Good afternoon, today is Monday the 8th of September 2025, just
after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
I'm your host Brian Garish, delighted to have Ben Rubin with
me in the studio and Diane Rasmussen Mccaddy will be
joining us on a live link from the North East of England.
Probably the first thing for me to say.
And of course you can all see it on your screens.
It's an utterly beautiful day here in Plymouth.
It's warm sun shining, obviously blue sky there in the
background. So we've got a lovely setting
for today's news, which is just as well because over a number of
months UK column has been saying to our audience, if you can't
understand what is happening in politics in the UK but also
elsewhere in the world, try getting your mind into the idea,
the concept that we are being attacked by our own government
and its agents. And I think really that theme
sticks with us for, excuse me, today's news.
So Ben, you're going to be kicking off with states within a
state. We're going to be having a look
at the militarisation of UK. We're going to be looking at
that continued attack on the minds of children, Children
particularly via books. And we're also going to be
looking at so-called agents of chaos.
And we're going to be looking at the people who've been appointed
in positions of power with regard to protecting individuals
from sex abuse. And finally, we're going to get
into a little bit of what life should be like having a look at
a big rural show. So we are going to end on a
higher plane. But first of all, we need to get
through some pretty serious reporting as to what's taking
place in UK, Ben. Thanks Brian.
Good afternoon everybody. And it was a tumultuous week
last week in the Labour Cabinet. And I think it's fair to say
that the age of Angela Rayner has ended and the era of David
Lammy has begun. David Lammy has been elevated.
He is now the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for
Justice and Deputy Prime Minister, a heartbeat away from
running the country, as they say.
But who would Lammy be running the country for?
The British nation as a whole or a small, racially segregated
subset of the British people at the expense of everybody else.
It's a big question. And for some clues as to the
answer, I think we can head to this event that was held earlier
on this summer in the University of Cambridge celebrating David
Lammy's 25 years in public service.
Look at his smile on his face. He's absolutely loving this he.
Looks very pleased. He looks very pleased with
himself. What's all this about?
Let's hear from the host. This is from Lord Wooley.
What an honour, what an evening. Friends came out to share
stories of how their lives and hopes had entwined and bonded
with the working class kid from Tottenham who now stands as the
most powerful black political figure in Europe, Capital B on
black. Remember that Brian?
And when David took the mic and scanned the room, he paused,
took a knowing deep breath and said.
I'm amongst many dear friends. We've done so much together.
There's so much more to do, so much more to do working
together. What was this event all about?
It was about black excellence working Better Together.
Let's have a little read of some of this.
Black excellence working Better Together emerges as a bold and
necessary outcome of this landmark dinner convened by
Baron Woolly of Woodford. Woolly spelt incorrectly.
By the way, there's 2L's in Woolly Aaron Wooley with the
presence of the Right Honourable David Lammy MP, Secretary of
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.
As I said, this is a few months ago now goes on to read.
This exceptional gathering of distinguished leaders and change
makers marks the beginning of a visionary agenda towards 2030
Big year that and beyond, and is centred on fostering, curating
and harnessing the power and collective prosperity of people
of African and Caribbean descent in the United Kingdom and across
the wider diaspora. Alami is part of a network that
is seeking to build power and prosperity for Afro Caribbean
people in the UK and elsewhere on earth at the expense of
everybody else, not the British people as a whole.
Based on what that says, this event was held in his honour.
This is going to be governing essentially for a discreet
minority of the British people. It goes on to say working
together seeks to ensure that the whole becomes greater than
the dynamics of its parts. It's about creating a network of
connected individuals and culture, politics, industry
elsewhere who are working to further their own ends at the
expense of everybody else. It's a discreet, the powerful
networks, a bunch of people here you can see in the room there
not particularly diverse, which is interesting given that I'm
sure that they spend a lot of time talking about diversity.
It includes the likes of Oswald Barteng on the left there, the
Savile Row. Taylor.
Lord Hastings, currently chair of SOAS, the School of Oriental
and African Studies. He was also former head of
public affairs and corporate social responsibility at the BBC
through the 90s. Former head of citizenship at
KPMG. Big time UNSDG proponent Lord
Hastings, big time, right? So these are people pushing AUN
agenda. That's what's going on here.
And ultimately working to undermine the British system for
their own benefit. That's what this is all about.
This event was convened by Lord Wooley on the right hand side
there, spelled his name correctly for him this time
who's principal at Homerton College in Cambridge, despite
the fact that he can't spell his own name and he is the founder.
Well back in the 90s with the founder of this thing, Operation
Black Vote describes itself as the home of black politics.
This was founded back in 1996. You can see here Lord Willie in
the middle there just to the right hand side of the guy with
the megaphone. Also Lee Jasper on the right
hand side with his hand over the front of the banner.
Very closely linked into the Blair regime.
Spent loads of time lobbying Blair and closely aligned with
the Labour Party which is traditionally the party of
ethnic minorities. One of the reasons why people on
the left are so pro migration ultimately, but linked into all
of the major political parties and also apparently has a very
loose definition of of what black is.
So it's not just Afro Caribbean, it's also basically anyone of
kind of not non-native ethnic identities you can see should be
gone on the right hand side of this picture.
This is from 2010, Lord Mervyn Rees back centre right there as
well. So you know, some very, very
powerful and well connected people here in this network.
Since this parallel network, this state within a state that
is designed to benefit a subset of the population, ultimately it
has to be at the expense of everybody else.
That's certainly the way it seems, Ben.
And of course they're meeting, as those pictures have shown, in
very, very privileged circumstances, winning and
dining. And this is always a key
statement. So members of the black and
minority ethnic groups in UK should be very, very concerned
about what's happening here because this this is the same
sort of privileged structure that's produced people on Tony
Blair's side. So we're heading to the white
side of community. So this is an equivalent.
