Texas trans ban & Macron loses Africa - The Week in 60 Minutes | SpectatorTV

[@mariaskinnider115]

She is 100% correct. No one has cried or gotten me to court to fight children to have the right to smoke or consume alcohol until they are 18/21 but they must be allowed to make a monumental decision about their sex s madness.

[@jamescollins3647]

Groomers, coming for your kids.

[@Guinevere.625]

@@jamescollins3647 exactly!! And they’re in a hurry. So yeah, pushing them in that direction. 😡 our government is SICK!

[@lechenaultia5863]

Hooray for Texas and for Lionel Shriver having the courage to tell the truth. I'm looking forward to the lawsuits.

[@alexnorth3393]

You love transphobia. Backward conservative.

[@DrMerle-gw4wj]

I agree. We in Texas seem to be in some sort of oasis of rationality on the trans subject and are surrounded on all sides by madness.

[@Marktb363]

Lionel Shriver is brilliant; respect to this lady 🙂👍

[@blindjusticeandcommonsense2786]

Hooray for Texas. Leading the way on common sense yet again.

[@alexnorth3393]

Nope, backwards yet again.

[@blindjusticeandcommonsense2786]

@@alexnorth3393 How so?

[@michaelgibson7466]

Lionel Shriver is spot on but will any of the three largest political parties pick this up seriously and advocate the legislation to ban this abominable experimentation on children? I doubt it even though it would be a vote winner. The big question is why not.

[@sia9907]

Money. Lifelong patients are profitable and politicians are greedy.

[@michaelgibson7466]

When things don't stack up I always say follow the money.@@sia9907

[@Brommear]

Big Pharma. Just follow the money. Illnesses needs to be treated, not cured. That includes mental ones.

[@6teezkid]

Wait until the Class Action lawsuits 15 years out…maximum.

[@fenellamaddison6501]

Possibly because the WEF hasn’t led on it. They’re awaiting instructions.

[@Jackjohnjay]

Kate takes a sip of tea. I feel like I’m sitting in on a staff mtng. Love this! ❤

[@mark4asp]

In energy policy we're spending more money for more expensive, but less electricity. That's is by design. They want to country to fall apart.

[@Ozgipsy]

This is an outstanding piece and well produced. The professionalisation of this space by independents is exciting.

[@barbaraseymour3437]

L. Shriver is RIGHT! Good for her and watchit, UK

[@raywoolmer861]

Welfare spending is a major problem, magnified many times by the illegal immigrants crossing the channel. The costs involved in the welfare payments to them are astronomical.

[@sellingacoerwa8318]

Illegal immigrants can not and never have been able to collect welfare or food stamps. The USDA has never extended SNAP or welfare or disability eligibility to undocumented non-citizens. Look it up.

[@julianshepherd2038]

You can't claim benefits if you are illegal in the UK. Check your facts.

[@adam7802]

@@julianshepherd2038 Some facts on immigration to show its importance though - we are letting record numbers of people over - over 500k net this year, despite stagnent salaries/wages and the lack of housing for people already living here. Record numbers of people are also crossing illegally (I think its over 100k this year so far) and claiming asylum, which due to the refugee convention we are technically compelled to house and look after their basic needs whilst we decide their status in this country - when so many are doing this that we are not able to cope and take longer to process these applications, we have an untennable and very costly situation for the tax payer. A situation that is also completely unfair to people trying to claim asylum through proper channels.

[@Tommo77ful]

@@julianshepherd2038 Do the millions required for accommodation, food and other essentials come out of a different pot?

[@Tommo77ful]

@@adam7802 It's also a massive screw you to the people trying to follow the correct processes such as foreign spouses.

[@mataform]

The total abdication of responsibility by adults over their kids is an abomination. Children are not in a position to have any idea about what lies in store for them physically and mentally if they have puberty blockers or their wretched bodies chopped up. The adults who pander to their children , refusing to guide them, who see this as children’s so called rights should be punished for dereliction of duty. These adults behave in an infantaliased manner and their kids are nauseatingly spoilt. I hope when the day comes these awful parents suffer for their dreadful behaviour. I’m sad that the innocent kids will be the ones picking up the tab which will be for the rest of their lives.

