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UK Column News - 23rd February 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon, today is Monday the 23rd of February 2026, just
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after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host Brian Garish, Delighted to have Ben Rubin with
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me in the studio. Delighted to be here, Brian.
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I know it's a great one. And we're also delighted to have
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Liz Evans joining us today. Now, a huge amount happening in
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the world packed UK column News. How do we cover everything?
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Well, of course, we can't. So we have to pick out what we
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think people should be paying attention to.
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And we're going to be having a look at Ukraine.
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Obviously, as the war moves on, we're going to have a look at
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what's happening around Epstein, which we think is very, very
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important. Liz Evans is going to be having
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a look at all of the events around gender reassignment
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medication and really excellent push back by some nursing staff.
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And Ben, you're on the subject of what's really taking place
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under the surface. So manipulation of UK left,
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right divide, reforming Britain and the communities and
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political power couples, plus the Indian AI summit.
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Now we will have a special extra for our UK column members today.
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We're going to be talking about serious things and we're also
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going to be talking about sorry. We'll be talking about serious
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things and we'll also be bringing in some light hearted
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stuff. So let's just move on and we'll
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get straight into the horrors of the Ukraine war.
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So I make no apologies for this because the conflict now moving
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into the 5th year, oh what a lovely war.
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Millions dead and wounded and of course mentally damaged.
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This is something that often gets overlooked because we know
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in the United States huge number of veterans suffering from PTSD
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and other mental health problems.
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Now Britain loves this war because of course it is about
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regime change or at least trying to get regime change in Russia.
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And here's the LBC headline that we can just magic up another 500
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million in new defence missiles and systems that's just been
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announced. But of course we're cash
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strapped. But if it's money for the war,
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no problem at all. Now who's created the war?
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Well many people would look at Boris Johnson.
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Here's the BBC headline. UK should send non combat troops
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to Ukraine now. That's what Johnson's been
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telling the BBC. But in this amazing exchange,
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even I describe as the BB CS Ice queen Laura Kunzberg looks
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nonplussed. Let's have a look at Boris
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Johnson in this interview. Quite incredible.
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If it's not, then it's up to the Ukrainians.
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Do we think we've just had a little bit of a technical issue
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with that one? Will it play?
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Let's see. If we're going to have a, a plan
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for boots on the ground, I, you know, I may be going in advance
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of, of a lot of, of thinking in, in, in the UK.
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But if we can have a plan for boots on the ground after the
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war, after Putin has condescended to have a
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ceasefire, then why not do it now just to make this point that
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it is up to the Ukrainians and these people wouldn't be there
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in a war fighting capacity, right?
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To be clear, you're saying that right now that UK military
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forces and from other European countries should go to Ukraine
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to safe parts of Ukraine to make a statement to flip that switch,
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as you said in Vladimir's Putin's head showing intent?
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Yes, I think, you know, we're willing to do it in the context
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of a of a ceasefire, which of course puts all the initiative,
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all the, the, the power in Putin's hands.
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Why not do it now? There's no logical reason that I
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can see why we shouldn't send some, you know, peaceful ground
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forces there to, to show our support, a constitutional
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support for a free, independent Ukraine, That this is a
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political thing. It's about whether Ukraine is a
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free country or not. If it, if it's a vassal state of
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Russia, which is what Putin wants, then obviously it's up to
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Putin to decide who comes to his country.
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If it's not, then it's up to the Ukrainian.
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So disgusting figure Ben. The idea that anybody would die
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from Boris Johnson, just incredible.
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And of course he's saying that these would be non combat
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troops. But the reality is all western
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troops anywhere near Ukraine are working to help the Ukrainians.
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Therefore they're inherently in the battle.
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But quite disgusting now alongside him, former Chief of
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Defence Staff Admiral Radikin. Let's just go back in time and
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have a look at what Admiral Radikin had to say to the
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country when he was in post. This is June 2022.
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Effectiveness. We seem to be having a Ukraine
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has shown how courageous it really is.
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And Russia has vulnerabilities because it's running out of
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people, it's running out of high tech missiles.
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And if you just look at where Russia is at the moment, it's
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it's lost about 25% of its combat land effectiveness.
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So there was Admiral Radican claiming that the Russians were
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losing back in 2022. They'd lost their combat
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effectiveness. They couldn't produce weapons,
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all of it absolute nonsense. And well, surprisingly no better
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place to go than the BBC and verify to have a look at what
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nonsense was coming out of his mouth.
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Because he is verify saying that Russian attacks on Ukraine have
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doubled since the Trump inauguration.
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But what the BBC doesn't tell it's audience is that Russia can
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attack any target anywhere in Ukraine at any time.
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That is a key thing. And if we have a look at
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analysis by Al Jazeera here on the left hand side, you've got
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strikes up to 900 at the top. And then we're looking through
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months in 2025 and you can see the huge and growing number of
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Russian strikes. And if you don't believe that,
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well, we can go to the BBC here where it shows their own data
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where 6000 is the top line and you can see the increase since
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Trump took power. Now if we go to other places
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with good analytical research on the Internet, obviously we have
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to abandon mainstream media. This diagram here is one of many
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showing flight paths of Russian drone attacks into Ukraine and
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we can see just how many missiles have been launched and
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and how how this is causing a huge problem before Ukraine.
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I just say to our audience regret that we seem to be having
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a technical problem. We're just going to freeze the
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news for a few moments while we try and sort that out.
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So, Chris, if you can just deselect us and we'll see
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whether we can fix the problem. OK, you've got the technical
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banner. OK, all right, we'll we'll try
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and through. So to our audience, apologies,
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we will try and move through. We think we've got the bug
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fixed, but very interesting. This should happen to a day of
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all days. Now, if we just come back to
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those two, right honourable, I think they might have been
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called in the time men. Boris Johnson I'm going to label
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as a dangerous madman. But the interesting thing is
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he's got a a puppy with him and of course, equally dangerous,
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the military simply following along the lead from our
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politicians. Now let's just have a little
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look at what Zelensky has had to say recently.
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Some people, I think, including President Trump, say Ukraine
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cannot win this war. Are they correct?
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Where are you now today? You're in Kiev.
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You're in the capital of our homeland.
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You are in Ukraine. I'm grateful for this.
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Will we lose? Of course not, because we are
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fighting for Ukraine's independence.
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So if you can win this war, and I know you've said that, what
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does victory look like today? We speak about stopping this
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war. I believe that stopping Putin
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today and preventing him from occupying Ukraine is a victory
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for the whole world because Putin will not stop at Ukraine.
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You're not saying that victory means getting all the land back,
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are you? In any case, we will achieve
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that. That is absolutely clear.
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It's only a matter of time. To do it today would mean losing
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a huge number of people, millions of people.
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Because the Russian army is large and we understand the cost
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of such steps. We would not have enough people.
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Who would be losing them? And what is land without people?
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Honestly, nothing. And we also do not have a
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sufficient amount of weapons. That depends not only on us, but
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on our partners. As of today, this is not
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available, but returning to the just borders of 1991 is without
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a doubt a victory for justice. Because, you know, the argument
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is that people make is that you don't have enough troops, that
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you are dependent on foreigners for weapons and therefore you
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are actually in a vulnerable position.
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And sometimes President Trump has exploited that.
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We are vulnerable in this position.
