UK Column News - 12th December 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, David Scott and Mark Anderson with today’s UK Column News.
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Former NHS Trust Chairman Roy Lilley: Is the NHS safe?
Roy Lilley started his first enterprise from scratch over half a century ago. In 1989, his multi-million pound business was sold to fellow directors and managers. As a policy advisor and visiting fellow at Imperial College, London, he helped start the Health Services Management School at Nottingham University and was founder of the Federation of NHS Trusts, which became today's NHS Confederation. For over ten years now, Roy has written an e-letter (a bitesize podcast series) that reaches 300,000 health and care managers in the UK and overseas.
A former chairman of Homewood NHS Trust in Surrey and former mayor of his borough council there, Roy Lilley has a wealth of public administration experience and has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph and a number of other newspapers and periodicals. He is also a regular columnist in Pharmaceutical Marketing Magazine. He is a refreshingly honest and open man and willing to debate issues thoroughly. His enthusiasm and passion for the National Health Service is clear for all to see, and his comparative knowledge of healthcare systems is instructive; for example, he points out that Britain has proportionally far less management in healthcare than France or the USA.
In a relaxed and frank interview, UK Column Nursing Correspondent Debi Evans talks to Roy about the current crisis in the NHS. Debi, a retired State Registered Nurse and a self-described old-school Ward Sister, also served for five years as a UK Government Advisor at the Department of Health and Social Care. Her conversation with Roy goes back to the days when hospitals were places full of flowers, nurses attended the sick in starched uniforms, and relatives were the real ‘regulators’; and when smiles, reassurance and tender loving care was a given, free at the point of contact.
Fast forward to 2022 and digitisation, artificial intelligence and data gathering appears to have taken over from good old healthcare. Gone are the days when a nurse would hold your hand and take your pulse; today, you’re likely to be scanned with an iPad.
What is the state of the health of the NHS? Will the NHS Long Term Plan work? Is the NHS in a terminal condition, or can it be saved? If it can be saved, who will save it?
This is the first of a series of interviews with Roy Lilley. UK Column looks forward to the next instalment of the Roy and Debi's common-sense NHS conversations.
Three times voted the top speaker on NHS topics, Roy Lilley visits more than 20 NHS establishments a year and travels the UK and the world talking about healthcare, management and policy.
He says, "Healthcare is my interest, my challenge, my passion and I am lucky to be involved with the professionals who make our lives healthier, our families safer and each of us proud of what we do."
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From UK Column News Extra: Lift the sanctions on Syria!
While all the focus is on the plight of Ukrainians facing a winter without energy, everyone seems to have forgotten that Syria has been living under western Sanctions for eleven years.
Vanessa Beeley explains the impact of sanctions on the people of Syria and appeals for everyone to get involved to raise awareness.
Please see Vanessa's Substack article (https://beeley.substack.com/p/un-official-challenges-punitive-unilateral) for more details and the full text of the statement by Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, urging sanctioning states to lift unilateral sanctions against Syria and warning that they are perpetuating and exacerbating the destruction and trauma suffered by the Syrian people since 2011.
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UK Column News - 9th December 2022
Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Vanessa Beeley with today's UK Column News.
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UK Column News - 7th December 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Alex Thomson and Debi Evans with today's UK Column News.
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UK Column News - 5th December 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, David Scott and Mark Anderson with today's news programme from the UK Column.
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UK Column News - 2nd December 2022
Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Vanessa Beeley with today’s UK Column News.
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Vaccine Damage: Real People - Adam
From a pinnacle of fitness to struggling for breath, thanks to following the science. Sports physiotherapist Adam Rowland's horrible adverse reactions to Covid injections destroyed his marriage, got him ridiculed and called a drug addict. Read the write up at: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/vaccine-damage-real-people-adam
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UK Column News - 30th November 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Alex Thomson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.
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Vaccines? Don’t trust the government.
Tony Shingler did what the UK government encouraged him to do to protect himself and his family. He accepted a COVID-19 vaccine, believing possible side effects to be minor. The reality was he then spent months paralysed in hospital, diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome. Together with his wife Nicola, Tony tells his story of vaccine injury and a changed life.
