Good afternoon. Today is Monday the 15th of
December 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
I'm your host, Ryan Garish, Delighted to have Ben Rubin with
me in the studio. And we'll be joined by Sandy
Adams, who's on Live link. Now.
As always, UK columns got a busy news.
We're just going to mention the attack on Bondi Beach, which of
course, is going to dominate the news, no doubt in the Western
Hemisphere, UK in particular, in the forthcoming days and weeks.
But we need to mention that those events have taken place.
We're going to be having a look at Christian persecution in the
world. We're going to be having it or
you will be having a look, Ben, at the business of war.
We're going to be looking at the home secretary's targeting of
violence against women, followed by ladies in Red, which will be
interesting. Ben see what comes out of that.
Sandy will then be covering social control.
Ben will be on the subject of AI and vibe coding.
And we're going to end with a very happy slide of the UK
column team, which will help lift the mood.
Now we know that things are pretty serious across the board
in the country. We know people having difficulty
watching the news because most of it is so dark that every
adult man and woman in this country needs to understand
what's happening. And the duty falls on us to help
people through the labyrinth of policies that are happening.
But let's kick off with a little look at how the BBC came across
an amazing coincidence connected to Bondi Beach.
Paddy, this has been one of those mornings where a dark
event suddenly emerges and will dominate the news probably for
the rest of today, probably for the rest of tomorrow.
And it was one of those days we were about to go on air.
We started getting reports in of a multiple shooting on Bondi
Beach in Australia, one of those famous places in the world.
By complete coincidence, one of our guests was Layla Cunningham,
who's a reform politician. We told her what was happening.
She then said her nephew lived there.
She got him on the phone and he told her.
And she then told us live on air, within a few minutes, there
was an active situation. There were shots ringing out.
He was a Doctor Who was on his way from a neighbouring beach 10
minutes away to go to try to help.
And since then, some of the videos, some of the eyewitnesses
accounts that have been coming out are absolutely horrific.
As we talk at 10:50 on Sunday morning, a lot of things are
still evolving. And we don't have the full
story, but it very much appears as if this was an attack on a
Jewish holiday, a Hanukkah event.
Well, there we are. There's the report by Laura
Kunzberg and what an amazing coincidence.
So we're going to take the incident at face value.
Tragedy, people have been shot and killed, but what a
coincidence that the BBC's got a guest, that guest had a relative
that lives in the very place where the incident took place.
Coincidence. They're medically trained in a
coincidence that they were on their way to the very beach the
incident had taken or the park that the incident taken place
in. If we did calculation of odds on
that, which I haven't done prior to today's news, but I know that
these are incredible odds. What's your thoughts?
One of my thoughts about that, I mean, it's, it's incredible,
isn't it? It's utterly incredible that the
BBC should have a guest intimately linked not with the
general subject, but the precise event that took place in the
precise location precisely at the right time.
Sandy, I'm watching your faces as we're moving into this.
But it is quite incredible this BBC report.
And what what we haven't shown is that Laura went on to say
that she's quite sure that events on Bondi Beach or to the
side of it in the little park are going to dominate the news
for days and weeks to come. And I think she's very accurate
with that. But what's your thoughts on the
clip, Sandy? Well, it, it, it does seem like
an extraordinary set of coincidences really.
And, you know, you have to look at this in perspective.
It is awful that I think it was 12 people were shot.
Why will this be dominating for such a long time?
I mean, it does seem, you know, there's, there's a lot else
happening in the world and I'm not, I'm not, you know,
diminishing anybody's, you know, sort of anybody's story of, of,
of horror of that particular incident.
But it just seems to me they're gearing it up to make it a
really, really big thing. And they will do because the BBC
do this. And you know, you look at you
look at the, you know, the statistics of, you know, what's
happening in other places in the world and the, and the genocides
going on. And they are going to make this
a really big thing, I think. What do you think?
I think they're going to make it a huge thing and I think we are
going to see a result in this country that we're going going
to see a tightening up of protection for the Jewish
community and we're going to see a greater clampdown on anybody
speaking or criticising the Israeli government.
But we'll leave that for future. UK column news reports.
Now, in contrast, you've got a section here about the
persecutions of Christians and this is a subject which rarely
comes up. Occasionally it gets a mention,
but you've decided that today is is the day to have a look at
this. Yes, I mean, it's, well, it's
coming up to Christmas mainly and more and more we're seeing
Christianity being marginalised and it was persecuted.
And in late November, the BBC reported that Northern Ireland,
the Supreme Court had ruled that Christian focused religious
education taught in Northern Irish schools was unlawful.
And you know, this was a unanimous judgement allowed on
appeal by an unnamed father and daughter from Northern Ireland.
Now, uh, this was sent to us by one of our, one of our, our
viewers and, uh, she knows who she is.
Thank you Christine. Um, you know, and she's, she's
given us a citizen go link to, to so that one can challenge
this appeal if you, if you want to.
And that is in the show notes. If, if, if you wish to, I don't
know if you have to be in Northern Ireland to do this.
I'm not sure, but I doubt it. I think I would imagine because
Northern Ireland is part of us, you'd be allowed to.
So I I just feel that that there is a big thing with
Christianity, but worse than that, all over the world
Christians are being persecuted, particularly in Nigeria.
And when we hear about religious persecution around the world,
our minds often go to minorities in Muslim majority countries or
to Buddhists or Hindus or other minority faiths under pressure.
But there there is. It's seldom spoken about the the
millions of Christians globally who are enduring persecution,
harassment, violence, imprisonment and even death
simply for their faith. And we've got here around, you
know, the the persecution of Christians worldwide has gotten
worse, a papal charity report says.
According to recent reports by global Christian Charities, the
situation is worsening. Violations against Christians
increased in nearly 2/3 of 18 countries studied.
