Good afternoon, it's just gone 1:00 on Wednesday the 8th of
October 2025. Welcome to UK Column News.
I'm your host Charles Mallett, and joining me by Livelink from
Lebanon is Vanessa Bailey. Now amongst the things we'll be
looking at in today's programme are the elections in Syria.
The continuation, if we might describe it as that of the Gaza
peace plan, the coincidence of renewable energy statistics and
indeed the steel industry, and what the Prime Minister of
Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is doing, or at least thinking of
doing at the moment. And some news about the
censorship regime and the relationship with UK column that
that will follow at the end of the programme.
We're going to start though with the appointment of the 106th
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dame Sarah Mullally, and the ripples
that that has caused. Now, bearing in mind the
ignominious nature of Justin Welby's departure, it may come
as something of a surprise to learn that there could have been
a greater degree of controversy from this appointment.
But that is exactly what has happened, and I will walk you
through some of the steps that give rise to this sort of
sentiment. But first, we'll listen to Sarah
Mullally after being appointed and what she said about her
forthcoming ministry. Washing feet has shaped my
Christian vocation as a nurse, then a priest, then a Bishop.
In the apparent chaos which surrounds us in the midst of
such profound global uncertainty, the possibility of
healing lies in acts of kindness and love.
With humility and grace, we uphold and support those in need
of our help. We do this to the best of our
ability, in small ways and bigs according to our own very
particular gifts. That too, is the service which
ioffer the Church today. No, this might seem unfair, but
not necessarily the words or intonation to inspire a nation,
one might say. But she does make a point of
referring to chaos and uncertainty, and whilst one may
not be able to dispute that those are indeed present
elements, what is she going to do in order to change that?
And also, it was interesting to note her intonation of the words
healing lies, as though she might be suggesting something
other than she was apparently saying no.
It is again worth saying that in comparison with Justin Welby,
even she doesn't necessarily look like an outwardly muscular
Christian. She's unlikely to set the world
on fire. Or indeed those that consider
themselves part of the Anglican community at the moment.
Sorry, the Anglican Communion. Now what is very relevant,
seemingly even though it's relatively distant, is that in
1999 Sarah Mulally was appointed by the government as the Chief
Nursing Officer, a post which she held until 2004.
She was ordained in 2001, of course, the year of the
so-called foot and mouth crisis in the United Kingdom, and when
she was Bishop of London in 2021.
This is what she had to say about the COVID injections.
She said the relaxation of restrictions on Monday is only
possible because of the vaccination programme, which has
reduced the percentage of those with COVID who became seriously
ill or die. We're indebted to all who've
developed and administered vaccines and we encourage anyone
who has not yet done so to take advantage of the protection they
offer. Now this of course is relevant
to the words used by Justin Welby, WHO I paraphrase said
that Jesus would have got jabbed, which seems incredibly
unlikely. Taking personal responsibility,
she went on to say, means responsibility for our neighbor,
not just for ourselves, and taking precautions to protect
those more vulnerable than we consider ourselves to be.
So she went on in this sort of vein, effectively foretelling
exactly the direction. That's not to she, but the
Church of England is likely to continue to go in with regard to
toeing the line in so far as the official narrative concerning
frankly anything is is concerned.
Now in her capacity as a nurse, she also has served as a
director of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and whilst there,
part of her remit was to facilitate funding of drug
development as well as Rapid Diagnostic Assessment Centre.
And of course, we've seen now in 2025 is exactly the direction
that things have have gone in, have have progressed in.
And I think something that's well worth drawing out is that
not only this, but in the full accounts of the charity from the
year ending 2007, which she's shown here as a as a director
of, there was a surplus in the accounts of 19.1 million and
decided by the directors that they would invest such funds.
Now what I would like to point out is that they state
explicitly there was no restriction on the use of those
funds or at least the way in which they may be invested,
except for a restriction on tobacco products.
Now it might be strange for an ordained priest, as she was by
that stage to put herself in such a position, except that it
must be noted that this is absolutely consistent broadly at
least with the policies of the Church Commissioners and the
treatment of the Church of England funds.
Now there are two articles on the UK column website which I've
written about exactly this issue, the so-called ethical
investment policies of the Church of England.
First of all, shown on screen here, one dealing with the very
limited restrictions concerning pornography, weapons and
embryonic stem cells. And then further, the Church of
England talking themselves up as being in the room with Big Tech,
effectively saying that they need to be invested in these
sorts of companies which harvest data and all the rest of it in
order to be able to influence the decisions they make, whilst
providing no evidence that they have actually managed to have
that sort of an effect. Now again, very interesting to
note on this particular issue that I was in touch with the
Bishop of Bath and Wells earlier this year because at the General
Synod he'd raised issues about the way in which the Church
Commissioners do spend their money.
And I had drawn his attention to these apparent inconsistencies
with the Church Commissioner's investment policies.
And he simply wrote back saying if you have concerns or
questions about the Church Commissioners, please can I
suggest that you address these to the the First Church Estate
Commissioner rather than thanking me for what I presented
and committing to investigate the matter himself.
So it's not just the Archbishop of Canterbury that needs to be
scrutinised, it's frankly anyone within the Church hierarchy at a
time where the Church of England has in many respects entered
into a sort of a downward spiral which tells a lot about the way
in which British culture may be reviewed at this time.
