Child Abuse—BBC's Reflex Is Still To Cover Up - UK Column News - 18th August 2023

- WhatDoTheyKnow: Failure to respond to news of child sex exploitation
- WhatDoTheyKnow: Evidence to support statement about child sex exploitation 
- WhatDoTheyKnow: Evidence to support Nazir Afzal's claim about a 2008 circular about CSE
- WhatDoTheyKnow: Cover-up of Child Sex Exploitation by Sheffield City Council
UK Column finding: Questions to the BBC about the release of child abuse data under Freedom of Information Act are quickly passed to the BBC's legal team.
- BBC: Dame Elan Closs Stephens DBE
- WhatDoTheyKnow: Blocking of the flow of information concerning child sex exploitation
- BBC: Prosecutor Nazir Afzal: I couldn't defend a rapist
- Mark Braithwaite (YouTube): Nazir Afzal—Carolyn Quinn—The FULL Interview (19 October 2018)

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-18th-august-2023

UK Health Security Agency—Is It About Health At All? - UK Column News - 18th August 2023

- GOV.UK: Letter from Maria Caulfield MP to Professor Dame Jenny Harries, UKHSA chief executive 
“…and work with industry, in particular in the life sciences, to prevent and mitigate public health hazards through innovative approaches and collaboration such as with pharmaceutical companies on vaccine research and development of diagnostics”
(Note) The Guardian: Former Covid medical officer Van-Tam takes role at vaccine maker Moderna

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-18th-august-2023

Who Is NextDoor, Down Under, In San Francisco? - UK Column News - 18th August 2023

- Nextdoor: “Made by your neighbours in London and San Francisco”
- GOV.UK (Companies House): Nextdoor Europe UK Limited
- Nextdoor: Board of Directors From Walmart to Venture Capital and RAND

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-18th-august-2023

Big Money In AI - UK Column News - 18th August 2023

- GOV.UK: The ten point plan for a green industrial revolution
- Computer Weekly: Government publishes baseline analysis of UK artificial intelligence sector as it pins hopes on future growth
“AI suppliers added £3.7bn in value to the UK economy and attracted nearly £19bn in private investment”
- GOV.UK: Artificial Intelligence sector study 2022
- The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Artificial intelligence technologies to speed up contouring in radiotherapy treatment planning

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-18th-august-2023

Keep-Cash Demand Gets A Petty PR Response - UK Column News - 18th August 2023

- GOV.UK: Free access to cash protected 

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-18th-august-2023

Unpicking Agenda 2030, Climate Change and more: Sandi Adams

Sandi Adams joins Brian Gerrish for a wide-ranging catch up on Agenda 2030, Climate Change and much more, following our earlier three-part interview with her.

Please don’t just watch the video. Come back and make full use of the links below to research the whole subject for yourself. Fully armed with the background and facts, you will then also be able to stand up and speak out to protect your children and your grandchildren’s future. And that is what being active is all about! 

www.ukcolumn.org/video/unpicking-agenda-2030-climate-change-and-more-sandi-adams

Mike Robinson's prophecy nearly a decade ago:

"The Big Society will see the end of central government and any possibility of national infrastructure projects. Our youth, therefore, see no future other then drudge jobs stacking supermarket shelves and serving coffee. They struggle to get up in the mornings and live for getting drunk at the weekends. We are literally looking at a lost generation. What about the next? When our young people start having families of their own, will those children see a more optimistic future? I don’t think so. I see that successive generations will de-generate into unthinking drones."

ukcolumn.org/article/construction-harmonious-world-sustained-peace-and-joint-prosperity

Food For Thought, Or Perhaps Not - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- GOV.UK: Countryside Stewardship: get funding to protect and improve the land you manage 
- GOV.UK: Landscape Recovery: round one
- GOV.UK: Environmental land management schemes: details of actions and payments
- GOV.UK: An Agricultural Transition Plan 2021 to 2024 (PDF)
- GOV.UK: Environmental Improvement Plan 2023
- GOV.UK: Deadline for Countryside Stewardship applications extended 
- GOV.UK: Latest application window opens for 2024 Countryside Stewardship agreements 