This is like the dark mirror of what is already in place.
And this isn't not going to benefit black people as a whole
in this country. It's going to benefit the elites
within that community. It's.
Exactly right. That is exactly right.
They are playing the corrupt power game.
They're not trying to make things fairer for the
collective. And it's really important point
to make. Let's bring it back to David
Lammy and bring it up to date. So actually, how does this link
to this Operation Black Vote organization?
How does that link into to Lammy beyond the obvious personal
relationship between Lord Woolley and David Lammy?
Well, Operation Black Vote was the primary inspiration for this
organization. The Black Equity Organization,
which I've spoken about a few times over the past year or two,
launched in 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd situation.
Lammy was a founding trustee. You can see him on the left hand
side there in the centre on this image from from the home page of
the website. What is equity?
What's the difference between equity and equality?
Importantly, well, equality means every person, group of
people or segment of society gets the same opportunities,
resources and support, which I think what we should be aiming
for. But equity apparently goes
further. People with different
circumstances, those who have been historically marginalised
and oppressed, for example, receive varying levels of
opportunities and support so they're able to reach an outcome
equal to others. It levels things up.
This is a quality of outcome. This is by definition this is a
communist system that is being promoted here.
It can only be delivered by a totalitarian state intervening
in the social order on a constant basis.
Someone has to sit in the centre deciding what is equal and what
isn't equal in intervening in order to make it more so, right?
It's a necessary part of this system.
And it's also based on this completely flawed collectivist
worldview, which tells us that all black people are oppressed
and marginalized and all white people are supposedly in
positions of privilege and power, which is completely
ridiculous, even just on some basic analysis, right?
There are plenty of white people in this country who are
oppressed for marginalised, extremely poor, have been
forever. It's, you know, this
generational stuff. And also there are plenty of
what they call black people who are in positions of
extraordinary privilege, particularly if you go to big
cities like London where you have Nigerian Princess and
princesses driving around Mayfair in in Rolls Royces, for
example, you know, there's plenty of that going on.
So, you know, based on a flawed and deliberately manipulative
worldview, and importantly based on a complete inversion of the
actual meaning of the word equity as well, because equity
actually means this fairness or justice in the way people are
treated, and often specifically related to freedom from
disparities in the way people of different races, genders,
etcetera are treated. So actual equity is about
freedom from disparities in treatment.
Black equity wants to introduce disparities in the way that
people are treated in order to artificially reorder societies
is a complete inversion of the meaning of the word equity.
Why is that important? Two reasons.
First one is the black equity organization itself is backed
by, amongst other organisations, some of London's biggest law
firms. So these are top, top
international law firms, A&O, Shearman, Clifford Chance, Fresh
Fields, Slaughter and May Herbert Smith, Free Hills you
can see there on the right hand side, as well as organisations
like Global Council which is run by Lord Mandelson and a whole
bunch of other organisms I can't go into.
There's just so much in here in terms of who's backing this.
But you've got the top law firms whose job is equity backing an
organization which has inverted the meaning of the words.
That's extraordinary to see that happening.
But also, crucially, to bring it right back to where we started,
David Lanning, he's now the Secretary of State for Justice,
and he doesn't understand what justice means.
He thinks it's the opposite of what it's supposed to be.
But he believes in his own view of it.
That's, that's what makes the danger a lot more to report on
this. And as we've said, we're going
to stress that this is something which the black community in UK
need to wake up to very, very quickly because the ultimate
aim, of course, will be to get it everybody at each other's
throats. Now, all of this is taking place
against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine.
And of course, the promotion of the war in Ukraine is that
Russia is going to move further. We should all be very
frightened. And on the basis of that, we've
got to gear up for war. And hence the look at the
segment I've got for our viewers and listeners today, which is
essentially pointing at the militarisation of UK.
First of all, let's have a listen to former Vice President
Pence speaking and his opinion on what Russia will do.
I've no doubt in my mind if Vladimir Putin overruns Ukraine,
it'll only be a matter of time before he crosses a border of a
NATO country where my country and all of our allies will have
to confront him militarily. And so do do you say that the
the president gets that because that is exactly the fear in the
Baltic nations, for instance? And do you say that the US
security guarantee should be boots on the ground?
I've been very encouraged just this week, frankly, by the the
leadership among our allies in Europe to, to formulate the kind
of security guarantees that would that would create the
conditions for a just and, and lasting peace.
I think, I think the United States has made it clear, this
administration has made it clear that there'll be a backstop to
that. But with our European allies in
the forefront. Not surprisingly, Vladimir Putin
has has already begun to rattle his Saber to suggest that
European troops on the ground in Ukraine would be, I think in his
word, legitimate targets. But that that to me tells me
that the efforts of our allies coming together in Europe, a
backstop by the United States American military has captured
Vladimir Putin's attention and may may well be a pathway toward
long term peace. So for me, Ben, a very mixed
message. He's essentially saying be
afraid that Russians are going to come across that border and
into the heart of Europe. At the same time, he says, well,
the Europeans did so well in their recent meeting that
probably Putin's not going to do that.
But of course, this is pumped out with the aim of making
people more and more fearful. And with it comes the branding
of Russia. And of course the kidnapping of
children is one of the key topics.
So this was a Sun headline here. Putin's 35,000 kidnapped
Ukrainian kids sent to frontline to fight for Russia at the
moment they turn 18, Brit spies revealed.
Now This article has got absolutely no factual
information to back up the claim of this headline.
James Mules, who is the journalist who produced this
piece of text, interestingly enough is a former BBC Democracy
reporter. So I would guess he's pretty in
the mould of what the BBC wants to tell the nation, but no
substance or factual information at all.
