Dan Wootton Outspoken - DONALD TRUMP TURNS ON KEIR STARMER & MAKES UP WITH NIGEL FARAGE AS 2025 WORST MOMENTS REVEALED

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

Reform UK’s Russell Quirk and political strategist Peter C Barnes join Dan on part 2 of the 50 WORST of 2025 countdown. Slippery Starmer is humiliated in front of the world ON PURPOSE by President Trump, breast whisperer Zack Polanski becomes Green Party leader and Narinder Kaur is exposed as a liar during an on-air disaster. To watch the Uncancelled After Show for exclusive extra content EVERY weekday, sign up at: https://www.outspoken.live LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day: https://youtube.com/@danwoottonoutspoken?si=-2BhmEbBSN1fyESS?sub_confirmation=1 ---------- Find the full audio show wherever you get your podcasts: Apple — https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dan-wootton-outspoken/id1762436723 Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/19Ltoneek2MSPL10CpSA1J?si=8f6d84e2db56448c ---------- Follow Dan on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@outspokendan Follow Dan on Twitter: https://x.com/danwootton Follow Dan on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danwootton/ Follow Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danwootton/?hl=en #DanWootton#DanWoottonOutspoken#news#outspoken#uknews Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No spin, no bias, no censorship. I'm Dan Wooten. This is outspoken episode number 393, a special edition of the show as we continue our countdown of the 50 worst of 2025. We got through 10 of them yesterday and there's still 40 more to go, folks. And trust me, there has been so much to choose from this year. What a year it has been. I mean, we were introduced to the new Toothless Green Party leader, the Tit Whisperer, Zach. Polanski. This is Zach Polanski, aka the Breast Whisperer. He came to you and said, can you make my breast bigger through hypnotherapy? And you said, yes,

and gave it a go. Yes, Zach is a 43-year-old hypnotist who has tried to grow the size of women's breasts by hypnotizing. And Megan Markle unleashed the worst TV show

in history onto our screens. I don't think anyone in the world knows that Megan Markle has eaten Jack in the Box and loves it. It's so funny, too. that you keep saying, Megan Markle, you know I'm Sussex now. So to dissect what has been one hell of a year,

Russell Quirk, newly elected to Reform UK, media superstar, of course, one of our favourites, here on outspoken, and the political strategist, presenter on Talk TV, Peter C. Barnes. So great to have you both here. What a year. What a year. Where to start?

Yeah, yeah, I don't know how you got it down to the final thing. Because there were loads and loads and loads more kind of hot and hideous news topics of the year, weren't they, in terms of how this year is kind of panned out. So, yeah, I'm surprised there's only 50. You could have easily done a top 100 of it. I know the Queen had her, Adis, Horribus. But, yeah, but my God, ours has been terrible. This is like the Adis Horribalists for Great Britain. The revenge is what I'm calling it this year.

Sadly, though, things could get even worse. But anyway, we're going to get into the countdown very shortly, just to note, no live uncanceled after show today, but all. of the Royal content is available for you over on my substack www. www.outspokenbop.com. We will be live again from Monday and on Monday the return of greatest Britain and Union Jackass as well. But now, let's go. And we're kicking off at number 40, which is one of those sort of bum-clenchingly awful moments that at the same time you just love to see. Do you remember? Remember when President Trump humiliated slippery stammer in front of the world

in one of the most mortifying political clips I have ever seen, watch? Where's the United Kingdom? Where's our friend? Come there. Is everything going good? Very good. That's very nice that you're here. These people all came in like 20 minute notice, and I think it's fantastic. And we have so many others and just so many others.

Peter, even now, you're still actually covering your face even all of these weeks on. I can't watch that. The embarrassment of the secondhand embarrassment that we get through watching that. But also, it's an embarrassment to the nation. And like, the Kirstower represents us on the world stage. Just think of that as a sentence right now. It is absolutely shocking. At first, I thought he handled the relationship with Trump rather well, better than expected.

But it's just the kind of simpering, like the way he pours over it. and he's my friend and all that kind of thing. It's just pathetic. And that wasn't a mistake. Lots of people at the time said, well, we think, you know, that was just the heat at the moment. Trump's obviously a busy guy

and maybe he didn't do it on purpose. Of course he did. That was a huge snub. He doesn't like Keir Stama. He pretends, of course, on the world stage that he does. He doesn't like Stama or anything that Stama stands for, particularly over the whole free speech stuff. And there's been a change, hasn't there, Russ?

And I think this is what's really important to talk about because it is the news, I guess. to begin with earlier this year your leader Nigel Farage had been left out in the cold by the Trump administration I think there are a couple of reasons behind that first Elon Musk

and that caused a lot of issues but of course then there was the split between Elon Musk and Trump but also because Trump wanted to feel as if he was doing the right thing right feel as if okay this is the democratically elected leader of the United Kingdom I've got to give him a chance

but by the end of the year where we are now Trump is right back in there secret meetings at Mara Lago, secret meetings at the White House, and Trump almost actively lobbying for your party. Reform UK. It's quite an astonishing turnaround. Well, it isn't. Look, it shouldn't be news to anybody, should it? The politics, the ideology of Trump and the current Republicans in the US

and reform are pretty identical, really, particularly when it comes to things like the economy, particularly when it comes to things like immigration and borders, and of course, crime. So, of course, they're going to be aligned. I don't think there was ever any particular, calling that relationship. Maybe we weren't perhaps paying the attention that we might otherwise have done.

But look, those two are very unified indeed, I think is fair to say. Let me bring Peter and our reform sceptic. I think we could say, see, I disagree with Russell there. I think there was absolutely a calling because what you've got to remember, Peter, is earlier this year, Farage was saying no to mass immigration. So you're crazy to want to deport 500,000 people. There's been a big change on that because you've seen the Trump administration say, no, no, no, mass deportations are absolutely critical,

not just to save in Europe, but to saving the West. And reform have had to go further to the right than where they previously were. Oh, without a shadow of doubt, pretty much every issue. Let's look at the two-child benefit cap as well. At one point, Nigel was all in favor of scrapping that. I mean, he said, I don't need to do my sums. There's a big turnaround with the Nigel. Still is, isn't he?

But I do think it's because there's the reality. No comment on that. No, no, I will comment. I don't agree. I'm just going to tell it how it is. This is unusual for a politician not to take the party line 100% hook line and sinker.

I don't agree with the party on that. I think that the cap should be in place because I don't think, not I'm old-fashioned, I don't think the people that work hard should be subsidized, and feckless people that want to sit at home, though, watching reruns of home and away. This is my big problem,

is that Nigel says one thing one day and another, the next day because if you look at the grooming gangs, you think it's the only politician that does that. Yeah, but then the guy who's supposed to be changing politics is doing the same thing as the Unip Party. Reform are nothing but the

Unip Party they're in thirds. But hang on, okay, let me just kind of correct the record here a little bit. It's not the reform are on the right. I mean, they are a right-wing party, but centre-right. I thought you were the real Conservatives. No, we are Conservatives with a small sea. Basically, reform of Thatcher rights. I'm a Thatcher right, unashamedly.

