WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 3 April 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:07.280 On sky Leeds Australia. This is the Wider Panalty Show. 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.719 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panehy Show. Coming 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.880 up tonight, a stellar lineup of guests covering the day's 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.640 biggest stories. Gary Hartgrave with the latest on the election 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.840 campaign and the David and Glyf battle in Queensland where 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.760 the local community is fighting back against eight Renewables. Giant, 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.680 the Great Douglas Murray will be with me shortly to 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.920 discuss everything from the Middle East to the Netflix series Adolescence, 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.440 and Army Horowitz will have the latest from the US 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.800 and Left is Losing. It features a Star Wars actor 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.240 bagging Star Wars were being too white. 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.920 Star Wars always had the viable being in the most 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.520 whitest elite space. This is a franchise, so why that's 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.240 like a black person existing in that was something. 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.800 But first a massive blow for the Albanezy government today 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.320 after Donald Trump's a base tariff rate of ten percent 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.960 on Australia as part of Liberation Day. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.560 With today's actions, we're also standing up for our great 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.560 farmers and ranchers who are brutalized by nations all over 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:17.440 the World's brutalized Canada, by the way, imposes a two 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.880 hundred and fifty to three hundred percent tariff on many 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.920 of our dairy products. Australia bands and they're wonderful people 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.200 and wonderful everything, but they ban American beef. Yet we 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:33.399 imported three billion dollars of Australian beef from them just 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:34.920 last year alone. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.160 The Prime Minister had this to say in response. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.560 The administration's tariffs have no basis in logic and they 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.720 go against the basis of our two nations partnership. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.480 This is not the act of a friend. 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.920 And this is how Opposition leader Peter Darton responded. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.400 The focus that we should have as a gount term 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.480 and as an alternative government is to do a deal 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.680 on that as quickly as possible so that we can 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:07.000 reduce the impact on Australians, on our industry and on 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:08.160 our export capability. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.680 Joining me now for more on this as Sky News 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:15.679 contributor Gary Hardgrave, Gary, none of this should be a surprise. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:20.600 This is the America First policy Trump campaigned on, and 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:25.239 the Alberanzi government has botched the response. Donald Trump is 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:31.080 not even taking Anthony Albernizi's phone calls. He'd know well 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.840 what Australian politicians, including the Prime Minister and his ministers, 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.239 have said about him over the years, and that hasn't 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:40.320 helped our case. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.800 Look at it hasn't. There's no doubt about that. There 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.519 is not a strong relationship between this prime minister and 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.000 that president, and it's been set up by this Prime 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.160 minister the blurting of all sorts of insights to him 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.280 years ago as just really coming home to rust. But 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.320 we also started a lot of this. You know, we 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.880 started to bring in things like a GST on imported 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.079 items that you brought through on mail ord out of 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.600 places like the United States. So you know, from their 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.480 point of view, they're saying, well, you know, you brought 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.760 in a ten percent terrify on us, which is what 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:12.240 basically they're seeing it as. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:13.919 So here's what on you. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.880 Look, you know, our farmers are in real peril and 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.200 we should, I think, move this conversation onto what is 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.280 really coming their way. The real cost to our farmers 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.600 is the high cost of electricity, the high cost of 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.320 government regulation and red tape. This is a government, the 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.920 other and easy government that likes to just find new 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.000 taxes to hurt people in new ways. They really don't 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.720 have any commitment to the agricultural sector. For instance, they're 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.480 talking about the same thing Kamala Harris talked about last year, 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.640 and that is to have an unrealized capital gains tax. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.120 What's the first thing that they're targeting farmers. So if 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.360 you own a block of dirt and you gras on it, 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.240 the tax office each year is going to actually look 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:57.880 and say what the value of that dirt is, and 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.800 by the way, we're going to take up percent off you. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:02.680 These are the sorts of things we've got to get 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.120 rid of that and cheaper electricity prices. And until we do, 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.760 and until we put Australia first, then frankly, we really 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.360 have nothing to complain about. I mean, the Americans are 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.040 looking after themselves. I don't like what Trump's done, but 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.040 he's looking after himself. It's playing well in America until 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.719 I guess the price of Big Mexico up. It probably will. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.440 But reader, we are. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.880 Sitting lazily expecting the world to make a living for us. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.919 And until we start to look at how government costs 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.000 and electricity prices are damaging all things in the supply chain, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.800 the production chain in this country. I don't think we're serious. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:42.480 The Prime Minister doesn't want you to look at that. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.480 He says, pick on Trump and vote against Darton to 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.839 send a message to Trump. This is crazy politics. Crazy 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:50.320 it is. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:55.360 It is crazy policy. It's infantile. It's aimed at the 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.360 low information voter. But we need an Australia first policy 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.600 right here and starting with our energy policy. That would 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.120 be fantastic to see. I'll be speaking to Army Horowitz 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.880 shortly about the tariffs a little bit more and what's 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.160 to come next Now to what is being described in 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:17.640 the Australian newspaper as the ultimate David versus Goliath case. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:22.040 Rainforest Reserves Australia, a small charity based in North Queensland, 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.360 is taking the Federal government and an Andrew Forest Back 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:31.200 Renewable Energy Company to court over a plan sixty nine 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:36.240 turbine wind farm, located five kilometers from the Wet Tropics 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.159 World Heritage Area, Gary. This project is set to involve 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.880 the clearing of around six hundred hectares of land home 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:50.320 to koalas and others vulnerable species. How did the Environment 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.680 Minister Tania Plevisek ever approve this project. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.560 Well, amongst the many projects he approved within days of 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.600 becoming the minister. This project stands out. There's another one 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.960 near Low Discreek, northwest of Rockhampton. I spoke to a conservationist, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.760 a photographer yesterday on the radio on FOROURBC here in 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.320 Brisbane and he made that point that one hundred and 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.200 eighty koalas have already been displaced and there is a 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:20.080 project to put up twenty five million dollar wind turbines. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:25.320 This project is costing everybody a lot of money through 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.400 higher electricity prices, but it's killing and wiping off the 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.920 tops of mountains because there's not a great lot of 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.280 breeze on the plains in Queensland compared to some other 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.160 parts of the world. And yet they're applying a European 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.640 standard to Australia. So they lock the top off the mountains, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.960 they kill off the koala habitat, they pollute the creeks 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.040 with all the debris that gets thrown down in the creeks, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.520 that washes out on the Great Barrier reef, and reader 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.679 they don't have to follow any of the environmental laws. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.800 Every farmer, every householder, every other council whatever around Australia 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.080 has to follow. Renewable energy prietors can do what they 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.520 done well, like to the environment and the federal government 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.560 Pliversec in particular Bowhen as well, but Elbows allowing it 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.240 to happen have just signed off on it. They just 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.640 don't get it. And the one at Lotus Creek near 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.000 Rockhampton is going to produce zero point five of a 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.760 percent of the electricity needs of Queensland. This is just 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.840 parendous and we should be angry about it. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:31.000 Absolutely. And to see Tony Pliversec approved a renewal project 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.880 like this is just going to destroy hundreds of hectares 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.679 of forests. But she then rejects a billion dollar gold 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:42.320 mine on the basis of a contested indigenous blue banded 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.640 b story, a project that would have provided hundreds of 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.480 millions in royalties to the New South Wales government, hundreds 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.000 of well paid jobs in a regional area that desperately 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.080 needs it. It is madness. Now before you go, I'm 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.560 interested in your take on this. Watch here. As a 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:07.800 female fencer, Stephanie Turner was immediately disqualified and expelled from 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.400 a USA fencing event after she refused to compete against 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.520 a transgender oppoement, Redmond Sullivan, who used to compete in 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:34.040 the men's competition. She took her knee. Gary, I absolutely 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.440 applaud her stance here. Every female athlete should do something similar. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.199 Shame on the sporting body there for punishing her the 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.920 way they have. But it is just patently unfair to 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.200 expect a female athlete to compete at an elite level, 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:52.800 any level, against a competitor that identifies as female but 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:54.360 is biologically male. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.040 Yeah, she's a new hero reader. I found this out 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.439 at primary school. Well, you know, in year three, the 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.880 boys didn't compete against the girls. The girls had their 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.040 comp the boys had theirs. Because the boys, we're going 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.680 to play a different game to the girls. What's changed, 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:15.000 Nothing except the wokeness that's destroying civil society across the West. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.120 It's crazy stuff. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.800 Gary Hardgrove, thank you so much for your time. Joining 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.440 me now is best selling author Douglas Murray. His latest 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.160 book on democracies and death cults, Israel and the Future 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.600 of Civilization, will be released in just a few days. Douglas, 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.959 Let's start in the US, where President Trump has declared 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:42.280 today Liberation Day as he imposes reciprocal tariffs on countries 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:47.240 including Australia. Meanwhile, the Democrats post election meltdown is reaching 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:52.280 new lows with Corey Booker's twenty five hour anti Trump speech. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.800 I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:01.079 confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.800 it given wayne to this demogogue Douglas. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.199 Where you left inspired by that record breaking performance. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.079 Well, I was slightly in awe of Corey Booker's vervocity. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.040 It's obviously remarkable even for him to be able to 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.680 sustain that for twenty five hours. Of course, however, everyone 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.080 knows filibusters are effectually the. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.560 Weakest form of politics. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.800 They don't rely on argument, they don't rely on persuasion, 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.319 they don't rely on reason, They rely on a kind 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:42.840 of rhetorical brute force and the longevity of the speaker. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.160 I mean, it's a remarkable thing to see this applauded 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.360 as we've just seen there. It's a feat, as I say, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.559 but it's also a defeat. It's a defeat because the 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.760 Democrats should be able to be coming up with their 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.599 own arguments and their own policies that could persuade the 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.319 American electorate in a little under two years time. That 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.120 they deserve to have control of the House and the Senate. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:15.120 And nothing that we've heard from the Democrats really since 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:19.880 the election of Donald Trump has been anything really other 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.160 than a kind of filibustering and a sort of online 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.960 attention seeking. There's no meat to the bone of anything 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.920 they've said. It's just this kind of It's not even politics, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.839 is it. It's just a sort of student grade rebellion. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.600 It's performative, isn't it. It's a bit of a performance 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.360 element to it. And it's no surprise that the Democrats 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.920 in Congress right now have a twenty one percent approval rating, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:56.800 another record there, and the left in the US seems 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.600 to be in crisis. They keep listening to the most 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.280 voices in and out of the party. And Ellie Misstelle 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:05.280 maybe an example. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.800 Every law passed before in the nineteen sixty five Voting 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.760 Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional. Right, But because before 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.520 the nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act we were functionally 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.720 in apartheid country, not everybody who lived here could vote here, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.079 So why should I give about some law that some 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.240 old white men passed in the nineteen twenties. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.640 Of course, the view makes another appearance. What do you 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.400 make of that call Douglas laws written by old white 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.199 men in the nineteen twenties, Well, that should just be disregarded. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:40.000 I always like to when you see performative idiots like 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.800 that doing their thing, I always like to sort of 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.400 try and just take it and see if it would 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:46.720 work any other way around. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.480 Is there any country on earth that you would allow. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.920 Someone to say these laws don't matter because they were 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.040 written by black men. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:58.640 I can't think of it. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:04.360 It would see rather distasteful, my ears. It would sound 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:09.640 rather demogogic. Rather even you might say racist. Why is 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:14.360 it that someone like this clown thinks and he only 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.800 gets a career because this is basically his only shtick 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.040 is he thinks that if he's as racist as possible 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.880 against white people and keeps sort of reminding everyone that 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.800 he's black, that he somehow wins. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:31.280 But that isn't an argument. That's just racist demagoguery. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.280 And as I say, you know, find me a place 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:39.679 where dismissing old black men, for instance, was regarded as 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:44.040 being a good argument, a reasonable argument, a persuasive argument. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.400 This guy is as ridiculous as he looks, And I 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.319 don't think we need to pay much heed to him. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.959 He's dismissed himself by the words he uses and by 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.520 the racism that he likes to scream. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.360 Yes, whilst supposedly fighting racism. Now, let's talk about the 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.080 Middle East, and there are growing fears that if world 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.280 powers are unable to quickly reach a new agreement with 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.880 the Iranian regime over its nuclear program, then a military 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.880 confrontation is almost inevitable. There are reports that the US 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:22.840 and Israel are coordinating a major strike against Iran, and 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.080 it all depends on whether Tehran will come to the 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:33.400 negotiation negotiating table. Douglas. Iran's denies it's seeking nuclear weapons, 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:38.680 but Western powers know well that the nuclear program is 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:43.120 just a disguised effort to develop a bomb and atomic bomb, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:47.440 and the Iranian regime is crazy enough to actually use it. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:56.120 Yes, I mean as the Iranian revolutionary governments pretends that 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:03.680 it's simply seeking weapons raid uranium in order to build 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:09.400 a civilian and nuclear energy facility is something that nobody 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:14.640 but an apologist for the regime could possibly agree with. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.440 It's been trying to get a nuclear bomb for many 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:19.000 years now. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.720 The only reason that it hasn't is because of significant 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:27.560 largely covert action taken against them that has slowed that 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.160 weapons program down. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.280 If the crazy uranium mullahs. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.240 In Tehran actually ever did get a weapon, the world 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.680 would be the Middle East and then the wider world 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.080 would be an incredibly peralleous situation, the most dangerous situation 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:46.120 we've been in since nineteen forty five, because nobody knows 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:51.920 how you do nuclear detone, that is nuclear deterrence against 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:57.640 an end times Harmanist ideologue regime like that which has 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.760 been a pressing Iran for the last forty something years. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.520 It's an incredibly dangerous corner. It has. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.480 It's been a corner that we've been at for many years. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.560 One of the remarkable things, many remarkable things that the 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:22.120 Shiai extremists in Tehran have been doing just in recent days, 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.600 has been that members of that so called government have 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.440 been threatening the United States, threatening the United States with 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:39.240 Italian with Iranian retaliation, with Iranian retaliation if the Americans. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:39.960 Don't do what they want. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.920 Clearly, the revolutionary Islamic government in Iran thinks it holds 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.040 the cards here, but nobody could really say it does. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.800 But if people love the rhetoric that comes out of 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.040 Tehran and has been coming out of Tehran since nineteen 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.120 seventy nine. If they love the rhetoric that comes out 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.120 of it at the moment, you know, the death to America, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:07.280 death of the Infidels stuff, they'll love how the revolutionary 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.200 Islamic government and Terran behaves if it never had a 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:11.040 nuclear bomb. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:19.080 Well, you just do not know what they are capable of. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.879 You look at how they have oppressed and brutalized their 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.360 own population, as you've said, for more than forty years 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.280 since the Islamic Revolution, and that is one regime that 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.560 if they had the bomb, they may well use it. 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.920 Let's go to the UK now and the bizarre influence 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.600 of a Netflix series that this Netflix series seems to 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:45.200 be setting government policy. Kissed Starma released this two minute 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:49.800 video announcing that the series Adolescence would be free in 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:54.359 secondary schools across the UK and Douglas Labor is using 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.520 this drama and it is a drama about young men 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.440 being radicalized online to help but formulate policy. 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:06.560 It's an extraordinary thing. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:13.720 Kirs Starmer has been laboring under the misapprehension that the 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:19.240 Netflix series Adolescence is in fact a documentary. It's true 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:24.359 that it's filmed rather documentary style, but you'd have to 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.560 be pretty idiotic to think that's what it is. It 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.199 could have just been a slip of the tongue by 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:29.879 kids Starmer. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.160 What's not a slip of the tongue. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:38.600 Is treating it as if this semi interesting, very well 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.560 acted series is the sort of thing you should announce 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.280 government policy on the back of. I mean, here's a 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:49.199 really strange thing about this. Kiss Starmer and other British 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.640 politicians trying to leap on the sort of Netflix binge 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:58.040 bandwagon have been behaving as if we have an epidemic 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:04.680 in the UK of thirteen year old white boys stabbing 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:09.960 girls because of Andrew tape videos they've seen online and 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.320 I don't know what fantasy world they live in. There 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:17.240 are all sorts of concerns people should have about online 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.200 content and young people's access to it. 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:20.399 They are all sorts of. 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:25.440 Concerns people should have about certain online influencers pushing very 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:30.520 very ugly ideas about women and misleading them in the 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:35.119 early informative years of their lives. But you know, the 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.639 thing that everyone has just ignored is the fact that 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.439 that isn't an epidemic in the UK. The UK, by 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.640 the way, is very good at moral panics about things 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.320 that don't exist. About what Twelve years ago we had 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:53.840 the moral panic led by people like LBC in London 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:59.320 that a secret cabal of prominent military and political chiefs 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.240 had been getting together for years to rape and mutilate 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:04.840 and murder children. 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:06.359 And guess what. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.360 It turned out not to be true. It turned out 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:14.359 that one person who it was himself subsequently convicted of 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.160 pedophile offenses, had made. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:17.480 It all up. 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.680 But the British media and indeed parliamentarians. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:20.399 Went for it. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.119 They went in this massive moral panic. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.920 Ah, are our generals and former cabinet ministers a secret 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:27.119 pedophile about? 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:28.760 The Britain is very. 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:31.919 Used to this sort of thing in the modern ere. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.160 It seems uniquely vulnerable to it. But here's a challenge 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.960 to Netflix and indeed to Kire Starmer. We do have 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.720 an epidemic of knife crime in the UK, and we 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:47.240 have an epidemic of it in the capital city of London. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.240 And you know, if you look at the knife crime 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:55.280 statistics in London in recent years, you see a very 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:00.119 alarming thing. Indeed, black on black young gang violence in 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.920 the capital city of the UK has been an. 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.639 Actual epidemic in recent years. 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:11.640 The majority of knife crimes committed in London is committed 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:13.000 by young black men. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:14.320 Now they formed. 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.440 The black community in London is around thirteen percent of 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:21.640 the population, but they have consistently in recent years represent 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.399 more than sixty percent of people committing knife crimes. And 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.280 guess who the largest number of people are who are 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.000 on the receiving ends of those knives and machetes, other 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.800 young black men. That's a real epidemic and it's a 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:39.520 real problem. It's something that's actually going on. But you know, 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.440 I bet we could hold our breath for the moment 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:47.639 that Netflix will decide to address that, and we'll have 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.280 to hold our breath until the Prime Minister addresses it, 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:57.040 because neither the Prime Minister nor the highly distracted Mayor 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:00.080 of London, Sadik Khan, have done. 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.800 Anything to address this. They don't even care to talk 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:03.280 about it. 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.320 There will be no Netflix documentary that Starmer or Khan 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:10.920 can see that people should watch in British schools about 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.040 black on black gang violence because it's a real thing. 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:17.320 It'll never get made and they'll continue to cover it up. 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.480 Absolutely. Or perhaps a Netflix series on young men being 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:31.080 radicalized by Bislamists. We've had several stabbings because of that. 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.720 Allegedly we've got one before the courts right now. And 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.080 also the entire grooming gang scandal. I mean, where's the 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:42.440 Netflix series on that. These are real epidemics that have 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.560 occurred in the UK and they're ignored and supposedly, ye 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:49.680 thirteen year old white boys are a danger to the nation. 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.919 Before you go over, got to ask you about Prince Harry. 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:56.399 His charity center Bali is in turmoil. The Duke of 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.359 Sussex has stepped away from the charity last week as 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:04.800 the the head of the foundation accused him of harassment 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:07.879 and bullying at Scale and Douglas. You won't be shocked 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:12.000 to learn that a lot of the turmoil is supposedly 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:15.720 due to Meghan. Harry reportedly sent an angry message to 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:19.679 the charity head because she had refused to defend Meghan 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:25.080 Markel following these embarrassing scenes at a charity polo match 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:30.320 in April twenty twenty four. This is not a good 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:31.760 look for Prince Harry, is it. 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:38.760 I mean, nothing says down to Earth more than a 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:41.680 row over a polo tournament. 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:45.680 It's very ugly. 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.200 I have to say, because somebody observed today in the 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:54.200 Spectator magazine, most of these Harry Meghan scandals are sort 0:23:54.200 --> 0:23:57.440 of a scandal that occurs, or something very unways that occurs, 0:23:58.200 --> 0:23:59.400 and it just sort. 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:00.480 Of diminishes over time. 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:06.800 Unfortunately, the charity from the Soto who Prince Harry was 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:11.080 involved with very nobly to have done. So everything we've 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:15.160 actually found out about the breakdown of relationships between him 0:24:15.320 --> 0:24:18.760 and his own charity, it just gets worse and worse, 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:23.960 and all of the information that's coming out from that 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:26.040 charity of the people in Africa have actually been. 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.920 Involved with it is more and more concerned. 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:33.879 There is one upside, of course to the Prince, the 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:37.200 Duke and indeed his Duchess, which is that if the 0:24:37.280 --> 0:24:39.880 bad news keeps on coming out, at least they've got 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:44.159 Meghan's latest invention to console them. Because I don't know 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:48.280 if you've noticed a Rita, but Meghan has not been 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:49.400 silent in recent times. 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:50.879 She's been working on something, a. 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:55.960 Totally new thing, and it's called jam, and she is 0:24:56.160 --> 0:25:01.520 selling jam and it seems to be, in herview, almost 0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:05.600 the first time that anyone's made jam. And you can 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:11.119 buy Meghan Jam and It's apparently absolutely delicious according to Meghan, 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:16.960