Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the 23rd of
June 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
I'm your host, Brian Garris, delighted to have Ben Rubin with
me in the studio. And we're joined by Diane
Rasmussen. Mccaddy, my live video link.
Well, it's winter drawing all now.
Summer stalls. This is over Ben and nearly
Christmas. Brian.
We, we won't take it that far. It's, it's a lovely day in
Plymouth and of course we had very mixed weather over much of
UK over the weekend. We did have the longest day, but
we're going to look forward to more summer.
So let's stick with that lovely theme in our head now.
Our regular viewers will know that UK column often comes in at
a different angle from other reports.
And what are the things that certainly better myself and
Diane have been looking at over quite a few weeks is what is
going on in this country. And we're going to encourage our
audience today to stay calm, carry on and have a look at
what's happening in this country before you start to judge what's
happening overseas. And there's no other place to
start, unfortunately, than with Keir Starmer.
Now, probably I should have had a bigger photo of him, but here
he is spewing words and wisdom about what's happening in the
Middle East. And how can we describe this
man? I don't trust him at all.
Flacid is another term I would use to describe him.
But the key point is that this man is running a death cult.
Now, some of this has been up on the UK column over the last few
days, but of course we've got the Assisted Dying Bill that is
about death, and we've also got the decriminalisation of
abortion that is also about death of babies.
We have a massive censorship campaign running under the
surface and the UK column has been warning and warning and
warning about this for a great many years.
We've also got unlimited propaganda.
I asked Ben to suggest me an image before the before as we
were compiling the news today and Ben said, well, the only
thing you should choose is BBC and he's absolutely correct.
But a massive propaganda campaign running 24 hours a day
in the UK? We've got the grooming gang
smokescreen. And I'm going to say to the
audience today, if you think that I am banging on about this
particular subject, I can tell you, you are going to hear more
and more and more about child abuse because this is a subject
the government knows it can use in order to distract the public
from what is going on in other key areas.
People are going to get more and more passionate about this as
more and more violent stuff comes to the surface.
But of course, the government can also inflamed one group of
the community against another. So grooming gangs, exceptionally
dangerous. Diane is going to be talking
about this a little bit more. But of course we've also got
this happening and Ben in particular has been delving into
this subject, the destruction of our constitution.
And where is this all leading at the moment?
Well, not only the demise of UK, but the fact we've now got these
horrific war zones, which UK Keir Starmer's government now we
can see very clearly have helped to ferment.
And what does it look like on the frontline?
Well, if we just move forward and have a look at some of the
images from the Middle East, we will see that there are some
really bad things happening. And Kier Starmer's involved.
Who's he working for? Is it for the World Economic
Forum, is it for UK or is it for Israel?
We don't know. Let's have a look at some of the
images here. I have not chosen anything too
horrific, but nevertheless, we're going to have a look at at
what is represented here as this, sorry, as this conflict
unfolds, not only in Israel and Gaza and with Iran, but also in
other parts of the world such as Ukraine.
We've got some shots here of Iranian drones and missiles
coming in over Israel. This is a direct hit on one of
the Iron Dome sites with a missile cooking off.
So there is no doubt that Iran is doing tremendous damage in
Israel at the moment, although the BBC doesn't want to report
it. And conversely, of course, we've
still got horrific damage in Iran by the Israeli forces.
Now, I don't know what this location is, but by the colour
of the smoke there is something industrial, whether that's fuel
or chemicals burning off. And then we get to the bizarre
situation where of course we have this message.
Thank you, Mr. President Trump posted up in Tel Aviv.
Childish behaviour by Israel as a nation state and apparently we
should be grateful to Trump. I don't think so.
Diane, let's bring you in because of course you've picked
up that across UK. If you go into a hotel, if you
go into a pub or a club, you're very likely to see ATV screen,
which will be the BBC simply rolling and rolling propaganda
about what's happening in in the world.
And you've picked up on this particular image.
Tell us a bit more about it. Yeah, thanks, friend.
Hello, Ben. Happy to be here today.
I was just watching the BBC yesterday morning just so that
the audience doesn't have to, and this particular image was up
on the screen for a couple of minutes and I just took a photo
of it from my own television. There's a number of things going
on here. I think in this photo 1 is that
we see that BBC verify and Mariana Spring and the rest of
her team were obviously being kind enough to tell us exactly
where the US bombed the nuclear sites in Iran.
So it's really good to know that they've got our best interest at
heart so that we see the actual Google Earth image or whatever
it is. You also have the convenience of
picking up your phone and scanning the QR code to find out
even more, which is wonderful news because then they know that
you've got your phone on you at all times and that you're
looking at the right things at the right times.
Which is really interesting as well, is that the ticker at the
bottom says that you and Secretary General Antonio
Gutierrez is gravely alarmed by the use of force by the US
against Iran, which is all part of the confusion that I believe
we'll be covering a little bit later than the news, Brian.
Yes, 24 hour a day propaganda by the BBC and certainly the UK
column audience is noticing that what they don't, what they don't
want to cover is the destruction in either Ukraine.
We don't talk about the real damage to the Ukrainian and
common economy or the people or the Ukrainian military don't
want to give the UK public the truth there.
And the same is now happening with regard to Israel and Iran,
that we are not to be told the suffering going on inside Israel
as a result of clearly very large Iranian attacks hitting
home. So the UK public treated its
children, particularly by the BBC, and it's up to alternative
media channels such as the UK column to get the top off this.