In fact, a 2024 to 2025 assessment found that around
365,000,000 Christians worldwide are subject to high levels of
persecution. And we've got here the the House
of Commons library actually had a debate on it and and they
looked at the the World Watch List.
Now, according to Open Doors, a Christian charity that monitors
persecution around over I think it's about 380 million
Christians faced persecution in 2024, with 4766 killed and 4744
imprisoned. So that's a heck of, you know,
that's a really big number of, of, of Christians, you know,
being persecuted. They now open doors really have
gone into this deeply. They've created the world watch
list with areas in red, as you can see on on the map here,
areas in red. There's seventeen of them and
the the the, the, the countries are North Korea, Somalia, Libya,
Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran,
Afghanistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Mali, Algeria, Iraq and
Myanmar. Now these are these are the ones
that are, are pretty, pretty bad for persecution.
Whereas the orange ones, I think that's a bit less that that's 33
countries and they include, I won't read the list because
there's 33 of them, but it's, it's countries like China,
Burkina Faso, euthanasia, Vietnam, Jordan, Malaysia,
Turkey. So that's a heck of a lot of an
area of the world where Christians are simply being
persecuted. So the 2025 annual report work
was created. This is the Commission on the
the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
And their publication has a worrying list.
They've created their own list, really.
And the plight of the most persecuted Christians has been
widely ignored except for the the Catholics and the the
Anglicans have been flagging it up just recently.
So the next slide is really what the, what this, this the, the
religious freedom, the international religious freedom
groups. And they've got a whole other
list of countries which are pretty bad as well.
But obviously Nigeria is seems to be top of the top of the
list. Now that site that, that's been
a silence really throughout the whole world about Christian
persecution. But that silence was challenged
recently when on the 19th of November, the bells of Clifton
Cathedral rang in support of persecuted Christians worldwide
and Southwark Cathedral as well. So it was, it was called Red
Wednesday and they held these events all over the, the UK.
The Christian Church did, whether it was Anglican or
Catholic, so the they called it read Wednesday and and it was
held by the aid to church in need, the ACN.
And it was it was Bishop Bosco in in Bristol.
He he held he's Bosco McDonald, his name is.
He held a special mass at Clifton Cathedral calling on
Christians in the UK and beyond to unite in prayer with our
suffering brothers and sisters in Christ.
It was a simple gesture, you know, liturgy, prayers and
support, but deeply meaningful. And Southwark Cathedral held
events for Red Wednesday on the 19th of November as well.
Now in a world where Christian persecution is growing from
extreme extremist violence in Africa to oppressive regimes in
Asia, in the Middle East, this mass reminds us that there
there's, there's not distant stories.
They're human lives and they, they deserve our awareness.
And I've got another slide here from, from Southwark Cathedral
where they actually called it Team Red, where they were really
going for, for the whole, the whole thing of, of supporting
the, the Christians in, in need. Now in many countries that, you
know, they face, they face violence even for just daily
worship or, or, or owning a Bible.
I've got another slide here from, oh, next one now it's
fine. I've got Southwark Cathedral
and, and their whole way of, of, of really putting this in the
forefront of, of Christian prayer and Mass.
That was in Southwark Cathedral. Yeah, we've, we've got a whole
load of, of, of Christians really being persecuted, uh, you
know, from diverse cultures, ethnicities, ages and countries
they're suffering covers, you know, different borders and
races. Umm, and the moral challenge
remains, if we defend religious freedom only selectively, we, we
betray that principle itself. Now I've got a video video here
from Bernard Tutunji, who's a from Sydney and he works for the
Aid to Church in need Australia. Now just listen to what's
happening in Nigeria and it's quite shocking.
Thank you. Nigeria today is an epicentre of
Christian martyrdom. Since the year 2000, more than
60,000 Christians have been murdered by Islamist groups like
Boko Haram, heavily armed Fulani militia.
Our organisations 2023 report I mentioned places Nigeria firmly
in the red category, meaning it's it's persecution.
It's not just discrimination. You know what makes Nigeria
unique is that Christians are not even a tiny minority.
They make up almost half the population, 100 million people,
if they live as if they're second class citizens,
especially in the north. The Nigerian government's failed
to take any meaningful action to present attack, prevent attacks
and the violence is relentless. In the new state alone, one
diocese recorded 93 villages attacked, 330 farmers killed in
just a year. This past June, A couple months
ago, another attack in Bennu, A gunman raided a town, killed 100
people, forced 4000 to leave. And not just killings,
Gabriella. We're Speaking of abductions,
burned villages, destruction of churches, millions forced into
camps where they lack even the basics.
And every single gene day, Nigerian Christians wake up to
the fresh news of kidnappings or attacks.
It's not sporadic. It's systematic.
It's targeted. It's gone on for decades with
little accountability. Yes, and guess who hasn't said a
word? The so called head of our our
Christian Church in in England, the Church of England, who has a
lot to say about climate change in the World Economic Forum, but
not a word about persecuted Christians.
There we are. Thank you very much for that.
And just to clarify, the International Red Wednesday was
November 2024 and the Clifton Report, if I remember correctly,
was 2015. So just just to clarify that.
But nevertheless, this subject sits under the surface and a lot
more needs to be done to bring it to the fore.
But war is not a problem, Ben. It's a racket, so they say, and
I think we're about to find out why.
So yes, the city, the banks and the British deep state of
banging the war drums and we're better to find out about it than
over at Rothschild and Co from Mark Saidwell he says we are at
war just last week, this event, just not conventional warfare.
Conflict now sits in the grey zone.
Peace is war. Exactly right, yes.
So this is echoing the integrated operating concept,
this idea that the frontline is actually in the barracks now.
And the public's the. Enemy, exactly, yes, now, said
Will, former head of the civil service.
