Mike Robinson, Debi Evans and Ben Rubin with today's UK Column News.
Shapps Says We Are In A Pre-War World
00:18 Chatham House: Are we heading for World War Three—and is Britain’s military ready?
UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps’s speech on 15 January described a shift from ‘a post-war to a pre-war world’.
Sky News: Budget's lack of new defence spending dismays insiders and Tory MPs
GOV.UK: UK to supply more than 10,000 drones to Ukraine
Royal United Services Institute: Trump-Proofing NATO: 2% Won't Cut It
EPP (YouTube): Ursula von der Leyen at the EPP Congress 2024 in Bucharest
NATO: Sweden officially joins NATO 07 March 2024
Ministry of Defence (on X):
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps is deeply proud to welcome Sweden into NATO.
Drones: UK Wants To Race To The Top
08:07 Air & Space Commander, UK (on X):
CAS has just announced at #ASPC19 the reformation of 23 Sqn as the RAF’s first Space Squadron, and 216 Sqn as an experimental squadron taking forward our “swarming drones” capability.
Breaking Defense: UK drone test squadron fails to register a single test since forming in 2020: Procurement minister
GOV.UK: Advancing airborne autonomy: Commercial drones saving money and saving lives in the UK (PDF)
Drones could contribute up to £45 billion to the UK economy. More than 900,000 drones could operate in the UK’s skies
Altitude Angel (2022): UK consortium reveal blueprint to build 165 mile drone ‘Superhighway’
BT Group: Race to the top: Assessing and accelerating drone readiness in the UK, the G7 and other leading nations (PDF)
Free Sound Effects (YouTube): Drone Flying Sound Effect
Altitude Angel (YouTube): Altitude Angel Skyway Explained—Video
Communism Was “Soviet Power Plus Electrification” (Lenin); The New Al Economy Is Electric Power Plus Connectivity
15:53GSMA (YouTube): We are the GSMA
McKinsey & Company: Economic potential of generative AI
European Health and Digital Executive Agency: Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024—European Commission
RCR Wireless News: Five operators officially launch global telco AI alliance
Telecom Review: e&, Leading Telecom Giants Form Global Telco AI Alliance at MWC24
Reuters: Deutsche Telekom to build global COVID vaccine verification app for WHO
CNBC: Singapore’s AI ambitions get a boost with $740 million investment plan
In order for Al to really deliver on its potential, you need really good public and private partnerships.
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Brian Gerrish (YouTube): Youtube Première: Walking the Dog Episode 2—11 am, Sunday 10 March
UK Column: Climate Science Masterclass Ticket
People's Food & Farming Alliance webinar: Your Farmers Need You!—7 pm on Wednesday 6 March
Solidarity Rally: No Farmers, No Food—Truro, 12:30 pm on Saturday 16 March
Glastonbury event: An Evening With Richard Vobes, Sandi Adams and Clive de Carle—7–10 pm, Saturday 30 March—tickets (£15/£10) via Rosanne.EventsSomerset@gmail.com or from Fairyland Aromatics, 48 High Street, Glastonbury BA6 9DX
UK Column content: Debi Evans Blog: 5 March 2024
UK Column interview: Guerrilla Warfare for Truth in the Bronx: Jose Vega
UK Column article: Dying of Thirst
UK Column nterview: No Smoke Without Fire 6: The Green King (Part 1)
Polish Farmers Burn EU Flags In Protest
30:08 Farmers Protest (Telegram): Polish farmers were burning EU flags in protest of the climate agenda
Digital NHS—Should You Delete The App?
33:10NHS England (YouTube): NHS England Board Meeting, 1st February 2024
GOV.UK: MHRA annual report and accounts, 2022 to 2023
The Telegraph: Britain’s outdated pandemic labs need urgent investment, spending watchdog warns
National Audit Office (NAO): Investigation into the UKHSA’s health security campus programme
Data-Gathering And Climate Controls
44:10 The World Economic Forum: Data for the City of Tomorrow: Developing the Capabilities and Capacity to Guide Better Urban Futures
The Business Of Cities: Urban intelligence for global business. Business tools for the world's cities
Connected Places Catapult: Climate Action Archives
3ci: Homepage
Connected Places Catapult: Lucy Yu
Labour Together Presents RESTITCH
52:57 Restitch: The Social Fabric Summit—Coventry, 7-8th March, 2024
Who we are
Onward is a future-facing thinktank, launched in 2018. The mission: to build a powerful ideas factory centre-right thinkers and leaders.
And Finally—Britain’s Representative Woman: CSW68 Delegate Pips Bunce
59:54 UN Women UK: Commission on the Status of Women