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UK Column News Christmas Special 2025 - 19th December 2025 · UK Column Radio

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  Good afternoon, it's Friday the 19th of December 2025, just
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  after 1:00. Welcome to UK Column News.
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  In fact, welcome to this Christmas special of UK Column
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  News, our usual end of the year roundup and a look towards 2026.
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  So we have myself, Mike Robinson, Brian Gerrish, Patrick
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  Henickson in the studio. Welcome both, it's a pleasure.
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  It's a very warm studio today. It is a very warm studio today.
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  It's a pretty. Merry Christmas all.
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  Yes, indeed. And and by video link, well, we
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  have Charles Mallett, we have Diane Rasmussen, we have Sandy
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  Adams, we have Ben Rubin and we have Mark Anderson.
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  So welcome everyone and well, let's see, what are we going to
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  get kicked off with today? Well, I'm going to start.
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  And well, this year for me, I think one of the biggest
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  stories, Patrick and Brian and everybody was the use of the
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  Terrorism Act by the British state to try to intimidate just
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  about anybody that they could. And so to sort of illustrate
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  this, I want to draw your attention to this document that
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  was released yesterday, the day before it's entitled State
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  Threats Legislation in 2024. This is the report of the
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  Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation on the
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  operation of Parts 1 and 2 of the National Security Act 2023
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  and Schedule 3 to the Counter Terrorism and Border Security
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  Act 2019. And it's by Jonathan Hall Casey,
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  who's the independent reviewer of state threats legislation.
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  Now, to be clear about this, he is reviewing the situation with
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  respect to to British legislation in these areas,
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  commenting on it and in some ways highlighting the dangers of
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  it. So let's just run through some
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  of what he says here. You know, despite the the title
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  being 2024, this was just published in the last couple of
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  days. So what he says in the
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  introductions is that this is an independent review in the United
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  Kingdom's legislative response to the malign activities of
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  foreign states below the threshold of armed conflict.
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  So in that sense, he's sort of reiterating the government
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  narrative on this. But what you'll see if if you
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  see any typos in this, by the way, these are in the document,
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  they're not me. So just to be clear about this,
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  it was full of typographical errors and and that is not the
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  best. He goes on to say the United
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  Kingdom has told up against these state threats by granting
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  major new powers to the authorities, updating old spy
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  laws and creating genuinely novel criminal offences such as
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  foreign interference, sabotage, threat, theft of trade secrets
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  and assisting a foreign intelligence service.
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  He says some of the powers and offences extend well beyond well
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  into the zone of political activity, journalism, protest
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  and day-to-day human activity. However useful, they must be
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  tested against misuse and overreach.
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  So let's just have a look and see what he is highlighting
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  here. He said.
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  I've identified the following areas which require particular
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  vigilance as these laws laws are deployed.
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  First of all, the depart the part of stop and detain
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  travellers who are unwittingly caught up in state threat
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  activity at the UK Border. And this is something we've seen
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  quite a lot of this year, in particular the foreign power
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  condition which does not require any contact with a foreign
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  power. So you could be accused of of
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  working with a foreign power having had no contact with that
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  innocent. Interactions with foreign
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  intelligence services, the ability of police to require
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  individuals to leave areas adjacent to prohibited places,
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  including in pre protest cases, and the potential impact of the
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  foreign interference offence on foreign policy work by think
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  tanks and journalists. And he goes on to highlight a
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  particular area of this and that is hostile state activity.
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  And he says it's since hostile activity does not require any
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  knowledge or tasking by a foreign state, the phenomenon of
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  double ignorance could arise. A person may be engaged in
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  hostile activity if they do something which, unknown to
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  them, threatens national security and which is in the
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  interests of another state, also entirely in the dark.
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  So, Charles, I'd like to get your thoughts on this so far,
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  because we're talking about a situation where the legislation
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  is already in place and he's highlighting how it could be
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  used in the future. And he's already talking about
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  the fact that you don't need to have had any contact with any
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  kind of foreign state to effectively be be accused of
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  collaborating with a foreign state, which would be a national
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  security issue and ending up on the receiving end of of
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  terrorism legislation and so on. This is quite an incredible
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  situation. It is, I would say though, from
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  a legislation point of view and the way that the statute has
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  been going in the last few years, this this is actually
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  consistent with that in that there is a marked shift away
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  from the what one might describe as being the the correct
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  criteria that required are required for an offence to be
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  commissioned. And we now have an inversion of
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  that where a lot of people are now able to in effect create the
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  conditions for conviction when there may not have been any
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  intent by a so-called perpetrator.
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  And we've seen that a lot with knife crime, for example, and
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  respect orders, knife crime, you know, violence reduction orders
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  and all those sort of things where you don't actually need to
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  have committed the criminal offence in order to find
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  yourself on the wrong side of the law.
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  The same thing with the public spaces Protection Orders and
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  what we've seen with the so-called buffer zones around
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  abortions. So in that respect, I think it's
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  it is entirely consistent and therefore disturbingly
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  consistent. And the fact that it is able to
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  get this far without being checked by anybody who's
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  apparently sort of reading into this, I think is, you know, puts
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  us in an extraordinary place. And also there isn't a public
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  outcry. People have got more and more
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  used to the state conducting activities of this sort without
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  there really being any particular thought process that
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  goes into it, whether whether or not it's actually appropriate,
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  because of course we're all supposed to be convinced that
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  this is for our safety. Yeah, indeed.
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  Well, look, let's just briefly I'll, I'll get your comments in
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  a second. I just want to run through a
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  couple of examples of what hostile activity might be.
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  And, and one of these I'm particularly interested in your
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  thoughts on Patrick, because if we bring this on screen here,
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  what he said, one example of the first example he gives is a
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  developer of an app whose selling point is end to end
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  encryption, which would make it more difficult for UK security
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  and intelligence agencies to monitor communications.
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  And you know, he is talking about the likes of WhatsApp and
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  Signal here. OK, so, so this is this is
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  pretty, pretty serious stuff. And then he goes on to say, and
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  this is what what I'm really keen to get your thoughts on,
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  Pat, a journalist carrying information that's personally
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  embarrassing to the Prime Minister on the eve of an
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  important trading negotiation affecting UK security interests,
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  that he's highlighting this as as as a potential application of
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  this legislation. That looks like a specific
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  example that he's citing there, but not explicitly naming.
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  It's totally arbitrary. So, so they, they could, if the
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  state determines that if you agree with the position of a
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  foreign state, IE Russia or you're, you're, you've come to
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  that conclusion with Sam and author doing research on the
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  book. And I find out based on factual
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  research that this is the case in Donbass.
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  And if I then publish that and the government deems that to
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  somehow be helping a foreign state because I'm agreeing with
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  some kind of an assessment, they make a totally arbitrary
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  determination that this is somehow aiding and abetting an
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  enemy of the state. Therefore, I am in breach of
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  this new, what's it called, state threat legislation, which
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  is just another extension of the Terrorism Act and another name.
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  Speech control is what it comes down to.
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  So you can't work, you can't research.
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  You can't if you're a historian, you can't go and find out what
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  the real truth is. If you're a journalist, you
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  can't report on the truth because you might fall foul of
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  the state threats legislation. This is 120% Orwellian right to
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  the core. That's that's the best way to
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  describe it. And the chances are if if it
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  becomes very serious, you end up in court with no jury, you're
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  simply in front of the. Absolutely so.
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  So let's just very quickly look at even more draconian aspect of
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  this, access to digital evidence.
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  So he's talking about Schedule 3 here of the terrorist act,
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  Terrorism Act, I think. And access to digital evidence
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  is likely to remain, as with Schedule 7, a major benefit to
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  investigators. Schedule 3 provides powers of
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  extra intrusion into confidential material, meaning
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  confidential journalistic material, legally privileged
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  material, confidential health records, and human tissue DNA.
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  In other words, he says, these parts of intrusion may only be
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  exercised with permission of the investigatory PARSE
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  commissioner, who you may have just seen popping up over his
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  right shoulder there, unless urgency provisions are in play
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  so that there is the possibility of urgency provisions being
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  brought in, in which case they just do it, no matter what the
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  investigatory PARSE commissioner thinks.
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  And then he just made three recommendations in this report.
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  The first one, at least, he recommends that the Secretary of
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  State identifies a date before or a time period within which
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  official statistics on the use of state threat parse should be
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  published. And he recommends that public
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  guidance on peaceful protests should be drawn up for police
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  officers exercising their powers under Section 6 of the National
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  Security Act 2023. And he recommends that section
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  511-A of the Police Reform Act 2002, which presently refers to
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  independent custody visits and the provision of reports to the
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  Policing authority and to the independent reviewer and
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  terrorism cases should be amended to refer to arrest in
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  National Security Act 2023 cases.
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  And those are his only recommendations.
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  Might protests? What kind of protests?
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  Anti war protests in violation of national National Security
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  Act? That's what this is exactly
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  pointing to. And I might ask, what about
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  foreign interference? How about a foreign government
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  or foreign lobby meddling in the British democratic system and
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  parliamentary system to purge one of the main or Her Majesty's
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  Loyal opposition at the time, the Labour Party, of its
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  leadership and half its membership based on an
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  anti-Semitic and a campaign which was exposed as being
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  completely fraudulent? What about that level of foreign
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  interference? Does does that concern the
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  British state at all? I I would think it would.
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  Right. And, and so from the point of
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  view of a look into 2026, I'm, I'm not going to say anything
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  other than I'm going to, I'm going to suggest we're going to
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  see much more use of this type of legislation and that with
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  with an absolutely chilling effect on, on freedom of speech
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  and so on. Charles, let's move to you then.
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  And well, related topic, I suppose, because we're starting
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  with the foreign influence registration scheme.
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  We are under the the banner of the much manipulated banner,
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  let's say of national security. And really what I want to go
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  through is the progression that we've seen across 2025,
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  effectively building the narrative.
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  And I'll and I'll explain where it is that we get to, in fact,
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  just this week. But really to demonstrate how
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  this idea that national security is something that we do
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  something about, not just via legislation, but also via policy
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  and how exactly that manifests. Now, we've just heard reference
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  to the Foreign Influence Registration scheme at the time
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  that was launched back in April by Dan Jarvis.
