1 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,320 Good afternoon. Today is Monday the 15th of 2 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,960 December 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News. 3 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,040 I'm your host, Ryan Garish, Delighted to have Ben Rubin with 4 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,600 me in the studio. And we'll be joined by Sandy 5 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,960 Adams, who's on Live link. Now. 6 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,880 As always, UK columns got a busy news. 7 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,800 We're just going to mention the attack on Bondi Beach, which of 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,480 course, is going to dominate the news, no doubt in the Western 9 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:44,320 Hemisphere, UK in particular, in the forthcoming days and weeks. 10 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,200 But we need to mention that those events have taken place. 11 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,920 We're going to be having a look at Christian persecution in the 12 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,400 world. We're going to be having it or 13 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,920 you will be having a look, Ben, at the business of war. 14 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,920 We're going to be looking at the home secretary's targeting of 15 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:07,840 violence against women, followed by ladies in Red, which will be 16 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,120 interesting. Ben see what comes out of that. 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Sandy will then be covering social control. 18 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,280 Ben will be on the subject of AI and vibe coding. 19 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,680 And we're going to end with a very happy slide of the UK 20 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:26,800 column team, which will help lift the mood. 21 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,240 Now we know that things are pretty serious across the board 22 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,440 in the country. We know people having difficulty 23 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,560 watching the news because most of it is so dark that every 24 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,960 adult man and woman in this country needs to understand 25 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:44,440 what's happening. And the duty falls on us to help 26 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:49,840 people through the labyrinth of policies that are happening. 27 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,800 But let's kick off with a little look at how the BBC came across 28 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,480 an amazing coincidence connected to Bondi Beach. 29 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,720 Paddy, this has been one of those mornings where a dark 30 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,040 event suddenly emerges and will dominate the news probably for 31 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,759 the rest of today, probably for the rest of tomorrow. 32 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,120 And it was one of those days we were about to go on air. 33 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,000 We started getting reports in of a multiple shooting on Bondi 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,480 Beach in Australia, one of those famous places in the world. 35 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,400 By complete coincidence, one of our guests was Layla Cunningham, 36 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,200 who's a reform politician. We told her what was happening. 37 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,000 She then said her nephew lived there. 38 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,400 She got him on the phone and he told her. 39 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,760 And she then told us live on air, within a few minutes, there 40 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,480 was an active situation. There were shots ringing out. 41 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,800 He was a Doctor Who was on his way from a neighbouring beach 10 42 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,520 minutes away to go to try to help. 43 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,120 And since then, some of the videos, some of the eyewitnesses 44 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,280 accounts that have been coming out are absolutely horrific. 45 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,640 As we talk at 10:50 on Sunday morning, a lot of things are 46 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:57,680 still evolving. And we don't have the full 47 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,160 story, but it very much appears as if this was an attack on a 48 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,120 Jewish holiday, a Hanukkah event. 49 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,760 Well, there we are. There's the report by Laura 50 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,680 Kunzberg and what an amazing coincidence. 51 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,200 So we're going to take the incident at face value. 52 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,800 Tragedy, people have been shot and killed, but what a 53 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:25,120 coincidence that the BBC's got a guest, that guest had a relative 54 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,800 that lives in the very place where the incident took place. 55 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,520 Coincidence. They're medically trained in a 56 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,680 coincidence that they were on their way to the very beach the 57 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,720 incident had taken or the park that the incident taken place 58 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,600 in. If we did calculation of odds on 59 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,480 that, which I haven't done prior to today's news, but I know that 60 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,720 these are incredible odds. What's your thoughts? 61 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,080 One of my thoughts about that, I mean, it's, it's incredible, 62 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,080 isn't it? It's utterly incredible that the 63 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,400 BBC should have a guest intimately linked not with the 64 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,400 general subject, but the precise event that took place in the 65 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,080 precise location precisely at the right time. 66 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,560 Sandy, I'm watching your faces as we're moving into this. 67 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,640 But it is quite incredible this BBC report. 68 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,920 And what what we haven't shown is that Laura went on to say 69 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,680 that she's quite sure that events on Bondi Beach or to the 70 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,920 side of it in the little park are going to dominate the news 71 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,600 for days and weeks to come. And I think she's very accurate 72 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,400 with that. But what's your thoughts on the 73 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,480 clip, Sandy? Well, it, it, it does seem like 74 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,640 an extraordinary set of coincidences really. 75 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,960 And, you know, you have to look at this in perspective. 76 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,160 It is awful that I think it was 12 people were shot. 77 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,960 Why will this be dominating for such a long time? 78 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,680 I mean, it does seem, you know, there's, there's a lot else 79 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,520 happening in the world and I'm not, I'm not, you know, 80 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:08,400 diminishing anybody's, you know, sort of anybody's story of, of, 81 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,440 of horror of that particular incident. 82 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:13,600 But it just seems to me they're gearing it up to make it a 83 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,400 really, really big thing. And they will do because the BBC 84 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,120 do this. And you know, you look at you 85 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,480 look at the, you know, the statistics of, you know, what's 86 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,200 happening in other places in the world and the, and the genocides 87 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,280 going on. And they are going to make this 88 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,680 a really big thing, I think. What do you think? 89 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,200 I think they're going to make it a huge thing and I think we are 90 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,560 going to see a result in this country that we're going going 91 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,120 to see a tightening up of protection for the Jewish 92 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,640 community and we're going to see a greater clampdown on anybody 93 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,000 speaking or criticising the Israeli government. 94 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,920 But we'll leave that for future. UK column news reports. 95 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,440 Now, in contrast, you've got a section here about the 96 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,840 persecutions of Christians and this is a subject which rarely 97 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:04,040 comes up. Occasionally it gets a mention, 98 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:08,320 but you've decided that today is is the day to have a look at 99 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,840 this. Yes, I mean, it's, well, it's 100 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:14,680 coming up to Christmas mainly and more and more we're seeing 101 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,080 Christianity being marginalised and it was persecuted. 102 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:23,560 And in late November, the BBC reported that Northern Ireland, 103 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,120 the Supreme Court had ruled that Christian focused religious 104 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,800 education taught in Northern Irish schools was unlawful. 105 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,840 And you know, this was a unanimous judgement allowed on 106 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:40,840 appeal by an unnamed father and daughter from Northern Ireland. 107 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,680 Now, uh, this was sent to us by one of our, one of our, our 108 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,280 viewers and, uh, she knows who she is. 109 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:51,640 Thank you Christine. Um, you know, and she's, she's 110 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,320 given us a citizen go link to, to so that one can challenge 111 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,080 this appeal if you, if you want to. 112 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,720 And that is in the show notes. If, if, if you wish to, I don't 113 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,680 know if you have to be in Northern Ireland to do this. 114 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,280 I'm not sure, but I doubt it. I think I would imagine because 115 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:08,520 Northern Ireland is part of us, you'd be allowed to. 116 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,960 So I I just feel that that there is a big thing with 117 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,000 Christianity, but worse than that, all over the world 118 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,760 Christians are being persecuted, particularly in Nigeria. 119 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,600 And when we hear about religious persecution around the world, 120 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,480 our minds often go to minorities in Muslim majority countries or 121 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,200 to Buddhists or Hindus or other minority faiths under pressure. 122 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,880 But there there is. It's seldom spoken about the the 123 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,080 millions of Christians globally who are enduring persecution, 124 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,880 harassment, violence, imprisonment and even death 125 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,240 simply for their faith. And we've got here around, you 126 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,840 know, the the persecution of Christians worldwide has gotten 127 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,120 worse, a papal charity report says. 128 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,240 According to recent reports by global Christian Charities, the 129 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,560 situation is worsening. Violations against Christians 130 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,440 increased in nearly 2/3 of 18 countries studied. 