Yes, she was a Conservative. I'll tell you what, if Thatcher was now in politics, she'd be in the Reform Party, not the Conservatives, because the Conservatives have lurched to the left. It's not the reform of lurched to the right all of a sudden. It's that the Conservative Party with a big C are very much on the left of the political spectrum. Interesting. Well, look, it's also been a crazy year on the hard left.

And at number 39, in our countdown, was the moment when the tit-whisperer, Zach Polanski, became leader of the Green Party. Here's Reform UK's Zia Yusuf summing up this madman perfectly. Watch. This is Zach Polanski, aka the breast whisperer. He came to you and said, can you make my breast bigger through hypnotherapy? and you said yes and gave it a go. Yes, Zach is a 43-year-old hypnotist who has tried to grow the size of women's breasts by hypnotizing them. He's also the leader of the Green Party, who are now the second most popular party in the country.

So it's kind of important you know what other insane things this man believes. Zach believes that this country should have no borders whatsoever. Not more immigration or more asylum. This guy literally wants Britain to have no border. He wants to stand down and destroy Britain's nuclear deterrent while Vladimir Putin marauds through Ukraine. And when challenged on this, he simply said he would ask Vladimir Putin nicely to give up his weapons too. I want to see everyone denuclearize, including Vladimir Putin. I'm laughing at the idea that Vladimir Putin is going to give up his nuclear weapons because somebody asks him to.

He wants to legalize all drugs and outlaw landlords. So in Zach Polanski's Britain, it is illegal to sell crack cocaine, heroin and fentanyl, but illegal to rent your flat out. And if you object to any of his policies, he very reasonably simply calls you a fascist. Fascism, fascism, fascism, fascism. In short, Zach is a lunatic, and such has been the demise of the Tories and Labour that he's currently in second place. I mean, Peter, I think that is one area that we can both agree with CEU. this man, Zach Polanski, is a lunatic.

But I do think there were certain moments in the year that we saw his true colours. I mean, what about when he appeared on question time and said the only reason that we actually want all of these illegals in the country is to wipe the bums of our elderly? That was a true colours moment, wasn't it? I always got back to just after the Brexit referendum,

there was the lady in the question time of audiences said, well, who's going to serve in my coffee in Pratt? The snobbery and the arrogance of these people always trips them up. But the problem of this Polanski guy is he's dangerous, idiot, but he's still dangerous. If you actually look at the split on the left, he's going to hold a lot of power potentially. And that's my problem, is that we keep laughing at him, and he's a bit of a joke for people like us. But people are voting for him.

The membership of the Greens has surged. The voting base has searched. A smart strategist could do a lot of work with the Green Party, and that's terrifying. Big time. I couldn't agree more. I actually don't view Zach Polanski as a joke. Russell at all. I think he is a huge danger because I do believe that there could be a moment in the polls where the Green Party and you're not going to want to hear this, but let's just

see over the next year, overtake Reform UK. I would not be surprised because I think the late can you just hear me out as to why? Because I think what's going to happen, Russell, is that the Labour vote is going to go further down under Stama. And I think the conservative vote won't decline anymore. I think the conservatives have already sort of hit their low moment. Do you see what I'm saying? Let's wait until May next year and the elections that, you know, actually the government and certain conservative county administrations might actually let us have in this country to exercise our democratic rights as citizens to vote for our local representatives. Let's see what happens then because I suspect what you'll see is that the

conservatives will be further decimated as will labor. So I think we are seeing the decline of the uny party. And yes, the two parties, the two entities that obviously will pick up the slack, a reform, which absolutely they are, unbelievably strong in the polls, and not just in the polls, but in terms of the by-elections that are being won, the majority of by-elections since may have been won by reform. So look, Zach Polanski, not his real name, by the way. You know, his real name is Dave. Yeah. Dave. And he looks like a Dave. He looks like a Dave. But let's just be very clear. So yes, he is getting some traction, because he has, even though it's an irritant. He has got some

personality. He reminds me a bit of the new New York mayor, Mandami, who has also got some charisma, but also lied to get into office. He's saying exactly the same thing as Mandami. So, be careful what you wish for, because those that like... And he's an Islamist. Those that like fluffy windmills and solar panels and all this green stuff.

Zach Polanski, Dave, doesn't talk about green issues. He doesn't talk about windmills. He doesn't talk about solar panels. What he talks about is communism. Communism. The thing that's what he is. It makes me miss Caroline Lucas and I think that's just a crime in itself. I mean, you know, when she looked okay, I mean, what are we saying about our politics now? But any left-wing lunatic, and there are some of these in the Labour Party, of course,

and of course in the your hour, he's their party, whatever it's called. They settle on a name as we shoot this. I don't know. Maybe they've changed it again. Yeah, your party. I mean, given the core of the time, I can't even get in the same room together. Actually, and that's why I think that Polanski is now the biggest threat, because I think that your party conference a few weeks ago was actually so diabolical, so embarrassing.

such a farce that it's impossible to see them rising much higher, whereas I think they could have, that would have been actually good news for the Labour Party. So the big thing for me on the left, and anyone on the left that's watching this, and I'm sure you have some that kind of, you know, they hate one. They're in the chat right now,

saying that I'm an Nazi and saying that you're far right. Me and Peter too, yeah. You have to be very, very careful of anybody on the left that starts talking about how fantastic it is that all the wealth creators, the business owners, and the employers are going to sod off abroad. And I've seen it on Twitter this week, from a Labour MP. Good, they say. Well, hang on, these people pay the vast majority of income tax

into the UK system. If they go, they go and so does the bloody money. So, Zach Polanski wants to basically write out checks that he won't be able to cash if he were ever to come to to power. I don't think it's going to happen. I also think he's being boosted a lot by the BBC because he never seems to be off the thing. Oh, he's on all the time. I mean, yeah. He cancelled an appearance on have I got news for you to go on question time. And it was that terrible episode of question time. I remember a few weeks back where a migrant was actually planted in the audience wearing an airpiece, there you go.

Look, at number 38, one of the most diabolical fuck-ups from this Britain hating government as they accidentally released Habush Cabato that 41-year-old sex-attacking migrant from prison sparking a manhunt that lasted nearly 48 hours despite the fact that he was caught on camera multiple times. The convicted sex offender Hadush Kabatou, who was released from prison in error, has been arrested in North London. The search for the asylum seeker had entered its third day when members of the public alerted officers to his whereabouts in the Finsbury Park area at around 8.30 this morning.