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  Iran was the bogeyman at that point.
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  But of course, it's easily to manipulate situation and suggest
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  to people that there are foreigners coming here who are
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  up to no good. The National Risk Register came
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  out earlier in the year. Again, get getting people used
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  to the idea that there is an emergency coming and that we
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  have many things that we can consider with regard to that.
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  And emergency is a theme the government have actually been
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  running a campaign on. You may remember the emergency
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  alerts thing that started last year and there's now campaign to
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  get prepared for emergencies. Very much ceding people, ceding
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  the minds, this thing in the minds of people.
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  But there is going to be an emergency that they were going
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  to have national drills to prepare for it and and all of
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  that sort of thing. So we're building a sort of
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  general background to this. And then the government have
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  weighed in with several documents about what they're
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  going to do. What's the strategic response to
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  this? And in fact, what we should
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  really be considering is the strategic response to this is
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  one of communications consideration, of communications
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  bombardment, which takes us to a very specific place.
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  We had the Government Resilience Action Plan.
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  And this again is to divert attention from the way in which
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  infrastructure is so badly managed, the way that the
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  pursuit of Net 0 and so many other things, as well as the
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  enormous increase in AI can be, have attention drawn away from
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  it. And then in the summer we have
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  the twin publications of the Strategic Defence Review and the
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  National Security Strategy. Now this introduced this concept
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  of a whole of society response, and that whole of society
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  response was predicated on an existential threat, specifically
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  from Russia, and that has been the direction of travel ever
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  since. Now in effectively A tacit
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  admission that we do not have the military might, should the
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  situation arise, to enter into a conflict with Russia, we've got
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  EU KS Modern Industrial Strategy just published last month, which
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  effectively gives carte blanche to the governments to engage
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  with corporations and indeed begin to fight effectively on a
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  different plane. So this is the defence dividend
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  playing out. This is power and money going to
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  the corporations rather than to military entities.
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  And I can say that I did actually have a conversation
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  face to face with a senior member of the NATO command
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  structure just this week and he confirmed absolutely that this
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  is the case. Now, running in the background,
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  of course we have the conscription narrative and it
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  was back in March that the government put out a document,
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  one might have thought completely unnecessarily.
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  And yet look where we are in December when just this week we
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  had the Secret Intelligence Service and the Ministry of
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  Defence telling us that, forget all the rest, Russia is the
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  problem. We are absolutely in mortal
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  peril from Russia and that is the message that has been built
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  upon throughout the course of this year with the specific
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  intent of ensuring that we have it firmly fixed in our minds.
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  That or any problem that occurs from hereafter.
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  And I'm really referring to the possibility of of a false flag
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  absolutely can depend on Russia, which puts us into an emergency
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  situation and from there we will get the response.
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  Now I'd just like to note that I've mentioned this on Wednesday
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  that the Russian Embassy in London has put out a message
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  about this. It's very much aware of the what
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  it describes as an anti Russian information campaign in the
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  United Kingdom. I think it's just worth noting
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  here, Obviously I don't have a crystal ball.
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  I can't see what's going to happen.
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  But the Russian Embassy does say the British media persist in
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  stocking anti Russian hysteria. I'd say not just the British
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  media painting a picture of an all-encompassing threat to the
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  UK allegedly emanating from Russia.
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  Russia has no plans, intentions or reasons for entering into an
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  armed confrontation with the UK. And yet even the Dawn Sturgis
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  report of the last couple of weeks has absolutely been
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  manipulated into that same same place.
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  And I think we end we end up with a question, which is if
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  Russia is so dangerous and so intent on doing us harm and we
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  are admitting through all these strategic documents that we are
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  not in a place to defend ourselves with any degree of
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  significance, why is it that Russia hasn't actually made a
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  move? Why is it that we are supposed
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  to believe that Russia is also going to wait until we're ready?
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  And until 2027, let's say, before anything happens, a
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  narrative that is very hard to make sense of.
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  Now, on the sort of human absurdity front, I think my
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  story of the year has to be the enhanced games, which I did
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  report on earlier in the year due to be in Las Vegas.
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  There's basically games that sort of fall into the
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  transhumanist slot where the idea is that people are enhanced
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  in some way, either through drugs or some other intervention
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  into their body. And of course this is, you know,
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  billions of pounds dollars behind it.
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  But so far the there's, I think only one record has actually
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  been broken by somebody who is technically enhanced.
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  But it just, it just struck me as a sort of really illustrative
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  point of where we are with regards to humanity.
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  And then I've just got a couple of points on UK columns.
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  I think it's been a tremendous year for UK column in terms of
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  expansion, particularly our on location events which have been
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  a massive success. And also just three things to
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  pick out would be the Silk and Steel podcast, 1000 words and
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  germ warfare. So a huge amount to look forward
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  to in 2026. And I would say with a certain
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  amount of aspiration, let's say that that I hope that the
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  spectre of digital identity will be something that draws people
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  together in order to push back in a very, very significant way.
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  And I think we can take heart from the debate that happened in
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  House of Commons just a week or so ago.
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  And the public, the groundswell of public response there seems
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  to be that which seems to unite people who are fearful of the,
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  the intrusion in so far as their privacy is concerned, the civil
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  liberties aspect, but also the, the idea of technical
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  incompetence and corporate control.
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  So that's my hope 2026. Thank you, Charles.
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  Brian. Thank you, Mike.
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  Well, it's always interesting how the segments on UK, call
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  them news seem to come together and the preparation is largely
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  done independently. So it's quite curious how this
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  happens. And I say that because, as I
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  often do, I picked up on what is being told to the general
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  public. That often takes me to the BBC,
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  which is still pumping out information, misinformation and
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  disinformation. But this was a very unpleasant
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  sort of Christmas story because it's about Ukrainian soldiers
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  taking their own lives. I'm not going to get into that
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  aspect of this article, but in it was something which I found
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  quite extraordinary because it was talking about 20, sorry,
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  45,000 Ukrainian troops being killed.
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  So the the actual statement was war.
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  Ukraine collectively mourns the loss of more than 45,000
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  soldiers who have died since Russia's full scale invasion in
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  2022. A quieter tragedy unfolds in the
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  shadows. And of course this is an
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  outrageous figure to be telling the British public because the
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  suffering and the scale of the deaths and the mutilation of
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  Ukrainians is truly astonishing. But UK does not want to tell the
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  British public what what is actually happening because this
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  would really bring the truth and the reality and the horrors of
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  the Ukrainian war to the fore. And surely everybody in this
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  country would want this terrible war stopped.
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  But if we just go in a slightly different direction.
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  So this was a report on the national security, sorry, within
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  the National Security Journal. And here we've got a very
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  different headline. Ukraine Wars has claimed nearly
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  1.4 million troop casualties and this was a key statement that
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  the Centre for Strategic and International Studies CSIS.
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  Their report estimates 1.4 million total military
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  casualties in the war. Russia, Russia, Ukraine war with
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  Russian losses nearing 1,000,000 and they're claiming 250,000
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  Russians killed and Ukrainian losses around 400,000 with 60 to
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  100,000 Ukrainians killed. Now, of course, even this
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  report, although the figures are getting somewhere, somewhere
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  near the truth, don't ring true at the battlefield.
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  Because of course, what's happening on the battlefield is
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  a very intense conflict and Russia is the country which is
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  able to use large amounts of heavy weapons and so the
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  casualties. Would seemingly actually be with
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  heavier casualties on the Ukrainian side, but clearly
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  that's not going to come across in UK and international media.
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  Now, what else was commented upon in this article is the
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  following that Russia's territorial gain since early
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  2024 been minimal, advancing at a glacial pace while Russia
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  struggles to sustain this war of attrition.
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  So this is Russia that is outperforming both NATO, the EU
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  and the US combined in terms of weapons and munitions for this
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  war. And Russia is is not fully
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  mobilized, but it's described here in this article as a
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  pathetic effort approaching A snail space or a glacial base
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  and that Russia is struggling. But at the same time, of course,
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  the UK public and indeed the public in Western Europe are
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  being told that we've really got to be very, very fearful because
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  Russia is going to conquer the whole of Europe in in weeks.
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  Well, I've been a little bit cheeky there because of course
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  the statement is that it's coming within a couple of years.
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  But Russia can't fight on the battlefield apparently.
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  But all of the population of Western Europe, I suspect the
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  states as well, Pat, have got to be told that Russia is going to
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  be in their bedrooms in no time at all.
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  And I just emphasize this, that if you go looking into CSIS and
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  you say, well, who is this organization?
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  Surprisingly, this is the sort of people that fund it.
• 21:49
  So we've got everywhere from Bill and Melinda Gates and
• 21:52
  Carnegie down to George Soros and Open Society Foundations.
• 21:57
  So I'm going to suggest that for once, even an organization
• 22:02
  funded by this type of of foundation, Ford Foundation,
• 22:08
  even, can get somewhere close to the truth.
• 22:11
  While the BBC is still blatantly lying to the UK public and
• 22:16
  overseas, Let's just have a a little look at what Reuter had
• 22:22
  to say about the situation with Russia.
• 22:25
  And he's specifically in this little video clip, commenting on
• 22:29
  Trump's efforts to bring peace. Well, I I, I.
• 22:34
  Must say what the president is doing is amazing, is crucial and
• 22:38
  I really want to comment over it because he was the only one who
• 22:40
  could break the deadlock with Putin.
• 22:42
  He did so he got the conversation going from February
• 22:46
  onwards. He was only, I think, 4 weeks in
• 22:48
  office when this all started and he, I know he and his team is
• 22:52
  Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and of course Marco Rubio.
• 22:55
  They are working tirelessly to get this done and I'm trying to
• 22:58
  do everything I can and I know. Also, the Allies here in Europe
• 23:01
  and Canada are doing everything they can to make this into a
• 23:04
  success. But it is.
• 23:06
  You always need 2 to 10 goes. It's also a big test of Putin
• 23:08
  whether he wants to play ball. We'll see, We'll see.
