Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 14th January 2026
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In this episode of the BBC's Breakfast Club, the team discuss the latest in the news, including the latest on the Iranian crisis, the assassination of the Guardian, the Iran crisis, and the rail deal. All this and much more on this fine frosty morning in the UK.
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you all right how are you on this fine frosty morning in britain they said it was warmer
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now it's warmer today didn't feel warmer felt like the coldest morning so far
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nice lovely big slurp of tea there you are watching the beau show breakfast with beau
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the bbc beau's breakfast club you are part of the glorious band the chosen few for tuning in live
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thank you can't thank you enough in all honesty you guys make this happen okay let's jump straight
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in today's a good day isn't it with the climb down on the id cards if anyone hasn't seen this
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you heard about this you've seen this let's get into it first of all then uh the front pages of
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the newspapers uh the bbc says that the biggest stories are trump tells iran quote help is on its
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way and the rail deal again i think the biggest story today is the id cards but we'll get into it
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really the guardian is still a thing is it okay the guardian remembering alan rickman
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remembering robin hood prince of thieves harry have you ever seen robin hood prince of thieves
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he was good in that as the evil sheriff of nottingham threatening to cut people's hearts
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out with a spoon iconic stuff right back to the news donald trump says help is on its way
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those are trump's words trump calls on iran's protesters to remain defiant president uh it's very
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small for me president uh president's vow hints at u.s military action amid reports of 2 000 killed
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yeah i saw some news coming out last night saying
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um that even the regime itself are admitting to something in the order of 2 000 deaths
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other people were saying you know the higher end of the estimate is like 12 000 but the regime itself
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say it's 2 000 so you can only sort of assume it's it is somewhere between 2 and 12 000 either way
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that's a lot isn't it i mean if it was a couple of dozen that's uh that's a lot isn't it if there
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was a couple of dozen people killed by like police in london that would be mad we'd never ever ever
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stop talking about it it would go down in history uh so like if it's in the thousands if it is indeed
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in the thousands then uh that's bad i mean imagine a street a normal street 100 yards long with like
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20 bodies in it that would be an atrocious thing so 2 000 right so it's ongoing still in iran there's
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loads of loads and loads of stories in the news all about iran still again today from all different
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angles um you know for example the foreign office yvette cooper mrs balls uh summoned the iranian
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sort of frown in his general direction wag her finger at him
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and um iran's being cut off economically in various ways further than it already is
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and uh and yeah whether there will be military action sort of imminently
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one way or another against iran um coming from the us uh i saw one news it was only one in fact i
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haven't seen it across the board suggests it might not be accurate but i did see one report saying that
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america are closing or trying to close iranian airspace that really is a prelude to some sort of action
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nearly always um so if that i only saw that on one report so you know at this stage take that with a
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pinch of salt but if that starts coming out if that starts being the news then yeah there will will
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almost certainly be something going on the united states want air superiority complete complete air
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dominance if they're going to start doing doing stuff certainly with manned fast jets and all that
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sort of thing okay what else we got northern powerhouse rail gets 45 billion pound backing
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so that's a big story that is one of the big stories today in the british uh press um that the government
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it's a queer starlin has said that uh they're going to give they're going to give uh loads of money
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to build much more rail infrastructure particularly in the north of england because that hs2 project
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uh they scrapped like a northern bit of it the northern stretch of it i believe um and so to
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make up for that and other things and just sort of fairly poor rail networks in the midlands and north
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of england they're going to finally pump 45 billion pounds into that you know make a some of the details
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make a better rail connection between manchester and liverpool uh make a better connection between
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like um birmingham and sheffield or whatever all that sort of thing okay i mean it's fairly sorely
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needed i traveled on the trains through the midlands and the north not too long ago and it was pretty
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poor it was a pretty poor service it was really it was quite bad to be honest i mean people moan
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about the trains in britain but then when you go to a third world country you realize oh actually it's
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not that bad it's not perfect might not be as perfect as the french railways or something but it's
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actually in the scheme of things still pretty damn good well even in the scheme of things my
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experience going on trains to the north was really really bad okay so they're going to put more money
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into that doubts cast on extent of microplastics in humans well that's good that that's nice to hear
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if that's true there's been reports before if you've seen them at various points that every human has
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well if if that's not quite as true as it first seemed or not you know that that's a welcome bit