131 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,680 In fact, a 2024 to 2025 assessment found that around 132 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,720 365,000,000 Christians worldwide are subject to high levels of 133 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:15,200 persecution. And we've got here the the House 134 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,760 of Commons library actually had a debate on it and and they 135 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,760 looked at the the World Watch List. 136 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:26,160 Now, according to Open Doors, a Christian charity that monitors 137 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,280 persecution around over I think it's about 380 million 138 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:40,720 Christians faced persecution in 2024, with 4766 killed and 4744 139 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,360 imprisoned. So that's a heck of, you know, 140 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,400 that's a really big number of, of, of Christians, you know, 141 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:52,080 being persecuted. They now open doors really have 142 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,120 gone into this deeply. They've created the world watch 143 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,360 list with areas in red, as you can see on on the map here, 144 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:03,360 areas in red. There's seventeen of them and 145 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:08,320 the the the, the, the countries are North Korea, Somalia, Libya, 146 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,960 Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, 147 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,400 Afghanistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Mali, Algeria, Iraq and 148 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,080 Myanmar. Now these are these are the ones 149 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,600 that are, are pretty, pretty bad for persecution. 150 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,440 Whereas the orange ones, I think that's a bit less that that's 33 151 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,560 countries and they include, I won't read the list because 152 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:34,440 there's 33 of them, but it's, it's countries like China, 153 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,920 Burkina Faso, euthanasia, Vietnam, Jordan, Malaysia, 154 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,040 Turkey. So that's a heck of a lot of an 155 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,800 area of the world where Christians are simply being 156 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:51,040 persecuted. So the 2025 annual report work 157 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,760 was created. This is the Commission on the 158 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,360 the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. 159 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,720 And their publication has a worrying list. 160 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,240 They've created their own list, really. 161 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,440 And the plight of the most persecuted Christians has been 162 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,680 widely ignored except for the the Catholics and the the 163 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:13,840 Anglicans have been flagging it up just recently. 164 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:20,560 So the next slide is really what the, what this, this the, the 165 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:23,280 religious freedom, the international religious freedom 166 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:24,880 groups. And they've got a whole other 167 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:28,320 list of countries which are pretty bad as well. 168 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,760 But obviously Nigeria is seems to be top of the top of the 169 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,680 list. Now that site that, that's been 170 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:37,880 a silence really throughout the whole world about Christian 171 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,600 persecution. But that silence was challenged 172 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,720 recently when on the 19th of November, the bells of Clifton 173 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,200 Cathedral rang in support of persecuted Christians worldwide 174 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:52,280 and Southwark Cathedral as well. So it was, it was called Red 175 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,240 Wednesday and they held these events all over the, the UK. 176 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,920 The Christian Church did, whether it was Anglican or 177 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:04,200 Catholic, so the they called it read Wednesday and and it was 178 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,400 held by the aid to church in need, the ACN. 179 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:12,880 And it was it was Bishop Bosco in in Bristol. 180 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,400 He he held he's Bosco McDonald, his name is. 181 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,160 He held a special mass at Clifton Cathedral calling on 182 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,520 Christians in the UK and beyond to unite in prayer with our 183 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,400 suffering brothers and sisters in Christ. 184 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,920 It was a simple gesture, you know, liturgy, prayers and 185 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,880 support, but deeply meaningful. And Southwark Cathedral held 186 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,960 events for Red Wednesday on the 19th of November as well. 187 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,000 Now in a world where Christian persecution is growing from 188 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,480 extreme extremist violence in Africa to oppressive regimes in 189 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,840 Asia, in the Middle East, this mass reminds us that there 190 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,840 there's, there's not distant stories. 191 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,880 They're human lives and they, they deserve our awareness. 192 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,520 And I've got another slide here from, from Southwark Cathedral 193 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,560 where they actually called it Team Red, where they were really 194 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:04,880 going for, for the whole, the whole thing of, of supporting 195 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:10,000 the, the Christians in, in need. Now in many countries that, you 196 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,320 know, they face, they face violence even for just daily 197 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,960 worship or, or, or owning a Bible. 198 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,880 I've got another slide here from, oh, next one now it's 199 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,320 fine. I've got Southwark Cathedral 200 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:26,920 and, and their whole way of, of, of really putting this in the 201 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,920 forefront of, of Christian prayer and Mass. 202 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,880 That was in Southwark Cathedral. Yeah, we've, we've got a whole 203 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:38,840 load of, of, of Christians really being persecuted, uh, you 204 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,880 know, from diverse cultures, ethnicities, ages and countries 205 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,960 they're suffering covers, you know, different borders and 206 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,640 races. Umm, and the moral challenge 207 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,000 remains, if we defend religious freedom only selectively, we, we 208 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,960 betray that principle itself. Now I've got a video video here 209 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:02,160 from Bernard Tutunji, who's a from Sydney and he works for the 210 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,840 Aid to Church in need Australia. Now just listen to what's 211 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,400 happening in Nigeria and it's quite shocking. 212 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:12,560 Thank you. Nigeria today is an epicentre of 213 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:14,800 Christian martyrdom. Since the year 2000, more than 214 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,600 60,000 Christians have been murdered by Islamist groups like 215 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,120 Boko Haram, heavily armed Fulani militia. 216 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:25,040 Our organisations 2023 report I mentioned places Nigeria firmly 217 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,320 in the red category, meaning it's it's persecution. 218 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,120 It's not just discrimination. You know what makes Nigeria 219 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,880 unique is that Christians are not even a tiny minority. 220 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,040 They make up almost half the population, 100 million people, 221 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,080 if they live as if they're second class citizens, 222 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,640 especially in the north. The Nigerian government's failed 223 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,040 to take any meaningful action to present attack, prevent attacks 224 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,280 and the violence is relentless. In the new state alone, one 225 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:52,000 diocese recorded 93 villages attacked, 330 farmers killed in 226 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,440 just a year. This past June, A couple months 227 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,160 ago, another attack in Bennu, A gunman raided a town, killed 100 228 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,160 people, forced 4000 to leave. And not just killings, 229 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,280 Gabriella. We're Speaking of abductions, 230 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,600 burned villages, destruction of churches, millions forced into 231 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,200 camps where they lack even the basics. 232 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,920 And every single gene day, Nigerian Christians wake up to 233 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,080 the fresh news of kidnappings or attacks. 234 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:15,960 It's not sporadic. It's systematic. 235 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,120 It's targeted. It's gone on for decades with 236 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:23,600 little accountability. Yes, and guess who hasn't said a 237 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:26,480 word? The so called head of our our 238 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:30,400 Christian Church in in England, the Church of England, who has a 239 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,800 lot to say about climate change in the World Economic Forum, but 240 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,440 not a word about persecuted Christians. 241 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,440 There we are. Thank you very much for that. 242 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,840 And just to clarify, the International Red Wednesday was 243 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:48,440 November 2024 and the Clifton Report, if I remember correctly, 244 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,680 was 2015. So just just to clarify that. 245 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,440 But nevertheless, this subject sits under the surface and a lot 246 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,880 more needs to be done to bring it to the fore. 247 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:06,840 But war is not a problem, Ben. It's a racket, so they say, and 248 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,360 I think we're about to find out why. 249 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:12,960 So yes, the city, the banks and the British deep state of 250 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:17,200 banging the war drums and we're better to find out about it than 251 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,760 over at Rothschild and Co from Mark Saidwell he says we are at 252 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:26,320 war just last week, this event, just not conventional warfare. 253 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,480 Conflict now sits in the grey zone. 254 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,560 Peace is war. Exactly right, yes. 255 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,680 So this is echoing the integrated operating concept, 256 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,560 this idea that the frontline is actually in the barracks now. 257 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:42,000 And the public's the. Enemy, exactly, yes, now, said 258 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,560 Will, former head of the civil service. 259 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,600 We'll come back to him a little bit more later because he's a 260 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,120 crucial player in all of this. But if we can just flash that 261 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,560 back up, we can see that he is now and was immediately having 262 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:57,680 left the civil service, the chair of geopolitical advisory 263 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:01,400 at Rothschild and Co. So this is big business in 264 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,440 conflict and an enormous racket for international capital. 265 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,440 The event was run by the London Defence Conference. 266 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,800 It's their investment forum held at the Rothschild and Co offices 267 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,080 in the City of London last week. And you can see here one of 268 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,800 their senior analysts, Olivier Brochet, chairing a panel 269 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:23,040 discussing the opportunity for investors throughout the capital 270 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,480 stack. Opportunity to invest in death. 271 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,920 Absolutely. Yes, carnage and death. 272 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,920 Exactly. So that's from seed funding all 273 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:36,440 the way through to institutional investment funds, pension funds, 274 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:40,120 all the different, the full spectrum of risk appetite across 275 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,160 the capital stack, how they can all invest in and potentially 276 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,920 make enormous amounts of money from conflict. 