Good afternoon, Today is Wednesday the 15th of October
2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK Column News.
I'm your host Brian Gerrish, delighted to have Diane
Rasmussen with me in the UK Column studio in Plymouth.
So welcome to you, Diane. Thanks.
We'll be joined by Vanessa Bailey by Livelink.
And we've got a very busy and I think quite an interesting UK
Column News today because there's an overwhelmingly female
theme to it. Of course.
The series Gutsy Women is one of the series for UK Column News.
Both you, Diane and Vanessa feature on Gutsy Women, but
we've got a number of guests with us today, also women.
So this is really interesting. Now Vanessa, you're going to
kick off with an update on, well, the so-called peace deal
in Gaza. But the more I read, the more
personally I'll become disgusted with how this is being presented
and it seems to be biased purely in favour of what is good for
Israel. But that's my personal take on
it. As I've said, we're going to be
having a look at gutsy ladies and in particular the power of
activism to fight back against the vinicious policies that are
unfolding in the UK. Vanessa's also got a section
having a look at, I beg your pardon, Diane?
Let's bring you in first because you you were talking about
what's happening with education libraries again, and in
particular the grooming and the minds of children.
And you've got a guest, Kathy Mudge, who's going to hopefully
join us to be talking about the activist side as well.
Vanessa's going to be taking a look at Syria and terrible
things to do with children and trafficking.
We're going to end by having another look at activism in a
rather different and rather poignant form.
We've got a very good extra today.
If you're AUK column member, you can join us.
So first of all, Vanessa, welcome.
And what are you, what are you seeing in Gaza?
Well, I mean, it's certainly not a peace deal.
I agree with you there, Brian. It's, it's at best another
ceasefire agreement that's already been violated by Israel.
At worst, of course, it's a peace trap set by President
Trump and his cohorts of ludicrous world leaders that met
with him and Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt.
So let's first of all look at a couple of videos from that
meeting. First of all, Trump making
ludicrous claims about humanitarian aid rolling into
Gaza. So let's roll this.
War in Gaza is over. Humanitarian aid is now pouring
in, including hundreds of truckloads of food, medical
equipment and other supplies, much of it paid for by people in
this room. Civilians are returning to their
home. So according to Trump, aide is
rolling in. We'll come on to that in a
second. But I did just want to show
Starmer in all of his glory. He was basically hidden behind a
plant at the back of the group for most of the meeting.
And when Trump was speaking, he strategically placed himself
directly behind Trump, I think, in the hope that he would be
allowed to speak. And Trump, at some point, calls
him out, and let's see what actually happens.
United Kingdom. Where's the United Kingdom?
Where's our friend? Where?
Come here. Is everything going good?
Very good. It's very nice that you're here.
These people all came in like 2020 minute notice and I think
it's fantastic and we have so many others and just so many
others. Starmer really firmly put in his
place there, obviously expecting to speak and not given the
microphone. But let's move on to more
serious matters. So as I said, Israel is already
cutting back on the amount of aid that is being allowed into
Gaza. Rafa crossing with Egypt is
still shut. The number of trucks being
allowed to enter is about 50% of those that were promised, so 300
rather than 600. And of course, remembering that
there were thousands of trucks coming in on a daily basis when
Gaza was still standing prior to October the 7th.
And effectively the the claim by Israel is that Hamas has not yet
handed over the bodies of the hostages that were killed in the
Zionist bombing of Gaza. Hamas has in effect handed over
some of the bodies but are still searching for them.
Of course, the bombardment since October the 7th destroyed the
equipment that Hamas needs to actually move the rubble and and
identify and find the bodies to hand over to Israel.
And that's also been confirmed by the Red Cross that is also
saying this kind of procedure is going to take weeks, not hours
or days. Then on October the 14th, Israel
violated the ceasefire with deadly attacks on Palestinians,
killing nine people in Gaza that, according to the Israeli
claims, went too close to the new Yellow Line, which the
Israeli forces have withdrawn too.
So they were killed both by God copters, artillery fire and
sniper fire. And then basically as they were
leaving, the Zionist forces burned much of the properties
that they had occupied in Gaza. This is a report in alhahed
English. They torched Gaza homes, but not
only the homes they torched, also the sewage treatment
station and humanitarian aid that was waiting to come into
Gaza was burned, according to multiple reports.
Then also we we mentioned in last week's news that there was
potential for the ISIS factions or the extremist factions that
had been given weapons and were being funded by Israel to turn
against Hamas and the resistance factions in Gaza also being
weaponized once the Zionist forces had withdrawn.
And in fact, they have been conducting a series of
assassinations. This is Gaza's Palestinian
journalist Salah al Jafar. We killed by collaborators, as
it says here, but working with Israel.
So he survived 735 days of bombing attempts on his life and
the genocide, only to be killed by the collaborators with Israel
that Hamas is now trying to root out.
And yes, they have executed members of that group, the
prisoners that are being released.
I think it's upwards of 2000 prisoners that have been
released by the Zionists. Of course, there's thousands
more still in the Israeli jails. This is just one video, some
very moving videos that shows the extent of physical and
emotional torture that these prisoners have gone through.
Some of them have been held for months, some of them have been
held for years. This is just one clip of a
busload of prisoners arriving back in Gaza.
So if we can just play this? And the next images of, I didn't
play the video because it is quite harrowing, this is Doctor
Mohammad Asaliyah. So a doctor that was taken from
the AL Shifa Hospital is now returned to the AL Shifa
Hospital with severe heart pain and seizure after his time in
the Zionist prisons. Let's hope that he can be helped
to recover. And then finally, I just want to
play part of an interview with Professor Haim Brasheed, who's
an associate research fellow at SOAS in the UK.
And he's talking about basically what what I've said many times,
that any ceasefire that is agreed upon by Israel and the
Zionist bloc, including of course, President Trump, is
effectively a way for the Israelis to recover from the
conflict that they're currently involved in, in this case in
Gaza, to pivot towards another. Let's hear what he says.
He does agree with me. United States is doing the
United States is ceding military bases everywhere.