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of news let's hope we're not all just filled with microplastics
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the tory graph the daily telegraph trump help is on the way help is on the way
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you've got to take him at his word really haven't you at this stage at this stage of his second
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presidency presidents are much more uh willing to make bigger moves in their second term
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because they know at least they personally never have to seek re-election so they don't have to worry
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about pissing off a huge amount of the electorate because they're never going to have to go to the
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ballot box again so trump is sort of off off the hook off the chain uh if he says help is on the
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way you've got to sort of take him at his word i mean we'll see whether it'll be today or in coming
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days regimes killers and abusers will pay a big price u.s president warns strikes on nuclear sites
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military bases and the ayatollah are on the table yeah i saw trump say saw trump trump say whether it was
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truth social or something um to the people of iran said remember the names of the individual people
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that are like doing the the killings and are like being repressive remember their individual names
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because at some point we'll we'll like get revenge on them for you or something like that or that was
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the implication you know it's like um i mean it's tough words it's tough talk relatively isn't it i mean
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it's it's it's rabia uh saber rattling rabia rabia settling it's saber rattling as about as hard as it
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gets isn't it um white house deeply concerned about secret china embassy plan good great yeah
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it's so weird it's not weird i suppose but it's it's odd to notice that the u.s government the state
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department and and the white house and things care more about our interests and the interests of
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british natives than our own government like many times over more and more times it was in the news
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the other day that the state department came out and poured scorn on starmer for refusing to ban
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first cousin marriage right so the state department cares literally cares more about us than our
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government man yeah the white house the white house is much more concerned about chinese espionage
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and signals intelligence espionage going on in london than our government what a mad thing that is
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some smaller headlines there in the telegraph says uh maccabee rail police police chief uh could cling
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on okay lawrence of arabia portraits gets warning i've done a big bit of content with luca johnson all
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about lawrence of arabia and i've read seven pillars of wisdom and listened to the audio book
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of seven pillars of wisdom t.e lawrence lawrence of arabia's memoir many many many times and watch
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the film the david lean film loads and loads of times i love the story of lawrence arabia it's a great
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story uh but there's portraits of him wearing the agal and the arabian robes there's portraits of him
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in like the national gallery national portrait gallery they're now saying that's uh it's
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inappropriate that little story there says it might be inappropriate for these days
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god when we get rid of this whole paradigm of things being offensive more and more and more
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and more and more things are being offensive must be just banned i can't wait for sort of the end of
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that if it ever comes i mean i hope it does madness why would we why would anyway
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mansion tax could affect 1.5 million pound homes
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i mean a couple things i'll say about that one very few people have got a 1.1 million
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pound home those that have you would think would be able to afford a little more tax not that that's
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not that that's the point that's really not the point um but that will actually affect relatively few
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people plus you could live in a big home that you might have inherited or you've put all your wealth
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into the mortgage of it and although you live in a 1.5 million pound home you actually haven't got much
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or any real like liquid wealth and any little extra tax like that tips you over the edge of into
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bankruptcy but uh that's social that's leftist economic thought for you just keep taxing people
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just keep taxing them how dare you stop paying money more increasingly amounts of money to the state
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um crisis hit water boss says bills have to rise does he oh does he again anyone who's not in britain
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will and anyone who's in britain will know that the cost of water is quite a lot like your water rates
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your water bill that comes through in most of england even in the south west it's thames water
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and um it just costs quite a lot of money it's not it's not cheap anymore
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well it used to be when i first sort of went out on my own lived moved away from home and started
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paying all my own bills and all that sort of thing your water rates was a relatively small amount um
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you know sort of even on a small wage it wasn't difficult to cover it but that's not the case
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anymore and you're saying it's got to rise even more and thames water is as a company in stupid
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amounts of debt completely mismanaged their own affairs like to a catastrophic degree oh but now rates
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have to rise even more do they brilliant okay bft financial times help is on its way trump's trump
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tells iranians white house sends strongest signal yet uh of possible military action protesters encouraged
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to take over institutions and save names of killers to find tehran ready to face attack and says dialogue
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with us still open there you go so iran again i mean overnight in the evening in the afternoon and
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evening of yesterday yesterday the 13th of january again the news cycle became basically saturated with