[@michellej1372]

Parents aren't blameless but they're going to medical professionals for help and they are promoting this and telling parents that their children will kill themselves if they don't follow through. The doctors and medical staff have a lot to answer for.

[@secretaryexeterbeekeepers1417]

Mr Menno has just posted a video, in it a 7 yr old boy is held down screaming by his parents as Drs insert puberty blockers under his arm skin. His genitals will stop growing from that point as will his brain and other organs. Harrowing.

[@PAVANZYL]

There are no solutions, only trade-offs. (Thomas Sowell). More health, fewer schools. More schools, lower pensions. Until the voters understand basic economics, this will continue.

[@bonniebluebell5940]

GO TEXAS!

[@grantdennison69]

She is really againt gov running things. If water was taken back, we wouldnt need to take money out of the NHS. Does she relize we pay for water so they can use that instead of it going to shareholders. We have poor water pressure,beacuse insteqd of investing in the infrastructure its going to rich pockets.

[@brianholmes3547]

The weakness of democracy is short term thinking and we hear the consequences in this episode of Spectator.

[@jrd33]

Indeed. Unfortunately, capitalism has the same problem. At least when shareholders are involved.

[@6teezkid]

The place is falling apart, but he says you need to give the government a little slack? No, we don’t give our central governments SLACK for mismanagement of funds. What? They are elected and civil servants and these issues are the very reason for their existence.

[@georgesdelatour]

I suspect that the total UK population is significantly larger than the 67 million people recorded in the 2021 census. The total number of people signed up to GPs is around 2.5 million more than that. The total number of subscription mobile phone contracts in the UK is 83 million (and even if some people have multiple contracts, almost 8 million of the 67 million are under 10 years old, so that's 83 million mobile contracts for 59 million people...). If the population is a lot larger, it's going to put more pressure on infrastructure, on the water companies, the sewage treatment plants, the transport networks etc.

[@casteretpollux]

If correct interesting. Te extras though are most likely young healthy and working.

[@georgesdelatour]

@@casteretpollux Presumably. On the other hand, our GDP per capita figures involve dividing GDP by the total population. If we're undercounting the population by a lot, it would mean that we're almost all significantly poorer than the figures say we are.

[@Exanto777]

What is being done to children is evil and totally vile. Hopefully those who did this to the children will be punished with prison for life or the death sentence.

[@AnnDale-ie3jn]

You got to look at demographics of the country the native population is much older then the immigrant population so cutting benefits and refroming the pension system will hurt the native population more then the immigrant population who gets social housing immigrants do because they are deemed to be in greater need the schools are increasingly dommented by immigrant children the average age of a native british person is 47 the average age of immigrants is 27 so the population is not just divaded by culture and religion and race but also by generations so cuts to pension and benefits will go to schools and social housing at the expense of the native population and to the benefit of immigrants

[@gruunt4064]

we don't need to worry about the immigrant population when we have an entire section of our own population who will never work, they only talk about what they are entitled to, they leave school and unlike others who might rent, might save up for a mortgage, they might flat share, these people put themselves on a list and wait for their social housing, they produce children and get free housing, free healthcare, free education. the children grow up having never seen anyone go to work so do exactly the same, there is no worry about getting a job if your rent is paid no matter. they have no purpose in life and only ambition is to get on disability payments. why exactly we should think this is ok but not ok for an immigrant i don't see the difference, they will have gone through life having not paid a penny in tax, benefits were meant to be a safety net not a lifestyle choice. the problem is it is middle classes living in a bubble who make the decisions, if they lived 6 months on an estate they would change their mind when they see people who are given everything throw their old furniture in the street because they know the council will pick it up eventually, when they don't send their kid to school so the council sends a taxi every morning, the answer now apparently is free school meals all year round, yes great idea, take away the only job they have, feeding their own kids with money already provided by the tax payer I have plenty neighbours who live in their pyjamas, i have never seen them dressed, if they go out they put a coat on over

[@AnnDale-ie3jn]

@@gruunt4064 entitled and lazy native white people Vs grateful third world immigrants happy to work for low wages both groups are pitted against each other by a feckless political class

[@davidtuer5825]

Kate lists a whole load of disastrous areas of infrastructural failure over decades and Hamish says yes but look on the bright side, London Airport works well, we should celebrate that. We should celebrate something because it works like it's supposed to??