• 23:10
  I hope he will. Do you believe that he's willing
• 23:12
  to? Because so far, the Russian
• 23:13
  position, really. Hasn't changed, especially as
• 23:15
  far as the territories are concerned.
• 23:16
  I think this is exactly the test case and, and, and I think what
• 23:19
  the president is doing is getting Ukraine and the US and
• 23:23
  Europe on, on together in, in NATO for everybody involved,
• 23:27
  everybody trying to get this peace deal done, but also
• 23:30
  testing the Russians. And, and, and I really think
• 23:33
  this is the only way. And I really, I'm thankful for
• 23:35
  him, thankful for the fact that he's doing that.
• 23:37
  Thank you very much. Thank you.
• 23:38
  Thank you. So shocking, shocking duplicity
• 23:43
  there, because of course, what has he been doing with the
• 23:45
  European Union? Everything possible in order to
• 23:48
  destroy Trump's efforts to stop the fighting.
• 23:54
  But of course to camera he's, he's talking as if he's fully on
• 23:57
  board with the peace process. So I, I, I just find this man
• 24:01
  despicable and the and the duplicity as I've said, it's
• 24:05
  utterly incredible. Well, let's lighten the mood a
• 24:08
  little bit because of course some people can see through
• 24:12
  what's happening. Let's have a look at this
• 24:13
  delightful and very Christmassy little clip which stars well,
• 24:18
  let's see. So the BBC doesn't know what's
• 24:40
  going on because the public do, the wider public know exactly
• 24:44
  that this is a rotten war in Ukraine where the Ukrainian
• 24:48
  country, the people are being destroyed in total corruption
• 24:52
  across Western Europe. But maybe we'll show that again
• 24:56
  in extra time. Now, what's my take of 2026?
• 25:00
  Well, it's I cheated. I went and had a little look to
• 25:04
  see what other people were saying.
• 25:06
  And of course it's pretty serious.
• 25:08
  So we've got economic collapse. We've got a 35 trillion debt
• 25:12
  bomb coming. We've got a recession and
• 25:15
  warnings of a recession. Apparently there's a mass exit
• 25:18
  from UK because people simply can't cope with life here.
• 25:23
  We've got World War Three, that's a popular one, of course,
• 25:25
  coming soon in 2026. We've got problems with Taiwan
• 25:30
  and China. China getting very upset at the
• 25:32
  latest arms supplies by the US. We've got independent
• 25:37
  commentators talking that about our need to prepare for war.
• 25:42
  Sorry, that should say March 2026.
• 25:44
  So we haven't got long to get those tins of baked beans and,
• 25:48
  well, great advice here, move your family.
• 25:51
  The question is where do you move them?
• 25:54
  And the UK column team come back on the fact that you're better
• 25:58
  off staying in a country in a society that you know than being
• 26:02
  overseas in a society that you don't know.
• 26:06
  But the overall message was all held to break loose.
• 26:09
  I think I agree with that. But if we look at the reality, I
• 26:13
  think we're definitely going to see this war and rumours of war,
• 26:17
  that it's going to be constant. I do not believe we're going to
• 26:20
  see a nuclear war because that is so unpredictable that not
• 26:24
  even the rules based international order can control
• 26:27
  it. I think we're definitely going
• 26:29
  to see an increase in state misinformation and
• 26:31
  disinformation. We're going to see an increase
• 26:34
  in state fear campaigns. This is very important.
• 26:38
  They want the society fearful, very, very anxious and therefore
• 26:43
  easier to control. This is going to lead to an
• 26:46
  increase in state censorship and dictatorship, which I think Mike
• 26:51
  and Charles Malik have already delved into in today's news.
• 26:55
  But the good news is we're going to see an increase in people
• 26:59
  seeing the reality and this is what we need to work to
• 27:03
  increase. So the message from us at the UK
• 27:06
  column is keep calm and carry on.
• 27:08
  And of course, keep watching the UK column because we are the
• 27:13
  real people telling it as it is and we will be doing our best to
• 27:17
  keep you sane in 2026, as we did through COVID.
• 27:22
  Patrick. Right.
• 27:24
  Thank you very much, Brian. So what I was approaching this a
• 27:28
  little bit different. What was the biggest story of
• 27:31
  2025 and what is the biggest story presently in front of us?
• 27:35
  Little bit of overlap with some of our previous findings here
• 27:38
  and also what to look for in the future.
• 27:40
  It's all cheery and joyful in in the future there, as Brian
• 27:43
  showed us. My, my apologies, I'll get
• 27:47
  through this. This shouldn't be on screen at
• 27:49
  the moment, but we'll we'll bring in your.
• 27:51
  Slide A. Little bit of finger trouble
• 27:53
  going on in the UK columns studio, but it is Christmas
• 27:56
  after all. So that's, that's my approach.
• 27:58
  So the looking at the biggest story of 2025, I, I decided to
• 28:02
  take a look at the, the analytics on this.
• 28:04
  And so there's a few services out there that offer a, a, a
• 28:08
  snapshot into what were the biggest stories and the biggest
• 28:12
  story in terms of the volume of coverage on the planet in 2025
• 28:17
  was Trump and Co dressing down Zelensky in the White House.
• 28:22
  If we remember that story. And so we'll bring up on screen
• 28:25
  here. This is from onclusive.
• 28:27
  And if we go to look at what they're saying in terms of stats
• 28:32
  here, yeah, the February 28th Oval Office confrontation
• 28:36
  between JD Vance, Trump and Zelensky generated 14.3 million
• 28:41
  mentions in a single day. So by far, that was the biggest
• 28:45
  story of 2025, which is take a little review and remind
• 28:50
  ourselves of that whole scene in Oval Office.
• 28:52
  Here it is. I'm talking about the kind of
• 28:57
  diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.
• 29:00
  Yes, But if you, Mr. President, Mr. President, with respect, I
• 29:03
  think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office to
• 29:05
  try to litigate this in front of the American media.
• 29:07
  Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to
• 29:11
  the front lines because you have manpower problems.
• 29:13
  You should be thanking the president for trying to bring an
• 29:16
  end to this. Country I've been to Ukraine
• 29:18
  that you say what problems we have.
• 29:20
  I have been to come once. I have actually, I've actually
• 29:23
  watched and seen the stories and I know what happens is you bring
• 29:27
  people, you bring them on a propaganda tour.
• 29:30
  Mr. President, are do you disagree that you've had
• 29:32
  problems like bringing people into your military and do you
• 29:36
  think that it's. Respectful.
• 29:37
  To come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and
• 29:40
  attack the administration that is trying to prevent the
• 29:43
  destruction of your country. A lot of a lot of questions.
• 29:46
  Let's start from the beginning. Sure, first of all, during the
• 29:49
  war everybody has problems, even you, but you have nice ocean and
• 29:54
  don't. So the body language was quite
• 29:57
  telling, wasn't it? Zelensky was all wrapped up like
• 30:00
  that now. I thought that was going to be a
• 30:01
  great moment. I thought that was going to be
• 30:03
  the end of it because didn't Trump campaign on ending this
• 30:05
  Ukraine war? 24 hours ago.
• 30:07
  I thought this was the moment. This finally is a little longer
• 30:10
  than 24 hours, 24 days, but good enough.
• 30:13
  But where are we now in December?
• 30:15
  We haven't moved at all. the US policy in Ukraine has not
• 30:17
  changed fundamentally on the ground at all.
• 30:20
  However, we're very happy. There's reprochement and the
• 30:23
  Russians and the Americans are talking.
• 30:25
  This is great. We're all very happy about that.
• 30:27
  But in terms of what's happening on the ground in Ukraine, very
• 30:30
  little change at all. So the cans been kicked down the
• 30:33
  road to 2026 for a negotiated settlement.
• 30:36
  So we'll see what happens. Now in terms of the UK, Mike,
• 30:39
  just, you know, drafting off the back of what you brought up
• 30:42
  earlier here, to me, this is one of the most consequential
• 30:45
  stories in this country. And maybe further afield, we'll
• 30:48
  bring this up on screen. This is the prescription of
• 30:51
  Palestine Action, labeling it as a terrorist organization, a
• 30:55
  grassroots direct action organization in the UK.
• 30:59
  This is hugely consequential and a lot of things go with it.
• 31:04
  But at the end of the day, and we'll go just take a look here,
• 31:08
  this is effectively an anti war. This is an anti war protest
• 31:12
  organization, activist organization.
• 31:15
  So to call it terrorism is pretty outrageous and completely
• 31:20
  over the top. But there's a reason why they've
• 31:23
  done that. And that is to basically quell
• 31:26
  any dissent or any criticism against Britain's policy with
• 31:31
  vis A vis Israel and also supplying weapons to Israel,
• 31:35
  which according to the International Criminal Court and
• 31:38
  the International Courts of Justice, the top court in the
• 31:41
  world, that Israel is carrying out a genocide.
• 31:44
  And that means Britain is complicit, they're facilitating
• 31:47
  and enabling and they are party a Co belligerent in an active
• 31:51
  genocide, as is the United States, as is Germany and a few
• 31:55
  other countries there in that esteemed list.
• 31:57
  So to to cover all that up, the best solution would be if you
• 32:01
  were an authoritarian state would be to basically label all
• 32:05
  protesters and dissenters as terrorists.
• 32:08
  It's worked in the past. So here we are.
• 32:11
  It's almost reminds me you guys of the Emergency Powers Act of
• 32:14
  1939, which effectively during during the Second World War,
• 32:19
  which wasn't, wasn't turned the state into an authoritarian
• 32:24
  cohesive unit there. And so is that where we're at
• 32:27
  right now? I mean, we're not at war.
• 32:29
  We're told we're not at war, but yet war Powers acts, an
• 32:33
  emergency powers act seem to be coming in absolutely quite
• 32:35
  rapidly here. So just to show you how
• 32:38
  ridiculous this is, this is one of the arrests.
• 32:42
  So the police are busy arresting pensioners, 90 year old
• 32:45
  Holocaust survivors, blind pensioners and the like.
• 32:49
  And they even went so far as to arrest something else, taking it
• 32:53
  to a whole nother level. Watch this.