But aside from that propaganda, Diane, you've also been having a
look at what it's going to cost to set up some of these
inquiries. Yeah, the inquiries as well as
the the outcomes of them, including the redress schemes.
So if we go back quickly to October of 2022, when we first
saw the release of the report of the Independent Inquiry into
Child sex sexual abuse in England, there were several
recommendations that came out of that report.
Of course, this cost millions of pounds and cost many of years to
complete. It was released in October of
2022. One of the main recommendations
from the report was to set up a redress scheme.
What we're now hearing is, of course, we don't have the money
to cover the redress scheme because there have been so many
children who suffered sexual abuse that it could hit up to
£10 billion to pay for the redress scheme in England, £10
billion. And we see, you know, Scotland
has a redress scheme, of course. But as we're seeing with the
residential school ladies, of course, that we've been covering
for years, they're currently not eligible for redress despite
having the scheme in Scotland because they weren't abused for
long enough. Apparently six weeks of abuse is
not enough to be able to apply for redress and also because
they were not in the correct setting, of course, which is a
lie. But anyways, Keir Starmer is now
criticizing the previous Conservative government,
although the Conservative government was the one that was
in power when this was released for failing to implement what is
called the J Review recommendations, and that
includes the redress scheme. So even though Cure Stormers in
charge and the Conservative government put it in place, he's
now blaming them for not having this available and implementing
the 20 recommendations. Just last month we had released
the National Audit on group based Child Exploitation and
abuse, which is the grooming games that we've been talking
about. This report was led by Baroness
Casey of Blackstock DBECB. She's had a number of high level
government roles over the years. She is now the UK government's
lead non executive director as of January this year I believe.
And so she was in charge of this particular audit and we've got a
quote from here that she provided in the forward to the
report saying we have seen state and church institutions,
residential care and medical settings all pressure to hold
inquiries into historic failings.
It cost £5,000,000 for one local inquiry and that took almost
five years. If we got this right years ago,
which of course we didn't, seeing these girls as children
raped rather than quote, wayward teenagers or collaborators and
their abuse, collecting ethnicity data and acknowledging
as a system that we did not do a good enough job then I doubt
that we would be in this place now.
She goes on to say in the executive summary that there
were around 500,000 children a year have been likely to
experience sexual abuse as children of any kind and for the
vast majority of them, of course, their abuse has not been
identified, has not been reported to the police.
So the police data is much lower than that.
According to the police recorded data, there were just over
100,000 offenses of child sexual abuse and exploitation recorded
in 2024. So that's about 1/5 of what they
think actually happens with around 60% of them being what
they call contact offenses and the rest are online offenses.
Of the contact offenses, an estimated around 17,000 are
flagged by the police as child sexual exploitation in the
recorded data. The problem is that we do not
have reliable data. The only data that is available
comes from a new police data set on child sexual exploitation,
which is called the Complex and Organized Child Abuse Seven data
set if you want to look it up. And although this has many
limitations, it identified only around 700 recorded offenses of
group based child sexual exploitation.
So the agreement gang behavior in 2023.
There was an excellent sub stack post that came out from Roger
Mia last week. So I'd like to show some of what
he said about this. Of course Ben has interviewed
Raja in the past and we had him as a speaker and our live events
on location Cheltenham and he has said here if this is truly
about the survivors then each and every child betrayed by the
authorities must be entitled to compensation.
We now know that such a compensation she schemes should
cost up to could cost up to £10 billion, as I've just said, and
he went on to say as well in this article that he basically
says that he doesn't think that anything will ever really come
out of this. Unfortunately, stealing seems to
be quite scurched about it. He did say, of course, that this
national redress scheme was one of those 24 recommendations, as
I said, but now he's identifying once again that this proposal
has been scrapped because of the cost.
As we all know, Raj and Mia has done an incredible job over the
years for UK column and everywhere else on, on
identifying this and has paid the price for it.
So I think we should continue to support him and we need to also
continue to make sure that we can put pressure on the
government wherever possible to to make them accountable for
what has happened and and protect these 500,000 children
per year that are being abused sexually across the country.
Brian. So thank you very much for that.
And just to reinforce our opening statement on this
horrific what has been going on over a great many years to do
with children in UK can only happen with the full connivance
of the establishment and the government.
There's no question of that. But what we are saying is watch
out because you're now going to see the government pushing
everything to do with child safety, child abuse, because
that's the smokescreen to help cover up what it is doing
elsewhere. Do we need to stay on the case
with children? Yes, would be aware of that
smokescreen. And Ben, let's bring you in
because propaganda, censorship that is unfolding very, very
quickly in UK. Indeed it is.
Yes. Hello everybody.
And we're going to head over to Demos, the think tank led by
Polly Curtis, the Chief executive.
And we've actually had some messages over the past few weeks
asking why we covered them. Not so much.
Hopefully this will shed some light on that.
And ultimately it's because they are playmaking the censorship
industrial complex here in the UK.
Let's hear now from Polly Curtis about the launch of the
Epistemic Security Network. So I'm your chair tonight, and
tonight we are launching a new network, the Epistemic Security
Network, and the aim of this network is to provide a home for
the. Collective efforts to protect
democracy by cleaning up our information supply chains.
Together, we hope this network, spanning civil society, politics
and government will mobilise evidence and design strategies
to protect our democratic supply chains and our future.
Really, we aim for this network to be a platform for everyone in
this room to use, to come together, to find the
connections, to find the ideas and to progress this agenda
together. And we have the most.