[@Rosebud100]

Exactly!

[@cambo4156]

He’s clearly never been stuck in the passport queue for hours!

[@NineInchTyrone]

ALWAYS follow the money

[@AMGOSUK]

Hamish is correct - but the ending of building schools for the future laid the seed for the current failures in schools

[@Brommear]

Not spending enough on infrastructure? Just look at South Africa - more and more spending on health (which does not equate to better service); more and more on education (with an ever more ignorant population); and less and less on electricity (with rolling blackouts of more than 12 hours per day) or water (with e.g. cholera outbreaks). Is this the rabbit hole citizens want the UK to go down into?

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

When you bring in a million or so immigrants in a single year, not a average but not a one off either, what do you expect? You'd need to build a whole city every few years, homes, schools, hospitals everything.

[@seakayak4425]

Short term thinking is why we are where we are in a number of area's, and the increased demand on our infrastructure, housing etc due to a rather large elephant in the room here

[@Amy-n9l1v]

I enjoyed this it was interesting certainly made me think about things

[@sisiphas]

Lionel Shriver is absolutely correct. Civilised European countries are putting a brake on Mengelian ‘treatments’, as is UK. Australian has in some states made it compulsary. ‘Affirmation’ and ‘affirming treatment’ are the ONLY legally sanctioned ‘approaches’ and ‘treatment’. The law was passed during lockdown and seriously and deliberately misrepresented in the media releases about it. Most people have no idea iwhat the law now mandates and the implications.

[@alexnorth3393]

Nah, Shriver is just a far-right nut.

[@sisiphas]

@@alexnorth3393 if you saw the teenagers I work with, you would not see her as a nut. Fortunately she isn’t intimidated by the underinformed.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

Thank god for the sanity of Lionel Shriver. Perfect timing, after the entirely un thought through or remotely joined up policies on the consequence of hyper immigration, that Kate Andrews advocates for at every opportunity.

[@borderlands6606]

The aim of political parties is to stay in power. Politics relies on the memory hole, the chasm into which manifesto promises, pledges and yesterday's soundbites are thrown. Stubborn data is subject to never-ending enquiries beyond any chance of accountability and retributive justice. Parliament lives in the eternal now, a Tom and Jerry world beyond consequence where tomorrow is a tabula rasa.

[@DonnaBrooks]

In the U.S., George Washington was opposed to political parties & thought they would destroy the country. How insightful, given the hatred between Americans now & the tribalism that keeps people entrenched in bad policies, believing that anything that other tribe does is evil. This is why so many Democrats allow themselves to be gaslit into believing that only conservatives & Republicans oppose the "T" takeover of society. Liberals / progressives are afraid to object because opposing these insane policies is portrayed in the media & by party leadership as an R v D battle. That's only true in the party leadership and those who live in a propaganda bubble on social media & partisan traditional media. It's like a cult. If you could talk to people outside the framework of their cult, they could see how deceptive & controlling the cult is & how ludicrous its beliefs are, but they can't as long as they are inside the cult. Political & ideological cults are more dangerous than religious cults because they involve exponentially more people, are less easy to recognize, & seem more normal because their ideology is so widespread. People mock Scientology or the Jehovah's Witnesses, but trans ideology controls the White House, the media, and the Democratic Party. Rank & file Dems think it's a civil rights issue b/c that's how it's been framed, so they think supporting policies that harm women & children is somehow progressive, compassionate, on the side of good, & on the right side of history. It's bizarro world for those of us on the Left who see how insidious & sinister this ideology is. Democrats would rather hate Republicans than hate policies that harm people. Because they are in an ideological cult.