We'll come back to him a little bit more later because he's a
crucial player in all of this. But if we can just flash that
back up, we can see that he is now and was immediately having
left the civil service, the chair of geopolitical advisory
at Rothschild and Co. So this is big business in
conflict and an enormous racket for international capital.
The event was run by the London Defence Conference.
It's their investment forum held at the Rothschild and Co offices
in the City of London last week. And you can see here one of
their senior analysts, Olivier Brochet, chairing a panel
discussing the opportunity for investors throughout the capital
stack. Opportunity to invest in death.
Absolutely. Yes, carnage and death.
Exactly. So that's from seed funding all
the way through to institutional investment funds, pension funds,
all the different, the full spectrum of risk appetite across
the capital stack, how they can all invest in and potentially
make enormous amounts of money from conflict.
Ultimately that's what this is all about.
We had various other representatives of the British
civil service, this chap, Angus Lapsley, the UK permanent
representative to NATO, he's been buried in Whitehall for 40
years and then gets put into this plum job at NATO.
And he's there saying, and the defence sector in Europe is
going to be bigger, change faster and require more
investment for a generation. It's an entire generation of
investment regardless of when and how Russia's war against
Ukraine ends. Obviously he has to present this
as as Russia's war against Ukraine and then he goes on.
Not shown on the screen here, but the quote continues to say
there will not be a neat distinction between defence
investment and wider needs. Alongside the traditional
defence primes, we will need growth, innovation and planning
for resilience from a whole range of sectors including tech,
telecommunications, transport, energy, civilian space and
health. So the entire economic system
and the whole of society is being placed on a war footing by
these fellows. These men sitting around
conference rooms in the City of London who most people have
never heard of, are certainly unelected and are deeply
conflicted I would say, in terms of their interests.
We also had the MP for Plymouth was there, we can bring that
back home. We got Luke Pollard who's the
Minister for Defence, Readiness and industry.
So he's working out how to put his snap in this through.
We had the Lord Robertson, the former NATO secretary general
and the UK defence secretary. So there's a top, top, top tier
people. All the old names still there,
still in the wings, now coming forward for their share.
A piece of the cake. Absolutely.
Neil Ferguson, or Niall Ferguson, who is basically the
historian of choice for the Anglo American establishment.
He's a Harvard professor who's involved in the ARC programme.
He's also a member of the Group of 30, which is the kind of top
tier of the central banking cabal, people who coordinate
policy across all of the central banks.
He's in that group. He's there representing those
interests at this event at Rothschild and Co.
And then this is all, of course, not just about war.
It's about deterring war, you see.
So bring said Will back on screen, He's chairing a panel
discussion about building a modern deter a war economy.
So the best way to deter a war is to spend billions in building
weapons and other infrastructure required to fight armed
conflict. Yeah, sums it up quite nicely,
doesn't it? I think we've seen all the key
players, what they're up to, what the incentives are just in
that little snapshot from that event last week.
But key people coming to the fore now.
So we've we've seen the racket and the war and obviously
everybody providing ammunition, munitions, war supplies.
The longer the war in Ukraine goes on, the more money that's
made under the surface, the assets of Ukraine, the the
grain, the food supplies and also the rare earth minerals
raped. So this is big, big profits for
the big players. Absolutely.
And now they're becoming visible.
It was Black Rock in the beginning and now we're into the
banking boys that actually fund organisations.
Yes, such as Black Rock, Exactly.
And this completely symbiotic relationship between the banks,
the City of London and the British civil service, deep
state, the remnants of the empire.
Ultimately, that's what we're talking about here, Ryan.
So we actually take a look at Sedwell.
He's a perfect example of this civil service into the City of
London grandy type individual who has extraordinary amount of
power and influence but no one has ever heard of unless you
watch programmes like the UK columns.
So who is he said? Well, so many years in the civil
service. He actually ran the civil
service. He was the cabinet secretary for
a number of years left at the end of 2022.
He was also through his career the national security adviser,
the permanent secretary of the Home Office and also the British
ambassador to Afghanistan had other advisory roles around NATO
and and other organisations like that.
Since leaving, he has picked up a number of extraordinarily
influential roles. He was deputy chairman of Lloyds
of London Insurance Market, as we've touched on, he's chairman
of global geopolitical advisory at Rothschild and Co.
He's also the chairman of the International Institute for
Strategic Studies, IISS, which is basically the think tank for
the military industrial complex. So they do all the long range
strategic planning about where walls are going to pick up and
where they're going to kick off around the world and what the
industry needs to do in order to capitalise on that.
Ultimately, it's what they're up to.
And he's also been to the Bilderberg meetings at least
once. He was in 2022 while he was
still running Cabinet Office. We're still running the UK civil
service, right? And, and so you can just see
here this this collection of influences and connections
coalescing around Said Will and as an extension of Said Will,
the Lords and the top tier of the British establishment into
international capital and the military industrial complex and
how this whole thing is put together.
Basically, we'll put links to all of these organisations and
some profiles we've said with and what have you should go and
have a proper read through what what these organisations are up
to. And I'll provide other links to
these two videos. The first one is this one, which
is a discussion that he had in his capacity at Lloyd's with
Baroness Patricia Scotland while she was Secretary General of the
Commonwealth. This is really revealing.
Actually, she describes the Commonwealth as a Petri dish
that you can grow almost anything in.
You come up with solutions that work not just for the
Commonwealth, but for everybody and actually the Commonwealth,
which essentially revealing there is that the Commonwealth
is one of the main mechanisms through which Britain or the
remnants of the British Empire continues to the geopolitical
power into the UN and other bodies through the Commonwealth.
Essentially it's a way of kind of reputation washing the
British establishment saying Oh no, we did it with the
Commonwealth. And and of course we got King,
King Charles especially interested in the power of the
Commonwealth through the power of the the growing population of
young people in the Commonwealth.
