Hello and back with me this week we have Spikes editor Tom Slater. Hello and back with us

It's a bit of while actually is trade unionist and writer Paul Embry. Good to see you

Great to have you back. So coming up on today's show

we'll be talking about the Hugh Edwards scandal, the emptiness of Kiea Starma and the trans activists

that wants us all to go out and punch a turf in the face.

So finally the mystery BBC presenter behind the big scandal that's been on every front page for the past week or so was revealed to be Hugh Edwards.

He's alleged to have exchanged money for sex pictures with a youngster who's addicted to drugs.

Tom, I mean, what have you made of this scandal?

It's been a hell of a ride.

I mean you say to great surprise,

it was very strange and far school

given the fact that everyone in the media,

most people who went on social media

had already essentially established who it was.

Maybe we'll get into the fact that these ridiculous kind of privacy restrictions have where

I don't see it serving anyone's privacy, certainly not the other BBC presenters who were falsely accused of

being this individual. So we've kind of got out of that very kind of farcical stage now at

least. But I have to say the thing I'm most struck by now is the way in which

people who are really defending Edwards to the hill.

Seems to me to be doing so on incredibly spurious and hypocritical grounds.

Now of course, like Hugh Edwards, I don't know what what went on.

We haven't really heard his side of the story he's unfortunately

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