And what it does refer to is what the Ukrainian government
has said, which is largely propaganda while the fighting
goes on, but also bring kids back.
UA, this charity is mentioned. But again, if we go to look at
where the real detail is about how many children the Russians
have actually captured and sent to the front, it's big on words
and pictures, but there's little evidence.
And this also applies to this one, Save Ukraine, another
charity apparently working to save all these children.
But the reader is provided with absolutely no evidence as to how
many children there are in this predicament.
And of course, a few months ago, the Russians went public to
actually challenge the Ukrainians on the details of
these thousands and thousands of children.
And no details were provided to the Russians either.
So what? How can we summarise this?
Well, it's be afraid. The war is designed to attract
our attention while other things go on underneath, as Ben has
just shown. But let's have a look at this
BBC headline here which is UK launches 250 million defence
strategy to boost jobs. And we'll bring in this little
headline to remind people because the UK column a couple
of weeks ago pointed out that at the moment UK is boasting it's
got more child cadets than soldiers in the British Army.
Now let's have a listen to what the Defence Secretary Healy had
to say about the Ministry of Defence's new role in with
regard to asylum seekers. We're absolutely determined.
What you're seeing from Kier Starmer now is a recognition
that this isn't just the job for the Home Office, it's all of
government effort and we in the MOD will play our part.
We've got planners alongside the Home Office, we're looking at
military and non military sites for potential temporary
accommodation and this is about trying to restore control of our
borders which was lost over the last five or six years and the
confidence of the British people that we can keep them secure and
we can reflect our values. I just want to be very clear
about what you're saying, though.
You say military planners will be involved in helping to manage
what many people see as a crisis in migration.
Are you talking about members of the armed forces being involved
in enforcing our borders? So at the moment we got military
planners involved in helping the border command, we've got them
alongside Home Office planners looking at potential sites and.
Solutions. Make no mistake, we're
determined to end the use of expensive asylum hotels.
We said that we'll do that by the end of the parliament.
Keir Starmer wants to do that before now.
The numbers are coming down, we're processing the
applications that were completely stalled under the
previous government and we're deporting more now than we have
done in recent years. So carefully delivered mixed
messages. If we can't defend the borders
against migrants, we're hardly likely to defend the borders
against Putin. But of course when he was pinned
down on what is the Ministry of Defence doing, he didn't really
give a clear answer. But at the end of the day, this
is more fear factor in the public mind.
This is supposedly the invasion of asylum seekers when the real
attack on UK is the permitted migration with vast numbers of
people coming into this country, with all the pressures on the
infrastructure that brings. But let's just get back to that
250 million defence in industrial strategy and have a
look at some of the meat on those bones.
This is the first statement that the strategy will offer working
families across the country new opportunities.
So this is about war, this is about the munitions, this is
about everything that we need for war.
But it's sold as offering families the opportunity to have
a decent job. You can get more cynical if you
tried. And the strategy is going to be
used in collaboration between local authorities, businesses,
academia and the defence sector. Ben, I'm looking at you because
to me this is the public private partnership at work and we're
not going to be too sure what is actually the big business, the
military industrial. Complex and what is government?
But now this network is drilled down to very low levels in
society and of course presumably anybody who challenges it is
going to be branded a potential terrorist and accused of some
crime against the defence of the nation.
We give you a bit more here. So he went on to say that these
deals offer a new partnership with UK Defence to build on
industrial and innovation strengths that regions already
hold. So there's no doubt this is
being driven right into the fabric of UK, down to local
community and I preferred, say, county level.
Now some of the things that are coming out of it.
Plymouth is going to get a £4 billion bonus to be the UK
national Centre for Marine Autonomy, whatever that means.
I did do some study but it wasn't very clear.
South Yorkshire is going to become a specialist in advanced
materials and steel and submarine and weaponry
components. I didn't know that we were
producing huge amounts of steel bent, but apparently that's
something that's going to change.
We've got Wales becoming the centre frontman, aerial vehicles
and autonomy research. We've got Scotland innovation,
maritime and space technology and finally here Northern
Ireland, the leader in cybersecurity and due use
technologies. And if we reinforce how big this
program is, this is blueprint for one Devonport.
And if you can't read the bottom left hand corner small print, we
can bring that on screen for you.
Devonport 2050 more long range plans been very much of the
Soviet style secure, safe support and what are we looking
at? Apparently a world class secure,
safe, integrated operating and support base for the Royal Navy
and NATO. So this tends to indicate that
NATO is going to be brought even closer into our National Defence
structure and the mission here meet the support and operating
requirements for the Royal Navy and the UK's allies from the
southwest reaching worldwide. Now, excuse me if this is not
enough. The other thing that's happening
at the moment is we're seeing Ukrainian military industry
burying its way into UK. What's the subject?
It's drones. So here's the headline, 200
million Ukrainian drone manufacturer factory.
And this is about Ukraine's largest drone manufacturer,
Ukraine Spec Systems, which has announced a 200 million
investment programme in East Anglia, 11,000 square meter
factory at Mildenhall and a test and training site at Elmset
Suffolk. A project, yes.
The good news? It's going to create 500 jobs
and apprentices, apprenticeships across the region.
What is it actually doing? Producing drones to kill people
in the proxy war in Ukraine? But apparently this is good for
UK society and and industry. This is Maria Eagle MP, defence
procurement minister. She says this 200 million
investment will also improve our industrial base and create up to
500 jobs, driving economic growth and prosperity around the
country, Core elements of our upcoming defence industrial
strategy. And if that's not enough, we've
got another one here as reported in the Kiev Independent.
This is about Ray Bird drones to be built in the UK in a new
joint venture between Ukraine and UK.
And this is a partnership between the Ukrainian Skyton and
Prevail solutions to produce military drones.