The Chinese are actually building, the Americans are
destroying. So that's the difference between
the two systems now fighting for control.
And Israel is exactly where it belongs because they specialized
in destruction. So I think the implications of a
war against Iran might be very far reaching if the Israelis get
their way. First of all, if the war
happens, which is almost certain, and secondly, if they
get the upper hand, then the destruction is going to advance
in East and Central Asia at at the pace which we haven't seen
yet. So this is the desperation of
the West, which is spreading to military actions everywhere, to
stop what is the trading nation supremacy of China and the
American. So effectively this ceasefire, I
won't call it a peaceful, is in my opinion, the start of
something much bigger. Vanessa, thank you very much for
that. I would say start of something
else which is going to be much worse as it unfolds, but
terrible times. And I know that reporting what
you are or seeing and hearing there in the in the in the
Middle East makes makes a real impact on you.
So thank you for bringing that to us.
We'll be able to discuss a little bit more in UK column
extra after the news. Well, whilst that's the horrors
in Gaza, here in UK, people are faced with an increasing sense
of doom and breakdown. And of course, the lead is from
the BBC. So just a screenshot from me of
their web page earlier today. But we've we're very big on the
the Israeli hostages who who've been saved.
But the rest of it is a mix of pop stars, pressure, breakdown,
sickness, death and depression. And of course, this is backed up
by all of the headlines in the papers.
Some of it is utterly disgraceful.
And for them to call themselves newspapers, I think is just
becoming nearly a joke. But what is all this designed to
do? Well, it's calculated policy is
designed to create chaos, fear, breakdown, strife, anxiety,
confusion and depression in UK. And many people are telling us
here at the UK column how depressed they actually feel as
they see things breaking apart. This is deliberate policy by the
government, the UNI party, it's not accidental.
How are we going to counter it? We're going to counter it by
sensible, measured activism. It's not enough to be at home
and simply saying no, I don't agree with this, you have to do
something. So I'm going to emphasise that
in putting out the UK column Gutsy Women series, I was
acknowledging women who were actually standing up to be
counted. And these were interviews that
I'd done top right Kimberly Isherwood from Public Child
Protection Wales. But of course we've also got the
Fanethy women. So a couple of days ago I was
able to interview Kim Isherwood and I remember this lady has
taken, has taken made a stand against the grooming of children
by the Welsh government, the sexualisation of children in
school and her stand brought other people on board and then
it has gone international. So this is a little interview I
did a couple of days ago where Kim was talking about what had
happened following their visit to the United States and the
World Health Conference, Sorry, the World Health Organization
conference. Kim, you're back with the other
ladies from the States. A little while ago, I was able
to do an interview with you where you were very excited that
your team were going over to Washington to get together with
other people from other countries around the world who
are also concerned at what was happening with the grooming of
children through the education system.
And the plan was that you were all going to challenge the World
Health Organization at their conference.
How did that go? It was quite interesting.
So the World Health Organization is in a building called Pan
American Health Organization. They had a five day conference
there. They are completely untouchable.
They are unreachable. There was a marquee outside
where some people were having tea and considering there was a
five day conference and this building has the World Health
Organization on their sign outside, I'd say about 70% of
people going in and out of our building had no idea what the
World Health Organization was about.
There was no reception desk. There was absolutely no way we
could reach anyone at all. So some people might say that
was a bit of a flop. However, I don't think that's a
flop. I believe that is evidence of
how out of reach these people are, how unaccountable they are
and that that should show people.
That should alarm people though. These people have massive
influence over our education. All four countries in the UK are
adopting their guidance and they are unaccountable, unreachable.
And that I think that is a powerful statement, Brian, and I
think people should be really concerned about that.
So we didn't actually deliver the declaration of childhood to
the World Health Organization. However, that plan hasn't gone
away. We will continue with that.
Even if we have to go to Geneva, we will make our stance on this
situation known one way or another.
So I think that's a powerful message to everyone in the UK.
These people have a lot of influence over our lives, our
children and our children's sexual development and the fact
that they are completely unreachable.
There's, there's no accountability there.
This should be This should scream alarm bells, you know,
for every single person watching this.
This this is a very good point, Kim, because these are the
powerful people, but they're hidden in plain sight in some
ways they're hidden in other ways.
You can you can see them, but they are operating at the global
level. The, these, the, this is the
level of people that when how Keir Starmer says he can work
with Davos or at Davos because he can get something, he can get
things done. These are the very people
forming the policies that Keir Starmer is then implementing
nationally. So yes, you, you by trying to
take them on in a democratic way and not being able to do that,
it highlights how unaccountable they are.
The the other thing which you were very excited about was the
fact that it wasn't just Public Child Protection Wales team that
was going to be there in America.
There was going to be people from other countries.
How did that bit go? Fantastic, Brian.
I think what we found was there are a load of ladies out there
and gentlemen as well with the same heart, the same concerns
and the same commitment as us. And you know, I think that in
itself is very powerful. We've got plans moving forward,
we've got projects moving forward and we have developed an
international task force and this international task force is
going to concentrate on different projects, you know,
throughout this journey. And I, I've got nothing but
admiration for these people. They work in a very similar way
to what we work. And you know, I, like I said,
we, we, we are delighted to have met these people, especially the
ladies from the Reisman Institute as well.
And we do have plans to fly these people over to the UK in
April in time for our conference conference and for stage two of
our plan regarding the bills and legislation that we want enforce
in every country around the world.
Right, let's pick up on one thing straight away, the Reisman
Institute. That's Judith Reisman no longer
with us, but she did so much work to expose the work of
Kinsey and his use of paedophiles to produce so-called
data on children. Horrific stuff.
But that that's one of your key points that that's been brought
into the education system in UK for very young children.
The other thing is, and you just mentioned to me a little bit
before we became Live Today, that you're working now on a
bill which you you want adopted. Tell us a bit more about that,
Bill. So back in the 1990s, Judith
Reisman produced a bill. This bill was to investigate
Fred Kinseys influence over legislation and education.
This pill is supposed to remove all of that stuff.
So this was in the 1990s. It got kicked into the long
grass and the ladies from Purple for Parents United Indiana.