Now going back to her Mullally's commitment and involvement with
the Royal Marsden, it shouldn't be any great surprise to see
that the Marsden is now of course referring to the power of
vaccines to prevent and treat cancer.
So it seems highly likely that the two disciplines of religion
and science, which of course used to be certainly in the
distant past, not necessarily separated from one another or
not in conflict with one another, but then have become.
So it looks like there is a a reunion of sorts, although for a
totally separate set of reasons. And then moving on to other
issues, we've got the continued failure of the church with
regard to safeguarding. And just to give an insight as
to the way in which Malali may have responded to any of this,
we'll just look at a short video clip from 2023 of her being
asked the question about the issues raised by raised by some
Pride events. Chair, there is evidence of
sexualisation and grooming of children at some Pride events.
What is the House of Bishops doing to protect children from
that sexualisation at Pride or from queer?
Theory. Thank you.
That does not relate to the question the original question.
It does. It's about the Bishop's position
on Pride chair and whether they're protecting children from
pride. They should have a position and
be able to tell me. Because you don't want to
protect children and you dare not speak against pride or queer
theory. Shame on you.
Please. Now, if you're just listening
and you couldn't see that the response should have come from
Bishop as she was then Sarah Mullally, but she stood there
completely mute and didn't address the question or the
concerns at all. Now the articulation of all
these various issues has been put very succinctly by the
Global Anglican Conference, or Gaff Con, and they've written a
long statement in response to the appointment of Sarah
Mullally. And I will just read some of it
out because it does cover a number of the points.
They say that the news has finally arrived after months of
prayer and long waiting. But it is with sorrow that Gaff
Con receives the announcement today of the appointment of Dame
Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
This appointment abandons global Anglicans as the Church of
England has chosen the leader who will already further divide
a split union. And at this point I should point
out that the Church of Nigeria has publicly rejected Mulally's
appointment for a host of reasons.
First of all that she is a woman and also that she supported the
blessings of same sex unions. But to get back to the GAFCON
statement, they say due to the failure of successive
Archbishops of Canterbury to guard the faith, the Office can
no longer function as a credible leader of Anglicans, let alone a
focus of unity. As we made clear in our Kigali
Commitment of 2023, we can no longer recognise the Archbishop
of Canterbury as an instrument of communion or the first among
equals of global primates. Now these are fairly damning
words, and they go on to talk about the specific failure of
her to uphold her consecration vows.
When she was consecrated in 2015, she took an oath to quote,
banish, and drive away all strange and erroneous doctrine
contrary to God's Word. And yet, far from banishing such
doctrine, Bishop Mullally has repeatedly promoted unbiblical
and revisionist teachings regarding marriage and sexual
morality. Now they go on in the same vein.
And the link to this will be in the show notes.
I would recommend not just reading it, but sending it on
because it does absolutely call into question the underlying
reasons for such an appointment. Apparently very much intended to
cause the division that we're seeing not just in the Church of
England, but of course across all of British society.
And I would just finish off by pointing you towards a
discussion that I had with Alex Thompson entitled Question of
Faith. Why did the Church of England go
wrong? Of course, some of these and
other issues are addressed in this.
So so please do have a look at that.
Now that's that's all on the Archbishop of Canterbury.
We'll now go over to Vanessa. Now, of course, the mainstream
version of events in Syria has very much been at odds with
first of all, what you've seen there yourself, Vanessa, but
also what you're having reported to you.
What's your a feeling on the way things have been reported and
what has actually happened now? Oh.
Well, I'm sure in in the West you're saying the BBC and CNN
and so on declaring that democracy has finally landed in
Syria after the reign of the dictator's both father Hafiz
al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad, of course.
But in fact the opposite is the reality.
Whatever democracy did actually exist under both Assad
presidents has now been completely dismantled and
disintegrated. This is a tweet put out by Syria
Justice Archive and I do recommend following them
actually because they monitor and archive all of the
atrocities committed by Jolani's or Takfiri gangs in Syria.
And what they point out is that the majority of the minorities
in Syria basically boycotted the elections.
In fact they were not allowed to vote.
And another article put out by the Cradle, which we use very
often just to follow the news in this region, the new Syrian
parliament overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, male following a
controlled vote, So very few women, if any in the eventual
parliament. And I would actually change from
Sunni to Takfiri because the majority of those in adverted
commas elected were actually approved and selected by Gilani
himself. This I covered in a recent
article which can be found in the Syria centric section on UK
column Syria, the looming Civil War war while external forces
Exploit the chaos. And this is the section in the
article that we published actually before the election.
So the number of seats in the People's Assembly will be 210,
distributed among provinces according to their population.
70 members, even to begin with, will be appointed by Gilani, but
the remainder will be selected by various subcommittees
selected by the Supreme Election Committee, which is appointed by
Gilani. So that gives you a very good
idea of of the sheer corruption and and ridiculousness of these
elections. Of course again being being
heralded by the worst who who brought Jolani to power and
Israel as democratic elections. This little infographic which
people can freeze frame and have a look at basically shows how
dire the situation is. So effectively only 6000 people
actually voted naughty .02% of the Syrian population and those
that were effectively banned from voting were in the areas of
so-called conflict as Jelani describes them.
Which actually means of course the areas where Jelani is
carrying out the the massacres and the ethnic cleansing of
Syrian minorities. And this map again is which is
rather sinister, but it shows there the black and grey, the
areas that are now under the control of all of Jelani's hench
men selected by him in the so-called elections.