Before I even get to the panel, we have the most extraordinary
group of people here. I know everyone of you in the
audience and where you're from, and you really bring such
expertise to this conversation. We're very keen that you're part
of this conversation going forward.
Well, there we have it, Ben. Information supply chains.
These people are desperate because they know the lid's
coming off what they're doing, and anybody who's working for
that is a direct threat to them. But that's quite a statement,
isn't it? Information supply chain.
It is yes, absolutely. It comes from this report that
we we talked about earlier in the year.
This demo support epistemic security 2029 still focused on
the 29 next general election, fortifying the UK's information
supply chain and they to find epistemic security as keeping
our knowledge safe. Knowledge.
Well, quite exactly the official narrative, ultimately, and as
we've just heard, the official narrative was telling us that
there was no issue with grooming gangs across the north of
England. Turns out there was an issue
with grooming gangs across the north of England.
But apparently these people are the people who should be
protecting knowledge and telling us what isn't, isn't true.
Who's in the network? Wow, right, She said.
Look at the people who are in the room.
I'll pick a few names out. Hope not hate, full factor we've
spoken about recently they would potentially do.
They've got a guy in there running Ofsted at the moment.
DCMS are in the room. So you've got civil service and
politicians, civil society foundations like the Jo Cox
Foundation, Public Interest News Foundation I've spoken about
previously, which is run by a guy that was exec director of
the Fabian Society. Polly Curtis is on the board
there, Ofcom. Yeah.
The arbiters of truth. The British Library is a few
people there from the library system.
Diane, we'll have to talk about that later.
The Royal Society, because they have to own science, right?
And they actually talk about that in the video.
You should go and watch the whole thing.
By the way, we'll provide a link.
It's about an hour and 20 minutes.
Highly recommend it. Right.
So an extremely powerful network.
What are they there to do? That's there to protect, protect
liberal democracy. And as I define that regular
viewers will know is we can do whatever we want if enough
people go along with it. And they're also extremely
concerned about defending the country against populism.
This term has been used quite a bit in recently and also in in
that video, which you can go and watch.
And the BBC defines this as the idea that society is separated
into two groups at odds with one another, the pure people and the
corrupt elite. And I think the corrupt elite
were probably in that room at demos last week.
And what were they saying up on stage?
SO3 panelists will just give you a quick glimpse into the
discussion. So this is Sir John
Whittingdale, Conservative MP from Malden since 1992, formerly
at DCMS. He actually created the BBC
local democracy reporter scheme. He was happy to let us know.
And he says one of the challenges is striking the
balance between free speech and disinformation.
Obviously people like him get to decide that.
Who else was there? Gina Neff from Cambridge
University, she essentially saying that we can't media
literacy our way out of this. The plebs are revolting, Brian.
The narrative is falling to paces.
And and they're very worried. They're they're very worried.
If the audience wants good news, the good news is you can see the
narrative of this team coming apart.
Are people always saying to us, what's the good news?
Well, the good news is you can see they're having trouble.
What are they having trouble countering?
The truth? Basically, yes.
Facts and the truth. Exactly.
So she says we can't media,
media literacy our way out of the problem.
The guy at the BBC on the end there, he actually thinks that
you can. He's Ian Bundrid, director of
public policy at the BBC, who has just arrived there from
YouTube. He's been at YouTube for five
years. So he probably booed us off
YouTube. Actually that might have been
him. And he said, can we work on a
disinformation GCSE? He actually wants to manipulate
the the education system and actually even revealed in this
presentation that the BBC News round, their kind of kids news
program is actually shown in to 3,000,000 young people in their
classroom every week at the moment.
I had no idea they were doing that.
Didn't used to happen when I was at school.
So anyway, who's behind this? 2 crew?
Social figures. So this guy, William Perry, and
who actually funded the original Demos report, former top policy
adviser to Blair, instrumental in creating Ofcom, actually
received an OBE for his work on the Online Safety Act.
Also, he's married into the Sainsbury's family,
interestingly, and he's also funding a lot of other things as
well. This guy's fascinating,
including the Future Governance Forum.
Go and check that out. We'll talk about it more over
the next couple of weeks. And then finally, also in the
mix, funding this. Network is the Quadrature
Climate Foundation, who are the people that Bund 4,000,000 lbs
to Labour just ahead of the general election last year, are
also funding the retraining of the UK civil service, fire a
political foundation and have shelled over a billion dollars
into 187 organisations in 17 countries.
These are the people that are controlling what isn't isn't
true in the UK right now. Control, controlling the
narrative. So what?
People get heavily focused on what's happening in the Middle
East or Ukraine inside UK. This society is being taken
apart, it's being controlled and free speech is being wiped out
by these teams. And of course they can only do
it with the help of vast amounts of money.
So the banking system's got to be in there somewhere.
But we are going to say whatever you're looking at worldwide,
whatever you're worried about, stay focused on what's actually
eating away of the constitutional structure of UK.
Now we have to do it. We have to do some comments on
what's happening in the Middle East at the moment.
And the best starting point is to have a look at what President
Trump had to say after his attacks on the Iranian nuclear
facility. A short time ago, the US
military carried out massive precision strikes on the three
key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime for Doe, Natanz
and Isfahan. Everybody heard those names for
years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise
of was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and
a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one
state sponsor of terror. Tonight I can report to the
world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely
and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle
East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks
will be far greater and a lot easier.
Well, Ben, I don't know if that fills you with confidence.
And the question is who is the terrorist or the bully operating
in the Middle East? Certainly, Americans got the
weight of the military power in that area.
