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
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
Newcastle Politics in Pubs: ‘What a great debate we had on Thursday on the topic of Free Speech: no ifs, no buts!’
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?
Tech Nation: Climate Growth Programme
LinkedIn: ‘Do you know how it feels like when you have a dream, and it comes true?’ - Arizona Muse