And and the Gray areas are basically tech fury factions
under his control. The rest of Syria, as you can
see, didn't partake in the actual vote.
Again, you can freeze frame it and and look at the key there.
This is interesting. This was actually in the Syrian
Christian town of Al Skalbiya. If people who've been following
my work at UK column will remember that I reported from
there many times. But if you can just leave it on
screen for a second. Gwen Skelby, a Christian town in
northern Hama, was under attack from the very tech fury factions
that are now in control. And this was the candidate of a
Syrian Christian town. Luckily she wasn't elected.
But I'd also like to point out that when there are claims that
Iran is enforcing veiling in Iran, this is actually what is
happening inside Syria itself. And then, of course, in the
midst of elections, who turns up?
None other than the commander of CENTCOM, Admiral Brad Cooper and
Tom Barrack, Trump's economic hitman in the region here.
There's they're they're congratulating Gilani on the
success of the elections. And at the same time, of course,
they met with the Kurdish separatist factions in the North
East of Syria. And what they're pushing for, of
course, is the integration of the Kurdish factions that
control Syria's oil and agricultural resources in the
northeast under Jolani's umbrella.
Now, of course the the Kurds themselves, who do they
basically represent inside Syria the interests of Washington, Tel
Aviv, and to some degree Russia. Because of course the Kurds will
be seen as the final link in the chain that will be David's
corridor that will go from the South of Syria to the northeast,
using the Kurds as as basically a link in that chain.
And the final picture is the Kurdish factions meeting with
the various CENTCOM officials. Now, of course, the Kurds will
be used and weaponized against Turkey and against Erdogan's
near Ottoman expansionist schemes.
So very much they are a tool of empire, but particularly a tool
of Israel and Washington in Syria.
And what this demonstrates, because there have been clashes
between the two factions, HTS, the Turkish backed factions and
the Kurds, is that Washington is very much in control of events
on the ground in Syria and that of course is in favour of
Israel. Absolutely, Vanessa.
Also, I think pertinent to this is the recent discussion that
you had with Mike concerning sectarianism.
Will you just give a sort of snapshot insight into that and
encourage people to listen to it?
Yeah, very much so. I mean, we discussed the
similarities between what is now being engineered in the West.
That follows on from what has been engineered in the region,
in particular in Syria that prior to the coup of December
last year was a secular, inclusive country.
Now, of course, the sectarian divides are being not only
orchestrated, but exacerbated by the West.
Vanessa, thanks very much indeed so much for bringing democracy
to the Middle East. Now we move on to a persistent
well, reinforcing A persistent point, which is that renewable
energy is absolutely here and it is to be praised and indeed it
is to triumph. And the BBC are busy giving us
the impression that it's now taken over from traditional or
fossil fuel sources of energy. But I'm going to introduce a UKC
verify button here because the BBC headline saying renewables
overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity is not
exactly founded in fact, and the devil, as always, is to be found
amongst the detail. So the first thing to point out,
of course, is that this claim does actually include nuclear
power, which hides the inherent instability of the forms of
renewable energy. This comes from a report.
Printed by Ember, which concerns only the six month period at the
beginning of this year, but also and very specifically we see it
on screen now the Global Electricity Mid Year Insights
2025. Now this graph, confusing as it
may be, and I'm not necessarily going to go through the, the
detail of it, but but basically the green bit on the left is
concerning solar and wind and the demand on the right, the
increase in demand is shown to be outstripped by the increases
in soil and wind. So the, the, the main point to
fall out of this is that we're talking about the increase in
demand. We're not talking about total
demand or total supply. So the way in which this has
been spun, not necessarily by the BBC article shown on screen,
but certainly by the the way in which it's being reported
verbally and in a in a broadcast news sense, is not, strictly
speaking, an accurate reflection of what Ember is putting out.
And of course, it is also worth bearing in mind that with
statistical analysis, one can create the impression that
almost anything is actually happening if you happen to
select the right time and the right things to look at.
Now, that's not to dismiss entirely what has happened, but
just to set the context, I will show you the energy dashboard
from 9:00 this morning, which gives you the generation mix
from the United Kingdom. And this is very much at odds
with what's being reported because of course, we see on
the, the right of the diagram shown here that over half of the
energy supplies being provided by gas with only 17.8 coming
from wind and an absolute fraction from solar.
And of course, the point to drop out of this, bearing in mind
that the whole point of renewable energy, so we're told,
is to reduce carbon when they say of course mean carbon
dioxide. But the, the carbon intensity
here is described as being very, very high.
So in actual fact, the way this is reported is, is is fairly
disingenuous. Now to move on to something that
might seem unrelated, but it's in fact very much connected.
We're going to go to the European Commission and they've
made an announcement on what should really be described as
protectionist steel tariffs. So I should just point out that
their front page for their website at the moment can't
resist but refer to the speeding up of AI uptake in industry and
science. But that's slightly by the by so
they say the Commission proposes a plan to protect EU steel
industry from unfair impacts of global overcapacity.
Now, in their statement, they speak about presenting a
proposal to protect the EU steel sector from unfair impacts of
global overcapacity, A vital step towards ensuring the long
term viability of a strategically crucial industry.
And they carry on in that tone now.
