Mike Robinson, Vanessa Beeley and Charles Malet with today's UK Column News.
Trump 2.0: America First, Again?
00:00 Financial Times: Donald Trump elected US president in historic comeback
Axios: “Greatest political movement”: Trump addresses supporters on Election Night
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (YouTube): J.D. Vance on a Foreign Policy for the Middle Class
Nigel Farage (on X): I will join Tucker Carlson from Mar-a-Lago very soon
Council on Foreign Relations: Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Positions
The Quiet Hand of Democracy: Unpacking the NED’s Global Reach
06:47 South China Morning Post: Trump and Harris both like ‘poison’ for Beijing, says former top US envoy to Hong Kong
The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC World): Israel (ISR) and China (CHN) Trade
National Endowment for Democracy: About the National Endowment for Democracy
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China: The National Endowment for Democracy: What It Is and What It Does
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) acts as the US government’s “white gloves.” It has long engaged in subverting state power in other countries, meddling in other countries’ internal affairs, inciting division and confrontation […]
Declassified UK: “CIA sidekick” gives £2.6 million to UK media groups
Vanessa Beeley Reports: Israel’s Escalating Airstrikes Devastate Lebanese Towns
13:28 Washington Post: Israel has damaged or destroyed nearly a quarter of buildings in Lebanon’s south
Financial Times: The demolitions clearing Israel’s ‘first belt’ in Lebanon (Archived)
CBC News: Israeli strikes threaten a Hezbollah stronghold and its nearly 3,000-year-old Roman ruins
Times of Israel: Lebanese media reports Israeli strikes in Baalbek, hours after Hezbollah drone attack
UNESCO: 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
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UK Column event replay: UK Column On Location — Stream
UK Column interview: Rachel Speaking Out for New Zealand
Doc Malik—Honest Health (Substack): Special US Election livestream on Wednesday 6th November, 5 pm UK time
Welsh Parliament: Ensure diagnosis and treatment for people suffering from adverse Covid–19 vaccine side effects
Free People (German): Freedom for Alexander Bittner
Climate of Fear: Government Examines Impact of Alarmism on Mental Health
28:13 BBC: Accusations fly in Spain over who is to blame for flood disaster
Wikipedia: 1962 Vallés floods
Wikipedia: 1957 Valencia flood
Flavius FX (on X): Flavius FX’s post
Valencia: The floods in 1340, 1376, 1517, 1589 etc. and 1957 were natural but the flood in 2024 was caused by climate change
European Union: European Commission: Water Framework Directive
Wetlands International: Successes of EU Water Framework Directive implementation
InSpain News: Ancient Roman dam in Almonacid saves village from DANA’s devastation
GOV.UK: Mental health and climate change in the UK: call for evidence
UK Column article: Ethical psychotherapy versus the unethical applied psychology of SPI–B and the UK Government (2021)
Counter-Terrorism or Suppression? Calls to End Powers Targeting Pro-Palestine Activists
33:40 Canada Talks Israel/Palestine: Why is the Israel lobby so determined to prevent Canadians (and especially Canadian politicians) from meeting Francesca Albanese?
Al Jazeera English (YouTube): ‘You are the real terrorists’: Belgian MP confronts Israeli ambassador
DawnNews English (YouTube): What is the difference between what Israel is doing and the Nazi gas chambers? Ione Belarra asks
Clare Rogers (on X): Subversivite’s post
I've been quiet on here because my life has been turned upside down. My daughter Zoe is in prison. She's being treated like a terrorist for taking action against an Israeli arms firm
Change: Stop the use of counter-terrorism powers against pro-Palestine activists (Petition)
Anti-Genocide Speech Labelled ‘Terrorism’: Professor Haim Bresheeth Arrested by Counter-Terror Police
42:11 House of Lords Library: Threat posed by Hezbollah
BBC (2019): Hezbollah to be added to UK list of terrorist organisations
Good To Go Travel Insurance: Additional Terrorism Travel Insurance Cover
GOV.UK: Foreign travel insurance
Post Office UK: Trip disruption cover—Travel insurance
(including Covid–19, terrorism, natural catastrophes and airspace disruption)
The Guardian: Incendiary device plot targeting UK may have been dry run for US and Canada
Metropolitan police counter-terror officers declined to comment.
Counter Terrorism Policing (on X): TerrorismPolice’s post
Think you have what it takes to protect the UK? Counter Terrorism Policing is more than meets the eye, and you won’t always need a background in security to join! Interested?
GOV.UK: Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Overarching factsheet
The Skwawkbox: Exclusive: Prof Haim Bresheeth’s anti-genocide speech before he was arrested for ‘terrorism’
UK Column News Special: Taking the Fight to the Censors
Public Money, Private Surveillance: Oxford Nanopore’s New DNA ‘Surveillance System’
53:19 Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Oxford Nanopore announces landmark UK Government partnership to advance genomics-driven healthcare innovation in the UK
GOV.UK: UK to create world-first 'early warning system' for pandemics
The National: DNA test 'surveillance system' to spot future pandemic bugs
UK Parliament (2022): £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power”
UK Parliament (2021): “Unimaginable” cost of Test & Trace failed to deliver central promise of averting another lockdown
Hands Off Our Farms: Stop the Land Grab, Show Support to Revoke the Family Farm Tax Policy
56:08 GOV.UK: What are the changes to agricultural property relief?
Savills: Market in Minutes: GB Farmland—Summer 2024
NFUonline: NFU leads calls for family farm tax to be reversed
NFUonline: Public backs NFU campaign to overturn family farm tax
The family farm tax must be overturned. Show your support and call for the government to overturn the family farm tax. Add your name
Politico: Greta Thunberg joins rally against Georgia's government