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

WHO Wants Digital Health Certificates? Coroni’s Back? - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- World Health Organization: WHO Director-General's opening remarks at G20 Health Ministers meeting—Inaugural session
“This important initiative will support the WHO Global Strategy on Digital Health, and amplify other initiatives including the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network.”
- GOV.UK: Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the UK
- Independent: Updated Covid vaccines are nearly ready as alarm grows over new variant’s rapid spread

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

Father Ted’s Writer Too Naughty For Real-Life Bishop Brennans And Mrs Doyles: Venues Required After Cancelled Comedy - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- Yahoo: Fringe event featuring Graham Linehan cancelled after backlash
- The Telegraph: Cancelling Graham Linehan proves that the word ‘inclusive’ has lost all meaning 
- Comedy Unleashed—Follow this organiser to stay informed on future events
- The Times: Graham Linehan may take legal action after Fringe venue cancels show
- Daily Mail: Lesbian speed dating event is accused of transphobia for saying only 'adult human females' can attend - after concern when would-be matchmaker 'turned up in a purple latex outfit... with an erection'
- UK Column article: Does the recruitment of “leftist” anarchists to fight in Anglo-American proxy wars amount to Operation Gladio Mark 2?
- UK Column article: In the Absence of Order (syndicated piece by Colin Robertson, alias Millennial Woes)
- UK Column article: Bilderberg: Beyond the Meetings, Part 1: Big Tech & Big Media Interests Busily Branching Out
- Rally for Peace and Freedom: Glasgow Green, Commonwealth Monument, 1 pm, Saturday, 26 August

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

Pandemic Preparedness—Move to Moderna, Van-Tam’s Little Earner - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- LinkedIn: Moderna’s Post: Moderna is delighted to announce that Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam has been appointed as a part-time consulting Clinical Advisor
- Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation: New pandemic preparedness structure for US biological strategic plans (PDF)
- EcoHealth Alliance: Homepage “Who stands between you and the next pandemic?”
- The White House: FACT SHEET: White House Launches Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

Structural Shifts In The Global Economy - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- Bloomberg: Powell to Speak Aug. 25 at Jackson Hole Economic Symposium
- Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City: About the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
- Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium: View the previous agendas and programs
- The Truth Hound: Raising Interest Rates Akin to Giving Patient ‘Chemo’: Which Dies First, Inflation or the Economy? 

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

Real Estate Troubles - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- CNN:  Evergrande's bankruptcy may be just the beginning of China's real estate crisis
- South China Morning Post: Is China’s property crisis at breaking point? Country Garden heads for debt workout while Sino-Ocean misses payments 
- Nikkei Asia: China's property downturn spreads to trophy office buildings
- Financial Times: China's housing market is . . . not good
- The New York Times: China Suspends Report on Youth Unemployment, Which Was at a Record High
- Al Jazeera: China’s central bank cuts key interest rate amid concerns for economy
- Financial Times: Financial storm bears down on US commercial real estate

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

IceSave—I Say! A Decade And A Half Since The Last Folly, Local Councils Seek New Finance Options - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- BBC: Black hole in town hall budgets rises to £5bn
- Labour (2022): A New Britain: Renewing our Democracy and Rebuilding our Economy
(Previously discussed on UK Column News, 26 July 2023)
- 13. Local government should be given more capacity to generate its own revenue with new fiscal powers.
- Plymouth Herald: Plymouth City Council accounts not approved after it bought £70m of shares
- Kent County Council: Money deposited in Icelandic banks
- The Guardian: Woking council may face £1bn hit from property investment spree
- The Guardian: Thurrock council hid losses as it gambled millions on risky investments
- The Guardian (2012):  BCCI scandal: long legal wrangling over collapsed bank