So Audrey, who has worked very closely with Judith for over 30
years, Audrey was a sex educator.
And there's Rhonda Miller who is the CEO of Purple for Parents
United. They have now revived that bill.
And that was the second part of our visit to Washington, DC.
There was an entire day, a full day of meeting congressmen in
their offices, presenting this bill, presenting footage of all
of us from around the world, explaining what it's done to our
country, what it's done to our children.
And that was received fantastic. I think that was the best part
of the whole trip. Highly exciting.
So what we've decided is this needs to be a worldwide
response. So out in America the bills have
got a code for what they call like HR5742 and things like
that. Over here bills are named
something different. So the bill we have produced for
the UK is called the Child Protection and Research Ethics
Bill 2026 and this is what we need everybody to get behind.
We have 17 parent groups who are willing to get behind.
It are their logos and their signatures.
We have two barristers, we have some politicians out there and
even though we are starting the campaign for this in January, we
plan to deliver. This bill to Parliament in
April, during the time that we fly these wonderful ladies over
to the UK, so all you guys will get a chance to meet these
ladies yourself. You can join us in our
conference and we will be going to Parliament to deliver it
then. We're unable to deliver it to
the Senate at that time in Wales because we'll be going through
an election. However, it will be handed in
after the May election has taken place.
This is something we're excited about.
We are not naive enough to think of this is going to go through
first time you know this started in the 90s with Judith and it
was kicking the long grass. But the fact that all of these
countries are on board on this project is tailored to our own
countries needs. We've already got people behind
it. We're going to keep pushing it.
We've got a piece of paper that we can actually fight with now,
Brian, you know, an actual bill, a piece of legislation that
should have been in force a long, long time ago.
So that's something we're massively excited about.
I know our followers are delighted with that as well.
And I cannot wait to see what the the next year brings.
Well what a fantastic woman and she has achieved so much
initially with the drive and enthusiast, her own drive and
enthusiasm, but of course that brought other people on board
and this is the whole point that if we sit and do nothing we
achieve nothing and if we stand up to start doing things we can
achieve a huge amount. So from South Wales to
international, all is the work of this group, Public Child
Protection Wales, we just pop that up on the screen so that
people can see the website. And of course, what are these
amazing women doing? They're taking action to stop
the state sexually grooming children through the education
system. Diane, welcome to the to the
news. And of course, you've been
tracking what's been happening through the universities and the
libraries. What have you got?
Yeah, thanks Brian. Really great to be here in
Plymouth here today and hello to everyone out there.
And also thank you again for making you one of your gutsy
women back in the past. Pleasure.
Thank you. So last week in the American
Library Association was Banned Books Week.
And I want to look at this because we do have direct
connections, obviously with the child grooming that's going on
in libraries and schools and in in the UK and increasingly
throughout the world. So last week with Banned Books
Week, according to the American Library Association and others.
So who is the chair of Banned Books Week 2025?
Actually it's George Takei. Let's hear what George had to
say about Banned Books Week. I'm George Takei, honorary chair
of Banned Books Week 2025 as one of 125,000 Japanese Americans.
Incarcerated in US concentration camps during World War 2, I know
what it means to lose freedom. My graphic memoir, They Called
Us Enemy, tells that story, and it has been banned multiple
times. Why?
Because it reveals unvarnished American history and shows how
freedom can be taken away. Today, books about LGBTQ lies,
including stories like my own, are also being targeted in
schools, libraries and bookstores across the country.
Those who banned books want to lock away ideas they fear.
But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom.
Our freedom to choose what we read and what our children read.
Our freedom to learn our full history, our freedom to see and
understand each other. Banned Books Week is a time to
remind our communities that access to books and knowledge is
essential to democracy. Readers deserve to see
themselves as reflected in the stories we tell and to discover
the stories of others. So together, let's stand up for
the freedom to read so that all Americans can find ourselves and
find eachotherinbookslearnmore@bandbooksweek.org.
So what do you think, Brand? Are there any banned books?
What do you think? Are books being banned?
No, no they're not actually, no. What it does mean though,
however, is that some books, some books maybe are not age
appropriate for children, correct.
And as you might see, George Takai's book is sort of a
graphic novel style, which typically appeals to young
people, which I do not believe is age appropriate considering
some of the content that is in that particular book.
So let's take a look at some of this in greater detail, where
this comes from and where it leads to.
So the American Library Association has something that's
called the Office for Intellectual Freedom, which
actually, if you look at it, is is really kind of the opposite.
We look at things like that go things that go in front of
adults and in front of university students that they
want to ban those things, but they want to put everything
possible in front of children. And that's kind of their whole
agenda. Every library and other
associations are called grassroots organizations, but
they have huge amounts of funding that are part of or
related to in some way the American Library Association.
Here's one of their things they did last week for Banned Books
Week. It's called Read on Tools to
help you prepare for and respond to book challenges.
So what happens in America is that you can actually challenge
books. It's what they call it.
A concerned parents, grandparents, and other citizens
who believe that things like violence, sexual content,
etcetera, should not be placed in children's sections in public
libraries or in school libraries.
So this was an instruction manual essentially, or an
instruction webinar for librarians on how to deal with
the the pesky idea that children should not be looking at certain
things and that parents want to bring this up And what, what can
we do with those horrible homophobic parents?
American Library Association has the top 10 most challenged books
every year. The list from 2024.
The number of books that are mostly LGBTQ or sexualized
content in general is very high. And they're mostly written for
children, not based on the content, but based on the
reading level. So we can say something, it
maybe is for children, but it the content is not just based on
the words that are used in the book.
So I heart Libraries is another one of these organizations that
talks about banned books week in relation to the American Library
Association. They have a whole website.
All of these links to these organizations will be in the
show notes. Amanda Jones I don't know if
anybody remembers when I talked about Miss Jones last year, I
believe it was on UK column. She wrote this book called Bat
Librarian, which has a large range of I wouldn't say that it
was academic or intellectual or library professional
information, but it certainly was a polemic about how much her
life was horrible when people started to challenge the books
that she was putting in front of children.