• 32:54
  She's not. Coming from Russia, had this
• 32:57
  morning she had better things. To do you know?
• 33:13
  I. They actually did it, you guys.
• 33:18
  We're laughing and we should be laughing in one way, but it's
• 33:21
  tragic. They actually arrested and
• 33:24
  apprehended and jailed A mannequin.
• 33:26
  So, but it is a farce. Now on a on a serious note,
• 33:32
  right now there's 8 hunger strikers, part of which are part
• 33:37
  of the Filton, the Filton 6, original Filton 6.
• 33:41
  Now this isn't getting enough coverage I think in the British
• 33:44
  media and the British media are not also naming them per SE.
• 33:47
  They're just saying the hunger strikers, those who are
• 33:49
  reporting some papers are, others aren't.
• 33:52
  So let me just give you an update, a review on who they are
• 33:56
  and what their status is. And this is the first starting
• 34:00
  on the left hand side, upper left hand side.
• 34:02
  This is Kesar Zohra and she has recently been taken to the
• 34:07
  hospital. She's the first of the hunger
• 34:09
  strikers to be hospitalized there after over a month on
• 34:13
  hunger strike here. And next is AMU Gibb.
• 34:17
  She is currently in the process of a hunger strike as well as
• 34:22
  Tuta Haqsaha. She's also a active hunger
• 34:26
  striker. And this Muhammad Umair Khalid,
• 34:29
  he is also on hunger strike here.
• 34:31
  And this is Louis Chiaremello. He is diabetic, so he is a
• 34:35
  partial hunger striker. He is refusing food on alternate
• 34:39
  days because of his diabetic condition.
• 34:42
  Currently incarcerated here and a Cameron Ahmed, he is also one
• 34:47
  of the main 6. And Heba Moresi, she is also one
• 34:55
  of the hunger strikers there. And if we go to John Sink, John
• 35:00
  Sink, actually Muhammad Umar Khalid earlier there in the
• 35:05
  upper right hand corner and John Sink, they have both ceased to
• 35:09
  take part in the hunger strike after 41 days.
• 35:12
  John Sink and 13 days Muhammad Umar Khalid respectively.
• 35:16
  So they're no longer on hunger strike.
• 35:18
  And the gentleman who is being accused of GBH grievous partly
• 35:23
  harm against the female PC Samuel Korner, 23 years old is
• 35:27
  not on hunger strike. So they they're all between 20
• 35:30
  and 31 years of age and they're the reason they're striking.
• 35:34
  This is the important part. They're being denied due
• 35:36
  process. They they Palestine Action was
• 35:39
  not prescribed as a terrorist organization at the time of
• 35:42
  their arrest in 2024, but they're being held on remand.
• 35:47
  They've been separated so they can't communicate with each
• 35:49
  other. And in, in the case of what
• 35:52
  Jeremy Corbyn brought up to, to Parliament is that they're being
• 35:57
  denied, you know, basic provisions and being singled out
• 36:02
  and being treated badly and even insulted by some of the prison
• 36:05
  guards because of who they are. And so that's a, that's a
• 36:09
  serious violation of their rights.
• 36:11
  And I think it's very brave what they're doing, you know, in
• 36:14
  terms of activism. These people are really putting
• 36:17
  their lives on the line for principles like trial and jury
• 36:21
  trials, for instance, you know, basic things like that.
• 36:24
  Those are all wrapped up in this issue because as you know, as
• 36:28
  we've reported, they're using the Palestine action issue to
• 36:30
  fast track arrests without jury. They did last in the during the
• 36:34
  last round of hearing. So it's a test case for and
• 36:39
  having no juries. So is this is really important
• 36:41
  issue. And so it's terms of the present
• 36:44
  day. So many issues and so many
• 36:46
  things with our basic rights and society are wrapped up into this
• 36:50
  story. This is why it's important.
• 36:52
  Whether you support the Palestinian cause of the Israeli
• 36:56
  cause to me should shouldn't matter.
• 36:58
  What matters is the principles that and the precedents and the,
• 37:03
  the, the rights and the jurisprudence that's being
• 37:05
  tested around this story. So in in terms of the future
• 37:10
  looking ahead, I mean, this is echoing Brian's mood board of
• 37:15
  Doom, which we just watched earlier there.
• 37:18
  Everyone's asking this is Project Syndicate, a very
• 37:20
  staunch globalist publication. Will 2026 bring financial
• 37:25
  crisis? And if it does, it's going to be
• 37:27
  because of this, the dollar is a smoldering heap of worthless
• 37:33
  Fiat refuse quickly becoming because of, well, mainly the
• 37:39
  policies in the United States in terms of weaponizing the dollar.
• 37:42
  It's driving people out of the dollar.
• 37:44
  It's empowering bricks. And it's probably going to
• 37:46
  create cohesive solidarity in South America with the latest
• 37:50
  war on Venezuela. So that's what could happen in
• 37:53
  2026. That's one of the big stories
• 37:56
  that we're looking at. But so much to cover, you guys.
• 37:58
  I mean, we didn't talk about Venezuela in the late breaking
• 38:01
  stuff. Israel, Iran.
• 38:03
  What we witnessed over the summer was was historic and
• 38:06
  unprecedented. I mean, this year has just been
• 38:09
  chock a block. Yeah.
• 38:10
  We can't say, though. Look after your families, look
• 38:12
  after your finances. Stay with cash.
• 38:16
  Do some simple things. OK.
• 38:18
  Well, look, we just want to say thank you very much to everyone
• 38:22
  who has supported the UK column this year in whatever capacity
• 38:26
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• 38:31
  Keep an eye on what's going on on the front page of the UK
• 38:33
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• 38:37
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• 38:40
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• 38:50
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• 38:59
  we've been talking about in a certain sense in this programme.
• 39:02
  But we're going to see much more of next year now.
• 39:05
  Just one programme this evening, the last day of term and all
• 39:09
  that. And that is the Christmas banter
• 39:11
  with Charles, myself and Germ and Charles.
• 39:16
  I love the jumper. That is camouflage, actually.
• 39:20
  Christmas. Oh, it's Christmas camouflage,
• 39:22
  is it? Right?
• 39:22
  OK, OK. No comment from Charles.
• 39:24
  OK. And look, while we're off, I
• 39:26
  want to make sure that everybody knows that 1:00 PM most days
• 39:31
  we're putting out some material, including the presentations from
• 39:36
  the Cheltenham On Location event earlier in the year.
• 39:39
  So Catherine, Gunn, Alex, Rajamir, Brian and Patrick will
• 39:44
  all be all their presentations will be going out over the
• 39:46
  Christmas New Year period. So keep an eye on the front page
• 39:50
  of the website to see what which one of those is the next to come
• 39:53
  up and do watch them if you haven't seen them already.
• 39:57
  Ben, let me welcome you to the program and well tell us what
• 40:01
  your key story from this year has been.
• 40:06
  Thanks, Mike. Isn't it wonderful and festive?
• 40:10
  I'm very jealous of your fire in the background there.
• 40:13
  And I'm wondering if we're going to have a musical interlude at
• 40:16
  some point where Patrick is going to break out into I'm
• 40:19
  Dreaming of a White Christmas or something.
• 40:21
  He's got that kind of feel to it.
• 40:22
  Very, very kind of 1960s. So what am I going to talk
• 40:27
  about? The destruction of the nation
• 40:29
  state system and its replacement with a neo imperial commutarian
• 40:33
  nightmare basically, which we talk about a lot.
• 40:38
  And the fact that the UK, England in particular, is a hub
• 40:42
  for this and this is being run by our own government.
• 40:46
  I spoke earlier on in the year, back in June, about this
• 40:51
  organization. It's called Makespace Oxford and
• 40:55
  they are focused on what they call dark matter, the deeply
• 40:59
  rooted legal, theological, philosophical and ethical codes
• 41:04
  that underpin our society and basically make it what it is.
• 41:08
  And they are attempting to change those, to rewrite them.
• 41:12
  And they have this theory of change, which I showed
• 41:16
  previously, which is about what they call attacking deep rooted
• 41:21
  problems. It's just slightly covered up in
• 41:23
  the top left there our logos got in the way.
• 41:25
  But you can see deep rooted problems and it's the stuff
• 41:28
  beneath the surface. You can see there, there's a,
• 41:31
  there's a, there's a little factory building, which is
• 41:34
  actually a physical location. This isn't just a picture, this
• 41:37
  is a map of something that they've actually, they've,
• 41:40
  they've built, they've commandeered an old industrial
• 41:43
  unit and they've turned it into a space that they're using to
• 41:46
  incubate and propagate this new system out into the world.
• 41:50
  And you can see there underneath what they view as problems are
• 41:53
  things like contract law, values, belief systems, the
• 41:58
  fundamentals of what goes into our society.
• 42:01
  And they want to change them. They want to unlock a new
• 42:05
  reality. They've built this what they
• 42:08
  call a demonstrator hub, where those underlying codes are being
• 42:11
  rewritten. It is a physical location, but
• 42:13
  it's also a dream space. You see they're hovering above
• 42:17
  it where they have imagination infrastructure.
• 42:20
  They're focused on building a new economy based on decolonial
• 42:24
  futures. So this is all kind of neo
• 42:26
  Marxist ideology and they have solidarity networks all around
• 42:33
  the town, around the county. This is being spread out through
• 42:37
  various different hubs and labs and programs with local
• 42:42
  education system and, and, and other parts of the of, of, of
• 42:45
  government around Oxfordshire and it runs right up to the
• 42:49
  county level and actually beyond that to a national level.
• 42:54
  They want Oxfordshire to be an exemplar the, this, the county
• 42:59
  sitting right at the Nexus of, of how this new global system is
• 43:03
  being developed and implemented, not just here, but all around
• 43:07
  the world. And they, they view themselves
• 43:09
  as, as having the right and the responsibility ultimately to, to
• 43:13
  project influence up to a national level and then up to a
• 43:16
  global level. But then importantly, if we can
• 43:18
  just get that back, that that comes back down to them too,
• 43:22
  right? Because this isn't a organic
• 43:25
  uprising of the local people in Oxfordshire wanting to change
• 43:28
  things for the better. This is actually then being
• 43:31
  aligned to a global agenda that's being handed down from
• 43:34
  the UN and the World Economic Forum and places like that right
• 43:37
  now. Who's behind this?