It's understood that Ethiopian seemed to be confused when he was directed to the train station by prison staff following his release from HMP Chelmsford on Friday afternoon. Kabatu was serving a 12-month sentence after sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman while being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping. The Met Police says Kabatu will be returned to the prison ahead of his deportation. I mean, Russell, this was truly one of those who can't make it up moments. Of course, Calamity Lammy, absolutely behind it.

You just know if that had been a Conservative minister, he would be gone, he would have been hounded out from his job. But of course, because it's D-E-I-Hia-Lami, the most, I genuinely mean this, the most shameful politician we have ever had in this country. I genuinely mean that. Now Deputy Prime Minister, remember he called us Nazis for voting Brexit. You know, I can't just move on from that.

And yet he's still in his job. Yeah, so one of the most over-promoted ministers there has ever been. The most. Although Diane Abbott was in cabinet, I think, wasn't she at some point? I think she was in the shadow cabinet. Shadow Cabinet, maybe, yes. She was a black thing. She was a black thing.

They were actually made the cabinet, thank God. And Angela Rainer, I mean, look, you've got to count her as being woefully over-promoted as well. So, look, Kabbalt of... I genuinely think Lammie's thicker than Rainer. Yeah, yeah. Genuinely. Yeah, yeah, I guess. And, of course, we've heard recently of the last few weeks that she's coming back.

I know, she's served her penance on the back benches for about 10 minutes, and now she's coming back. That would be a 2026 story, honestly, Rainer's come back. But how can you... It would never happen in the private sector, Dan, would it? You know, someone would do something as in tax avoidance and humiliate the front bench, the Labour government, and then be allowed back a few weeks later. Yeah, I know. So, look, Kabatu, though, let's be clear, this wasn't the

only guy. I mean, obviously, this is very topical because of the offence that he committed. What he did, of course, sparked all of the protests. It started with the Bell Hotel. He was the most famous sex attacker, the most famous legal in the country, and yet they got rid of him. But you say you can't make it up. This is like it's being written by

Amando Ianucci, you know, who's written things like Veep and the thick of it. You know, it's almost as if he's scripted this stuff. You know, not only does he get let out early. He tries to get back into the prison. He's almost banging on the door saying, hey, I don't think I should be let out. Can you let me in, please? No, no, no, off you go. In the end, after three attempts, they give him directions to the station. He ends up wandering into Chomsford City Centre, which, by the way, is my nearest big town, and has to start asking members of

the public how to get on a train. And then it ends up wandering around London, of course, for three days. The police then arrest him and say, isn't it great that as a consequence of this wonderful operation that we've orchestrated as Essex and Metropolitan Police, we found him. Well, they didn't, did they? It was a member of the public that saw him. Bearing in the video we see of him in Hackney Library, he's still in his prison pyjamas, holding a bag with a massive avocado printed on the side. You literally couldn't make this stuff up. It's comedy and would be it wasn't so bloody serious. And where was David Lammy, Peter, that day? Oh, he was getting a new suit and he was having a tailored suit thing, wasn't he? He said it was

the suit, right? But then Gido Fork, he said that in PMQ's. Then Gido Forks actually revealed. What he was doing was giving a woke sermon to civil service staff. There it is, about black careers. Oh God. And that guy's Deputy Prime Minister.

At some point, you're kind of supporting the Russians to just take us over because I don't think we deserve it anymore if we've got him and the rest of this. But the thing that really gets me when it comes to the release is they gave him money so he would be deported. That's the staggering. thing is they didn't just let him go. They gave him taxpayer money so he could

actually be deported. Because the government came out and said, oh, we're definitely going to get him deported. They don't have the power to do that. And yet, here we are again, just funding and funding and funding. And the people of Epping, I'll tell you what, they are heroes in my eyes on this. I mean, those protests have been phenomenally powerful. Let's remember as well that we've had a number of people let out by accident, but the government earlier on this year did also let out a number of people on purpose that were sex offenders and rapist, murderers. And of course, There's no jury trials now.

And many and many of those people, funnily enough, surprise, surprise, who knew this would happen, reoffended almost immediately, particularly those that have been convicted of domestic abuse. Absolutely disgusting. No, it really was. It really was. And number 37 on our countdown, when the despicable loose women show at Woke ITV, a show that, by the way, claims to care about women and women's issues, decided to cancel a rape gang survivor, my friend Sammy Woodhouse, from appearing on their show using

the death of Lyndon Nolan as the excuse to do so, even though that was a big, fat lie. Now, this was incredibly difficult for Sammy, who was already on the train to London, to appear. Watch. evening everyone so i'm just on my way down to bunder so i'm on the trade sorry i apologize if it's a little bit noisy um i'm going to be on loose women tomorrow i'm not been on for years actually but um yes i'm going to be talking about some of the stuff that's been going on the last few weeks hopefully a little bit about my documentary as well so tuning tomorrow 1230 ITV to those women's women and and I shall see you all very soon.

But Peter, I did a lot of research on this story to work out what was really going on because I smelt a rat, as did Sammy. And it was a total bullshit, this Linda Nolan excuse. It had nothing to do with the death of Linda Nolan. What happened is that higher-ups at Luce Women and Wokai TV had decided that Sammy Woodhouse, someone who they had previously championed,

was now unpalatable because she had been, previously worked for Urban Scoop, Urban Scoop being an organization in the independent media run by, wait for it, Tommy Robinson. So of course, if you have any connection to Tommy Robinson, according to Wokey TV, you should be cancelled, even if you're a rape gang survivor like Sammy Woodhouse. To me, that is despicable. It is disgusting. It is a new load, but it is how they operate, Peter. It's repugnant in every way, but it's loose women. No good story starts with this one time on loose women. It's like the view. Nothing good. good it ever comes out of these shows that they just attract controversy because they

have no moral fibre, that's why. I mean, what happened to this woman was absolutely horrific and yet this was a kick in the teeth fired. You know, it would have taken a great amount of strength to come on a show to talk about these kind of issues and yet ITV just said, oh no, because of one connection, a very loose connection to Tommy Robinson, so therefore you've got the scarlet letter and you're not allowed to talk about it, anything. It's just perverse. It's pretty disgraceful for her to have been encouraged to spend time. and money getting to the studio and then to cancel her. On a lie, by the way.

On a lie. Because they blamed it on the death of Linda Nolan. It was nothing to do with that. So that's really disrespectful to Lyndon Nolan. It is. And her Linda Nolan's team were furious out. But isn't it also really kind of symbolic of all that's wrong with the mainstream media now? I know you talk about this a lot, as you should.

You know, because they're not representative anymore. It's the ultimate gaslighting, isn't it? Because you want somebody on to talk about the reality, the truth of those, let's tell it how it is, Dan. Muslim rape gangs. But of course, if you were to say that now on mainstream media, you would probably be pulled off, so to speak, because you've said Pakistani and Muslim.