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That is true. Today.
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The issue is air defence. This is the most difficult
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problem. Unfortunately, our partners
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still do not grant licenses for us to produce systems ourselves,
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for example Patriot systems or even missiles for the systems we
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already have. Why wouldn't they do that?
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I don't know, I have no answer. So Zelensky doesn't know he's
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prosecuting the war. He's run out of people because
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he's on his about his 3rd army. The rest of them are dead or
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injured or damaged and it's very clear he is not winning the war.
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But the West doesn't want to admit it because it's driving
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for regime change. Is Russia winning?
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Well, of course the BBC would have us believe no, because the
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forward motion on the ground is very slow.
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However, that is only part of the Russian tactics.
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Let's have a look at data which has come from the Ukrainians
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themselves and we'll make it easier to see. 63,000 energy
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facilities in Ukraine damaged between February 22 and April
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2025 S. Imagine what the economic
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performance of the country is. It's devastated and contrary to
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the reports of the BBC and Admiral Radikin retired, the
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Russians are certainly not running out of bombs or missile.
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They're out producing the West and the states.
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Now his irony. We've got Green Agenda Ukraine
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from May 2025, the National Comprehensive Green Transition
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Assessment report for Ukraine. And if I just read a little bit
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of it, it says prior to the Russian full scale invasion,
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industry was the largest energy consumer in Ukraine, 33% of the
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of the final energy consumption. However, due to the ongoing war,
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large scale destruction of infrastructure and additional
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facilities, this proportion has changed to right.
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It has because from being an electricity exporter with the
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7th largest power generation capacity in Europe, Ukraine has
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turned into an electricity importer.
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And if I had a bit more military occupation of energy objects and
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physical destruction of energy infrastructure are significant
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impacts. 50% of the energy generation capacity is in
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Ukraine, in Ukraine is located in the currently occupied
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territories. And Russian attacks on energy
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infrastructure in the first half of 2024 alone destroyed about
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50% of the capacity. So this is the reality.
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And of course, Western media refuses to talk about this
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because it is the IT is the evidence for stopping the war.
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Now I'm going to just say, Ben, in a minute, you're going to be
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looking at what's happening in UK, which is basically, while
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all of this goes on and occupies media, the media in UK, we've
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got a complete reorganisation effectively of politics and
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society. But before I get there, let's
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just say this, that basically the BBC has now gotten very,
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very cynical in that they are trying to lever extra people
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into fighting in Ukraine. Let's have a look at this latest
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from the BBC in the army now, pictures that show how ordinary
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Ukrainians have been shaped by war.
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So nothing about the slaughter. This is about really how good
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the war is. And true to the BBC, they're
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aiming for young women because basically these reports are
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making out that young women getting involved in the
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Ukrainian forces, it's a good thing.
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And on the right, they particularly focus on Anastasia,
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who has become an FPV first person view operator.
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That's a drone operator. So this is another report which
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has come in from the Russians, but it's talking about the real
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destruction of an enemy, a Ukrainian drone control point,
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and that has been taken out with a very large 122 millimetre
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artillery. So I'm just going to play this
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video and talk you through it a bit.
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But essentially, this is actually showing what's
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happening on the battlefield from the fact that drones see
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everything. This is destruction of Ukrainian
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infrastructure. Here we've got an overview of
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one of the many smaller towns, very flat.
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The drones see everything, and the explosions are where highly
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accurate attacks are, taking out anything from defensive strong
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points to the position of drone operators.
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Because of course, if the drone operators are taken out, then
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the rest of the action on the battlefield continue can
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continue without being closely monitored.
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You can see the scale of the explosions here.
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This clip is showing more drones attacking Alma.
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This is being done by both sides with enormous casualties.
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But I'm also going to take you on to consider what the effect
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of this sort of warfare on the drone operators is.
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And if we do a little bit of research on the Internet, and I
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did use some AI to help me with this, but these are the basic
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statistics that for drone operators, be it men or young
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women, you're talking about two to 5% with PTSD, 4.3 moderate to
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severe PTSD from another study and it between 11 and 20% with
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high emotional exhaustion. So The thing is here that
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basically the BBC is just so keen to get these young women
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onto the battlefield. And meanwhile here in UK, our
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Ministry of Defence announcing that they've partnered with the
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Department of Work and Pensions in order to get more young
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people involved in in the military and drones.
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And here we've got two women that are driving this agenda.
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So little bit of a interrupted delivery on the subject of
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Ukraine, but really, really bad. We're now pumping more money in
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to keep this, keep this fight going and of course the casualty
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is vast and the BBC would have more young people, men and women
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dying on the battlefield. Boris Johnson, he wants that war
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to continue. Ben, it's outrageous.
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But of course, whilst this is occupying the minds of many
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people, we've got another attack going on which is of UK politics
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and society. Indeed we do.
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I'll just move on through here. Indeed we do.
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We're having an interesting day. We certainly are.
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Yeah. So, well, I talked last week
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about divide and rule. This is how they get away with
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this stuff, by the way. So if if we're all in warring
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factions in the country, then we can't coordinate with each other
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in order to get rid of the corrupt regime that keeps on
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dragging us into these conflicts overseas and looting the
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treasury for fake pandemics and all of these things that are
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going on around us. And these were the two
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parameters I talked about, the left and the right.
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So on the right hand side, again this sort of relates to
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political, the political parties, right to the right wing
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and the left wing. On the right hand side,
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obviously you've got the Tories, more recently Reform, even more
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recently Restore Britain. On the left you've got Labour
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and more recently the Green Party.
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And these things are being aggressively promoted and
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embedded down into the society so that we are divided from each
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other and can be more effectively ruled.
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I will talk more about this a lot as we go through the year,
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but today I'm going to focus particularly on the rule bits,
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the bit in the middle, what's happening above and around and
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this, these two divisions because there are things up
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there that are going on. And there's this organisation
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that popped up back in 2019 called Together, which was
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founded by Justin Welby, former Archbishop of Canterbury, whose
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regular views will be aware, had to resign last year in absolute
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disgrace for covering up child abuse issues.
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He founded this organization alongside Brendan Cox, who,
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amongst many other things, is a young global leader of the World
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Economic Forum. So this is a central control
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function hovering above society, which has an extraordinary remit
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that is set for itself. It calls itself one of the most
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powerful and diverse coalitions ever assembled in the UK.
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It evolved from dozens of separate conversations across
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the country about the need for a single united group committed to
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action on social cohesion, building stronger communities.
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They bring together hundreds of partners, including some of the
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the nation's best loved and best known brands.
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Importantly, there's a lot of corporate money in here to build
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a what they call a kinder, closer and more connected
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society. Doesn't that sound fantastic?
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We'll put a link, go and have a look at their website.
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We could quite literally sit here, as they said there are,
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there are hundreds of organisations involved in this.
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We could sit here all week talking about Together and the
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the network that has sprung up around it, but suffice to say
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they are extremely influential. And they are very interested in
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the social, economic, political transformation of the country in
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line with the World Economic Forum agenda.
