Good afternoon. It's just gone 1:00 on Monday
the 13th of October 2025. Welcome to UK column News.
I'm your host, Charles Mallett, and I'm joined in the studio
today by Ben Rubin. Welcome to the programme, Ben.
Thank you, Charles. Good.
And on the live link from Somerset we have Sandy Adams.
Now today we'll be taking a closer look at the attack on
home education, perhaps I should say the continued attack via the
Schools and Well Being Bill. We'll take a take a look at a
report on what's come out of the lot of last week's apolitical
day, as well as some further scrutiny into the relationship
between the Community Security Trust and the police.
We'll also be examining Michael Bloomberg and the Behavioural
Insights teams meddling in local government, as well as the
incessant promotion of United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals in schools. But we will start with the story
of the hour, which is the situation in Gaza.
And of course, it was not even a fortnight ago that the Red Cross
announced that it was withdrawing personnel from Gaza
City due to what they described as the intensification of
military operations. They wrote that in Gaza City
today, civilians are being killed, forcibly displaced, made
to endure dire conditions. Their statement went on to say
that a cessation of hostilities is imperative and urgent, and
under international humanitarian law, civilians must be protected
whether they stay or leave Gaza City.
Israel, as the occupying power, has an obligation to ensure
their basic needs are met. Now, this is the same Red Cross,
of course, this morning, which was charged with the running the
process of handing over hostages, Israeli hostages back
to Israel, process which is reported as now being complete.
And indeed, Donald Trump either is or has been addressing the
Israeli parliament rather remarkably.
And of course, I have to skim somewhat on the details because
it has literally just happened. But he received a standing
ovation for telling the Knesset that his daughter had converted
to Judaism. So the the mood was a strange 1.
And I, and I think to illustrate this extraordinary gulf between
the way in which it's being discussed and the reality of
life on the ground for the people in Gaza, we'll listen to
what Donald Trump had to say before he flew to Israel
yesterday. This is a very special event.
They had 500,000 people yesterday and today in Israel
and also the Muslim and Arab countries are all cheering.
Everybody's cheering at one time.
That's never happened before. Usually if if you have one
cheering, the other isn't, the other is the opposite.
This is the first time everybody is amazed and they're thrilled
and it's an honour to be involved and we're going to have
an amazing time and it's going to be something that's never,
never happened before. So I'll see you on the plane and
we're going to have a good time, OK?
There we are, Trump the saviour. He's nailed it again.
And he seems to be absorbed only in his perception of the effect
that he has had on a situation. And he did actually say that
we're going to have a good time. But back to the events of this
morning. The Red Cross states on Twitter
that we hope this marks the beginning of a sustained
commitment to the recovery and long term stability, starting
with the immediate and unimpeded delivery of essential aid into
Gaza and the release of all the remaining hostages.
Now handover of course marks the start of a swarm of
international activity as the gravy train pulls out of the
station. The Prime Minister's Office has
put out a statement at the so called peace summit in Egypt,
saying among other things, the Prime Minister pledges UK
leadership in Gaza's reconstruction effort.
Sorry, in Gaza's reconstruction at historic Egyptian peace
summit. And they go on to say the Prime
Minister will attend the signing ceremony of the Gaza peace plan,
marking A historic milestone for the region after two years of
conflict and suffering. Of course, we'll come back to
that particular point. They go on to say he's expected
to commit the UK government to playing a leading role to
accelerate Gaza's reconstruction, working with
international partners. Now we're getting slightly
closer to the mark and a £20 million humanitarian aid package
will deliver essential water, sanitation and hygiene services
to 10s of thousands of civilians across Gaza.
One might consider that after two years of sitting on their
hands implicitly and at times explicitly supporting a
genocide, the British administration declares that
it's not going to miss out on the lucrative opportunities
presented by this next phase of the operation, described very
euphemistically as reconstruction.
The document goes on to say that the 20 million support forms
part of the UK's broader 116,000,000 LB aid commitment to
the Palestinian people this year, including 74,000,000
already allocated for life saving assistance and so forth.
Now for context, and of course I'm not intending to make a
direct comparison at all, but the United Kingdom has committed
more than £5 billion to Ukraine in what's described as non
lethal aid. Dishing out the opportunities
for investing in this process will start this afternoon.
And we'll just finish with one of the closing remarks in that
statement, which of course is the aim of how best to mobilise
private sector resources to address the scale of
reconstruction required after more than two years of conflict
of damaged or destroyed 92% of homes.
And it is to Wilton Park that we go.
The Wilton Park Summit organised due to start this afternoon and
now it describes itself as an executive agency of the Foreign,
Commonwealth and Development Office.
And they say the UK Wilton Park Summit will bring together a
coalition of representatives from businesses, civil society
and governments to convene crucial planning and
coordination efforts for post war Gaza.
Now, if you've been following the the sort of train of
sentiment so far, you'll you'll consider that it seems very much
like an afterthought. There's then finally a reference
to the involvement of the Palestinian people who've not
yet been considered in any of this.
But the state statement does say discussions will also cover
efforts to support the Palestinian Authority's own
transformation and reform programme to ensure it can
support Gaza's recovery. And then bear in mind the title
of the statement in the 1st place, with Starmer apparently
playing a leading role. It goes on to say that
reconstruction will be a Palestinian LED will be
Palestinian LED with absolutely no role for Hamas in its future
governance. So it seems that little doubt
can remain about who the real winners will turn out to be.