277 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:47,800 Ultimately that's what this is all about. 278 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,640 We had various other representatives of the British 279 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,200 civil service, this chap, Angus Lapsley, the UK permanent 280 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,160 representative to NATO, he's been buried in Whitehall for 40 281 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,840 years and then gets put into this plum job at NATO. 282 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,960 And he's there saying, and the defence sector in Europe is 283 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,400 going to be bigger, change faster and require more 284 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,640 investment for a generation. It's an entire generation of 285 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:17,160 investment regardless of when and how Russia's war against 286 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,000 Ukraine ends. Obviously he has to present this 287 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,839 as as Russia's war against Ukraine and then he goes on. 288 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,200 Not shown on the screen here, but the quote continues to say 289 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,840 there will not be a neat distinction between defence 290 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,640 investment and wider needs. Alongside the traditional 291 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,680 defence primes, we will need growth, innovation and planning 292 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,840 for resilience from a whole range of sectors including tech, 293 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,680 telecommunications, transport, energy, civilian space and 294 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,560 health. So the entire economic system 295 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,600 and the whole of society is being placed on a war footing by 296 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,480 these fellows. These men sitting around 297 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,920 conference rooms in the City of London who most people have 298 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,840 never heard of, are certainly unelected and are deeply 299 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,480 conflicted I would say, in terms of their interests. 300 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,360 We also had the MP for Plymouth was there, we can bring that 301 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:11,440 back home. We got Luke Pollard who's the 302 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,560 Minister for Defence, Readiness and industry. 303 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,520 So he's working out how to put his snap in this through. 304 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:22,000 We had the Lord Robertson, the former NATO secretary general 305 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,600 and the UK defence secretary. So there's a top, top, top tier 306 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,000 people. All the old names still there, 307 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,880 still in the wings, now coming forward for their share. 308 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,520 A piece of the cake. Absolutely. 309 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:38,680 Neil Ferguson, or Niall Ferguson, who is basically the 310 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,480 historian of choice for the Anglo American establishment. 311 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,440 He's a Harvard professor who's involved in the ARC programme. 312 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,840 He's also a member of the Group of 30, which is the kind of top 313 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:50,360 tier of the central banking cabal, people who coordinate 314 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:52,320 policy across all of the central banks. 315 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,920 He's in that group. He's there representing those 316 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,400 interests at this event at Rothschild and Co. 317 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,480 And then this is all, of course, not just about war. 318 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,080 It's about deterring war, you see. 319 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,280 So bring said Will back on screen, He's chairing a panel 320 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:13,320 discussion about building a modern deter a war economy. 321 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:18,080 So the best way to deter a war is to spend billions in building 322 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:22,240 weapons and other infrastructure required to fight armed 323 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,600 conflict. Yeah, sums it up quite nicely, 324 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,040 doesn't it? I think we've seen all the key 325 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,680 players, what they're up to, what the incentives are just in 326 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,800 that little snapshot from that event last week. 327 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,320 But key people coming to the fore now. 328 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,920 So we've we've seen the racket and the war and obviously 329 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,120 everybody providing ammunition, munitions, war supplies. 330 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:44,400 The longer the war in Ukraine goes on, the more money that's 331 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,120 made under the surface, the assets of Ukraine, the the 332 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:52,680 grain, the food supplies and also the rare earth minerals 333 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,760 raped. So this is big, big profits for 334 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,360 the big players. Absolutely. 335 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:00,560 And now they're becoming visible. 336 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,680 It was Black Rock in the beginning and now we're into the 337 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,760 banking boys that actually fund organisations. 338 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,000 Yes, such as Black Rock, Exactly. 339 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,640 And this completely symbiotic relationship between the banks, 340 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,360 the City of London and the British civil service, deep 341 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:20,440 state, the remnants of the empire. 342 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:22,280 Ultimately, that's what we're talking about here, Ryan. 343 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:23,960 So we actually take a look at Sedwell. 344 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:28,840 He's a perfect example of this civil service into the City of 345 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,520 London grandy type individual who has extraordinary amount of 346 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,400 power and influence but no one has ever heard of unless you 347 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,680 watch programmes like the UK columns. 348 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,760 So who is he said? Well, so many years in the civil 349 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:43,960 service. He actually ran the civil 350 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:45,800 service. He was the cabinet secretary for 351 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,360 a number of years left at the end of 2022. 352 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:51,000 He was also through his career the national security adviser, 353 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,080 the permanent secretary of the Home Office and also the British 354 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,080 ambassador to Afghanistan had other advisory roles around NATO 355 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,080 and and other organisations like that. 356 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,360 Since leaving, he has picked up a number of extraordinarily 357 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,080 influential roles. He was deputy chairman of Lloyds 358 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:11,200 of London Insurance Market, as we've touched on, he's chairman 359 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,120 of global geopolitical advisory at Rothschild and Co. 360 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,320 He's also the chairman of the International Institute for 361 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,480 Strategic Studies, IISS, which is basically the think tank for 362 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,760 the military industrial complex. So they do all the long range 363 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,120 strategic planning about where walls are going to pick up and 364 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,200 where they're going to kick off around the world and what the 365 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,640 industry needs to do in order to capitalise on that. 366 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,520 Ultimately, it's what they're up to. 367 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,800 And he's also been to the Bilderberg meetings at least 368 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,480 once. He was in 2022 while he was 369 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,160 still running Cabinet Office. We're still running the UK civil 370 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,280 service, right? And, and so you can just see 371 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:50,680 here this this collection of influences and connections 372 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:56,120 coalescing around Said Will and as an extension of Said Will, 373 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:59,680 the Lords and the top tier of the British establishment into 374 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:04,120 international capital and the military industrial complex and 375 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:05,760 how this whole thing is put together. 376 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,320 Basically, we'll put links to all of these organisations and 377 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,680 some profiles we've said with and what have you should go and 378 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,480 have a proper read through what what these organisations are up 379 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,360 to. And I'll provide other links to 380 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:21,720 these two videos. The first one is this one, which 381 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,120 is a discussion that he had in his capacity at Lloyd's with 382 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:28,440 Baroness Patricia Scotland while she was Secretary General of the 383 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,720 Commonwealth. This is really revealing. 384 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,760 Actually, she describes the Commonwealth as a Petri dish 385 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,200 that you can grow almost anything in. 386 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,600 You come up with solutions that work not just for the 387 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,200 Commonwealth, but for everybody and actually the Commonwealth, 388 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,680 which essentially revealing there is that the Commonwealth 389 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,920 is one of the main mechanisms through which Britain or the 390 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,320 remnants of the British Empire continues to the geopolitical 391 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,800 power into the UN and other bodies through the Commonwealth. 392 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,920 Essentially it's a way of kind of reputation washing the 393 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,200 British establishment saying Oh no, we did it with the 394 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,400 Commonwealth. And and of course we got King, 395 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,160 King Charles especially interested in the power of the 396 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:11,040 Commonwealth through the power of the the growing population of 397 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:12,760 young people in the Commonwealth. 398 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,760 So yes, the Commonwealth almost seen as a as a parallel vehicle 399 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,160 to the power of the European Union, but obviously controlled 400 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,200 by Britain. Yes, exactly. 401 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,240 And then a final one which you should certainly go and have a 402 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,680 look at is this, which is Sidwell's Oxford Union speech 403 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,640 from October 2020. Well, he basically stands up. 404 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,640 This is right in the middle of all the lockdowns that he was 405 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,160 responsible for overseeing or part of the team and, and 406 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,040 basically says what we know by 2050. 