• 43:39
  Again, I'm representing stuff we've shown previously, but it's
• 43:41
  just worth recapping that this is backed by what is
• 43:45
  essentially, and it's just a few examples.
• 43:48
  We've got a city based debt charity, so a lot of finance
• 43:52
  people. You've got the National Lottery
• 43:54
  Fund in there, so this is poor people playing, paying for their
• 43:57
  own replacement basically. It's all the National Lottery is
• 44:00
  up to. It's probably why it was set up
• 44:01
  in the 1st place to be honest. You've got Enterprise
• 44:04
  Oxfordshire which is an inward investment and global expansion
• 44:07
  programme and wants to make Oxford and Oxfordshire one of
• 44:10
  the top three innovation hubs internationally.
• 44:13
  This is all aligned to the World Economic Forum Build Back Better
• 44:17
  agenda. There's a slug of money in there
• 44:19
  from the Getting Building Fund, which was a £900 million
• 44:23
  government fund, part of the COVID legacy from 2020.
• 44:28
  And this is all being controlled and overseen by HM Government
• 44:33
  and actually run almost directly out of the civil service.
• 44:36
  This lady, a shifter Alam was the chair of Makespace Oxford
• 44:40
  while also being deputy director in, in the civil service,
• 44:44
  working in the in bees the, the, the, the Department of Industry.
• 44:51
  And she within that role overseas, the use of £2.5
• 44:55
  billion of international climate investment.
• 44:57
  So huge amount of public money being used to stimulate economic
• 45:02
  activity that is aligned to this agenda in countries around the
• 45:06
  world. And ultimately she's applying
• 45:07
  that same International Development methodology to the
• 45:10
  UK. So the UK has, I mean, for a
• 45:12
  long time now, but we're really beginning to see what this feels
• 45:15
  and looks like been reduced to essentially a colony in the same
• 45:20
  way that the other colonies were back in the days of the empire.
• 45:24
  We've been reduced to that level and there is now this global
• 45:27
  technocratic system completely detached from the nation state
• 45:32
  ultimately that is imposing its will down onto US through
• 45:37
  organisations like this, through the work of, of, of ladies and,
• 45:41
  and, and gentlemen as well. But people like the Shifter
• 45:44
  Alam. Yeah, Interestingly, the day
• 45:46
  that I did the first report, June the 6th, she resigned.
• 45:50
  I don't know if that was a direct consequence of me
• 45:53
  reporting on it, but it was quite a coincidence.
• 45:55
  So, you know, on that basis, that was quite a good thing.
• 45:58
  But my prediction for next year is that this stuff is going to
• 46:02
  continue and expand and accelerate, right?
• 46:04
  Because this is the mechanism through which the great
• 46:08
  Transition, the Great Reset, the, the, the global migration
• 46:14
  onto this new platform, technological ideological
• 46:17
  platform is happening right now on a daily basis all around the
• 46:22
  UK. And Makespace is 1 very good
• 46:25
  example of how this is playing out.
• 46:26
  But there's a bunch of other organisations, not least this
• 46:30
  one. This is the mycelial network.
• 46:33
  And mycelial is the root light structure of a fungus.
• 46:37
  So these kind of exist under the surface in the forest.
• 46:41
  They tie the ecosystem together, connecting the different
• 46:44
  organisms. They share nutrients around the
• 46:47
  ecosystem, and they're submerged under the ground beneath the
• 46:50
  surface. Yeah, like this dark matter.
• 46:53
  And they present themselves, my cellular network, as community
• 46:58
  asset developers. And they say they safeguard
• 47:00
  public assets. And this is on the, I think it's
• 47:02
  on the homepage or one of the main pages of their website,
• 47:04
  which I think is quite telling, actually.
• 47:06
  So you can see here that they want to buy up unused buildings
• 47:10
  for public ownership. Well, they've got church.
• 47:13
  So this church is empty. What do you what about the young
• 47:16
  people? You can see on the bottom right
• 47:17
  there. What about the young people?
• 47:19
  Young people? We need bats.
• 47:20
  So what they're saying is the churches are empty.
• 47:23
  Then we've got to not just fill, we're not going to fill the
• 47:25
  churches. We've actually got to take
• 47:27
  public ownership of them and turn them into communitarian
• 47:31
  hubs for this new godless globalist system.
• 47:36
  Basically that's what they're up to and they're doing it 11
• 47:39
  building at a time, 1 neighborhood at a time.
• 47:42
  So it's very much in line with the kind of Fabian war of
• 47:45
  attrition, incremental steps in order to implement the agenda.
• 47:49
  The whole thing is marinated in these kinds of ideas around
• 47:52
  reframing and collective conscience and activism and
• 47:57
  basically demonstrating the inevitability of what they're
• 48:00
  doing. She's all narrative, it's all
• 48:02
  stories in order to bring through the crushing, grinding,
• 48:07
  technological new paradigm that is actually going to make this
• 48:11
  thing possible. And they're all around the UK.
• 48:14
  So there's thirty of these things in these network.
• 48:16
  There's a bunch of this all happy, smiley, lovely people in
• 48:20
  Newcastle, Manchester, Wolverhampton, Bristol.
• 48:23
  Obviously there's they're in Bristol, the People's Republic
• 48:26
  of Bristol, Plymouth. We've got one in Plymouth.
• 48:28
  There's definitely one in Totnes.
• 48:29
  Totnes is a transition town, has been for about I think thick end
• 48:32
  of 20 years now. So this is, you know, an ongoing
• 48:35
  program and you can see at the bottom there that this is backed
• 48:38
  by the Joseph Roundtree Trust, who are, you know, charitable
• 48:43
  foundation absolutely in the mix across this whole space.
• 48:47
  And then a couple of other organisations, platform places,
• 48:51
  which we'll talk about more next year, that this ecosystem is
• 48:53
  absolutely huge. And importantly, power to
• 48:55
  change. And there's a, a bunch of people
• 48:59
  from power to change who are working directly in, they're now
• 49:04
  working for the, the Labour government as members of Keir
• 49:06
  Starmer's office, right? So like this is absolutely hand
• 49:09
  in glove with the the Labour change agenda, the Fabian
• 49:13
  movement, it's spreading, as I've said, across the whole of
• 49:17
  the UK, it's a total violation of British history and culture.
• 49:21
  And the solution I think is actually not to attack these
• 49:24
  people because we will fall into the trap of being awful
• 49:27
  aggressive far right nasties that have to be censored and
• 49:30
  shut up and locked down. We actually need to approach
• 49:32
  them in a very open and constructive way and provide an
• 49:35
  alternative and explain why our system, when it's run properly,
• 49:38
  is actually much better than the one that they're trying to
• 49:40
  replace it with. Ben, just just remind me, what
• 49:46
  is it if you're growing mushrooms, what is it you put on
• 49:48
  them? What do you feed them with?
• 49:54
  I'll say manure. Yes.
• 49:56
  And you keep them in the dark, right?
• 49:57
  It's the mushroom treatment. Yeah.
• 49:59
  Yeah. OK.
• 50:00
  Just just wanted to clarify that.
• 50:02
  Thank you for that. And and I mean just very briefly
• 50:05
  a look into the into the future of next year.
• 50:07
  I mean, aside from from more of this type of thing, what what
• 50:11
  are your thoughts? Well, I mean, I, I kind of just
• 50:16
  landed on at the end there, right?
• 50:17
  I think the future next year, and this is, this is not some
• 50:20
  prediction about how awful it's going to be and all the terrible
• 50:23
  things that are coming towards us and may or may not happen.
• 50:26
  It's like, actually we can get our hands around this because
• 50:28
  those people, actually most of them are really good people.
• 50:31
  Yeah, I, I genuinely believe that.
• 50:33
  And they've been pulled into this thing because the, the
• 50:37
  powers that be very good at manipulating people's emotions
• 50:42
  and their compassion and their empathy.
• 50:45
  And actually we need to demonstrate to these people that
• 50:47
  yeah, we're, we're we're, we're good people too.
• 50:49
  And, you know, we're not, we're not scary and terrifying and,
• 50:54
  and actually there's we most of the time we want most of the
• 50:57
  same things, you know, broadly speaking.
• 51:00
  And I think that that that's my prediction for 2026 is that we
• 51:03
  begin to build some bridges. Thank you.
• 51:06
  That's that's that's very good. Thank you for that.
• 51:09
  Let's Sandy, let's let's come on to you next then.
• 51:12
  And I think farming is the topic.
• 51:17
  It is, it is well, as you know, we're approaching Christmas and
• 51:21
  it's a time when food and family and gratitude come to the
• 51:24
  forefront. And I think my, one of my, my
• 51:28
  important messages this year has always been to support the
• 51:30
  farmers because, you know, with food security and the people who
• 51:37
  make the food possible, it's so important.
• 51:40
  And it is our, our farmers. And they are really having a lot
• 51:43
  of challenges at the moment, as we know.
• 51:45
  And across Europe this week, farmers, you know, took to the
• 51:48
  streets in Brussels and they, they, they were really put under
• 51:53
  a lot of pressure by, by the powers that be with legislation,
• 51:57
  taxes and so-called environmental rules.
• 52:00
  And this is what I've got a clip here of what happened to the
• 52:04
  farmers this week in, in France and how they, they were escaping
• 52:09
  blockades. And this is, this is something
• 52:13
  that's, that's happening worldwide, the attack on
• 52:15
  farmers. And this guy just managed to
• 52:18
  completely baffle the the police by getting past this, this
• 52:22
  blockade. And, you know, the farmers are
• 52:25
  desperate at the moment because they are coming under such
• 52:28
  attack and they're being driven out of business by policies
• 52:31
  linked to Agenda 2030, the UNA sustainable development goal to,
• 52:36
  you know, end hunger. Yet the lived reality of this
• 52:41
  look at this poor man being being, you know, really
• 52:44
  manhandled. And this is all about Agenda
• 52:47
  2030 policy, you know, goal to end hunger.