Now, the reality is the vast majority of these crimes have been carried out by those that demographic. But of course, you're not supposed to say it because it might trigger some cultural unrest, some unpopularity. So therefore, you've now got ITV, BBC, Sky, Channel 4 and so on, turning their back on truth, turning their back on reality, not wanting to talk about the reality of who it was

that was perpetrating those particular crimes. And Sammy, who should be lorded. I mean, she should literally be celebrated for standing up and having the damn courage to talk about this cancelled by IT. Disgusting. It really is. And of course, Peter, this is why the mainstream media are dying on its house.

And it's why I actually celebrated what happened with loose women this year, effectively axed for half the year. Why do you think that's happened, Peter? Because they no longer represent the working class, that woke ITV were meant to represent. I mean, I worked there on ITV daytime for 10 years, and I was proud that we were the channel of the working classes, but everything changed near the end of my time at ITV.

It's when Pearce Morgan was sacked for attacking Megan Markle as well, and they have gone down a theory-during-the-truth. And that's the point. What did I say? You said for attacking her. He told the truth. It came out as what he said was completely accurate. I mean, by the way, I didn't think there was anything wrong with that attack.

No, but this is the point is it's not. It's not the lie, it's the gaslighting. It's the fact that we can see it with our own eyes. We know what it is, but yet we're being told that's not happening. And more importantly, you're a bad person for seeing what is happening. It's that extra bit that I find really, really problematic. And it's just affected so many of the mainstream now. But Pete, it's that very dynamic that allowed the grooming gangs to prosper for 30 or 40 years.

Let's not talk about it. Whether they were police officers or the local councillors, council officers, social workers, It's because they buried the truth that it allowed these rapists to carry on ruining thousands of girls. They carry on doing it with the grooming gangs, inquiring all the scandal around that. And I use Sarah Sharif,

their young 10-year-old girl. Identity politics killed that girl. That was important. And that's the reality of it because of this culture of, don't say anything because she might offend. It was absolutely appalling. Her teachers,

even too afraid, to talk about why all of a sudden she had a hijack on, hiding her injuries. Oh, because we might be called culturally and sensitive, we might be called racist, and this is the problem. Now, look, on a very similar note, at number 36 this year, that wannabe anti-white loose women, although even they don't want her, Narenda Kaur, who was humiliated on live television

by Judge Rob Rinder for telling not just porky pies, but flat out lies about the claims she made of the lack of Indian food in Italy. This was beautiful to watch, so let's see it again. Order for a second. Narenda, let me just bring it back into it for one question I've got. You know, you were there for about a week, right? Yes. Now, you could have gone to presumably other cuisines.

I mean, why did you... No, there was actually, that's the other point. Yeah. Now, when people, tourists come to London, we don't offer them fish and chips for the entire week, do we? Right. We offer... The world is global.

Italy. It was like, where is the... Just to be clear, right? Because I just wanted to check this, but you might be right. There were no other international cuisines. It was pasta or pizza or the lot. It's nonsense.

In Tawamina. Just have a look at this. So look, I have been there. So people can see. This, and I'll put it here. There we go. These are the different restaurants. There are 2,453 restaurants in Sicily.

17 Indian, 21 Mexican, 102 Japanese. And if you want to cheap. Not in Tawamina. You're quite sure about that. Not in Tawamina. No. No. Noreena, I put this to you.

Oh, there you go. No, there you go. Where you were, you could have chosen between three Indian restaurants. There wasn't... Hang on a second. Oh, they haven't made it off in there. This is what happened. I'm not blind.

Just wait, if you were worried, you could have even gone for a... I wouldn't go for a McDonald's, so I do like to go and enjoy the cuisine. In Thailand, I could have had pad Thai every day because it's good. The point is Italian food in Sicily, my experience was not good. I'm sorry, the Italian... I don't mean to offend you. You're good-looking people. You're very stylish and you're very kind and welcome, but your food is pants.

Now, this was an incredible moment, Peter, because Narenda Kaur has been race-baiting now as a grift, I believe, for the last couple of years. That's her friend, that show, Jeremy Vine. They love her. They put her on all the time. And even they had to reveal, she's just a liar. She's just a lie. I'm sorry, she went to Italy and she lied. And they proved that she lied.

And after that, for me, her credibility is shot on all of these issues because what it's proven is that she is race-baiting. She is grifting. Oh, without a shout of a doubt, my partner's Italian. And if he ever saw that clip, my God help her. Because the idea that Italian food isn't good. This woman is just mental. But again, this is the point is we've made a profit.

We've made an industry for these people. And they're just going to keep doing it and doing it and do it. Because she's not the only one. And unfortunately, they keep being given platforms. and they've got to stop. But sometimes people like Narendi, you just kind of wind them up and let them take themselves down.

The trick is don't indulge them because they always bring themselves. The thing for me with her was when she had to go, Kate Middleton, and her brother and the comments that she made her and all that stuff. Even then, it just showed. It wasn't about a principle.

It was just she wants the attention. And I try not to pay attention to it if I can help it. She suggested that Catherine, the Princess of Wales, was looking older. Yeah. And, of course, she posted that the moment that she had just been through months and months of serious treatment. She's a repulsive race-baiting troll, is what she is. I used to spar with her on X.

I've met her a couple of times at G.B. News and elsewhere. So I used to, just if I had a quiet moment, just for my own fun and sport, I would kind of go into a debate that she was having. And it might be, you know, museums are racist, the countryside is racist, food is racist. Everything's racist as far as... There's a common theme. Yeah, as far as the... It's a common theme when it comes to... But anyway, but here's the thing.

I don't think you know this. So I have a kind of... Quite a love-hate relationship with her. I actually think even though she's dangerous and she's pathetic, she's someone to laugh at, not with, but she's the subject of comedy, in my view. A couple of weekends ago, I was asked to do Radio 5 Live, late one Saturday night, so I agreed. And at the last minute, they told me that my opponent was going to be Narinda Corp.

So I immediately, within that debate... about whatever it was. I think it was about what's racist and what isn't. I did call her to her face, albeit down the line, a race beta. I got berated by the five live presenter, who obviously hadn't done his research very much. And it turns out now, since I have now been, and this is a wonderful shot in the arm for me, a wonderful, wonderful Philip and claim to fame, an accolade, almost. She has blocked me on X. So, because you call Narendecora a race baiter, you get blocked.

Yep. Bloody. Welcome to 2025. But to be clear, I'm delighted. I'm delighted. That story is this year in one moment, really isn't just the bizarre? 100%. Well, actually, so is this.

Because at number 35, there was chilling footage leaked online of a your party event. as Jeremy Corbyn was seen sitting happily, listening to Iqbal Mahab. Now, he is this Islamist sectarian member of the United Kingdom Parliament outlining the party's plan of an Islamic takeover of the UK.