And there are more of these. So we're seeing alongside all of
the things that you're pointing out, Ben, we're seeing an
integration of defence in UK with the Ukrainians in much the
same way as we're seeing integration between UK and
Israel without any checks and balances on what's happening.
So let's move on from there. Diane.
If society's being attacked here in UK, of course children are
always at the forefront and you are still on the trail of what's
being presented to children. Yes, thanks, Brian.
It's great to be here today. Hello, everyone.
I received a lot of response last week to the segment that I
did that included the book Granddad's Pride.
So I decided to go back and do a little bit more coverage on this
book as well as the author that wrote it.
So if you haven't seen it from last week's news, I talked about
this book called Granddad's Pride, which showed Granddad and
the grandchild they're taking a trip to, I think, organizing a
pride parade and attending and having a wonderful, diverse and
inclusive time. So I looked at a little bit more
of the things that have been discussed during Granddad's
Pride because it's been such a major thing in social media for
the past couple of years. So here's a book review about
Granddad's Pride by someone who loved it a lot.
Is Pride Month. So for today's Magic Bookmark,
we are diving into the perfect picture book to celebrate Pride
Month with It is Granddad's Pride by Harry Woodgate.
Take a look inside book. There's stories to explore.
They'll let you see who you could be and teach you so much
more. They'll take you on a journey.
It's kind of lighter spark. Let's turn the page with the
magic bookmark. Be who you are.
It's the magic bookmark. Granddaddy Pride is the follow
up to Harry's first picture book, Granddaddy Camper.
And in this one, Millie the granddaughter discovers a pride
flag in Granddaddy attic and wants to know what it's all
about. And eventually, she ends up
organizing a Pride in their local village.
And oh, it will just make you feel so wonderful because Harry
demonstrates that Pride is about being inclusive of everyone
who's LGBTQIA plus, but it's also about bringing communities
together. As with all of Harry's book, the
pictures are absolutely incredible.
But I especially love these. And then there's some amazing
signs we've got this one. Queer, disabled.
Fabulous and out and proud trans kids are magic.
But this is the image that really has struck with me
because it's someone who has the scars of their top surgery and
that's such a wonderful and simple thing to put in a picture
book but that is going to make people feel so included and
loved. So go and celebrate your Pride
Month with Granddad's Pride by Harry Woodgate.
So clearly meant for children, clearly quite intense.
So I went back to look at a granddad's camper and I have
bought a copy of that as well. So maybe we can look at the book
itself a little bit more in extra.
But let's just take a look at the cover of it now.
Basically this is the first book of this author, Harry Woodgate,
which I'm going to talk about here.
Just bits. This book is about Millie the
granddaughter again and granddad.
And granddad is sad because Gramps is no longer around.
I don't know if he passed away, I don't know if they broke up.
But anyway Gramps is sad away, Granddad is sad, everyone is
sad. But then Millie is able to cheer
everyone up because granddad and Billy decide to go in a
so-called adventure in Granddad's camper.
So after they fix up the camper they decided that they were
going to go out and enjoy the camper.
And then the the books in the book ends by saying from
granddad quote, your gramps would be so happy to see this.
It's what he would have wanted. I think we should pack some
snacks and hot chocolate and we can go and camp on the beach
just like we used to. So then granddad was cheered up.
Great for granddad. So it's all a wonderful ending.
We don't really know what happens.
We might not want to know what happens.
But anyways, we hear that there is some sort of an adventure and
the book ends there. And then we proceed to the next
one, which is Granddad's pride. So I looked a little bit more
into this author, Harry Woodgate.
So this is what the the screenshot from Waterstone has
about Harry Woodgate's. It's quite a bit of information
on him on his website as well. Oh, sorry, Harry Woodgate's
pronouns. Are they them?
Sorry for misgendering Harry. His picture book, his debut book
was Granddad's Camper, which I just showed you, which won the
best Illustrated Book at Waterstone's Children's Book
Prize 2022, followed by Children's Illustrated Book of
the Year at the British Book Awards in 2023.
It received notably a Stonewall Book Award honor from the
American Library Association and was nominated for the Stilip, so
my former Library Professional Association's Greenway Medal for
illustration. Also, he's won other awards from
the week, Junior Book Awards, Little Rebels Prize, Diverse
Book Awards, etcetera. This is another book that he
illustrated called Queer and Fearless Poems celebrating the
lines of LGB lives of LGBTQ plus heroes.
So Harry was an illustrator of this book.
We also have a little bit, there's still there's there's
Harry. They themself on Harry's website
and we also, I believe, have a video of Harry talking about the
university that Harry attended, the University of Hertfordshire,
talking about how inclusive and equitable it was to attend the
university. So let's hear what Harry had to
say. When I was at the university, I
really found it to be a really sort of inclusive open space,
especially like going to the RGBT society.
So it was really important for me to to include like RGBT
representation in the books I write for kids because.
It's a normal part of life. So we see this and it's very
obviously difficult to watch. It's difficult for me to talk
about. So let's talk a little bit about
what we can do what, what can we put in front of children?
This was surprisingly an article from the Telegraph that was
quite good that I, I want to thank the viewer who sent this
to me a few days ago. And they, the viewer said to me,
why can't children read the books that are listed on this
article instead of the books that I report on?
This is called the 50 best children's books of all time.
It actually does have some good books from the past and from the
present that don't contain this kind of sexualization of
children ideology that we don't want children to be seeing.
Obviously. Also, there's another book that
I want to talk about by an author that I met at the
Wilsingham show over the weekend that I'll be talking about the
show later on in the news. This book is called Noah's
Rocket and it's actually a really fun book to read by the
author called Tony Frace. I met him and he had a stand at
the show. Tony did not know anything about
the ideology that is being presented to children because
he's a self published author. This book was written in 2004
that I'm talking about here. So this was before this was
putting, being put in front of children with all of the
ideology and the content that we don't want them to see because
20 years ago, this was just not a thing in libraries the way it
is now. But he, he also said as well
that this book is particularly good for children with autism
and special needs, which is not something that he planned.
