is a study , where study, but it is a study, where they used data from gene donors to the estonian biobank, a

biological database established in 2000, where they recruited more than a thousand pairs of relatives . and each person was relatives. and each person was asked not only to rate their own personality traits, but they were also asked to bring along an informant, a friend, or a partner to, say, yes, that's true about you. >> yeah , yeah, that's a good idea. >> it's a better way to do it, they think. yeah, because they've done in the past where people just label their traits and most people get them wrong. well, i've tried to do these, these kind of big five personality tests, and i just never know what you know. >> and i think my best friend would probably have a better idea i think so, yeah. >> and they said that only they found that similarities between parents and children were less than 40. really. so really , the than 40. really. so really, the majority of who you are has nothing to do with your parents, as it turns out. >> but i mean, that is the capacity of two people conjoining to create lots of different people. i mean, siblings are very unalike, aren't they? when they do twin studies, they find identical twins, even if raised separately, do grow up to be quite similar. but like non—identical twins, not very similar, siblings. quite random really. >> i think we're more a result

of the people we hang out with when we're younger anyway. >> but then again, you might choose those people. >> yeah, i know what you mean. they say you're the average of your five closest friends at any given moment, don't they? yeah, yeah. >> none of those friends stuff. >> none of those friends stuff. >> yes. anyway, so yeah, i a time and again it comes down to, i think the way to use all this information is just relax. yeah. about about everything isn't it. relax about parenting in particular though which is such a cause of stress and strife. people think, oh, will i be a good parent? >> will your parents relaxed? >> will your parents relaxed? >> yeah, pretty. well. they would. yeah long story, but they were. yeah. fairly relaxed about me. about raising me. yeah. yeah.i me. about raising me. yeah. yeah. i mean, they didn't they, i don't think they kind of tore their hair out wondering whether they'd given me every possible chance and opportunity in the world. >> you know, i think i'm quite chilled as a as a father. i certainly my advice within our family has been stop reading those books. if a book has any advice, if you read ever more than one book, you've done yourself in. >> we had about seven. i remember this the first time when kate was pregnant. we got the first book and i was like, great, we've got a book. well, no, you know how to clean them

and stuff. and then the second book arrives and now you're in. by book arrives and now you're in. by the time you got five books on the shelf, you will just never settle. >> you know, i don't think if he was chill. i think you're exhausted. >> that too. yeah. yeah, there's a lot of that worn out. yeah. >> anyway, daily mail now, steve, finally, someone is starting to codify thousand the little microaggressions that we old timers are subject to , using old timers are subject to, using the phrase back in your day to an older work colleague could count as age harassment and employment judge rules don't do this. >> there are some groups who are really good at taking offence about anything. we can spot them and instead of thinking what a silly thing to do, yeah, everyone tries to copy it and goes, oh no, this is the modern version. this is like the age related version of the n word, which would be codger, by the way. i thought about it, spelled it with an a at the end, good god.so it with an a at the end, good god. so it's they're my codgers and you can't use that as their word. but this nursing assistant, margaret couperthwaite, in her 60s, was she has sued for age harassment because a younger colleague said that an operation would have been free on the nhs in her day. firstly might have been. secondly, she was actually given

a warning for taking four days off with a cut finger and then she was fired. it was only after she was fired. it was only after she was fired. it was only after she was let go that she remembered how bad it was to be called slightly old. yeah, i know the memory goes with age, but if anything that disproves your point. she lost the tribunal, but they this tribunal did a kind of like. let's have a look what you could have won. they said if this they didn't believe that this was said to her. they said if it were said to you, we could have taken that as age harassment . as age harassment. >> whether whether that is that precedent, then is that ratio decidendi or is that obiter dicta? if it was decided that it would have mattered if we believed you, but we didn't believed you, but we didn't believe you? >> i have no idea what those two latin phrases mean. >> i mean is it is. it was it like, pertinent to the case, or was it just a judge muttering as an aside or might drop kind of, yeah, well, you . yeah, well, you. >> but anyway, i say don't do this because if you don't let back in your day, if that gets banned, then you won't be able to say kids these days. and that's like 50% of most old people's conversation. >> most of it is sympathetic, isn't it? >> i know we're in your day. it would have been fine, but you can't do that nowadays. it's

