Good evening, everyone, everyone, im Brian Kilmeade and this is Fox News primetime. Brian all right. Tonight, pulling out all the stops sweeping election reform. We got the latest on that. First, let me take you back a few months when Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi set the stage for nationalized elections. Remember whether georgia passed a new Voting Law that made elections more secure and accessible . That didnt matter. A republican governor and a legislator passed it so dems had an opportunity. They decided they hated it, including President Biden who irresponsibly in my view spread misinformation about the law. What im worried about is how unamerican this whole initiative is. Its sick. Its sick. Deciding that you are going to end voting at 5 00 when working people are just getting off work . Brian even the Washington Post said that statement was a lie. So President Biden decided to do what democrats do best call the law, circle it now at home, Racist And Pressure corporations in
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. making people laugh is a precious gift. we treasure the comics, the comedians, the professionally funny men and women who add and inject laughter into cultures all over the world, but who defines what is funny? how does funny change over time? and what impact has the internet had on the business of jokes? well, my guest is british writer and stand up comedian david baddiel. has comedy become a casualty in the culture wars? david baddiel, welcome. hello. how are you? i m well, and in fact, i m very well cos i ve just seen your latest stand up show, and it prompts a very simple question. are you in an abusive relationship with your smartphone? probably, yes, i think so. well, i m certainly in an addicted relationship with my smartphone and my laptop and whatever else i access social media with. i am undeniably addicted to social media. but we might all be we might, as a culture, be addicted to social media. a
and what impact has the internet had on the business of jokes? well, my guest is british writer and stand up comedian david baddiel. has comedy become a casualty in the culture wars? david baddiel, welcome. hello. how are you? i m well, and in fact, i m very well cos i ve just seen your latest stand up show, and it prompts a very simple question. are you in an abusive relationship with your smartphone? probably, yes, i think so. well, i m certainly in an addicted relationship with my smartphone and my laptop and whatever else i access social media with. i am undeniably addicted to social media. but we might all be we might, as a culture, be addicted to social media. and if you want to be in the conversation now, it s very hard to actually exclude yourself from that by not being on social media. so, part of it is whatever else addiction is some kind of weird dopamine hit that you get from it, a narcissistic urge to have an audience and all the things that i know are kind o
has told this programme that eu member countires have so far been discplined and prevented from making any meaningful pre negotiations with the uk. he also confirmed it would not be possible to agree all of the issues during the two year negotiation period, and he foresaw the distinc possibility of political and economic turbulence. we ll hear his interview with our diplomatic editor mark urban in full in a moment, but first, to our political editor nick watt. what are you hearing tonight? snp sources said that theresa may told nicola sturgeon that the uk government is confident they can do an overall deal within 18 months. so it means the future trading relationship. number ten doesn t believe the future trading relationship can be done and dusted them, it will need what it described as an implementation phase. but it shows that the uk is accepting the timetable by the eu, which is a greek it by the autumn of 2018 so it can be fully ratified. but the eu chief negotiator is s
It lacked empathy cos you were talking about my hairstyle, you were talking about ethnicity. a lot of black people, notjust me, a lot of black people wore dreadlocks then and felt deeply offended by this mockery, and even last year said it would be really nice for david baddiel to reach out and say sorry. i m happy to say sorry. no, but, i mean, i know you are cos you said it in public. i m happy to say sorry to jason lee, or say sorry in whatever context you want. i mean, the problem is, to some extent, that the performative nature of public apology becomes eventually redundant. so, i m happy to say sorry to jason lee. i m happy to say sorry to anyone who was offended by it. i m happy to make the crucial case that what we thought at the time was an impression, because we were impersonating many footballers on that show, was in fact part of a very bad racist tradition, and we didn t really think about that. and we didn t. .. we weren t schooled enough or educated enough in it. and so