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00:11Hello and welcome to The Weekly. I'm Charlie Pickering.
00:14We have a cracking show for you tonight.
00:16Rhys Nicholson takes on sovereign citizens.
00:19Instant expert He Huang heads to China for Lunar New Year.
00:22And the latest on Epstein, Andrew and oat milk
00:24with our UK correspondent, Andy Zaltzman.
00:30And as always, we've watched all the news so that you don't have to.
00:34So let's get down to business with the week.
00:40We begin with Thursday and with the job of Captain of the Titanic unavailable,
00:45Angus Taylor did the next best thing.
00:48Announcing he'd challenge Susan Lee for the party leadership.
00:51But he wasn't the only Liberal running.
00:53Go speak for a run. I'm not going to talk because I'm still short of breath.
00:57And I need to get in and cool down.
01:00Leon, who are you going to be backing today on the spill?
01:05Well, twice we've asked. He must have squeezed in two runs today.
01:09Pete, is Angus Taylor the man to save the Liberal Party, Andrew?
01:15That last guy hadn't been running.
01:17He just gets really emotional about spills.
01:20Once everyone hit the showers, it was time for the spill
01:23and the party whip made the announcement we'd all been waiting for.
01:26This morning, there was a spill motion for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia.
01:32Angus Taylor was successful, 33 votes to 17,
01:35and is now the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
01:3733 to 17 to Angus Taylor.
01:41Some much-needed stability for the...
01:43Sorry, I'm...
01:44I'm being told the whip is coming back in.
01:47Correct the record.
01:48The result, as I'm sure many are aware, was 34 to 17.
01:53Riles, have they worked the numbers out?
01:54I felt like I was on the prices right.
01:56It's between 30 and 35.
01:57Higher, lower.
01:58Have they got the numbers worked out?
02:00Yeah, bit of a trouble with the count,
02:02but that's what you get when you fire your top-ranking numerologist.
02:07So, 34-17.
02:10A definite...
02:10Nope.
02:11Whip's coming back again.
02:12OK.
02:13So, to provide absolute clarity, there was two votes.
02:17The spill motion was 33 to 17 with one informal vote.
02:22The final vote was 34 to Angus Taylor, 17 to Susan Lee.
02:27Thank you very much.
02:28Stop coming out!
02:30You are making it worse!
02:33I mean, he's like the Liberal Party groundhog.
02:37You know, every time he pops out of his hole and sees his shadow,
02:40it's six more years of opposition.
02:44Having lost the spill,
02:45Susan Lee announced she was leaving Parliament
02:48and getting back to her edgier roots.
02:50And finally, as some of you know,
02:52I was part of the early punk rock movement in Canberra.
02:56I will continue to find wisdom
02:59in one of punk's defining themes.
03:03A fearless and honest belief in yourself.
03:07Yeah, I think you're mistaking punk for Oprah's book club.
03:12So, who is Angus Taylor,
03:15the 17th leader of the Liberal Party?
03:17Well, let's hear from the bitter ghost of Lib Spill's past.
03:20A lot of people say about Angus Taylor
03:23is he is the best qualified idiot they've ever met.
03:28He's got all of these qualifications.
03:30He's a Rhodes Scholar.
03:31Mind you, they're a dime a dozen.
03:32Look at me and Tony Abbott.
03:36Man of the people, Malcolm Turnbull,
03:38posing in front of some corrugated iron
03:40to complain that you can't swing a yacht these days
03:43without hitting a bloody Rhodes Scholar.
03:47Taylor's new deputy, Jane Hume,
03:49was keen to humanise the leader.
03:51Jane, what do you like about Angus Taylor?
03:54You know, he's a very human being.
03:56He's a very human human.
03:58Does that make sense?
03:58Yeah.
03:59Yeah, does it, though?
04:03Nonetheless, a lovely sentiment from Jane Hume.
04:06Hume. Hume. Jane Hume.
04:08To Friday and continued fallout
04:11from the New South Wales police response
04:12to protests against visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
04:16The actions of police at Monday's town hall protests
04:19will now be investigated
04:21by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.
04:24Unleashing a torrent of blows
04:26and forcefully moving in on protesters.
04:29The focus of Monday night's wild rally
04:32is now centring on police.
04:35We can't blame the police
04:36for doing what we asked them to do.
04:39And I'm certainly not going to throw
04:40New South Wales police under the bus.
04:43Yeah, you never want to throw
04:44the New South Wales police under a bus
04:46because they will beat the shit out of you.