I just thought it was interesting to note this because
we've obviously done some work with the autism highlighting
the, the, the difficulties that children have and parents have
who are living with autism. But he had some testimonials
from parents and carers who take care of children who have these
special needs, as well as a book review by someone from the Leeds
Autism Surface who said that it was particularly good.
So it was easy to read. The chapters were broken down
nicely, big font size. The the the story is very
positive. The message is very positive
that there are good people left in the world.
And I read it yesterday morning and enjoyed it very much, maybe
on an adult level, but I would say that it's very enjoyable for
both children and adults. So I would highly recommend
checking this one out for everyone who's looking for
something good to read. Diane, thank you very much for
that. And yes, this is a good message,
isn't it? If we know about good books for
children, these are the ones to be promoting giving as gifts and
encouraging proper material to go into the minds of young
children. Your report there clearly having
an effect on the some of our audience who I've got to say,
we're appalled that this stuff is being pushed forward for
children, but this is without doubt a deliberate attack.
Now let's move on to the nicer things in life and a huge thank
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If you haven't got a ticket opportunity to buy one now,
let's move on. And Diane, you've got an
interview here with an ordinary man who extraordinarily question
the COVID injections. Sorry, he's struggling there a
bit. Yeah, yeah.
He calls himself an ordinary man, but I really don't believe
that he is. His name is Tim Coulter and he
is a member of the Standard of the Park group that I am a
member of here in the North East of England.
He's a retired architect. He took action against the COVID
injections. He's quite a humorous and well
informed man. We did this interview at at his
home in a beautiful village in Northumberland, as you can see,
overlooking a, a, a beautiful naturescape that he lives in.
And so we recorded this obviously on location at his
home. And I would just like to think
we the people Northeast for filming this for us that please
join us tomorrow. There's a lot of special
surprises in the interview. So please join me and and enjoy
Tim tomorrow at 1:00. Brilliant diet.
Now you've also got some articles highlighted from the UK
column website. Yes.
This one in particular I want to talk about this is by Hugh
McCarthy, who's the retired head teacher who does a lot of
writing for us in from Northern Ireland.
And this one was published the week before last.
But if we can go to the next slide, we'll see here that
there's a bit of a testimonial from Tess Laurie, who is going
to be of obviously one of our speakers in New York.
And she said, I highly recommend this reflective article as well
as the links to UK column news in this article by retired
headmaster Hugh McCarthy. In my opinion, UK Column is
currently the best media organization reporting on the
UK. If you have finally had enough
of the BBC and want a trustworthy source of British
news, I highly recommend UK Column.
So I hope that everyone can join us in New York and thank Tess
for her review of a few and of UK Column.
And I, I have some breaking news as well.
I just want to add in quickly from Hugh, who emailed me this
morning to say that in Stormont that in Northern Ireland, they
have reported that Paul Gibbon, who's the education minister in
Northern Ireland, has recommended that the Education
Authority should immediately withdraw its current transgender
guidance to schools based on the Supreme Court ruling that we had
earlier this year. And I want to say that Hugh has
done an amazing job of of working to alert Stormont as to
what's been going on related to the Supreme Court hearing and
that our articles and our publication of his articles have
made apparently a big difference in making this happen in
Northern Ireland. So huge congratulations to Hugh
and those who have been working with him.
I think it's a wonderful news for Northern Ireland.
Right, OK, We've also got a food and health festival here, Diane.
Yes, this is taking place on the 28th of September up in
Edinburgh. I hope everyone can join us.
The tickets are free, there'll be a range of suppliers and
talks. A major highlight I believe as
well is that I will be there as a member of Common Knowledge
Edinburgh, which is organizing this event, but also Charles
Mallett will be coming to speak to us at the at the festival.
So please join us. Again, tickets are free and
still available. Excellent.
And lastly, our old friend UNESCO.
Well, last week was a big week for UNESCO.
They had a digital learning week in Paris.
And I'm just starting to get into the videos and the content
and the the hundreds of pages of policies and reports they have
published in relation to this. And mostly it's about AI and the
future of education and questioning the the role of
human teachers in this day and age.
So next week I expect to have a a more full report on the event.
OK, excellent. Thank you.
Thank you very much for that, Ben, Let's bring you back on.
And you're looking at Agents of Chaos.
Absolutely, and specifically the question RGB News, its
presenters, its financial backers, and other people in its
orbit deliberately trying to cause breakdown in society for
their own benefit. Or are they are they change
agent puppets being used? All that, but actually, are they
just actually trying to, are they, are they making money out
of this situation that's being constructed around this in
society? And well, let's have a little
look. Specifically, I'm focusing on
this guy, this Paul Marshall, Sir Paul Roderick Lucas
Marshall, should I say, British hedge fund manager, estimated
net worth of over £800 million, a major funder and backer of GB
News, owner of unheard. He bought the Spectator, he
tried to buy the Telegraph. Massive figure in what could be
called the right wing nationalist media space,
extremely powerful and influential.
Importantly, and I, I mentioned this on the news last year, I'm
just going to reiterate it because I think this is this is
incredibly pertinent given what's going on around us at the
moment. His wealth primarily came from.
A hedge fund called Marshall Waste that was started through a
5050 joint venture with George Soros.
Who he George Soros is this guy, founder of Open Society
Foundations, giving away more than $32 billion to fund that
network. It's about opening up societies,
breaking down borders, proposed promoting mass migration and the
associated social and cultural transformation of of Western
nations in particular massive donor to Black Lives Matter over
the years. And also importantly to this
organization, International Rescue Committee, again that I
spoke about last year, led by David Miliband, currently former
foreign secretary under Tony Blair.
