Mike Robinson, Mark Anderson and Debi Evans with today's UK Column News.
Israel-Lebanon Conflict: IDF Reports Hezbollah Losses, Israel Issues AP Video “Kill Notice”
00:21 The Times of Israel: IDF: Some 100 Hezbollah operatives killed in south Lebanon operation in past day
The Cradle (on X): The Cradle’s post
The Associated Press has withdrawn a video of Israeli forces taken on 30 September, after it was ordered to by the military.
The video appears to show Israeli troop positions near the border with Lebanon in preparation for a ground invasion.
The America Times: Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question
TASS: Scholz calls for conference that both Ukraine and Russia will attend
The Spectator: Britain's half-hearted support for Israel helps no one
The Telegraph: UK Armed Forces ‘not up to defending Israel from missile attacks’
Royal Navy: HMS Diamond (D34)
Financial Times: Ben Wallace to join defence-focused investment firm
Autumn Budget 2024: Higher Taxes, Steeper Bills and the Price Net Zero CO2 Pipedream
08:33 This is Money: Autumn Budget 2024: When it is and what experts predict will happen—from tax rises to pensions
Financial Times: Keir Starmer warns autumn Budget is going to be 'painful'
BBC: People told to read meter as energy bills rise
End Fuel Poverty Coalition: Cold damp homes cost to NHS estimated as energy price cap rises
GOV.UK (2021): Plan to drive down the cost of clean heat
Future Homes Hub: Future Homes Hub Delivery Plan and Roadmap
Energy Saving Trust (2021 event): Retrofitting the UK's housing stock to reach net zero
Chica-Go-Global: Mexico Emerges as New China Hub
12:02 Coalition For A Prosperous America: Mexico Is Growing as New China Hub; 2024 Exports Already Breaking Records
Deal Town: Five features that define Chicago’s role in global trade
Historicophiles (French translated): What is a global city?
Chicago Council on Global Affairs: Five features that define Chicago's role in global trade
Chicago Council on Global Affairs: ChicagoGlobal
UK Column Event: Bristol—Last Tickets Available
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UK Column article: Attacks on Academic Freedom, The Times of London, and MI6
UK Column interview: Insight: Avoiding Social Care by Extending Our ‘Healthspan’—David Siegel
UK Column Shop: Agenda 21—Your Life In Their Hands by Martin Edwards
UK Column event: UK Column On Location - Saturday, 19th October 2024 (Bristol)
Brian Gerrish (YouTube): Walking The Dog: Episode 6—Poppy's Paw Prints And A Summer Stroll With Charles Malet—premieres YouTube 11.00 am, 6 October 2024
UK Column interview: Governments make everything worse—with Wanjiru Njoya
Event: Capitalism vs Climate Change Debate—Friday 4th October 6.30 pm, The Bateman Lecture Theatre, The Business School, Exeter
Stand For Peace: Upcoming Rallies For Peace
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Switzerland’s First 'Suicide Pod' Death as UK Moves Toward Assisted Dying Legislation
22:57 BBC (2021): Maker of suicide pod plans to launch in Switzerland
GOV.UK: Cabinet Secretary Letter to UK Government Ministers—A letter from the Cabinet Secretary to all Government Ministers on the Private Member’s Bill to enable assisted dying
Office for Budget Responsibility: Fiscal risks and sustainability—September 2024
Discovery Institute: Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die
Climate Alarmism Fuels Rising Child Mental Health Crisis
26:31 NHS Digital: Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2023—Wave 4 follow-up to the 2017 survey
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC Health): Antidepressants, antipsychotics and stimulants up: Why are children taking more mental health medications?
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE YouTube): Dr June Raine, chief executive of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, on NICE at 25
Nuffield Trust (YouTube): Summit 2024 session: Future patterns of disease and health care
Censorship Rising: UK Regulator Preparing for 'Strong Action' Against Free Speech
32:15 UK Column back-up channels: www.ukcolumnextracts.co.uk
NewsGuard: Transparent tools to counter misinformation for readers, brands, and democracies
UK Column symposium: The Midazolam Murders: Exposing State-sanctioned Involuntary Euthanasia
Financial Times: UK regulator preparing for 'strong action' against tech giants (Archive)
Victory: Virginia Teacher Fired Over Pronoun Stance Wins Legal Battle
37:24 Alliance Defending Freedom: VA school board to pay $575K, change policies to end ADF lawsuit on behalf of wrongly fired teacher
Alliance Defending Freedom (2023): Virginia's new education policies protect children, parental rights
Global Policy: EPC Ratings, Heat Pumps, and the Billionaire-Backed Race for Green Homes
43:15 Ideal Home: EPC ratings explained—what is an Energy Performance Certificate? The jargon-free guide
GOV.UK: Selling a home: Energy Performance Certificates
You can be fined if you do not get an EPC when you need one.
The House of Commons Library: Housing and net zero
Money Saving Expert: Heat pumps explained
Financial Times (2021): Bezos fund commits $500m to join Ikea and Rockefeller in renewable energy push (Archived)
CNBC (2022): Microsoft and Jeff Bezos are backing this start-up that aims to retrofit millions of old buildings with ‘green’ energy
BlocPower (2021): BlocPower Advancing Building Data with $5.5 million Grant From Bezos Earth Fund
BlocPower (YouTube 2021): Heat Pumps! Heat Pumps! Heat Pumps!
UK Column News (Archive): UK Column News—30th August 2024
Lab Leak: From Conspiracy Theory to More Covid Lies in Boris Johnson’s Latest U-Turn
54:36 Laura Kuenssberg (on X): Laura’s post
While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team.
Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson is convinced that Covid WAS made in a Chinese lab: In his explosive memoir, former PM rejects theory it started in Wuhan market and says it's likely the virus WAS result of a 'botched experiment
The Spectator: 15 top takes from Boris Johnson's memoir
The Independent: Boris Johnson claims Covid originated in lab, in sudden U-turn in his views
The Telegraph (2023): No one believed the Covid Wuhan lab leak theory – then the world changed its tune
BBC: Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is so disputed
Sky (2020): Coronavirus: Former MI6 boss says theory Covid–19 came from Wuhan lab must not be dismissed as conspiracy
The Guardian (2016): MI6 stood by bogus intelligence until after Iraq invasion
One Decision: Former MI6 Head's Insights from Ukraine Visit
UKCVFamily (on X): UK CV Family’s Covid Vaccine Injured & Bereaved video
Justice for the Vaccine Injured (on X): Stephen Bowie—I'll Be Okay (Music video)
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The Truthseeker: The UK’s “Chicken Licence” Rebellion—the GOOD way to deal with BAD laws
Goodreads: The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years by Paul Landis
GOV.UK: Introducing the AI Safety Institute
AISI: About the AI Safety Institute
GOV.UK: Tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth to lead UK’s AI Foundation Model Taskforce
Redwood Research: AI safety research grounded in futurism
Redwood Research: CEO Buck Shlegeris