[@thomasbentele2468]

The french "Fight against the Terrorists" reminds me to the British Empire what was built on making the tribes in the colonies fight against each other, so that "Rule Britannia, Rule" could be achieved with very little britisch military. In this tradition it would be nice for the french to grow up terrorists, to keep the colony busy and to strike very hard, if the gouvernement hesitates to comply with their french master. So its no wonder, that "Wagner" troops do better, because their bosses do not hint the upcoming attacks to the terrorists, like France had to do.

[@angelamckavanagh4696]

What happened to antibiotic resistance and that it was dangerous to do unnecessary operations.

[@Guinevere.625]

Good point. Apparently THESE operations are “life-saving.” Even the fact they’re allowed to call it AFFIRMATIVE care is sooooo misleading. This is the problem with them trying to create a new language. At my age, I stick to the words I know: it’s sex-change surgery actually. Cutting parts of the children s’ bodies off and sewing up others. 😐💔

[@robwealer5416]

This was the main issue that brought certain conservative figures to power in Weimar in the 1920s and 30s. Germany was at the forefront of gender theory and medical approaches... you could avoid prosecution for homosexuality or transvestitism with a certificate from a doctor in this field. These groups public profile grew and their were outspoken people in the press... it was too much too soon for the highly religious catholic germans... the backlash we all know about.

[@davidbowen9088]

Been saying that for 20 years about the spending short term and not long term

[@RJS4287]

If Old Age Pensions are the amongst the largest recurrent expenditures - why not means test old age pensions? OK locals might think this unthinkable as it is part of National Insurance that everyone contributes to. But living in Australia they are means tested and I am one of 30% of people of the age group who do not get one. I do not object and I am unaware of any great feeling to make them universal. Maybe a long term project but could be justified by arguments like addressing intergenerational inequality as one example

[@NineInchTyrone]

Uppity Africa. LOL

[@kenjohnson6326]

My kids can smoke, drink, love who they love, and be who they are. Anything else is paternalism!

[@markvincentjamesmason4812]

Sorry to point out the obvious ( Lionel shriver .) but more people ( double ) are using the rubbish expensive public transport because it’s becoming far too expensive to drive and park… And for hard working working class families to even own a car…

[@patriciayeiser6405]

Good for Texas.

[@gothicpagan.666]

The one thing all these failing industry's have in common is none have a direct cooralation between funding and service provided. This goes down from the engineers to the management with regards how much value each individual provides each hour or even day.

[@johnmoorefilm]

“Who broke Britain”…well, you did include a free mirror with every copy….

[@Tommo77ful]

Airports? Our airports are horrible and pale into insignificance in terms of sheer quality and positive passenger experience compared to many, many East Asian airports I could name. Our airports are rubbish, but they're just not quite as shit as everything else right now.

[@jacquipaper]

Robert Hardman, I disagree with you. I don't believe King Charles is more popular, and I don't believe their majasties have been seen in public enough. They haven't been reported enough. I feel the King and Queen Consort have decided to let others take the strain. I want to see them more.

[@saltburner2]

It is clear that they see themselves as nightwatchmen, keeping the throne warm for William and Kate. Charles is, after all, the oldest monarch ever to ascend the throne, and it shows.

[@gerry4281]

Plenty of money to destroy Ukraine.

[@NineInchTyrone]

Wow. What a show !

[@benjaminmitchell5345]

A lot of money being funnelled into the military industrial complex and the war in Ukraine but hey the 51st state of America Australia to the AUKUS rescue. Lionel S killing it as usual

[@Hereford1642]

'Gender affirming care' is such an Orwellian phrase for performing sex changes on children.

[@johnmoorefilm]

UK AIRPORTS!? Oh dear Hamish, been to China? Or Germany? Or Dubai? Or Japan? Or Singapore? Or Dublin? Or Helmand?

[@gerry4281]

Hong Kong is a beautiful airport.

[@armaan8463]

These kids need to wait until they’re 18 to fit in with the freaks.

[@peterdockerty8077]

Broken Britain oh hell yes. Maybe James Forsyth should have listened to real people whilst at the Spectator before taking up the role with his mate Sunak. Forsyth being really a LibDem/New Labour is killing the tory party well done James, well done Speccy for sponsoring a coup

[@politicallout]

Andrew's credibility sunk to zero when she tried to make the case that private water companies were better for the country. Funds wouldn't be diverted from other government spend as she suggested because the billions paid out in investor dividends would instead be invested back into the water industry. Pretending these companies are charities shouldering the cost of the UK's water industry is at best ignorance, but more likely dishonest BS.