And I quote the conference will be attended by a range of
international partners, including Germany, Italy, Saudi
Arabia, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, as well
as private sector and International Development
finance and financiers, including the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank.
Now Starmer is, as I say, has has quoted that figure of saying
that 9092% of homes have been either damaged or destroyed
during this period. And the only response from the
United Kingdom really seems to be to push bankers to the fore.
Yvette Cooper also weighing in, saying that of the UK has to
play a crucial part and that they are again bringing in
investment from the City of London to support
reconstruction. So it seems that with pounds and
dollars at the forefront of the minds of all the self declared
peacemakers, it's hard to consider that this latest
development is anything but something that should be
regarded with a huge degree of suspicion and scepticism.
And and just to close out even Chatham House in this article,
can the Trump peace plan for Gaza succeed?
Forced to conclude with the some might say, blindingly obvious
statement, which is that however even highly focused and
successful delivery of the missions aims will not disguise
the fact that it does not really address the Palestinian right to
self determination. Now, there's going to be
obviously a lot more to come out on this, certainly even as today
progresses, but one might consider that things do not bode
well despite all the glad handing that's going on within
and without the Trump entourage. Now Sandy, we are going to look
now to you to get the latest on the children's well being in
schools Bill and exactly what it's going to set out to, to
change particularly for the home educators.
Thank you, Charles. Yes well, the Children's Well
being in schools Bill, it hasn't been passed yet because it's
between the committee and the report stage in the Lords as of
last week on the 9th of October, it still contains serious
concerns about parental rights and children's rights actually
state data sharing and educational freedom.
And now is a key moment really for parents to act, to write,
speak and make their voices heard before this becomes law.
It'll ping pong around, you know, umm, uh, between the
Commons and, and the Lords until it gets royal assent and it's
only got uh, like 3 stages now before it gets to royal assent.
So we, we do need to act fast if we, if we're going to do
something about this. In short, the bill is live, but
not finished. It's falls between stages and
it's a great time to, to become aware of what, what's going on.
Now this, umm, uh, there's this, uh, this editorial called the
home daily and they, they are flagging up some real concerns
about this. If you, I, I've put everything
in the show notes for you to catch up on this.
So, um, yeah, it's it, you know, the, the, the, the provisos of
this bill, the key provisions of it, it would create a, a
consistent unique identifier for each child, which is virtually
digital ID. It would enable across across
agency flow of information of welfare, health and safeguarding
issues, strength and duties to local authorities, health
agencies, police, schools, police schools and etcetera to
share safeguarding D data, a compulsory register of children
who are not enrolled in schools. And it, it really is, it's a
standardisation of all the curriculums in schools, which is
is not favouring, you know, the academies because they've done a
lot of work on this and it's also caps on branded items of
school uniform. So, but the main, the main
problems are really the if, if, if you want to dig a bit deeper,
the bill shifts authority from parents to the state and beneath
the language of safeguarding and well being, it's it threatens
family autonomy and privacy. Is erosion of parental lights a
threat to educational freedom, Data harvesting, which actually
in the Lord's in, in Hansard, only one Lord really mentions
this and we'll get on to him in a minute.
Uh, a criminalisation of parents and the risks to vulnerable
families. So umm, the, the, the, the Lord
who did speak up about data surveillance and umm, parental
rights on, on, on home schooling was umm, uh, Baron way of
Shoreditch. And he's an interesting chap
because he, umm, he, he actually was involved with Cameron, with
big society, uh, with so social entrepreneurship and all that
sort of thing, which is a bit on the commutarian side for my
liking. But on this issue, he, he
really, really stands out. He's a a conservative, he's a
Christian and we'll just listen to what he has to say because he
says on on the on the quote here.
My Lords, it is with heavy heart that I rise to speak today,
heavy because the legislation before us cuts to the very the
fabric of democratic society. So let's just listen to him in
the House of Lords from Hansard. Thank you.
See on every state funded primary school to introduce free
breakfast, making them accessible to all children
regardless of background. Breakfast clubs have proven
benefits. They boost attendance, improve
academic attainment and enhance children's social and an
emotional well being. However, access remains
fragmented. Despite the good work of the
National Schools Breakfast programme.
It reaches only around 2000 primary schools, covering only a
fraction of those in need and funding only 75% of the cost of
food and delivering delivery, leaving schools to cover staff
wages and other expenses. This bill goes further than
simply expanding the existing programme, it makes a
fundamental shift in how we support children's education and
well being. From April, 750 schools across
all nine regions, including 45 special schools, have led the
way in free daily breakfast clubs, saving parents up to £450
a year. Early adopters will be part of a
test to learn phase to strengthen delivery of national
roll out. We will learn what works and
develop the programme, and this Bill will ensure that the
opportunities provided. Sorry that that wasn't the hard
way. I don't know what happened
there. But yeah, that that there is a
really there's a 2 minute clip of him speaking about this and
that unfortunately isn't it. So never mind, we'll have to
catch up on that another time. Thank you.
Thanks, Andy. I mean, you're welcome to sort
of summarise what it is that he did say if you'd like to do that
now, if you can remember enough of what he said or I.
Mean, yes, I'll try and remember what he said.
Hang on a SEC. Let me just see.
Let me just, yeah, bring this up.
Yeah. Well really he, he, he, he went
into the fact that it's an erosion of parental rights.
The bill treats all parents as potential risks by forcing every
home educated child to be registered with local
authorities. Every withdrawal request would
be assessed under safeguarding framework, meaning every parent
is subjected to a risk assessment.