So if we look at this this information here she is now one
of the world's most influential rising stars in the top 100
according to Time magazine. And she has a wonderful profile
written about her by Sarah Jessica Parker, who is the
executive producer of a documentary that was released
recently called The Librarians, which features librarians like
Amanda who are all about putting sexual content in front of
children. And this is a a quote from the
book that I reviewed for the Scottish Union of Education and
as well as here and UK call them last year.
And I just want to read the words of Amanda Jones that was
in this book that has all kinds of funding behind it.
Quote. Have you ever just wanted to
punch someone in the face with all your might?
Maybe someone has said something awful to you and the thought
crossed your mind that a good ass whipping sorry Ryan would
wipe the smirk off their face and teach them a lesson.
I don't advocate violence, but I have thought about how good it
would be to feel my haters in the groin.
And the haters are the people of course, who are challenging
putting this content in front of children.
The Influence Watch website talks about Ala and we can see
their budget from 2022 is millions and millions of
dollars, $91,000,000 in assets as of 2022.
So there is obviously huge amounts of globalist funding and
other types of funding put it going behind the American
Library Association. This is their number one banned
book from 2024 called All Boys Aren't Blue by George M Johnson.
If I could just quickly read the synopsis from the back cover
there saying George by the way, is they they them?
From getting their teeth kicked out by bullies at age 5, to
their loving family relationships, to their first
sexual experience. Sexual experience.
There we go. Those powerful stories wrestle
with triumph and tragedy, leaving a rich tapestry of
experiences both everyday and extraordinarily.
Covering topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity,
brotherhood, inequality, consent and black joy, George's
remarkable story is a story for us all.
Now you might think, OK, that's fine, he's got a story to tell.
However, if we look at libraries around the UK and around the
West, this one is placed on the shelf in the children's non
fiction section. This is from a library here in
England up in the Northeast in the sort of the Stockton and
Tees. I believe it is from this
library. And we can see the subject
descriptions include juvenile literature, gays, identity,
juvenile literature, teenage non fiction, audience level,
adolescent. And it is placed in the
children's non fiction material like, oh, sorry, this was in
York libraries. This is York Explorer, but this
is around the country. We can find these examples.
So at this point, I'd like to bring in Kathy Mudge who is a
guest with us today. She's been on UK column
previously an interview with me and on the news she is from
Protect and Teach. Kathy, welcome.
And could you tell us about some of the amazing activism work
that you have been doing locally, please?
Yeah, sure. Well, we went to our local
library, Exeter, and we went round the shelves and found four
books which you've got posted there.
We could have probably found more if we looked longer.
And we decided to challenge the librarians about their books and
the content in the books. So we are to speak to the
librarian manager. He came down to speak to us and
we showed in the book and we explained our concerns about the
fact that it discusses sexuality.
It actually teaches children about gender identity, sexual
relationships and different families.
And we thought it was inappropriate that it was in the
children's section, all brightly coloured to attract children in.
We found the average age of children going in with eight is
unaccompanied by adults. So from 8 years old they can
pick these books up. So I've got a few examples of
books that you sent me from your visit to the library.
If you could maybe just I'll put these on the screen if you can
just tell us what these books are and just to say that you
people can look up these titles for themselves if they would
like to do so. OK, well, first of all, as you
can see, it's LGBTQ plus. What is the plus?
No one ever tells us that bit. It's advertising the frag.
That's the Pride progress flag. The inverted V is to do with
trans children. And basically we call it the
transmutilation flag because the child mutilation flag because
that's really what it represents.
So whenever you see that flying, be very aware that they're
targeting children. It's not just about the LGB.
The LGB are trying to reclaim just the rainbow stripes and the
rainbow flag. So that was one that we found.
Again, you can see on the front there, it's all about it's
mixing things up. It's called it's queering
Children, really. Again, linking in with your
earlier talk that you had about Wells and the work they're doing
there. All of these books, we don't
want them bound. We just want them in the adult
section. If an adult wants to get it out,
by all means do, but I don't think that children should be
able to. They're also holding a queer day
there, a Queer Fest on Saturday in Exeter Library, where our
children and families are invited to go in and discuss
being queer and how to introduce LGBTQ into your school.
Yeah. And so we've got here if we
could go on to the decolonization issue, Kathy, as
I've covered previously on UK column, decolonization in
university settings and museums and increasingly other
organizations are basically is what they're doing is, is
changing curriculum, changing books in libraries, changing
what students are being taught at all levels because we can't,
for example, have white men from Britain.
Sorry, Brian, not allowed because, you know, you need to
be decolonized. So here's an example from the
University of Exeter decolonizing your reading list.
And so this is happening in universities around the UK.
So anything written by a straight right white man, sorry,
again, Brian, needs to be decolonized because it is no
longer considered to be inclusive or diverse enough.
So Kathy, just a bit more here that you've done some Fois on
what what they were doing with decolonizing library collections
at the University of Exeter. So what happened when you sent
that FOI? Yeah.
So following up from working with children, we wanted to find
out what they were doing with their books and the books they
were teaching teachers with next to library.
So we sent an FOI in which we wanted to find out the minutes
of their decolonisation meeting that they held regularly and who
was funding them. Because we'd really like to know
who's paying for this decolonisation, where the money
is coming from, because I think that would be very interesting.
And they refused the first two questions of our FOI, which you
can see there. And they said they didn't hold
any information, they basically done a computer search and that
they didn't show up. So I didn't believe that that
was possible, that you didn't have minutes of meetings which
signed as though someone would have been keeping them
somewhere. So I asked for an internal
review. And again, after the return
internal review, they felt happy that the computer search they've
done on my original questions was fine.
So I've now centred on Further and the Ombudsman.
Hopefully we might get some feedback there, but minutes
should not be hidden. What are they doing there?
They're involving young people. That's what we found.
We found from their pictures from text on on Twitter and
stuff asking young people which books they'd like to be removed
from extra university. So they start at university age
and start removing the books that they should be being taught
on. And as you know, there's an
issue with that then for people who want to get books at.
