but first. our major cities did not get the merry christmas citizens wanted this year, for some it was a downright scary christmas there. were many cities where santa stayed in the air. we report isolated crime events throughout the year particularly in l.a. and new york but the national crime picture often gets ignored. when you look at the year it was it takes your breath away or at least it should. this is video of linda fricke, a 73-year-old grandmother from new orleans who was in her car when four teens rushed it, forcing her out. she got caught in the safety belt and they dragged her, it severed her arm from her body and she bled to death in the street. at least they capture her four attackers but so many times these cases go unsolved. this is just one of the more than 260 homicides in new orleans since the start of the year. my hometown of new orleans is set to become the murder capital of the country this week with a 52% in homicides since 2019. today another man was
marks thejubilee. but the paper also reports on the conclusion ofjohnny depp and amber heard s libel battle, calling it a seven million pound countroom humiliation for ms heard. the guardian also covers that case, but leads with the chair of the committee of standards in public life criticising an overhaul to the ministerial code outlined by the prime minister. and the times leads with claims allies of the prime minister have accused those who want him to step down of being self indulgent, narcissistic and contemptuous . so, let s begin. do you want to kick us off this time and let us begin as we should with the jubilee and let us begin as we should with thejubilee in the telegraph front page. in the queens message to the nation. , ., , ,., , page. in the queens message to the nation. , ., , , , . nation. yes, absolutely. new picture ofthe nation. yes, absolutely. new picture of the queen nation. yes, absolutely. new picture of the queen and nation. yes, absolutely. new
the best. i hadn t even thought of that story. the biden administration, worst story. the worst political story? really, anything to do with the bidens. molly, that musk story actually surprised me. i mean, my best political story, i think is yours as well. what s your best and worst of the year, you cover this so closely. far and away the best story of the year was the dobbs decision which overturned roe v. wade. this was a huge success. many human rights activities, christians, conservatives, pro-lifers, worked for 50 years to overturn roe, a decision which invented a constitutional right to abortion. dobbs clarified, it s not in the constitution and it returns it to the states. just a massive victory and you can t forget that. i also thought that the twitter file story, the twitter story was big. elon musk buying twitter was the first time we saw any kind of pushback to this horrible thing that s been happening in this
asking yet again expanded and so, they re asking for yet again expanded and so, they re asking for the government to try and look asking for the government to try and took to asking for the government to try and look to more people from abroad and try to look to more people from abroad and try to recruit look to more people from abroad and try to recruit and get bags and making try to recruit and get bags and making sure that they have all the backroom making sure that they have all the backroom work happening in all the airport backroom work happening in all the airport work and stearns problem down airport work and stearns problem down so airport work and stearns problem down so it s up to the airlines themselves separately, we are told that the themselves separately, we are told that the home office is quite disappointed that police officers have been brought in to try and manage have been brought in to try and manage the chaotic situations in the airports man
celebrating aren t celebrating the return of free speech. they re celebrating the ability to possibly and we don t know what elon musk is going to do. we don t know, but they re celebrating the possibility that some of the limits on the disinformation that is so central to everything they want to achieve politically can flourish again. 70% of republicans, that s almost three in four, believe that the republicans actually won the election. 70% of republicans, 15% of all americans, 15% of all americans, that means if there are ten people here, one and a half, believe the qanon theory that the democrats are a kabul of pedophiles, satanic worshipping, this stuff works. the musk story is a big story. the only little positive that s happened out of the past few days is out of the european union, the digital services act, which is going to have a lot of implications. this they said we re going to do a lot more safeguarding, particularly in the algorithms,