All well and good, but it's somewhat at odds with the way in
which they reported the tariffs introduced by the US
administration back in March when they said the Commission
regrets the US decision to impose such tariffs, considering
them unjustified, disruptive to transatlantic trade and harmful
to businesses and consumers, often resulting in higher
prices. Now we go to the trade
publication UK Steel and they point out that one of the many
handicaps to UK steel production is of course energy.
And in their report, Closing the Power Gap, you can see the bar
on the right showing that the price of energy in this company
as compared with Germany and France is far, far outstripping
it. And of course that set alongside
the the lack of availability of home produced cooking coal and
the nationalisation and many other factors which have been
reported on by UK column over this year.
It suggests that that UK steel of course has many, many
challenges set against it. But the main point to draw out
of this really with regard to the balance of trade is the
difference between import and export.
Now from the UK Steel report, they say outside of China, 38%
of steel produced travels across borders, with the UK importing
70% of its requirements and exporting 39% of its production.
So in effect, the statistics don't really tally with the
sense of outrage that there would be tariffs on steel being
imported into the EU, where of course the UK is very, very much
a net importer of steel in the 1st place.
Now, just to get to the issue of energy, I thought it'd be
interesting to point out the IEEE spectrum data on AI because
we hear that AI is absolutely everywhere and from figures
given by ChatGPT or open AI, but which has created ChatGPT.
These stats are basically an extrapolation of the imagined
situation leading to 2030, which basically says that 44 nuclear
reactors would be required just to power artificial
intelligence. Now, of course, that is 1 of
many concerns. First of all, the renewable
issue as discussed at the beginning of this, which is why
it is all pertinent and relevant to the production of steel, but
also the matter of water. And indeed, in a year in the
United Kingdom where we're told that we are very short of water,
indeed in certain regions, we absolutely are.
But the relentless push towards AI has huge environmental
impact, which again seems to be something that the energy
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the Saturday morning. But as I say, an e-mail will
follow about that. Right Now, Will Coleshill has
been reporting for us on several issues over the past few months,
but in a way none more crucial or critical or indeed
emotionally charged than the inquest into the death of Paloma
Shemerani. And he has now a report, a
concluding report into that inquest, but also the the very
aggressive and oppressive treatment of her mother, Kate
Chameroni by the mainstream media.
So we'll just have a listen now to Will's concluding report on
this matter. On Thursday last week, I again
headed down to main term Coroner's Court to cover the
verdict in the inquest of the death of Bloemi Shamrani,
daughter of Kate. Of the course of the trial, I've
been the sole independent journalist in attendance each
day and this time we've heard from Palmer's family, including
her mother Kate AGP. The main Doctor Who treated her
in the incident in December 2023.
A psychologist to assess her capacity to make a medical
decisions and gave her supportive therapy.
A number of alternative medical practitioners who treated her at
various times between early and mid 2024.
The paramedics who treated her when she collapsed, the Doctor
Who took the decision to end her life shortly after the incident
and the pathologist to examine her body.
This is my last report. We've also heard the testimony
of another pathologist who spoke on the post mortem in question.
The lack of further testing which would she said, have
enabled A clearer picture of alternative therapies available.
The coroner set out to cover a number of fundamental questions.
The relevant medical history, diagnosis and proposed
treatment. Capacity to make decisions.
What treatment and therapies were available.
Her collapse. Any delay in ambulance arrival.
The actions of the ambulance service.
Further treatment at the end of her life and the cause of death
raised by Kate, though also the issues of the actions of the
Maidstone and the ambulance medications, as well as issues
with the post mortem. And finally raised by Gabriel,
Paloma's brother. There is the allegation that
Kate had killed her daughter through curse of control.
In the case of the cause of Paloma's death, the coroner
ruled that it was caused by a number of cumulative factors.
Hypoxicosemic brain injury caused by cardiac arrest caused
by a primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma mass.
The coroner went on to explain that the Gerson and other
alternative therapies could not and did not help Paloma with
cancer. This was not a surprising result
given the general consensus than medical practitioners who gave
testimony. The coroner found that the
application of adrenaline will most likely have kept her alive,
dismissing concerns by Kate. It could have caused brain
damage. Without much discussion.
The most shocking ruling came in relation to the issue of
Paloma's competency. Although the coroner, as
expected, will Paloma to be competent to make decisions
legally, having been provided comprehensive evidence that
Paloma was able to make her own decision.
She had posited that Kate still held a role in her daughter's
death, citing that other people collaborated with Paloma.
In her testimony to the High Court, she essentially threw all
of the signed documents out as invalid.
This is particularly controversial for multiple
reasons. Firstly, these are the most
clear statements of Paloma's intention and signed by her.
Secondly, because it is common practice to collaborate on the
wording of legal documents, and thirdly, because these line up
with sentiments expressed in Paloma's diary in her own
handwriting. The coroner has alleged that
Kate, who cared for her daughter during this time, preparing food
and driving her to appointments, acted as a medical practitioner.
In particular, she cited that Kate directed Paloma to various
medical practitioners or alternative therapies.
As such, she said that Kate by this role, acquired a duty of
care which was derogated by the fact that she did not counsel
Paloma to engage with conventional medical therapy.
This is particularly unexpected considering Paloma continued to
meet with her GP, for example, and with other medical
practitioners such as a cardiologist seeking a referral.