407 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,880 And then he just lists out all of the biggest things that are 408 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,800 definitely going to happen, According to him. 409 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,160 So it's going to be about climate change, climate, what he 410 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,800 calls volatility. And that might involve the UK 411 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,200 getting colder, not necessarily warmer as well. 412 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,480 Quite interestingly, he talks about demographic shifts in 413 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,240 every part of the world. We're going to have ageing 414 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,040 populations. The UK is going to have the 415 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,200 largest population in Europe, apparently bigger than Germany 416 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,960 by by 2050. Like how we're going to be able 417 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,920 to feed ourselves, I don't know. We're going to we're going to 418 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:17,000 see significant migration flows from north north from sub 419 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,680 Saharan Africa. He talks about the fourth 420 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,320 industrial revolution, the inevitable destruction of white 421 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,280 collar jobs. And then also this idea that 422 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,640 competition and conflict are going to become multi domain. 423 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,640 So health, democracy, cyber, information warfare are all 424 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,880 going to be part of this new conflict environment. 425 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,080 And what he doesn't say, but I guess he's, you know, hidden in 426 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,800 the background, is the fact that Rothschild and Co and people 427 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,120 like that are going to make him pack. 428 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,800 It off the back of the may hammer the chaos. 429 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,200 Exactly. And thank you very much really 430 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,760 important segment because this is talking about where real 431 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,280 policy comes from. This is the rules based 432 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,480 international order at work. This is where the policy is 433 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,080 coming that then philtres through UK government. 434 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:06,520 So the illusion of democracy and, and laws and, and that 435 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,480 proper governance of the country coming through Parliament is 436 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:14,520 clearly a nonsense now in 2025. And your description is, is 437 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,800 setting the scene for where policy is coming. 438 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,320 Now part of that policy is absolutely the drive for AI. 439 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,440 There was a demonstration in London on Saturday. 440 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,200 Not a huge demonstration, I understand, but Will Coleshill 441 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,960 was there to report for UK columns. 442 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,200 So let's have a look at what he had to say. 443 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,440 Hello, this will go to Reporting for UK column today I'm down 444 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,000 here outside the BBC Portland Place, the Eric Gill statue 445 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,480 right behind me. And today I'm reporting on the 446 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,200 digital ID protests massive that's going on down here in 447 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,800 London. So why are you out here today 448 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,360 then? I'm out here today because I 449 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,160 believe in fighting for our liberty and our democracy, and I 450 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,760 think that digital ID is completely against that and it 451 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,080 curbs our rights and our freedoms. 452 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,520 Came to all the things before with the backseat, what have 453 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,520 you, but just the digital ID in the control network that's 454 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,440 closing and for our grandchildren. 455 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,400 Shortest future? Just watching the way things are 456 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:11,720 going, you know, since Kovid freedoms are being 457 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,760 systematically dismantled. And yeah, we're we're seeing 458 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,960 that everything is just going in One Direction. 459 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,000 I'm brought out here today because this is the hill I'm 460 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,800 willing to die on. If we let this pass, we become 461 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,040 an open prison. Now, this is an important one. 462 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,680 I mean, digital ID if we if we're forced into this, I mean, 463 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,040 there is absolutely no freedom if they can do whatever they 464 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,800 like with us. So it really is 1A bet we must 465 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,080 win. You know, it can lead to an 466 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,040 authoritarian state, which is, I guess, the final. 467 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,920 Goal. They'll be enforced by having a 468 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:46,400 unified system of ID so that even your bank account is being 469 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,720 monitored and money could be taken out of it if you do 470 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,800 something wrong, like breaking your carbon footprint. 471 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,120 Because it's nothing we don't need. 472 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:56,080 We've never needed it before, and the plans to put it in place 473 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,400 are completely tyrannical. And it's there for monitoring 474 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,560 and surveilling us in a way that nobody really wants to happen. 475 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,080 We've. Never got passports, driving 476 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,680 licence, first ticket. It's just, it's just bringing an 477 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,840 Agenda 20-30. You know, we just have to look 478 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,360 at the Agenda 30 actually for the UN, the United Nations, it's 479 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:15,120 all there. You know, they want us to stay 480 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:17,400 in these cities, these 15 minute cities. 481 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,240 We shall, we own nothing, and we shall be happy. 482 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,400 If they have that information about you all in one place, then 483 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,400 they can easily control and manipulate that information. 484 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,640 They can make you do anything you like. 485 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,800 They can stop you going places. They can stop you buying certain 486 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,240 things if you you know, if you're writing certain things on 487 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,480 the Internet. They can freeze your bank 488 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,560 account, They could they can stop finances when if you if you 489 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,520 oppose certain government policies, our. 490 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,640 Spending our travel, the climates, just everything, the 491 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,160 food that you eat, how much you watch each day. 492 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,360 They're going to base it off the Chinese social credit system 493 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:53,600 that's already in place. And we already have a version of 494 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,160 this with our credit scores where we're not allowed to have 495 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,120 certain loans and we're not allowed to have certain credit. 496 00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,760 It'll be like that, but amplified. 497 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,720 And if you want some sort of demonstration on how this will 498 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,360 work, then you'll need to watch the Nosedive episode of Black 499 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:07,000 Mirror. Baby steps as they say, and 500 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,200 before you know it will be locked in our houses or, you 501 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,640 know, told where we can and cannot go. 502 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,560 The main thing is they're rolling it out now. 503 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,080 They're saying it's to stop so called illegal work and stuff 504 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,120 like that. You know, they give some, you 505 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:20,120 know, bad reasons for it just to get the public on board and then 506 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:21,880 they introduce something else and something else and before 507 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,360 you know it you've lost all your freedoms. 508 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:24,680 So. They're going to put penalties 509 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,360 on people and punish people for not complying and I'm not being 510 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:29,800 funny, but that it's never really a good thing, is it? 511 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,280 And this is another thing about convenience. 512 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,600 They're gonna not force you to have it, but it'll be extremely 513 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,560 inconvenient for you to exist in society without it. 514 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:38,960 And that's how they're gonna try and trip us up. 515 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,280 We know that they've already done the veterans cards for 516 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,080 veterans and now they're trying to get everyone who's company 517 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,680 director onto the government one login system. 518 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,960 They're taking our biometrics and that's the key things. 519 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,760 If you give up your biometrics, the government creates a digital 520 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,760 twin of you, something that represents you in the digital 521 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,920 space, and you've got no control over what happens to that and 522 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,320 how the government uses it and where that might end up do. 523 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,520 You think that this is going to change people's minds coming out 524 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,720 here today? Honestly, I don't know. 525 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,640 We've got a lot of people that understand what this means and a 526 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,880 lot of people who think this is going to happen anyway no matter 527 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,520 what we do. But that's the problem. 528 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,880 It will happen if no one does anything. 529 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,760 So you may as well stand up. You may as well say something 530 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,320 just to say that you did and you have. 531 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,920 Yeah, well, they didn't make any decisions on their quotes, but 532 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,200 you know, talked the other day. So I think with the amount of 533 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,080 people that are speaking up against this, there is hope. 534 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,800 Well, that's all I can say. There's hope, definitely. 535 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,800 I mean, if you look around, like the streets are filled here. 536 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,000 So definitely right. And it's about raising 537 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,000 awareness. And I think that we can 538 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,960 definitely do that. I think a lot of people are 539 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,640 aware of it. I mean, it was 3 million people 540 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,000 that wrote, you know, signed the petition, wasn't it, to the 541 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000 Houses of Parliament. So yeah, people aren't waking 542 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,640 up. Maybe they're not coming out on 543 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,000 the streets, but a lot of people, a lot of people I know 544 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,840 and I meet and come and say, you know, yeah, we agree with you. 545 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,160 It's just that they don't feel powerful. 546 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,960 They're going to try their hardest to implement it. 547 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,960 And we need to stand up and say, no, we're not doing it. 548 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,080 We're not doing it, no. And that's what we need to. 549 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,160 That's what the message is. Do not accept the digital ID, 550 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,360 don't accept it Defiance. We're fighting for everyone's 551 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,000 freedom. I just wish there are a few more 552 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:23,680 people standing on their own. Well, an encouraging report by 553 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,120 Will Coleshill there and I think the young lady said it all. 554 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:31,080 Of course if people do nothing, these policies are absolutely 555 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,440 going to be implemented. So really wonderful to see the 556 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,080 people that did attend and the fact they were also well 557 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,160 informed speaking out in order to try and get this stopped. 