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iran stories earlier in the morning if you watch yesterday if you watch the bow show yesterday
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uh then the the actual headlines were uh iran was kind of sparse in there uh but once again today
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it's all over the news we'll see i'm sort of expecting i may well be wrong i mean there's a i mean
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there's a good chance of what i'm about to say is wrong like 50 plus is but i'm kind of expecting
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something to happen today maybe tomorrow or in terms of military action
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because when trump says he'll do something when the rhetoric is dialed up this far it's usually
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sort of in the mail it's sort of it's it's like imminent thought really maybe not maybe not again
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i give myself 50 50 on on that prediction all right what have we got the times all right the time says
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treasury new business rates would double for thousands of pubs well yeah it's their job isn't it
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they're the one that are doubling rates so of course they knew
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new starma u-turn over compulsory id digital ids here we go all right so this is a story for a lot of uh
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for most people in britain that is the real real interest which affects their lives or would have
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affect their lives um that it came out it was leaking leaking like a sieve last night
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uh uh mid-evening sort of time out of number 10 that uh sir queer's government was going to do a u-turn
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on the compulsory id cards now a couple of things one it's great right brilliant hallelujah
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but two let's not get carried away just yet for a couple of reasons one it's not that they're
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scrapping the idea in total it's just the compulsory element of it so they still want to do digital id
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cards uh but they'll put the onus on the employer to make sure all their employees are sort of digitally
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registered it's not up to the individual person to have a personal digital id card and if you don't
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get that you won't be allowed to work so they'll still be digital ids but it's not exactly it won't
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be compulsory yet well and that's the other thing that's the other thing to sort of bear in mind be
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a little bit cautious of is that you know you just know they haven't dropped the design right they
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haven't abandoned that that goal that plan if they if and when they can try and bring it back revive it
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you know they will i mean they've been trying to do this for years haven't they since the blair years
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over 20 years if and when they think the time's right they'll try again yeah but for now it's sort
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of a stay of execution in a sense um you know to take the small wins if and when you can um you know
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i think it is nice right a little bit of a white pill for once probably the first actual white pill on
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the bow show we're a week and a half in and it's the first one that speaks volumes doesn't it
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um but yeah the uh the the sub bit of headline there says scheme is government's 13th abandoned
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policy yeah i talked already on breakfast with bow about starmer's propensity to u-turn
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yeah yeah 13 u-turns in what a year and a bit that's pretty bad record u-turn record pretty bad
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you know not just because it's embarrassing as i said the other day not just because your detractors
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can say uh you don't know what you're doing you know even one u-turn is an embarrassment pretty bad
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embarrassment to do 13 in a year or so is more the other thing is is that when you have a policy as the
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government you then expect your mps certainly senior mps members of cabinet or whatever to go
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out there into the world and make the argument for it go on news channels write articles for
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legacy mainstream media defending the policy saying it is the you know it's the right thing to do it's
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the right thing to do and um and we're all rock solid behind the policy and we'll never abandon it
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and then so when the leader does abandon it everyone's got egg on their face pretty badly
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starmer can't stop u-turning it looks like well it's weakness isn't it he's a weak man in every
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possible sense did you ever see him trying to keep up that that that punching bag did you ever see that
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harry you know okay like there's a clip most a lot of people out there would have seen it where he was
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visiting a gym like i don't know what he was doing opening a gym or announcing more monies for gym
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or gyms or something or other they put boxing gloves on him and had him hit a had him hit a bag
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it was the most physically unimpressive thing you've seen you know when someone's completely
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uncoordinated like you ever see someone try and swing a golf club who's never done it before
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and it's like really something like that right where it's like the most uncoordinated
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anyway um the physically weak it's a bit of an ad hominem but anyway but just politically morally
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weak weak weak weak weak weak weak weak the only thing he's able to have any strength any backbone about
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is something that touches on his position as prime minister then you'll get tough right if he has to
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remove the whip from some people he's tough enough on that because it affects his direct authority and
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power and stuff so anyway back to digital id cards um yeah it's good you know i'll take it last night
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when the news came through like a good day huzzah all right uh what else we got help is on its way again
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the help is on its way quote from trump um that guy that may well be the first person to be hung by
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the iranian regime for being a protester they do like to pick out one individual person with these
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things don't they all right the mail the mail says uh now digital id cards won't be compulsory