As such, Paloma had the opportunity to engage with
conventional medical practitioners, as was evidence
in court, which, should she be competent as evidence and ruled,
would seem to enable her to be able to make her own decision
against conventional medicine. With regards to Paloma's ability
to form a clear picture and have informed consent, one of the
most significant factors appears to be the decision to reject the
scan to indicate progression or regression of the mass.
I was privately told by friends and family.
Paloma wanted this delayed until after she had defeated her
brother in the High Court, something which she did not live
to see. Further, the coroner has ruled
that Paloma was convinced by Kate, again, despite Paloma's
competence, that she had been poisoned against her consent
from almost the moment she was first given drugs at the
Mainstone Hospital in December 2023.
The coroner accepted, seemingly wholesale, the testimony of
Doctor Mohan, who of course left the country subsequently after
her day in court, seemingly never to return.
In contrast, she divided the testimony of Kate.
Very little, if anything, was made of the lack of a consent
form for the drugs, to which we heard Paloma had an extremely
bad reaction and sickness and which hardened her against
conventional medicine. This ruling appears the place of
trust in the NHS, which contrasts with the systematic
and commonplace NHS malpractice most darkly exhibited in recent
years. As such, in a controversial
ruling, the coroner has accepted nearly every piece of evidence
against Kate and ruled the Kate in essence contributed to
Paloma's death whilst dismissing nearly everything in her favour.
However, the coroner stopped short of declaring Kate guilty
of unlawful killings, citing the involvement of other people who
she could not deliberate. This has been a protracted
inquest filtered almost entirely through the lens of mainstream
media. As mainstream propagandists such
as Marianna Spring capitalized on this judgement to pursue
their political agendas. Unanswered questions remain as
to elements of the ruling which will certainly cast doubt upon
its veracity as the full picture in the eyes of many.
This is Will Coltel report it for UK column.
Well, harrowing. A very concise report there from
Will Gulshill might seem overly cynical to suggest that it was
probably never going to go any way other than that.
But Vanessa, I'd be interested to know your thoughts on it,
either on the verdict itself or the OR the way in which Kate
Chemerani has been treated and indeed what what sort of what
would be next for her? Well, I mean, the first thing
that that comes to my mind is that this seems to be part of
the operation to separate families, in other words, to
take away the parental supervision or involvement in
their Children's Health and and education and so on.
I mean, when a mother is going to be prosecuted on, on, on for
effectively providing advice and consultation for her daughter,
who they're saying basically was of sound mind and could make her
own decisions, I don't know. It seems to me to be a sort of
horrific verdict. I think horrific is is exactly
the right word and it it looks like an extreme case of cherry
picking. We will have the chance to talk
about this more in Extra because I'm glad to say that Will
Coleshill will be joining us in Extra and not only will we have
the opportunity to talk about this, but also his recent
reporting on the protest concerning the prescribed group
Palestine Action. So please do hang around for
Extra if you are a member. If you're not, you have got time
to sign up after the main news programme.
Now we're going to go back to Vanessa, because last week you
were speaking about the so-called Gaza peace talks, and
you've got more for us on exactly that issue.
Yeah, I mean, basically we're heading for the big finale, but
I just wanted to put it in a bit of context.
So of course the the big issue for Israeli commentators or pro
genocide commentators, particularly like Benjamin
Netanyahu is of course the return of the hostages.
But I just wanted to bring this up on screen.
This was from the Times of Israel, shortly after the 7th of
October, in a conversation with families of the hostages, where
it was stated by one of the family members.
We later found out that Hamas had offered on October the 9th
or 10th, so a few days after the 7th of October to release all
the civilian hostages in exchange for the Israeli forces
not entering the Gaza Strip. But the government rejected the
offer. And of course, we know that that
this has been the pattern since the 7th of October.
And it's very clear that Netanyahu is not interested in
the return of hostages. He's interested in the final
solution in Gaza and the West Bank.
And then of course, the fact that the claims that are being
reignited right now that 7th of October was the two year
genocide date yesterday that there are in fact, in the show
notes, there's a 9 minute video showing all of the testimonies
from various Israeli forces and officials directing to the fact
that that they carried out the Hannibal directive, which was
effectively to kill their own civilians and soldiers on the
7th of October to prevent them being taken hostage by Hamas and
the various resistance factions. So basically that's the scenario
that these peace talks or so-called peace talks, I see it
again as a bit of a charade are going to be conducted in in
Egypt right now. This is something that was
published in Axios by Barack Ravid.
Trump huddles with Jared Kushner, of course, his
son-in-law and and the Gaza waterfront property mogul and
Steve Witkoff ahead of crucial Gaza talks.
They've arrived today alongside the Qatari emir, the head of
Turkish intelligence and President Sisi has actually
invited Trump to the signing of the ceasefire agreement.
So there's a lot of pressure on the resistance factions right
now to to basically complete this deal.
But of course, there are a lot of points within that plan from
Trump that simply are not going to be accepted by Hamas.
So in my opinion, we're heading for the same degree of fall from
these peace talks. But of course, it's being raised
up much higher than before, which in my opinion, again,
means that the final aggression is going to be far more
substantial than has been to date, which is saying a lot.
So this is Trump basically bigging up his our own peace
plan. If we can just roll this video,
we're in very serious negotiations to, I guess you
could say, depending on the way you count 3000 years, you could
say 500 years you could say, but that it's been raging for a long
time. And I think there's a
possibility that we could have peace in the Middle East.
It's something even beyond the Gaza situation.