558 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,120 And good to see some of the smaller parties there, David 559 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:49,320 Curtin from the Heritage Party, but also Piers Corbyn and Andrew 560 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,960 Bridgen. Now, were there many mainstream 561 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,560 media reports in UK on the day? I don't think so. 562 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,600 But This is why it's beholden on all of us, people who do 563 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,720 understand what's going on to get out and spread the word to 564 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,920 other people. Now let's move on with the 565 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,040 traditional UK column news. Thank you to everybody that 566 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,480 supports us by a membership. We can only do what we do with 567 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,840 your financial support. 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And narrative control. 585 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,800 So that's the thought process around warfare and narrative 586 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,320 control, which will be very good. 587 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,400 We've got Hawaii's rise, deep sea can, China's technical 588 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,720 future. That's the Silk and Steel 589 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,680 podcast, which is tonight at 9:00 PM. 590 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,320 We've also got coming up tomorrow at 1:00 PM, Chris 591 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,440 Coverdale talking about no tax for war. 592 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:56,680 And a reminder, the 9/11 truth today, which is an event having 593 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:01,680 a look at the 9/11 movement, where it is today, how it's 594 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,640 working and what it's still achieving. 595 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,880 And that's Sunday, December the 14th. 596 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,600 It was yesterday. I beg your pardon, that was 597 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,000 yesterday. Thank you very much for that. 598 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,880 So that will be available for people to look at. 599 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:19,840 So keep your eyes open for that on UK column website. 600 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,120 I'm getting ahead of myself there. 601 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,560 Right, Let's come on to the subject of the Home Secretary 602 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,480 and the announcement that there's to be a massive effort 603 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,160 to target violence and particularly sexual violence 604 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,360 against women. So according to Shabana Mahmood, 605 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,080 violence against women and girls is a national emergency. 606 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,160 Now it's getting difficult to know where the emergencies are 607 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,480 now because I thought it was Putin and the war in Ukraine, 608 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,520 but apparently now women and girls have become the national 609 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,840 emergency. She went on to say that we, the 610 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,320 government, have got a plan to set up specialist rape and 611 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,600 sexual offence investigation teams in every police force in 612 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:09,480 England and Wales by 2029. Now my comment on this is that 613 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,480 of course sexual offences against women shouldn't be 614 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,960 taking place, but it's very interesting that the government 615 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,480 can set up teams to tackle this issue, but consistently they've 616 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:25,920 failed to set up effective teams to tackle the horrific and 617 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,560 widespread abuse of children. So I have to be a bit cynical 618 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:34,639 here because it seems to me that the real, real serious crime 619 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:38,040 that against children who are unable to defend themselves at 620 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,960 all, the government doesn't want to get to grips with. 621 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,639 But suddenly they've moved on to this area of the women. 622 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,960 So if we add a little bit more, apparently the plan is to halve 623 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,600 the violence against women and girls within a decade. 624 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,719 Now, I'm going to take a little bit of a different look at this 625 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:01,320 because the circumstances that we live in today, the violence 626 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,880 against women, what does this actually mean? 627 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,080 Where's it come from? What is it being generated by? 628 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,800 I think we need to have a wider and a deeper look. 629 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,000 We can only do part of that in the news. 630 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,440 But if we go into some of the statistics, of course, something 631 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,920 we should flag up straight away. Is it as a result of violence? 632 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,760 Who gets hurt most by violence? Well, in fact that's men, if we 633 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,080 can pop this one up on screen. So men are more at risk of 634 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:36,120 violence, but women are more at risk of sexual violence, and 635 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,360 this is a key thing. So they're going for the sexual 636 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,040 violence, but the government is not interested about the greater 637 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,320 risk of general violence to men, which is interesting. 638 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:52,640 Then the BBC really gets into the weeds here because it gives 639 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,120 us a headline saying that in this policy, which is about 640 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:01,080 sexual violence against women, boys are to be targeted. 641 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:07,680 And essentially the plan which is VAWG, violence against women 642 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,040 and girls. The strategy is going to be 643 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,440 built around three goals, preventing the radicalisation of 644 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,960 young men, stopping abusers and supporting victims. 645 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,720 And I'm going to flag up straight away, we know what's 646 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:25,320 going to happen here, which is that young boys are going to be 647 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:30,560 absolutely targeted to be reframed that they don't go near 648 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,400 girls. And of course, where does that 649 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,360 lead? That is going to lead into 650 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:40,240 further breakdown in later life when as adults they should be 651 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:42,520 forming relationships with girls. 652 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:47,320 But let's take a little look about the female side itself. 653 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:51,280 And I think, yes, this could be a bit controversial to some 654 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,240 members of our audience, but I think we need to dig into this 655 00:36:55,240 --> 00:37:00,080 area, as some people would say. And this is one of the killer 656 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,480 headlines. So it's the Manchester Evening 657 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,360 News. And the headline is beautiful 658 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,840 ladies losing control in Manchester. 659 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:13,240 Viral nightlife video trends, disturbing new turn. 660 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,400 So what is this article about? Well, there's an embedded video. 661 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:23,160 This is just a screenshot of the opening frame of that video. 662 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:28,040 But what I wanted to highlight to people is it says vulnerable 663 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:32,280 women filmed on a night out in Manchester. 664 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,360 Vulnerable women filmed in a night out in Manchester. 665 00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:39,000 So let's just play a little bit of video. 666 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,840 I'm going to talk over this as it plays and let's just have a 667 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:51,200 look at at the video itself. And I'll just say to Chris, the 668 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,360 video we should be playing is the next one. 669 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,640 So the embedded one I can see on screen. 670 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,840 I'm not I'm not sure that is going to be the right video 671 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,600 then. So let's see what what you 672 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,360 should see is a street scene. I'll just wait and see whether 673 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,360 we can key that video up. This is it. 674 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:15,200 So let's play this and it'll become apparent to the audience. 675 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,680 What's what's actually going on here? 676 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,840 So if we bring that on. So this is what late night looks 677 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:27,000 like with these vulnerable young ladies on the on the streets. 678 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,000 And I think we could start to ask some questions about what 679 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,400 exactly these young ladies are doing, why they feel the need to 680 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:39,120 be dressed like this sat in the gutter because they're too drunk 681 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,720 to stand up. This is just a tiny snapshot of 682 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:47,360 what's going on in UK and in UK cities. 683 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,320 And of course the police have to deal with the fallout of this. 684 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:56,160 But these are women who are being described as vulnerable. 685 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,200 And I think it's reasonable to say to the audience, are we 686 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,960 looking at vulnerable young ladies or are we looking at 687 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,840 misguided young ladies in not only where they are, how much 688 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,840 they've had to drink, but also how they're dressed? 689 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:16,720 Now let's see how the Chief Inspector Stephen Wiggins of 690 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:21,760 Greater Manchester Police, let's see how he commented on the fact 691 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,840 these videos have been taken. And what takes place is that 692 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,720 they are concerned about the fact that a male was on the 693 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:35,600 street taking video of young ladies in this condition. 694 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,320 So as far as the police are concerned, the focus is simply 695 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,480 on the people who took the video. 696 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,240 And Stephen Wiggins says we're aware that concern over a number 697 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:49,600 of online accounts filming women on nights out has been raised on 698 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,760 social media. We take the safety of women and 699 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,520 girls incredibly seriously, including within the city 700 00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,280 centre's nightlife, and would encourage anyone who believes 701 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,080 that they or others are being stalked or roused up, skirted or 702 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,200 filmed in a manner which is causing them alarm or distress. 