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straight to the point there very point very straight to the point no need for any puns or anything on
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that one the eye paper join the revolution trump urges iranians labor promises new rail links for the
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north but not until 2030s so after labor are out of power they will lose the next general election you
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know almost certainly right saw something over overnight about um starmer's
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the polling his personal sort of approval rating and i don't know if it's a joke or not but they
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said his approval rating was lower than hitler's approval rating in april 1945 could that possibly be
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true but it's super low i mean he is he is it has been shown for for real definitely for real for a
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matter of record that um his his popularity is the lowest of any prime minister ever
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like going back to walpole going back a couple of centuries plus
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nobody likes him or what he's doing right they both dislike his policies and his government and what
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they do and say and him personally but he is he is um obnoxious isn't he he's he's he's unlikable
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on it in every way because you get some people in politics that are sort of like got a they're a
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charisma vacuum like gordon brown right rishi sunak was pretty slimy wasn't he he was a bit of a
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a hall monitor type person but even gordon brown and rishi sunak you know they had something about
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them something small small thing about them where you could see okay i don't despise this person to
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their very very core in some context they might be all right to be around right i think sitting down
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and having a meal or a drink with rishi sunak wouldn't be it wouldn't be like nails down a chalkboard
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would it you it wouldn't be too bad having a conversation with golden brown might be mildly
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interesting but keir starmer right what what can you say what is there what honestly what is there
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about him and his character and his person that isn't just like you know just like oh god really
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all right back to the papers yes the story of um they're gonna spend loads of money on northern rail
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stuff so rachel reeves will today unveil plans for new rail lines and upgrades between major
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northern cities but with just 1.1 billion pounds in firm funding and no start or completion dates
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for projects northern powerhouse rail scheme will be delivered in phases
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firstly upgrades to existing lines in west yorkshire including improvement services
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between leeds and sheffield york and bradford okay the next phase due to start in the 2030s
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includes a new route between liverpool and manchester before plans to improve connections across the pennines
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become the focus all right well if dr beeching in the 60s hadn't basically annihilated
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most of britain's rail network perhaps there would still be lions across the pennines
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the fact that there isn't decent really really decent rail connections between liverpool and
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manchester i mean there are you can get a train from liverpool to manchester of course you can
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but the fact that isn't sort of you know cutting edge good quality one is a little bit of an
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of an embarrassment i mean when you look at the history of rail got some good content with alex
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masters alex the steam guy masters on the website talking about the history of railways and and steam in
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general um you know it's a venerable stretch from liverpool to manchester the fact that it's underfunded
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and a bit of a bit of a state is is embarrassing if there's any bit of train line in the world which
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deserves to be good perhaps it's it perhaps it's that uh okay what else they've got uh
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labour's northern mayors including andy burnham expect to back plans to unlock growth oh yeah of
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course it would yeah investment in your region in your area of course you're gonna back it okay
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chancellor will confirm intention to build a new link between birmingham and manchester after axing of
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hs2 north but only one uh but only once other projects are delivered in the 2030s okay so there we go
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the train story the mirror let's move on the mirror oh yeah jamie bulge is one of jamie bulge's killers
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i think john venables um is up for parole and his mum obviously jamie bulge's mum obviously he's not
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keen on that anyone who might not know if you're very very young harry do you remember the murder of
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little jamie bulge is that before that must be before your time surely i think yeah i think that was like
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a little bit before my time before you were born even yeah so anyway two kids that were like 10 or
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11 years old murdered a little toddler who's like two or three years old terrible terrible unbelievable
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unbelievable um and one of them's coming up for parole now um
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right northern powerhouse pledge the rail deal again i won't keep going on and on and on about it
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but that's big in the news today labor reveals 45 billion pound plan for new lines and infrastructure
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pm says millions will benefit as he promises to end train misery okay i wonder if he'll roll up his sleeves
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you know they're serious when starmer says he's going to roll up his sleeves he says he's going to roll
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up his sleeves in stopping the small boat dinghy invasion of course didn't do nothing we had record
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the metro hate the metro so so ah nearly said nearly swore there it's so bad it's so bad it's so bad
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who are the who are the editors of the metro who are they
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okay they go with uh north of sea catastrophe trial begins russian captain did nothing to avoid