But Trump being very upbeat, we don't yet know what the strikes
actually did. And there's now more debate over
whether they were successful or not.
But nevertheless, that's how he announced it.
Now, what was he talking about? This little video clip does
explain the use of the American bunker busting bombs, but also
we have got we've got mainstream reports being confused with
films. This is truly, this is a truly
scary report as it is, it shows us how pitiful American
mainstream media has got. Let's have a look at this Fox
report. Yeah, So what we're looking at
here is we're being told this is, I think anywhere from just
shop 200 to 300 feet in depth. There are all kind of reports
out there of 1000 foot, but I think that's more propaganda.
So what you end up doing is if you saw the movie, the latest
Top Gun movie, eerily enough, this is that plot kind of coming
to fruition in real life. It's not just one bomb.
It'll be a bomb after a bomb to get through that penetration.
And just lastly, that's what you're talking about, penetrate
up to 200 feet below the surface and then of course we'll see it.
Try and put the second one in there and go down in there.
Let's bring in David Burke, our Top Gun and former.
Top Gun. Instructor retired, yes, Marine
Corps officer now, David, I don't know how well we did that,
but you know this better than anybody.
Talk to us about, you know, questions over whether or not
this can successfully be done. Joey Jones just crushed that
explanation. You guys hit the nail on the
head. So really well done.
This absolutely can be done. There is not a cave in the world
deep enough to defend itself against the American military if
it needs to hit it. And you describe the weapons
system and the aircraft and the mating of that exactly.
Right now this is a hard problem to solve, but it is absolutely a
solvable problem with this system.
Well, there was a comment in our chat box.
Pathetic, pathetic, but highly dangerous.
We're mixing films. We seem to regard this as a fun
report. It's exciting, these bunker
busting bombs. But we've seen other reports
where in the media people have been saying, well, it was a bit
disappointed because we didn't detect any radiation links.
We are dealing with mad people here.
They don't know whether they're living a film or real life.
Well, against that backdrop, what did Keir Starmer have to
say? Let's look at our flaccid Prime
Minister in action. President Trump has said future
attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.
There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran,
greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.
Iran has said the events overnight will have everlasting
consequences. Do you agree escalation seems
very real? And are you prepared to offer
military support, UK military support if needed?
Well, my focus is on de escalating the situation.
I accept your challenge that there is a risk of escalation.
That's a risk to the region. It's a risk beyond the region
and that's why all our focus has been on de escalating, getting
people back around to negotiate what is a very real threat in
relation to the nuclear program, in relation to the UK.
We were not involved in the attack.
We were given due notice, as we would expect as close allies to
the US and we have been moving assets to the region to make
sure that we're in a position to protect our own interests, our
personnel and our assets and of course, those of our allies.
Well, there we are, Ben, Prime Minister peace, He's been doing
everything he can to wind down the wars, whether it's Ukraine
or with Israel and the Middle East.
He's simply been there pushing for peace, didn't get involved
in the American attacks. The British intelligence
services not involved. I'm very sure they would have
been because the Americans would have actually appreciated some
advice. And but there he is.
This is what he says to the public.
It's truly outrageous that he can say these sorts of things.
I don't know whether you want to comment on that.
Ineffectual and out of the loop I think I would say with
Starmer. Looks like he's had his hair
done though. Maybe he was with his stylist
over the weekend. I I'm also going to repeat
again, when he makes these statements, you don't know
whether he's speaking as Prime Minister of, of the UK or he's
talking on behalf of the World Economic Forum or he's giving
the line required by Israel. We simply do not know who this
man works for. Now let's get into the serious
reports. And this is the Iranian foreign
minister talking about the attack.
Iran condemns in the strongest terms the United States brutal
military aggression against Iran's peaceful nuclear
facilities. It is an outrageous, grave and
unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the
Charter of the United Nations and international law.
Well, I think it is irrelevant to ask Iran to return to
diplomacy because we were in the middle of diplomacy.
We were in the middle of talks with with the United States when
Israelis blew it up. And again, we were in the middle
of talks and negotiations with Europeans happened only two days
ago in Geneva, when this time Americans decided to blow it up.
So what are you saying? They're absolutely accurate.
Iranian at the peace negotiations when they were
attacked. No ifs or buts.
Now, the following or the next piece of video clip is from
Scott Ritter. An absolutely fantastic
statement and analysis of what's actually just taken place.
Let's see what Scott Ritter has to say.
This marking the anniversary of German perfidy, the world was
experiencing American perfidy, that America was involved in
engaging in a illegal act of aggression against Iran.
And the question is, is this the kind of new threat that we are
talking about? And as an American, this new
threat doesn't manifest itself from Iran.
It manifests itself from within. What are the traditional values
of the United States? We are a nation defined by the
rule of law as established by the Constitution.
And when we speak of how we apply on the global scene,
understand that the Constitution, you know, has in
it a clause that says when the United States Senate has
ratified A treaty that has been signed by the president, that
becomes the law of the land. And I want to remind people that
the United Nations Charter is a de facto treaty that has been
ratified by the Senate of the United States, signed by the
President of the United States. And therefore the United States
is constitutionally obliged to comply with the laws that are
set forth in the Charter. And one of the principal things
is that you will not carry out. There's only two conditions
under which a nation can go to war.
A nation could go to war if the Security Council of the United
Nations has enacted a Chapter 7 resolution under the charter
authorizing military force to be used to resolve a specific
threat to international peace and security.
No such resolution exists today regarding Iran.