So yes, the Commonwealth almost seen as a as a parallel vehicle
to the power of the European Union, but obviously controlled
by Britain. Yes, exactly.
And then a final one which you should certainly go and have a
look at is this, which is Sidwell's Oxford Union speech
from October 2020. Well, he basically stands up.
This is right in the middle of all the lockdowns that he was
responsible for overseeing or part of the team and, and
basically says what we know by 2050.
And then he just lists out all of the biggest things that are
definitely going to happen, According to him.
So it's going to be about climate change, climate, what he
calls volatility. And that might involve the UK
getting colder, not necessarily warmer as well.
Quite interestingly, he talks about demographic shifts in
every part of the world. We're going to have ageing
populations. The UK is going to have the
largest population in Europe, apparently bigger than Germany
by by 2050. Like how we're going to be able
to feed ourselves, I don't know. We're going to we're going to
see significant migration flows from north north from sub
Saharan Africa. He talks about the fourth
industrial revolution, the inevitable destruction of white
collar jobs. And then also this idea that
competition and conflict are going to become multi domain.
So health, democracy, cyber, information warfare are all
going to be part of this new conflict environment.
And what he doesn't say, but I guess he's, you know, hidden in
the background, is the fact that Rothschild and Co and people
like that are going to make him pack.
It off the back of the may hammer the chaos.
Exactly. And thank you very much really
important segment because this is talking about where real
policy comes from. This is the rules based
international order at work. This is where the policy is
coming that then philtres through UK government.
So the illusion of democracy and, and laws and, and that
proper governance of the country coming through Parliament is
clearly a nonsense now in 2025. And your description is, is
setting the scene for where policy is coming.
Now part of that policy is absolutely the drive for AI.
There was a demonstration in London on Saturday.
Not a huge demonstration, I understand, but Will Coleshill
was there to report for UK columns.
So let's have a look at what he had to say.
Hello, this will go to Reporting for UK column today I'm down
here outside the BBC Portland Place, the Eric Gill statue
right behind me. And today I'm reporting on the
digital ID protests massive that's going on down here in
London. So why are you out here today
then? I'm out here today because I
believe in fighting for our liberty and our democracy, and I
think that digital ID is completely against that and it
curbs our rights and our freedoms.
Came to all the things before with the backseat, what have
you, but just the digital ID in the control network that's
closing and for our grandchildren.
Shortest future? Just watching the way things are
going, you know, since Kovid freedoms are being
systematically dismantled. And yeah, we're we're seeing
that everything is just going in One Direction.
I'm brought out here today because this is the hill I'm
willing to die on. If we let this pass, we become
an open prison. Now, this is an important one.
I mean, digital ID if we if we're forced into this, I mean,
there is absolutely no freedom if they can do whatever they
like with us. So it really is 1A bet we must
win. You know, it can lead to an
authoritarian state, which is, I guess, the final.
Goal. They'll be enforced by having a
unified system of ID so that even your bank account is being
monitored and money could be taken out of it if you do
something wrong, like breaking your carbon footprint.
Because it's nothing we don't need.
We've never needed it before, and the plans to put it in place
are completely tyrannical. And it's there for monitoring
and surveilling us in a way that nobody really wants to happen.
We've. Never got passports, driving
licence, first ticket. It's just, it's just bringing an
Agenda 20-30. You know, we just have to look
at the Agenda 30 actually for the UN, the United Nations, it's
all there. You know, they want us to stay
in these cities, these 15 minute cities.
We shall, we own nothing, and we shall be happy.
If they have that information about you all in one place, then
they can easily control and manipulate that information.
They can make you do anything you like.
They can stop you going places. They can stop you buying certain
things if you you know, if you're writing certain things on
the Internet. They can freeze your bank
account, They could they can stop finances when if you if you
oppose certain government policies, our.
Spending our travel, the climates, just everything, the
food that you eat, how much you watch each day.
They're going to base it off the Chinese social credit system
that's already in place. And we already have a version of
this with our credit scores where we're not allowed to have
certain loans and we're not allowed to have certain credit.
It'll be like that, but amplified.
And if you want some sort of demonstration on how this will
work, then you'll need to watch the Nosedive episode of Black
Mirror. Baby steps as they say, and
before you know it will be locked in our houses or, you
know, told where we can and cannot go.
The main thing is they're rolling it out now.
They're saying it's to stop so called illegal work and stuff
like that. You know, they give some, you
know, bad reasons for it just to get the public on board and then
they introduce something else and something else and before
you know it you've lost all your freedoms.
So. They're going to put penalties
on people and punish people for not complying and I'm not being
funny, but that it's never really a good thing, is it?
And this is another thing about convenience.
They're gonna not force you to have it, but it'll be extremely
inconvenient for you to exist in society without it.
And that's how they're gonna try and trip us up.
We know that they've already done the veterans cards for
veterans and now they're trying to get everyone who's company
director onto the government one login system.
They're taking our biometrics and that's the key things.
If you give up your biometrics, the government creates a digital
twin of you, something that represents you in the digital
space, and you've got no control over what happens to that and
how the government uses it and where that might end up do.
You think that this is going to change people's minds coming out
here today? Honestly, I don't know.
We've got a lot of people that understand what this means and a
lot of people who think this is going to happen anyway no matter
what we do. But that's the problem.
It will happen if no one does anything.
So you may as well stand up. You may as well say something
just to say that you did and you have.
Yeah, well, they didn't make any decisions on their quotes, but
you know, talked the other day. So I think with the amount of
people that are speaking up against this, there is hope.
Well, that's all I can say. There's hope, definitely.
I mean, if you look around, like the streets are filled here.