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us tanker this is a story about back in last year i think it was like spring or summer last year
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um a russian tanker hit a ship another ship um off the coast of britain off the coast of scotland
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and um one person died on on that ship um and apparently because you know tankers move relatively
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slowly and they've got a giant turning circle of course like giant so wherever they're heading
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it's sort of clear where they're heading long before they get there and the story is that like
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this tanker knew it was going to hit this other ship like half an hour before it did and yet the
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captain there is accused of doing nothing like in other words deliberately did that like deliberately
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rammed a russian tanker deliberately rammed a ship and now the now that captain's on trial for it
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there you go that's what the metro thinks is front news front news story today
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the express it's a lovely paper elderly living in poverty could exceed two million
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warning that pensioners are taking drastic measures to make ends meet right this is why a lot of
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people have got a problem with mass immigration and the welfare system because our people are living
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in poverty two million two million if it was two hundred thousand that would be a disgrace
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if it was two thousand that would be a disgrace we should be a country where like our elderly people
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don't have to fear that they might freeze to death or starve to death
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right with the amount of money we give away in foreign aid and in the welfare bill to people that have
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just simply got on it got on an airplane and come here and now they get like a housing and and on and
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on and on and on and yet our elderly people to the tune of two million or could be could exceed two million
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there's something deaf profoundly wrong isn't there definitely wrong with that
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how can you argue that that that isn't terribly terribly wrong
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all right the sun are they gonna do a pun oh they are oh there you go
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i'm gonna do a pun right budget tax grab fallout guinness
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pint of guinness up by four p some tipplers to be weaker or some tipples rather some tipples to be weaker
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reeves knew a five thousand pound pub hits yeah because it's her idea because she's implementing it
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no one really is like oh i can't wait for the sun's new pun on the front page no one's doing that
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i don't know i don't know it's up to them of course but i just i never all the puns i just think it's
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okay the daily star the sloppiest of the slot although sometimes breaking an important story
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like he's stealing greenland the art of the steel
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arctic troll prez posts pic of himself gazing at greenland so that was actually quite funny um
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the other day last friday i did that big news conference didn't they with jd vance and um
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and marco rubio that hour and a half long odd press conference in the white house and at one point
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trump as you can see in that image at one point trump just got up and walked to the windows behind
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himself and looked out the window because there's loads of renovation building going on at the white
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house isn't there that's a story in and of itself um and he just like with all the cameras on and
00:30:02.080
everyone watching and waiting and listening he just got up and like went to the back window and
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had a quick look out the window and he like came back and was like wow it's great what's going on
00:30:09.760
out there all that stuff since then if anyone's not on the internet if anyone's not perma on the
00:30:14.480
internet isn't on twitter all day every day since then people have made loads and loads of photoshops
00:30:19.520
or ai generated images of different things outside the window that trump's gone and had a look at
00:30:24.800
it's quite funny i think it's reasonably funny in fact someone on twitter the other day
00:30:28.480
like um shopped or ai generated a picture of the islander magazine
00:30:36.960
islander magazine buy it it's out now while they last they will sell out so there's a truly a finite
00:30:44.320
number of them cole refuses to do a second print run so once they're gone they're gone get the islander
00:30:50.960
anyway someone photoshopped that image a massive image outside the windows that trump had gone up to
00:30:55.840
look at and like he turns around he's like wow it's great you know it's funny uh so but it looks
00:31:01.760
like trump himself or the the white house probably not trump personally sitting there on photoshop
00:31:06.800
but someone at the white house put in a massive as you can see there a massive um
00:31:13.920
image of a map of greenland that trump has gone to just look at it and admire it
00:31:17.920
kind of funny all right kind of funny okay those are the front pages let's have a look at um oh there
00:31:28.000
was one real quick back towards the top i wanted to spend a tiny bit more time on if you notice there
00:31:40.480
of of of anything epstein related um i thought i'd saw it on the front pages maybe maybe i got it
00:31:47.440
slightly wrong um i thought i'd saw on one of the front pages that there was a small story about bill and
00:31:53.920
hillary clinton and the epstein probe um and indeed there was bill clinton was supposed to appear before
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uh the comey proceedings yesterday and just didn't okay sorry not comey coma james comey and james
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coma are very two very different people let's be clear about that don't confuse james comey with james
00:32:19.360
coma which i just did no james coma his proceedings um looking into the epstein all the epstein stuff
00:32:28.720
bill clinton was supposed to appear and yesterday and didn't and hillary clinton's supposed to appear
00:32:33.360
today and said she's not going to all right let's have a quick read of this it's from sky news
00:32:40.480
clinton's refused to test it refuse to testify in republican-led epstein investigation risking
00:32:46.880
contempt proceedings so it's much like actual court where if you if you're subpoenaed or you've got
00:32:54.240
a court summons you can't just not turn up or if you do you're in trouble for that you're actually
00:32:59.120
in trouble for that in and of itself as a whole different thing now if you don't turn up you're
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not at liberty to just not turn up to court right
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except that looks like what bill did yesterday and what hillary intends to do today
00:33:20.880
uh republican representative james coma said the committee leading the probe will meet next week
