Legacy Media Brands Syria A Narcostate: Introducing ‘Captagon II’ - UK Column News
Legacy Media Brands Syria A Narcostate: Introducing ‘Captagon II’
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-april-2024
- Enab Baladi: “Captagon II” bill on its way to the Senate as part of urgent legislative package
- Daily Star: ISIS terrorists taking 'superhuman drug' that makes them 'charge at tanks'
- US Congressman French Hill: Press Release: Rep. Hill Provisions Included In Package Fighting Against Foreign Adversaries And Strengthening National Security
- US Congressman French Hill: Release: Rep. Hill Statement On Visit To Syria
- Asharq Al-Awsat: Protests Continue in Syria's Sweida as US Congressman Reportedly Contacts Druze Leader
- Saudi Leaks (2021): Smuggling Captagon from Lebanon, a vast network run by princes of Al Saud
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Europe Needs To Fill The Empty Boots In Ukraine - UK Column News
Europe Needs To Fill The Empty Boots In Ukraine
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-april-2024
- UK Prime Minister (on X):
“We’re strengthening our defence partnership with Germany. Yesterday we announced we’re taking defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030.”
- Foreign Affairs: Europe—but Not NATO—Should Send Troops to Ukraine
- GOV.UK: Conflict-related sexual violence is not an inevitable consequence of war: UK statement at the UN Security Council
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British Tank Figures Are Tanking - UK Column News
British Tank Figures Are Tanking
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-april-2024
- GOV.UK: UK's most lethal tank rolls off the production lines
- The British Army: Challenger 3
- Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land: RBSL to build next-generation Challenger 3 tanks in major boost for UK prosperity
- Key Military: Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank
“Entering service in August 1984, a total of 420 production examples were built across a seven-year period from 1983, but it never completely replaced its predecessor in service.”
- Popular Mechanics: Challenger 3: Meet the U.K.'s New Main Battle Tank
- The British Army (2022): From crates to craters: The evolution of a battlefield revolution
- UK Parliament: MoD Equipment Plan 2023–2033—Nineteenth Report of Session 2023–24 (PDF)
- GOV.UK: PM to announce largest-ever military aid package to Ukraine on visit to Poland
“The £500 million additional funding announced today—which takes us to £3 billion in UK military aid for Ukraine this financial year”
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Global Defence Spending—The Sky Is The Limit - UK Column News
Global Defence Spending—The Sky Is The Limit
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-april-2024
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: Global military spending surges amid war, rising tensions and insecurity
- The White House: Statement from President Joe Biden on Senate Passage of the National Security Package (April 23, 2024)
- GOV.UK: PM announces ‘turning point’ in European security as UK set to increase defence spending to 2.5% by 2030
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UK Column News - 24th April 2024
Mike Robinson, Charles Malet and Vanessa Beeley with today's UK Column News.
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-april-2024
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Fornethy House Survivors Achieving A Hearing—The Buck Stops With Humza - UK Column News
Fornethy House Survivors Achieving A Hearing—The Buck Stops With Humza
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-april-2024
- Crowdfunder: Fornethy Survivors Group—Campaign for Justice
- Scottish Parliament: PE1933/T: Allow the Fornethy Survivors to access Scotland's redress scheme (PDF)
- UK Column search: Keyword: Swinney
- Deadline News: Abuse survivors group set for parliament protest following victim compensation exclusion
- Glasgow Times: Fornethy House survivors’ petition heard at Holyrood
- Scottish Parliament: Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee: Meeting Minutes—6th Meeting 2024
- Sunday Post: Yousaf could be questioned over Fornethy compensation eligibility—rebel MSP [Fergus Ewing]
- The Courier (Dundee): Fornethy abuse probe takes next steps in bid to help survivors get justice
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Humza’s Horrible Hectoring: Mr Yousaf’s No Good Very Bad Week - UK Column News
Humza’s Horrible Hectoring: Mr Yousaf’s No Good Very Bad Week
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-april-2024
- Humza Yousaf (on X):
“As the largest pro-independence party, at this General Election The SNP is best placed to:
Advance the cause of independence. Get rid of every Tory MP in Scotland. Ensure Scotland's voice is heard.”
- Politico: Scottish government abandons flagship climate goal
- STV News: Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell charged over embezzlement of funds from SNP
- Daily Record: Independence march horror as brave Glasgow cop hailed for stopping car before it ‘ploughed into crowd’
- Cllr Math Campbell-Sturgess (on X):
“Very concerning incident. I’m glad the suspect has been arrested. We’re seeing a rise in far-right extremism across the west and Scotland is not immune. It’s unclear if this was an isolated incident or an organised attack but I’m very glad the brave officer here acted quickly.”
- LBC News Scotland (on X):
“Hundreds of people have marched through Glasgow in support of Scottish Independence.”
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World Bank Indebting The Poorest: How Does IDA Work? - UK Column News
World Bank Indebting The Poorest: How Does IDA Work?