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Obviously, Brendan Cox is operating essentially as a proxy
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for Klaus Schwab ET al and the the new leadership team at the
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World Economic Forum as he's in his position as a young global
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leader more recently. So as I said, this launched in
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2019. They've been active and last
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year they established a partner organization, which is basically
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the same thing, right? They present themselves as
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separate but together operates as the what they described the
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secretariat to a Commission, which is the independent
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Commission on Community and Cohesion, which itself is
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overseen by Sajid Javid. Sir Sajid Javid, should I say,
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or Sir Savage jab head, I think was his name during COVID
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forward former Tory minister and also John Cruddas, who's the
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former Labour MP for Dagenham, which itself has been a test
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case for the social and economic and political transformation of
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the country. One of those inner London
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boroughs that has been deliberately destroyed and
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reformed over the past 20 plus years as a test case what
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they're going to roll out across the rest of the society.
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So the Independent Commission, again as an extraordinary, it
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describes itself as a once in a generation Commission on the
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future of our communities. They've given themselves a big
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brief. It's got some extraordinary
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people on its Advisory Council, including top left.
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I was slightly obscured for viewers, but we can see David
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Help and CBE from the Behavioural Insights team.
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You've got a guy there on the right hand side, Sundar Catwala,
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who is director of British Future and was also the general
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secretary of the Fabian Society for 10 years.
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Right. So this is absolutely Fabian and
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socialist Labour establishment. Caroline Lucas is in there.
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She was the head of the Green Party until Zach Polanski took
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it over last year. Laura Marks CBE, formerly of the
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Board of Deputies, the most senior councillor of Jews in in
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in the country. Lord Mendelssohn, former Labour
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peer, was the guy involved in the dodgy donor scandals back in
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the Blair era and was that it's probably over 25 years ago now.
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It's amazing how these people hang around as well as some sort
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of establishment Tory types as well.
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So you've got Tim Montgomery from Conservative Home, Fraser
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Nelson from the Spectator and Lord Woolley, definitely not a
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Tory, but Lord Woolley from Woodford.
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So quite an extraordinary mix of people.
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And what they're doing is gathering information together
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to get an understanding of what's going on in the country,
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building what they call a national conversation through
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research, which is going to happen through this year,
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started in June last year, going to run through to autumn 2026,
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which will then be enacted in some fashion.
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So from autumn onwards, so September, October time this
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year, there is an intention to implement and impact through
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some non specified action. We don't know what it's going to
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be, but we've got these two forces driving society apart.
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And then in the centre, kind of behind the scenes at the moment,
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we've got these integrated groups of political, economic
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and cultural leaders who are conspiring with each other,
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quite frankly, to gain a deeper understanding of the issues in
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the country as they see it anyway, so that they can
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prescribe some kinds of solutions to drive everyone back
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into together into the centre. Quite an amazing coalition.
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We'll be talking a lot more about this because we've only
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really just scratched the surface on it today.
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But I mean, just the, the, the names that we've reeled off
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there alone are are quite staggering, I would say.
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And of course war and rumours of war is is brilliant for taking
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occupying people's minds while this goes on under the surface,
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out of sight of most. So it's hidden in plain sight,
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but most people can't see it. Yeah, exactly.
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And I will just say this, together word keeps on cropping
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up because people watching the UK column will probably be
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familiar with the together declaration on the right hand
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side. I'm not saying that together
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declaration is coordinating with these people by the way, But I
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just think it's interesting that this word is coming up again and
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again. Together declaration on the
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right hand side, together in the centre.
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And then also interestingly, on the left politically as well as
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on the left hand side of this chart, we've got this thing
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called the Together Alliance, which is a massive anti fascist
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type organization which is running a huge March coming up
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in London on the 28th of March this year.
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And in the mix of all of this, you get a sense that they're
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really going to try and do something, something, something
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significant. We'll stay posted to Ben.
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Let's welcome Liz Evans to today's news.
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Liz, hello. Thank you very much for joining
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us. Now you're going to be having a
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look at gender issues. You've got some good news in
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this report as well. So what have you got for us?
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Hello everyone, thanks for having me on.
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So I've prepared a report on the NHS and the multiple stories
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documenting its descent into gender confusion, bordering on
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madness and exemplified by this headline which nearly made me
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choke on my breakfast this morning.
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No, the one before that. That's the one King's College
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Hospital, who are a key player in a story I'm going to cover
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later, Actually train staff on how to identify what their
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pronouns are. A health service that doesn't
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understand basic human biology is very concerning, and this
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obsession with pronouns and gender ideology is not limited,
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Staff and The Daily Skeptic reported in January on Epic,
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which is a £450 million patient record system introduced into
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about 10 NHS trusts. Now, Epic's default setting
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forces midwives to record the pronouns, sex assigned at birth,
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gender identity, and sexual orientation of any newborn baby
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registered on the system. But there's no option to record
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their biological sex. And, disturbingly, it also
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requires midwives to record the organs present at birth, organs
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surgically enhanced or constructed, and organs
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hormonally enhanced. Strange.
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So who's behind Epic? Well, Epic Systems was founded
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in 1979 by a computer programmer called Judy Faulkner in a
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Wisconsin basement. And Faulkner, the CEO, is now
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worth nearly $8 billion. And there's her Forbes page.
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And their revenue comes from software licensing and
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maintenance fees from large healthcare providers.
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And major implementations like the NHS cost over $650 million,
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and there'll be annual maintenance fees in the
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millions. And according to research firm
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Sacra, Epic has a 33% market share of US hospital beds in the
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electronic health records market.
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And they hold patient records for an astonishing 325 million
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people, generating $5.7 billion in 2024 alone.
27:26
So, moving back to the NHS, gender ideology reared its ugly
27:32
head again at the end of November with the announcement
27:35
of an NHS backed experimental trial of puberty blockers on
27:39
more than 200 children aged between 10 and 15.
27:43
The Pathways trial is funded by a partnership called NHS between
27:48
NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care
27:51
Research, called the National Research Collaboration Program,
27:56
at an estimated cost of nearly £11 million.
28:01
This pathways trial is being held at King's College London.
28:04
We we mentioned them earlier. 2 quotes explore how puberty
28:08
suppressing hormones impact the physical, social and emotional
28:12
well-being of young people with gender incongruence.
28:16
They admit that the benefits and risks of this treatment are not
28:19
yet known. Yet they appear happy to use
28:22
vulnerable, gender confused children as Guinea pigs in a
28:25
dystopian experiment, risking their fertility, sexual
28:29
function, physical, mental and cognitive health in complete
28:33
violation of the central tenet of medicine to first do no harm.
28:38
And every child in the trial will get puberty blockers.
28:41
So the treatment group, we've got a slide on this gets puberty
28:45
blockers for two years while the control group is given the drugs
28:49
after a one year delay, making a mockery of the claim to be a
28:53
randomized control trial. As the control group for the
28:57
long term safety data is lost after a year, then researchers
29:02
admit that some participants may may remain on the drugs beyond
29:06
the trial if deemed clinically appropriate.
29:09
Disturbingly, those aged 12 years or over will be questioned
29:12
about their sexual experience and activities and advised to
29:16
use effective contraception during the trial.
29:20
But despite this, the Pathways website boasts that their trial
29:23
has been checked by the MHRA and has Ethics Committee approval.
29:28
And the Department of Health and Social Care claim there are
29:31
robust safeguards in place to protect young people's
29:34
well-being. Well, I'm not so sure about that
29:36
because last week it was revealed that children on the
29:39
Pathways trial will be incentivised with up to £500
29:44
worth of love to shop vouchers for completing psychometric
29:47
tests and scans. And these participants will
29:51
receive 30 LB vouchers for each of the 15 cognitive assessments
29:55
completed and 15 lbs for each of the three MRI scans.