00:33:26.160
to hold former u.s president bill clinton in contempt okay maybe i was wrong about bill clinton supposed to
00:33:31.520
be there yesterday let me read let's let's read a little bit of this bill and hillary clinton have
00:33:34.960
said they will refuse to testify in a republican-led investigation into uh into convicted sex
00:33:40.880
offender jeffrey epstein every person has to decide and this is hillary clinton's words i believe
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every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country
00:33:54.880
its principles and its people no matter the consequences uh this is this is an investigation
00:34:01.520
into jeffrey epstein what are you talking about what are you talking about the clintons wrote in a
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letter published on social media for us now is that time oh is it oh okay trying to get to the bottom of
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epstein things that's the line in the sand for the clintons where they're no longer prepared to cooperate
00:34:35.760
the letter was addressed to republican representative james coma he chairs the house representatives
00:34:41.440
oversight committee whose epstein probe was slammed as legally invalid by the clintons quote legally
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invalid quote by the clintons is it legally invalid i don't think it is actually i think it's perfectly
00:34:53.680
valid i think you're just you're just trying to say it's legally invalid because you're going to get
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in trouble almost certainly or at the very least have to sit there and embarrassingly say i don't
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recall over and over and over again it's not legally invalid in what way is it legally invalid
00:35:10.240
there's an act of congress wasn't there the epstein transparency act that was the actual name of it
00:35:15.680
i don't think there's anything legally invalid about this
00:35:21.440
okay um he said the committee will meet the coma he said the committee will meet next week to hold
00:35:30.560
former u.s president bill clinton income in contempt um which could potentially lead to criminal charges
00:35:37.200
the clinton said this was quote literally designed to result in our imprisonment end quote
00:35:42.080
well on some level that actually might not be an entirely incorrect statement on to some degree
00:35:48.240
on some level it's actually not all about the clintons is it it's actually bigger and deeper than them
00:35:54.400
right if they've done anything wrong then it would only only be justice wouldn't it if they had to
00:36:00.240
answer for for any crimes they may have committed but it's not all about them it's not literally designed
00:36:07.120
to result in our imprisonment it's much bigger than that former secretary of state hillary clinton who
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ran against donald trump in 2006 in the 2016 presidential election is due to appear before
00:36:18.960
the panel on wednesday i.e today with a committee spokesperson saying contempt proceedings could also
00:36:25.680
be initiated against her if she fails to testify the clinton said in their letter um that they had
00:36:31.360
provided the quote little information quote they had to aid the investigation
00:36:38.400
little information didn't bill clinton fly on epstein's lolita express private airplane to that
00:36:51.760
didn't epstein visit the clinton white house like 17 times
00:36:56.880
weren't they really actually really close acquaintances
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they've got very little information now and what little they have do have they've already provided
00:37:09.840
dodgy shady clinton's super shady they also accused mr coma of selectively enforcing subpoenas against
00:37:18.400
them oh the poor clinton's oh the poor clinton's oh so terrible they're such victims
00:37:25.280
as they said other former officials were allowed to provide written statements about epstein to
00:37:31.520
the committee like why do you need to see us in person you let everyone else do it by by writing why
00:37:36.400
do you want to i mean actually one to be to be fair um it is it is obviously as well though
00:37:44.000
politically charged and republicans on the hill if they can make famous senior democrats
00:37:51.920
even x ones if they can sort of embarrass them and things
00:37:56.960
on tv because it'll be on like c-span or whatever or forbes and if it's really embarrassing it will go
00:38:02.880
around the world um if they can do that they will so i'm yeah i'm not going to pretend it isn't
00:38:08.400
politically charged it is but but still that's the that's the that's the game don't feel don't
00:38:14.640
shed a tear for the clintons oh no um and this is what the clintons wrote as well they said there
00:38:23.040
is no plausible explanation for what you are doing other than partisan politics well there is there
00:38:30.320
is isn't there so partisan politics is an element of it as i just said but the idea that there's no
00:38:36.320
plausible explanation other than that no no no no no no no no no you've got questions to answer
00:38:47.040
mr coma said after bill clinton did not show up to testify on tuesday all right so he was supposed to
00:38:57.360
mr coma said no one's accusing the clintons of any wrongdoing we just have questions
00:39:02.080
questions questions which may well lead bill knows to accusations of actual wrongdoing no right
00:39:16.000
anyone uh would admit they spent a lot of time together i.e bill and jeffrey anyone must admit
00:39:22.640
mr coma saying anyone must admit they spent a lot along a lot of time together because they did
00:39:26.400
that's a matter of record isn't it mr coma told reporters adding that most americans wanted mr
00:39:31.840
clinton to answer questions about his ties to epstein who died in prison while awaiting trial
00:39:36.960
for sex trafficking charges in 2019 mr coma claims epstein visited the white house 17 times during
00:39:43.200
mr clinton's prejudice presidency and that mr clinton was on board epstein's private plane
00:39:48.640
more than 20 times more than 20 times there's trump doing a statement saying i was never friends with
00:39:55.120
epstein well i was for a while but then i threw him out of mar-a-lago years ago anyway everyone knew
00:39:59.920
epstein everyone that doesn't mean anything if you knew epstein and uh i liked bill clinton actually
00:40:05.120
he's always been nice to me uh but he has probably got some questions to answer and um and anyway why
00:40:10.000
you still talk about epstein this is trump's biggest fail in my opinion right i've put on a maga hat
00:40:17.280
there's many images i've even retweeted deliberately images of myself in a maga hat semi tongue in cheek
00:40:23.840
broadly speaking i'm on board with the magic maga project broadly speaking i'm on board with
00:40:27.920
the donald but when he does things bad i will criticize it when he does things i don't like
00:40:32.560
i don't agree with i'm gonna say so this is the biggest foul he's dealing of the epstein thing
00:40:38.320
is the is the biggest stain on his reputation and his character for me
00:40:46.720
because it's dodgy it's just dodgy as hell just rip the plaster off rip the band-aid off
00:40:53.360
let's have the full truth they're probably not going to do that last time pam bondi was asked a
00:40:58.800
while ago a few months ago was jeffrey epstein an intelligence asset either of the usa or israel
00:41:03.760
she's like oh we still don't know we'll look into that i'll get back to you on that uh
00:41:12.960
okay let's finish reading this article real quick there's only a couple more paragraphs
00:41:16.400
mr clinton's friendship when the financier is well documented throughout the
00:41:19.600
the mr clinton's friendship with the financier is well documented throughout the 1990s and early
00:41:25.520
2000s but mr clinton has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with epstein i mean yet
00:41:33.200
the trump administration due to pressure from its republican base has ordered the us
00:41:38.640