04:51There was one incident in particular
04:53that drew the most intense scrutiny.
04:56This is the moment a group of Muslims
04:58were forcibly moved during sunset prayer
05:01at Monday's protest.
05:03Sheikh Wazam Shikawi was leading prayer
05:05in Town Hall Square
05:07when he claims cops trampled on his group
05:09without warning.
05:10I think that is something that needs a full explanation.
05:14I know that that has caused a great deal of distress.
05:18Yeah, and fair enough.
05:19Being interrupted mid-prayer
05:20is like hanging up on God.
05:23The PM and most observers
05:25find images like this distressing.
05:27But New South Wales police had an explanation.
05:30Muslim worshippers were dragged while praying,
05:33something police have now admitted
05:34the men had permission to do.
05:37Only the officers in this video
05:38didn't receive that memo in time.
05:41Ah, don't you hate it
05:42when your don't manhandle worshippers
05:44during prayer message
05:45goes straight to voicemail?
05:47What a nightmare.
05:49The fact is,
05:50the issues surrounding these protests
05:52are genuinely complex.
05:54How do we strike the right balance
05:56between the right to protest
05:57and a duty to maintain order
06:00without punching a guy in the kidneys?
06:02It's tough.
06:03But we can all agree
06:04that no-one wants to see more violence on the streets.
06:08Well, almost no-one.
06:10I think those police
06:12should be given a quiet commendation,
06:14not face disciplinary investigation.
06:17I think we need to see tear gas
06:18and rubber bullets.
06:20What?
06:21Rubber bullets?
06:22Oh, Tony's gone woke.
06:26Entertainment news.
06:28It's the big news
06:29from the glamorous world of celebrity
06:31with real stories from news.com.au.
06:34And what better way to kick it off
06:36than head over to San Francisco
06:38for one of the biggest stories of the year?
06:41No, not the Super Bowl.
06:42Paddy B was on her way to the big game
06:44when she stopped to give a sexy lap dance to a robot.
06:50I think that little robot's first erection
06:52might have killed him.
06:54A mass ride took to social media
06:56claiming another contestant was yelled at in the supermarket.
06:59Walking through a supermarket
07:01and someone felt that it was acceptable
07:03to walk up to her
07:04and swear at her
07:06because of what they've seen
07:07on an episode of Muffs.
07:10It's just not on.
07:12Unless she had a fully loaded trolley
07:13in the 12 items or less lane.
07:15In that case, let the cow have it.
07:17American Pie singer Don McLean
07:20celebrated the 10-year anniversary
07:21of having a super young girlfriend,
07:2450 years his junior.
07:26Congratulations to the 80-year-old
07:27and no-one was more happy
07:29than the folks at Sky News.
07:30And the best thing about him,
07:32I think he's 75
07:33with the 27-year-old Playboy bunny girlfriend.
07:37So, you know...
07:38As you do.
07:39He's doing OK.
07:41He's doing OK, Gary.
07:43You know, hats off to him.
07:44Yes, hats off to him
07:46and his Miss American Pie.
07:48Let's just hope his levy isn't dry.
07:50And Sydney Sweeney
07:51was out to promote her new lingerie brand
07:54and what better way to show off the merchandise
07:56than by showing off the merchandise.
07:58I can't wait to see you all wearing the collection.
08:01Oh, we will, Sydney.
08:03Just one question from this red-blooded sailor.
08:05Do you come with the bra?
08:07That was Entertainment News.
08:12Coming up on The Weekly,
08:13Rhys Nicholson takes the sovereign citizenship test
08:15and Herb Hwang welcomes the year of the firehorse.
08:18But first, Saturday was Valentine's Day
08:22and a touch of romance at the Winter Olympics
08:24when a Norwegian bi-athlete made a surprising post-race confession.
08:28A Norwegian Olympian has broken down in tears
08:32after his bronze medal performance,
08:34admitting on live TV he'd cheated,
08:37not in the race, but on his girlfriend.
08:41Six months ago, I met the love of my life,
08:43the world's most beautiful, wonderful person in the world.
08:47Three months ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life
08:49and cheated on her.
08:51Dude, there is a time and a place.
08:56And it's literally any other time and any other place.
09:01So his master plan to win back the person that he cheated on
09:04was to make her the most famous cheated-on person in the world.
09:09And it went about as well as you would expect.
09:12The former girlfriend of Norwegian Olympic bi-athlete
09:15Sterla Holm-Legred has broken her silence.
09:18I did not choose to be in this position.
09:20And it hurts to have to be in it.