We want a release of the hostages immediately.
Et cetera. And so our team is over there
now. Another team just left and other
countries, literally every country in the world has
supported the plan. I don't think there's anybody
that hasn't actually, not that I've seen.
I mean, just Trump at his best again, 3000 or maybe 500 years.
I mean, the the lack of accuracy is quite mind boggling, but this
is one of the points, this was reported by Al Jazeera.
This is one of the points that is going to be a sticking point
in in the entire agreement, an umbrella of Palestinian
factions. The PFLP is now the the
Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine and
Islamic Jihad have joined the meeting today issued a statement
promising resistance stance by all means, stressing that no one
has the right to cede the weapons of the Palestinian
people. And I do find this quite
extraordinary that those that are being asked to cede their
weapons are those that are effectively defending their
homeland against an aggressive occupation force that is
committing genocide. Surely it is Israel that should
be disarmed and deradicalised. And this is IL Zamir who made a
statement yesterday. There is no ceasefire but a
change in the operational situation.
If the political effort does not succeed, we will return to
fight. We will not allow Hamas to
remain undefeated as the governing and military system in
Gaza. This is General Aisle Zamir, the
the chief of staff of the Israeli forces now.
Interesting. There's been a lot of criticism
of President Putin's reaction to the Trump plan from many within
independent media. Of course, China and Russia have
until now, failed to impose any kind of economic boycott on the
Zionist entity. In fact, China is increasing
trade with Israel, not only with Israel, but also with Arab
nations that have normalized relations with Israel.
So let's just have a look at this.
This was just a statement from RT.
Putin and Israel's Netanyahu just held a phone call.
They discussed Trump's Gaza plan, store sorry, talked
stabilizing Syria and finding solutions to Iran's nuclear
program, and Netanyahu wished Putin happy birthday.
Now, what's interesting, at Valdai Club, Putin was asked
about the plan. He not only basically approved
it despite not having received approval from either Hamas or
the Palestinian Authority, who of course, according to the plan
are going to be sidelined alongside Hamas.
He pushed again the two state solution that we know is is
meaningless right now. And not only that, he praised
Tony Blair as an, as a very good statesman and talked about the
times that they had shared coffee together at Blair's
residence, sitting in their pajamas discussing the the state
of world affairs. And of course, you know, I, I
don't think anybody would approve of of any kind of
recommendation of Blair as a peace envoy in the Middle East.
And finally, of course, one of the issues that is not being
touched on by the peace plan is the existence of ISIS agents
that have been weaponized by Israel against the resistance
factions and who may raise their head in in the future to to
basically target both civilians and resistance on behalf of
Israel. And of course, the fact that
Trump is using this as a rather gruesome and grotesque ladder to
a potential of a Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that he's been
recommended for it by the hostages families.
Quite horrific. It is indeed.
So I think we'll we'll come back to that in extra for sure.
There's there's a lot to talk about there.
But thank you very much indeed. Now we'll come back to the
United Kingdom and indeed, we will have a look at part of the
government website, which you may not necessarily be familiar
with. And that is the Accelerated
capability environment ACE, which describes itself as
solving rapidly changing digital and data challenges facing law
enforcement and national security agencies.
And they bring together expertise from industry and
academia to innovate collaboratively and create
mission impact at pace. You can imagine the tone with
which it continues. All of which could be entirely
meaningless now. This goes back some years in
fact, but the reason I mention it today is because the
government website is awash with documents saying how the ACE has
dealt with various departmental initiatives, innovations and how
it's going to streamline all sorts of processes and deliver
things that may not have been possible before.
Now. Of course, the inference to be
drawn is there aren't very many human beings involved in all of
this and indeed you would be right to come to that
conclusion. It's a Home Office capability
and it was at least it's not coincidental at all to consider
that it was founded by what was then the Office for Security and
Counterterrorism, the OSCT, back in 2017.
It's been reported on by UK column in the past.
Now as it's grown, it's applied its approach to a lot of, again,
what's described as being innovation and Co creation and
dealing with public safety and security and and all that kind
of thing. Now the point to make here is
that it's being made to look like it's owned and controlled
by the Home Office, but of course that's not so.
It says that it's powered by Vivace, a community of
multidisciplinary organisations and experts drawn from industry
and academia who collaborate to deliver highly innovative
solutions at pace. In other words, corporations
involved in data harvesting and all sorts of technological
innovations and advancements which are going to be
controlling on behalf of the Home Office, things that pertain
to all aspects of government. Now we listen to Ben and Brian
talking about Tony Blair's sort of intervention, suggesting how
AI can improve every aspect of government, really being able to
articulate how during Monday's news programme.
And this seems to be exactly what's being referred to here.
There should be a number of concerns falling out of it, but
specifically with regard to policing, because they're
talking about creating an AI lab for policing.
Now it almost seems like it would be made-up because this is
the deal with the crime that has resulted from generative AI in
the 1st place. But they say it'll play a
significant role in shaping the police service of the future,
bolstering capabilities by making investigations more
sophisticated and efficient, as well as freeing up officers
time. Now going back to who controls
or owns this capability. And with the police operational,
a very important criteria of operational independence in
mind, it is again hugely concerning.
This looks like an investigation process would not only be owned
in effect, perhaps in name by the Home Office, but in actual
fact by private corporations, which would have an
extraordinary amount of influence over the outcome of an
investigation considering all the sorts of biases that may be
introduced into artificial intelligence in the 1st place.