And IRC is about supporting refugees coming into the UK and
helping them integrate into British society.
That's what IRC is about. And GB News, backed by Paul
Marshall, is very concerned about the migrant crisis that is
happening as a consequence of the activity of people like
George Soros and the International Rescue Committee.
And ultimately these are backed by the same man, right?
So George Soros is putting money into IRC and left wing figures
like David Miliband and also creating supposedly right wing
nationalist billionaires like Paul Marshall who's been
marshalling these media assets to push that political agenda.
And what's that causing in society?
It wasn't chaos, chaos and breakdown, conflict on the
streets. This is a picture from August
last year, the riots across the north of England.
And this creates huge opportunities for international
investors to come in and buy up assets on the cheap, whether
that's property or companies, whatever it might be.
Well, I'm selling technologies to the bio security state.
So for example, if you know you're a big shareholder in one
of the companies building digital ID systems, then that'd
be quite good for you if this happened.
And also betting against the banking system, importantly,
right, because George Soros, we go back to 1992 very famously
was described as the man who broke the Bank of England.
This was Black Wednesday in 1992, thirty three years ago
next week actually. And essentially, he didn't
actually break the Bank of England.
The, the, the people running the Bank of England broke the Bank
of England. George Soros just made about a
billion pounds on the day as you do and as you do from from
basically betting against the bank short selling the pound and
he's he's at it. This is his MO's One of the
things that he does to make his money, the billions he's made
over the years. Paul Marshall does it as well as
you would expect. So Marshall Waste hedge fund
made $36 million, not quite a billion, but still not a bad
day's work, actually betting on the collapse of Banco Espirito
Santo back in 2014 as a Portuguese bank.
And so he was short selling. And this is still a strategy
that Marshall Waste use. This is a classic hedge fund
strategy. They talk about it on their
website. So, you know, should we assume
that Waste and his his his company are betting against the
British economy? I think the man on the Clapham
omnibus may think that. I think they probably would have
to think that it makes sense and actually it might be
irresponsible of him not to bet on the collapse of the British
economy, You know what I mean? Take the point, Ben.
No, no, like as someone running a hedge fund, you know, maybe he
has to do that. Then at the same time he's got
media platforms that are pushing breakdown in, in British
society. They're building a narrative of
civil war, civil conflict, people fighting on the streets
and actually the, and very specifically a financial crisis.
So this is not actually from GB News.
This is from Jacob Rees Mogg's personal YouTube channel.
But Rees Mogg is a high profile GB News presenter as well as
being a conservative politician. He's on the GB News twice a
week. He has a show called State of
the Nation. And what he's talking about here
in his own YouTube channel is not just if there's going to be
a financial crisis, but the fact that there is one.
And he's actually querying how serious it's going to be.
Yeah. So he's actually saying that
this has already happened, Right.
And he's also talking about jumping ship to Reform,
interestingly. And GB News are working hand in
glove with Reform at the moment. In fact, the it's almost, it's,
it's impossible to, to separate the two organisations really,
because you've got Farage and Lee Anderson earning hundreds of
thousands of pounds. They're both Reform members of
Parliament. They're earning huge amounts of
money from Reform from GB News, happening for several years now.
And what's reform all about? Well, let's take a little look
at what happened at the Reform Conference over the weekend.
That's Andrew Jenkins, former Conservative member of
Parliament, currently reform mayor of Greater Lincolnshire.
And Singer. Let's say she probably shouldn't
give up her day job, right? I mean, I don't even know what
she's like as a politician. But that was, I mean, that was
the amateur hour and, you know, wearing a spangly jumpsuit.
And I mean, what, what is that? Is that is that a serious
political party? It's just, well, it's just.
But all of this razzmatazz is to capture the audience, to bring
people in, in my opinion. Well, I don't know at least
bring in, but if you're an international investor, if
you're looking and putting money into the UK or backing our
economic system or thinking about the the how robust our
society and our economy is and is going to be into the future,
then promoting that is the the new wave of political leadership
in the country. Is, is, is not what you would be
doing. Yeah, You know, so it strikes me
that they're deliberately trying to make us look like a
laughingstock, quite frankly, you know, and and actually the
singing didn't in there. I know Mike didn't want to show
this, but we are just going to have a little listen to Andrew
Jenkins and the the reform leadership singing the national
anthem as well. So I think we should have put
out a warning before that that was shown Ben.
It was utterly dreadful what what is going on?
This has got to be a front to draw people in and to ultimately
control them. But notice the corruption of our
national flag presented in different colours with the word
change strapped across it. So I think we're beginning to
get a real insight now into what this political party is and
where it is going to go. I'm sure you do more on it if we
deal with some of the serious matters going on in this
country. Sex abuse has has always been
one. Now this is ABBC headline which
I picked up on this morning. It's where the headline says ex
Sergeant major admits sexually assaulting soldier who then went
on to take her own life. Now this is a truly tragic and
very, very sad case. But I think we need to ask the
question, was the Army's procrastination over
investigating what has taken place?
And the family are saying the cover up into what took place
and led to the tragic death of this young lady Is this
procrastination and the cover up because of the overall failings
of diversity in military policy. Now this is a very emotive
subject. UK column has been touching on
it for some time. But many people would say that
women were brought into the military for the specific reason
to create problems. Now this in no way justifies
what the Sergeant Major may or may not have done.
What we are talking about is the fact that we've had a diversity
policy introduced, which since it's inception, if I remember
correctly, it was about 1991 for the Royal Navy.