• 52:52
  But The thing is that that that, you know, the lived reality is
• 52:56
  that when you over regulate overtax and criminalize food
• 53:00
  production, you don't get hunger, you get the opposite.
• 53:02
  And this is what Agenda 2030 is all about.
• 53:05
  It's all about the inversion of the truth.
• 53:07
  And you know, unfortunately my prediction is that this, you
• 53:11
  know, this is going to get quite bad.
• 53:13
  You know, with the, with the farmers in Europe and, and in
• 53:15
  the UK, it will come here. And what we've got to realise is
• 53:20
  that they're at the front line of our food system.
• 53:23
  Without them, there's no food security, no resilience, no
• 53:26
  sovereignty. And more importantly, they hold
• 53:29
  the power. Farmers do hold a lot of power
• 53:31
  because when food production stops, everything stops.
• 53:35
  And what we're seeing in Europe is coming to the UK and the
• 53:38
  same, you know, the same policies, the same language, the
• 53:41
  same pressure. And if farmers fall, the public
• 53:44
  falls with them. Unfortunately, now this
• 53:47
  Christmas, the farmers have been the UK farmers have been going
• 53:52
  out and raising money for charity, for children's
• 53:56
  charities to bring presents to children in, in their, in
• 54:01
  hospitals. And this is the Bristol farmers,
• 54:03
  umm, the, sorry, the southwest farmers on a convoy.
• 54:06
  Uh, no matter what pressure they're under, they're still
• 54:09
  going out raising money for, for charities to help children at
• 54:13
  Christmas in hospitals and hospices.
• 54:16
  And I just think that they are doing such a good job.
• 54:19
  And this is, you know, at the moment we, we're not
• 54:22
  encountering what's happening in, in Europe, but this will,
• 54:26
  will happen. And it's so important that we
• 54:29
  give thanks to the farmers for their hard work.
• 54:33
  We need to buy British. We need to buy directly from the
• 54:36
  farmers at this time. And we need to give thanks to
• 54:41
  the food on our tables. We all need to defend and
• 54:43
  support those who provide it and make Christmas possible.
• 54:48
  So I just think that my, my hope for what was my hope for 2026 is
• 54:54
  that we managed to, to overturn a lot of this stuff that's being
• 55:01
  thrown at us. You know, the digital ID, the,
• 55:04
  the, the assisted dying, the abortion bills, all of the
• 55:07
  things that, that we're at the moment, everything is on the
• 55:10
  frontline. We're there and with the farmers
• 55:12
  and that we, we managed to somehow pull it all together.
• 55:17
  And, and you know, we are, we are England.
• 55:20
  We always come through in the end.
• 55:22
  I do believe that this is this is something that that if we all
• 55:25
  hold together and we we support our farmers, we'll be able to
• 55:29
  get through. And I think, you know, where the
• 55:34
  whole war machine as well. I mean, years ago we had John
• 55:37
  Lennon singing Give peace a chance.
• 55:40
  We have to remember that and be able to give peace a chance.
• 55:44
  You know, where where are all the the peace protesters?
• 55:48
  They're being arrested. That's where they are.
• 55:50
  We still need to keep going. And as Brian said, keep calm,
• 55:53
  carry on, keep up the good work. Thank you.
• 55:56
  Thank you. Sandy, before we move to to Mark
• 55:59
  Charles, have you got anything you wanted to add to that?
• 56:04
  Just a little, I think, I mean, Sandy's absolutely right.
• 56:07
  And I think what is underestimated by the public at
• 56:11
  large, especially those who've begun to consider this, is the
• 56:15
  impact they can have by just engaging, you know, even on a
• 56:18
  small scale locally. And even if you're in an urban
• 56:22
  area, there will be farmer farmers markets, there will be
• 56:25
  relationships that you can build.
• 56:26
  So if you're, if you're not in a position to be able to grow your
• 56:28
  own food, provide your own food, look after your own livestock,
• 56:31
  whatever, there are definitely other options.
• 56:33
  And the, the mutual benefit in doing so, I think is absolutely
• 56:36
  tremendous, but it has to start somewhere.
• 56:38
  So I think I think Sandy's absolutely right.
• 56:40
  But the way to do that is the direct approach, because that
• 56:44
  cuts out the corporations and it cuts out the state.
• 56:48
  Thank you, Charles. Thanks, Mark.
• 56:51
  I think you're going to take a look at what's been going on
• 56:55
  health wise at the moment. Yeah, this is really important
• 57:01
  because it will provide a potential victory for many
• 57:05
  nations, the UK, the US and beyond.
• 57:07
  We know there's the 2026 World Health Assembly coming up in
• 57:11
  Geneva in May, and the powers that be through the power
• 57:18
  center, or the Ring of Power, to use a Tolkien metaphor.
• 57:23
  There's a lot of focus on Big Pharma, and that's where a lot
• 57:26
  of power has been exerted. That's one of the great dark
• 57:30
  forces of our time. And the fact that they didn't
• 57:34
  fully pull off their pandemic scandemic to a absolute full
• 57:39
  sustained lockdown means that we had something of a victory four
• 57:44
  or five years ago when when the first pandemic came around.
• 57:48
  Well, that provides the precedent for even greater
• 57:51
  victories if we keep our eye on this issue, which I've attempted
• 57:56
  to do very steadily in Ladder 24 through 2025 and now into 2026.
• 58:03
  So if you look at the money power as the central ring of
• 58:07
  power, there's the associated rings of power.
• 58:09
  The Big Media cartel and Big Pharma has, has really emerged,
• 58:13
  as I said, as a menacing force. But the people of the UK and the
• 58:18
  US have stared this thing down and we've raised a lot of doubt,
• 58:23
  a lot more education, a lot more information about Big Pharma,
• 58:26
  about vaccines, about the whole 9 yards.
• 58:29
  We saw some of this come out at the recent York get together
• 58:34
  that that the UKUK column just had that I was so happy to
• 58:38
  attend and had such a warm welcome.
• 58:40
  That was a wonderful thing for me in 2025.
• 58:43
  But now I'm going to be focusing on certain aspects of this.
• 58:48
  You might recall in August of 2024, guys and ladies, that
• 58:53
  there was a Tristan Franklin, a young, a cross country track
• 58:57
  runner in the Nashville, TN area to just mysteriously drop dead
• 59:02
  one day when he was running. Well, you might say, you know,
• 59:05
  maybe that was a, a fluke, something in his health history
• 59:10
  or some birth defect. You know, maybe we could say
• 59:13
  that that's not related to vaccines.
• 59:15
  But then there were two or more cross country runners that also
• 59:20
  died right on the spot as they were running during their
• 59:24
  athletic activities. So now in that Nashville, TN
• 59:27
  area, there's a major issue there kind of a trip wire.
• 59:32
  And I've been making occasional calls and emails and I'm not
• 59:36
  getting any responses so far. But I'm going to really up the
• 59:40
  ante in 2026 because if it could come out, if it's true, and it
• 59:45
  appears to be promising to be true, if it if it could be shown
• 59:50
  that those cross country runners all in the prime of their lives
• 59:55
  died of the COVID vax, that would have a major breaking open
• 1:00:01
  kind of effect. It it would have, I think an
• 1:00:03
  irreversible effect on really showing just how dangerous these
• 1:00:09
  vaccines can be, especially COVID.
• 1:00:11
  So I'm going to be really following that issue, really
• 1:00:14
  pressing hard to see if I can get a certain doctor to go on
• 1:00:18
  record. So far I'm I'm detecting some
• 1:00:21
  hesitancy, although I probably could have tried to contact her
• 1:00:24
  more often than I did. But nevertheless, I have made an
• 1:00:28
  ample effort. We'll see how that goes.
• 1:00:30
  But what it comes down to is that the potential for this
• 1:00:35
  issue to not only stop the pandemic treaty from taking full
• 1:00:39
  effect, but the greater effect internationally to put Big
• 1:00:44
  Pharma way back on its heels and delegitimize what they're doing
• 1:00:50
  even more. The potential is so great that
• 1:00:53
  the cause of freedom could take a very major step forward.
• 1:00:59
  So I'm not exactly making a pinpoint prediction, but the
• 1:01:02
  potential here for the, the cause of freedom to, for, for
• 1:01:07
  Big Pharma to be seen what for what it truly is for the vaccine
• 1:01:12
  regimen. You know, this, this enormous
• 1:01:14
  explosion of vaccines in recent decades, even for newborn
• 1:01:17
  children or, or infants and toddlers, just a multiplicity of
• 1:01:22
  jabs that they probably don't need.
• 1:01:24
  That whole apparatus could come under much more scrutiny due to
• 1:01:29
  the effect of people pushing back on the first pandemic,
• 1:01:33
  knowing a lot more from that, having learned from that, now
• 1:01:36
  they can look at the next World Health Assembly and say no James
• 1:01:41
  Roguski is picking up his efforts along with what I'm
• 1:01:44
  doing. So this, this shows a lot, a lot
• 1:01:47
  of promise here for freedom later in 2025.
• 1:01:51
  Although I didn't exactly break the story, I kind of
• 1:01:54
  reinvigorated Exercise Pegasus in the UK as they're doing dry
• 1:02:00
  runs and and drills to kind of prepare for the next pandemic.
• 1:02:05
  And we've been told about bird flu and mpox and all these
• 1:02:08
  things that could potentially constitute the next pandemic.
• 1:02:12
  So we're getting the signals. We're seeing what's coming over
• 1:02:15
  the hill, what's what's coming over the horizon.
• 1:02:18
  The question is, is, are we prepared to take the fight even
• 1:02:22
  further? We've partially wanted already
• 1:02:25
  we can win all the way. And I want to make sure I
• 1:02:28
  contribute to that process. And I think that that's probably
• 1:02:32
  sufficient for my statement today.
• 1:02:36
  Thank you, Mark. Thank you, Diane.
• 1:02:39
  Fernethi is probably a big story as far as what's been going on
• 1:02:46
  in the North is concerned, but just give us a brief reminder of
• 1:02:51
  what that's about for anybody that hasn't been following us
• 1:02:55
  all the way through this year. Yes, absolutely.