The other one is that a nation can carry out legitimate
self-defense that they have been attacked, or if they are
confronted with the imminent threat of violence, they are
allowed to preemptively act to eliminate the imminent threat.
But then they are obligated to go to the Security Council to
once again turn the situation over to the international body
for alternate resolution. the United States has not been
attacked by Iran, and there's nobody that can articulate the
potential of such an attack. People who seek to do so by
talking about Iran's emergence as a nuclear threshold state
forget that at the time of the Israeli attack and the American
attack, Iran was at the negotiating table, negotiating a
resolution to this issue that eliminated any notion of them
not only being a threat, but an imminent threat.
Lot to discuss in that clip but the key thing is he's saying we
need to look inside America for the problem and of course the
same situation here in UK. We need to look inside UK to
understand what is really happening the decay inside UK
that is then fermenting these overseas wars.
We'll talk about this more in UK column extra but let's have a
look at this last clip. This is Senator Bernie Sanders,
who was speaking at a rally when he heard the news about the
American strike. Listen to what he has to say and
listen to the reaction of the audience.
This is a statement, statement from Donald Trump, quote, We
have completed our very successful attack on the three
nuclear sites in Iran. Etcetera.
I agree. And I want to tell you
something. Not only is this news that I've
just heard, the second alarming that all of you have just heard,
but it is so grossly unconstitutional.
All of you know that the only entity that can take this
country to. War is the US Congress.
The president does not have the right.
So a senator here picking up on the key point, Trump is out of
control, Keir Starmer is out of control.
We're going to deal with the situation overseas.
We've got to deal with what is going wrong inside our own
countries and we must not lose sight of that.
We'll discuss these points a lot more in UK Column Extra, which
will be after the news for members of UK column.
But in the meantime, what what have we got to say to our
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Now tomorrow, going out at 1:00 is an interview I did with
Debbie Richon. It's on the subject of parental
alienation, but Debbie's been doing a lot of good work to help
mothers and, and I believe some fathers that have been through
this appalling experience. She calls herself the
Relationship Phoenix. Fascinating interview.
And I have to say this lady's doing some really, really good
work in the background. So join us for that now.
Debbie, Diane, apologies bring you in here because you're going
to give us a report on the written material for UK column
and we've got a couple of articles here.
Yes, thanks Brian. Now there's two new written
articles that were just published this morning on the UK
column websites. This one is part one of three
parts that Professor Gloria Moss, who you might remember
from the her really good article in the Fabian Society from a few
weeks ago, she's now doing a three-part series for us on Post
truth in different contexts. So this is part one of three.
This one is about science and medicine and post truth.
So take a look at that article if you have a chance.
It's really, really very interesting and gets great
information in there. And the other one that we've
published this morning is the third part in the baking and
financial series from Yolk's Von Grieva.
And this one is about Bitcoin and questioning whether it is a
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They're very good. OK, Diane, thank you very much
for that and also reminder to people that will be having our
on location event on the 18th of October in York.
Now people are saying when will you tell us about the tickets?
Very soon there will be an announcement about when tickets
will be on sale. Be patient, it is coming.
But we're really looking forward to meeting people at that event
because mixing with the UK column audience and supporters
is a wonderful thing for for both sides, for us and for you.
You've all said you enjoy being there and chilling out with
other people, discussing what's happening in the world, also
making friends and enjoying the ambience.
So do come to it, to that York event if you can.
If you're further north or north of the border in Scotland,
that's there for you. And as I've said before, we want
this one to be a success because if York is a success, we will
commit ourselves to the weekend event for UK Columns 20th
anniversary next year in 2026. Now coming up with the weekend,
we've also got Sounds Beautiful festival in Wimble, Dorset.
UK column team are going to be there.
I'm told the weather is going to be good, so we look forward to
that event and meeting everybody who comes along.
We will see you there. Now we've also got a celebrating
freedom of speech event at Glastonbury, which our own Sandy
Adams will be there with Clive de Carl.
So that's very exciting. Richard Vogue's also speaking.
But if you can get along to that event, I'm sure it'd be very
good. And here we've got regional
sovereignty and devolution. Dissident meet up Southwest
region, that's Exeter Sunday the 20th of July and Sandy will also
be a speaker at that. So if that's people getting out
and about to spread the word on what's happening and to warn
people and support people in these very strange times, we
certainly need to be looking after our children, Ben, because
they simply will not leave the babies and young children alone.
They certainly won't. They certainly won't.
The the vulnerable and the infirm.
Yeah, the unborn children and the old.
Last week we saw news from the death cult that runs the country
that they're going to decriminalise full term
abortion. The Assisted Dying Bill went
through on Friday. We had an excellent report on
the news on Wednesday from Doctor Liz Evans about Ozempic
and the damage it's been causing to people across the UK and
further afield. And then on Saturday we had this
revelation, this news come up that the NHS is planning to DNA
test all babies to supposedly assess their disease risk.
And this is the news that DNA sequencing will now take place
at birth. Blood will be taken from the
umbilical. Cord.
Every newborn baby in England will have their DNA maps to
assess their risk of hundreds of diseases.
It's all about preventative healthcare.
When you hear about prevention, this is what they're talking
about. Genomics and genetic engineering
under NHS plans for the next 10 years.
This 10 year plan hasn't come out yet.
We're Streeting still working on it, but they're just, they're
previewing stuff into the media already.
The Streeting has said that gene technology would enable the
health service to leapfrog disease.
So we're in front of it rather than reacting to it.
