Mike Robinson, Alex Thomson and Ben Rubin with today's UK Column News.
Operation Early Dawn Activated: Clearing out the prisons to make room for the dissidents
00:00 Police Professional: Operation Early Dawn activated to manage prison capacity in wake of riots
GOV.UK: Process activated to manage prisoner movements
Washington Post: Britain takes emergency action to prevent prisons in northern England from becoming overcrowded
GOV.UK: Criminal Justice Bill 2023
GOV.UK: Prison reforms will cut reoffending and put worst offenders behind bars for longer
Metropolitan Police Commissioner will ‘come after you’ as far as the USA
06:04 The Telegraph: Schools to wage war on ‘putrid’ fake news in anti-extremism crackdown (Archived)
New York Post: UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts: ‘We’ll come after you’
Cost Of 77th Brigade Doubles
10:10 BBC: UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet
The Telegraph: 12-year-old at riots 'more involved' than anyone, judge says
BBC: Girl, 13, pleads guilty to violent disorder in Aldershot unrest
CNBC: Britain considers tougher internet safety laws after riots, Musk comments—what you need to know
The Conversation: What is the Online Safety Act and why have riots reopened debates about it?
Ofcom: Open letter to UK online service providers
Under Ofcom’s regulations that pre-date the Online Safety Act, UK-based video-sharing platforms must protect their users from videos likely to incite violence or hatred
UK Defence Journal: Costs of British Army 77th Brigade nearly double[s]
The British Army: 77th Brigade Groups
Ministry of Defence (on X): Ministry of Defence’s post
Russia is restricting access to information to limit criticism of its destructive invasion of Ukraine.
Communications channels are being pulled away as the Kremlin tightens its grip on free expression.
Misogyny Is Terrorism, Protest Is Terrorism: Crackdown On Dissent Began Decades Ago With State Feminism
17:13 The Guardian: Yvette Cooper vows to crack down on promotion of ‘hateful beliefs’
Rusty's Skewed News Views: Misogyny now a Terrorist Offence
John Waters Unchained (Substack): How the War Against Humanity Kicked Off
PeterSweden (on X): Peter Sweden’s post
The Socialist government in Britain is planning to treat "extreme misogyny" as terrorism.
This will be misused to jail anyone that opposes feminism.
Britain is going full Soviet.
Ian Miles Cheong (on X): Ian Miles Cheong’s post
One of my British followers, Wayne O'Rourke, who runs the WayneGB88 account was just sentenced to prison. Three years. For memes.
The judge decided that his humorous, snarky posts had stirred up racial hatred. The one post that got him was him urging people to protest in Southport. Apparently telling people to protest is illegal in the UK, if a judge decides it.
Sick Of It (on X): Sick Of It’s tweets with replies
Amnesty International UK Country Coordinator Has Not Repudiated Attending Exhortation To Throat-Slitting
25:17 Daily Express: Amnesty UK breaks silence after activist clapped Labour councillor's 'cut throats' threat (Archived)
Amnesty International: Country Coordinator
Stand Up to Racism: 12,000 march in London, 3,000 in Glasgow and 600 in Cardiff to Resist Racism and build opposition to the government’s ‘Illegal Migration Bill’
RiseUK (Substack): Letter to Sacha Deshmukh, CEO of Amnesty UK by Ben Rubin
Amnesty International UK: We'd love to hear from you
The Guardian: Anti-racism activist in London reports break-in attempt after far-right threats
MedicalNewsToday: What is DARVO? Definition, effects on mental health, and more
UK Column article: Smart Power & The Human Rights Industrial Complex
The Guardian: We keep hearing about ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration. The truth is, there are none
London's Global University: Dr Maya Goodfellow—Sarah Parker Remond Centre, Visiting Research Fellow
Daily Mail: Rochdale grooming gang: The girl kept in a cage and made to act like a dog, a 15-year-old raped and killed with heroin injection from an abuser and an aborted foetus kept in a freezer by police
BBC: 'Sombre' inquest opens for girls killed in Southport attack
UK Column On Location: Bristol—October 2024 (Early Bird Tickets Available)
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Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community
UK Column Shop: Agenda 21—Your Life In Their Hands by Martin Edwards
UK Column shop: UK Column Really Live: Saturday, 19th October 2024 (Bristol)
Forthcoming UK Column interview: Real analysts should aim to change the paradigm: Calistrat Marvin Atudorei—Tuesday 20th August 13:00
UK Column interview: Laughter in an ugly world with Alistair Williams
Hope Sussex Community: HOPE Freedom Music Festival 2024
Eventbrite: Heritage Party Conference 2024
FCDO Mark Smith Resigns: "This Department may be complicit in war crimes"
37:00 GOV.UK: News story: It’s never too late for peace in the Middle East—we must break the cycle of violence: article by David Lammy and Stéphane Séjourné
BBC: British Foreign Office diplomat Mark Smith resigns over Israel arms sales
Hind Hassan (on X): Full resignation letter from FCDO British diplomat Mark Smith
I can no longer carry out my duties in the knowledge that this Department may be complicit in war crimes
Die Welt (German): “Then grey ships of war materiel will be coming instead”
German Police May Be Authorised To Search Homes Secretly—Britain Is Quietly Ahead Of Them, As Usual
42:33 RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (German): [Federal Interior Minister Nancy] Faeser wants to allow the Federal Criminal Police Office secret slumps in housing
Der Spiegel (German): BKA [Federal Criminal Police] should be allowed to secretly enter and search apartments in the future
Independent Sentinel: German Police May Soon Enter & Search Homes Secretly
Radar (on X): Radar’s post
ELON MUSK vs European Union
GOP House Judiciary rebukes European Commissioner in letter for threatening Elon Musk over Trump interview.
Financial Times (via Disclose): Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk
Geoff Mulgan Seemingly Runs Most Of Britain, Though Without Actual Ideas
48:52 University College London: Geoff Mulgan Profile
Institute for Government: MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy (PDF)
Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Network: A critical analysis of 'nudge' tactics in health policy (PDF)
Wikipedia: Marxism Today
The Institutional Architecture Lab: About us
Internet Archive: Scenarios For The Future Of Technology And International Development by The Rockefeller Foundation (Read Page 18)
European Commission: EU 'whole-of-government' approach
International Public Policy Observatory: About IPPO
Sortition: Brief Citizen Panels And Get The Desired Outcome
55:42 GOV.UK: Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group
LinkedIn: Malcolm Oswald
Citizens Juries: Malcolm Oswald is Director of Citizens’ Juries c.i.c., a social enterprise based in Manchester that was established in 2016 with a mission to involve the public in public policy by designing and running mini-publics in the UK
Abortion Clinic Silent Prayer Arrest Compensated
57:16 The Telegraph: Woman [Isabel Vaughan-Spruce] arrested for silent prayer outside abortion clinic wins £13k payout (Archived)
UK Column podcast: Charles Malet Podcast (2023): Birmingham's No-Prayer Law—the law that has to ask you if you're breaking it
Chronicling America: A Cincinnati Enquirer poem covered by Cayton's Weekly (Seattle), March 22, 1919