30:01
This is called caused widespread outrage, including from the
30:05
Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Continue, who said these
30:10
children are in a vulnerable position.
30:12
Adults should not be giving them vouchers in return for being
30:16
experimented on. No kidding.
30:20
Now you'll remember the 2024 cast review which found poor
30:23
evidence, very poor evidence for either the safety or efficacy of
30:27
puberty blockers, but found serious short and long term side
30:32
effect evidence. And there's also no evidence
30:35
that transitioning will reduce suicide risk, which is often
30:38
cited as a reason to use these powerful sterilizing drugs.
30:43
Doctor Kass ruled that gender questioning children must be
30:46
protected from irreversible and damaging medical or surgical
30:50
treatment and following the publication of her report was
30:54
treating banned puberty blockers indefinitely for under eighteens
30:58
due to the quotes unacceptable safety risks.
31:02
Unfortunately, but probably deliberately, Cass left left a
31:06
dangerous loophole allowing children to receive puberty
31:10
blockers if enrolled in a trial and notably Hilary Cass has
31:15
welcomed the Pathways trial and this loophole has been
31:20
predictably exploited by gender ideologues to continue their
31:23
Frankenstein agenda which has been described in the media as
31:27
state sponsored child abuse. Public figures such as Kemi
31:31
Badenoch and JK Rowling have called called for the trial to
31:35
be halted and Health Secretary Wes Streeting admitted that
31:39
parents of children in the trial cannot give proper informed
31:43
consent for the use of drugs with such serious and
31:46
irreversible side effects, which includes infertility and no
31:50
evidence of benefit. So the public have joined in the
31:55
fight back with a government petition to stop the trial
31:58
reaching 142,000 signatures, which has secured a debate in
32:02
Parliament on the 9th of March Now.
32:05
The government response deferred to the experts, citing the cast
32:09
review recommendation to establish a clinical trial.
32:14
And then in December, a legal challenge to halt the Pathways
32:17
trial began. Spearheaded by the Bayswater
32:20
Support Group, who represent 800 parents of gender confused
32:24
children, and supported by psychotherapist Jane Esses and
32:28
former trans patient Kira Bell, who received puberty blockers in
32:32
male hormones herself but later regretted that her transition
32:36
and detransitioned. They sent a letter before action
32:40
to the MHRA, who licensed the trial, and the Health Research
32:44
Authority, who gave ethics approval, claiming that the
32:48
ethical approval process had been seriously flawed and
32:52
threatening A judicial review unless the trial was halted.
32:57
Then at the beginning of February, so just a couple of
32:59
weeks ago, the Bayswater Group launched their judicial review
33:03
against the Health Research Authority and the Department of
33:06
Health and Social Care, applying to the High Court to challenge
33:09
the decision to start the trial and asking for recruitment to be
33:13
paused during the legal proceedings.
33:16
Now, a King's College spokesman said, we strongly refute the
33:20
claim that this carefully designed study is scientifically
33:23
unsound or that it bypassed the ethics process.
33:26
However, it looks like this legal case is already bearing
33:31
fruit. So firstly, in Northern Ireland
33:35
last week, Health Minister Mike Nesbitt very unexpectedly
33:39
suspended participation in the Pathways trial, only days after
33:44
Northern Ireland had confirmed their inclusion.
33:48
He cited the ongoing legal action saying I think it is
33:51
prudent to pause and wait on the results of the judicial review
33:56
and he came under intense fire from many including First
34:00
Minister Michelle O'Neill who described his decision as
34:03
disgraceful. But it turns out to have been a
34:06
prescient action as only days later we got this bombshell news
34:10
which broke this weekend. On Friday the 20th of February,
34:15
the Department of Health and Social Care announced that the
34:18
Pathways trial has been paused due to new concerns raised by
34:22
the MHRA. And the MHRA statement on the
34:26
government website explains that they are taking a cautious
34:29
approach and due to new concerns around participant well-being,
34:34
they will engage in scientific dialogue with the trial
34:36
sponsored King's College. Then the plot thickened with a
34:40
link on the MHR statement to this redacted confidential
34:44
letter from the MHRA to King's which is well worth a read.
34:48
This slide has just got a few excerpts.
34:51
Briefly, the MHRA referred to the public and professional
34:55
interest in the trial, the significant and unquantified
34:58
risk of long term biological harm including infertility and
35:03
the need to implement a minimum age restriction of 14 years.
35:06
Remember it was anything from 8 to 10 years.
35:10
And they also list serious adverse effects that need to be
35:13
monitored for, including bone thinning, vertebral or low
35:17
velocity fractures, persistent vaginal bleeding and reduced
35:22
cognitive function. And just remember, these are
35:25
healthy children we're talking about.
35:28
And at the end of their letter, they also refer to the legal
35:31
action which must have put the wind up them.
35:33
And this is a significant victory for the public.
35:36
But this is the same N AM HRA who have still failed to respond
35:40
or react to the horrific yellow card data of COVID vaccine
35:43
injury and death. Why the deafening silence in
35:47
that case? But it seems that this NHS
35:50
gender insanity may have peaked with several recent significant
35:54
victories. So, after a long legal fight,
35:57
the Darlington nurses finally won their employment tribunal
36:01
against the County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust.
36:05
The trust was ruled to have violated the nurses dignity by
36:08
allowing Rose Henderson, a biological male who identifies
36:11
as a woman, to use the female changing room.
36:15
And the tribunal concluded that while a transgender person has
36:19
protections against discrimination and harassment,
36:22
this does not translate into a positive right to use the female
36:26
changing room. And they cited the 2025 Supreme
36:30
Court ruling that according to the 2010 Equality Act, a woman
36:34
is defined by her biological sex and not her identity.
36:39
But it's just been revealed that, astonishingly, the trust
36:42
chief executive submitted a report to the board admitting
36:45
that the trust has spent £603,000 worth of taxpayers
36:51
money fighting this case. And then finally, last bit of
36:55
good news. At the end of January, after 18
36:58
month battle, a nurse suspended by Epsom and St.
37:01
Heliers NHS Trust for misgendering a male patient in
37:05
May 2024 was cleared by her trust disciplinary panel and
37:09
reinstated to clinical duties. And we have a video of her
37:13
telling her incredible story. Yes, I'm still traumatized with
37:18
the situation, the fact that I could be facing suspension, my
37:23
career coming to an end simply because I refused to refer to
37:28
this patient as a female, as a she or Miss.
37:44
Yes, on the medical record, this was a male patient and a urology
37:49
on the bedside. It was just written his name,
37:52
not Miss or anything. So on the first glance and I
37:55
looked at him like wow, he was a very big man, very huge, about 6
38:02
foot tall. He literally stood up and began
38:04
to throw racial slurs at me and said do not call me Mr. I'm a
38:09
miss, I'm a woman. When I came back the following
38:17
shift I was told you can't walk anywhere else from now on.
38:22
You can do bank shifts, You're restricted from doing anything
38:26
from HR point of view because you have deliberately
38:29
misgendered a patient. I was in shock.
38:35
And finally, Melee is not leaving the matter there.