Now there are plenty of things to look at behind the scenes
here. The government have also put out
a document talking about keeping police one step ahead of
criminals using AI1 wonders why it's only one step ahead.
It doesn't really reinforce the point that AI is indeed the
salvation to all these problems. But of course, as I mentioned
earlier, these are in large part creations of generative AI in
the 1st place. And so we are told on the one
hand by the government that it is the answer to absolutely
everything, but it seems to be the answer for criminals who are
of course exploiting it to great effect.
Now the other thing to draw your attention to is that the
oversight of this is from the Public Safety Group, which is
headed up by Richard Clarke who sits within the Home Office.
And indeed he attended the Digital Policing Summit earlier
this year. And I've just showing you the
text which refers to the sponsors, principal sponsors
being Palantir, BT and Amazon Web Services course among many
others. But it demonstrates the ever
closer relationship between the government and in particular
tech corporations. Now from the report itself, they
describe Amazon Web Services as working with public safety
organisations to build the next generation of national security,
justice, police, Fire and Rescue solutions.
And they in particular quote sort of Palantir and talk about
how they're partnering police forces in the UK in support of
challenges ranging from helping City of London police fight
economic crime and and so on and so forth.
But again, considering the tender notice for this, they
talk about the private sector partner requirement is for a
supplier to work closely with the authority to act as a
flexible commissioning and delivery partner with the
responsibility for the dynamic ecosystem and collaboration
platform to deliver commissioned ACE customer requirements.
This is gobbledygook. But the point is the tender that
was put out to the organizations that were going to be competing
for this is also suggesting with the concluding remark that it is
to jointly protect His Majesty's government interest.
Now it's very hard to see how that particular circle can be
squared. And I think gives enormous
concerns, not just with the way in which AI is being rolled out
across governments, but specifically with with regard to
the companies that are going to be given the very contracts with
which to do that and how they may exert their influence in
this instance via policing and and the terrible results that
could lead to. Now, AI, of course, suggested to
be the answer to everything. Is it?
Well, I would direct you towards the UK column website where
you'll find an interview there. German warfare talking to Jobs
Langrebi and Barry Smith will why machines will never rule the
world. And there's a lot to learn about
the what's described, the sort of sentience of, of AI and
indeed whether such a thing does actually exist or not.
So that concludes that particular report on AI and
policing. And we're going to go back to
Vanessa now. Of course we talked specifically
about Gaza, but you're going to to tell us a bit more about
about Netanyahu and what what he's been doing?
Yes, I apologise for the various videos of of his recent
conversation with Ben Shapiro. It's not pleasant viewing.
The first of all he talks about, he's of course speaking about
two years of the Holocaust against the Israeli Jews.
So anyway, let's just play this first video.
First section of the video. Worst atrocities committed on
Jews since the Holocaust and everybody thought Israel was
doomed. 2 years later we've smashed the Iran axis, smashed
most of its proxies. Hamas not finished yet but we'll
get there. Hezbollah, Syria is gone,
smashed. Also, Iran's nuclear and
ballistic missile program still there, but it rolled it really
back with President Trump's help and the Houthis.
Now, of course, this is these are not the words of someone
that is working on a on a peace deal and of course they never
have been. But having said that, they've
basically smashed the entire, as he describes it, Iranian
Resistance axis. He then goes on to mention the
threats from Iran that still exist.
So let's just roll this. Shared the you know, the, the,
the labor and we achieved this neutralization of Iran, which
could blackmail every American city.
People probably don't believe it, right?
No, we're far away, right? No, you're not.
Iran is developing now ballistic missiles that are
intercontinental ballistic missiles for 8000 kilometer
range. What does that mean?
They add another 3000 kilometers and they've got under their gun,
under their atomic guns, the New York City in target, Washington,
Boston, Miami, Mar a Lago. So what this does appear to be
doing, of course, is lining up for a potential false flag to
reignite war against Iran. And then as part of what he's
talking about, you'll remember that we reported on UK column
that back in 2022 there was a report based on documents that
had just been released talking about placing poison or in the
wells. Documents point to the Israeli
army's 1948 biological warfare known as play bread.
And of course that's nothing but well rather that has been
continued with the use of white phosphorus, with settlers
continuing to poison the wells and the occupied territories and
the West Bank, the dumping of sewage into the Sea of Gaza,
etcetera. But let's hear what how
Netanyahu talks about the rise in anti-Semitism and what it's
all based upon. Lies perpetrated about Jews and
these vilifications. You know, we poison the wells.
We, I don't know, we, we drink the children that the blood of
children and all sorts of crazy things.
And that's repeated today. That's not new.
Well, no, it's not new. Perhaps because you do actually
do the things that you're accused of.
And very interesting. I took this just from Wikipedia.
I can hear a sharp intake of breath from everyone.
Yes, I did use Wikipedia as a resource, but let's have a look
at what it says. So, so very generic.
Israel and weapons of mass destruction.
They're of course believed to possess weapons of mass
destruction and to be one of four nuclear armed countries,
the only one in the Middle East because of course they they have
under the Bacon doctrine, not allowed any Arab nation to
defend itself by developing nuclear weapons.
It's not recognised as a nuclear weapon state by the Treaty on
non proliferation of nuclear weapons.