Local authorities could issue school attendance orders.
He basically is saying that this it would effectively the state
would would dictate what counts as acceptable education.
Home educators would be required to meet improved standards
making child LED faith based based or creative learning
harder to defend. Academics would lose freedom of
to innovate data harvesting. The bill proposes a unique
identify. He does flag that one up for
every child and expanded powers for agencies to share personal
data. Such centralised databases risk
leaks, wrongful interventions and long term profiling.
It's criminalising parents and it's it's got risks for
vulnerable families and he thinks it's a a step too far.
It undermines responsible parents, criminalises home
education and turns local authorities into enforcers
instead of supporters. And I totally agree with him on
that score. Thank you.
Thanks very much, Andy. And I think as reported on
before on on exactly this issue, but the the bill itself, the the
critical issue is how it's being done.
And of course, it it's very easy in a sense to present the case
for there being a problem with children who can't be educated
or have their needs met by formal education system.
And therefore they're taken out of it home educated and bingo,
you've got your problem child. And therefore the reason for for
having a register in order that the state can intervene and make
sure that nothing goes wrong. And it's a most insidious way of
doing it. And of course, to cast such a
wide net over such an enormous number of people who are home
educating is utterly immoral. But you can see exactly why it's
being done. Sandy, thank you very much
indeed for that. Now we're going to go to other
things which are not quite perhaps as they seem, but we
were talking just before the programme started.
What's been going on at Church House then?
Nothing very churchy, unfortunately.
Yeah, quite predictable, yes. We're going to look at the
ongoing subversion of national governance and its replacements
with a new global system that runs on a completely different
programme, a completely different agenda, and has thus
far escaped any kind of serious democratic or even just basic
public scrutiny, as far as I can tell.
We talked a lot about this organisation, Apolitical and
this will be the focus of this first section.
And just to remind our regular viewers and introduce new
viewers, this is an organisation that has been set up to build
21st century governments. It's what they do.
They work with the government departments, foundations,
academic institutions, think tanks, NGOs and businesses to
bring the latest knowledge and skills to government in order to
transform government. Is a key partner of the Cabinet
Office. You can see down the left hand
side there that he's operating internationally, very heavily
linked into the World Economic Forum.
In fact, the apolitical Global Public Leaders programme was
delivered in partnership with the World Economic Forum of
Young Global Leaders. So they are completely hand in
glove. They are international, they
have global impact in over 170 countries operating essentially
out of London as a hub for this neo imperial system that's being
established. And I think there's probably a
good way to describe it. This is a new empire running on
the rails of the old British Empire, which is essentially
pushed the nation state down into second position.
So this is no longer British or English even.
This is global and detached from the national system completely.
So actually whenever we see happening on a daily basis,
whether it's Kier Starmer or Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage or
Zach Polanski, any of these kind of national political leaders
effectively redundant as this thing is being rolled out in the
background. This is what's been going on for
for quite some time now for for for over a decade actually in
this organisation. If we could just get that back
up. It's run by Lisa Witter.
You see her in the top right hand side there.
We'll provide links. So there's plenty of videos you
can go and see to get some more information about these people.
So there's Lisa Witter and actually if we put her centre
frame, we can see her alongside Pooja Warrior Hamilton on the
left, Robin Scott on the right hand side.
These three ladies, all young global leaders of the World
Economic Forum running this organisation, operating on a
remit to transform global governments everywhere.
And who asked them to do that? It was this fella.
That's Adam Parr. And last year, a political day
which was held in October last year, he regaled us with the
story about when Lisa, Robin and I went for a walk in France in
2015. And I asked him to do something
pretty much impossible, which is to transform government globally
in about a decade, which at the time I think Brian and I were
quite confused about. Which is essentially to say, who
is this guy and how does he get to ask that question and how do
they get to accept that invitation and begin that
process? Right.
And we're now in the business end because 2015 for keen
observers will know. That was 10 years ago, he said,
transformed government in a decade.
So they're right into the mix here.
And last year, you will remember.
And again, we'll provide links to this The Catherine Day, who
is a senior civil servant. She actually runs Foresight at
the Cabinet Office essentially revealed to us that she she has
no foresight and essentially admitted that.
And this is a paraphrase, not a direct quote.
We have no idea what we're doing.
And then Robin Scott on the left there from a political doing her
ice queen saying that she does basically say, I'm going to take
you for everything that you have.
And that's what's been going on in the background for over a
year now. And they have reconvened last
week at Church House, as, as Charles pointed out, for a
political day 2025. And a big announcement came out
of this. But let's just first of all,
quickly look at some of the people in the room who are
leading this conversation from this year's event, right?
So they're there to talk about the future of government.
That's what they're doing this to the brief that they've set
themselves. Interestingly, by the way, there
was no live stream this year. I like to think that I had
something to do with that because we gave them a bit of a
hard time last year. Maybe it'll pop up in the next
few days, I don't know, but it certainly didn't go out live.
But we do know who was there. So General Sir Nick Carter,
former head of the UK armed forces, guy that ran 77th
Brigade during Covic, now works at the Blair Foundation.
Also Varelia Ionian, the deputy minister of digital
transformation of Ukraine, who actually spoke about two weeks
ago. She's part of this trilateral
UK, Estonia, Ukraine partnership to deliver the digital identity
scheme. She's absolutely in the mix
here. Also some European royalty, His
Royal Highness, I think I'm saying that.
Is it gem or Jamie? Not sure.