38:38
She's going to take the trust to an employment tribunal in April
38:41
on the grounds of discrimination due to her Christian and gender
38:45
critical beliefs. So, supported by Christian
38:47
Concern, she is suing the trust for harassment, discrimination
38:51
and breaches of her human rights.
38:52
And you can go to the Christian Concern website for updates and
38:56
a link to donate to her legal case.
38:58
But this shows the power of people fighting back.
39:02
Liz, thank you. Thank you very much for that
39:04
excellent report and really good that you end on a positive note
39:07
there. What does it show?
39:09
It shows that each individual can actually step up and
39:14
challenge the system that brings help alongside them and they can
39:18
make a difference. So really wonderful to see that
39:21
very brave lady basically coming out on top in this in this
39:27
fight. So it shows that Christian
39:30
African women are kryptonite to the identity politics brigade as
39:33
well. Indeed.
39:36
OK. So Liz, thank you for that.
39:39
The other thing that was in my head was that the number of of
39:43
people with a gender problem is, is still a statistic very low.
39:48
What what is it? It's about .5 of a percent, if
39:52
that because very little data on it.
39:54
So we come to the question of where do these policies come
39:58
from that we've gone from dealing with people with with
40:03
problems? In in a, in a human and caring
40:07
way, but not making that the driving agenda which affects the
40:11
overwhelming majority of society.
40:14
I think you're going to take a delve into, not on that
40:17
particular issue, but some of the people who are manipulating
40:21
policy in this country. Yeah, where the policy is coming
40:24
from. Yeah, We've got a we've got a
40:25
new power couple in the British political and economic
40:29
establishment and it all centres around this lady.
40:32
This is Dame Antonio Romeo, who was mentioned last week.
40:37
She's just been installed as the new Cabinet secretary and head
40:40
of the civil service first lady to do the job.
40:42
God bless her. And before that, she was
40:45
permanent secretary to the Home Office for under a year.
40:48
And then before that, she spent four years permanent secretary
40:50
to the Ministry of Justice, career civil servant, diplomat,
40:54
and clearly, like quite close with Shabana Mahmoud because she
40:58
was a justice with her. And then went to the Home Office
41:01
and she's been bumped up into the top job in the civil service
41:05
on, I would imagine, a recommendation from our current
41:07
home secretary, who, let's remind ourselves, when she was
41:11
at justice, her ultimate vision for that part of the criminal
41:13
justice system was to achieve by means of AI and technology, what
41:17
Jeremy Benson tried to do with his panopticon.
41:19
That is the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.
41:22
And Tonio Romeo was helping her deliver this agenda and no doubt
41:28
will be carrying that through into the rest of the civil
41:30
service as well, didn't she? A lovely lady.
41:33
And this is her fella, John Romeo, who we're going to talk a
41:36
bit more about now. Actually, I'm sure we'll talk
41:38
about Dame Antonio a lot overcoming months because of the
41:43
elevated position she now has in government.
41:45
But I just wanted to flag up a very interesting bit of
41:48
information, which is her husband and partner, who is also
41:51
the managing partner and head of private capital at Oliver Wyman,
41:54
which is a global consulting business.
41:56
Head of private capital basically means helping really,
41:59
really rich people get and richer.
42:02
He's also the CEO of the Oliver Wyman Forum, which I'll come
42:05
back to in a moment. Chair of something called the
42:07
London Data Commission, which is really interesting and we'll
42:10
come back to that too. And also vice chair of RADA and
42:14
with links into a bunch of other people, including the Rothschild
42:16
family actually, which I'll come back to shortly.
42:18
Now just to establish what Oliver Wyman is and where it
42:21
sits in the in in the old hierarchy.
42:24
He's the managing partner of Oliver Wyman, which is owned by
42:28
Marsh, formerly known as Marshall McLennan, which is a
42:31
strategic partner of the World Economic Forum.
42:34
Just a coincidence I'm sure. Yes, I was an accident.
42:37
Actually, I think they, they accidentally signed up strategic
42:40
partnership, which they have to pay for and is also the top tier
42:43
of, of partnership. And they're also a thought
42:46
partner, which means that they set the agenda and they
42:49
basically established the direction for global
42:52
corporations. Will provide some links.
42:53
You go and look at some of their stuff.
42:55
One of the ones that jumped out at me was the idea that Gen.
42:57
Z would prefer to have an AI boss than a human boss.
43:02
That's what they're promoting at the moment.
43:04
Fascinating. Now, he's also, as I mentioned,
43:07
the managing partner of the Oliver Wyman Forum and he was
43:10
quoted as saying there that the issues we address in the Oliver
43:13
Wyman Forum from our global span industries and involve the
43:17
public and private sector. So this is inherently public
43:20
private partnership. He then goes on to say we are
43:23
here to make connections across data, people and insights that
43:26
create breakthroughs. We do that by building
43:29
leadership communities to act on shared challenges.
43:34
That sounds very common purposely, doesn't it?
43:36
It's exactly what common purpose we're up to.
43:38
Anyway. Let's hear Mr. Romeo talking
43:41
about his thoughts on misinformation.
43:46
John Romeo, the managing partner of the Oliver Wyman Forum.
43:53
Misinformation risks eroding the whole fabric of society.
43:56
We've seen countless. Examples of how misinformation
44:00
can spread very, very quickly, far and wide, and how it can be
44:04
weaponized to suit certain people's purposes.
44:06
One of the biggest areas of focus right now is how do we
44:09
restore trust online? How do we get our news?
44:12
Where do we get it from? How is it filtered?
44:14
How do we begin to interpret that and and act on it?
44:19
Now there's no silver bullet to to solve all of this, but I
44:22
think as public and private sector come together and have
44:25
that real open debate, the path is likely some combination of
44:30
regulatory change and a resetting and clear.
44:34
Industry norms so that providers of platforms can still make
44:37
money, but that we can begin to eliminate some of the more
44:40
harmful full impacts on society. Well, I'm sure he doesn't like
44:52
us, Ben. I'm sure he doesn't like UK
44:54
column news. No, According to him, we're to
44:56
be eradicated. Is that right?
44:58
Filtered. He preferred we prefer the term
45:01
filter. Prague.
45:01
Come on, you know he. Did I was a little bit strong?
45:04
Yeah, I was a little bit strong. Yeah, exactly.
45:06
But he could basically work for Ofcom.
45:07
I mean, he's sitting there and he's a managing partner of an
45:11
international consulting firm, which is a strategic partner of
45:14
the World Economic Forum. His wife is the now of the
45:16
Cabinet secretary. And he's basically saying this
45:18
is what we think the government should be doing ultimately,
45:21
right. So you get a sense of what he's
45:22
about and, and essentially what ideas and information and
45:26
policies are being directed straight into Cabinet Office
45:31
ultimately through this relationship, Right.
45:33
And as I said, they're big on public private partnerships,
45:36
especially what the Oliver Wyman Forum has been set up to build
45:40
public private partnerships. Great example of this which I
45:42
came across, the one that Mister Romeo is on the board of is
45:47
this, this is the London Data Commission, which is set up in
45:50
2020. And this is a partnership
45:53
between Arab, who are also World Economic foreign partner,
45:58
Microsoft, who are also a World Economic foreign strategic
46:00
partner is a theme emerging here.