[@chillijoe8264]

there wouldn’t be dividends without private investment.

[@politicallout]

@@chillijoe8264 Dividends aren't needed! They're funded by the money the public pays water companies. So without private water companies government does the investing & dividends instead become profits that are either invested back into the service or used to ensure a proportion of our water bill isn't set aside to benefit private individuals or firms, who could be anywhere in the world. Almost all countries have public run water (Chile is the only other that doesn't I think), rather than trusting it to the whims of companies that prioritise paying investors over re-investing in infrastructure, or giving a fair deal to its customers. The preference to prioritise investors over investment is why the UK's rivers & surrounding sea is suffering an increasing sewage problem. They're basically fly-tipping shit because it saves them money that they can then pay out as dividends - £1billion pounds last year for instance.

[@1980Empirical]

❤ Kate

[@DrMerle-gw4wj]

The KZbin algorithm which implements speech to text seems to be working quite well. I had to turn on closed captioning because I find the British version in general hard to understand and the speech of the Brits on this program quite incomprehensible. The algorithm was able to decipher their speech almost 100% and made it able to get something out of the program. Well done KZbin.

[@Brommear]

38:38 "...without seeing what the benefits of those relations are." Name some benefits that others could not equally supply.

[@roberthumphreys7977]

Hmm, how many problems have royal commissions actually solved? Isn't a royal commission just a way to blame shift when a "solution" goes even more pear shaped?

[@ceecee6679]

government, nor by surrogate unions, should not set salaries

[@brianholmes3547]

Civilisation reaches a point why it’s easy to live and survive so people take to rioting protesting and campaigning for their own fulfilment. A serious war where survival becomes reality would give them a reality check. People should be positive and work hard instead of always moaning and criticising, they might find improvements in their lives.

[@casteretpollux]

Off you go ! The Ukraine front line needs you.

[@Peter-qf6lx]

Disappointed to see Chris Mullin's name misspelled in a political programme.

[@brianholmes3547]

Camilla should not have been crowned, that was taking the public for granted, inappropriate!

[@ceecee6679]

administrative, managerial state gets bigger...entitlements get broader....what do you expect?

[@ceecee6679]

nanny state is never a good strategy or should I say scheme

[@AroundHereNow]

I just can't take Lionel seriously with her taking a bloke's name.

[@johnmoorefilm]

I’d be quite interested in hearing more about Kates “brown years”?

[@NineInchTyrone]

Trident. Money to Ukraine. 💸

[@sarahl9209]

Lionel Shriver's "the Mandibles" seems to be coming true. She even predicted the toilet paper shortage from COVID (and possibly starting up again now...).

[@NineInchTyrone]

William for King !

[@bentleycharles779]

Why are you laughing? It's not funny. It's real. It's not a column leader. It's happening now.

[@SuperKripke]

How do we know that Katy and Lionel are women?

[@petermach8635]

More houses ? ...... the indiginous population is barely increasing and apart from replacing current inefficient housing stock there wouldn't be a need for more were it not for ridiculous levels of immigration, both illegal and legal. Sort that, as we were promised in successive manifesos, and there would be no the need to build more.

[@gunt8622]

Abolish the monarchy.

[@davidtuer5825]

And replace it with? Tony Blair?

[@gunt8622]

Somebody democratically elected. @@davidtuer5825

[@MsMiklosa]

My son wanted to be a squirrel. Imagine I would (if i could) change him into a squirrel. The parents should be punished with high fines or prison. They had sex and most probably fun in order to have a child but they deny it to their child. There are tragic cases of de-transitioned or unhappily transitioned people all over the net. Lives are destroyed. XX and XY cannot be switched at will.

[@The_New_IKB]

Liz Truss should have announce raising the income tax fresh hold for the bottom tax bracket to about £20,000. Would have made it much more politically toxic to remove her!