Absolutely. So I think the the real
hypocrisy here that's going on, Brian, is that we're attacking
the children and putting everything in front of them.
And if we don't agree with putting sexual content in front
of children in the library sections, then then we are
somehow homophobic. And if we are against the fact
that we are removing things like British history from British
libraries and British university teaching, then we are not
inclusive. So we see the inversion
happening here, Brian. Absolute inversion.
Absolutely. So what I would like to point
out is tomorrow I have an article that's being published
on the Scottish Union for Education sub stack which will
be available and I'll also continue to maybe share that
through UK column as well, if that's possible.
This will be about my coverage that I've done previously in
Granddad's Pride, Granddad's Camper, where we exactly what
they're trying to do with children, to parentify children
and to put symbols in front of children that do not belong in
front of them. So that's quite an extensive
article that will be out tomorrow, Brian.
And just to just so everyone is aware, next year's banned books
week has already been announced for the 4th of through 10th of
October 2026. So we have something to work
toward, not to support, but to say no notebooks are banned.
They are just maybe, hopefully placed in the right place in the
library. Brian.
Yes, OK. Well, we thank Kathy for that
report. And of course, Kathy is another
activist that has absolutely been pressing to expose what's
actually what's actually happening Now.
Then we've got, sorry, just come on to a slightly different
section now because we're back on the subject of activism.
And back in 2021, UK column was reporting on a lady called
Debbie Hicks who had exposed that a hospital, Gloucester
Hospital, was empty with regard to COVID patients.
And she was ultimately arrested for filming an empty hospital.
This is how desperate the system was.
I spoke to Deb, spoke to Debbie a couple of days ago and she was
telling me about an event on the 25th of October, what it's about
and what she is trying to do as an activist.
So absolutely we're staying on this theme of activism and these
wonderful women who are making things happen.
They are not sitting at home just commenting about what's
taking place. So let's have a listen to what
Debbie Hicks had to say. Hello Debbie.
Thank you very much for joining UK column News Today.
Now a little while ago I I was given an advert for an event in
Cardiff. It was near the Nye Bevan
statue. Nye Bevan of course being the
man who created the NHS and the the leaflets or the the advert
was was about no to digital ID and no to conscription in the
military. So you've been helping set this
up. What is it about and what do you
hope to achieve? Yeah, the the event is, is a day
of outreach that's planned. It's not a rally, it's not a
March, it's a day of outreach. So we're planning to leaflet as
many people as possible about digital ID and about
conscription and to go around to shop some businesses and talk to
them and have as many conversations as possible.
So it's about digital ID, it's about resisting digital ID,
about how to not comply, saying no, what people can do, but also
linking it together with the likelihood, the very strong
likelihood of war conscription in this country that Keir
Starmer and Rishi Sunak have talked about over the last
couple of years. So it's it's putting those two
messages together to get people to see that this digital ID is
likely to be used for more conscription to coerce people.
Debbie, I certainly share your concerns over that and a little
while ago Charles Malice and myself did a recorded
conversation about the military advantages.
I can look back on my own career and there was there was a lot of
time that I really enjoyed. I learnt lots of things out of
it. But the thought of fighting one
of these proxy wars on behalf of Keir Starmer truly frightening.
A really disgusting thing. And both Charles and myself felt
that we couldn't, in 2025 recommend the military as a
career to young people because of the risks.
That's one point and the other. The point I'd make to you is
that we discovered a little while ago that the MOD was
boasting it had more young cadets than actual.
People in the military in in the in the British Army.
So there's no doubt at all that they are eyeing up young people
as a means to filling the armed forces, presumably for yet more
proxy wars overseas. Yeah, no, absolutely.
I mean for me I'm, you know, one of my driving forces as an
activist. I've been an activist most of my
life. Last five years I've been quite
prolific and unknown for my anti lockdown activism and also for
keeping cash and my driving force in particular is my young
son. I've got an 18 year old son, not
just my son. I just see this whole younger
generation. I don't want to see them as
cannon fodder. Brian, I'm sorry.
I don't want to lose my son in a bankers war.
No, I'm no, I can't do it. And I just feel if there's any
time in history where people are more aware of what was or about,
you know, we've, we've, we've got all that history, that whole
never again, what happened to say never again, you know, the
war to end all wars. And I just feel like now's the
time when we can go out and put the message over that there are
ways to resist and that we need to see that these digital
systems are likely to coerce our children and that fighting back
with that is the way is the way to do it.
Now something that there's an important part part about this
gathering of people in Cardiff and just to make sure, it's the
25th of October at 11:00. But you're talking about
leafleting, you're talking about talking to members of the public
and shops and businesses. So this is not about allowed
protest with banners. This is about trying to actually
engage the public and and educate them really as to to the
concerns that you've got. Is that right?
It's a. Big conversation really.
It's my particular style of baptism that I've done over the
years that I enjoy and I, I feel it works and I feel the topic
like this with digital ID, which we know is very unpopular.
And war, of course, no one wants war.
No one wants their children to do this.
I wouldn't. I wouldn't imagine many people
anyway. I feel that we can do this in a
in a non partisan way. It's not, it's not going to
alienate people. It's the topic that I think
everyone will will understand if we talk to them.
And yeah, I mean, the beauty of this kind of outreach is we can
do something called cascading, something I learned from years
ago when I used to be involved in Labour politics for my sins.
We're going to, but it's this idea, it's it really works
actually is if you have a conversation with somebody and
they agree with you, you say, can you please have that
conversation with somebody else? And if they agree with you, ask
them to do the same. And it's just a really powerful
way of getting those conversations going.
And anybody that's listening can do the same with you, agree with
what we're talking about today with what I'm talking about.
Do that with a friend, do it with family and ask them to do
to do the same. Yeah, W this is excellent and it
certainly fits the encouragement the UK columns been giving the
audience of not to just sit there and get depressed and
anxious at what's happening is to actually stand up and do
something. And what you're suggesting is
very easy. Start a conversation doesn't
work, you move on to the next people, next person.
But when it does work, you ask them to share that.
Now you've also got some quite high profile guests for your
gathering, you've got Andrew Bridgen and Piers Corbyn.
