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Stoking More Divisions: Pitting Youth Against Wisdom Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-3rd-may-2024 - My Life My Say: The Squad (Page removed) - Democracy Classroom: My Life My Say - GOV.UK: Charity Commission: mylifemysay - Give An X (on X): On a mission to get every single young person voting - Creative Salon: 'My Life My Say' charity encourages young Londoners to vote - Goals House: The Goals House Advisory Board - Financial Times: A new global gender divide is emerging - Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (on X): Author of This Is Why I Resist, Lawyer, Political & Women's Rights Activist, Founder, Women in Leadership Publication - Fundraising Everywhere: An Interview with Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu

Online Safety Update And Media Literacy Update Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-may-2024 - Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): Online safety and data protection—A joint statement by Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office - Ofcom: Consultation: Ofcom's three-year media literacy strategy - GOV.UK: Speech: Prime Minister's keynote speech at the Society of Editors 25th Anniversary Conference: 30 April 2024 - Financial Times: The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal (Archived)

Nature Recovery, For Sustainable Farming Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-may-2024 - GOV.UK: A high five for everyone driving Nature recovery—but we must not rest on our laurels - UK Column interview: No Smoke Without Fire: The Green King (Part 3) - UK Parliament: Hansard: Sites of Special Scientific Interest (Designation) “There is the risk that farming businesses will become unsustainable, which will impact on the rural economy and food security, while no meaningful benefit to the environment is delivered. Farmers are already selling their businesses.” - GOV.UK: The Nature Recovery Network - GOV.UK: Agricultural land use in England at 1 June 2023 - Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (ADHB): Additional income streams—what natural capital and government schemes are available to you? - BNG is mandatory for all new developments regardless of whether this improvement is seen on or off-site.

Investigatory Powers: What Is The Snooper's Charter All About? Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-may-2024 - Legislation: Investigatory Powers Act 2016 - GOV.UK: Speech: Chief of the Defence Chatham House Security and Defence Conference 2024 keynote speech - The House of Commons Library: Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL] - GOV.UK: Consultation outcome: Consultation on revised notices regimes in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (accessible version) - Internet Society (2022): End-to-end Encryption under the UK's Draft Online Safety Bill - National Crime Agency (2018): National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2018 (PDF) - National Crime Agency: Joint Declaration of the European Police Chiefs - NWG Network: Joint Declaration of the European Police Chiefs April 2024 - Mullvad VPN: Free the internet

Ongoing Cost Concerns For UK Holocaust Memorial (There Is Already One Anyway) Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-may-2024 - GOV.UK: UK Holocaust Memorial moves a step closer - Imperial War Museums: The Holocaust Galleries - Jewish News: MPs issue warning on Holocaust memorial project’s rising costs and security - UK Parliament: Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee—Summary

Israel-Gaza War: Are UK And US Planning To Gain Military Footprints In The Middle East? Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-may-2024 - Independent: UK troops could be sent to Gaza to help deliver aid - Sky News (YouTube): Could British troops be deployed to deliver aid in Gaza? - Middle East Eye: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah, source says

Different Continent, Same Game: Digital Identity Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-may-2024 - Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative: Is it time for an integrated African digital identity? - Kenya News Agency: CS Owalo advocates for an integrated African digital identity - Market Access Map: A.1. What is the AfCFTA? - Communications Authority of Kenya: Kenya Wins Bid to Host 2024 Transform Africa Summit - International Identity Day: The Identity Day (ID Day) Campaign seeks worldwide recognition of 16 September as Identity Day to highlight the importance of having proof of identity - ID4Africa: Founded in 2014, ID4Africa is a Pan-African Movement that assists African nations in building the strategic capacity needed for robust and responsible identity ecosystems - Children’s Health Defense (on X): Bill Gates Pushes Digital ID for Newborns in Kenya “Maisha Namba is a biometric system that will replace birth certificates + track children from birth to 5 years of age ... to ensure children receive vaccines. — Dr. Wahome Ngare” - Business Daily: Gates foundation to advise on Maisha Namba rollout - Thales: Trusted Digital Identity by Thales - GOV.UK (2018): Gemalto awarded the new passport contract