We've had problem after problem. So the sexes being played off
against each other, the chaos that you've been intimating been
taking place in the military. And at the end of the day,
people are being hurt. But of course this is not just
going on in the military. This is a report from the BBC
about harass, sexual harassment which is occurring between
barristers. So we're now into the law courts
and the chambers of these individuals.
So the headline from AKC called Eve is that one of the other
barristers put his hand down tights and this was actually
repeated before the lady was able to force this individual
off. But a review has said that
sexual harassment is widespread amongst barristers.
Now who has been conducting the review?
Well, of course it was Harriet Harman, as stated on the
previous slide there. This is just one of the quotes
from a bullying, harassment and sexual harassment is a problem
at the bar and on the bench, within chambers and courtrooms,
in open court and behind robing room doors.
So Baroness Harriet Harman is the lady put in charge of
dealing with this problem. But of course, some of us have
got a long memory about this lady.
And if we're going back into the mid 90s and further back into
the very late 80s, early 90s, we've got the fact that she was
involved with the National Council for several liberties as
the legal officer at a time when NCCL was supporting the
Paedophile Information Exchange. And much has been written on the
fact that Harriet Harman appeared to take no action to
distance her organization from this PIE organization that was
clearly promoting sex with very young teenagers and or children.
So part of the reports here did in fact also come out in the
BBC. And the part of the quote to
this article is that the NCCL of which Harriet Harman was a part
continued to defend having the organization PIE as a member.
As late as 1983, an NCCL officer was quoted in the Daily Mail
saying the group was campaigning to lower the age of consent to
14. And that is a very mild
statement because much other evidence showed that this
organization was absolutely promoting paedophilia with very
much younger children. So, Ben, I don't know what your
reaction is, but is Harriet Harman the safe pair of hands to
protect ladies within the legal system or any other persons in
the UKI would suggest not. And so that we understand how
bad the situation is. This is part of the article
reports on Harriet Harman herself.
It says in her report, Harman writes about a fee page judge
who had sex in his judicial chambers more than 15 years ago.
Paul Curtly was found to have committed misconduct and issued
with a formal warning. He remains on the bench.
And this really is where we start to spell out that Harriet
Holman, I would suggest with her Labour colleagues, later New
Labour colleagues, was actually promoting, helping to promote
actions which clearly place members of the community at
risk. And we are now reaping the
so-called rewards in what we see happening in wider society
today. So a lot of questions to be
asked around these individuals, their networks and what they
would, what they were trying to achieve within UK society.
Diane, let's bring you back with us.
And of course, abuse of women through the FNAFI system.
UK column has reported on a great deal but that's now moving
forward with the court case coming up I think.
Yes, thanks, Brian. I I received some updates from
Lynn Sheeran who was you've interviewed previously as part
of your Gutsy Women's series as one of the leaders of the fights
for justice for the Fidelity Residential School survivors.
She told me that as reported by the BBC earlier this year that
one of the former staff of Fanethi would be facing trial.
That trial is now scheduled to start on the 22nd of September
and will finish on the 20th of October in the Glasgow High
Court as she faces a total of 26 charges alleged to have happened
at Fanethi and Angus between 1967 and 1983.
According to the BBC, which lists a string of allegations of
quote, cruel and unnatural treatment of the girls,
including claims of physical violence.
So we will be watching that trial with great interest.
I would also like to mention Colin Smith, who I mentioned
briefly when we did our live news at the Hope Festival a
couple of weeks ago. He's AMSP Labor member who while
he's no longer in Labor, he's been expelled from the Labor
Party. He's been the one leading the
fight for the petition and scribes Parliament for these
survivors of For Nothing to access the child abuse redress
scheme in Scotland. He's scheduled now to appear on
the 24th of September in Dumfries Sheriff Court.
And why is that? Well, he's been charged in
connection with alleged possession of indecent images of
children and also he has allegations against him that he
had placed a hidden camera in a cubicle inside the loo in the
Scottish Parliament. So he's denied these allegations
that there are questions obviously that people have
raised. We don't know for sure.
Did he really do these things? Is it a setup by the Labour
Party? Is it possible that they're all
doing these kinds of things and he's just been called out
because of this case coming up with Fernette either?
These are all allegations, nobody really knows.
But just to say that we need to be watching this trial carefully
as well, since he's been the leader for their fight for
justice for the last few years. Yes, Diane, thank you for that.
So there's a lot more to come out about for Nathi and UK
column will be working with the ladies more.
We're looking to do another interview shortly with another
individual who unfortunately suffered that system.
So more and more of the women are coming to light as time goes
on. But the establishment seems to
drag its heels over the investigation and indeed
prosecution. So and take us on to some better
things. And you've been there visiting
County Durham show. Yeah, so over the weekend I
attended the Wolsingham Show, which according to their website
is County Durham's biggest and best open air show and also
England's oldest. So it was over the weekend, as I
said, and I, I want to take you through some good and bad parts
of it. So I want to do a few things
here with this. First of all, I just have some
images we'll go through quickly of things I took when I that I
saw when I was there just to kind of lift things up a bit.
There's some giant tortoises that were near the entrance to
the show. We have of course, the usual
sort of horses of horse riding, horse shows, goat shows, sheep,
you know, the all of those sort of farm animals you would expect
to see at a country show. It was particularly interesting
to see the the tractor races and the tractor pulls and watching
all that CO2 being emitted up into the sky with vintage
tractors. So lots of tractors, lots of old
cars. Again, lots of CO2 emissions
taking place, I'm sure. Of course, you can't have a
country show without guns. So here's a rifle arranged
Bolton branch. There was a very small gun
display from what I understand. I didn't go into that one, but
that's what I heard up here was a man drawing tractors.
So it's nice to see people doing some sort of something artistic.
And he was selling some of the work for sale there right behind
him. And I really enjoyed seeing some
of the the local crafts because it was all things based here in
counties around the Northeast. Jewelry, different kinds of
crafts. This was sea glass, which is a
famous in the area because of that can be found on the shore.
