Charles Malet, Ben Rubin, Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie and Alex Kriel with today's UK Column News.
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Steal Back the Steel: UK Sidelines China to Forge a New Path with British Steel
00:37 British Steel: British Steel Limited
GOV.UK: PM statement on British Steel: 12 April 2025
A secure future. A Britain rebuilt with British steel, in the national interest
UK Parliament (YouTube): Recall of Parliament - British Steel - 12 April 2025
GOV.UK: The steel strategy: the plan for steel (16 February 2025)
UK Steel: Mutual benefit: Steel investment could secure British-made steel for offshore wind boom and shore up national security
In the last five years less than 2% of steel used in UK wind farms was fabricated in the UK, and almost none using UK made steel.
UK Steel: Industrial Electricity prices - A barrier to growth, competitiveness, and profitability
UK Parliament: Parliamentary Bills: Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill
IPPR: Up to 8 million UK jobs at risk from AI unless government acts, finds IPPR
Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work: Digital Wages for Decent Work
Mindsets for the Masses: UN’s Behavioural Science Week
09:47 Purpose: Purpose uses creative storytelling and campaigns to move people to remake the world. Explore our work and impact
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Nature for People, Planet, Prosperity and Peace
UN: Secretary-General's video message on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations University
The Borgen Project: Tea Production in Developing Countries and the SDGs
Rebuilding Minds, Rewiring Communities: From Orwell to Behavioural Science
20:10 Goodreads: George Orwell, 1984
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Behavioural Insights Team: Professor David Halpern CBE
The Royal Society of Medicine (YouTube): RSM In Conversation Live with Dr David Halpern
Goodreads: Cass R. Sunstein
Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods: Baroness Hilary Armstrong Visits Wolverhampton Community Centre
Local Trust: Big Local
BBC: The English neighbourhood that claims to hold the secret to fixing the NHS
Martyr Made: The Anti-Humans
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Event: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival - 18th July 2025 (Angel Inn, Larling at 11am)
Event: Stand In The Light Festival (23rd - 26th May)
Give Send Go: Legal Defense for SLAPP Suits Against Free Speech
Pattern (Substack): Pattern Incubator
Sanctions and the Strange Economics of War
33:57 NDTV: "Horrible Thing, Mistake": Donald Trump On Russia's Strike On Ukraine's Sumy That Killed 34
Euromaidan Press: America’s new Ukraine map looks like Putin drew it himself
IMF DataMapper: Real GDP growth - Annual percent change
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): Down But Not Out: The Russian Economy Under Western Sanctions
World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS): Russian Federation trade statistics
Substack: Thinking Coalition
Reclaiming the Narrative: Funding For Big Tech and Broadcast Giants
41:52 Public Interest News Foundation: Regenerating Local News: What's Next?
Charitable Journalism Project: Policy and evidence to protect and develop public interest journalism
Luminate: We envision a future where everyone has power to shape society
Ren Rubin's chart: Global Publishing, TV and Meta Ad Revenues ($bn)
City St George's, University of London (2020): Coronavirus is killing quality journalism – here’s one possible lifeline
Billions for Better Modelling: UK Doubles Down on Climate Science to Forecast a Cleaner Planet
52:06 GOV.UK: Record £13.9 billion of R&D funding unveiled to boost innovation, jobs and growth
The Department’s investment in R&D to protect our planet also includes £310 million for the Met Office, which while most well-known for providing accurate weather forecasting for the UK also provides the UK’s most advanced climate modelling […]
GOV.UK: Professor Sir Ian Chapman appointed next CEO of UK Research and Innovation with renewed focus on economic growth
The World Economic Forum (WEF): Ottoline Leyser - Agenda Contributor
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - NERC is the driving force of investment in environmental science
Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Dr Shaun Fitzgerald OBE, Centre for Climate Repair
I’ll be so happy if we’ve decarbonised so rapidly that we don’t need to apply this research
Hugh Hunt (LinkedIn): Hugh Hunt’s post about the Napkin Diagram
For climate change, the Napkin Diagram (thanks to John Shepherd 2010) helps us to understand how Emissions Reduction alone is not sufficient*. Carbon Dioxide Removal CDR is also necessary but in the short term we need SRM (Solar Radiation Management) to help keep temperatures down.
Arctic Repair Conference: It's time to talk about climate change solutions (26th - 28th June, Cambridge)
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