Data Protection Provided By The Government? Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-may-2024 - GOV.UK: The King's Speech 2023 • Criminal Justice Bill • Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill • Renters (Reform) Bill • Automated Vehicles Bill • Data Protection and • Media Bill - Silkie Carlo (on X): “David Davis has today warned that the government’s new bank snooper’s charter would “erode financial privacy like never before in our country” and must be dropped. How much longer will you attempt to defend the indefensible” - Express: Pensioners at risk of snooping by officials under Orwellian new law, warns David Davis - GOV.UK (2023): FAQs on government digital identity consultation response - Financial Times (2022): UK government data breach for millions of children ruled unlawful - UK Parliament: Data Protection and Digital Information Bill - National Institutes of Health (NIH 2018): United Kingdom: transfers of genomic data to third countries

Matt Hancock In The News Again: Thou Shalt Not Kill Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-may-2024 - The Independent: What would Dignitas assisted dying law mean for relatives? - Matt Hancock (on X): “For 50 years we've had a legal choice over who to love, for a decade we've had a legal choice over who we can marry. The time has come for Parliament to vote on changing the law to allow assisted dying, to help prevent terminally ill people from suffering very painful deaths.” - Rustler (on X): “You were responsible for a live trial of this back in Spring 2020, when the UK had 50,000 excess deaths during lockdown. Caused not by ‘Covid’ but by the Covid response and treatment protocols. DNR. NG163. Midazolam #Malfeasance” - Right To Life (2022): Matt Hancock to make documentary on assisted suicide - Care Not Killing: About Care Not Killing - Evening Standard (2021): Matt Hancock calls for more data on end-of-life care and assisted dying - Dying Well: The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well promotes access to excellent care at the end of life and stands against the legalisation of assisted suicide “Matt Hancock has endorsed the idea of setting up a "What Works" centre to gather evidence on the quality of palliative care in the UK and inform debate around assisted dying.” - What Works Wellbeing: Centres: A What Works Centre is a bridge between knowledge and action - GOV.UK: Policy paper: The What Works Network Strategy - UK Gov Publishing Service (2023): What Works Network Strategy: Evaluation Task Force (PDF) - UnHerd (2022): Matt Hancock is wrong about euthanasia - Matt Hancock (on X): “Fantastic to see personalised cancer treatment available on the NHS—using the mRNA vaccine technology that saved so many lives during Covid. I hope one day we will look back and say this moment was a turning point in the battle against cancer.“ - BBC: British man tests first personalised melanoma vaccine - BBC (2020): Assisted dying travel allowed during lockdown, says Hancock

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet and Vanessa Beeley 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-1st-may-2024

World Health Organization To Get Militant: The Big Catch-Up Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-april-2024 - World Health Organization (WHO): Virtual press conference on global health issues transcript - World Health Organization (2023): Global partners announce a new effort—“The Big Catch-up”—to vaccinate millions of children and restore immunization progress lost during the pandemic “We’re launching the ‘big catch-up’ with $290 million from the GAVI board in support of wanting to [achieve] the big catch-up by 2024–2025.” - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: “The transformative power of solidarity”: A look back on the Vaccine Alliance's 2023 - World Health Organization (2023): Nigeria to vaccinate 7.7 million girls against leading cause of cervical cancer - UNICEF: Somalia marks World Immunization Week with a call to accelerate efforts to reach every child with this essential, lifesaving immunizations - World Health Organization (WHO): WHO and France convene high-level meeting to defeat meningitis - World Health Organization (WHO): Joint FAO/WHO/WOAH preliminary assessment of recent influenza A(H5N1) viruses (PDF) - Federal Register: Stakeholder Listening Session in Preparation for the 77th World Health Assembly (Responses deadline extended to 29th April) 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 - World Health Organization (WHO): Provisional agenda of the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly—Report by the Director-General (PDF) - NBC Chicago: McDonald's debuts ‘world's first billboard' that smells like McDonald's fries