46:02
And Sadiq Khan, that lovely man who supposedly is the Mayor of
46:05
London. And there are 4 pillars to this
46:08
Leadership, responsibility, innovation, collaboration.
46:11
I'll just whip through them quickly.
46:12
You should go and have a read of this because basically it's a
46:14
blueprint for a smart city. That's what they're producing
46:17
here. So we can see that this London
46:18
Data Board is going to sit at the centre of the Greater London
46:23
Authority, central government, London boroughs, academic
46:26
institutions, private sector businesses, the NHS and
46:28
emergency services, charities and NGOs, Transport for London.
46:32
They're all going to feed into this central data platform,
46:35
which is a public private partnership that is then going
46:38
to be used to coordinate policy across the capital city of the
46:43
UK. Don't worry though, they've got
46:46
some the principles that they use to govern their behaviour.
46:50
Everything they do has got to deliver benefit for Londoners.
46:52
Dr. innovation, protect privacy, share learning, create scalable
46:57
solutions, be as open as possible.
46:59
All sounds fantastic doesn't it? They got a bunch of these pilot
47:03
schemes running, a lot of it relating to COVID.
47:06
So supporting London's response to COVID-19, identifying drivers
47:11
for digital inclusion. So this is part of the COVID
47:13
responses, making sure that everyone is on the Internet, is
47:16
is is completely, completely as possible, building digital
47:19
neighborhoods, expanding electronic vehicle charging
47:23
infrastructure. These are all recommendations
47:26
and actually active projects coming out of this thing that
47:30
John Romeo has been coordinating on behalf of the mayor and
47:33
others. And this is going to sit at the
47:35
epicenter of not just a national network, but a global network
47:39
where the London Data Board is going to feed into the M8 group
47:42
of metro mayors, the C40 cities, core cities, and then other
47:46
international groups like the Bloomberg Cities Network.
47:49
So you thought the London was capital of the UK?
47:51
It's not. It's a hub in a global
47:53
interconnected digital network of city states.
47:57
And John Romeo is helping to coordinate that.
48:00
The husband of the new Cabinet secretary.
48:04
Also, I did mention some links to the Rothschilds.
48:06
This relates to this event that was held at Waters the Manor in
48:10
Buckinghamshire at the end of 2023 about responsible
48:13
investment and this fellow who is a close colleague of John
48:18
Romeo, Hugh van Stenis, who's the vice chair of Oliver Wyman.
48:21
So they're both in the leadership team at Oliver Wyman
48:23
together. Said that it was a pleasure to
48:25
be part of the advisory group for the Responsible Investment
48:27
Forum, a fabulous group of investors, financiers, business
48:30
and policy makers, convened by James Harding from Talks Media
48:33
and Lord Rothschild. Yeah.
48:36
Don't you say coincidence, but it's not a coincidence.
48:39
I was going to say that again, but when you say that, too often
48:41
people realise that it can't be a coincidence.
48:44
No, it's not. No, we keep on seeing the same
48:46
people. And and just to wrap up on one
48:50
final connection here, Mr. Romeo is also on the Advisory Board of
48:55
rather the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
48:58
He's the chair of their Development Board, which I'm
49:01
guessing is quite important. And who's the patron of Rada?
49:05
It is none other than his mayor, Justine King Charles the Third,
49:09
who is hoping to pull the strings from behind the scenes
49:13
along with the rest of these characters that we just talked
49:15
about straight into Cabinet Office.
49:17
Indeed. Well, we'll have a little bit
49:19
more to say about King Charles in a moment.
49:21
But first of all, as always, a huge thank you to everybody
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That would be much appreciated. Now, as some people already
49:49
know, because I can see in our chat box today that his name is
49:52
being mentioned, but Patrick Kennington has been in Mexico
49:55
while some pretty amazing events have taken place.
49:58
And we've got a short report from Patrick here.
50:02
You can see more on his 21st Century Wire website.
50:06
Let's have a look. So again, we've spoken to locals
50:11
here and nobody has seen anything like this.
50:14
People who have lived here for decades, including residents who
50:17
were born here, a native resident saying this is a big,
50:20
this is a big issue. This is not something that
50:22
they've ever encountered in their life.
50:25
So again, this is completely a surprise, a shock to us.
50:31
It's not something that we intended to be, you know,
50:34
reporting on. Is it just something that's
50:35
happened here? So as as we're in the locale,
50:38
I'm just reporting on it. I was I was here speaking at a
50:41
conference. So it anarcho poco 2026 on
50:46
geopolitics and AI and propaganda.
50:49
So again, this, this we've been immersed in all these political
50:54
topics and panel discussions for last week and then conferences.
50:58
Our conference is finished this week and then this happens.
51:01
So it's incredible. What what I'm going to do is
51:03
I'll take you get a close up look at this.
51:07
This is a bus that was put here this morning set on fire in
51:10
order to block this main thoroughfare into the city.
51:13
And you'll see these roadblocks at at strategic points around
51:16
the city. We're told police have been
51:19
dispatched to different places. They're moving around, dealing
51:22
with situations where even there's been reports of people
51:25
being pulled out of taxis, all their belongings taken, cars set
51:28
on fire. This, this has to be seen as a
51:32
power struggle. It's the best way to, to put it,
51:36
power struggle between, you know, local, state, federal
51:40
authorities and you know what many would call organized crime
51:45
under the general term of the cartel, Serious power outages.
51:50
Cell phone communication seems to be working at the moment, but
51:54
it is is a major sort of tumultuous event for the city of
51:58
Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. I did a longer report, which is
52:02
on the Sunday Wire at 21st Century wire.com.
52:05
We just went live just a few minutes ago.
52:10
Well, when I'm not envious of the circumstances out there in
52:14
Mexico, I am a little bit envious of the blue sky and
52:17
sunshine that we could see in the background when you have a
52:20
look out of the UK column window.
52:23
No, but we've got all the fog though.
52:25
We've got all the the cold, wet fog.
52:27
OK, now let's just move on to tonight at 7:00.
52:32
We've got another germ warfare episode, Lord of the Rings and
52:36
the world's central banking oligarchy.
52:39
That's going to be really interesting and very pertinent
52:42
because of course nothing moves in the world without the power
52:45
of money. Now we've also got a special
52:49
video playing out tomorrow, which we are really going to
52:52
encourage everybody to watch. This is going back in time well
52:57
over 10 years ago at one of the UK column events when a lady
53:03
called Strider gave an absolutely fantastic
53:06
presentation about how the the child abuse cover up in Britain
53:12
worked. Now, this was a really powerful
53:14
and very, very extraordinary talk.
53:19
And we think that it's so relevant today when many people
53:23
are saying how can Epstein have done what he did?
53:26
And then the thing just gets pushed into the long grass.
53:29
Here's a little clip from her talking, but you will need to
53:33
tune in tomorrow at 1:00 to see the full talk.
53:36
And I think you will be amazed at what she had to say way back
53:40
then. Let's have a little listen to
53:42
this clip. The headline The PM dismissive
53:47
of historic sex abuse claims. Could of course mean that he is
53:52
focusing on the present rather than the past.
53:56
However, the sub line is telling he wants to move on from
54:02
allegations of sexual. Abuse involving political
54:07
figures. Well, that's just a little
54:12
snapshot, but do TuneIn tomorrow and we guarantee that once
54:16
you've seen the talk that's tried again, you'll really start
54:20
to be able to put the Epstein affair in its proper place.