Are there going to be some formal talks to the to the
public present? My opening speech is just to
kind of rally people up and get them, you know, get them
thinking about these things, quite sombre kind of message of
the way what we're talking about.
But also to rally people up and say, come on, you know, we we
can mobilise, we can get out, we can do things like we did
cheering lockdown with the risk of COVID passports.
We were, we were all out over the country doing this during
2021. And I feel it actually made a
big difference actually. So I think we need to do that
again. We need that spirit, we need
that energy. And I'm hoping these events will
really buoy people up with Andrew and and Piers.
Yeah. Right.
That, that's absolutely great. Final comment for me, it's
really interesting, but it appears that South Wales in
particular has got a lot of Dr. amongst the public.
You've got all the tremendous efforts of Kim Isherwood and her
team doing Public Child Protection Wales.
I've been speaking to several other people in South Wales over
the last few days and they're all talking about being active,
getting people to go out and communicate with people, not
just to be on the streets with a banner shouting.
So really fascinating segment. There are lots of positive
advice about how to actually make things happen with other
people. For anybody that can get to
Cardiff on the 15th, this is the details.
So the meeting is at 11 o'clock in the morning and it's next to
the Bevend statue in sorry, that should be statue in Queen St. in
Cardiff. So if you can get there, please
do. And I was referring to a
discussion between myself and Charles Mallett to do with does
the does your country need you, should you join up to the
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Now we've got this one, which is another major event in London,
central London at 1:00 PM Saturday the 18th of October.
This is to protest against digital ID and all the laws
coming in around that. And Patrick Henningson will be
present in London, so that will be worth attending if you can.
And I think we've got a couple here for you, Diane.
Is that right? Yeah, Thanks, Brian.
This is an article that was published on the UK column
website a few days ago. Speaking of all of the thousands
of articles we have on the website, this one is by Sarah
Newland. This is part one of two about
surrogacy, about the dystopian situation around surrogacy and
what it causes and and what's happening.
And she spoke about this article and her work on surrogacy just a
few days ago on Wake Up with Sonia Poulton.
So check out her interview there and also read the article on her
website. And as well as talking about
digital ID events, I will be speaking at a major digital ID
event in Newcastle on the 1st of November at the monument at 12
noon along with Fiona Rose Diamond and at least one other
speaker. So it should be a great event if
you are with me up in the north, or if you're not come to see me
anyway up in Newcastle on the 1st of November.
OK, thank you very much. All about activism, meeting
people, meeting up, being able to do things together.
So this is very positive stuff. Lastly, just give another
mention of course to UK column on location coming up this
Saturday. It's going to be brilliant to
see you all. I'll just say that we we are
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to meet you there. And of course we will be talking
to the online audience. So if you can't come to the
actual event, well, all the tickets are gone now.
But if you want to come in over the Internet, then you can get
an online ticket and we will be speaking to you as if you were
in the room with us. Diane, you've got a a quick
update on Finethi. Yes, Finethi ladies.
Yes, thanks, Brian. So the Finethi Residential
School trial against Patricia Robertson, I can say at this
point that the jury is out. We are currently waiting for a
decision. There was some mainstream media
coverage of the start of the trial a few weeks ago.
Here's one example from STV News of talking about the start of
the trial. This was just from the first
day, but I can say that the trial is almost over as soon as
we get a decision. I went to attend one day of the
trial and listen to some testimonies from at the time was
three former staff at Fernethi Residential School who testified
examined by the Crown Prosecution.
And here's just a photo of some of the women that were with me
who are Fernethi survivors who were have been attending almost
every day of the trial. This was outside of the High
Court in Glasgow. And some of these women are
familiar to UK column because Brian has interviewed them
previously as gutsy women. So more women speaking out and
trying to fight for their rights and justice that they deserve.
Brilliant. Thank you very much, Diane.
Vanessa, let's bring you back with us.
And you've got a report about what's happening with children
and I think including trafficking of children.
It looks very much like it. I mean, basically somebody
tagged me into a video post yesterday on X, which was
slightly alarming when I first looked at it, but got
increasingly more alarming the deeper down the Bunny hole that
I went. So let's just play, first of
all, a section of the video that that was on X.
And this is Tim Ballard speaking.
We just crossed. I think this is our 177th border
crossing in the last 48 hours. The way we infilled was not
traditional but very much deliberate.
We, we basically leveraged several different partnerships.
But like you don't know who is who anywhere, especially in Indo
Syria. Once we got in, we, we, it was
mission accomplished. We got to see everything.
We saw all the people we wanted to see.
We got the evidence we needed. This evidence is going to be
valuable because it's the thing that triggers the.
The, the, the, the clause in the agreement between Syria, US and
Jordan that allows the United States to come in and secure the
corridor. So that was very key to get that
evidence. But really it was to see the
kids, see the people, bring hope to them, let them know that
people do love them. They feel very unloved.
And I don't blame them because nobody in the entire world of
billions of people has done much of anything.
It's just crazy. So that's the introduction to
Tim Ballard that I had yesterday, and then I started to
look into it. So first of all, from a
political perspective, we've spoken many times.
This is an article in Haaretz, fairly recent one that Israel
was basically weaponizing the conflict that grew out of
Jolani's attacks through the tribal forces on the communities
of Swedar in southern Syria that led to some appalling massacres.
Israel seeks humanitarian corridor of influence in Syria,
threatening regime stability. Regime of course is now the Al
Qaeda regime put in power by the British, Israel, Turkey and the
US. This is just quickly to show
people the map. So the yellow arrow at the
bottom going from the occupied Golan territory, which is Syrian
territory, of course, being gifted to Israel by President
Trump, shows how the humanitarian corridor that
Israel wants to create will cross through Dada in the South
and into Sweda. And then join with what is known
as the David Corridor, which will give Israel access up the
eastern border with Iraq and Jordan and Syria and join up
with the Kurdish separatist factions in the North East.
So that's that's the political aspect of of what Tim Ballard is
doing. And that's what I was first
focused on. And here he is in the same
video, basically confirming that he's working for Israel.