Ugly pots we also have as well. These were just a couple that
decided to start this business to create these ugly pots that
were for sale. Different things on them.
There were some bands that we enjoyed listening to.
This was the Bebops. Somebody called her the just in
in the audience, somebody said, oh, this is the Dolly Parton of
the Northeast. She was actually quite spirited,
enjoyed that as well. These were some Christmas
crafts. So we had the craft shows on
display. People, you know, different
people of all ages making crafts and having was judged.
I bought a couple of local foods.
I guess you could say this is local honey from bees that it's
been distributed and and made in County Durham because I left the
dogs alone all day. I felt really guilty about that.
So I bought them some premium duck treats that were local as
well. So they got venison duck and
pheasant and Partridge. They've enjoyed the pheasant and
Partridge so far today. And again, it gets a bit
dystopian here. This was a a display from a
security company that showed these kind of robot looking
things, which really didn't seem to fit in with the overall good
feelings that were at the show. But that was something that they
were trying to sell, I guess, for security equipment for your
farm. I'm not entirely sure.
I didn't talk to anyone but this was a piece of artwork showing
all of the rubbish. This was done by some Cubs in, I
forget which school it was somewhere here in the northeast
where they were. They're making artwork out of
rubbish. So there's I guess, some
Sustainable Development goals things going on there.
This was displayed from The Farming of the Future from the
UK Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs. And so they had a lot of
information that they're on display.
I picked up several of their cards.
Maybe I can talk about this more an extra, but one in particular
was them showing that, you know, what are we going to do about
20-30 that's coming up. So we can see as well here in
another booth, we have no farmers, no food, no future.
Now half price was £50, now 25. But back in the, the farming
booth there we had cards out saying asking what do you hope
the farming sector will look like by 20-30?
And that was the card that I took a photo of.
And people were asked to respond to that by putting in their
responses to say, well, this is what we think it will look like.
So we'll talk about stop that some more an extra.
But I, I just want to say that, you know, it was interesting to
think about how how much fun that was.
But that ultimately, as I heard somebody comment, if, if the
people in power have their way, these kinds of shows would no
longer exist because these kinds of things won't be allowed to be
happening anymore, especially when it comes to farms and just
families having a good time and enjoying local ingredients.
So we need to keep these things going, Brian.
Absolutely. And yeah, it's, it's very
interesting to see that government policies are brought
right into these sorts of rural shows in, in order to help mould
people's opinions. And as we discussed prior to the
to the news in the in the question, if I bring this one
just up on the screen, it's asking what do you hope the
farming sector will look like by 2030?
So as usual, nothing about the present and getting on with life
and making the best of each day and producing food on a daily
basis. This is all drifting people's
minds into utopia in the future. But great to see that farming
and rural communities still alive and well.
And as you say, Diane, a very, very important part of our
culture and we all need to help support it.
Now, before we finish today, we're just going to show a
little clip. This was amusing in my eyes.
But this is Sky Australia commenting on the illustrious
Mr. Lammy. People here might not know David
Lammy. David Lammy is the new Deputy
Prime Minister now. David Lammy has never been known
as a great, shall we say, intellectual genius of of London
political circles. This footage of him on a
celebrity quiz show has just emerged.
I just have a. Look, yeah, play along.
It's probably the case that only that trans women don't have
ovaries, but a cervix I understand is something that you
can have following various procedures.
And hormone treatment. And there's also been other
clips of him where he went on a quiz show and he didn't know
that he thought that they were, that it was The Godfather and a
whole bunch of other. Things and he also once even
when they were trying to find a new Pope and the BBC tweeted
about will there be black smoke or white smoke, which is of
course how the Vatican announces the vote has been successful
said do we have to make this a racial.
Thing. That's how dumb he is.
And being mocked overseas. And Diane, let's finish on the
government's alert system. I think we should have the alert
system warning about the government, but what did you
get? Yeah.
So I'm not sure how many people experienced the the warning
alerts that came out yesterday at 3:00 PM.
This first started, I believe it was in 2022.
I think it's what Kenny reminded me of.
And, and, and so this was back when we were supposed to be
scared three years ago. At the time, I turned off the
extreme and the severe alerts on my phone, and they're still off
to this day. But this was from earlier this
year, from January, saying that at some point this year we were
going to have the Armageddon alert that will override
millions of Brits phones and trigger a loud siren and what to
do if you're driving because apparently it was going to be so
scary that if you were driving, you might actually crash your
car. So for those of you who may have
experienced this on Sunday, I know some people had a really
loud sound. Brian, I know you said yours was
quieter. But this was from GB News on
Facebook that I saw alerting us what was going to happen over
the weekend, saying that this emergency alert could trigger
heart attacks days before the alarm was set to sound on our
phones. So I'm just, I, I know some
people have been turned off, some people didn't get them.
And, and so Brian, you said yours was nice and, and
pleasant. So I would like to hear what
yours sounded like because that's not what I heard from
everyone. Well, Diane, mine was was just a
melodic ring tone. I mean, if it had been a real
crisis and nuclear war, it would have been quite amusing to hear
this soft music and then suddenly somebody's saying
you've all been bombed to pieces.
But the whole thing is sheer madness.
And nobody should take any attention, pay any attention.
It is all designed to ramp up the fear so that the government
can introduce the source of mad policies, which we've covered on
today's news. So let's leave it there.
Diane, thank you very much for joining me.
Ben, great to have you here in the studio.
Huge thank you to everybody who's joined us today, wherever
you are in the world. And finally, once again, thank
you all so very much for the fantastic support you've all
given the UK column. And it's going to be great to
move on from 2025 into exciting things in 2026 for today.
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