Jim de Bourbon at the Palm, wonderful name describes himself
as climate envoy of the Netherlands, but he's a Dutch
Prince and actually grandson of the man who set up and chaired
the Bilderberg meetings. So top tier connections here.
Also mark Boris Andrew Janich, former minister of digital
transformation in Slovenia, also a member of the Global future
Council on Gov tech and digital public infrastructure at the
World Economic Forum. Also a young global leader of
the World Economic Forum. Also there Mariano Matsukoto,
who's a professor at UCL. It's very famous clip of her a
World Economic Forum event describing how she wants to use
water as a means to to control humanity.
So this is the kind of the tone of of what's going on inside
these these discussions. Also Siobhan Haviland, CBE,
director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, she
actually established a political in the Cabinet Office, took
personal responsibility for that.
And last year she was crowing about the apolitical business
model, essentially saying it's fantastic that they've built a
monopoly position in government transformation and kind of
presenting that to us as a good thing and a positive thing when
it really isn't. It's good for people who want to
monopolise wealth and power, like I'm guessing Siobhan
Havilland and certainly the royal family, who she's very
close to. I believe she's very close to
Queen Camilla in particular. Also Lord Case, head of the
civil service during COVID. So she'd probably be in front of
a war times tribunal rather than attending events like this.
And then finally, although there were many other speakers, I'll
just draw attention to Lord Reece OBE, the former mayor of
Bristol, who apparently, according to someone who was
there, delivered the best quote of the day, which is nostalgia
for the past feeds off an absence of vision for the
future, which I think is probably quite revealing given
that they don't actually have a clear vision for the future of
the country. None of them can articulate 1
and that is the problem ultimately, and it's why they
keep on having these highfaluting events and
announcing these big international programmes.
And this year was no different. Catherine Day took to LinkedIn
to talk about the joy that she had on the day.
If you're watching back, you can pause this, you can read the
whole thing yourself. But to get to the fact, to the
to the point, essentially they're building an institute
for the nation. A new, independent, apolitical
and lasting way for the UK to plan and act together for the
long term, across sectors, generations and divides in our
shared interests for our common good.
And the prize is huge. A country that can think long
term and act together. A society with a future we can
all believe in and an example that the world can follow.
Showing that the UK is actually a test case for global
governance. They can do it here.
They're then going to export that everywhere else.
Importantly, we can respond to this and there is an appeal for
help to build the institute and we'll provide a link to this.
And essentially they're saying the first major initiative will
be a national dialogue launching in spring 2026.
This is Auk wide deliberation. So this will be a controlled
deliberative process using Delphi technique that we speak
about a lot on the column. They're going to engage millions
of people apparently, and then turn that into a plan for
lasting action. And we need your help to make
that happen. Whatever your background and
business, academia, civil society, technology, etcetera,
etcetera, every offer of time, funding, skills, connections or
support brings us closer to launching the national dialogue
and building a stronger future together.
So apparently they want people to chip in money for this.
All seems very odd, but you can go and tell them what you think.
So be polite, but be clear about the fact that this is
extraordinarily inappropriate and probably that they shouldn't
be doing it. I think that would be.
That would be my take on it anyway.
I don't think you'd find much disagreement with the people
that have just listened to that. The question that pops out is
who do they think they are? Well.
Yes. Well, it's one of the questions
I guess, Ben, thank you very much indeed for that.
No, I think that segment articulates perfectly the
resource that UK column is to not just the UK column audience
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Now going out on the German warfare platform tonight. 7:00
Pepe Escobar speaking to Jerem on the importance of bricks and
not the sort that you might be building with, but that should
be an excellent one. And also, I now go on with a
with a slight apology. I'm afraid Patrick Annington's
talk from the hope event back in August was meant to go out on
Thursday just gone. I'm afraid it didn't for reasons
that I won't necessarily go into because I think I'm qualified
to, but it will go out tomorrow at 1:00.
And apologies for anybody who was who was waiting for it to go
out on Thursday last week. Now, Sandy, tell us back to
earth. You're, you're going to be going
up up to the north of England next month.
Yes, I am. Um, because the North, you know,
they're quite unrepresented, really not unrepresented, but
they don't get as much of, of our, our sort of input as the
South. So this ones called back to
Earth. It's in, uh, Bedale, at the
water mill in Bedale on Saturday, the 15th of November.
And it's rediscovering balance through soil, soul and
schooling. But we're also looking at, you
know, the world's regenerative agriculture, animal and human,
integrative medicine and classroom free education.
So it's about the stuff that I've been speaking about today.
But a lot of the farmers, I was asked to go up there because a
lot of the farmers still aren't getting what Agenda 2030 really
will mean to their livelihoods. So that's why I'm going up
there. Fantastic Sandy, thank you very
much. And obviously if anyone can get
up there, please do because it will be I'm sure a very positive
day with with with lots of productive outcome.
Now the moment is very nearly upon us.
I can hardly believe it, but our live event in York is getting
underway this Saturday the 18th of October.
Again, as you will know, all tickets are sold out for the in
person event, but that does not stop you from signing up to the
live stream. And again to remind you that but
if you buy a ticket to the live stream, you don't have to watch
it at the at exactly that moment, it will be available
afterwards. It will also be available to
people who've bought in person tickets as well.
And it includes access to Andy Wakefield's incredible film
Protocol 7. And just quickly to run through
the speakers we have, we've got Andrew Wakefield coming.
He will be talking about the making of Protocol 7, as well as
how his career was derailed after he questioned the process
by which vaccines are made. Tess Laurie, who has set up the
World Council for Health and Background to that, Liz Evans on
the very murky world of medical ethics.