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-april-2024
- World Bank: Spring Meetings: The core days of the 2024 World Bank Spring Meetings will be from April 17–19
- World Bank (YouTube): Recap: World Bank 2024 Spring Meetings
- World Bank Group Development Committee: Implementing the World Bank Group Evolution (PDF)
- International Development Association: Road to IDA21—International Development Association
- World Bank (YouTube): The World Bank’s International Development Association Is a Game Changer: Testimonies from Europe
- International Development Association: How Does IDA Work?
- Federal Register: Stakeholder Listening Session in Preparation for the 77th World Health Assembly
“The listening session will be held Thursday, May 2, 2024, from 10am to 12pm. Eastern Daylight Time. This session is open to the public but requires RSVP to oga.rsvp1@hhs.gov by Friday, April 26, 2024.”
- Republic Broadcasting: GET INVOLVED NOW! Key contacts, background info. on imminent pandemic treaty, ‘health’ regs
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Dutch Parliament Votes To WHO Delay Pandemic Treaty - UK Column News
Dutch Parliament Votes To WHO Delay Pandemic Treaty
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-april-2024
- Door To Freedom: Today Dutch Parliament Votes to Instruct the Government to Demand a Delay in both WHO votes—and if no delay, to vote against the proposals
- De Telegraaf (Dutch): Chamber: The Netherlands must ask for postponement to vote on the WHO pandemic treaty
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Sedition? Lord Speaker’s Corner Podcast Double Fear Whammy: Climate Change and AI - UK Column News
Sedition? Lord Speaker’s Corner Podcast Double Fear Whammy: Climate Change and AI
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-april-2024
- Lord Speaker (on X): What are the difficulties of regulating AI?
- House of Lords (YouTube): The Astronomer Royal, Lord Rees of Ludlow: Lord Speaker’s Corner Episode 16
- Legislation: Coroners and Justice Act 2009
“Changes over time for: Section 73—Abolition of common law libel offences etc.
The following offences under the common law of England and Wales and the common law of Northern Ireland are abolished—
(a) the offences of sedition and seditious libel;
(b) the offence of defamatory libel;
(c) the offence of obscene libel.”
- UK Column search: Keyword: Swinney
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Net Zero And The WEF: Are We All Meant To End Up Like Bhutan And Niue? - UK Column News
Net Zero And The WEF: Are We All Meant To End Up Like Bhutan And Niue?
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-april-2024
- The World Economic Forum (WEF 2022): These 8 countries have already achieved net-zero emissions
- TRT World (YouTube): Guyana president blasts journalist when discussing country’s oil reserves
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Anti-Zionism Equated With Zionism—MPs Won’t Reply - UK Column News
Anti-Zionism Equated With Zionism—MPs Won’t Reply
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-april-2024
- UK Parliament: Hansard: Antisemitism in the UK
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The Truth Of Ukraine Crumbling Hidden By Legacy Media, Until They Can’t Hide It Any More - UK Column
The Truth Of Ukraine Crumbling Hidden By Legacy Media, Until They Can’t Hide It Any More
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-april-2024
- The Telegraph: Ukraine's frontline is collapsing—and Britain may soon be at war (archived)
- Conservative Friends of Ukraine: About us
“The Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson is the President of CFU”
- Conservative Friends of Ukraine: CFU President Boris Johnson and renowned French philosopher and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy co-author an article in the Telegraph on the importance of supporting both Israel and Ukraine
- Labour Friends of Israel (on X):
“At yesterday’s statement on antisemitism in the UK, LFI vice-chair @Christian4BuryS talked about the “sinister” use of “Zionism” and “Zionists” as code for Jews in public discourse.”
- Military Summary (YouTube): French Forces Arrive in Odessa
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UK Column News - 22nd April 2024
Brian Gerrish, Alex Thomson, Mark Anderson and Diane Rasmussen McAdie with today's UK Column News.
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-april-2024
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More On My Life My Say - UK Column News
More On My Life My Say
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
- My Life My Say: About MLMS 2.0
- DRD Partnership (2019): My Life My Say: Common Futures Forum
- Lampton School (on X):
“We welcomed BBC News and Sharon Gaffka to our school today to talk with Year 13 students about why it's important to Give An X about young people voting in the upcoming London mayoral elections. Thanks Ms Vowles for arranging! My Life My Say”
- Campaign for the Arts (on X):
“Signatories of the #GiveAnX / Campaign for the Arts open letter include […]”
- Give An X (on X):
“An incredible 153,171 people registered to vote on #NVRD. More than 113,000 were aged 18–34—up by 90% in 2021”
- Dan Lawes (on X):
“Good morning! LOOK at this graph. Something massive happened on Tuesday’s National Voter Registration Day. Imagine what we have planned for the General Election…”
- Zest: First EV charger of country-leading rollout live in Hackney
- GOV.UK: Apply for Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) funding
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Portugal, Pandemics and Parliament - UK Column News
Portugal, Pandemics and Parliament
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
- World Health Organization (WHO): Revised draft of the negotiating text of the WHO Pandemic Agreement (PDF)
- UK Column interview: Portugal, Pandemics and Parliament—One woman’s remarkable story: Marta da Silva Gameiro
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Check Point: Israeli Unit 8200 Is Everywhere - UK Column News
Check Point: Israeli Unit 8200 Is Everywhere
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
- TechCrunch: Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over controversial Project Nimbus contract with Israel
- Council on Foreign Relations: Is China's Huawei a Threat to U.S. National Security?