So definitely right. And it's about raising
awareness. And I think that we can
definitely do that. I think a lot of people are
aware of it. I mean, it was 3 million people
that wrote, you know, signed the petition, wasn't it, to the
Houses of Parliament. So yeah, people aren't waking
up. Maybe they're not coming out on
the streets, but a lot of people, a lot of people I know
and I meet and come and say, you know, yeah, we agree with you.
It's just that they don't feel powerful.
They're going to try their hardest to implement it.
And we need to stand up and say, no, we're not doing it.
We're not doing it, no. And that's what we need to.
That's what the message is. Do not accept the digital ID,
don't accept it Defiance. We're fighting for everyone's
freedom. I just wish there are a few more
people standing on their own. Well, an encouraging report by
Will Coleshill there and I think the young lady said it all.
Of course if people do nothing, these policies are absolutely
going to be implemented. So really wonderful to see the
people that did attend and the fact they were also well
informed speaking out in order to try and get this stopped.
And good to see some of the smaller parties there, David
Curtin from the Heritage Party, but also Piers Corbyn and Andrew
Bridgen. Now, were there many mainstream
media reports in UK on the day? I don't think so.
But This is why it's beholden on all of us, people who do
understand what's going on to get out and spread the word to
other people. Now let's move on with the
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podcast, which is tonight at 9:00 PM.
We've also got coming up tomorrow at 1:00 PM, Chris
Coverdale talking about no tax for war.
And a reminder, the 9/11 truth today, which is an event having
a look at the 9/11 movement, where it is today, how it's
working and what it's still achieving.
And that's Sunday, December the 14th.
It was yesterday. I beg your pardon, that was
yesterday. Thank you very much for that.
So that will be available for people to look at.
So keep your eyes open for that on UK column website.
I'm getting ahead of myself there.
Right, Let's come on to the subject of the Home Secretary
and the announcement that there's to be a massive effort
to target violence and particularly sexual violence
against women. So according to Shabana Mahmood,
violence against women and girls is a national emergency.
Now it's getting difficult to know where the emergencies are
now because I thought it was Putin and the war in Ukraine,
but apparently now women and girls have become the national
emergency. She went on to say that we, the
government, have got a plan to set up specialist rape and
sexual offence investigation teams in every police force in
England and Wales by 2029. Now my comment on this is that
of course sexual offences against women shouldn't be
taking place, but it's very interesting that the government
can set up teams to tackle this issue, but consistently they've
failed to set up effective teams to tackle the horrific and
widespread abuse of children. So I have to be a bit cynical
here because it seems to me that the real, real serious crime
that against children who are unable to defend themselves at
all, the government doesn't want to get to grips with.
But suddenly they've moved on to this area of the women.
So if we add a little bit more, apparently the plan is to halve
the violence against women and girls within a decade.
Now, I'm going to take a little bit of a different look at this
because the circumstances that we live in today, the violence
against women, what does this actually mean?
Where's it come from? What is it being generated by?
I think we need to have a wider and a deeper look.
We can only do part of that in the news.
But if we go into some of the statistics, of course, something
we should flag up straight away. Is it as a result of violence?
Who gets hurt most by violence? Well, in fact that's men, if we
can pop this one up on screen. So men are more at risk of
violence, but women are more at risk of sexual violence, and
this is a key thing. So they're going for the sexual
violence, but the government is not interested about the greater
risk of general violence to men, which is interesting.
Then the BBC really gets into the weeds here because it gives
us a headline saying that in this policy, which is about
sexual violence against women, boys are to be targeted.
And essentially the plan which is VAWG, violence against women
and girls. The strategy is going to be
built around three goals, preventing the radicalisation of
young men, stopping abusers and supporting victims.
And I'm going to flag up straight away, we know what's
going to happen here, which is that young boys are going to be
absolutely targeted to be reframed that they don't go near
girls. And of course, where does that
lead? That is going to lead into
further breakdown in later life when as adults they should be
forming relationships with girls.
But let's take a little look about the female side itself.
And I think, yes, this could be a bit controversial to some
members of our audience, but I think we need to dig into this
area, as some people would say. And this is one of the killer
headlines. So it's the Manchester Evening
News. And the headline is beautiful
ladies losing control in Manchester.
Viral nightlife video trends, disturbing new turn.
So what is this article about? Well, there's an embedded video.
This is just a screenshot of the opening frame of that video.
But what I wanted to highlight to people is it says vulnerable
women filmed on a night out in Manchester.
Vulnerable women filmed in a night out in Manchester.
So let's just play a little bit of video.
I'm going to talk over this as it plays and let's just have a
look at at the video itself. And I'll just say to Chris, the
video we should be playing is the next one.
So the embedded one I can see on screen.
I'm not I'm not sure that is going to be the right video
then. So let's see what what you
should see is a street scene. I'll just wait and see whether
we can key that video up. This is it.
So let's play this and it'll become apparent to the audience.
What's what's actually going on here?
So if we bring that on. So this is what late night looks
like with these vulnerable young ladies on the on the streets.
And I think we could start to ask some questions about what
exactly these young ladies are doing, why they feel the need to
be dressed like this sat in the gutter because they're too drunk
to stand up. This is just a tiny snapshot of
what's going on in UK and in UK cities.
And of course the police have to deal with the fallout of this.
But these are women who are being described as vulnerable.
And I think it's reasonable to say to the audience, are we
looking at vulnerable young ladies or are we looking at
misguided young ladies in not only where they are, how much
they've had to drink, but also how they're dressed?
Now let's see how the Chief Inspector Stephen Wiggins of
Greater Manchester Police, let's see how he commented on the fact
these videos have been taken. And what takes place is that
they are concerned about the fact that a male was on the
street taking video of young ladies in this condition.
So as far as the police are concerned, the focus is simply
on the people who took the video.
And Stephen Wiggins says we're aware that concern over a number
of online accounts filming women on nights out has been raised on
social media. We take the safety of women and
girls incredibly seriously, including within the city
centre's nightlife, and would encourage anyone who believes
that they or others are being stalked or roused up, skirted or
filmed in a manner which is causing them alarm or distress.