usually meant to sort of bring you in, isn't it? right? rather than kind of going, don't. what are you talking about? i know i was on in your day, but it's. things are better now. >> call them that these days you can't even say drop dead, you old codger, anymore. >> you can't say that either. yeah. >> stop cluttering the place up . >> stop cluttering the place up. well, i do, i agree with you, mrs. miss couperthwaite. you should be ashamed of yourself talking about grievance politics. the independent, afua hirsch. she's has a piece of tired cocktail party, chit chat. she's decided to have some grievance about with boris johnson. >> so i was going to say that miss couperthwaite has had cancer since 2014. >> oh, i beg your pardon. i forgot to mention that i would. >> yeah , we would have sympathy >> yeah, we would have sympathy for that. >> use some latin phrases. you get away with it, right? i think she's a bit touchy about her age because she's got cancer and she's probably dead by now by the time we're reading this story. >> so boris johnson says some bad things the night obama was elected president. yeah he wished he 2008, he said to, this, afua hirsch, a british, ghanaian heritage, person, claimed that they were at a

dnnks claimed that they were at a drinks party together and she overheard a, person say he asked her where she was from, and he asked her twice where she was from. he wanted to know, and she saw that as a bit of confrontational question. and then he said, i wish i was black, i wish i was black, because that was, it was obama's , election. >> and he wanted to experience, i mean , it's possibly a bit i mean, it's possibly a bit cloth eared. it's not classic racism , is it? racism, is it? >> i wish i was always the same with him, though. it's not classic racism. it's always a slight twist on it. but it is. and then he apologised. he apologised for remarks, not this one, but others later. >> it's like when we chat and i say i wish i was gay. it just sounds so much easier. yeah, i mean, yeah, when you whisper in my ear, sweet. >> and then , i mean, the thing >> and then, i mean, the thing with boris is that his fans will love him for saying this and his enemies will detract him for saying it. it's the same old story , isn't it, that his ex, of story, isn't it, that his ex, of course, to whom afua hirsch was giving the interview? >> yes. >> yes. >> and the way that she phrased it, that, boris johnson demanded to know where i was from, that specific. it requires grabbing of colours and kind of with

menaces, not getting out of it unless you tell me. >> yeah, just one last section to go. it's got seinfeld, tinder and a twist on home brewing that will make everyone jealous. we'll see you in a couple of minutes. do

and welcome back to headliners. the final section for this saint george's day. steve, jerry seinfeld says the movies have lost their relevance. just as he releases one. i feel like i need a jerry seinfeld gif to react to this with a little sting as we go from one scene to another, and then kramer slides in. >> yeah , yeah. he says hollywood >> yeah, yeah. he says hollywood has lost its relevance as movies no longer occupy the pinnacle in the social cultural hierarchy that it did. yeah. i mean, so he's right, i suppose. but also, let's get some context of people lost their collective poop about barbie and oppenheimer. so

recently. this is the bad time to say, you know, films really ain't swinging. although i do think out of those two films because of all the plastic barbie will eventually end up killing more people than the atomic bomb. yeah, certainly more turtles. yeah, it's a wind and he said in an interview, you're right. so he's plugging a film saying films aren't as good as they used to be, and also goes on to say it's because we've got all the tv, there's too much tv, all the streaming things. where's this film? it's on netflix . so he literally on netflix. so he literally moans about films while releasing a film, moans about streaming . streaming. >> well, i guess he's self—aware, isn't he? >> at least that's he's the gift of not needing the money. yeah, he can go on and do. film is released is a thing about the invention of pop tarts or something, isn't it? >> it's a very sort of, schlocky. >> also probably will go on to kill more people than the atomic bomb. so out of all of these three, oppenheimer does have quite a barbie aesthetic, actually. >> what do you think? >> what do you think? >> yeah, it's kellogg's versus post cereal, i saw the interview , and i like gerry. he's a brilliant person, but i think he's in a bubble in hollywood. yeah, and i think that he's seeing people lose their jobs

seeing people lose theirjobs and lose their credibility. not films, but people he works for and works with. and that concerns him. yeah, but i think film netflix all the stuff i watch. i mean, ijust rewatched white lotus that was filmed in 2021. i mentioned it while i was away in norway and the table full of comics. i was with said, oh my god. and we talked about it for an hour and how brilliant it for an hour and how brilliant it was. so i really don't think i haven't seen that. >> but i do think genius there is a there is, this is it's the thing we talk about quite a lot at home. >> and when you've got like two grown up teenage kids and you're trying to work out what to watch, and movies are not actually the go to now, you're right. netflix likes, you know, small box sets or whatever, but there is some great content out there. you just have to widen your definition a little bit. >> i mean, i, you know, i had my hand operated on last year and i got hooked on, on, on joan crawford during her film noir period, that ten year period. and i found everything online and i couldn't it was brilliant. i mean, some of these films that you didn't even know existed, very refreshing. >> some of that old black and white stuff. anyway. yeah. tinder now scott, and it's