I'm really not exaggerating. Watch. These events, these activities, this unity must grow and continue and take over, not just, parts of Birmingham, but the hall of the Birmingham, the whole of the West Midland, the whole of the country, the whole grassroots, democracy in action, and we, our communities, have shown the establishment and the rest of the country that we will not be taken from granted, and

we will be voted. To establish the law, the establishment know, that if you let one person stand up to them, that speak the truth to people about what power is doing to them, then more people will stand up and there will come away when we all stand up against oppression, against injustice and against corruption in politics. You see the power of solidarity. You see the power of solidarity, the power of all of us together. Individually, we may feel helpless, lonely, often frightened, together. stoppers, no tyrant and rulers, no party, government or dictator can demand us subservient. Together, we are powerful. Remember that and take that message onto the streets of Birmingham and share it

with every single person you know in this country and abroad. So Russell, I think we can sometimes laugh absolutely at an arrinda core. We can sometimes laugh even at a Zach Polanski, as you said earlier, even though he is dangerous. But this is truly chilly. It's sinister, isn't it? This is the Islamist threat to the United Kingdom. They do want to take over. The fact that that man is already an MP should terrify everyone. Yet the mainstream media totally ignored this leaked footage because it doesn't suit their agenda. Yeah, it is very, very sinister. It's almost a call to arms, isn't it? I'm not suggesting that what he said was across the line from a legal perspective, but it's not far off.

We know what he's saying. Encouraging an uprising. And of course, and we're not going to start. We might start in the Westminster's, but we're not finishing in the West Midlands. We're going to take the whole country. And of course,

are those of us that have said the following words about, you know, those that come here on boats illegally, you know, the huge influx of migration now, which is very, very different in demographic terms to the migration to this country that we had, let's say, 20 or 30 years ago,

which was largely from the likes of Africa, and Eastern Europe and so on, when people like me call it an invasion, again, the mainstream media try and cut our legs off and say, that's an outrageous thing to say. How can, how dare you? Well, I'll tell you, when it comes to the boats, they may come 500 to 1,000 at a time per day, but if they all rocked up at the same time down at Dover, 50,000 fighting age men, all at the same time, mainly from Muslim countries, actually, it seems, the likes of Syria, Afghanistan and so on, if 50,000 arrived as if it was some kind of reverse D-Day or Dunker, we would definitely call it an invasion.

What I'd note from that video, though, where were the women? Hardly any women, if any, in that audience, and that should tell people something that obviously this is a call to arms from a faith that believes that women are second-class citizens. They're not even good enough or fit enough to sit in an audience to listen to the quarter arms itself,

which I think, you know, women watching, all women of all faiths, all colours, all creeds, should think, hang on a sec, that's definitely not a Britain that I want. But also what I don't understand. Maybe someone helped me understand this. trying to explain it to me. Why come to a country, then dis it, and say you want to take it over and make it Islamic, when you have fled an Islamic country in the first place? Why not stay,

why not stay in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq or Iran? I don't get it. What am I missing? Usually it's because they want to be more extreme. History, that's why history kind of show them. More extreme than Iran? Yeah, pretty much, yes. And this is the reality is that we welcomed them in, we gave them a house and free doctors, free dentists and everything, all at our expense. We welcome to this to our shores, I'm afraid. But the thing that really gets me is people keep saying, oh, well, politically they might not get anywhere. The point is, the message is there.

The voter base is there. And if you go back to the last general election, there was a move to try and get a Islamic party registered just before and in time for that election. So there is a very clear political movement within Islam in the UK. And the more people try and deny it, the more you are that you look stupid,

and the less time we have to stop it because we've got to keep fighting amongst ourselves. This is the reality. Can I venture? A cynic might also say that the reason that the Labor government have got it done away with the two-child benefit cap is because the communities, the demographics that most benefit from that are Muslim communities who have five, six, seven, eight kids. 100%. Yeah. I'm without any doubt. On that one, you've also got to look at the contenders to replace Kirstam. All have the seats under threat because of the Islamic vote. 100%. So that's why we see Labor pushing to the hard left. It's why we see even on the right of the Labour Party a push to make Shibada and Max.

Mood, the first Muslim Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Look, at number 34 on our countdown, that extraordinary moment when Patriot and friend of the show, she was here yesterday, actually, Sarah White of Advance UK, was arrested for flying the Union Jack on an Epping Council building. Watch. It looks like the police are trying to cause a scene. Look at that. Look what they're doing! Look what the police are doing! What are they doing?

What are the police doing here? I mean, Peter, that was one of those moments this year. I mean, Peter, that was one of those moments this year. I think, where everyone was like, wow, the police are not on our side. because they are not arresting the most extreme hard-left activists who are making threats, anti-Semitic threats, often, or behaving disgracefully or behaving violently. Someone like Sarah White, who we know is standing up on behalf of women as literally just unfurling a union jack immediately arrested. Now, of course, weeks and weeks later, Peter,

they sort of embarrassingly had to reverse that arrest. Oh, yeah, but let's not forget. we've had from river to the sea a genocidal chant pretty much every week this year in London. The head of the Met said, oh, the Nazi flag required context. At some point, you have to realize that the police are a captured institution. And until you get rid of the chiefs of police across the entire country, nothing is going to change. The police are the physical extension of the force of the state. This is the state cracking down on people with opinions they don't like.

That's what we're seeing. It's the police being politicised. It is, we know that there is politics. going on here. I mean, can you imagine, though, back in the day of Thatcher and Churchill, saying to them as prime ministers, someone's just been arrested for unfurling our national flag on a public building. That's what Sarah was arrested for. And it turns out, arrested and then had to be admonished because they realized that the charge, which I think was being within some kind of exclusion zone that the police had fabricated for that day insofar as people not being able to

step inside of, actually where she was, was not within that exclusion zone. So it was completely and utterly trumped up. But also this is, don't forget, this is Epping. This is the same Essex police force. I mean, Peter mentions the chiefs here. We've got Ben Julian Harrington, who is the chief constable of Essex, who is an absolute disgrace to the county that I call home, frankly. He is the man that when you talk about the left,

he encouraged his officers to march 50 masked Antifa thugs, from Epping train station to the likes of Sarah and Orla and others that were peacefully protesting mothers and grandmothers outside the Bell Hotel, they marched those Antifa thugs that were chanting and throwing things at the protesters, the peaceful protesters. Not only did they do that and cause massive disruption in Epping a couple of days before that, but the next day Ben Julian Harrington and Roger Hurst, the Essex Police and Crime Commissioner, the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner, went on to national TV and radio to defend it.