And we've got Sir Julian Rose on the critical relationship
between human health and the soil.
But also speaking this Saturday, it's Ben Rubin.
Ben, what are you going to be talking about?
You just say medical ethics. I said medical.
Ethics. An obviously moron it is.
I'm going to talk about the NHS, what we thought it was, what it
actually is, how that happened and what to do about it.
Perfect. So please do go to the UK column
website and to the shop where you'll find a ticket for the
live stream. Also, if you do have an in
person ticket, may I remind you that registration will be open
on the Friday in the event space that that we'll be holding the
day. So it'll start at 6:00 on Friday
evening and run until 8:30 on Friday.
So it would make things a lot easier on Saturday morning.
So if you are able to do that, please do.
You will also get an email about it with all the necessary
details. Now, that takes us back to
Sandy. And you're going to tell us
about the way in which the United Nations are continuing to
muscle their way into children's classrooms.
Yes, I mean, this is called the, the, the, the largest lesson in
the world's largest lesson. And it's a, it's a, it's a way
of this was launched over 10 years ago, but it's ongoing.
And it's a, it's a, an instrument that they use in in
primary schools for teachers as well as children to really
indoctrinate them into climate change and the, and the 17
goals. So let's listen to the the the
the promotional video that they teach to children.
Thank you. None.
Back. I so that's, that's it.
It's, it's really, you know, telling the children that the 17
goals are really good, wonderful thing that will, will actually
improve inequality. Now we've had 10 years of 17
goals and they've done the exact opposite.
So I just want to flag up. Yeah, they've, they've, they've
now got the 2025 Global Goals toolkit.
Actually, they've, they've launched now somebody got in
touch with me because their child is, is being given all
this stuff at school through the teachers.
The teachers are going along with it.
Now what I noticed that the, the, the, the whole thing is
produced by project Everyone. And if you look at Project
Everyone, you'll realise that actually it's it's got some very
interesting partners. And yeah, here we go.
They're lead partners are Bill Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation and Open Society Foundation, which is George
Soros's Open Society. And then they've got some
partners which are Pricewaterhouse, Cooper, the
Rockefeller Foundation, TikTok, UNICEF, as well as they've,
they've got some supporters. The supporters are that.
Can we see the supporters? Yeah, they, they think they've
gone as well. Sorry.
So, yeah, we've got obviously C40 cities, you know, the, the,
all of these different supporters who are all part of
the global agenda. So yeah, the next one is I just
wanted to flag up that that obviously this is all about
quality education, which is goal 4, which they say is to ensure
inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong
learning opportunities, opportunities for all.
But actually in reality, I've got a slide from my website,
which is education will be remote online, lifelong training
in STEM. That's science, technology,
engineering and mathematics accredited with blockchain.
Micro badges, non fungible tokens and credentials on the
blockchain, social reputation and score.
So it's almost like a social credit system.
Children's outcomes determined from birth and AI guided Biomet
biometrically, social and emotional learning, profiling,
creating the perfect global citizen.
That's what it's all about. And that's what I notice in this
new bill that they're bringing in and STEM education as as I
mentioned before, science technology in engineering and
mathematics. So what is presented as
something really wonderful is, has actually got a different
meaning. Creating perfect compliant
global citizens. That's what it's about.
Absolutely right. Sandy, you're very much on the
mark there. And I think the the way in which
the sort of proof can be found in the eating is that if you
speak, if you do have the opportunity to speak to
somebody, a child who's in the school system, it will
absolutely be quite clear how these influences are affecting
themselves. And of course, if, if you don't
know children necessarily of that age, then speaking to the
parents is, is, is just as illustrative because of course,
this stuff does flow uphill as well.
And it's quite remarkable, the way in which it's it's pervaded
the mind. Now with regard to meddling,
where we shouldn't really be having meddling.
We're going to talk about, well, Michael Bloomberg among others,
I think, aren't we? Yes, well, it's just amazing how
all these things link together, right?
So that was, that was really fascinating.
Sandy, thanks for that. And you highlighted a couple of
organisations at the end there, but projects everyone.
By the way, that's run by Kate Garvey, who was Blair's former
diary secretary in #10 and it's very closely linked into Freud
communication, who were on the partner list and Gold's House
and all these other things that we speak about on a regular
basis. And you also mentioned C40
cities. C40 cities, the global network
of metro mares, which is overseen by as President Michael
Bloomberg. And we're going to hear a little
bit now about his innovation teams that he funds in mayor's
offices around the world. Cities are growing.
Half the people in the world live in cities.
Pretty soon 2/3 will live in the cities.
Cities are incapable of taking care of that growth unless they
change and do new things. What we're trying to do is to
help governments all over the world to try something that's
new outside the box. The Innovation Teams programme
is one of the first things that we started here at Bloomberg
Philanthropies. We fund staff to work for a
mayor to really serve as an in house consultancy within city
government. They are focused on
experimentation, R&D. Using design to expand the way
that we're thinking about what's possible, I teams inject those
new ways of thinking into city halls to help them dream bigger
can create better solutions. I Teams.
Sounds great, doesn't it? So there we have Michael
Bloomberg saying cities are inevitable essentially, but
they're also incapable of dealing with their own
inevitability. The fact that we're going to
have 2/3 of the world's population in cities,
apparently. So he's funding these innovation
teams to work as in house consultancies to interject new
ways of of thinking into city halls, initially in the US.