trying to help users get their pals and family involved like they have any. >> apparently , tinder launches a >> apparently, tinder launches a new share my date. so pals and family can get involved with your sex life. apparently, people have been sending their details for their future date. anyway so tinder said we're going to make it easy for. we're going to make it easy for. we're going to make it easy for. we're going to take the sweat away because apparently this is sweat making, sweat inducing. so they've made this little app that you can use to identify, i guess, the person you're going to date with to protect yourself. right? so people don't have to worry about you. that's i think this is really about that. >> not like this is what my family will be like. if you want to come to thanksgiving, i kind of think it's they're trying to discourage date rape a little bit. that's probably a good idea then. steve, we probably don't need to linger on this. yeah. that's true. >> oh, yeah. i mean, it definitely reads as a as a function for women. i don't think any bloke has ever got to send like, let's move on to this vastly more interesting story, steve, in which the hands down best excuse i've ever heard of for drunk driving. >> brilliant isn't it? >> brilliant isn't it? >> it's a belgium man, 40, has dnnk >> it's a belgium man, 40, has drink drive charge thrown out after he emerges .

drink drive charge thrown out after he emerges. he drink drive charge thrown out after he emerges . he suffers after he emerges. he suffers with auto brewery syndrome. that's where your body brews alcohol within. some call it auto brewery syndrome. some call it the next step of human evolution. yeah they might be the only ones that survive the cost of living crisis. i'm just saying. absolutely here's the worrying bit. it works in a brewery plot twist. so talk about taking your work home with you, he he brews alcohol for a living and in his body. here's the worry. >> yeah. so the yeast hasn't got into him from the brewery. it's not like he's in ruthin. right. >> and this is what later down lower down the story it says no one really knows how it occurs. but it's to do with having things like bacteria and certain yeasts in your lower digestive tract. what is he doing at work with the brewer's yeast? that means it's up his , just that's a means it's up his, just that's a question. some of the symptoms of abs auto brewery syndrome vomiting, belching, dizziness, loss of coordination . telling loss of coordination. telling friends you love them, sleeping with a solid four. the last one might just be general drinking . might just be general drinking. >> it's an autoimmune disease. it's your body attacking itself, right? that's what it's happening. i mean, it's your body telling you that you are

dying. and so it's going to try to save you and then it tries to kill you by doing that. >> well, i wish him well, kill you by doing that. >> well, i wish him well , scott, >> well, i wish him well, scott, finally, good news for the lady in your life in the independent. >> all right. apparently, there's a breakthrough battery , there's a breakthrough battery, yes. the scientists in the korean advanced institute of science and technology have developed a sodium battery capable of charging in seconds and lasting forever. so we don't need these batteries that. yeah yeah, that that die out in the middle of a. >> and they're seriously good news about it actually, which we've got just like 20s to talk about. but it is seriously good news insofar as if they can use sodium instead of lithium, this is a vastly more, there's a lot more sodium in the abundant thing. yeah, and not all tied up in a few, politically unstable countries. and so less less dangerous. >> i will say, if you want to read about it, it's in the journal of energy storage materials. the title is low crystallinity, conductive, multivalent iron sulphide embedded s doped anode and hide surface, oh doped cathode with 3d porous enriched graphite carbon framework for high performance sodium ion hybrid energy storages. that's the title.

>> funnily enough, i'm actually doing a corporate tomorrow for, people in the generator industry , which obviously, you know, they are opposing batteries. you know, they're the kind of old fashioned. >> here's your opening gambit right there . right there. >> they will probably want to nix this anyway, the show is nearly over. let's take another quick look at wednesday's front pages. the daily mail biggest boost for defence in a generation. the telegraph war footing as pm ramps up defence spending. the guardian pm to raise defence spending and put arms industry on a war footing, arms industry on a war footing, arms and footing. i didn't mean that before the times uk to spend more on defence. this ai news tories unveil uk's biggest hike military spending for a generation and finally , the generation and finally, the daily star, kim jong un's favourite imperialist. that's alan titchmarsh launches a war on slugs. those are your front pages. on slugs. those are your front pages . it's on slugs. those are your front pages. it's all we have time for. thank you to my guest, steve van allen and scott capurro. leo kearse will be back tomorrow at 11 pm. with paul

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