And so it was fine. And initially, he had tried to cover it up. Yeah. Oh, it never happened. No, absolutely. Absolutely. It was a total disgrace. One of the things that has shocked me most about the regime media's coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle this year is how a real scandal involving everything that the delusional duke pretends to care about has just been covered up, just been ignored. This is the African Parks scandal and it's at number 33.

in our countdown of the worst of 2025. And it includes the bizarre moment that Harry went missing in Africa for three days, completely out of contact with his wife, Megan Markle, and three children, in order to spend time with a woman described as a mother-like figure. This is how I revealed the news. Prince Harry went off grid and was uncontactable during secret three-day visit to Botswana. The newspaper reported, and this is Charlotte Griffiths, remember, after completing his work with landmine clearing Halo Trust Charity in Angola,

he is believed to have travelled to the neighbouring country of Botswana last weekend. There, he is thought to have met with a mother figure in his life who lives in Southern Africa called Tanya T.J. Jenkins. He calls her mom. She calls her mom. She, and her husband, Mike Holden, played a pivotal role in Harry's life for many years before he met Megan. They were so important to him that he flew his future wife to introduce her to them within a month of meeting her in 2016. It is unusual for the Duke to spend so long away from the family home in Montecito, California without Megan, trips abroad, without her, usually involve a tight turnaround with Harry jetting home after just two or three days. So, I mean, there's so much to go

at here, Russell, so much to go at. Firstly, can we just discuss why the hell he was trying to escape his wife in Africa for all of these days? I think that one we can understand. I'm being honest. I think we all know the answer that one. Chaps, surely the big surprise is

that he only went for three days or not three months. For three years. Yeah, indeed. I remember this story and I thought, hasn't Africa suffered enough? Yeah. It's very, very odd. I mean, from a security perspective and so, but also, yes. I mean, and obviously he was there originally to presumably emulate his mother's efforts when it came to landmine clearing.

That was one of her things. You know, her two big things were landmine remnants almost from previous wars in Africa that were obviously blowing kids up and obviously her A's charity work. So he's obviously there to emulate her. That, I suspect, has probably triggered something maybe in his small mind and then decides, yes, to go off on some kind of sabbatical with the woman.

He actually calls mum, apparently. He actually calls her mum. It's a bit strange. Maybe it was some kind of. of, I don't know, some kind of reset, some kind of spiritual distance that he perhaps wanted to speak about the woes of living with such a gul as Megan Markle. At what point do we start to consider that this guy's a threat to himself? Because, I mean, the entire saga of Prince Harry is quite depressing, really, because I remember

when he was a bit of the nation's lad, he was happy, he was happy, go looking, all that. And then he met that woman, and it all went downhill. And, yeah, it's sad, really. I view it as a sad moment because the way it's always all over the press and everything is understandable but at some point

you do feel like you're kind of picking on somebody that needs help I know we shouldn't speculate too much here really but do we think that maybe he was having a real crisis in his mind and thinking maybe about leaving Megan and you know T.J. Jenkins here mum has you know

shaken some sense into him and said no don't do that you know for the sake of public appearance and the kids and so on I mean who knows? I mean it does seem very very odd to go off like that, though, doesn't it, and disappear out of contact for such a period of time. Well, he did, he's done it again, hasn't he, where he knocked on somebody's door in the middle of London or something, because I remember rightly, that, you know, he has a tendency just to wander off, which I bet his security love it when he does that, particularly in

Africa, but. Yeah, well, next I have to be, of course, the man formerly known as Prince Andrew. Maybe we can get him to wander off for several months or even years in the God's in the wilderness. I think, I think it will soon be the man formerly known as Prince Harry, and that is the problem. That is what he's facing. And I think you're absolutely right, Russell, to say, of course there has been a massive crisis of confidence this year. Numerous massive crisis, crises of confidence for Harry.

Because he realizes, holy shit, this is what I'm facing. And maybe I want to get out of it. Which is why I find it already back to Andrew. And he's in so deep, Peter. And I find out when he backed Andrew. That thought the sensible thing would have been to back his dad and his brother. They've got all that jam to sell. Oh, that's true.

Yeah. do that way too, which is not helping matters. But then, of course, there's the more serious side, which is this African park's scandal. And, I mean, what I found so astonishing about that, especially the lack of mainstream media coverage around it, is that Harry has presented himself as this champion of African causes. And then the charity of which he has been at the very, very top.

I mean, in fact, in recent years, he's actually been promoted into a larger position at that charity, is accused of the most horrible. horrendous things, you know, involving rape, involving abuse of the locals in Africa. And you just think, good Lord. Unfortunately, I think Harry and Megan don't have good form when it comes to charity. No. If you remember Archerwell a couple of years ago, when the accounts were filed,

it became very, very clear that they were effectively taking money out of it. And the money that had actually been donated or devoted to good causes was a very, very small percentage of the amount of money. And only spending, I think it was an hour a week. An hour, if that, an hour a month or something, yeah. So maybe they see charities, I'm just speculating, as another form of PR. I suspect that's exactly what those charities mean to them. Well, I think they do, Peter. But what's exploded in Prince Harry's face, of course, is that for many, many years,

he was protected by the institution that he claims are so awful to him. You know, it was actually the vile men and grey suits in the British royal family that we're keeping both of his African charities. Because remember, there's not just African parks, is also Centa Bali, which completely spontaneously sort of erupted this year in terms of that big row with Sophie Chandoka who called out Harry for all of his bad behaviour. But the point being, Peter, for years and years and years, these charities ran totally perfectly because he had the oversight and the support of the British Royal Family.

Since he's had to go it alone, they have been a complete disaster because all Harry is capable of doing is turning up, smiling for the cameras, shaking. a few hands and he has been exposed and certainly his wife who said that she could do all of this stuff for him was lying. She has no idea how to run a charity. Oh, it's ridiculous but then again I think

he struggles to smile and wave and shake hands if I'm being honest. It's one of those moments where I think he's realised how much was actually done for him and how little he actually did. I bet he thought he was really busy doing all this stuff and in reality he was just given a colouring book I imagine because that's the level that we're dealing with because running an international

charity is a lot of work. It's a lot of detail, and he's not exactly the details guy, so it always, I always find it weird when they wandered into the charity bit, but like you said, they're using it as a PR exercise to get all the celebrity friends and they get all the photos and all the rest of it. It was never about the people or the causes. And I think that's actually quite repugnant, if I'm being honest. It is. And he's had so much time on his hands, though, Russell, yet none of this

has been done properly. Well, he doesn't exactly do a proper job, does he? No. The big question for me with this whole Harry Megyn thing, and I think some of us have been saying this for a number of years, is what happens when the inevitable happened, which is that they will split up. There is no way this is a sustainable marriage or relationship. You know, it may have been very attractive for probably, you know, various reasons at the beginning,

but clearly not now. So what happens then? Does he get welcomed back by not just the royal family in Britain without her, possibly so, but will the public have him back? I don't think so. Given how he's trolled the royal family, the stuff he's said about them, the stuff he's written about them, the stuff he's done in terms of bringing the press to task, as you say,