703 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,920 So please speak to our officers on the ground or report fire and 704 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:16,240 999 or 101 services. And I'll just give the the last 705 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:19,120 bit here. Women and girls should be able 706 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:23,720 to feel safe on a night out. So I would reiterate that anyone 707 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:28,360 with concerns should contact police immediately so 708 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:33,080 appropriate action can be taken. And perhaps a key question is, 709 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,920 are these vulnerable and they were described as beautiful as 710 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,240 well? Are these vulnerable, beautiful 711 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:43,840 ladies accountable for their physical condition and their 712 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,400 dress code? Or are they simply allowed to do 713 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,600 whatever they like and the consequences fall on the police 714 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,880 and wider society? Now, I know I'm raising some 715 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,360 serious questions here. We'll certainly discuss this 716 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:03,640 more in extra after today's UK column news, but we will 717 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,640 certainly be digging deeper into this issue. 718 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:11,560 We'll also be looking both sides of the equation, women and men. 719 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,880 But today we've taken a focus on the women. 720 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,600 Now let's look at what we saw on the streets there against the 721 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:25,640 budget which we raised a couple of of days ago, where in the 722 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:30,600 budget one of the key things that came up was benefits for 723 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:34,080 families. And this was going to place a 724 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,720 burden of another 3 billion on the country. 725 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:40,040 But I'm going to ask the question, It was described as 726 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:44,440 child poverty, but are we really looking at child poverty or are 727 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,640 we looking at breakdown of the family? 728 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,560 If we get into some of the statistics? 729 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:54,760 And I've deliberately used AI to assist me here because as as our 730 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:59,920 regular news viewers will know, we are looking at the accuracy 731 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:04,000 of AI and we're also pointing out it's weaknesses. 732 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:10,240 But here we had to go to an AI system because statistics can be 733 00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:13,040 quite difficult to find without a little bit of help. 734 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,760 And the key part that came out was that we don't know how many 735 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:22,240 mums are on benefits overall, but when we got deeper in, then 736 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:27,240 we do get some statistics. So the key thing is roughly 1.2 737 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:32,560 to 1.4 million single mother households were on benefits. 738 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:37,120 And if we get into more of the detail, there are 3.2 million 739 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:43,680 lone parents, there are 2.7 million single mothers. 740 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:50,600 And here out of those single mothers, 1.1 to 1.35 million are 741 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,240 never married. Now why is this significant? 742 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:57,120 Because if we label this, of course, with a single mother, 743 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,920 there's no fathers as role models for the boys. 744 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:06,080 Yet we can see the BBC is indicating that the the country, 745 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:10,160 the system is absolutely going to target boys because they're 746 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:15,320 deemed as as the problem with the violence against the women. 747 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,080 So we've got a number of things going on, but we can be sure 748 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:24,600 that the BBC is not going to dig deeper into this very critical 749 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:30,240 social, these social problems. Now the other thing I'm just 750 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:33,000 going to flag up and again, I know this is going to be quite a 751 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,120 motive to some, probably some ladies in the audience. 752 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,760 But when you look at statistics for partnerships of women 25 to 753 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:47,360 34, and I've taken this report here, which is a combination of 754 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:53,200 of universities, it says that at least 30% of the women had at 755 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:58,360 least 10 sexual partners. If we go on to other studies 756 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,640 here, and this is you, Gov 2023, it's saying that the average 757 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:07,200 woman in their study had three lifetime partners. 758 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,000 But let's put a label across this and we can apply it to both 759 00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:14,560 men and women. Is there a connection between 760 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,920 promiscuity partners and the failure and the number of 761 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:20,120 partners? Beg your pardon. 762 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:25,880 And the failing stability of partnerships and marriage. 763 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:30,240 And of course the inference in the Home Office is that a large 764 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:35,520 percentage of the violent and sexual incidents against women 765 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:40,560 is happening within the home. So for the UK column team, at 766 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,040 least, it seems worthwhile. We should be looking at the 767 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,640 whole problem as to what's happening here and not just 768 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:51,320 following the Home Office's blanket concern, violence 769 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,360 against women. It's come out of nowhere. 770 00:44:54,720 --> 00:44:59,200 Women not accountable in any way for what's actually happening on 771 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,760 the streets. Lot to discuss and we'll have a 772 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,120 look at this a little bit more in extra time. 773 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:11,200 Now, Ben, by pure coincidence, your next topic was Lady in Red 774 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:12,800 and. Ladies. 775 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,480 Ladies in Red, Yes. Absolutely for there are there 776 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:19,360 are many of them and they're not vulnerable which I think. 777 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:24,440 These are the exact other end of the spectrum because these are 778 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,080 immensely wealthy and very powerful women. 779 00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:29,160 Indeed, yes. Well, we're not going to start 780 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,600 with them, we're going to start with this fella. 781 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:35,800 This is Andrew Bailey and most people will know, I guess 782 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,560 certainly if you're watching this, that he's the Governor of 783 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,720 the Bank of England, but he's also a member of the Fabian 784 00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:41,880 Society. He was the chair of the Fabian 785 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:43,880 Society at Cambridge when he studied there. 786 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:48,040 Also remember the G30, the Group of 30 I mentioned earlier, who 787 00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:53,080 are the group of central bankers set up by the Rockefeller family 788 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,880 in the late 1970s to help align and coordinate global Financial 789 00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,760 Policy. And he's also the chairman of 790 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,600 the Financial Stability Board, the FSB, which is just another 791 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:06,560 one of these global entities that is there to harmonise and 792 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,120 align the policies of the central banks around the world 793 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,080 and basically dictate terms to international governments and 794 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,000 the global population. Because the central banks are 795 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,000 the absolute focal point for the control mechanisms are being 796 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,040 brought through for things like the central bank, digital 797 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:25,480 currency, CDC. And this is completely, 100%, 798 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,800 totally aligned to the Fabian agenda. 799 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,560 If we can get that back on screen quickly. 800 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,400 Let's just let's just reinforce this point. 801 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:33,840 Yeah. Because people seem to think, 802 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,480 you know, certainly on the left hand side, as they would define 803 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,360 it, of the political equation that Fabian socialism or even 804 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,600 just socialism generally is some kind of counter to the banks and 805 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,280 the city and international capital. 806 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,240 But that's not the case at all. Yeah. 807 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:51,440 So government policy, Fabian policy is central bank policy. 808 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,840 There's absolutely nothing between them at all. 809 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,800 And the Fabians have been right at the forefront of of 810 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:02,560 progressing this socialist agenda in the UK since in 1884. 811 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,800 And this, they've published many pamphlets on this. 812 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,560 This one has has caught my attention over the past few 813 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,560 weeks, came out in 2023, which talks to this exact issue, 814 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:13,720 right. It's called In Tandem. 815 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:15,400 We'll provide a link to it and go and have a look. 816 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,240 And in this they argue for the creation of an Economic Policy 817 00:47:19,240 --> 00:47:22,920 Coordination Committee, or EPCC, comprising the UK Treasury and 818 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,760 Business Department, the devolved governments, the Bank 819 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,200 of England and then our various infrastructure banks, national 820 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,560 investment banks, what have you, in the climate change committees 821 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,640 in there as well. So what they're talking about 822 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:38,680 doing, and remember this is the Fabian Society, who of which the 823 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,880 Prime Minister and most of the Cabinet are members, as well as 824 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,800 the governor of the Bank of England, as we've just pointed 825 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:49,800 out, are looking to merge and integrate the Treasury and the 826 00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,280 Bank and also a whole bunch of other departments and 827 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:54,920 particularly the devolved government. 828 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,800 So we've been talking about a lot recently. 829 00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,600 We're going to be the dissemination point for this 830 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:03,200 global policy agenda out into the country, essentially 831 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,160 completely short circuit in Westminster and what we, what we 832 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,920 believe to be our, our model of governance, right. 833 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,920 So this is absolutely at the centre of this. 834 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,960 And, and Andrew Bailey is an extraordinarily powerful and 835 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,920 essential figure in this whole agenda. 836 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,160 As I said, he's the governor of the Bank of England, He's the 837 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,640 chair of the SS, the FSB is a member of the Fabian Society. 838 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,240 And yet you can come across pictures like this, and this is 839 00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:30,640 where the Ladies in Red come in because that's Andrew Bailey on 840 00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:34,160 the left there. And we've got this woman in red 841 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,880 on the right hand side. And this I wanted, I had an 842 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,680 inkling that I needed to talk about Andrew Bailey. 