So if we just run this. But it was mission accomplished
and now we've got to get to Jerusalem to get the information
to the right government officials to go to the next
phase, which is established A corridor, get provisions and
continue to liberate and restore.
So very clear confirmation there that he is working for the
Israeli regime in securing their assets in southern Syria.
Then I started to look into who is Tim Ballard, and this came up
as the Tim Ballard Foundation, which is where the alarm bells
started to sound very loudly. As you can see there, he's a
vigilante focusing on ending child trafficking.
Now, as soon as I see that generally speaking, particularly
in American NGOs or UK government backed NGOs, I
immediately start to get highly suspicious that rather than
preventing child trafficking, they might actually have a hand
in facilitating it. Very close to President Trump.
This was back in 2019. He was brought into Trump's
administration to help Trump argue for a border wall in the
in the South with Mexico on the basis of course, that it will
halt sex trafficking. He's from Utah.
That's why Tim Ballard on, on Trump's right there is with him
and is very, very close to Trump even now.
Which of course, immediately also made me start thinking of
the the Epstein files and, and Trump's refusal to release
information because it's very difficult to avoid that kind of
connection when we're looking at someone who's dealing as a
vigilante with the extraction of children from child trafficking
rings, allegedly. Then let's have a look at the
this is an interview that he did very recently in the last few
days with a Christian Zionist outfit called Media Line.
The headline there says it all. Tim Ballard sacrifices all to
save Syrian children. Again, alarm bells are going off
and I just took out the main details from the article on Tim
Ballard, which again are not going to be very reassuring.
Over a decade as a special agent for the Department of Homeland
Security. Close friends, as he says in the
article, with President Trump working with the Israeli regime
to access Sweder, as we've just mentioned, promoting the Abraham
Accords, which of course his normalization with the Gulf Arab
states, with Israel, and he's pushing Syria towards such a
normalization. He was in Iraq 2017 to 19.
He allegedly evacuated 10,000 Yazidis and Christians to
Australia. He was also involved in Haiti.
He adopted two children himself, which according to Against Child
Trafficking is nothing more than legalized trafficking if you're
actually going to adopt A child from its indigenous country and
bring it outside of that country to another culture.
And currently he's pivoting towards Latin America, of
course, as Trump is ramping up propaganda, particularly against
Venezuela again. And I started to go further.
This was an article in the New York Times in October 2024.
To the world, he's an anti trafficking hero.
Women tell a different story. So what is this all about?
Effectively, six women have brought cases of aggravated
abuse and assault against them. Sexual abuse.
If we actually look at one of the examples in the article
itself, and then I'll cover several more.
In interviews and legal papers, the women described similar
scenarios. Mr. Ballard recruited them to
act as his romantic partner in undercover operations in which
they would pose as wealthy sex tourists, A tactic he referred
to as a couple's ruse. It had two purposes, he told
them. It provided an easy excuse to
avoid having sexual contact with the sex workers.
And some people might need more open to confiding in a woman.
Apparently the the the role play went beyond of the actual
operation. What he would say is that as
they're constantly under surveillance by the trafficking
gangs, he would have to prove to them that he had a sexual
relationship with the women that he had trapped into, as they
believed helping children. So he would sexually assault
them in the car or in the hotel room, in the office and so on.
He was also reported as having handed over money to sex
traffickers to procure underage teenagers for sex.
But which as someone said, that's tantamount to to creating
a market for the very thing that he's ostensibly trying to
prevent. He created or he was the subject
of a film called The Sound of Freedom.
The executive producer on that, Paul Hutchison, was actually
filmed, for want of a better word, groping an underage
teenager on film. Ballard excused that behaviour
by saying that he had invested heavily in Ballard's operations.
Hutchinson himself has now started a Child Liberation
foundation again to rescue children from sex trafficking.
So I just want to play this section of his latest interview.
Ballard's latest interview with Media Line, where he protests
the cases against him. Maybe 4.
So it's all going to come out. You know, it's funny that when I
won in court in Utah, the media in Utah who's who's owned and
controlled by the very people who are trying to keep me
looking bad because if I'm, if I'm guilty.
If I'm innocent, they're guilty, right?
And so they'll do anything. So I literally win in court and
they spin and lie to make me look like the bad guy.
Like it's unbelievable. Don't trust any news outlet,
right? They're all none of them are
Matthew 18 compliant you. Matthew 18 compliant.
I mean I have to say he is an out and out Christian Zionist.
That is very clear from many of his interviews and and
statements in the media. The fact is that the case was
not actually withdrawn. This was only one of the
lawsuits filed against Operation Underground Railroad, which was
his original organization. He's actually being sacked
according to Operation Underground Rail Railroad.
That is now known as Our Rescue. He claims that he left on the
basis of claims of sexual abuse and so on, but effectively it
was dismissed not because of the merits of the case were lacking,
but he said the case must be dismissed.
Sorry, could I just have that back on?
It was dismissed because of the way evidence against Ballard was
obtained. Celeste Boris, one of the women
bringing the case against Ballard, accused him of grooming
and sexually assaulting her when they were supposed to be on
operations to save children from human trafficking.
And for evidence, she downloaded more than 90 documents from
Ballard's e-mail. Boris worked under Ballard as
his executive assistant, including after he was accused
of sexual misconduct and permanently separated from OUR.
As I said, I've only just started really in the last 24
hours to go down this this really rather sinister and
sordid Bunny hole. But the fact that this guy is
now in southern Syria, actively involved with the so-called
rescue of children, I find extremely disturbing.
Vanessa, thank you very much for that report.
The key bit is that truth is coming up to the surface and
it's exposure which is the first, the first thing which has
to happen in order to deal with these horrible things happening.
So thank you for all your effort in keeping tabs on what's
happening there. Now we're coming towards the end
of today's UK column news. Diane, you're going to give us a
little bit of a lighter light hearted look at fear, I think.
Yes, Brian, I think the only thing that we can do at this
point is laugh at the fear that they are putting in front of us,
especially as it relates to the fact that it is now autumn and
getting colder and therefore we are all apparently going to fall
dead of sore throats from what I've heard.