He kind of turns the press on and off, doesn't he, depending on whether he needs them, in which case in the past, obviously he's very much done that, or whether he feels that they're overstepping by simply just talking about the truth and saying, you know, talking about factual stuff. So I'm not sure he gets welcome back, particularly in a particularly enamoured way. And I think... I don't think so now. It's going to be very interesting to see what happens, because I don't think it's a question of if it's when. Yeah, and I don't think Peter he can be accepted back because... there are certain moments that we will never forget and for me I can sort of put it down to four key moments

and I genuinely believe the British public will never move on from them one going ahead and accusing the royal family of racism on Oprah went through when Prince Philip was dying in hospital literally dying two destroying the late Queen's last two years when she and we couldn't say it at the time but obviously I knew you know it was battling from a very serious form of cancer herself three, being part of that witch hunt against Catherine, the Princess of Wales, when again, Catherine was secretly undergoing cancer treatment, yet Harry and Megan's allies were out there

trying to spread all of these lies. And then four, it again relates to King Charles with incurable cancer being put through hell by his youngest son. I don't think we ever forget those moments because there's no coming back from them. You can't reverse the fact that you did that at the end, especially of the late Queen's life. Oh, without a doubt, but for me, I think it's the Catherine one, because let's not forget, Will, will be King, and I don't think he will ever trust his brother ever again. No, he might. I don't, I can't imagine them ever being in a room alone ever again.

It's done. It's done. It's done. Let's not forget that. He did also then later deny what he himself said on the Oprah. Oh, no, we never said they were racist. I didn't say anything about racist. But then let's not forget. We have video. Can I just suggest a number five, which is the book, you know, spare. I mean, writing a book, so-called warts and all, much of which seems was just exaggerated and made up, not just to expose his family.

And a family that he knows will not normally stand up and defend themselves. Well, they couldn't. They don't, right? But he did that out of spite, but also to make money out of the royal family. No, you're so right, Russell. Actually, that book, we can never forgive that book.

Available still, at all good book shots for, I think it's in the 50p bin, out of the back. Was it worth it, Harry? Was it worth it? Well, look, on a similar thing. theme at number 32 of our list of the worst of 2025 was the launch of, let's be honest, the worst TV show in history with Love, Megan. Let's take a look at just one of the most ridiculous moments of the show,

as I alongside a royal superstar panel reviewed this monstrosity hailed as entertainment. Breaking right now, Megan Markle has claimed she is no longer a Markle and is now known as Megan Sussex. She made the shock revelation during an exchange where she was very obviously annoyed with the actress Mindy Carlin for calling her Megan Markle watch. I don't think anyone in the world

knows that Megan Markle has eaten Jack in the Box and loves it. It's so funny too that you keep saying Megan Markle, you know I'm Sussex now. You have kids and you go, no, I share my name with my children. Yes. And that feels so...

I didn't know. know how meaningful it would be to me, but it just means so much to go, this is our family name. So not only is that not true, I'll come to that in just a moment, it's clearly yet another blow, another slap in the face to the Michael family, to Thomas Michael, who is not mentioned at all during this new series, even though her mom, Doria Aglander's many, many times. So let me come straight to Samantha Markle. Sam, how do you feel about Megan saying she is no longer a Markle, no longer using your family name? Well, one tear left I go. Let me see if I can squeeze one out. She's good at that. No, seriously, I think, you know, I should be like depressed. I think our now

disease grandmother would be happy at that because of what she did to the family name. But in just, I'm going to say that, you know, she had put out there that I quote, only changed my name because she met Harry. So guess what? I think I think my brother and I are going to change our last name to Sussex. Let's all be Sussex right now. You've got to love the Michaels, don't you? You've got to love the markers. But I mean, this was an extraordinary moment. First episode of the show, Russell, and it's like, I'm not a Markle. And, you know, Mindy Cully,

how dare you suggest that I am? I think really, just to scupper her, maybe we should all change our names to Sussex so that it's so common that she won't want to use it. But Sussex isn't even the surname. No. The surname is Windsor. Exactly.

Well, there's been so much debate about this. I mean, Mountbat and Windsor, yeah. I mean, look at what Andrew ended up becoming. Yeah. You know, because, of course, the last name is different to your title, although there's debate about it. And when it comes to having a county as your surname,

it basically puts her there in terms of status in Celebville, up there with Joey Essex. Megan Sussex, give me Joey Sussex any day over Megan Sussex. I refuse to call her that. She's Megan Markle to me, Peter. Yeah, I just think she'll always be Megan Markle. But the thing that really gets me is,

the amount of money that woman has fleeced out of some major media companies is actually quite impressive. Netflix, Spotify. She had them wrap round her finger throwing millions at them. I mean, there are some stupid people running these companies, aren't there? Because everyone could see that she was a grifter

from the beginning. But, I mean, I didn't think she was that bad of an actress when she was in suits, but looking at that, my God.

Can we just talk about the show? Please. How bad was it? It's one of those things. I remember when I was on a certain channel that I'm not on very much anymore,

talking about this live on air. Talking about this live on air. Yeah, it was very evident that obviously this whole thing was fake. So the house that she filmed in was not her house. The people in the house were not her friends. They were effectively paid employees.

The whole thing was a complete utter setup. And then, of course, the products themselves became hilarious. And I remember saying on that particular channel, I have to watch this. I have to watch these episodes because some of us need to comment on them like you do like Peter does. But you wouldn't do it out of choice. But in the end, you were watching this stuff, almost like it was a parody, almost as if it had been written as something comedic. But the funniest thing for me, the whole thing out of the whole thing that was the most standout was the fact that she produced the most expensive jam in the world at like $25 a little pot, which actually, A, I think it was kind of made in wherever. It wasn't kind of homegrown in

Mega Markle's Back Garden, but it was so bad. They couldn't even call it jam. They had to call it fruit spread. Legally. So talk about inauthenticity. It's so tasteless and it's so runny. Yes. Because it doesn't have the sugar content. I think it was crap. It's basically the word I'm looking for it. 100%. Did you like the show piece of it? Oh, again, we have to watch it. Again, you get sucked into it, don't you? You just hate watch it. You're like, is this going to get worse? Oh, yes, it did get worse.

And the car get worse. Oh, yes, it doubled down on it again. It was absolutely extraordinary. But she's so lucky in self-awareness to realize that we were hate watching it. We weren't watching it because we were enjoying it. That's the funny bitch. You literally watch it through your fingers like this.