justice department to release files related to the criminal investigations into epstein to comply with
00:41:43.520
the transparency law passed by congress something which they've signally failed to do properly
00:41:49.600
haven't released everything remotely and what they have released is like always been always been
00:41:54.000
highly highly redacted so barely a limited hangout that's like an intelligence services term a limit a
00:42:02.880
full hangout i.e truly ripping the plaster off and being completely truthful or a limited hangout i.e drip
00:42:08.720
feeding bits of truth bits of information a limited hangout that's what they're doing with the the epstein stuff
00:42:16.880
you know that's what they've done with the jfk murder for 60 years you can you can make a limited hangout last 60 years
00:42:27.360
it seems if you're the the the swamp you can make that happen mr trump also used also used to be friends with epstein
00:42:38.480
uh but he said he cut off relationship the relationship before the financier was accused of sexual abuse
00:42:43.360
uh they definitely parted together in the like the 90s didn't they that's again that's a matter of
00:42:50.640
record there's there's images and testimony and all sorts of evidence that they would they were
00:42:56.000
definitely friends and associates and had a good time together even if you do have to go back to the 90s
00:43:04.000
for that mr coma indicated that the committee uh would not try to get testimony from mr trump about epstein
00:43:12.080
as he said uh it could not force a sitting president it could not his committee could not force a sitting
00:43:18.400
president to testify okay well maybe they'll have to wait till trump's out of office
00:43:26.160
and who knows where the whole process will be at that point all right that was just something that
00:43:30.320
didn't really appear on the front pages of the british news which and barely registered on the american
00:43:35.520
news but i thought was was interesting it was actually newsworthy we'll see if hillary decides to bother
00:43:45.360
turning up today i suspect she's not going to if bill didn't yesterday she's probably not going to
00:43:52.160
today and then maybe just maybe they can be charged for contempt some form of contempt
00:44:08.240
i mean all right let's have a look at the actual websites
00:44:11.200
the bbc obviously run with the the uh the iran stuff so i won't go into that because we've talked
00:44:22.800
about that already ministers drop plans for mandatory digital id to work in the uk okay chris mason the
00:44:29.280
climb downs stack up for starma yeah yeah they are yeah obviously obviously i'm not a fan of the labor
00:44:36.240
government also queer himself as i've made abundantly clear in this stream alone and yet despite that
00:44:43.120
despite like a partisan take despite a right leaning angle you cannot deny that the climb downs the u-turns
00:44:53.360
are stacking up they just they are okay at least 22 dead as crane collapses onto train in thailand
00:45:00.800
unfortunately sounds bad only trump can stop putin polish president tells bbc
00:45:15.680
the polish couldn't stop putin i don't believe the angle that putin has got designs on
00:45:23.280
belarus or poland or like the former east germany or estonia and lithuania and all those
00:45:30.240
countries i don't believe that angle it doesn't seem to have real designs on the rest of ukraine
00:45:37.920
it's just sort of that donbass region because they're all heavily russian speakers and think of
00:45:44.080
themselves not everyone there of course but a lot of them i think the majority think of themselves
00:45:49.200
more as russian than ukrainian so he's got a claim there he's trying to press that claim but
00:45:54.640
i don't believe that putin would invade poland if he could anyway if he did
00:46:04.800
i don't think the polish would probably be able to stop him all on them all on their own they
00:46:09.840
probably would need billions from the rest of the world and the help of the americans and all that
00:46:14.560
sort of thing so even though i don't buy that angle still the polish president is probably not wrong
00:46:20.320
all right first leukemia patient to receive pioneering treatment on nhs says it is quote
00:46:26.560
very sci-fi quote oh good if there's a new if there's a new leukemia treatment that's so good
00:46:35.600
it's sci-fi good sounds good global temperatures dipped in 2025 but more heat records on ways scientists
00:46:44.560
warm again that's a bbc for you isn't it even though we're in a deep chill it's getting colder and colder
00:46:50.160
still even in the middle of that trying to push the global warming agenda classic classic bbc
00:46:55.680
greenlanders brace for summit that could shape the arctic's future and their own yep bulger killer
00:47:02.400
john venables set for parole hearing actor keitha sutherland arrested over alleged assault of a ride
00:47:08.480
share driver so did he get like an uber or something and then end up attacking the driver
00:47:14.480
i don't know maybe i'll look into that for tomorrow naughty boy keitha sutherland
00:47:20.160
that's news to me that's the first i've seen of that new liverpool to manchester rail link as
00:47:26.480
government revives a northern powerhouse rail chef not embarrassed by one star hygiene rating at
00:47:32.640
michelin-starred restaurant if that is just what it says it is you probably should be embarrassed
00:47:37.120
one star hygiene is really really bad you need you should have five like four is a bit three is
00:47:43.920
probably wouldn't eat there two is definitely wouldn't eat there one is are you kidding me
00:47:51.680
so chef not embarrassed by that quick look what is it let's have a quick look
00:48:04.560
all right in wales and just be warned probably don't eat there probably for you in your interest not to
00:48:12.960
eat there all right itv trump warns of very strong action against iran if protesters are executed yeah
00:48:21.280
oh it's just loads and loads of iran stories um to strike or not to strike trump weighs his options
00:48:29.200
on iran at least 22 killed after crane falls on passenger train in thailand oh so that is bad
00:48:36.320
if 22 are killed then you know that a few dozen more are terribly wounded or maimed for life
00:48:41.600
that looks like a bad one uk schools are bringing in american style lockdown drills as youth violence
00:48:51.040
rises really in the latest of a series of reports into how violence is impacting young people itv news
00:48:59.440
has been given exclusive access to a classroom lockdown rehearsal
00:49:05.920
never the britain british schools never used to suffer from things like this a few years ago
00:49:09.760
before we were invaded by infinity bomb aliens infinity bomb aliens it was never really a thing i mean
00:49:19.040
it once in a blue moon sure but not like that that schools had to practice lockdown
00:49:28.240
rehearsals for lockdown drills in case there's a massive spree of violence suddenly out of nowhere in a school
00:49:54.320
i will coach channel four i think if i was prime minister i would be i'd get in my first day get in
00:50:00.240
wave on the front steps of downing street walk in while the cabinet office people will politely clap
00:50:08.960
here as you walk in you get the nuclear clothes for the nuclear submarine i'd sit down i'd say right
00:50:16.800
cut all all foreign aid 100 not one more penny as of this moment and bring me the bbc royal charter
00:50:26.720
to rip up and all the funding that the state gives channel four we're ending that right now
00:50:36.080
i'm talking today today that's what i would do they say iran protests uh new evidence of uh systemic
00:50:45.760
slaughter or systematic slaughter as at least 2000 killed you know that's does look like the lower estimate
00:50:52.400
is 2000 increasingly looks like it's not just israeli or pentagon propaganda and lies it looks like
00:51:02.240
it's that sort of is a reality ayatollah khomeini is not going anywhere says former iranian advisor
00:51:10.320
yeah i wouldn't expect i wouldn't expect the ayatollah to flee iran i would expect him to stay to the
00:51:15.680
bitter bitter end that is sort of the where's he going to go anyway really right you can't do an
00:51:25.600
edr mean and go to saudi arabia the saudis obviously being sunni they hate the shiite they would hate a