09:22We have had contact and he is aware of my opinions on this.
09:26Oh, like something you'd read in a Valentine's card.
09:30Roses are red, violets are blue.
09:32He is aware of my opinions on this.
09:37To Sunday.
09:38And a couple of weeks ago,
09:39we brought you this heartwarming story
09:41from a Melbourne strip club.
09:43They were kicked out of a gentleman's club
09:45and that's when the real trouble started.
09:47A hard hit from behind and a hard fall.
09:50Straight down.
09:52As a chair goes flying outside a Melbourne strip club.
09:54A shock twist?
09:55It was thrown by the victim's mate.
09:58Security guards can't help but laugh.
10:01And why wouldn't you laugh?
10:03If you're a strip club security guard,
10:05that kind of stuff only happens maybe 12, 13 times a night.
10:10But this week, the reporter who broke the story,
10:13Channel 7's Paul Dowsley,
10:15went full Woodward and Bernstein,
10:17stopping at nothing to uncover the truth
10:19about the chair thrower,
10:21a.k.a. Chairman Owl.
10:23Police are looking for the chair-throwing man
10:26who hit his mate in a moment of madness
10:29outside a King Street gentleman's club.
10:31Paul Dowsley has exclusive details
10:34and, Paul, police believe he broke the law.
10:37What?
10:38Broke the law?
10:40I mean, all he did was start a fight,
10:43steal a chair, throw it at a bouncer,
10:45hit a bystander in the head, knocking him out.
10:47Actually, now that you line it up,
10:49it really does sound a little bit crimey.
10:52But Dowsley was just getting started,
10:54dropping a bombshell exclusive
10:56that put the Walkley Award voters on notice.
10:59They have been trying to find the man responsible
11:02for that dangerous chair-throw.
11:04We can tonight reveal he is Tony Rogers.
11:08Incredibly, he works for a furniture manufacturer in Melbourne
11:12and, yes, they do make chairs.
11:15Yeah, I should have known with that level of accuracy
11:18he must have been a professional.
11:20So he worked for a company that made chairs
11:24and, not only that,
11:26at the Ferntec Furniture Institute,
11:29he was the chairman.
11:32The chair-man!
11:34The chair-man was a chair-man!
11:38Which means he's not as dumb as he looks
11:40because by throwing that chair,
11:42his visit to the strip club
11:43becomes a tax-deductible business trip.
11:46Pretty good.
11:48Coming up, we head to China for Lunar New Year
11:51with He Huang
11:52and to London for the latest Epstein revelations,
11:54taking down a prince and a PM with Andy Zaltzman.
11:57But first, to Monday.
12:00And former President Barack Obama
12:02casually lets slip what UFO hunters have always suspected.
12:06Aliens are real.
12:07That's according to Barack Obama.
12:09Are aliens real?
12:11Uh, they're real, but I haven't seen them
12:14and they're not being kept in, uh...
12:17What is it?
12:17Area 51.
12:18Area 51.
12:19Yeah, there's no aliens in Area 51.
12:22And don't go looking in Area 52, either.
12:26Here to talk more conspiracies,
12:28the love child of Scully and Mulder,
12:30it's Rhys Nicholson!
12:32CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
12:35Hello, Charles!
12:37Oh, hello, Rhys.
12:37I haven't seen you pulling focus around the office much lately.
12:41Are you missing the competition?
12:42Actually, Charles, competition implies I was trying.
12:47So, where have you been?
12:48I've been down in my basement office, online,
12:51a wonderful place where unvalidated opinions are celebrated
12:54and consequences are something that happen to other people.
12:57Yeah, that sounds really healthy.
12:59I started doing a little bit of my own research
13:01and I discovered that there's a very active group of people
13:04who don't necessarily believe what everyone else thinks.
13:08Uh, conspiracy theorists?
13:09Someone's still drinking the corporate Kool-Aid.
13:11Right, how do you still work here?
13:13Because I'm as close to diverse
13:15as this organisation is comfortable with.
13:17LAUGHTER
13:19It's...
13:21It's time for another conspiracy.
13:24E-theory-see.
13:26Roll it!
13:28APPLAUSE
13:37A few years ago, if you'd have said sovereign citizen,
13:40you would have thought of this guy.
13:42West Australian wheat farmer Leonard Cassley.
13:45In 1970, in a bid to keep wheat prices elevated,
13:48the federal government introduced wheat quotas
13:50limiting the amount that farmers could sell.
13:52Leonard felt that his quota was so tiny,
13:55it made his farm unviable.