So they started in 2012 in Memphis.
It's now a global programme. And last week, Mr Bloomberg
touched down the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park in central
London and the great and the good, or maybe they're not quite
so good, Not sure We're there to listen to him speaking.
We had Lord Vasey, who helped establish Ofcom.
Tracy Brabin, the mayor of West Yorkshire, who's absolutely in
this metro mayor scheme. Also, Brent Hoberman, the chief
executive of Founders Fund, who's also a World Economic
Forum, young global leader, Baroness Reebok, who's the chief
executive of Penguin Random House, one of the biggest
publishing companies on Earth, and also the mother of Georgia
Gold, former mayor of Camden, now runs the Cabinet Office.
They're all there, amongst others.
To hear Mike Bloomberg speaking about a $50 million investment
that he's putting into Europe to support 30 European mayors and
60 city leaders in this development process, in this
innovation process, the transformation into a new
digitally connected global system of governance.
Controlled in large part by supposedly philanthropic
philanthropic wealth. So I've handed down or injected
down into the system by people like Michael Bloomberg and into
institutions importantly like the London School of Economics.
So this is a key partner for the programme.
You can see here it's talking about the European City
Leadership Initiative, and this is Bloomberg LSE.
They've got a joint logo at the top there, Strategic
Partnership, obviously LSE, founded by the Fabian Society.
They, they put in a bunch of money in order to fund
propaganda. That's what the LSE was set up
to do, to do to deliver propaganda for Fabian Ames.
And who better to come and speak at this first event than Sadiq
Khan who is the Co chair of C46. He's working under Michael
Bloomberg and also on the executive committee of the
Fabian Society. And sometimes he has time to be
Mayor of London as well. Whether he's doing a good job of
that or not, I wouldn't care to comment right now.
And these pics came from Claudia Chalice who was also there.
There she is on the right hand side, who is the founder of
Democracy Next. And she was there to answer the
question, how do we strengthen citizens trust in government?
Governments trust in citizens and citizens trust between one
another. And they say this quite a lot
and it always does make me wonder why on earth we should be
concerned about where the governments trust their
citizens. It's got nothing to do with
them. It's about we, we have to trust
them. But it doesn't go back the other
way. That's not the way that the
relationship works. But unfortunately, that's what's
what's kind of imbued this whole discussion.
If we just drop that back on screen quickly, we can see she
was talking about this permanent citizens assembly in Paris,
which they've established where they are already using
assemblies in order to, to, to, to define and implement
legislation. Yeah.
So this is something that is happening.
They've done it in Paris. They've done it in Ireland,
they're even doing it A at a global level around COP and
around the UN, right. So these these deliberative
processes which are very tightly controlled and stage managed
pseudo democratic decision making processes that she's been
pioneering are absolutely at the centre of how these systems are
working, are going to work in the future unless we do
something about it. And I was rather tickled
recently to hear her talking on another interview about what her
actual thoughts are on democracy.
And we've got a little clip here which we can listen to now.
There's been a notion that legitimacy has been equated to
how many numbers and how many people are participating based
on the lens through which we tend to view it through our
existing electoral and representative institutions of
what we think about as democracy today.
But there's no reason to think that the only thing from which
legitimacy stems from is numbers, so.
Do you hear that? There's no reason to think that
legitimacy comes from numbers in democratic processes.
All right, she's running this whole programme.
She's been invited to talk at the LSE alongside Sadiq Khan,
funded by Michael Michael Bloomberg.
And this is essentially what we're looking at here.
They talk a great game about democracy, but actually this is
technocracy, tyranny, ultimately with a very thin veneer of
democratic process layered over the top, right?
This is completely unsurprising because as we've mentioned, this
thing is being completely embedded into the Metro Mare
scheme. And when we were asked to vote
on the Metro Mare scheme, the devolution in England, it was
soundly rejected. So if we go back to 2004, we can
see here's a clip from some of the the reporting on as the
results came in from the referendum for devolution in the
North East and it was rejected. 78% said no to 22% saying yes.
And what did the Labour government do?
They cancelled all the subsequent referendums.
This is a total humiliation for Blair, for Prescott, for this
whole agenda. And when it was rejected by the
by the populace, they just said, well, tough, we're going to do
it anyway. And that's exactly what's been
going on, right? So none of this has ever been
voted on. When it was voted on briefly
thickened over 20 years ago now, we said no, but they've
proceeded. And this isn't just theoretical.
It's actually rolling out because as we've talked about,
there are millions of dollars coming into this from
international billionaires and Oliver Coppard.
We can see here who is the mayor of South Yorkshire, who is also
at that Ben at the Serpentine, his advertising roles in his
administration overseen by the Behavioural Insights team,
right? So the Behavioural Insights Team
and Nestor are administering this money being put down into
the UK mayoral system as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies I
Team programme with the aim ultimately they say, of what
have we got here? Implementing solutions to
pressing local challenges, deploying data, collecting
insight, collaborating across sectors to develop resident
centres. Interventions that improve
people's lives for your own good, whether you like it or
not. Yeah, just keep calling it
democracy. A little bit.
Exactly. So it seems, and thank you very
much indeed. Now we're going to move on to a
subject that was covered a little bit in the news last
week. Of course, the events that took
place at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester have
raised the profile of the Community Security Trust.
Brian Garish talking about this last Monday and it brings out a
number of concerns, not least with regard to the relationship
between the police and the Home Office, or at least the
relationship between the CST, the police and the Home Office.
