Enda Brady: UK correspondent on UK teachers getting trained on how to spot misogyny in boys

UK teachers will be given training to spot the early signs of misogyny in boys in order to address concerns about online radicalisation.

The Government is looking to clamp down on violence against women and girls, and there's hope that addressing the early roots will slow down the problem.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says violence against women is on the rise, and the release of Netflix's Adolescence earlier this year sparked a discussion about what boys see online.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Just gone to web from seventh and we're going to
Hinde Brady in the UK in a very special day
for India, in the heavy birthday. I understand it's your fiftieth.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Today, Hey, Ryan, thank you so much. Yeah it is.
It is. Don't feel any different yesterday, to be honest.
But look, I've had gray hair since I was seventeen,
so I think it kind of suits me now.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Really seventeen. Is it a genetic thing?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. My mother and my father both went
gray early. But no, I just feel really blessed and
happy in life. My daughter's home from university in France
and hopefully we're going to have a good day when
I get back from work.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Do you celebrate, because Lord told me you're a marathon runner,
you celebrate by doing an extremely long orgonizing run.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I've been out already. Yeah, I went out with five am.
I didn't go very far. Look, it's just beautiful to
be able to do these things, and there was a
time when I couldn't and now I can. So I
love it.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Brilliant. Now let's go to the news. Boys aged as
young as a live and could be sent to anti
misogyny courses in schools. What's this about?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Big announcement from government later today, there's a serious issue.
I don't know if it's the same in New Zealand,
but young boys in particular are very heavily influenced by
this man called Andrew Tait, this online influencer, and people feel, adults, teachers,
government feel that he is not in any way a

(01:34):
positive influence or role model on young men. We're seeing
incidents in school, We're seeing a lot of misogyny, We're
seeing a lot of violence against girls and women, and
while nobody is saying it's directly connected to anyone in
the online sphere, the government is very, very concerned about
it now. Earlier this year, one of the most shocking
films of the year came out here Adolescence and focused

(01:56):
on a very young boy accused and convicted of a
girl test crime against a classmate of female classmate. That
shocked people. I think it really started a conversation in
with parents, in schools, in government about just the kind
of stuff young people are being exposed to online. So
what the government is going to do any boy, even

(02:17):
as young as eleven, who displays any signs of misogyny
in school or behavioral issues towards girls will be forced
to go to these classes. Now what may well be
with a teacher or an external provider, but it's coming
next year.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I wonder what parents will think. Then, well, do you
know what, that's a very very good question, right. I
think all right minded parents will agree, and I think
what we will see is and I guarantee you the
main culprits will be very aggressive women down at the
school gates saying, how dare you accuse my little Johnny
of being a misogynist? He's lovely at home and that's

(02:52):
where the problem lies.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right. The UK police are going to make a major
policy change. This is after the Bondai Tira attacks.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes, so every other weekend in London we have pro
Palestine marches and they are well attended and overwhelmingly peaceful. However,
in recent weeks a phrase has been chanted globalize the Intifada.
That phrase has been used now the Jewish community are
deeply upset and hurting off the back of Bondai and
they feel that that phrase is effectively a threat, a

(03:26):
call to violence against Jewish people around the globe, and
they're deeply, deeply worried about it. So the Metropolitan Police
have come out today and said that anyone now chanting
that phrase or saying it at these globalize the into Fada,
say it and you'll end up on the POLICEA wow.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, what about Stama and his message to Russian Olga,
well to one in particular.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yes. So this is the guy who used to own
Chelsea Football Club in the English Premier League in the
soccer Roman Abramovich is his name. He is no longer
in the UK. He was one of the wealthiest people
we've ever seen here. He steamrolled into England about twenty
years ago bought the soccer club. They hadn't won anything
for years. Chelsea. He pumped in crazy money. They went

(04:12):
on a spending spree for players and they ended up
winning the English Premier League several times. Justin Mourinhos the manager,
and Chelsea could not be stopped. Now. Then the war
in Ukraine happened almost four years ago, and at that
point then the government forced the sale of Chelsea Football
Club because Abramovich was linked to the Kremlin, so he

(04:32):
left the UK. Five billion dollars was the proceeds of
the sale of that soccer club, which he promised after
pressure from government, would be split between what he wanted
to be the victims of the war in Ukraine, meaning
that some of it would go to Russians as well.
So the government has had enough, the money's frozen, big
legal battle and Keir Starmer has come out and said

(04:53):
times up have had enough, hand over the money we
wanted now and it's all going to Ukraine.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
In that if they again. And thanks for being with
us tonight into Radio UK Correspondent for

Speaker 2 (05:04):
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