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UK Column News - 28th November 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, David Scott and Mark Anderson with today’s UK Column News.
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UK Column News - 25th November 2022
Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Vanessa Beeley with today’s UK Column News.
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Amy Gallagher - NHS Nurse's Fight for Freedom of Belief
Marxism's long march through the institutions has reached, and captured, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in North London. The Trust's clinical training now includes lessons on "whiteness" and the problematic and "racist" nature of Christianity. Read the write-up at: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/nhs-nurses-fight-for-freedom-of-belief
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UK Column News - 23rd November 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.
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UK Column News - 21st November 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, David Scott and Mark Anderson with today’s UK Column News.
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Big Pharma Experts Speak Out
Two highly experienced pharmaceutical professionals, with very different careers in the industry, are drawn together as their individual knowledge and research shows that both governments and the industry are not telling the truth about COVID-19 and vaccine safety.
Read the write-up at:https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/toxic-by-design-big-pharma-experts-speak-out
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David talks with Brad Skistimas, better known as Five Times August.
David talks with Brad Skistimas, better known as Five Times August, the artist who provided the us with the musical soundtrack to the covid lockdown. His music has illumated the state oppression and medical fascism that we have all lived through in the last three years. But it has not been limited to simply a critique of those in authority. Rather, Brad's work exposes some of the failures and weaknesses in our civilisation that have allowed tyranny the upper hand. His honest and plaintive lyrics both spotlight the complicity of those who have promoted fear and encourage the gallantry of those who instead stand for truth.
Their discussion is built around discussion of five of Brad's songs:
"Jesus, wat happened to us?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu0GPo7GkPk
"God help us all"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8bbMBrCQqQ
"Anti-Fascist Blues"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7jNpxOCZTM
"Sad Little Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6plsSlxOstQ
and the one that made the UK Column's Katy-jo cry, "Fight for you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USMBS7u8Bes
In this wide ranging and heartfelt discussion, Brad and David delve into the nature of the resistance to covid tyranny, the spirit of the protests and the joy to be found in the company of those seeking to preserve their liberty and humanity in the face of official suppression and deception. Brad also discusses the underlying beliefs that give impetus to his music, including his responsibility to fight for his children - for their future.
We hope you will find this to be a warm discussion that reveals much about Brad's nature and character and gives an insight into how his personal qualities infuse his music with authenicity and courage.
To find out more about Brad's music, visit his wesite:
https://www.fivetimesaugust.com/
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UK Column News - 16th November 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Alex Thomson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.
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Insight: China in Africa and the Middle East
Mike Robinson speaks to Matthew Ehret, Isa Blumi and Vanessa Beeley about China's role in Africa and the Middle East.
Matthew is a senior fellow at the American University in Moscow, editor in chief of the Canadian Patriot Review and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. He has written the three-volume clash of the Two Americas and four-volume untold history of Canada series.
Isa Blumi (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University) researches societies in the throes of social, economic, and political transformation. He compares how European imperialist projects in the Islamic world intersected with, and were thus informed by, events within those societies. His research into such processes have resulted in numerous articles and the 8 books, including Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939: Migration in a Post-Imperial World. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) and Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia tells us about the World (University of California Press, 2018).
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UK Column News - 14th November 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, David Scott and Mark Anderson with today’s UK Column News.
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UK Column News - 11th November 2022
Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Vanessa Beeley with today’s UK Column News.
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Professor Richard Ennos - A Covid Retrospective
Professor Richard Ennos talks to David Scott. The topic: Courage or cowardice, and the failure of academia to speak truth to power during the Covid-19 crisis.Read the write-up at: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/prof-richard-ennos-a-covid-retrospective
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UK Column News - 9th November 2022
Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Alex Thomson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.
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There are no plans for an inquiry solely on Vaccine Safety.
An All Party Parliamentary Group recently decided that there was no need for a vaccine safety enquiry. The dismissive decision was devastating for those suffering the reality of vaccine adverse reactions.
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