[@mikemoore4083]

Please fix the sound issues when more than one person is talking/about to talk. Great content with a very fixable annoyance

[@will121]

What a load of nonsense about the Monarchy. It is in permeant decline, maybe not my lifetime, but it will eventually be shown the door.

[@johnmoorefilm]

Trans? It’s just like Rock N Roll in the fifties…except for , you know, the surgical mutilation….😮‍💨

[@JasonCunliffe]

Il faut rappeler qu’Orano mène aussi un grand projet dans le pays avec des études, depuis plusieurs années, pour exploiter le site d’Imouraren, avec des réserves d’uranium estimées à 174 000 tonne et une durée de vie du site minier estimée à 43 ans.

[@GreenIsland38]

What this good lady hardly mentioned, is a problem which gets larger by the day, it is the dilution of the indigenous British population and the negative change to the demographic makup of the nation, caused by massive illegal migration (Of largely unqualified people), and the huge problems which this brings with it. These problems can only get worse with time.

[@niknikmoore]

Don't forget to LIKE the video

[@thomas871047able]

Lettuce Truss!

[@julianshepherd2038]

I admire Katy. She listens to Tory theories and then hits them with fata and reality but so politely they ask her back. Spectator has three sensible people in Cindy, Isibel and Katy. The others seem to live on a different planet although Frazer does visit now and again.

[@spm36]

Cmon what's your delusional labour theory😂

[@AMGOSUK]

The terrible sound was distracting

[@gerhard7323]

Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world and yet it provides France with 20% of the vital uranium it needs for its nuclear power station fleet. Less than one in five of the people from Niger have access to electricity and that is, I believe, sporadic. Little wonder there is little love lost and little wonder people there feel little gratitude is owed.

[@NineInchTyrone]

The masks !🙄

[@774Rob]

Kate Andrews does not have a clue what is going on in this country, or she is omitting the truth on purpose. Austerity, my arrse.

[@Medina-bk2fo]

14:37

[@garyc4810]

The income from the land owned by the descendants of the cronies of Medieval Monarchs (and the Norman Conquerors) could help fund public services rather than funding the lifestyles of aristocrats. Our tax laws need changing to make this happen.

[@gerhard7323]

Rory Stewart chooses to closely, continually and comfortably associate himself with warmonger, bully and serial liar Campbell via Lineker's Goalhanger Productions for his few quid. Stroll on. Nuff said.

[@RKPT9]

You seriously need to change your opening music! I expect to experience some sort of cheap comedic commentary every time I hear it.

[@marcevan1141]

I think Ms. Shriver is over-simplifying and distorting the trans issue.

[@notmyrealname9032]

QE2 segment - as you say, she would have wanted no fuss, so let's have no fuss, and save time and money. The royals continue, to great expense to the taxpayer.

[@NineInchTyrone]

Tran$ indu$try

[@markashdown1314]

Tory fiasco;

[@aitchian5898]

Yawn

[@iconicon5642]

As with everything it's Blair's fault. You voted for him in 1997 for some bizarre reason. Oh I know not enough money spent on the NHS. That worked.

[@EnglishTMTB]

I think the biggest thing to be said about Rory Stewart is that in an era when the Tory party is unprecedentedly left wing, Rory was an outlier to the left. I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone ever thought he had any chance at all of winning the leadership from such a fringe position - especially with the membership and voters already wanting the party to actually represent it's base by moving back to first the centre and then the centre-right where it belongs.

[@martinmcgeown4153]

you do your brand such a diservice by giving print and air air space Lionel Shriver who is not only a predictable right wing robot , but is a terrible terrible writer.

[@lechenaultia5863]

It's not 'right wing' to be horrified by the sterilisation of (mostly) same sex attracted and autistic children. Not at all. Please read the Cass report and ask yourself why advanced countries like Sweden, Finland and Norway have also banned or severely restricted puberty blockers. If you can find quality evidence to support any of this, please post it for us. I can't find it and scientists in the countries listed above couldn't either.

[@davidtuer5825]

It takes one to know one.

[@johnvaleanbaily246]

Thankfully I emigrated 40 years ago. Britain is now a joke.