54:24
Now, contrasting the work from that lovely lady, let's have a
54:27
look at the BB CS reporting because here we are.
54:31
It's well, it's all to do with removing Andrew from the royal
54:34
line of succession. This is all a part part of the
54:37
BBC drifting the whole of the Epstein affair into the royal
54:42
long grass. We've got Andrew here.
54:45
Well, he was a very naughty boy because he used apparently,
54:48
allegedly taxpayers money for A to pay for a massage.
54:53
That's such a huge deal against the abuse that has now come to
54:58
light around the Epstein affair. And then this one amused me
55:02
because the BBC is saying, well, it's just a little bit of a
55:05
battle between the royal brothers.
55:07
It's Andrew versus King Charles. Now, of course, Andrew
55:11
effectively looking over his shoulder because it's Epstein
55:15
haunting him. But there's something the BBC
55:18
doesn't want you to know or remember.
55:20
And that of course is Jimmy Savile sitting over the shoulder
55:25
of King Charles. So this isn't about a battle
55:29
between royal brothers. This is about society, the
55:32
government in UK getting in amongst the powerful people in
55:37
order to establish what crimes, if any, have been committed,
55:41
who's responsible and bringing those people to justice.
55:46
Now happily, if the mainstream media is not getting to grips
55:50
with what's actually happening, we can go onto social media and
55:55
find out quite a lot. But let's have a look at this
55:57
report of this particular senator talking and we should
56:02
have a video clip to play with that.
56:06
Hopefully we have had our issues today.
56:11
OK, video 4 is what I'd like to pop up.
56:15
Thank you. Fire on them too.
56:17
Is that simple? Is that let's have another go at
56:21
trying to play it. Is that simple?
56:24
Why do you think he is working so hard not to get them released
56:28
for so many months? What do you think the real
56:29
reason? Is it these files implicate?
56:35
Billionaires and friends of him and of his and of political
56:39
donors that he's trying to protect.
56:42
And Epstein also had close ties to our own intelligence agencies
56:46
and Israel's intelligence agencies.
56:48
That's why there's so much effort in trying to stop this.
56:52
And, and I do believe they'll try to stop it somewhere else.
56:56
And that's going to backfire on them, too.
56:58
It's that simple. So that was Senator Thomas
57:02
Massie really getting down to the to the nitty gritty of
57:06
what's going on. And he's not frightened of
57:08
speaking out, but of course, the mainstream media just not really
57:12
picking up on this. But credit where it's due, The
57:15
Economist has actually been delving into the files, and we
57:18
put this one up on screen and they've been looking in detail
57:23
at the data and they've done some really, I think, effective
57:27
analysis, which starts to build the picture about the
57:30
relationships between people in the network around Epstein
57:34
himself. Let's have a look at this little
57:36
video clip. Who had the most contact with
57:42
Jeffrey Epstein during his final decade at The Economist?
57:46
We have analysed 1.4 million of Jeffrey Epstein's emails.
57:50
We found the 500 figures who appear most often and analyze
57:53
their relationships with the sex offender, building a picture of
57:56
the people in consistent contact with Epstein after he pled
57:59
guilty to soliciting sex from a minor.
58:03
This is a list of some of the most well known figures that
58:06
appear in Epstein's emails. David Stern, an aide to Andrew
58:10
Mountbatten Windsor. Larry Summers, the former U.S.
58:13
Treasury Secretary, and Gillian Maxwell, Epstein's associate
58:18
who's been convicted of sex trafficking minors, were all in
58:21
consistent contact with Epstein. Our data shows that some people
58:25
were emailing with Epstein hundreds of times a month, like
58:28
the physicist Lawrence Krauss and the banker Ariana
58:31
Rothschild. To understand just how much
58:35
Epstein's network reached into almost every area of society,
58:38
we've also divided the top 500 people by their industry.
58:42
If you exclude Epstein's emails with his staff and business
58:44
partners, 19% of messages with his top correspondence were with
58:48
financiers like Jess Staley, the former CEO of Barclays. 17% were
58:55
in academia, like the immunologist Boris Nikolich.
58:59
They were politicians like Peter Mandelson, Britain's former
59:02
ambassador to the US, and Ahud, Barack, Israel's former Prime
59:06
Minister, and people from media and entertainment, including the
59:10
publicist Peggy Siegel, the journalist Michael Wolff and the
59:13
film maker Woody Allen. The list also contains at least
59:17
18 current or former billionaires, including Peter
59:20
Thiel and Elon Musk. All of them were in touch with
59:24
Epstein after his plea admitting to sex offenses in 2008.
59:28
Most of Epstein's correspondents say they didn't know about the
59:31
scale of his crimes. In such a vast data dump, the
59:34
quantity of emails alone doesn't give you the full picture of the
59:37
nature of their relationships. So we mapped the number of
59:40
emails sent and received. Ariana Rothschild sent many more
59:44
emails to Epstein than she received.
59:47
Lawrence Krauss and Epstein sent similar numbers of emails to
59:50
each other. Some people received far more
59:52
emails than they sent, like Bill Gates, who was bombarded by
59:56
messages between 2014 and 2016 and replied to relatively few.
1:00:00
He was, however, happy to meet Epstein in person on a number of
1:00:04
occasions. This analysis gives you an
1:00:06
insight into Epstein's relationships and network after
1:00:09
his plea deal. But many emails also detail the
1:00:12
ongoing abuse of women and girls.
1:00:15
We also used a large language model to score every message on
1:00:19
how disturbing it is. And buried among a million
1:00:22
mundane missives are over 1000 that are LLM flagged as highly
1:00:27
worrisome. What's your take on that, Ben?
1:00:32
I think he's missed a few things out.
1:00:34
Go ahead. So I would first of all like to
1:00:38
understand the links between the Epstein files in the Bilderberg
1:00:44
Group, because Annie Minton Beddoes, who's the editor in
1:00:49
chief of The Economist, is on the steering committee of the
1:00:53
Build and Grow group alongside Peter Teal, who was mentioned in
1:00:56
that report. And I didn't really get into
1:00:57
that. I wonder why.
1:01:00
Also, The Economist is significantly owned and
1:01:03
controlled by the Rothschild family and has been for decades.
1:01:07
And also Loreen Powell jobs. And I'm sorry, I'm getting
1:01:12
myself on thinking about The Atlantic.
1:01:14
That was me just riffing. OK, But the Atlantic are in the
1:01:17
mix here too. And then I'm talking about this
1:01:19
properly that's controlled of that's limited hangout, they're
1:01:23
managing it. Right.
1:01:24
Well, we're just going to say some useful analysis by the
1:01:27
economist there. And of course, what does that
1:01:29
data do? That little clip, it gets you
1:01:31
thinking about what's actually happening.
1:01:34
So I, I think our responses are indicative that it gets the
1:01:38
great cells moving. Let's come in at a different
1:01:41
direction from that analytical but rather dry economist
1:01:45
analysis, and we're going to go to AUS comedian and commentator
1:01:50
David Feldman, who did a particularly a particularly good
1:01:56
analysis of people around the Epstein affair, IE establishment
1:02:01
people who should have been doing the right thing.
1:02:04
Let's have a look at this first clip.