Schwabheads: Fact-Checking The Fact-Checkers Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-april-2024 - CI UK Alliance (Rumble): Covid Vaccines—The Devastating Health Crisis in the Channel Islands & Around the World [Webinar] - ThriftBooks: List of books by author Klaus Schwab - Internet Archive (2020): The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab & Thierry Malleret - World Economic Forum (WEF): Global Risks Report 2024 - Weekly Crier: World Economic Forum Founder Klaus Schwab Hospitalized - Weekly Crier: About Us “We are committed to delivering news and entertainment that is factual, balanced, and free from bias, ensuring that you have the tools you need to make well-informed decisions as well as satire, and comedic opinion pieces and editorials.” - AP: The WEF’s chairman is still alive and well, despite claims online - Dr. Simon Goddek (on X): “BREAKING: Klaus Schwab was apparently admitted to the hospital seriously ill. Anyway, that doesn't BUG me.” - World Economic Forum (WEF): Search results for 'eating insects' - AP: As elites arrive in Davos, conspiracy theories thrive online - World Economic Forum (WEF): Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development (28–29 April 2024)

Get With The Times, Tom Ball Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-april-2024 - The Times: Exposed: the ‘illegal school’ teaching children conspiracy theories (Archived) “At the same time the number of home-schooled children has increased rapidly from 60,000 in 2018 to 86,000 in 2023, according to most recent figures published by the government.” - The Times (2023): Hope Sussex school trains next generation of conspiracy theorists (archived) - The Times (2023): Hope Sussex: Children’s crossbow lessons at ‘school for conspiracists’ - The Times: Tom Ball - The Cool Down: In an effort to be more sustainable, elementary schools are serving insects during lunch: 'These issues are important' - The Times (2022): Eating insects—my creepy-crawly breakfast bowl (archived) - UK Column interview: Queer Theory—The Attack on the Minds of Our Children: Kim Isherwood - The Times (2021): UK Column: Covid conspiracy theories run wild on the channel for lockdown sceptics (archived) - The Times: Ben Ellery

Palantir Takes Over Project Maven, The Military AI Programme Too Unethical For Google Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-april-2024 - Chicago Council on Global Affairs: New Cold Wars: A Conversation with David Sanger - The New York Times: David E. Sanger - Chicago Council on Global Affairs (YouTube): New Cold Wars: A Conversation with David Sanger

Ukraine: As Legacy Media Stumbles Over Russian Advances, Social Media Reports The Detail Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-april-2024 - Kyiv Post: ‘Russia Must Withdraw From Ukraine, Plain and Simple’—Ukraine at War Update for April 29 - The Independent: Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin’s troops advance amid North Korea concern at US giving Kyiv long-range missiles - DPA War Defense Politics Asia (YouTube): Videos - Weeb Union (YouTube): Videos - Ministry of Defence (on X): Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine—29 April 2024 - Daily Mail: Putin parades captured British armoured cars seized from Ukraine

Cultural Revolution In Schools? Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-april-2024 - Radio Genoa (on X): “Scottish PM Humza Yousaf, anti-white racist, will resign in a few hours. We are anxiously awaiting official announcement. In meantime we like to remember him while he used scooter.” - Daily Mail: Universities axe hundreds of lecturers—then appoint 'woke' diversity chiefs on £100k salaries despite nearly half of UK vice-chancellors expect university to be in financial deficit - The Telegraph: Academic who criticised teaching ‘white privilege’ in schools no-platformed from conference (Archived) - Don’t Divide Us: Don’t Divide Us Director: Alka Sehgal Cuthbert - Science Direct (Elsevier): Cognitive Psychology: Volume 8, Issue 3, July 1976—Basic objects in natural categories - Taylor & Francis: Using bibliotherapy to spark conversations about antiracism and advocacy with Black children - Scholastic: My Skin, Your Skin by Laura Henry-Allain

Thank You To Our Supporters—We Can’t Do This Without You Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-april-2024 Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column - Please Join Us: Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community - Forthcoming UK Column interview: GUTSY WOMEN: Rosie—Tuesday 30th April at 1 pm - Glastonbury Event: The Lawful Remedy Roadshow: Self-Preservation for a Sovereign Life—Sunday 26th May 2024 - Event: The Alternative View Conference 14: Riding the Wave—The Leonardo Hotel, Milton Keynes—Sunday 26th May 2024 (Promotion code UKC10 for 10% off the total) - UK Column interview: Discussing 'Climate: The Movie' with Tom Nelson - UK Column interview: Nicola Lund: From School Teacher to Activist Journalist - Event: Sounds Beautiful Festival 2024—27–30 June - Event: Stand In The Light Music Festival—24–27 May (Promo code: UKC10) - Watch on UK Column: Playing God

