UK Column News - 24th February 2025

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with today's UK Column News.

 

Brexit Without Exit: Germany's Chancellor and the EU Military Unification – Is the UK Next?

00:30 BBC: New German leader signals seismic shift in transatlantic relations

My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA

UK Column search: Keyword: EU Military Unification

Good Morning Britain (YouTube): Is It Time to Make National Service Mandatory? (With Former Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood)

Daily Mail (2016): Army fitness tests to be re-written to make sure female soldiers can qualify for front line duty

Forces News (2016): MoD Announces £140 Million Land Sell-Off

Goodreads: The European Union Collective: Enemy of Its Member States by Christopher Story

 

Institutions Eroding from Within: The Country on the Brink of Collapse

11:06 Birmingham Live: Broke Birmingham City Council strikes new £180m 'credit deal' to plug finance black hole

Demos: Only We Can Save the State: Lessons for national government from public service reform in Barking and Dagenham

 

Stasi Starmer and His Thought Police Arresting Grannies – A Cabinet Full of Wrong’uns

15:17 Daily Mail: Labour minister is SACKED after vile jibe saying he hopes pensioners who don't vote for the party 'die before the next election' - as we expose his racist and sexist messages

Daily Mail: Knock knock, it's the Thought Police: As thousands of criminals go uninvestigated, detectives call on a grandmother. Her crime? She went on Facebook to criticise Labour councillors at the centre of the 'Hope you Die' WhatsApp scandal exposed by the MoS

GOV.UK: PM statement in Denmark: 9 April 2018

[…] the shared threat Russia poses to our security on a range of fronts. This increasingly hostile behaviour has involved a sustained campaign of cyber espionage, and disruption […]

 

Diane Reports on the Common Knowledge Event: The Scottish People's Covid-19 Inquiry

19:44 Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry: Watch the Inquiry's hearings

GOV.UK: High consequence infectious diseases (HCID)

Biologyphenom (Substack): Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry - Closing statements 27-28 Jun 2024

National Museums Scotland: Injecting Hope: The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Scottish Sun (2020): Coronavirus Scotland: Jason Leitch admits Covid-19 test is ‘a bit rubbish’ as it gives positive result to non-infectious

GOV.UK (2011): UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy 2011 (PDF)

 

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PCPW (Event): Public Child Protection Wales Conference 2025 - 22nd February 2025, Cwmbran

Billetto (Event): Supporting Farmers for Food Security (16th March 09:15 - Shurdington Community Centre, GL51 4TB)

Eventbrite (Event): Free Speech: No Ifs, No Buts (27th Feb 2025 7pm - Liberty House, Newcastle NE1 1TT)

 

David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ Plan: How’s That Working Out?

38:38 BBC (2010): David Cameron launches Tories' 'big society' plan

The Telegraph (YouTube, 2011): What is the Big Society? David Cameron outlines his idea

The Independent (2014): David Cameron's constituency office calls police on food bank campaigners Bishop of Oxford and Reverend Keith Hebden

The Independent (2013): Tories ‘deleted 10 years of speeches and press releases from party website’

The Centre for Policy Studies: The great and good? The rise of the new class

UK Column search: Keyword: Behavioural Change

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UK Parliament (2022): Behaviour change for climate and environmental goals (PDF)

 

Who Are the People Behind This Destruction? The Organisations and Individuals Involved

47:46 Project Dandelion: A Women-led Global Campaign For Climate Justice

Every Issue Is A Climate Issue

Group of Thirty: Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affairs, Inc.

The Elders: Member of The Elders: Ernesto Zedillo

The Generation Equality Forum: Generation Equality is the world’s leading initiative to accelerate investment and implementation on gender equality

Omega Institute: Women Thriving Beyond Transitions

Connected Women Leaders: CWL at UNGA: Seeding a Movement

 

The Same Tactics at Play: PCR Tests Paving the Way for the Dangerous mRNA

57:42 Sky: Scientists find new virus that could infect humans in same way as COVID-19

Cell Press: Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor

Daily Mail: Yale scientists link Covid vaccines to alarming new syndrome causing 'distinct biological changes' to body

National Covid Memorial Wall: Created in 2021, the National Covid Memorial Wall in London is a visual representation of the UK's catastrophic loss to Covid-19

Sky (2021): COVID-19: Bereaved families paint mural of almost 150,000 red hearts to represent victims

GOV.UK: Government announces COVID-19 Day of Reflection 2025

Twinkl: COVID-19 National Day of Reflection (March 9, 2025)

 

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