OK, so the article also says that this was first reported on
by the Daily Telegraph. Not strictly true actually,
because it was first reported on by me quite a while back now,
just over 2 years ago. This is an interview that I did
with James Denning Polls, the first time I ever stuck my head
above the parapet publicly and started talking about what I was
seeing in the health system. So go and have a listen to that.
And actually it says in there that they're looking to
introduce this into the neonatal pathway.
And lo and behold, 2 years down the track.
Exactly what they've done. Brian and Debbie have also
spoken about this previously and will provide some links to that
so you can go and look at those interviews.
Lots of information on the UK column website.
Who's excited about it? All the wrong people.
David Cameron most notably saying this is fantastic news.
It has his full backing when I first launched Genomics England.
So this is a Cameron government initiative.
Actually was a part of the legacy of the 2012 Olympic
Games, interestingly enough. Bizarre legacy for an Olympic
Games basically says the idea of sequencing the genome of every
newborn was a long way off. And it proves how much science
has come on and cost down in order to make this is possible.
It's very excited about it. He does warn that there's still
lots of issues to get to grips with.
Permissions for data use, big problems actually getting people
to sign up for it, ensuring we start with all children, yeah,
everywhere in the country, not restricting to only some areas
or some conditions, etcetera. So they want all children into
the database. No child left behind, it's the
phrase. Exactly, exactly.
This is inclusive, Brian, really importantly, and they're talking
about this as being transformational for
preventative and personalized healthcare.
It's all about you. It's all about saving the NHS,
you know, all these kind of wonderful things.
Well, Cameron doesn't mention, though, in his tweet is the fact
that actually he got into a bit of bother back in 2021 because
he helped the American genomics firm Illumina secure a £123
million uncontested government contract via Matt Hancock,
because he personally invited Hancock along to the
International Summit on Population Genomics, which is
run by Illumina. That you can see Hancock and
Cameron on stage there on the right.
That's Jay Flatley, who is the chair of Illumina, which is an
American technology company founded in 1998.
Interesting name. Are they trying to tell us
something? I don't know.
But they make the machines that do genomic sequencing, right?
So this entire industry runs on the back of technology produced
by this country. Who runs it?
So straight off the bat, the new chairman, Scott Gottlieb, MD's
chair since February, sorry, March this year, He's also on
the board of Pfizer. And before that, he was the
chair of the FDA, the 23rd commissioner of the FDA.
Yeah. And so one of the key people
actually during COVID who basically spun out of the
regulator and then straight into industry.
And I would imagine he was being handsomely remunerated for his
role there. One would think so.
The other thing I'd need to remind the audience about, of
course, David Cameron, who said his belief in Israel was
unshakeable UK column then said, well, which comes first Mr.
Cameron? Is it the UK or is it Israel?
And then we have this enormous penetration of the NHS and our,
our health schemes across the, or our health industry across
the country by Israel. Was that accidental or was that
some backdoor dealing? We don't know, of course,
because Cameron never really put his cards on the table.
But I think we're entitled to ask the question as we've now
got Israeli health firms coming in alongside Israeli
intelligence. I'm talking military
intelligence, state security intelligence, mixing it with the
UK government and then coming alongside our health system.
Particularly, particularly in the NHS for Nicole Junckermann
and Matt Hancock and actually a guy called Park and Moss who was
on the board of Genomics England, who was involved in
that whole situation as well. So yeah, they're they're very
much in the mixed now. What's Illumina about?
Let's just hear a little bit from Francis de Souza, the
former chief executive of Illumina, speaking about the
role of the company in COVID-19, speaking at the World Economic
Forum, I believe it was in 2023. Let's have a listen.
During COVID, so we were called into China in the fall of 2020,
late 20/20/2019 to help them diagnose.
Was then a flu of unknown origin.
And so we did the first sequence of the SARS COVID 2 genome that
was published on January 10th. And around the world, what
happened was a couple of companies, so Moderna in
Cambridge and and Biontech in Germany took that data and
started working on their vaccine.
Now, what's interesting is that Moderna, for example, has never
had the live virus on their site.
It was all a software problem from there.
I remember talking to Stefan and he was saying, look, we're
basing our entire vaccine program on that data you
published it better be good data because that's it.
That's all we're using. And, and you can get a sense of
Moderna is 1, arguably, you know, one of the most, you know,
one of more important companies in biology right now.
And yet it's all a software problem for them.
And so that's a use case of once you digitize biology, you can
solve profound biological problems.
It's good. Thing you got it right.
It's a good thing. It's a good thing.
So he was actually in China in 2019.
So he was invited to China in 2019 by the Chinese government
to digitize the COVID virus, which was then used, the
software that created was then used by Moderna and Biontech to
generate their their their vaccines.
These are the people that are behind the technology, this
entire paradigm that is being ushered into the NHS, embedded
into the NHS from birthright. And what can this potentially
do? So let's have a little look here
at this quote from Amy Webb's fantastic quote.
We're talking about improving biology and redesigning
organisms for beneficial purposes.
It's going to allow us to not just edit genomes, but also and
importantly write a new code for life.
We will have right level permissions for life.
That's what this technology they believe that allows them to do.
Look at her. They're throwing up the the
devil horns. Very rock'n'roll, Miss Webb.
Fascinating. That's pretty terrifying.
How else could this potentially be abused?
Let's have a little listen to Nita Farahani at the World
Economic Forum. But once you can
probabilistically and through modeling, be able to much better
see what's going to happen. Take, for example, the fact that
we already can start to see signs of Alzheimer's many, many
decades potentially before a person starts to manifest the
condition. Do they want to know?