Now on their pinned post on X, which is what Twitter was, it
makes specific regard to security notice for the UK
Jewish community. And I'll just pull out the the
highlighted text with the underlying text there saying a
security notice for the UK Jewish community and talk about
everybody having a part to play, looking out for suspicious
activity and reporting it immediately to security
personnel, police and CST as though in some ways they are to
be regarded as equivalent organisations.
Now, of course in in that the CST has what it describes as
being a responsibility for the physical security of Jewish
people. Fair enough to an extent,
although there's very strong inference that police are there
to deal with an incident because the people are Jewish rather
than in spite of being Jewish. Now there's also the suggestion
that they're on an equal footing, which of course is not
the case, although problematic in that police do have certain
powers whereas those working for the Community Security Trust do
not. The relationship between the two
is certainly unique. CST, you may not be aware, but
they are the only organisation in the country which conduct
joint patrols with police. And of course, as I say, if
they're not holding any powers, it's hard to see how the
operational independence of police isn't challenged by this,
since police would have to act on behalf of the CST which has
the specific task, as I say, of providing physical security, but
only for the Jewish community. So there are a number of areas
in which that there are problems with the the way in which not
just the relationship is set up in the 1st place, but the way
that it actually gets conducted in effect on the ground.
Now it goes back to 2015 and I've got the statement from the
National Police Chief's Council from the 25th of March of that
year, which concerns data sharing between police, the CST
and an organisation called Tell Mama, which I'll come on to talk
about. John Mann MP.
He was then chair of the all party Parliamentary group to
combat anti semitism, said at the time data sharing between
the police and the CST allows the UK to boast one of, if not
the best data set on anti semitism in the world.
Now I'll come back to why exactly that's significant.
The CST website on the police partnership slide, which we just
looked at a moment ago, it says that the CST works closely with
police at regional, local and national levels to help protect
Jewish communities. This includes joint patrols, as
I say, training classes, exercises, exchange of anti
Semitic incident data and numerous advisory roles.
We're also proud to assist in the work of the police in
tackling hate crime and preventing terrorism now.
Specifically on what they describe as involvement with
Parliament. They say they work with members
of Parliament from all the main political parties and regularly
meet government ministers and opposition spokespeople to
discuss anti semitism, racism, extremism and terrorism.
Now with this in mind, it can't really be regarded as
coincidence that in 2015 David Cameron's speech to the CST came
only a few days before announcement about the sharing
of data. And we'll just look at a couple
of things that he said during that speech.
First of all, I want the CST to have a state of the art Mission
Control centre with closed circuit television command and
control and the ability to respond rapidly to those who
need their help right across our Jewish communities.
Now I make the point again that they do not have any powers over
and above that those of an ordinary citizen.
He went on to say. I will always stand up for the
right of Israel to defend its citizens, right enshrined in
international law, in natural justice and fundamental
morality. And interesting of course,
considering what's happened in the intervening 10 years.
Now the next point to make is that prior to this, the
Community Security Trusts had published what they called a
Guide to Fighting Hate Crime for the Home Office and in doing so
effectively took ownership of the very notion of a hate crime.
And I'll just remind you what the definition is and how
entirely exposed it is to subjective interpretation.
Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any
other person to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on
a person's religion or perceived religion.
Now they've completely stripped away the element of intent.
And since 2023, most notably, there's been a very well
orchestrated push to conflate anti Zionism with anti Semitism.
And it's this video on the CST website which I would say does
exactly that. We just have a listen to this.
So when people talk about the Zionists without qualifying what
they mean, they're generalising about most Jews.
And it's dangerous because generalising about the vast
majority of any minority group will lead to racism.
But that doesn't mean that criticising Zionism is racist.
If you said to me, listen, I think that the Zionist movement
had terrible consequences for the Palestinian people, I might
say, well, so do I. Another Jewish person might feel
totally different. In short, you can assume as much
about someone who says they're a Zionist as you can by their
favourite TV show Love Island. You're a genocidal monster.
But what's this all got to do with learning how to be an anti
semite? Well, you can very quickly
expand the type and variety of the terms you use for Jew.
You can start with plain old Zionist, but why not give Zio a
go? Or if you really want to piss
them off, try Zio Nazi to be really offensive.
Something else you can do is use Zionism to accuse a British Jew
of not being truly British because they support the
existence of a Jewish state. It's dead racist.
And instead of saying that Jews are running the world, you could
say that Zionism is a secret global power structure that
conspires to manipulate governments, cause wars,
destabilise countries, and incites hatred between
communities. Now don't let me tell you how to
be an anti Semite. You should feel free to
experiment. If you're wondering whether
something is legitimate criticism of Israel or whether
it's slips into anti semitism, just take an anti Semitic
statement. Swap the word Jew for Zionists
and see how it sounds. For example, if this sentence is
anti Semitic, Jews run the banks and control the global financial
markets, then so is this. Zionists run the bank and
control the global financial markets.
Jews control the media. Zionists control the media.
Jews created ISIS and are behind global terrorism.
Zionists created ISIS and are behind global terrorism.
We're very busy. A remarkable reframing exercise
there under a very thin veil of humour, but that is indeed on
the Community Security Trust website.
Now the other thing to point out is that they fund and assume
some control over the organisation which records
Islamophobia, incidents of Islamophobia tell Mama, and this
was in the data sharing agreement which I showed
earlier. This comes under their heading
of, of helping other communities.
And indeed, they say that the, the, the initiative is to
measure and combat anti Muslim hate crimes.