843 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,720 So maybe something's going to happen and we'll certainly come 844 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:44,560 back to him and this this issue in our reporting next year. 845 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,360 This is one of the photos that most struck me this year from my 846 00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,200 travels across the Internet, right? 847 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:54,240 Look at the body language here. This woman on the right hand 848 00:48:54,240 --> 00:48:56,520 side, she appears to have him in submission. 849 00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,160 Be in control. Yes, he looks. 850 00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,360 He looks like a naughty little boy being scolded. 851 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:05,080 And his hand on the table seems a very strange configuration 852 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,000 here. So the question is, who is that? 853 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,640 But I can tell you that that's Julie Teaglund from EY, my alma 854 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,320 mater, or I used to work. She's the global vice chair of 855 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,440 alliances and ecosystems. I call her overgrouping Fiora 856 00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,440 Teaglund because I think it's quite fitting and there's 857 00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,400 another shot of her here. She's at this event. 858 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:29,280 This is in the in Washington DC, the World Bank spring meetings 859 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,760 and it was attended by, amongst other people, the head of the UN 860 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,920 Development Programme and Andrew Bailey, as we've talked about. 861 00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,040 And this is this is where the real big decisions are made. 862 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,240 This is where policy is disseminated, where the 863 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:46,840 direction is set. She's talking about no longer 864 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,960 navigating episodic change. We're operating in a time of 865 00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:54,320 permanent disruption, permanent disruption, and it's being 866 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,560 driven down from the top by ladies like that. 867 00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,920 So she was chairing this meeting alongside this other lady in 868 00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,480 red. I don't know who that is, but 869 00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,960 the whole thing is being chaired by ladies in red and you see 870 00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:10,240 this occurring again and again and again across the civil 871 00:50:10,240 --> 00:50:12,480 service, across the city. And I think there's something in 872 00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,040 it. I don't know exactly what, but 873 00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,800 my interest has been piqued. There's something in it, and one 874 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,800 thing we can be sure of, that these ladies in red don't have 875 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:25,840 any concern for those poor young women who were drunk on the 876 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:30,480 streets of the major cities. So what a contrast between the 877 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:34,200 destruction of the family life and those young girls. 878 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,200 Presumably nobody taught them to do anything better than they're 879 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:42,880 doing and, and and all of the tragedy that unfolds from that 880 00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,920 sort of lifestyle. And then we have the contrast 881 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,040 with these immensely powerful women. 882 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,800 We will talk a lot more about this in in extra, but thank, 883 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:53,920 thank you for that. Ben. 884 00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,960 Sandy, let's bring you back in. My goodness, there's so much 885 00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,240 happening in this country at the moment. 886 00:51:01,240 --> 00:51:04,680 It's difficult to know quite where to go and we've never got 887 00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:08,120 enough time on the news. But take us on to a bit more 888 00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:13,080 about what you're seeing happen. Well, I mean, I, I was looking 889 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:17,320 at the the budget a few weeks ago and another lady in red, 890 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:23,400 Rachel Reeves, the budget was very much about dependency, 891 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:27,280 about benefits and dependency. And it actually worked out that 892 00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,840 actually it's cheaper to go on benefits than it is to work. 893 00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:32,640 Now. What kind of society is that? 894 00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,160 And it's all framed around, you know, a single assumption that 895 00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,040 more people would depend on the state for longer and at greater 896 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:44,920 cost and rising benefits. Dependency is no longer treated 897 00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,560 as a warning sign. It's presented as inevitable, 898 00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:50,160 the unavoidable response to a permanent crisis. 899 00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,480 And this is what seems to be happening now. 900 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,280 There's a political theory that developed decades ago that 901 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,440 treats this outcome not as failure but as strategy, and 902 00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,680 it's called the Cloward Piven Strategy. 903 00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,320 Now, a lot of people have said to me, why haven't I mentioned 904 00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:03,840 it before? I've. 905 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:05,400 I learnt about it quite a while ago. 906 00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,520 And the original idea, the Cloward Piven strategy, comes 907 00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:15,080 from this 1966 article, The Nation Magazine, which was 908 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,560 written by sociologists. I think we had it up a moment 909 00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:19,160 ago. Yeah. 910 00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,640 And it was. It was, it was written by 911 00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:25,880 sociologist, uh, Richard Cloward and Francis fox Π Piven. 912 00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,240 They were a married couple, umm, and they both studied at, umm, 913 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,880 Columbia University. Their argument was direct. 914 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,360 They believed that welfare systems were deliberately kept 915 00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:38,200 limited to preserve social order and that meaningful reform would 916 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,320 never come through debate or gradual change. 917 00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:45,040 Umm instead, they proposed in, you know, encouraging maximum 918 00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:48,880 legal participation in welfare, pushing this the systems beyond 919 00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,760 capacity. Now we've got a picture to hear 920 00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:55,960 of of Howard, not Howard. Richard Cloward. 921 00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,400 And and and then his wife is, is. 922 00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:02,440 Yeah, there she is. Is. 923 00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:04,280 Yes. Is Rachel Piven. 924 00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,840 Well, their reasoning was simple. 925 00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,720 They overloaded the system to create crisis and enforce 926 00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:12,360 central government, to expand welfare and authority. 927 00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,320 In their view, crisis was not something to avoid. 928 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,320 It was the mechanism of change. And we, they keep talking about 929 00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,520 change. So the cloud Piven logic 930 00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:24,800 reverses that idea. In this framework, high 931 00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:29,520 dependency is not failure. Um, and it's administratively 932 00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:33,920 used to overload a system and long term reliance on the state 933 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:38,600 increases political leverage. Now this is, it becomes 934 00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:40,800 dependency stops being temporary. 935 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:44,680 It becomes a sort of structural way of, of dealing with things 936 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:48,000 and, and it becomes a whole thing instead of being a 937 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,440 temporary fix for people, it becomes a way of living, which 938 00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,720 is not good for society. And this is where this is what 939 00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:57,840 we're seeing now where, where people are long term dependent 940 00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,880 on the state. But it fulfils the whole agenda 941 00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,800 for, for, for technocracy and everything that they've got 942 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,200 coming because it means that that, you know, recent budgets 943 00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,600 expand the means tested, support monitoring and conditionality, 944 00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:15,320 all that kind of thing. So they, they just keep, keep 945 00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,600 this whole dependency machine going. 946 00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:21,480 And what's presented as compassion also becomes 947 00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,480 governance by necessity. And that's a bit of a problem. 948 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,440 So, you know, it sent incentives to work, weaken family 949 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:33,000 stability, declines community responsibility, roads and social 950 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,440 trust breaks down also. So the, you know, the damage 951 00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,840 isn't evenly shared. So we've got a dependency which 952 00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,560 leads to breakdown. Breakdown justifies expansion 953 00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,360 and extent expansion deepens the dependency. 954 00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:47,360 So it's all this like this awful cycle. 955 00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:50,920 Interestingly, Cloud Piven was never, it was never about 956 00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,640 shrinking the state. It was about expanding it. 957 00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:58,040 So and today that expansion takes on the, the technocratic 958 00:54:58,040 --> 00:54:59,840 form. Now we mustn't forget that 959 00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:04,480 Columbia University was the, the hotbed in the 1960s of 960 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:08,760 technocracy and before actually right, even before the 1960s, 961 00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:11,640 you know, you had all the, all the major technocrats went 962 00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,760 there, Amitayat Sione, who was, you know, the whole thing with 963 00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:19,360 communitarianism and social policy, but, and social 964 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:23,840 engineering as well. So, so you've got this, you 965 00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,200 know, these, these systems that strain governments and introduce 966 00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,440 digital benefits platforms, algorithmic eligibility, 967 00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:33,840 eligibility cheques, behavioural conditions, all that kind of 968 00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,680 thing. So these are, these are 969 00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,800 presented as efficiency solutions. 970 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:42,440 Now what I've got here is I, I, you know, it's not about whether 971 00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,040 society would help the vulnerable, it's about whether 972 00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,560 permanent dependency is being normalised as a method of 973 00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:49,360 governance. And that's, that's really what 974 00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,920 we're seeing. So I've got a, a video here 975 00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,880 really, and it's from back to front in 2020. 976 00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:02,920 And it just shows you how dependency has eroded society in 977 00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:06,320 America, in certain areas of America, particularly poor black 978 00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,320 areas. So if we could run that video. 979 00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:15,480 You see the new left and and almost specifically one of the 980 00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,600 professors in this building, Francis Fox Piven and Richard 981 00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:22,080 Cloward in their book regulating the poor and in their movement 982 00:56:22,240 --> 00:56:28,080 as a almost prime movers in this disintegration of the black 983 00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:32,080 community in one sense and the rise of this, this healing or 984 00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:35,520 this this paradigm of therapeutic alienation. 