And if they don't want to know, should other people have the
ability to know? Should an insurance company be
able to make choices about whether to cover them?
Should an employer have access to that information to make
decisions about whether or not they are somebody that they
ought to ought to employ? So a few few members, a few
members of our chat box said that I've been looking serious
during today's news and I think I've got every reason to hear we
see the absolute danger of these individuals.
They are so deluded in their own power to rewrite life.
And she mentions Alzheimer's. Maybe, maybe the insurance
companies need to know that you're gonna become a bit.
Even if you decide not to. Even if you decide not.
They need to know because you might be a risk.
No compassion. You're gonna suffer from
Alzheimer's. You're gone.
You're out the job. You're on the bin.
Yeah. End of life programme for you.
These are dangerous individuals and if I remember correctly it
was David Cameron that soon into his premiership as Prime
Minister suddenly announced that by a particular date so many
people in UK would have Alzheimer's.
I think it was Alzheimer's and I think the figure he was talking
about was 2 million. And at the time I was thinking
to myself, where do where are you getting that from?
Where's the data that's telling you this?
So we know that the seeds for this stuff have been sold, have
sown many, many years ago. But this is the mindset.
So if you wonder how they can bomb Gaza flat and destroy
thousands of men, women, children in Gaza or destroy
millions of Ukrainians, you are now getting into their mindset.
We need to get into their minds. We need to expose what's in our
mind, in their minds. And we need to warn as many
people as possible. So yeah, it's serious.
Extremely serious, and not just in the UK, also importantly, all
around the world, but as we're about to find out, in particular
from Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
We came out of COVID first. I described that in my book, My
Conversations with Albert Bourla, Pfizer and I persuaded
him to give tiny Israel the the necessary vaccines to get us out
first from the COVID. And the reason I could do that
is because we have a database, 98%, a medical database, 98% of
our population has digitized medical records and little card
and anywhere you go in any hospital in Israel, NS doesn't
make any difference. Boom, you punch it in and you
know everything about this patient for the last 20 years.
I said we'll use that to tell you whether these vaccines, what
do they do to people, not individual people, not with
their individual identities, but statistically, what does it do
to people with the, you know, with the meningitis?
What does it do to people with high blood pressure?
What is it, you know, you want to know that?
So Israel became, if you will, the, the lab for Pfizer and
that's how we did it. We got it out and we gave the
information to the world not only been published in medical
magazines and so on. That's a database we have.
I intend to bring on that base database of medical, personal
medical records for entire population, A genetic database,
genomes. OK, give me a saliva sample,
volunteer. But I'm sure most people would
do it. Maybe we'll pay them.
Now we have a genetic record on a medical record of a robust
population. It's got you have to have
diversified populations. We have people from 100 lands.
This is a very powerful engine now.
Now let pharma companies, let medical companies, let them run
algorithms on this database. OK, I'm telling you right away
that I'll give preference for a few years to Israeli firms, but
you can create. And then to the world, but you
can create, you know, a biotechnological industry that
is unheard of right now, unheard of, unimagined even.
A biotechnological industry and the raw materials are humans and
importantly this week, newborn babies.
So the the man responsible for the slaughter in Gaza is using
his own population as Lab Rats? Debbie, this needs to be
exposed. You would have thought that good
place to get information flowing would be universities and
academia, but is that true? Well, I'm not Debbie, but I can
answer. It's Diane, Brian.
I'm having a bad day today on time that's.
OK, that's OK. She's in the room with us.
Well, it depends. It's.
The interview tomorrow, it's everything, right?
So just some updates on the academic freedom situation,
which on the surface looks good, but I'd like to provide some
some thoughts on this. If you don't know, if you
haven't seen my reporting on this previously, there is
something called the Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act
2023, which was of course passed under the previous government as
soon as Labor got in. Essentially the the new
education secretary Bridget Phillipson decided to halt it
because she had concerns that the law was potentially damaging
to student welfare. She was talking about
anti-Semitism and and other things like this that she
thought of hate speech would be hurting people's feelings.
So the Office for Students that now that they've kind of worked
this out and, and most of this act is now going into place on
1st of August. That the Office for Students,
which is an independent public body but does report to
Parliament through the Department of Education, whilst
not being part of central government, has provided some
guidance and published some survey results.
And so I would like to go into this a little bit just to see
what they have to say in support of the Act and how to put this
all into place at universities. So first let's hear this short
video clip that I have. Well, actually let's first look
at this BBC article that I should mention first, BBC
telling us that students are ready to be shocked or should be
ready to be shocked, not saying that they are and offended at
university as as I know through my own process of losing my
academic career as a full professor, they do not handle
well anything that is considered to be offensive.
But so let's look at now what this Office for Students video
had to say about its new guidance.
Free speech and academic freedom are vital to higher education.
In fact, they're vital to society.
Without them, there are no new ideas, no productive debate, no
challenge to conventional wisdom, and no social progress.
Our new free speech guidance illustrates how universities and
colleges can protect these rights.
It's designed to help universities and colleges
navigate their new duties to secure free speech and have a
free speech code of practice. These duties will come into
force on the 1st of. August this year Right now
universities and colleges need to look at their policies that
we know that some of you are already doing this.
These could include things relating to personnel, so
appointments, promotions, disciplinary processes,
governance and decision making. Where it affects free speech
research ethics, your existing free speech statement and code
of practice, and student and staff training materials should
include freedom of speech as set out in the guidance, and you
should provide induction to ensure that your students and
staff understand their own free speech rights.