Brian Gerrish, Mark Anderson and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie 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-29th-april-2024

And Finally: Tony Blair Gets A Cult Statue Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-april-2024 - Hello! Magazine (2002): Prince Charles Becomes The Angel Of The Amazon - The Independent (YouTube): New statue of Tony Blair in Kosovo town honours ‘Tonibler’ cult

Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales And Nesta Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-april-2024 - Molly White (YouTube): Is NPR's new CEO "anti-truth"? - The National Pulse: Wikipedia Founder Says Website Is Corrupted By NPR’s Katherine Maher, Who May Have Worked With Intel Agencies - Nesta: UK innovation agency for social good - Nesta: Jimmy Wales

Short-Lived White House Truth Tsar Nina Jankowicz: The Bastion Of Democracy Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-april-2024 - Washington Post: How disinformation fuels violence—and makes our politics worse New books by Barbara McQuade and Sasha Issenberg explore what’s at stake in the struggle against disinformation (by Nina Jankowicz) - Assorted Video Channel (YouTube): Nina Jankowicz—Mary Poppins (Disinformation Song) - Politico: POLITICO 50: Benjamin Wittes - Ofcom: Using research to guide our online safety work

Earth Day: “The World Is Reaching Global Boiling” Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-april-2024 - Earth Day: Earth Day 2024 - World Business Council For Sustainable Development (WBCSD): The Low Carbon Lifestyles Wheel—Futerra x WBCSD

Everyone Wants Us To Know That AI Will Be Used For ‘Pre-Crime’ Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-april-2024 - American Psychological Association (APA): Facial Recognition Technology and Human Raters Can Predict Political Orientation From Images of Expressionless Faces Even When Controlling for Demographics and Self-Presentation “Carefully standardized facial images of 591 participants were taken in the laboratory while controlling for self-presentation, facial expression, head orientation, and image properties.” - GOV.UK: i.AI and NHS England sign Collaboration Charter to support the use of AI in the NHS “AI is potentially —and I don’t say this lightly—a ‘silver bullet’ […] it dangles before us the prospect of increased productivity, vast efficiency savings, and improved services.” - HyperionDev (on X): How can AI truly transform education? “Last week, HyperionDev, represented by our CEO and Founder, Riaz Moola, participated in a landmark EdTech roundtable hosted in London by Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan of the UK government.”

Britain, The Cancer Testing Capital Of The World—With Royal Patronage Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-april-2024 - The Independent: Charities’ website traffic surges following news of Kate’s cancer diagnosis - NHS England (YouTube): NHS England Board Meeting - 28 March 2024 - UK Column interview: The Ethical Doctor—David v. Goliath: Dr Charles Hoffe - Give Send Go: Dr Charles Hoffe Legal Defence Fund - BioMed Central Ltd (Part of Springer Nature): ISRCTN Register: 15279830 Covid–19 vaccines in pregnancy

Vaccine-Injured In The Channel Islands Plead For Help Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-april-2024 - BBC: NHS spring Covid booster jab booking service to open - GOV.UK: Who’s eligible for the 2024 Covid–19 vaccine, or ‘Spring Booster’? “[…] the criteria are similar to the spring 2022 and spring 2023 booster campaigns, but this year the criteria for the immunosuppressed group has lowered to include those 6 months and over.” - GOV.UK (2013): Crown Dependencies: Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man - UK Parliament (2023): The Crown Dependencies (PDF) - Government of Jersey: Vaccine Compensation Scheme (FOI) - Jersey Evening Post (2023): Threat to sue from group seeking vaccine damages “It urges the government to ‘make good’ on previous Health Minister Richard Renouf’s ‘promise’ to develop a vaccine damage scheme—or the group will seek to sue.” - Jersey & Guernsey Event: Vaccine damage discussion for the Channel Islands with Andrew Bridgen MP via Zoom on Friday 26 April—registration link