- GOV.UK: Space Capability Management Plan
“We will ensure that we embed dual use at the heart of our capability management processes, considering how we can share Defence space capabilities and outputs […]”
- Globes—Israel Business News: Gil Shwed: One company, one job
- Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI): CySource Joins Israeli Cyber Companies Consortium led by IAI
- Check Point Software: Check Point Announces a New Collaboration with Microsoft to Supercharge Infinity AI Copilot with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
- Globes—Israel Business News: Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk moves back to Israel
- ContenTree: NHS England Provides 7,000 Agile Workers With Check Point Secured Mobile Devices
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What Is Disruptive Innovation? - UK Column News
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
- Harvard Business Review (2015): What Is Disruptive Innovation?
- Drift (2020): Netflix vs. Blockbuster
- Middle East Monitor: Countering Iran’s overnight attack costs Israel $1.35bn
- Sky News: Iran attack a ‘major humiliation for Israeli regime’ says Iranian professor
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More Questions Raised From Legacy Media Reporting On Iran - UK Column News
More Questions Raised From Legacy Media Reporting On Iran
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
- IRNA English: Air defense system activated as blast heard in Iran’s Isfahan
- Mehr News Agency: Iran destroys several micro air vehicles over Isfahan
- Reuters: Tehran plays down reported Israeli attacks, signals no retaliation
- The Jerusalem Post: Israel strikes Iran, defense officials confirm
- The Jerusalem Post (2022): Islamic Jihad rockets killed more civilians in Gaza than IDF airstrikes did
- Iran Observer (on X):
“Israeli media shows video of Lebanese Hezbollah missile strike on Mayan Baroukh as an strike on Iran. This is pure face saving”
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Debi Evans Has A Question For Junior Doctors: Are You Being Set Up? - UK Column News
Debi Evans Has A Question For Junior Doctors: Are You Being Set Up?
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
- British Medical Association: Junior doctors in England urge Health Secretary to come forward with new offer as they vote for six more months of industrial action
- The Independent: Junior doctors vote by 98% to continue taking industrial action over pay
- NHS Confederation: Matthew Taylor
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Dr Shola, My Life My Say And Israel - UK Column News
Dr Shola, My Life My Say And Israel
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
- Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (on X):
“Israel’s war expansionism is textbook Nazi war expansionism. Israel is NOT worth getting into World War 3 over.”
- Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (On X):
“Tzipi Hitovely is so disgusting & unhinged in her furtherance of Israel’s war expansionism & genocide. She should be locked up alongside Netanyahu & his govt officials for crimes against humanity. UK should cut ties with Israel […]”
- Husam Zomlot (on X):
“We will return. We will rebuild. We will never surrender our rights”
- Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (on X):
“[…] My reputation precedes me as I bring the requisite skills set of obfuscation, deflection, baiting & gaslighting that are second to none from a decade of grifting to this challenging role”
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Broken Promises And Trust: How Many Avoidable Deaths Are There In The NHS? - UK Column News
Broken Promises And Trust: How Many Avoidable Deaths Are There In The NHS?
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
- UK Column News: 21st March 2022 (1:19:14) MHRA Replies By Producing A Word Salad
- Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman: Broken trust: making patient safety more than just a promise
- Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2023): Rebecca Hilsenrath announced as new Chief Executive of PHSO
- British Medical Association: Junior doctors in England urge Health Secretary to come forward with new offer as they vote for six more months of industrial action
- The Independent: Junior doctors vote by 98% to continue taking industrial action over pay
- NHS Confederation: Matthew Taylor
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Public Cheers For Excess Death Debate In Parliament—ONS Now Changed Statistics Methodology - UKC
Public Cheers For Excess Death Debate In Parliament—ONS Now Changed Statistics Methodology
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
- Parliament Live: House of Commons: Thursday 18 April 2024
- GOV.UK: Changes to OHID's reporting of excess mortality in England
- Office for National Statistics: Estimating excess deaths in the UK, methodology changes: February 2024
“Weekly estimates of excess deaths from the new method are consistently lower than those from the current method from 2015 to 2019”
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UK Column News - 19th April 2024
Mike Robinson, Debi Evans and Ben Rubin with today's UK Column News.
If you would like to support our independent journalism, please join the community: https://community.ukcolumn.org/
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-april-2024
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Suitable Constables: The Question Of Police Discipline - UK Column News
Suitable Constables: The Question Of Police Discipline
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024
- GOV.UK: Chief constables given powers to sack unfit officers
“The Home Office has also committed to providing funding to develop an automated and continuous integrity screening system of the police workforce to ensure that officers are continuously vetted throughout their career.”
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