13:56So, he did what any sensible farmer would do.
13:59He pulled himself up by the bootstraps
14:01and started his own country.
14:03He renamed the farm the Principality of Hutt River,
14:06making himself Prince Leonard,
14:07and even commissioned a giant statue of his own head.
14:10Tourism the Micronation boomed.
14:13Around 25,000 Australians would cross the border
14:16into the Hutt River
14:17to have their passports stamped.
14:20So, we had the big banana, the big prawn,
14:23and now the big tax evasion.
14:25Just what the diggers fought for.
14:27But getting from Leonard, a polite rural tax dodger
14:30with a dream,
14:31to the modern sovereign citizens,
14:33well, that's...
14:34That's quite a journey.
14:40Today's sovereign citizen movement
14:41was imported from the US.
14:43A chaotic mix of anti-tax crusaders,
14:46libertarians, and fringe extremists.
14:49When COVID hit,
14:50the fed up, the furious, and the frightened
14:52all fused together into a kind of king rat,
14:55all screaming at the system,
14:56even though none of them could agree
14:58on what the system actually was.
15:00You see, the one thing that actually unites these people
15:02is their relationship with the law.
15:05Essentially, it's a group of people who say,
15:07I can pick and choose what laws apply to me.
15:09If I don't consent to a law passed by Parliament
15:11or a decision handed out by a judge,
15:13I don't need to follow it.
15:15If ever you've seen one in the wild,
15:17you'll know that subsists speak in the same dialect,
15:20a kind of pseudo-legal gibberish
15:22dressed up as legitimacy.
15:23I just need to drive a licence through the driver.
15:25I'm not driving.
15:26Driving is a techno term for in-commerce.
15:28Please provide evidence I'm doing business.
15:30Am I under obligation to give you that licence?
15:32Yes, so you provide us to give me your name and address.
15:34By law?
15:34Name and address, yes.
15:35Can you cite that law for me, please?
15:36Yeah, so it's a summary offence to that,
15:38which is a full five-day act.
15:38Act is on law.
15:39I don't consent to any of this.
15:43All this springs from something called the straw man theory,
15:46a pseudo-legal daydream pushed by anti-government extremists
15:49and assorted types of biggers who wanted to dodge their bills.
15:53It says that there's the real you
15:55and the paperwork you,
15:57a corporate clone that has to follow laws,
15:59pay tax, renew your rego.
16:01The belief is, if you reject the paperwork version,
16:04you don't have to follow the rules.
16:10This is where the subfits really come alive
16:12because in rejecting that corporate clone,
16:15they can just craft it in their own official documents.
16:18IDs, number plates, pen licenses,
16:21and all of that clogs up the court with pseudo-law.
16:24For people that hate rules,
16:26they sure do spend a stunning amount of time and energy making new ones.
16:30All that paperwork boils down to one thing.
16:34Radical avoidance.
16:36Avoiding fines, avoiding laws, avoiding tax, avoiding reality.
16:40The irony is, if they actually participated in society,
16:43they would have more power.
16:45But no, they opt out.
16:47But maybe not far enough.
16:49If they really want to opt out like Prince Leonard, they can.
16:53Your own magical kingdom.
16:56The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
16:58No laws, no tax,
17:00and enough floating garbage to make your own pretend legal system.
17:04It's like Terra Nullius,
17:05if Terra Nullius was made of old thongs and dildos.
17:09I reckon we'd give them a barge, a laminator,
17:11and let them found the principality of Garbage Island.
17:14They can spend their days screaming,
17:16I do not consent at the ocean.
17:18The ocean will not care.
17:20Honestly, I think it's the first sovereign citizen plan
17:23that actually makes any sense.
17:28Moving through to Tuesday,
17:30and celebrations began for Lunar New Year,
17:33the year of the firehorse,
17:35sparking the world's largest annual human migration.
17:39In the days surrounding the celebration,
17:41around 9.5 billion trips are expected to take place across China
17:45as millions travel home to see their families.
17:48One of those travellers joins us now.
17:50Please welcome our instant expert comedian,
17:52He Huang!
17:57Happy Chinese New Year!
18:00Oh, sorry, Charlie.
18:02I'm starving.
18:03I've been fasting.
18:05Oh, for the New Year?
18:07No, for coming home to see my mum.
18:11Anyway, Happy Real New Year!
18:15So you have travelled back to China for the New Year?
18:18Yes, Charlie, just 20 hours.
18:21Easy as.
18:23Just a flight, a train, another train, a bus, another bus.