You can see the guidance and find out more about free speech
and academic freedom on our website.
So we'll put a link in the show notes to the complete guidance
if you want to look at all the detail.
But basically what I would like to say of the, I guess really
important part of the guidance is that they have a framework
now that they have recommended for determining whether or not
there is an issue or not with free speech and whether or not
it should be something that gets pursued and investigated with
three steps. The first step is asking whether
the speech is within the law. And that's that's another
question entirely about unlawful speech.
There are people like myself and Professor Dennis Hayes, the
director of Academics for Academic Freedom, who believe
that all free speech, all speech is just speech.
And there's, there shouldn't be anything lawful about any words
because there's no actual violence or anything taking
place. But there's that's another
debate. Step 2 is asking if there are
any reasonably practical practicable, that's a difficult
word to say, steps to secure the speech and if yes, take those
steps and do not restrict the speech.
The guidance illustrates other factors that may affect or not
affect what is reasonably practicable.
So we need to read the guidance for that.
And step three are any restrictions prescribed by law
and proportionate under the European Convention on Human
Rights. And I would have to say that
this is one of the things that happened to me was because I
have my own views on sex and gender, for example, that those
were one of the reasons that I lost my academic career.
So let's look separately a bit at both students and academics
and how this will affect them. Here's another video from the
Office for Students explaining to students that they do have
the right to free speech after all.
Music. So that's all good to see and
and good to hear, but I'm terribly not concerned after,
you know, working for 20 years in the university system and
especially the past few years that students are not going to
be able to cope with us very well because they're coming in
with a lot of mental health problems.
An idea about well-being and what that means, especially
those that survived through the lockdowns and weren't able to
actually learn social skills. Universities are sort of
coddling these students as well, providing these so-called safe
spaces on campus where students can go and cry and have someone
make a cup of tea and have a therapy dog, as they call them.
And so I'm not terribly concerned that this, I'm
actually quite concerned that students will not be able to
handle this if it actually comes into place.
On the side of the academics, there was a survey that was
released last week as well by the office for students talking
about how they have perceived academic and free speech on
campus. This was conducted last year in
March and April of 2024. The interesting thing to note
here is that 77% of the academics who responded identify
as left wing, with only 9% being in the center, 14% being right
wing. Now I don't believe in left and
right dichotomies anymore when it comes to politics, but that
just kind of kind of goes to show where they're coming from
in terms of their positioning. The other thing as well to note
is that there was around, according to the survey, around
1/5 of them do not. Feel free to discuss challenging
our controversial topics in their teaching and their
research. That increased up to 34% of them
who come from ethnic minority backgrounds, which I also
thought was interesting. These were similar scores in
terms of research and teaching, public speaking, social media.
Worth noting for me as a female academic who is no longer a
female academic is that a fifth of the female academics say that
they did not feel free to discuss their ideas and their
research as I was counselled for doing so, compared to one in 10
or 11% of male academics saying the same things.
So the risk seems to be higher for female academics, including
me, because I was very senior for the majority of them who did
experience negative treatment, investigations, disciplinary
procedures and so on. 38% of this was due to views on sex and
gender such as mine, and 27% based on international politics,
which again, was one of my situations that I talked about
as well. So we can see here that these
things are happening. I'm not entirely convinced that
having that many 77% of people who are identified as left wing
is not really going to benefit those of us who did not have
left wing ideas. So I would imagine that these
scores would be even higher for those of us who are not
so-called left wing. Brian.
Diane, thank you very much for that.
And I've just picked up on, of course, people listening in will
have only heard the music in the video.
So we'll say a discussion on what free speech is and why it's
important in academia and for for students.
And one of the key things is because you need free speech in
order to generate new ideas, which that's a pretty powerful
argument in its own right. So encouraging from you that we
are starting to see a bit of a backlash out happened but a lot
more work to be done. But take us somewhere brighter
to end today's UK column News with Diane.
Yes, brighter, assuming that we still have the sun in the
future. And I say that because I I
watched the live stream that Sonia Poulton provided of the
geoengineering rally in London on Saturday, which we have been
advertising and mentioning on the news for the past few weeks.
And unfortunately, none of us from UK column were able to make
it to London for the event. But watching the live stream, it
seemed like there was a pretty high vibration sort of
atmosphere, kind of similar to what you would experience if you
came to one of our on location events or like in the freedom
rallies that we had in 2020 and 2021 when people were protesting
the lockdowns and the mandates. I heard from a lot of members on
Saturday and Sunday because I was posting about watching the
the live stream and from my home here and I got some photos sent
to me directly that they they gave me their express permission
to provide on the news. Here's one from Mark wearing his
UK column T-shirt, which he said got some compliments.
So that was really good to hear. So I guess we were actually
represented by some T-shirts and so on, even though none of us
were able to make it. So that was really good to see
it. And it was good to see that that
there's such a good environment for sort of such a discussion of
what is of course a serious topic to many of our members.
So, but really good to see that. Joanne, thank you very much.
Yes, huge thank you to everybody supporting the column.
We're here because of you. And we do remember that every
day. We must finish today's news.
A lot of heavy material today. It needs to be put on the table.
Don't get distracted with everything happening overseas.
The biggest danger we believe, is in this country, and it's
unfolding really quickly. Let's get it exposed.
Joanne, thank you for joining me.
Ben, thank you for joining me. Stay with us if you're AUK
column member. Extra time in a few minutes and
we will see you then. In the meantime, bye bye UK
column news. We'll be back on Wednesday at
1:00.