And referring to the, to the hate crime booklet that I've
just referenced, tell Mama themselves, of course, talk
about having people who are non Muslim as their patrons and
various Advisory Board members. So in effect, the community
community security trust taking ownership of, of almost all
incidents of what it's describing as hate crime, which
of course is very significant. Now it's more data for them,
although they're not necessarily so keen themselves on sharing
information. The Charity Commission website
shows that there is no trustee information available for this
particular charity. I should also point out the
government funding for the CST went up dramatically last year
in response to what was reported as a dramatic increase in hate
crime. These hate crimes of course, are
recorded and curated by the CST itself.
So there are a number of serious issues here, I think, not least
concerning the operational independence of police.
And I would just leave you with the suggestion that you might
like to read an ask that I wrote nearly two years ago about the
way in which police were being manipulated to achieve exactly
these sorts of outcomes. Now, Sandy, my apologies, I've
overrun slightly, but we're now going to go to in a way what
might be regarded as slightly bizarre relationship between the
lions and eyesight tests and biometric data.
Yes, I mean, I was quite amazed at this.
A parent flagged this up to me last week and you know, we've
got, we've got the International Lions charity and, uh, they,
they're, they're partnering up. Um, they're, they're, they're
going into schools and, uh, testing children's eyesight.
Um, as it's almost like a, it's a mission thing that, you know,
they're, they're going to help, um, help children's eyesight
throughout the UK. Um, and uh, can I just flag up
the, the next slide? Yeah, it's a clearer future for
every child. So they're, they're testing
children's eyesight basically, which all sounds very worthy and
wonderful until you realise that this isn't just a, a charity
initiative in the UK, it's actually a global initiative.
And you've got the equivalent is the the Lions Kids site in the
USA. Now if you dig a little bit
deeper, you realise that this is even bigger because it's got
companies, they've got, they're partnered up with Johnson and
Johnson with the world, the World Health Organisation, many,
many, many partners worldwide. And you realise that this is
actually quite interesting because the, the person that got
in touch with me was worried about biometric data, you know,
iris, you know, scans, all that sort of thing.
And the children being identified by their iris scans.
And I think they've probably got something, you know, behind this
because I looked at their privacy policy and unfortunately
it does say that that's highlighted there.
This will all be in the show notes, but it actually says that
they can share this data with third parties, which is really
concerning, I think. And I think we we really have to
follow this up and, you know, schools shouldn't be doing this,
you know, just letting charities come in and do it.
And they're training people up to do this.
So I think we need to really look at it because I think there
is a worry there. Thank you.
Absolutely, Sandy. There is.
And I think even if they're saying that they have permission
or they may share, it is in a way beside the point.
Because of course, even if they don't and they're a third party,
the, the, there's, there's no way they can guarantee the
security of that data in the 1st place, as as exemplified by so
many cyber disasters in recent times.
No, we're just going to finish off with a very brief look at
the latest news on pseudo scientific propaganda, which is
dressed up as health advice, thinly veiling the aim of
continuing to destroy land, landscapes, rural economies and
common sense. And I give you the rehash of the
Planetary Health Diet of 2019, which had sunk without trace.
But it's just up to the surface again, thanks to The Lancet.
Now it states that actions on food systems strongly impact
lives and well being of all and are necessary to progress
towards goals highlighted in the Sustainable Development Goals,
the Paris Agreement and the Kunmingmong Triol global
biodiversity Framework. So no surprises there in a
sense. But what's changed now is they
that they're saying, or at least not necessarily change, but what
they're stating is that more than half the world's population
struggles to access healthy diets, leading to devastating
consequences for public health, social equity and the
environment. And this latest paper is saying
that it's expanding its scope and strengthening its evidence
base, which is why it's come out again.
And I would suggest that it bodes I'll by stating exactly
what it does there. Now, on the changes to be made
to the diet of people who are currently alive in the world,
they say that some sectors would need to contract and they're
putting out a figure of 33% reduction in ruminant meat
production. They say that others would need
to expand and they're calling for a 63% increase in fruit,
vegetable and nut production. But this is only in comparison
with the 2020 production level. So it's very drastic changes
that they're putting out. And one might consider that this
is modelling at its very worst, or it's extreme, absolute cherry
picking and wilful avoidance of the many variables that are
concerned with all of this. But it's exactly the sort of
paper which provides impetus for organisations like the Office
for Health Economics which suggested just last year an
entirely plant based diet for the whole of England in its 2024
report. And of course they, with the use
of modelling and pure speculation, they were
suggesting that not only would this vastly reduce disease of
all forms, but it would also reduce food production costs as
well. Now there's not really
sufficient time to go into more of this in this brief report,
but what I would like to do is to point you towards John
Fleetwood's analysis of this on Substack.
And it'd be something that we come back to in the future.
There'll be a link to it in the show notes.
And of course also to consider all matters food and farming by
going to the farming section on the UK column.
Website Now that does bring us to the end of the programme.
So just a reminder that we've got Germ speaking to Pepe
Escobar at 7:00 tonight. Don't miss that.
And indeed, Patrick Henningson will go out at 1:00 tomorrow,
Thursday speaking from the Hope event in Sussex over the bank
holiday weekend. If you are, if you are AUK
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joining and don't forget about tickets for the York event this
weekend. Ben, thank you very much indeed
for joining me in the studio. Thank you, Sandy, thanks for
being on the live link and we'll see you again in a minute for
extra. If you're not able to join,
we'll look forward to seeing you again at 1:00 on Wednesday.
Bye bye.