18:28In Australia, everybody whines if a flight's 30 minutes late.
18:32In China, a nine-hour traffic jam is downtime.
18:36We just play badminton, mahjong, we stretch, we speed date, marry and divorce.
18:44So this year is the fire horse.
18:47What can we look forward to for this?
18:53More hay, stable stables and lots of ketamine.
18:59No, no, no, no, not what do horses have to look forward to.
19:03What do we have to look forward to in the year of the horse?
19:06Hopefully the same.
19:10But really, it's all about money and the merch.
19:14If you put a horse on something, people will buy it, even if it's a mistake.
19:19A worker sewed its mouth upside down by mistake.
19:23Suddenly, an amusing mistake appeared to tap into the mood of many young white-collar workers
19:27across China.
19:29This crying horse really suits the reality of modern working people.
19:32They aren't going to stop working once the New Year passes.
19:35This depressed horse is all of us.
19:38Tired, stuffed and broken.
19:43I reckon we need more sad horse toys.
19:46Still renting at 35 horse?
19:49Mum asking why you're not doctor horse?
19:52Your cousin already had a divorce, why you're not still married horse?
19:57And get off your high horse horse.
19:59So how are you and your family celebrating Chinese New Year?
20:03Oh, the good old traditions.
20:05A big dinner with my family, argue about why I'm still single,
20:09and watch TV in silence till midnight.
20:14It might take me 20 hours to get home, but it would take me a lifetime to recover.
20:20Currently touring the country with their brand new show, Timu Joke Factory.
20:23Would you please thank Her-Wan!
20:25CHEERING
20:31When people want the latest news, they turn to 10 News Plus.
20:35Firstly, we're not here to tell you what to think.
20:37We're not here to scare or depress you.
20:39Not like the project, bloody Waleed.
20:42So let's get stuck into the big stories, direct from the confused mind of 10 News Plus news hulk,
20:49Denham Hitchcock.
20:52Good evening and welcome to 10 News Plus.
20:55There's not a person in Australia right now that isn't using, wearing, drinking, eating,
21:00or maybe just taking delivery of an item that arrived on the back of a truck.
21:05That's right.
21:05Whatever you're doing right now is from our truck.
21:09In a world first, an Aussie entrepreneur is using AI to help you create your own digital twin
21:16to communicate from beyond the grave.
21:19Come on, get off your ass and start making your own ghost.
21:23Well, given it's our Friday, I'm going to go with ramen, mango, and daiquiri.
21:27It does not surprise me.
21:28It's Friday, for Christ's sake.
21:30Let the D-man have a drink.
21:33And when he's not downing daiquiris, it's time for some banter with his co-host, Meals.
21:39You're a proud Queenslander Meals.
21:41What's your favourite way to eat a mango?
21:43Straight up.
21:43Cut it down the side, dice it, eat it.
21:45It doesn't need anything.
21:46Meals, you're frightening me.
21:47You were jealous, Meals, you little space nerd.
21:49I would like to go to space school.
21:51Meals, you love politics.
21:52I bet you've got some Kevin07 merch somewhere.
21:55I do.
21:55I do have a t-shirt.
21:56I also have a MAGA hat.
21:57And when she's not wearing her MAGA hat, she's helping Denim break the biggest stories.
22:02To our special coverage of an issue affecting nearly every Australian family.
22:07Denim, we're talking, of course, about screen time.
22:10And I think it's fair to say that as we've been looking into this, we are both pretty worried.
22:16We certainly are, Meals.
22:18We both have young kids.
22:19We have skin in the game.
22:20And hey, I've come to this playground this evening where we should see kids running around on all the equipment
22:27that you see behind me.
22:28But increasingly, we know that they're at home on phones, on tablets, devices.
22:33Or they could just be having their dinner.
22:36Tune in to 10 News Plus.
22:38Hanging around playgrounds and scaring children that aren't there.
22:42With Denim Hitchcock.
22:48To Wednesday and big news for baristas and the lactose intolerant.
22:53The UK's highest court has made a controversial ruling.
22:56Oat milk cannot be called milk.
22:59The Supreme Court has declared products can only be called milk if it comes from an animal.
23:04The UK's dairy industry has long had an issue with milk alternatives, saying they are confusing.
23:10It's not healthy.
23:12It's not milk.
23:13It's basically juice and it's gross.
23:15Yeah, of course, oat milk is the gross option.
23:18Not the one where you tug on the warm, rubbery teat of a postpartum heifer.