985 00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,880 Francis Fox Pivot and Richard Cloward created so much black 986 00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,480 pain and it's really a shame how little this is known. 987 00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,560 It's very simple. The idea that there could be a 988 00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:50,400 kind of welfare policy where generation after generation 989 00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,320 stayed on it and nobody cared whether the people got a job and 990 00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:57,120 you were paid for having kids didn't exist until the late 60s. 991 00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,600 A lot of people seem understandably to think that 992 00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:01,120 that's the way welfare always was. 993 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:04,320 It was that play for a good 30 years that only started then. 994 00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,600 There's a reason why when you read a novel about the black 995 00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:10,120 poor in in say the 1930s or 40s, that welfare is generally 996 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,960 mentioned once or twice. It was hard to get on it barely 997 00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,800 paid you enough to eat, and social workers were always 998 00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,120 trying to get you off it and discounted for whites as well as 999 00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:20,400 blacks. So there's more I'm talking 1000 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:21,760 about. Welfare is a racial issue in the 1001 00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,880 30s or 40s, but starting in the late 60s, welfare was expanded 1002 00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,720 by those Columbia social workers. 1003 00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,200 Their idea was benevolent. They were trying to create a 1004 00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,720 guaranteed income. But that didn't happen, and it 1005 00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:37,240 left black communities where it was possible to spend your life 1006 00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:40,560 if you were a woman living on welfare and to spend your life 1007 00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:42,800 making children you didn't have to take care of if you were a 1008 00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,440 man. You couldn't do that in 1958 1009 00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,400 because the government wasn't going to take care of the kids. 1010 00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:51,240 So the issue is not that black people were somehow evil to go 1011 00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,880 on the welfare, if it was offered, of course, that every 1012 00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,680 third person took it. That's human nature. 1013 00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:58,720 But if that welfare hadn't existed, the black community 1014 00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,560 today would be much more coherent than it was. 1015 00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,280 There's no such thing as whole communities where having a 1016 00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:08,880 father was strange until welfare was changed that way. 1017 00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,840 It was one of the most important aspects of black history, what 1018 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:13,480 those people did to welfare legislation. 1019 00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:15,320 Although it should also be said that it was spearheaded by 1020 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:19,640 George Wiley, who was black. But still, it was a grievous, 1021 00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,800 grievous wrong. And the people involved in that, 1022 00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,440 even today, the ones who are alive have blood on their hands. 1023 00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,280 And they had a more profound effect on the black community 1024 00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:32,680 across this country than factories moving away or anybody 1025 00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,360 using the word *** or any of the other things that we're trained 1026 00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:42,360 to think more about. So, you know, once the society 1027 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:45,920 is governed by dependency and emergency, independence itself 1028 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:47,840 starts to look like a bit of a problem. 1029 00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:55,120 So Sandy, we will keep the little bit on assisted dying for 1030 00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:58,480 extra. It does dovetail into the report 1031 00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:02,120 that you've just made, but we're looking at the clock a little 1032 00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,160 bit. So we'll we'll keep that for for 1033 00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:08,600 UK column news extra. Are we on track with the vibes? 1034 00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:11,000 Ben is the key question. Well, I'm hoping you can help me 1035 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,960 out with that actually Brian vibe coding. 1036 00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:15,600 Go on. What is it? 1037 00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,120 What do you reckon? I think it's the use of art 1038 00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:20,320 artificial. You can read the next slide 1039 00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,160 coming up. You're cheating at. 1040 00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:26,360 Least we've got a a proper studio here queued up, so I'm 1041 00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,720 pretty confident I know. OK, so this is the use of 1042 00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,520 artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist 1043 00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:33,120 with the writing of computer code. 1044 00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:36,480 And it is the word of the year 2025. 1045 00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:41,120 Isn't that exciting? Where AI meets authenticity as 1046 00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:45,200 society shifts, it's nothing. It's not social engineering, 1047 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,360 Brian. That's definitely not what it 1048 00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:50,880 is. Tired of wrestling with syntax? 1049 00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,520 Just go with the vibes. That's the essence of Vibe 1050 00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:57,080 Coding, Collins's Word of the Year 2025, a term that captures 1051 00:59:57,080 --> 00:59:59,600 something fundamental about our evolving relationship with 1052 00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:03,880 technology. Coined by this guy Andre 1053 01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:07,920 Carpathy, who's AI pioneer apparently and part of the Open 1054 01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:09,880 AI. Original team. 1055 01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:12,400 There's a new kind of coding I call Vibe Coding. 1056 01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:15,440 This is the original tweet from February this year where you 1057 01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:19,040 fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget 1058 01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:22,040 that the code even exists. It's possible because the LMS 1059 01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,200 are getting too good. I feel like you've been in, but 1060 01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,840 you might be vibe coding soon. Brian, you've been using Chatter 1061 01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,160 GPT quite a lot of notice. Do you think you're going to 1062 01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:33,760 vibe code over Christmas? I'm pretty confident I won't be, 1063 01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,120 I'm pretty pleased to tell you that. 1064 01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:40,200 But yes, chap GBT was in my mind as you're talking about this, 1065 01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:47,560 because UK Column viewer sent in some challenges they had made to 1066 01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:52,520 ChatGPT where they'd quickly got another admission of bias in the 1067 01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,680 system. And I'll try and bring that on 1068 01:00:55,680 --> 01:01:00,160 to UK Column News possibly at the end of the week. 1069 01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,240 We'll, we'll see. But thank you very much to the 1070 01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:05,760 viewer who sent that in. Yes, as I think there's nothing 1071 01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,520 but bias in those systems. So they're really pushing this. 1072 01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:10,240 They're trying to make it a cultural phenomenon. 1073 01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,800 And there was this thing that came out as well a few months 1074 01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:16,840 ago, The Way of Code, The timeless Art of vibe coding made 1075 01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:24,960 by Uncle Rick, Rick Rubin and includes such such gems as the 1076 01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:28,720 Vibe Coder builds without labouring, which is basically 1077 01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:30,320 the big lie of all this technology. 1078 01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:31,640 You bet you won't have to do anything. 1079 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:32,760 You don't have to learn anything. 1080 01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,040 You just speak to the machine and it will do everything that 1081 01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,000 you need to do. And and and it's all part of 1082 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:41,880 this drive towards merging humanity with technology and 1083 01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:43,720 artificial intelligence in particular. 1084 01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,000 And I just think that they're on a hiding to nothing, 1085 01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:47,880 unfortunately, because it's a bit like this. 1086 01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,800 You try and mix oil and water. Yeah. 1087 01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,240 So this is the vibe coding. That's the vibe coding. 1088 01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:56,160 They're trying to shake it up and to make the things merge. 1089 01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,960 But actually they separate because they're fundamentally 1090 01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:02,120 different. And of course, destroying 1091 01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:06,320 language destroys the whole ability of humans to not only 1092 01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:09,040 communicate, but properly interface with each other. 1093 01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,240 So let us end with a positive note. 1094 01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:16,200 Yes, this is a fun. This is a fun shot from the road 1095 01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:21,520 trip to York, Brian, Sandy and me that I came across and I 1096 01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:23,360 thought it was. It was, it was. 1097 01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:26,120 That was a good day. It was a great weekend, yes. 1098 01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:27,560 What we're really? Highlight what? 1099 01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:31,200 We're really saying to our audiences, although we have to 1100 01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:35,120 deal with a huge amount of what can often be very dark, very 1101 01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:39,800 stressful news, the key to dealing with it is to ensure 1102 01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:43,920 that you stay happy and sane and upbeat. 1103 01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:47,600 And we'd like to reassure the audience that although we do 1104 01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:51,280 appear very often serious in the way we report what's happening 1105 01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:56,760 around, around us and worldwide, we still keep this baseline of 1106 01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:00,840 of keeping ourselves fit, healthy and happy in order to 1107 01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,960 deal with it. So we'd encourage the audience 1108 01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,400 to do the same. We must end there. 1109 01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:07,760 We're out of time. Huge thank you to everybody 1110 01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:10,400 who's joined us for UK column News Today. 1111 01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:14,040 Just a little reminder again, if you're not already a paid up 1112 01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:18,160 member, please join us. We need your support and we want 1113 01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:20,080 to grow. Plus we've got to face the 1114 01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:24,440 challenges of censorship. But Ben and Sandy, thank you 1115 01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:28,560 very much for joining me. That's the end of today's news. 1116 01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,600 If you're a member, we'll be back in a few minutes for UK 1117 01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:33,640 column Extra. Join us then. 1118 01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:34,240 Bye bye.