It was so cringible. And by the time the Christmas special, which of course she's so woke, she doesn't call it a Christmas special. She calls it a holiday celebration. Because, you know, woke people are allowed to actually say that we're celebrating Christmas. By the time that came out, we were all so done with it. People weren't even hate watching anymore.

It's one of the biggest flops in Netflix history, and it will not be back, and I think she deserves that. But look, let's move on. At number 31 was a really serious one. The disgusting attack on Patriot and then political prisoner, Lucy Connolly, behind bars from prison staff, but left her covered in bruises following being jailed for that one tweet she wrote up. after the Southport attack that was deleted within hours. This is how I broke the news. She was subjected to the most disgusting treatment behind bars at HMP Peterborough, where she was told unexpectedly

that she would have to move to a different wing into a dirty cell covered in feces where someone had recently died. Now, this was a unit designated for the most violent, prisoners in the jail. It is a unit where she would have been locked up, or well, she is locked up, for 23 hours a day. Now Lucy, who is a gentle, a lovely soul, when she questioned this move, it was immediately interpreted as her refusing to go. And she was dealt with in an extremely forceful manner. Indeed, the attack by the prison authorities has left her cover.

Now, in a great credit to him, it was Reform UK's deputy leader, Richard Tice, who went to see Lucy in prison following that attack. Five days on, I could see clear stress marks and bruises on her wrists from those handcuffs that the officers struggled to get off her hands because they were so tightly struck on and that was the highest level of restraint and force that officers use

there's two lower levels Lucy's you know she has patently got a good truck record in prison this seems extraordinary maltreatment without any provocation whatsoever that I was absolutely horrified by so

I mean Russell Quirk the treatment of Lucy Conley behind bars was I believe part of the deep state trying to shut her up. Now, they failed, and they failed in part because of the support of Reform UK getting on board. Yeah. Your party. Her treatment has been abysmal, and I think our authorities should absolutely hang their heads in shame.

She is the archetypal political prisoner. I had the pleasure, actually, of interviewing her on stage at a reform event very, very recently. And she spent an hour being actually very open to questions from the audience, which I think was very bold of her. Because, you know, she's not a media commentator. I know she's on your show a lot now. She's now on the superstar panel. But, of course, she wasn't ordering women.

She was a childminder. She was a childmider. And actually, those that criticised her, and I had a load of this stuff, when I put on to X the next day that I'd interviewed her, and it was a very, very interesting, very fascinating and insightful interview, lots of people on the left typically saying,

but she's far right, she's a proven criminal, she's a racist, she's this, that and the other. When you listen to her story in terms of how she was press ganged, forced, coerced into pleading guilty, you then understand why she pled guilty. I'm telling you, if she had pled not guilty, a jury would have acquitted her, as many juries have acquitted other people in a similar position.

I think that she's a force for common sense, a force for good. I think her treatment has been absolutely disgusting. You know, the only sad thing is that because of her conviction, because of her incarceration, she can't stand for reform as a member of parliament. And that's, yeah, that doesn't sit well with me at all. So hopefully if reform gets into government in 2029, we would change that so that people like Lucy who have effectively being

kind of forced to plead guilty unnecessarily, unfairly, can actually stand and be represented should be abolished. Actually, it should be abolished. Peter C. Barnes, what did you make for the Lucy Connolly's story? For me, it's a lightning rod moment. I think that's where the real divide

in the nation showed between those with common sense and those that are on the side of authority and totalitarianism. And I think what I really liked was the fact that she came out of that prison with a mission and she's not let it go. I watched that brilliant interview that you did and I thought, I thought she was going to be this little meek woman,

a bit beaten down and all the rest of it, but absolutely not. She came out with full barrels loaded and she has not let it go since. And I admire her for that because I think that the authority's picked on the wrong woman because the one that you don't do is make somebody sympathetic.

If you're going to hold somebody up as a terrible person, don't make them the charming one who's quite nice and lovely and you know, he's a neighbor or it's your mom or something like that. It was stupid what they did. But again, it was that moment where, again, it was like, how are they this stupid?

And what country have we turned into where putting a woman in prison for 31 months was the sensible thing to do whilst we let a sex attacker out through the front door with taxpayer money? What was very notable talking to her as well, apart from the way that she was forced into that guilty plea, not given proper legal advice and so on,

was the difference between when she was first arrested and the police were lovely, apparently very courteous, very professional and respectful. And then they released her on bail and then came back and arrested her a few days later and were insistent on being not only increasing the level of charge, but also she said they handled her in a much more aggressive and robust way in terms of the arrest, how they dealt with her in the custody suite, and how they dealt with her when she was then in the cells for the next few days.

It was very, very clear that someone from above, yes, the late. Labor government, and Lord, whatever his name is, Helmer. Lord Herma, the Attorney General, Starma's best friend. Yes, they had then got involved, and you can just imagine these words being said, from Starma to Homer, and then back down to whoever was in charge of her. And then the then Home Secretary, Evette Cooper as well, not leading her out of prison. And those words would have been this. Make an example of her, and that's what they did.

Hence, she's a political prisoner. Yeah, she did the worst thing you can do. She embarrassed them, and they don't like it when you do that. They're very egotistical-driven people, and that's literally the worst thing you can do. And they want us all to shut up, don't they? But the great thing is, we're not shutting up. So what a year, what a great year. It has been such a pleasure to have you both P.C. Barnes and Russell Quirk as part of Outspoken.

Now, I want people to know where they can get much more of you. You obviously have your brilliant YouTube channel running now, Russell. Fledgling. It's getting bigger. It's getting bigger. Straight talking YouTube, nothing like the might of the Dan Witten Outspoken channel, of course. Yes. That's what Megan Malcolm says.

You just have to put yet at the end of the reason. Dan, I don't want to go smoke up your ass, but you've been saying for a year and a half, two years, independent media is the way forward. Unsensored, unchecked, no off-com, no exec producers whispering in your ear, you can't say that, walk that back and so on.

The authenticity of this is something that I would love to emulate on my channel. Absolutely. So how can people find out? So straight talk on YouTube, or obviously I'm on Instagram, or if you want to have a go at me, as most people seem to do on X, is just at Rossal Quirk. And Peter C.

Barnes, you're on substack. Yes. How can we find you? Yes, so literally just search for P.C. Barnes, and I'm literally the first one that comes up, but I've got a whole spade of shows coming in the new year. I've got a big relaunch all planned out. So, yeah, from January, I will literally be everywhere more than I am already.

Amazing. Okay, but you're going to have to come back and talk to me about it when you relaunch. But thank you both so much. Have a wonderful new year. And, of course, thank you for your company today. But don't worry we are continuing the countdown of the worst of 2025 tomorrow with Lee Harris of Addicted to News and Emma Dunwell, the brilliant independent journalist of E Speaks Freely. That's at 5pm UK time, midday Eastern 9am Pacific. If you're watching

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