23:23For more, let's go to London and our UK correspondent, Andy Zaltzman.
23:33Andy, Nigel Farage waded into the milk wars.
23:37I've got a cup of coffee.
23:38I want some milk.
23:39Let's have a look.
23:40We've got semi-skim.
23:42They don't like that.
23:43Oat milk.
23:43What on earth's that one?
23:44It's at home.
23:45Almond milk.
23:45All I want is proper bloody milk.
23:47Not left-wing options.
23:49Proper milk.
23:50Andy, why is milk such a divisive political issue?
23:54Uh, it isn't, Jeremy.
23:57It definitely isn't.
23:59Nigel Farage talked about it and then Nigel Farage posted on social media about himself talking
24:05about it.
24:05That's different from it actually being divisive.
24:08Anyway, many people in Britain would see Farage's video and say, well, take your own cow with
24:15you to your hotel if you can't deal with only having semi-skim milk alongside a couple
24:18of non-dairy options in a fancy hotel that would clearly bring you full-fat milk if you just
24:23rang reception and asked Britain sort of bleating on about it in a TikTok video as if it's some
24:28kind of culture or atrocity that you could probably blame on foreigners, you lazy, entitled,
24:32division-mongering bellend.
24:34Not me, Charlie.
24:36Not me.
24:36Of course not.
24:37Not me.
24:38Of course not.
24:39Farage is just patriotically trying to get Britain back to when it was great, when we
24:43didn't have any choice of what milk we had.
24:46We just suckled on whatever British animal happened to be within reach.
24:52Milk isn't the only thing to threaten the foundations of the UK government.
24:56The Epstein files have shaken Westminster.
24:58British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is vowing to fight for his job as revelations about
25:03the relationship between the former UK ambassador to Washington and Jeffrey Epstein have spiralled
25:08into a full-blown crisis.
25:10How did the Starmer government get wrapped up in all this?
25:14Well, they were just a bit unlucky, Charlie.
25:16Late in 2024, they appointed Peter Mandelson, the Tony Blair-era Machiavelli Tributor, a man
25:24also known by the nickname the Prince of Darkness.
25:27There's a few red flags there, I guess.
25:29They appointed him ambassador to the USA.
25:31In the vetting process, they asked Mandelson about his relationship with convicted sex
25:36offender and renowned baddie Jeffrey Epstein, and Mandelson basically said,
25:40Oh, I barely knew the guy.
25:41At which point, the Starmer government made its key mistake.
25:45Which was what?
25:45Well, they forgot to then ask, Peter, are you absolutely sure about that?
25:51And this time, no lying.
25:54Right, so what's happening to Mandelson?
25:57Well, Mandelson, Charlie, is set to have his title revoked.
26:00It's the standard procedure.
26:01He will no longer be known as the Prince of Darkness.
26:04He will instead be called simply Mr Peter Mountbatten Darkness.
26:17Can Starmer ride out this crisis?
26:19Well, the prevailing view still seems to be that Starmer is toast.
26:23It's just a question of whether the toast gets eaten now, or if the toast is left to slowly
26:28cool down, go stale, crisp up, gradually mould and be nibbled away to nothingness by parasitic
26:32bacteria.
26:33The fallout at Buckingham Palace has continued, with the King saying he would assist the police
26:37in any investigation of his brother.
26:40If convicted, could Andrew technically be serving at his brother's pleasure?
26:48Well, that's a good question, Charlie.
26:50But looking at King Charles' face at the moment, I don't think pleasure is a club that's in
26:56his emotional golf bag right now.
26:59All in all, these are very strange times for the Royals.
27:01Last week, Prince William visited Saudi Arabia, where he met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin
27:06Salman for a good old prince-to-prince gossip.
27:09And you must know, things have gone a bit weird in your life, when a conversation with
27:14a man who, according to the CIA, ordered the assassination of a dissenting journalist
27:18is less awkward than a family chat with your uncle.
27:22Or your brother, come to think of it.
27:26Would you please thank Andy Zoltzman!
27:34And if you would like to be in our studio audience, just scan the code on your screen
27:46right now.
27:46And don't forget to tune into my radio show, TGIF, Friday Afternoons on ABC Radio and Radio
27:51National, or download it on the ABC Listen app.
27:54We'll be back next week with Brett Blake, Courtney Act and Margaret Pomerantz.
27:58But until then, on behalf of the team, thanks for watching.
28:01I'm Charlie Pickering.
28:02Good night.
28:10I'm Charlie Pickering.
28:13I'm Charlie Pickering.
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