00:51:33.600
shiite ayatollah they wouldn't he's a heretic to them you know where's he going to go to russia would
00:51:40.160
russia really want the headache of that is he going to go to china would china really want the headache of
00:51:46.160
housing the ayatollah in exile no one would no one wants the other
00:51:53.680
the ayatollah's regime the iranian regime has sort of alienated themselves from most of the world
00:52:00.400
over the decades trump tells iranians to keep protesting and promises help trump has military
00:52:05.760
action in mind says former u.s diplomat oil prices spike after trump's threat to intervene in iran okay
00:52:11.200
you get it you get it sky news sky news more than 500 pubs tipped to close this year right yeah yeah
00:52:22.400
that's what the government want as few pubs as possible tax them into oblivion that's what they
00:52:27.760
want that's very very deliberate and then they'll come out and gaslight you and saying oh we want to
00:52:33.440
save we want to save the hospitality industry we would like to it would be good wouldn't it if
00:52:38.800
if the hospitality industry and pubs weren't completely wiped out wouldn't it that's all
00:52:43.040
gaslighting it's very very deliberate the daily mail iran's deadly vow is there anything other than
00:52:51.360
the iran story migrant on disability benefits who brought a screaming and crying children to
00:52:57.200
retirement home says eviction would breach human rights despite deluge of elderly neighbors complaints
00:53:03.440
these people woman identifying as a man is raped in all-male psychiatric hospital ward
00:53:17.920
something about michael jackson this tiny detail in michael jackson's music videos could finally solve
00:53:23.600
mystery of who really fathered his children oh slop you've moved into slop there moving on then don't
00:53:28.240
care you've lost me there don't give me slop okay the express rachel reeves has just slapped taxpayers in
00:53:37.760
the face it's enough to make you sick yep oh there's a few stories about andrew and you faces another
00:53:44.400
humiliation as king gives disgraced ex-duke uh new moving deadline yeah i see a few few details about um about
00:53:53.920
andrew there's just even further and further sort of disgrace and ignominy um well he's not prince
00:54:01.120
andrew anymore he's just andrew mountbatten windsor isn't he he hasn't got an hrh he's not
00:54:06.560
formerly a member of the royal family the royal family he's obviously still a member of their family but
00:54:11.280
he's not a royal anymore and they're even sort of stripping him of his sort of royal residence
00:54:16.640
and as much as they possibly can it's funny because it's not funny haha it's funny interesting
00:54:21.680
to note that andrew himself has never admitted to doing anything wrong he did that that car crash
00:54:28.000
interview and it was just so bad that everyone including his own family were like no one believes
00:54:35.760
that no one believes you you're obviously obviously guilty to this day andrew still maintains that i
00:54:43.040
don't know that woman i don't think i've ever met her and yet his own brother the king is like no bro
00:54:51.520
never not buying that all right we're actually just five minutes from the end so let's do some super
00:54:56.880
chats all right on rumble rents tom rat 247 says during training my teach my teacher wife had a friend
00:55:04.320
who had to quit after her mother died and the tax man got increasingly belligerent about uh clawing the
00:55:10.240
inheritance tax out of her oh yeah the government love their inheritance tax oh you just died pay up
00:55:19.440
oh what you've just had a family tragedy pay us
00:55:23.280
they love inheritance that's another thing i'll get rid of on day one bring me all the inheritance
00:55:27.680
tax legislation we're going to write something to repeal that a hundred percent no inheritance
00:55:32.640
tax zero that's one things reform have said i'm not sure if they backtracked on it or not but
00:55:37.120
they used to say anyway when i was in reform reading all their policies trying to be up on
00:55:41.520
all their policies they had a thing of back when richard tice was leader of zero inheritance tax yeah
00:55:47.280
surely that is just state-sponsored theft surely no it's a it's a completely socialist thing that they
00:55:55.520
don't want generational wealth they don't like rich families they don't like old money so we'll have
00:56:01.120
inheritance tax get rid of all of that get rid of that disgusting thing inheritance tax okay davil
00:56:10.000
again on rumble rant says good morning from denmark good morning good morning would you consider adding
00:56:16.160
a fun quick jingle soundboard effect when switching newspapers news segments it's not a bad idea harry
00:56:22.160
what do you think can we work something out like that yeah sounds good one of my friends my actually one
00:56:27.840
of my real friends irl said i should have a a soundboard with all different funny sounds on it
00:56:37.600
it might lower the tone a bit but it would probably be it would be quite funny like a whack whack oops or
00:56:43.680
whatever or something you know like a laser gun sound or something a fart sound it would lower the
00:56:51.040
time would it okay uh bbc not bbc youtube youtube super chats little tesla 9733 says ben habib says be
00:57:01.040
careful about digital id starma is just implementing it in a different way yeah they would yeah at some
00:57:05.680
point whether it's starma or someone else further down the line they will try and implement it they
00:57:10.400
won't have given up they won't have like actually properly given up the entire concept forever yeah
00:57:15.840
yeah yeah ben habib's right to say that i would imagine absolutely um he's in the silence says uh
00:57:28.160
merry gregorian passover 14th day of the first month
00:57:31.200
ignatio username you go you got no username oh i got no username yeah i always find it hard to read
00:57:47.600
stuff when there's like no spaces i got no username says i will throw a party the day bill and hill bite
00:57:55.760
the dust and you are all invited the breakfast club yeah shouldn't really celebrate when people die
00:58:02.480
but sometimes can't sort of can't help it can't help at least sort of an inner smirk
00:58:11.040
right when pol pot died i was like good i'm not saying bill and hillary clinton was anywhere near as
00:58:18.000
bad as pol pot i'm not saying that but you know right pa grunt says i honestly think there's so
00:58:29.600
many wealthy rich and famous people involved i guess you talk about the epstein stuff uh presidents
00:58:33.920
prime ministers royals ceos etc that they're afraid the entire system will come down me so be
00:58:40.640
it yeah couldn't agree with you more pa grunt couldn't agree with you more yeah you're absolutely
00:58:45.840
right there's so many famous and powerful people involved that they'll do anything of rather than a
00:58:52.480
full hangout it's got to be limited hangout going forward indefinitely and as for me yeah so be it i
00:59:00.800
want that plaster ripped off that band-aid ripped off post haste yes please that is the swamp trump said
00:59:16.720
get it done bro light a fire under it don get it done all right
00:59:24.560
diviram et machina et machina diviram et machina says morning morning you doing all right you okay
00:59:34.080
yeah great funny less than two weeks in i'm already sort of starting to get into my
00:59:42.000
my flow in some sort of sort of organic everyday things that i say and do hopefully just keep
00:59:49.360
building them the best ones are sort of just organic ones aren't they um okay so it is very nearly
00:59:56.320
striking the hour of 9am greenwich mean time on wednesday the 14th of january in the year of our
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day of the rest of your life try and make it count you'll only have this day once in history once in
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your life can never be repeated the day's half over already make it count carpe diem seize the day if
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there's anyone out there you love who you haven't let know that recently do and until tomorrow morning