UK Column News - 3rd March 2025

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

 

0.49 The Path to ‘Peace’ in Ukraine Starts with Starmer

BBC News: Starmer Is Helping to Shape Talks on Ukraine But the Path to Peace Could Be Long 

Reuters: UK PM Announces $2 Billion Deal to Fund Air-Defence Missiles for Ukraine

The Irish News via MSN: Belfast Factory to Supply Ukraine with 5,000 Missiles in ‘Hugely Significant’ £1.6bn Deal

BBC News: Fraud Probe Launched into Defence Firm Thales

The Guardian: Politics Live with Andrew Sparrow - Peter Mandelson Criticised after Saying Ukraine Should Give‘Unequivocal Backing’ to Trump’s Plan

UK Parliament, International Agreements Committee: Call for Evidence - Ukraine 100 year Partnership Agreement

 

23.59 Corporate State Capture - How Amazon Has Taken over the British Civil Service

Global Government Forum: Public Service Data Live Event, Business Design Centre, Islington, March 2024

LinkedIn: Sarah Munby, Permanent Secretary, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

LinkedIn: Craig Suckling, Former Head of Data and AI Strategy: Worldwide, Amazon Web Services

ComputerWeekly.com: AWS secures £894m in cloud spend across three contracts with UK government on same day

Apolitical: Apolitical Day 2024

LinkedIn: Diego Piacentini, Outgoing Chairman of Apolitical Foundation

LinkedIn: ‘Today is my last day with the UK Government’ - Craig Suckling 

GOV.UK: Government Digital Service

LinkedIn: ‘We launched the new Government Digital Service yesterday’ - Sarah Munby 

LinkedIn: Dr Laura Gilbert CBE, Head of AI for Government at Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford and Tony Blair Institute for Global Change  

The Stark Naked Brief: ‘Is no one going to call this out?

 

9:02 ‘Free Speech, No Ifs, No Buts!’ — But Not in UK Universities

Committee for Academic Freedom: Almut Gadow Settles with Open University over Unfair Dismissal Case 

GB News: Meet the Groups Leading the Free Speech Fight-back against Britain's 'Institutionally Captured' Universities 

Newcastle Politics in Pubs: ‘What a great debate we had on Thursday on the topic of Free Speech: no ifs, no buts!’

Daily Mail: French Course 'May Be Upsetting' University Students Are Told in Trigger Warning on History and Culture Module Because its Content Includes Colonialism, the Climate Crisis, Terrorism and Family Relationships

REF 2029: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion in REF Panels

Independent: What Is a Fatwa and Why Did Iran Issue One Against Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses in 1989?

Adam Curtis: Hypernormalization, Documentary Film

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita, Novel 

Olivier Roy: The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms

 

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35:23 Child Protection — We Must Urgently Save All Children from the State

Lancaster Guardian: Lancaster University Project Wins Award to Expand Support for Separated Mothers and Babies

Giving HOPE Project: Giving HOPE and Minimising Trauma

Lancaster University’s Centre for Child & Family Justice Research: People and Partners

Lancaster University: Professor Karen Broadhurst

Nuffield Family Justice Observatory: Pre-Birth Assessment and Infant Removal at Birth: Experiences and Challenges

BBC News: TikTok Profiting from Sexual Livestreams Involving Children, BBC Told

BBC iPlayer: Dope Girls

 

46:13 Globalists Are Funding and Parliament is Requiring the Indoctrination of English Pupils

Nicola Lund at TCW: Protecting Welsh Children from Extreme Sex Education - Report on Kim Isherwood’s Public Child Protection Wales Conference

United Nations: Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Unesco: Education 2030 | LeadingSDG4

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (UN agency that focuses on reproductive health, maternal health, and population issues): International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education: an Evidence-Informed Approach

Unesco: Being a Young Person: Comprehensive Sexuality Education

World Economic Forum: Comprehensive sexuality education can prevent rapes, unsafe abortions and save lives(Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) 

Jigsaw Education Group: Primary RSHE: Are We Getting It Right? 

UCL Institute of Education: Good Practice Guide for Teaching Relationships and Sex(uality) Education (RSE)

Trans Student Educational Resources: The Gender Unicorn

GOV.UK: Statutory Guidance - Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education

Protect & Teach: Our Response to the New RSE Guidance

Ofsted: Not Yet Good Enough: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in

Schools (2012 Report) 

UK Parliament: Written Evidence Submitted by Ofsted

PSHE Association: The National Body for PSHE Education

Jigsaw PSHE Ltd: British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) Award Winner 2024 for Outstanding Support Service

Jigsaw Education Group: Our Partners

ThinCats: Jigsaw Education Group - Client Story

British Business Bank: ThinCats Closes c.£700m Funding Facility Using the British Business Bank’s ENABLE Guarantee Programme

 

57:11 Fashion and Farming - What Exactly Are British Farmers up against? 

Founders Forum Group

Tech Nation: Climate Growth Programme

LinkedIn: ‘Do you know how it feels like when you have a dream, and it comes true?’ - Arizona Muse