So please speak to our officers on the ground or report fire and
999 or 101 services. And I'll just give the the last
bit here. Women and girls should be able
to feel safe on a night out. So I would reiterate that anyone
with concerns should contact police immediately so
appropriate action can be taken. And perhaps a key question is,
are these vulnerable and they were described as beautiful as
well? Are these vulnerable, beautiful
ladies accountable for their physical condition and their
dress code? Or are they simply allowed to do
whatever they like and the consequences fall on the police
and wider society? Now, I know I'm raising some
serious questions here. We'll certainly discuss this
more in extra after today's UK column news, but we will
certainly be digging deeper into this issue.
We'll also be looking both sides of the equation, women and men.
But today we've taken a focus on the women.
Now let's look at what we saw on the streets there against the
budget which we raised a couple of of days ago, where in the
budget one of the key things that came up was benefits for
families. And this was going to place a
burden of another 3 billion on the country.
But I'm going to ask the question, It was described as
child poverty, but are we really looking at child poverty or are
we looking at breakdown of the family?
If we get into some of the statistics?
And I've deliberately used AI to assist me here because as as our
regular news viewers will know, we are looking at the accuracy
of AI and we're also pointing out it's weaknesses.
But here we had to go to an AI system because statistics can be
quite difficult to find without a little bit of help.
And the key part that came out was that we don't know how many
mums are on benefits overall, but when we got deeper in, then
we do get some statistics. So the key thing is roughly 1.2
to 1.4 million single mother households were on benefits.
And if we get into more of the detail, there are 3.2 million
lone parents, there are 2.7 million single mothers.
And here out of those single mothers, 1.1 to 1.35 million are
never married. Now why is this significant?
Because if we label this, of course, with a single mother,
there's no fathers as role models for the boys.
Yet we can see the BBC is indicating that the the country,
the system is absolutely going to target boys because they're
deemed as as the problem with the violence against the women.
So we've got a number of things going on, but we can be sure
that the BBC is not going to dig deeper into this very critical
social, these social problems. Now the other thing I'm just
going to flag up and again, I know this is going to be quite a
motive to some, probably some ladies in the audience.
But when you look at statistics for partnerships of women 25 to
34, and I've taken this report here, which is a combination of
of universities, it says that at least 30% of the women had at
least 10 sexual partners. If we go on to other studies
here, and this is you, Gov 2023, it's saying that the average
woman in their study had three lifetime partners.
But let's put a label across this and we can apply it to both
men and women. Is there a connection between
promiscuity partners and the failure and the number of
partners? Beg your pardon.
And the failing stability of partnerships and marriage.
And of course the inference in the Home Office is that a large
percentage of the violent and sexual incidents against women
is happening within the home. So for the UK column team, at
least, it seems worthwhile. We should be looking at the
whole problem as to what's happening here and not just
following the Home Office's blanket concern, violence
against women. It's come out of nowhere.
Women not accountable in any way for what's actually happening on
the streets. Lot to discuss and we'll have a
look at this a little bit more in extra time.
Now, Ben, by pure coincidence, your next topic was Lady in Red
and. Ladies.
Ladies in Red, Yes. Absolutely for there are there
are many of them and they're not vulnerable which I think.
These are the exact other end of the spectrum because these are
immensely wealthy and very powerful women.
Indeed, yes. Well, we're not going to start
with them, we're going to start with this fella.
This is Andrew Bailey and most people will know, I guess
certainly if you're watching this, that he's the Governor of
the Bank of England, but he's also a member of the Fabian
Society. He was the chair of the Fabian
Society at Cambridge when he studied there.
Also remember the G30, the Group of 30 I mentioned earlier, who
are the group of central bankers set up by the Rockefeller family
in the late 1970s to help align and coordinate global Financial
Policy. And he's also the chairman of
the Financial Stability Board, the FSB, which is just another
one of these global entities that is there to harmonise and
align the policies of the central banks around the world
and basically dictate terms to international governments and
the global population. Because the central banks are
the absolute focal point for the control mechanisms are being
brought through for things like the central bank, digital
currency, CDC. And this is completely, 100%,
totally aligned to the Fabian agenda.
If we can get that back on screen quickly.
Let's just let's just reinforce this point.
Yeah. Because people seem to think,
you know, certainly on the left hand side, as they would define
it, of the political equation that Fabian socialism or even
just socialism generally is some kind of counter to the banks and
the city and international capital.
But that's not the case at all. Yeah.
So government policy, Fabian policy is central bank policy.
There's absolutely nothing between them at all.
And the Fabians have been right at the forefront of of
progressing this socialist agenda in the UK since in 1884.
And this, they've published many pamphlets on this.
This one has has caught my attention over the past few
weeks, came out in 2023, which talks to this exact issue,
right. It's called In Tandem.
We'll provide a link to it and go and have a look.
And in this they argue for the creation of an Economic Policy
Coordination Committee, or EPCC, comprising the UK Treasury and
Business Department, the devolved governments, the Bank
of England and then our various infrastructure banks, national
investment banks, what have you, in the climate change committees
in there as well. So what they're talking about
doing, and remember this is the Fabian Society, who of which the
Prime Minister and most of the Cabinet are members, as well as
the governor of the Bank of England, as we've just pointed
out, are looking to merge and integrate the Treasury and the
Bank and also a whole bunch of other departments and
particularly the devolved government.
So we've been talking about a lot recently.
We're going to be the dissemination point for this
global policy agenda out into the country, essentially
completely short circuit in Westminster and what we, what we
believe to be our, our model of governance, right.
So this is absolutely at the centre of this.
And, and Andrew Bailey is an extraordinarily powerful and
essential figure in this whole agenda.