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

Take It From Us, The Hicks Are Misguided: How Do The Narrative Mouthpieces React To Runaway Hit Oliver Anthony? - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- Deadline: Oliver Anthony’s ‘Rich Men North Of Richmond’ Is No. 1 On Apple, Spotify, iTunes, Climbing On Billboard Hot 100
- The Atlantic: The Misguided Debate Over 'Rich Men North of Richmond'
- The Guardian: The protest song that’s taken America by storm hits too many false notes by Kenan Malik
- The Independent: Viral ‘right-wing anthem’ by country singer Oliver Anthony branded ‘offensive’ and ‘fatphobic’
- The Telegraph: Rich men north of Richmond: The viral hit song damning the DC elite 
- Country Cast (YouTube):  Rich Men North of Richmond Singer Oliver Anthony Gets Emotional Reading Bible Verse 

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

The Percentage Of The Globe That Burns Each Year Has Been Declining Since 2001 - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- Wall Street Journal: Climate Change Hasn't Set the World on Fire
“In 2022, the last year for which there are complete data, the world hit a new record-low of 2.2% burned area. Yet you’ll struggle to find that reported anywhere. Instead, the media acts as if the world is ablaze. In late 2021, the New York Times employed more than 40 staff on a project called “Postcards from a World on Fire,” headed by a photorealistic animation of the world in flames. Its explicit goal was to convince readers of the climate crisis’…”
- Reuters: Cargill chartered ship sets sail to test wind power at sea
- International Maritime Organization: Revised GHG reduction strategy for global shipping adopted

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

And Finally: Banana Warfare And Nicola Sturgeon's Cellmate - UK Column News - 21st August 2023

- GOV.UK: Learning from artificial intelligence with gaming
- Blackbird Documentaries (YouTube): Comedy Unleashed, Graham Linehan, Scottish Parliament, August 17th 2023 Edinburgh Fringe
- Comedy Unleashed (YouTube): Nicola Sturgeon's Cellmate—Dominic Frisby

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-august-2023

Another Round Of Fear? Academic Intimates That SPI-B Will Be Required To Scare The Public Into Compliance Again - UK Column News - 23rd August 2023

- CNBC: Covid: Novavax says vaccine effective against Eris variant
- The Independent: New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn
- University College London (2021): Researchers named as most influential academics in government
- Wikipedia: Christina Pagel
- UK Column article: Psychological Attack on the UK—Dr Bruce Scott
- UK Column search term: “SPI-B”

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-23rd-august-2023

Stop The WHO Before The 77th World Health Assembly In May 2024—Do As This UK Column Viewer Does - UK Column News - 23rd August 2023

- E-mail from a viewer about her correspondence with her Labour MP, Jeff Smith, about the draft WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty:
“But most importantly, he tells me that no deadlines will come up for at least another year. I believe this to be false. He also does not answer my question about what the Labour Party’s position is…”
- To understand the WHO’s treaty and International Health Regulations agenda, read James Roguski’s Substack blog and listen to Mark Anderson’s UK Column podcast
- Geopolitics & Empire (YouTube): Todd Miller: U.S. Empire & the Global Border-Industrial Complex (2021)
- Accurx: The simple way to communicate about patient care
“It started in a run-down hospital in Euston. Founded by Jacob Haddad and Laurence Bargery in 2016, Accurx originally set out to tackle antimicrobial resistance…”
- Confed Expo: Jacob Haddad—NHS ConfedExpo 2023
- Digital Health Rewired: Digital Health Rewired welcomes co-headline sponsors for 2022
LinkedIn: Jacob Haddad—Co-Founder—accuRx
UK Column request to viewers: What might the significance be of the two letters Rx (with capital R) at the end of the apparently original form of the company’s name?
- GIANT Health: GIANT Health London 4–5 December 2023

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-23rd-august-2023

EU’s Digital Services Act Is Simply Censorship - UK Column News - 23rd August 2023

- Verdict: Europe’s Digital Services Act to come into force from 25th August
“In the event of non-compliance, the EU can issue sanctions of up to 6% of a company’s annual turnover.”
- Reclaim The Net (Telegram): X [Twitter] is working on a new "Report EU illegal content" button

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-23rd-august-2023