But the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment has also
recorded Israel as a country. Country sorry, generally
reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities
and an offensive biological warfare programme.
Officially, Israel neither confirms nor denies possessing
nuclear. It happens, but this is actually
taken from a paper written by Doctor Avner Cohen back in 2001.
Very interesting. I recommend reading the whole
paper. In April 1948, David Ben Gurion,
Israel's founding father and 1st Prime Minister, wrote a letter
to Ehud Avril, one of the Jewish Agency's operatives in Europe,
ordering him to seek out and recruit E European Jewish
scientists who could either increase the capacity to kill
mass or to cure masses. Both are important.
One of the scientists Avril recruited was a 30 year old
epidemiologist and Colonel in the Red Army named Avraham
Marcus Klingberg. In the time Klinger Klingberg
became one of Israel's leading scientists in the area of
chemical and biological weapons, he was among the founding
members and subsequently the deputy director of the Israel
Institute of Biological Research.
So they clearly have offensive weapons of mass destruction, and
let's hear Netanyahu talk about that.
That's a defensive weapons. What about offensive weapons?
Well, I can tell you we shared it with America, but I can't
share it with you. OK, The most advanced offensive
weapons on the planet, things that none of the superpowers
have developed by Israel shared with America.
That's very important because you know, you have to be strong.
Everybody understands that. That's what President Trump
says, and he says it correctly. Peace through strength.
You got to be strong in order to get the peace.
So Israel helps with offensive and defensive technologies, but
also Israel helps with Intel. So if I have to make a
prediction every time there is some kind of ceasefire, it
generally means, as we saw with the ceasefire with Hezbollah
back in November 2024, which led to of course the fall of Syria,
we see Israel effectively pivot towards another area in the
region. And in my opinion, it's going to
be Iraq also potentially Yemen and Iran.
But what is interesting, there has been a push to disarm the
resistance in Iraq, as this report States and we've talked
about regularly. There's also, according to this
report in Stars and Stripes, the US are withdrawing their troops
from Iraq. So it begins reducing its
mission in Iraq. And we've been hearing about the
the Super offensive weapons. There is potential for use of
bio weapons, in my opinion, with the withdrawal of the US troops
against the Iraqi resistance factions.
I hope not, but I don't believe that Israel is going to hold
back on anything in the coming months, no.
I would absolutely have to agree with you, Vanessa.
And certainly from what Netanyahu says, holding back
seems like the the least likely course of action.
And of course the talk about, you know, peace through strength
seems completely discordant with his language about smashing
absolutely everybody insight. But yeah, of course we'll
continue to keep an eye on that. But thank you very much indeed
for that. And we'll we'll come back to it
in extra. Now there is a slim chance that
you may be watching this programme on YouTube and that
might not be such a surprise because we do have a YouTube
channel that's been set up at some point this year.
But in 2021 the original YouTube channel that belonged to UK
column was removed for a host of reasons.
It's been a long running battle and this morning Mike Robinson
discovered that it has been reinstated.
And this is in many ways a very significant moment.
We're not absolutely sure why it has happened and there doesn't
seem to have been any sense of fanfare or responsibility upon
YouTube to explain the the reasons why.
And of course, if you have followed this, you will be
considering the question that I put on screen now, which is of
course but for how long? Because the track record with
YouTube in particular has been extraordinarily bumpy and
inconsistent, but also terrifically oppressive.
And again, this is something that Mike has illustrated very
well in the past, which is that not only has YouTube sought to
censor UK column, but also those that have introduced UK column
content into their own broadcasting.
So the, the way in which this regime continues, it is
absolutely phenomenal. But we're, we're putting this
across as a very, as a, you know, obviously a positive
story. We have nearly 100,000 followers
on subscribers on that Channel. And the idea that this will be
brought back into the. Think of the word, my apologies,
but people will be able to view it in a way that they couldn't
before. It is is great news.
Now, if this strikes you as sort of slightly out of context,
you're not quite sure what it's all about, then I would
encourage you to go to the UK column website and look at the
censored section which charts a course throughout all of this.
I'll just, just before we close, I'll just ask Vanessa for a
quick comment on the relationship with YouTube in
particular and this extraordinary era of censorship
in which we now are forced to operate.
Yeah, well, even uploading UK column news excerpts was subject
to censorship quite often. My channel wasn't closed down,
but those excerpts were taken down.
And as Mike pointed out before we came on today, the Syria
podcasts, which were formally up on YouTube, have not been
restored to their former glory. They're still missing.
So hopefully they they will come back if YouTube's feeling
generous. I'm not sure about that, but
still we what we will concentrate on the Positives UK
column is back on the main YouTube channel and long may
that continue because of course there is insufficient
justification for taking material that we do put out down
because it is absolutely well researched, as you will know if
you've been following this for any length of time.
And if you doubt me, please do verify as best you can.
Everything that we do put out. It is very important that we
that we are seen to be doing so correctly now.
Thank you very much for joining us on this programme.
Vanessa, thanks for coming in on the live link.
Please, if you are AUK column member, hold on for a few
minutes and we will rejoin in at about 4:10.
UK column news extra. And also just a reminder that
going out tonight, we have Germ talking to Carl Zarr on the
nuances surrounding the history concerning Chairman Mao.
And then going out tomorrow at 1:00 is Patrick Henderson's talk
from the Hope Freedom event back in August.
Otherwise, we hope you will join us for the news programme at
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