As I said, he's the governor of the Bank of England, He's the
chair of the SS, the FSB is a member of the Fabian Society.
And yet you can come across pictures like this, and this is
where the Ladies in Red come in because that's Andrew Bailey on
the left there. And we've got this woman in red
on the right hand side. And this I wanted, I had an
inkling that I needed to talk about Andrew Bailey.
So maybe something's going to happen and we'll certainly come
back to him and this this issue in our reporting next year.
This is one of the photos that most struck me this year from my
travels across the Internet, right?
Look at the body language here. This woman on the right hand
side, she appears to have him in submission.
Be in control. Yes, he looks.
He looks like a naughty little boy being scolded.
And his hand on the table seems a very strange configuration
here. So the question is, who is that?
But I can tell you that that's Julie Teaglund from EY, my alma
mater, or I used to work. She's the global vice chair of
alliances and ecosystems. I call her overgrouping Fiora
Teaglund because I think it's quite fitting and there's
another shot of her here. She's at this event.
This is in the in Washington DC, the World Bank spring meetings
and it was attended by, amongst other people, the head of the UN
Development Programme and Andrew Bailey, as we've talked about.
And this is this is where the real big decisions are made.
This is where policy is disseminated, where the
direction is set. She's talking about no longer
navigating episodic change. We're operating in a time of
permanent disruption, permanent disruption, and it's being
driven down from the top by ladies like that.
So she was chairing this meeting alongside this other lady in
red. I don't know who that is, but
the whole thing is being chaired by ladies in red and you see
this occurring again and again and again across the civil
service, across the city. And I think there's something in
it. I don't know exactly what, but
my interest has been piqued. There's something in it, and one
thing we can be sure of, that these ladies in red don't have
any concern for those poor young women who were drunk on the
streets of the major cities. So what a contrast between the
destruction of the family life and those young girls.
Presumably nobody taught them to do anything better than they're
doing and, and and all of the tragedy that unfolds from that
sort of lifestyle. And then we have the contrast
with these immensely powerful women.
We will talk a lot more about this in in extra, but thank,
thank you for that. Ben.
Sandy, let's bring you back in. My goodness, there's so much
happening in this country at the moment.
It's difficult to know quite where to go and we've never got
enough time on the news. But take us on to a bit more
about what you're seeing happen. Well, I mean, I, I was looking
at the the budget a few weeks ago and another lady in red,
Rachel Reeves, the budget was very much about dependency,
about benefits and dependency. And it actually worked out that
actually it's cheaper to go on benefits than it is to work.
Now. What kind of society is that?
And it's all framed around, you know, a single assumption that
more people would depend on the state for longer and at greater
cost and rising benefits. Dependency is no longer treated
as a warning sign. It's presented as inevitable,
the unavoidable response to a permanent crisis.
And this is what seems to be happening now.
There's a political theory that developed decades ago that
treats this outcome not as failure but as strategy, and
it's called the Cloward Piven Strategy.
Now, a lot of people have said to me, why haven't I mentioned
it before? I've.
I learnt about it quite a while ago.
And the original idea, the Cloward Piven strategy, comes
from this 1966 article, The Nation Magazine, which was
written by sociologists. I think we had it up a moment
ago. Yeah.
And it was. It was, it was written by
sociologist, uh, Richard Cloward and Francis fox Π Piven.
They were a married couple, umm, and they both studied at, umm,
Columbia University. Their argument was direct.
They believed that welfare systems were deliberately kept
limited to preserve social order and that meaningful reform would
never come through debate or gradual change.
Umm instead, they proposed in, you know, encouraging maximum
legal participation in welfare, pushing this the systems beyond
capacity. Now we've got a picture to hear
of of Howard, not Howard. Richard Cloward.
And and and then his wife is, is.
Yeah, there she is. Is.
Yes. Is Rachel Piven.
Well, their reasoning was simple.
They overloaded the system to create crisis and enforce
central government, to expand welfare and authority.
In their view, crisis was not something to avoid.
It was the mechanism of change. And we, they keep talking about
change. So the cloud Piven logic
reverses that idea. In this framework, high
dependency is not failure. Um, and it's administratively
used to overload a system and long term reliance on the state
increases political leverage. Now this is, it becomes
dependency stops being temporary.
It becomes a sort of structural way of, of dealing with things
and, and it becomes a whole thing instead of being a
temporary fix for people, it becomes a way of living, which
is not good for society. And this is where this is what
we're seeing now where, where people are long term dependent
on the state. But it fulfils the whole agenda
for, for, for technocracy and everything that they've got
coming because it means that that, you know, recent budgets
expand the means tested, support monitoring and conditionality,
all that kind of thing. So they, they just keep, keep
this whole dependency machine going.
And what's presented as compassion also becomes
governance by necessity. And that's a bit of a problem.
So, you know, it sent incentives to work, weaken family
stability, declines community responsibility, roads and social
trust breaks down also. So the, you know, the damage
isn't evenly shared. So we've got a dependency which
leads to breakdown. Breakdown justifies expansion
and extent expansion deepens the dependency.
So it's all this like this awful cycle.
Interestingly, Cloud Piven was never, it was never about
shrinking the state. It was about expanding it.
So and today that expansion takes on the, the technocratic
form. Now we mustn't forget that
Columbia University was the, the hotbed in the 1960s of
technocracy and before actually right, even before the 1960s,
you know, you had all the, all the major technocrats went
there, Amitayat Sione, who was, you know, the whole thing with
communitarianism and social policy, but, and social
engineering as well. So, so you've got this, you
know, these, these systems that strain governments and introduce
digital benefits platforms, algorithmic eligibility,
eligibility cheques, behavioural conditions, all that kind of
thing. So these are, these are
presented as efficiency solutions.