Does that make any sense? No.
No, okay, well let's look at it anyway.
So let's start at the BBC. They posted here on the 30th of
September that Covic cases are rising with new variants Nimbus
and Stratus. Now I kind of like the pun,
right? Because Nimbus and Stratus are
both clouds. So we're rising to the clouds
with Nimbus and Stratus and you know, where they're absolutely
miserable to have a sore throat. Look at that poor man.
Right. It's a little bit.
So we started with the BBC and, you know, if you have a sore
throat, you need to call your doctor.
You need to line up for whatever medication they want to put into
your Yeah, whatever that whatever is waiting.
So the UK Health Security Agency posted on Facebook on the 9th of
October that respiratory viruses circulate all year, but during
winter several circulate at the same time.
So I guess only one circulates during the summer.
Is that what it means, Brian? Who knows because the advice
changes regularly and and it's so confusing and nonsensical.
It certainly does, but the the sad emoji on the the fingers
pointing downward give the UKHSA quite a bit of credibility, I
think. Especially the woman who
apparently is coughing through her hand, which they told us in
2020 wasn't safe, right? Weird.
So, so she's, she's spreading viruses, coughing into her hand
there. Should be put in prison.
Absolutely, absolutely lock her up.
So up from where I am in the northeast normally, except this
week when I'm in Plymouth. This is from County Durham, live
with one of the mainstream papers where I live where I'm
not sure what the mask is doing to help anybody because the hat,
the mask had to be moved down to stick the swab up the lady's
nose. So I'm not sure why she's masked
up. It doesn't really do any good if
it's not, you know, obviously over the nose not helping
anything. But we have a new vaccine
warning because the so-called code cases are rising across the
Northeast. So make sure you're lining up if
you haven't done so already. Are you, have you lined up,
Brian? No, I haven't.
Good. Thank you. 7 live so locally
here where we are in Devon. I've gone from my house to
yours. Medical experts have explained
when, why IOU. So we've got a typo there that I
think maybe the vaccine got to their spelling abilities need to
test and when you need to see AGP.
So exactly how to tell if you have a cold or the new COVID
strain. So are you, do you have a
Stratus or a Nimbus COVID or what do you have?
Well of course it's nonsense because nobody can get to see
AGP anyway, so the advice is completely, completely rubbish
because you cannot see AGP. That's a very good point and and
so Yorkshire live so sort of just South of me a new COVID
strain or flu. How to tell different symptoms
apart this winter. I'm not sure what that is that a
is that an insect? That little green looking is
that? A cucumber possibly?
Cucumber. Yeah, maybe half a virus, yeah.
Something healthy, maybe. I don't know.
Anyways, emoji needed a tissue, so there we go.
According to this particular source, the new study finds
COVID-19 infection can alter sperm and affect brain
development in future. Children can't be the vaccine.
It's got to be the COVID infection.
That cold is going to affect the sperm of these these men who
want to conceive. Children can't be the vaccine,
can it Brian? Well, and and the phrase future
children to me is very creepy. So that's a special in that
version. Of future children that might be
that dystopian surrogacy that Sarah Newland has been writing
about for us. The Express says Brits urged to
do so, isolate. So again, there's those spelling
and grammatical issues occurring in people in the mainstream
occurred to do isolate. Now if infected with new COVID
strain as cases sore. Now my biggest question I put
this one on my own Facebook page, Brian, is why is it that
the woman is messed up all alone in her house, which is she going
to give? Does she have a dog that might
get the virus? Like what?
I don't know, I don't know. And so the Daily Mail said to us
on 13th of October, quote like a biological bomb, scary emoji,
haunting prediction of where next pandemic will strike and
how it could kill over 7 million.
So we don't know what this is, but it could be at any that
scary virus is out there could get us any moment.
We don't know where, but it's out there.
We're putting a bit of black humour into this, but of course
many people out there are sucking up this information and
it's making them very fearful of the future.
It's So I'll just clarify that what we're doing today by
mocking this stuff is 1 to boost morale, but also to get people
out there spreading the word about what disgraceful political
applied psychology this is. Yeah, no, it, it is.
We have to laugh at it because it's about the only way that we
can fight it, I believe. But we also have to say, well,
this is what what is out there on these Facebook posts.
And I found these all on my Facebook feed.
So even though we might think that, you know, they're not
worth listening to, clearly people are because they're
continuously pushing out this content for people to get afraid
about the fact that their throat hurts.
So just one last thing I have here and, and this is obviously
not true. Breaking news is AstraZeneca is
now available in powder form to get encourage more people to get
vaccinated. And this I'm on my third bag
today, said one woman. So she's doing lines.
I personally, if it were powder, I'd probably mix it in with my
coffee or tea instead of, you know, I don't like putting
anything in my nose. So but she has chosen to just do
some lines. OK, we'll, we'll leave it there.
We'll leave, leave it there, Diane.
But if people can smile, they are doing a great job in
boosting their physical and mental well-being to deal with
this stuff. Now we must end because we've
run over slightly for today's UK column news, but my last comment
is very +1 is that yesterday I was able to be with Kate
Markland who was telling me how a single FaceTime call once a
week with her son who's been taken away from her by social
services. That single call once a week for
nine months allowed them to develop a book.
We just popped the image up on screen initially 6 short
stories, now A25858 page book. So good has this exercise been
that Kate has been invited into 9 schools and has helped over
460 children in various schools to also learn how to write
stories for themselves. So there's a very positive note
for a mum who suffered the horrors of having a child taken
away from her by using that telephone call.
She's done in tremendous good not only for her son Gabriel,
but also for herself and other mothers.
We must end there. We've got UK column Extra coming
up for our members. We've got a lot to discuss.
We'll also have guests Kimberly Isherwood who will be telling us
more about her activism and I will be surrounded by gutsy
women. That's it for today.
We'll be back for UK column news on losing track of my days.
Where are we? We will have AUK column going
out at the end of the week, but of course, the major event for
us is the Saturday on location. Let's leave it there.
Thank you for joining us. Bye bye.
Bye.