1:02:07
She was Florida's attorney general, right when all of this
1:02:12
was being exposed. So don't you think if Donald
1:02:16
Trump had in any way been linked to Jeffrey Epstein, she would
1:02:21
have prosecuted? Him, I mean.
1:02:24
She's a lawyer. She's an officer of the court.
1:02:33
Eight years as Florida Attorney General.
1:02:36
She swore an oath on the Bible. You don't get to that position.
1:02:43
Turning a blind eye to sexual predators.
1:02:49
There's no way she would have turned a blind eye.
1:02:52
Here she is running for re election as Florida's Attorney
1:02:57
General. Florida ranks third nationally
1:03:00
and calls for help for human trafficking, where young women
1:03:03
and children are enslaved and abused.
1:03:07
I knew we needed all. Hands on deck businesses and
1:03:10
hospitals to spot it are great, law enforcement to stop it and
1:03:14
tougher penalties to punish. It.
1:03:16
We're taking on Medicaid fraud, pill mills, gangs and more, and
1:03:20
I'll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they
1:03:23
belong, behind bars. Pam Bundy, our attorney General,
1:03:28
she. Cleared Donald Trump.
1:03:31
That should be enough, you would think, right?
1:03:34
That would be enough. But that's not good enough for
1:03:37
California House Democrat Ted Lieu, who sits on the House
1:03:42
Oversight Committee. He accused Pam Bondi last week
1:03:46
of committing perjury when she claimed there was nothing in the
1:03:50
Epstein files implicating Donald Trump.
1:03:53
He said she was committing perjury when she said Underoath
1:03:56
that there's no evidence, no documents even suggesting Donald
1:04:01
Trump needed to be investigated. Watch how disrespectful my hero
1:04:09
Congressman Ted Lieu is towards Pam Bondi.
1:04:14
How dare Ted Lieu, who may be the best member of Congress, How
1:04:19
dare he talk to Pan Bondi this way?
1:04:26
Now before we play Ted Lieu speaking and asking his
1:04:30
questions, we just say. Incredible blend of very dark
1:04:34
humour and sarcasm. Cutting right to the chase here.
1:04:39
And it takes social media or broader new media to actually
1:04:45
ask these key questions. So let's play clip 2 and have a
1:04:48
look at what was actually said by Ted Lieu.
1:04:54
Former Prince Andrew Donald Trump attended various parties
1:04:58
with Jeffrey Epstein. I want to know were there any
1:05:02
underage girls at that party or at any party that Trump attended
1:05:07
with Jeffrey Epstein? This is so ridiculous and that
1:05:17
they are trying to deflect from all the great things Donald
1:05:23
Trump has done. There is no evidence that Donald
1:05:26
Trump has committed a crime. Everyone knows that.
1:05:28
This has been the most transparent presidency.
1:05:31
He's the one that those five. I got your answer.
1:05:36
You said there's no evidence the legislation this, this is
1:05:41
electric. Belongs to the gentleman from
1:05:44
California. I'm going to put up another
1:05:48
document from a witness who called the FB is National Threat
1:05:52
Operation Center because I believe you just lied underoath.
1:05:56
There is ample evidence in the Epstein.
1:05:58
Don't you ever accuse me of a crime.
1:06:01
You just lied Underoath. And this is all on videotape.
1:06:04
You said there's no evidence of a crime.
1:06:06
I'm showing you. Here is a witness statement who
1:06:09
called into the FB is Threat Operations Center.
1:06:13
He drove Donald Trump around in a limo.
1:06:15
He overheard Donald Trump said to Jeffrey on his cell phone he
1:06:19
was so angry he was going to stop a limo and hurt Donald
1:06:21
Trump. And he met a girl who said she
1:06:23
was raped by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
1:06:27
She later had her head blown off.
1:06:29
And officers at the scene said that could not have been
1:06:31
suicide. No one, no one at the Department
1:06:36
of Justice interviewed this witness.
1:06:40
You need to interview this witness immediately.
1:06:44
The Epstein should rot in hell. So should the men who patronize
1:06:48
his operation. And as we sit here today, there
1:06:51
are over 1000 sex trafficking victims and you have not held a
1:06:56
single man accountable. Shame on you.
1:06:58
If you had any decency, you would resign right after this
1:07:01
here. With the gentleman has expired.
1:07:07
So a little bit of a hint there. I'm not taking sides in that
1:07:10
discussion. I'm simply pointing out that
1:07:13
actually the Epstein affair requires absolute clinical
1:07:19
precision in looking into what actually happened and
1:07:22
questioning why there's no full investigation.
1:07:25
Now compare that e-mail on a really serious subject of abuse
1:07:30
that they're talking about in that exchange.
1:07:33
And I'll just bring in this one to get people thinking about
1:07:36
this release. And this is one note in the
1:07:39
centre console of a car which simply says this, I use the cash
1:07:46
to fill up the tank. And that note is marked
1:07:50
confidential. And the name who's actually
1:07:52
signed the little note has been redacted.
1:07:55
So what do we learn from this? We have absolutely no idea what,
1:08:00
if any, investigation was taking place.
1:08:03
This is a photo from the Epstein files of a party with two female
1:08:07
faces redacted. I don't believe those two women
1:08:10
are particularly young, but we don't know.
1:08:13
We can't see their faces. This is a man on grass in front
1:08:18
of him as a young child, redacted and this is marked
1:08:22
highly confidential. And then we've got an old photo
1:08:26
of some young girls sitting on the sofa, also marked
1:08:29
confidential. Now, I'm just going to add that
1:08:32
as the Epstein long grass affair kicked into the long grass
1:08:37
affair continues here in UK, we've got more reports, this
1:08:42
from the BBC about Freddie's College failed to protect pupils
1:08:46
from sexual and physical abuse. And we've got a Guardian report
1:08:49
here on the Bishop of Lincoln arrested on suspicion on
1:08:54
suspicion of sexual assault. So final reminder, have a look
1:08:59
at the 1:00 report by Strider and I think you will be
1:09:03
astonished as to what she was saying all those years ago.
1:09:07
Ben, we're very tight for time, but do you want to give our
1:09:09
audience just a taster of Matters India and AI?
1:09:15
India is become a hub for artificial intelligence and
1:09:20
essentially the way I see it is we're being colonised from
1:09:23
India. It's colonisation in reverse,
1:09:25
and Rishi Sunak's right at the heart of it.
1:09:28
Right. There you go.
1:09:29
OK. My 20 seconds. 20 seconds
1:09:32
emotive comment and we'll get into that in the forthcoming UK
1:09:37
column News. Many apologies to the slight
1:09:40
technical issues we had at the start of the program.
1:09:42
It's taken up a little bit of time, but we'll pick up on that
1:09:46
topic. India and AI is 1 for us to
1:09:49
cover. So Ben, thank you very much for
1:09:51
joining me. It's been an interesting news.
1:09:54
And also Liz Evans, thank you for joining me.
1:09:57
Now we will have auk column extra in a few moments for all
1:10:02
our members. So if you're a full time or full
1:10:05
member of UK column, do join us. Then we'll dig further into some
1:10:09
of these subjects. Otherwise, huge thank you for
1:10:12
our audience, wherever you are in UK or worldwide, thank you
1:10:17
for joining us. The UK Column News will be back
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