Now what I've got here is I, I, you know, it's not about whether
society would help the vulnerable, it's about whether
permanent dependency is being normalised as a method of
governance. And that's, that's really what
we're seeing. So I've got a, a video here
really, and it's from back to front in 2020.
And it just shows you how dependency has eroded society in
America, in certain areas of America, particularly poor black
areas. So if we could run that video.
You see the new left and and almost specifically one of the
professors in this building, Francis Fox Piven and Richard
Cloward in their book regulating the poor and in their movement
as a almost prime movers in this disintegration of the black
community in one sense and the rise of this, this healing or
this this paradigm of therapeutic alienation.
Francis Fox Pivot and Richard Cloward created so much black
pain and it's really a shame how little this is known.
It's very simple. The idea that there could be a
kind of welfare policy where generation after generation
stayed on it and nobody cared whether the people got a job and
you were paid for having kids didn't exist until the late 60s.
A lot of people seem understandably to think that
that's the way welfare always was.
It was that play for a good 30 years that only started then.
There's a reason why when you read a novel about the black
poor in in say the 1930s or 40s, that welfare is generally
mentioned once or twice. It was hard to get on it barely
paid you enough to eat, and social workers were always
trying to get you off it and discounted for whites as well as
blacks. So there's more I'm talking
about. Welfare is a racial issue in the
30s or 40s, but starting in the late 60s, welfare was expanded
by those Columbia social workers.
Their idea was benevolent. They were trying to create a
guaranteed income. But that didn't happen, and it
left black communities where it was possible to spend your life
if you were a woman living on welfare and to spend your life
making children you didn't have to take care of if you were a
man. You couldn't do that in 1958
because the government wasn't going to take care of the kids.
So the issue is not that black people were somehow evil to go
on the welfare, if it was offered, of course, that every
third person took it. That's human nature.
But if that welfare hadn't existed, the black community
today would be much more coherent than it was.
There's no such thing as whole communities where having a
father was strange until welfare was changed that way.
It was one of the most important aspects of black history, what
those people did to welfare legislation.
Although it should also be said that it was spearheaded by
George Wiley, who was black. But still, it was a grievous,
grievous wrong. And the people involved in that,
even today, the ones who are alive have blood on their hands.
And they had a more profound effect on the black community
across this country than factories moving away or anybody
using the word *** or any of the other things that we're trained
to think more about. So, you know, once the society
is governed by dependency and emergency, independence itself
starts to look like a bit of a problem.
So Sandy, we will keep the little bit on assisted dying for
extra. It does dovetail into the report
that you've just made, but we're looking at the clock a little
bit. So we'll we'll keep that for for
UK column news extra. Are we on track with the vibes?
Ben is the key question. Well, I'm hoping you can help me
out with that actually Brian vibe coding.
Go on. What is it?
What do you reckon? I think it's the use of art
artificial. You can read the next slide
coming up. You're cheating at.
Least we've got a a proper studio here queued up, so I'm
pretty confident I know. OK, so this is the use of
artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist
with the writing of computer code.
And it is the word of the year 2025.
Isn't that exciting? Where AI meets authenticity as
society shifts, it's nothing. It's not social engineering,
Brian. That's definitely not what it
is. Tired of wrestling with syntax?
Just go with the vibes. That's the essence of Vibe
Coding, Collins's Word of the Year 2025, a term that captures
something fundamental about our evolving relationship with
technology. Coined by this guy Andre
Carpathy, who's AI pioneer apparently and part of the Open
AI. Original team.
There's a new kind of coding I call Vibe Coding.
This is the original tweet from February this year where you
fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget
that the code even exists. It's possible because the LMS
are getting too good. I feel like you've been in, but
you might be vibe coding soon. Brian, you've been using Chatter
GPT quite a lot of notice. Do you think you're going to
vibe code over Christmas? I'm pretty confident I won't be,
I'm pretty pleased to tell you that.
But yes, chap GBT was in my mind as you're talking about this,
because UK Column viewer sent in some challenges they had made to
ChatGPT where they'd quickly got another admission of bias in the
system. And I'll try and bring that on
to UK Column News possibly at the end of the week.
We'll, we'll see. But thank you very much to the
viewer who sent that in. Yes, as I think there's nothing
but bias in those systems. So they're really pushing this.
They're trying to make it a cultural phenomenon.
And there was this thing that came out as well a few months
ago, The Way of Code, The timeless Art of vibe coding made
by Uncle Rick, Rick Rubin and includes such such gems as the
Vibe Coder builds without labouring, which is basically
the big lie of all this technology.
You bet you won't have to do anything.
You don't have to learn anything.
You just speak to the machine and it will do everything that
you need to do. And and and it's all part of
this drive towards merging humanity with technology and
artificial intelligence in particular.
And I just think that they're on a hiding to nothing,
unfortunately, because it's a bit like this.
You try and mix oil and water. Yeah.
So this is the vibe coding. That's the vibe coding.
They're trying to shake it up and to make the things merge.
But actually they separate because they're fundamentally
different. And of course, destroying
language destroys the whole ability of humans to not only
communicate, but properly interface with each other.
So let us end with a positive note.
Yes, this is a fun. This is a fun shot from the road
trip to York, Brian, Sandy and me that I came across and I
thought it was. It was, it was.
That was a good day. It was a great weekend, yes.
What we're really? Highlight what?
We're really saying to our audiences, although we have to
deal with a huge amount of what can often be very dark, very
stressful news, the key to dealing with it is to ensure
that you stay happy and sane and upbeat.
And we'd like to reassure the audience that although we do
appear very often serious in the way we report what's happening
around, around us and worldwide, we still keep this baseline of
of keeping ourselves fit, healthy and happy in order to
deal with it. So we'd encourage the audience
to do the same. We must end there.
We're out of time. Huge thank you to everybody
who's joined us for UK column News Today.
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