• 1:02:59
  Thanks, Mike, and Merry Christmas and Happy Winter
• 1:03:02
  Solstice to everybody out there as the Northern correspondent.
• 1:03:06
  And I'm actually say I'm a bit tired today because I just came
• 1:03:09
  up to the Northeast last night after spending a wonderful few
• 1:03:11
  days in Plymouth down in the studio, even though it was a
• 1:03:14
  little bit dark and rainy and I couldn't really see the
• 1:03:16
  lighthouse much at all. But it was great to be down
• 1:03:18
  there. And part of what we were doing
• 1:03:20
  when I was down there was working with Brian to cover more
• 1:03:23
  of this for Nephi Residential School case.
• 1:03:26
  And I just want to say that for Nephi Residential School, which
• 1:03:29
  was under the Education Committee of Glasgow Corporation
• 1:03:32
  and in Strathclyde Regional Council from 1960 to 1991, we've
• 1:03:37
  reported on this extensively. And I want to kind of review
• 1:03:39
  this and see where it's going to go from here.
• 1:03:42
  Just as a reminder, it was a school, it was not a holiday
• 1:03:46
  camp, it was not for convalescence, it was not for
• 1:03:49
  respite care. Even though to this day the
• 1:03:51
  mainstream media, when they do come in and try to cover this
• 1:03:53
  case, continue to repeat this over and over again, these
• 1:03:57
  absolute lies about how it was set up and what they were there
• 1:04:00
  for. The UK column has been working
• 1:04:02
  with the residential schools abuse survivors since 2022.
• 1:04:07
  We've been doing this this whole the whole way.
• 1:04:09
  True. And we will not stop.
• 1:04:11
  And the reason that we're not going to stop is because I'm
• 1:04:13
  telling you, these brave women from Glasgow are not going to
• 1:04:15
  stop either. And this is what we really need
• 1:04:18
  to be thinking about as we go forward, I think for everyone in
• 1:04:21
  this country and everywhere. This year for UK column, Brian
• 1:04:25
  has recorded individual interviews with some of these
• 1:04:28
  survivors who have been leading the efforts, including gutsy
• 1:04:32
  women such as Sharon Cruden and Lynn Sheeran.
• 1:04:35
  We've been doing updates on the progress of the petition that
• 1:04:38
  has been going through the Petitions Committee and Scottish
• 1:04:40
  Parliament. This has been going through
• 1:04:42
  since 2022. So this I said, this is an
• 1:04:45
  ongoing battle. The this is called allow the
• 1:04:48
  Fernetti survivors to address Access Scotland's scheme.
• 1:04:51
  Sorry, there has been unanimous agreements in the petitions
• 1:04:55
  committee about the fact that this needs to be supported
• 1:04:57
  because it's not fair. Since they've been saying that,
• 1:05:00
  you know, the petitions committee says, well, they
• 1:05:02
  shouldn't not be able to access redress, which is the sort of
• 1:05:05
  compensation scheme in Scotland for historic child abuse
• 1:05:08
  survivors just because they were abused short term or they were
• 1:05:12
  in a certain type of school. So of course this is unjust.
• 1:05:15
  And I I do have to say that UK columns evidence throughout time
• 1:05:19
  supported this through the petitions committee and it
• 1:05:21
  ultimately resulted in a floor debate in June, which may not
• 1:05:25
  sound like a big deal, but it actually is considering the
• 1:05:28
  extent of the severity of the case and the number of people
• 1:05:31
  that have been involved in this. Also as part of 2025, as part of
• 1:05:35
  all of our work that has been done by several of us over the
• 1:05:37
  last few years, we entered the American mainstream news for the
• 1:05:41
  first time ever, which is a big deal for all of us.
• 1:05:45
  And I think, I think in some cases, you know, have pains to
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  pay, but it hasn't always necessarily been positive.
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  But they contacted us because they saw all of the evidence and
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  reporting that we've been doing for, for nothing for the past
• 1:05:58
  few years. And I, I spoke with a man called
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  Alan Walzer, who's in Tampa Bay in Florida.
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  And he contacted me because one of the Phonetti survivors who
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  gave evidence and, and testified in the trial, her name is Allie
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  Flanagan. She contacted this mainstream,
• 1:06:15
  which is an ABC affiliate in Florida, and basically we got
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  connected through all the work that we've been doing and also
• 1:06:22
  thanks to Lynn Sheeran, who's one of the Phonetti leaders, and
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  this has been a really, really important thing for us.
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  Their coverage was not perfect at all of the situation of the
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  trial, but it is really important to say that we did
• 1:06:34
  lead them the right direction in terms of looking at all of the
• 1:06:38
  complexities that are involved in the trial and the 31 years of
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  abuse that girls from Glasgow went through at Phonetti.
• 1:06:45
  But I think it's a perfect example of what can be done if
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  you don't stop and you keep going because these women have
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  been through a lot. They were abused between the
• 1:06:54
  ages of five and 12, taken away sometimes different way far away
• 1:06:59
  from Glasgow more than one time for 6 to 8 weeks at one time.
• 1:07:03
  And even though the result of this trial has not been perfect,
• 1:07:06
  the message here is that you keep going and they will still
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  plan to continue to keep going in 2026 and beyond.
• 1:07:13
  Now the case I'm talking about that has just concluded is a
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  criminal case of Patricia Actor or Robertson, one of many people
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  that were involved in the abuse at Fernethi for over 30 years,
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  but also part of an entire system of historical
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  institutional child abuse, not only at Panetti, of course, as
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  we know, but at schools across the UK for many decades.
• 1:07:35
  And I think it's important to note that even though there's a
• 1:07:37
  lot of focus in the mainstream on the the Asian grooming gang,
• 1:07:41
  so to speak, there are people from this country that have been
• 1:07:44
  involved in child abuse for a very long time.
• 1:07:47
  Institutionally speaking, we only have to mention Debbie
• 1:07:50
  Saddle's name one time, but there are many others at the top
• 1:07:53
  of the establishment that have been involved in abusing
• 1:07:55
  children and always possible for a very long time.
• 1:07:59
  So I attended 2 days of Patricia Robertson's trial.
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  One was in October. I went up to the High Court in
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  Glasgow where there are witnesses that day.
• 1:08:06
  It was former staff that were sort of talking about what they
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  saw and what they remembered. Not Patricia Robertson herself,
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  but others that they were able to find.
• 1:08:16
  One of the really disturbing things about it was that the
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  solicitors on the women's side were trying to manipulate these
• 1:08:21
  witnesses to make these women out into these frail creatures
• 1:08:24
  who needed to be deloused and they couldn't use cutlery and
• 1:08:27
  they had to learn how to be basic people and civilization,
• 1:08:30
  which wasn't true. So that was all very stressful
• 1:08:33
  for the women. And then the 3rd of December, I
• 1:08:35
  went back up again to attend the sentencing hearing.
• 1:08:38
  And disgustingly, Patricia Robertson was only given a fine
• 1:08:43
  of to pay £1000 each to the 18 women who testified who was
• 1:08:48
  found guilty of those particular charges of cruel and unnatural
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  treatments and three years probation.
• 1:08:55
  Remembering that she is 77 years old and she was not given jail
• 1:08:59
  time because this was her first offense, so she will not be
• 1:09:03
  serving any jail time. And this was obviously very
• 1:09:06
  shocking to all of us. The full statement from Judge
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  Lloyd Krolbeck, who made the decision and the sentencing is
• 1:09:12
  going to be available as a link in the show notes.
• 1:09:15
  So this past week when I was down in Plymouth, Brian and I
• 1:09:18
  had had some discussion ourselves, which will be coming
• 1:09:20
  out next year on UK column as well as interviewing several of
• 1:09:24
  the women who have been working with us this whole time and
• 1:09:28
  wanted to share their thoughts on what happened.
• 1:09:30
  And all I can say is that they're not going to be stopping
• 1:09:33
  anytime soon. They are understandably angry,
• 1:09:36
  but they are motivated to continue.
• 1:09:38
  And as I said, we will be there to support them and continue to
• 1:09:40
  report as much as we can. So what does this mean?
• 1:09:44
  This is 1 case of of institutional child abuse for
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  these women have not stopped for years.
• 1:09:49
  They don't intend to stop. So anyone who says, oh, there's
• 1:09:51
  nothing we can do, the agenda is winning.
• 1:09:54
  I want to make sure that my message today is that we can do
• 1:09:56
  something and even if we don't think it makes a difference, we
• 1:09:59
  still have to do it and get out there.
• 1:10:01
  I went to give a few other examples of things that I have
• 1:10:04
  been experiencing here that I've reported on that I know that
• 1:10:07
  it's happening up here in the north because I know that it's
• 1:10:09
  sometimes it's, it's a very active place up here when it
• 1:10:12
  comes to doing what we can do to stand our ground.
• 1:10:16
  For example, these are small things.
• 1:10:18
  My stand in the park in the town where I live now, here in the
• 1:10:21
  Northeast, still meets every week, regardless of how cold or
• 1:10:24
  rainy it is. We're still out there in the
• 1:10:26
  park. And we put our yellow stand in
• 1:10:27
  the park plague in the ground, and we drink coffee and
• 1:10:30
  sometimes we freeze and sometimes we're soaking wet, but
• 1:10:33
  we're still out there. There are plenty of local events
• 1:10:36
  that anyone anywhere can go to. So go support local events.
• 1:10:40
  For example, there's been a Magna Carta in the North
• 1:10:43
  exhibition at Drift Cathedral that I reported on classical
• 1:10:46
  music concerts. So protecting the culture of
• 1:10:48
  this country. If we stop going to attend
• 1:10:51
  events and support them and enjoy them, they will stop.
• 1:10:54
  And that's going to contribute to that global effort that they
• 1:10:57
  want to put upon us. But to protect British culture,
• 1:11:00
  we have to participate and support them and pay the artists
• 1:11:03
  and all of the people that are doing these things.
• 1:11:05
  I've I attended the Wolsey and Country Show.
• 1:11:08
  Local farmers selling things, local crafts, local suppliers,
• 1:11:12
  how to how to, you know, things like that we need to be doing
• 1:11:15
  because then we are supporting as Sandy said, supporting our
• 1:11:18
  local farmers and things that are still being produced in
• 1:11:21
  Britain, which is something that we can all do.
• 1:11:24
  My local group here called We the People Northeast, which has
• 1:11:26
  a rumble channel. They have, they have worked with
• 1:11:29
  me on filming migrant protests, so-called in Newcastle council
• 1:11:35
  meetings here in County Durham. They now have a new video that
• 1:11:38
  they've put up just just this week about what's going on with
• 1:11:41
  delivery drivers and potential things related to the idea that
• 1:11:45
  they're hiring people who may or may not be here legally.
• 1:11:49
  And so there's a lot of questions around that, but they
• 1:11:51
  went and just talked to these drivers out in Newcastle and
• 1:11:55
  Sunderland and the surrounding areas of the northeast.
• 1:11:57
  I interviewed Ted Coulter, who as was one of our more
• 1:12:00
  successful interviews this year. He is, as I called him, an
• 1:12:04
  ordinary man who extraordinarily questioned the Covic injections.
• 1:12:07
  That was a really, really inspiring interview.
• 1:12:09
  Just, you know, banners on boards, hosting talks up here
• 1:12:13
  with people such as Mark Devlin. So just getting together in the
• 1:12:17
  pub, hearing the speaker, sharing ideas, just being
• 1:12:20
  together as a community. The farmers up here in the north
• 1:12:23
  have a group called the Forgotten Lands, which kind of
• 1:12:25
  stretches across the A 69 sort of between Newcastle and
• 1:12:29
  Carlisle. So they want to make sure that
• 1:12:30
  their needs are being met. There's been several rallies
• 1:12:33
  around Digital ID, fighting Agenda 2030, getting out Light
• 1:12:37
  papers, getting out the Agenda 2030 information created by the
• 1:12:41
  light paper. And, but, and also Cumbria
• 1:12:44
  Action is one example of many local groups.
• 1:12:46
  And one of the first interviews that will be streamed in 2026
• 1:12:49
  was my interview that I recorded with Chris and Brent from
• 1:12:52
  Cumbria Action, who are just two guys who just especially Chris,
• 1:12:56
  who just said he was tired of seeing how things were going,
• 1:12:59
  started a Facebook group and now it has several thousand members.
• 1:13:02
  So again, as Sandy said, we have to keep going.
• 1:13:05
  And I went to say, and I say this to everyone, and I want to
• 1:13:07
  leave everyone with a bit of hope here.
• 1:13:09
  We have to love each other. We have to give each other a
• 1:13:12
  hug. We have to protect what we have
• 1:13:14
  in this country and keep it precious.
• 1:13:15
  And if we don't continue to engage in it and support it and
• 1:13:19
  be involved in it, it's going to go away potentially.
• 1:13:22
  But we have to get out there and do what we can, even if it means
• 1:13:25
  is going to a concert you enjoy that has, you know, British
• 1:13:27
  artists that are involved. We have to protect our children
• 1:13:30
  and their innocence. We have to protect our freedoms
• 1:13:33
  here in the UK and throughout the West.
• 1:13:36
  And I just want to ask our audience today, we are doing
• 1:13:38
  everything that we can at UK column to get the information
• 1:13:41
  out there. But I really hope that you are
• 1:13:42
  all with us and that you will continue to support all the
• 1:13:45
  important work that we try to do every single day here at UK
• 1:13:49
  Column. So happy Winter Solstice and
• 1:13:51
  Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy New Year when it comes.
• 1:13:54
  Thank you. Thank you, Dan, Brian and E.
• 1:13:58
  Well, I think it's absolutely the right note to to end on
• 1:14:02
  that. It's so important that people
• 1:14:04
  don't don't just withdraw because the the news and all the
• 1:14:09
  prognosis for the new year is so bad.
• 1:14:12
  We've got to be fighting it at every level.
• 1:14:15
  And as we have said many, many times, action conquers fear.
• 1:14:19
  Doing quite simple things can change your whole feeling and
• 1:14:24
  demeanour from being sort of oppressed to feeling that you're
• 1:14:27
  actually achieving things. And it is absolutely true that
• 1:14:32
  very small actions can magnify and grow into something much
• 1:14:37
  bigger and and more special. So it's beholden on all of us to
• 1:14:42
  be doing something, even if that's only a little.
• 1:14:46
  And even if you're restricted because of circumstance or
• 1:14:49
  personal circumstance or finances, if you can only do a
• 1:14:52
  little bit, do something. You got any closing thoughts?
• 1:14:59
  That's a fabulous note to end on.
• 1:15:01
  I can't really add anything to it.
• 1:15:02
  OK, well, look, I, I just want to say thank you once again to
• 1:15:05
  everybody that's watching this program, has been watching the
• 1:15:10
  UK column all year. I want to say thank you, of
• 1:15:14
  course, to all the participants on the news program, Patrick and
• 1:15:19
  Mark and Diane and Ben and Sandy and so on.
• 1:15:22
  And Charles, of course, you've got a couple of cards you want
• 1:15:28
  to show. Just, well, more, more than a
• 1:15:29
  couple. We we can't possibly go through
• 1:15:32
  them all. So I'm hand, I'm sorry.
• 1:15:35
  I'm dropping some apologies for that.
• 1:15:37
  So that is actually up on camera.
• 1:15:38
  Should be, Yeah. So we've got a lot of cards from
• 1:15:41
  people that have come in. Often they've come in with a
• 1:15:44
  letter as well. Quite often that's a letter just
• 1:15:48
  thanking the UK column team for what we're doing.
• 1:15:51
  But often it's a letter with information about something that
• 1:15:56
  the individual who's written the card or the family are doing.
• 1:16:00
  And these are a huge boost for us because they they're
• 1:16:04
  personal, they're handwritten, they're human, and they really
• 1:16:07
  do tell us that we've got a lot of support out there from across
• 1:16:11
  the world and people think enough of us to send in all
• 1:16:14
  these wonderful Christmas cards. I would just say some of them
• 1:16:18
  have also contained donations. So a thank you to the people
• 1:16:23
  that have done that. And out of all of them, the the
• 1:16:27
  fun one, they're all great. But the fun one was for me was
• 1:16:31
  for one that popped up from Hawaii.
• 1:16:33
  So I don't think we've ever had a communication from Hawaii
• 1:16:37
  before, but there we were on the small, isolated and lovely
• 1:16:42
  island. And I'm going to add to that,
• 1:16:47
  but we do also get gifts sent in.
• 1:16:50
  So these are some wonderful coasters.
• 1:16:52
  It says why I Bonnie lad on it. Utterly brilliant.
• 1:16:56
  Don't know whether you've seen one of those Patrick before.
• 1:16:59
  Somebody some time ago sent in this, which I'm sure if I hold
• 1:17:03
  it up against Mike's shirt, I think it'll show.
• 1:17:06
  So we've got a model of Smeaton's Tower, the lighthouse.
• 1:17:10
  And the bit that I wanted to end on was that Lady Elizabeth sent
• 1:17:16
  us this this newspaper. Now the significance of this,
• 1:17:21
  apart from anything else, it's 4 pages.
• 1:17:24
  But the key thing is it's dated 1926, Wednesday, May the 12th,
• 1:17:31
  1926. It's the Daily Mirror and it
• 1:17:36
  originally cost 1 penny. And the big headline and theme
• 1:17:42
  of this newspaper is all about the general strike that was
• 1:17:46
  taking place. And so this is a little
• 1:17:48
  newspaper which is all about trouble and strife and mayhem in
• 1:17:52
  the country. The government very upset that
• 1:17:55
  those nasty workers were pushing back some terrible people, got
• 1:18:00
  very upset in one location and stoned the police.
• 1:18:04
  Who could think of such a thing? And what it shows us is that the
• 1:18:10
  country was going through bad times then.
• 1:18:13
  But of course, as grim as it seemed at the time, everybody
• 1:18:17
  got through it. And I think maybe that's a good
• 1:18:20
  reflection for us at the end of 2025.
• 1:18:24
  But the thing that really caught my attention were the 4 pages,
• 1:18:29
  because essentially that's where the UK column newspaper started
• 1:18:33
  many years ago. So Daily Mirror 1 penny here in
• 1:18:38
  1926 UK column, still here in January 2026 for our 20 2020
• 1:18:48
  years celebration. So maybe we've achieved
• 1:18:52
  something akin to this little newspaper, but we could only do
• 1:18:56
  it with your fantastic help. And we really do appreciate the
• 1:19:01
  generosity and kindness of everybody wherever you are, UK,
• 1:19:05
  worldwide, who've had the had the heart to actually donate or
• 1:19:12
  become a member of UK column. Because as Mike has said, we are
• 1:19:16
  only here after all this time because of the generosity of
• 1:19:20
  people who actually help fund us.
• 1:19:23
  So if you listen in in UK or overseas and you're not yet on
• 1:19:27
  board, have a think about joining us in that way, becoming
• 1:19:32
  a member in 2026 because we'd like more members so that we can
• 1:19:37
  grow and expand the news coverage and also get more
• 1:19:41
  reports from on the streets because that's something which
• 1:19:45
  does take up a lot of time and effort and often involves travel
• 1:19:49
  and accommodation, etcetera. So if you support us by
• 1:19:54
  watching, think about making a donation or taking out a
• 1:19:57
  membership because in 2026 time the life is going to get tough
• 1:20:04
  and UK column will be here with you, I hope, shining a light as
• 1:20:09
  to what's happening and where we need to go.
• 1:20:13
  So thank you very much to everybody, have a great
• 1:20:16
  Christmas, great new year. Remember, 1:00 PM every weekday
• 1:20:21
  next week and the week after there'll be something going out.
• 1:20:23
  We're not going to put anything out on Christmas Day or Boxing
• 1:20:25
  Day, but every other day there'll be something going out,
• 1:20:29
  including the the Cheltenham presentations.
• 1:20:31
  So do join at 1:00 PM for those. We'll see you for the next news
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  program on January the 5th, 1:00 PM as usual, we'll see you then.
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  Bye bye. Bye bye.