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UK Column News - 15th October 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon, Today is Wednesday the 15th of October
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2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK Column News.
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I'm your host Brian Gerrish, delighted to have Diane
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Rasmussen with me in the UK Column studio in Plymouth.
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So welcome to you, Diane. Thanks.
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We'll be joined by Vanessa Bailey by Livelink.
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And we've got a very busy and I think quite an interesting UK
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Column News today because there's an overwhelmingly female
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theme to it. Of course.
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The series Gutsy Women is one of the series for UK Column News.
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Both you, Diane and Vanessa feature on Gutsy Women, but
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we've got a number of guests with us today, also women.
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So this is really interesting. Now Vanessa, you're going to
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kick off with an update on, well, the so-called peace deal
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in Gaza. But the more I read, the more
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personally I'll become disgusted with how this is being presented
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and it seems to be biased purely in favour of what is good for
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Israel. But that's my personal take on
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it. As I've said, we're going to be
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having a look at gutsy ladies and in particular the power of
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activism to fight back against the vinicious policies that are
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unfolding in the UK. Vanessa's also got a section
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having a look at, I beg your pardon, Diane?
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Let's bring you in first because you you were talking about
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what's happening with education libraries again, and in
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particular the grooming and the minds of children.
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And you've got a guest, Kathy Mudge, who's going to hopefully
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join us to be talking about the activist side as well.
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Vanessa's going to be taking a look at Syria and terrible
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things to do with children and trafficking.
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We're going to end by having another look at activism in a
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rather different and rather poignant form.
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We've got a very good extra today.
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If you're AUK column member, you can join us.
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So first of all, Vanessa, welcome.
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And what are you, what are you seeing in Gaza?
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Well, I mean, it's certainly not a peace deal.
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I agree with you there, Brian. It's, it's at best another
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ceasefire agreement that's already been violated by Israel.
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At worst, of course, it's a peace trap set by President
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Trump and his cohorts of ludicrous world leaders that met
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with him and Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt.
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So let's first of all look at a couple of videos from that
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meeting. First of all, Trump making
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ludicrous claims about humanitarian aid rolling into
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Gaza. So let's roll this.
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War in Gaza is over. Humanitarian aid is now pouring
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in, including hundreds of truckloads of food, medical
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equipment and other supplies, much of it paid for by people in
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this room. Civilians are returning to their
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home. So according to Trump, aide is
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rolling in. We'll come on to that in a
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second. But I did just want to show
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Starmer in all of his glory. He was basically hidden behind a
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plant at the back of the group for most of the meeting.
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And when Trump was speaking, he strategically placed himself
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directly behind Trump, I think, in the hope that he would be
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allowed to speak. And Trump, at some point, calls
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him out, and let's see what actually happens.
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United Kingdom. Where's the United Kingdom?
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Where's our friend? Where?
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Come here. Is everything going good?
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Very good. It's very nice that you're here.
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These people all came in like 2020 minute notice and I think
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it's fantastic and we have so many others and just so many
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others. Starmer really firmly put in his
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place there, obviously expecting to speak and not given the
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microphone. But let's move on to more
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serious matters. So as I said, Israel is already
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cutting back on the amount of aid that is being allowed into
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Gaza. Rafa crossing with Egypt is
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still shut. The number of trucks being
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allowed to enter is about 50% of those that were promised, so 300
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rather than 600. And of course, remembering that
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there were thousands of trucks coming in on a daily basis when
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Gaza was still standing prior to October the 7th.
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And effectively the the claim by Israel is that Hamas has not yet
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handed over the bodies of the hostages that were killed in the
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Zionist bombing of Gaza. Hamas has in effect handed over
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some of the bodies but are still searching for them.
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Of course, the bombardment since October the 7th destroyed the
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equipment that Hamas needs to actually move the rubble and and
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identify and find the bodies to hand over to Israel.
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And that's also been confirmed by the Red Cross that is also
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saying this kind of procedure is going to take weeks, not hours
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or days. Then on October the 14th, Israel
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violated the ceasefire with deadly attacks on Palestinians,
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killing nine people in Gaza that, according to the Israeli
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claims, went too close to the new Yellow Line, which the
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Israeli forces have withdrawn too.
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So they were killed both by God copters, artillery fire and
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sniper fire. And then basically as they were
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leaving, the Zionist forces burned much of the properties
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that they had occupied in Gaza. This is a report in alhahed
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English. They torched Gaza homes, but not
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only the homes they torched, also the sewage treatment
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station and humanitarian aid that was waiting to come into
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Gaza was burned, according to multiple reports.
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Then also we we mentioned in last week's news that there was
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potential for the ISIS factions or the extremist factions that
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had been given weapons and were being funded by Israel to turn
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against Hamas and the resistance factions in Gaza also being
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weaponized once the Zionist forces had withdrawn.
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And in fact, they have been conducting a series of
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assassinations. This is Gaza's Palestinian
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journalist Salah al Jafar. We killed by collaborators, as
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it says here, but working with Israel.
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So he survived 735 days of bombing attempts on his life and
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the genocide, only to be killed by the collaborators with Israel
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that Hamas is now trying to root out.
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And yes, they have executed members of that group, the
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prisoners that are being released.
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I think it's upwards of 2000 prisoners that have been
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released by the Zionists. Of course, there's thousands
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more still in the Israeli jails. This is just one video, some
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very moving videos that shows the extent of physical and
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emotional torture that these prisoners have gone through.
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Some of them have been held for months, some of them have been
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held for years. This is just one clip of a
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busload of prisoners arriving back in Gaza.
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So if we can just play this? And the next images of, I didn't
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play the video because it is quite harrowing, this is Doctor
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Mohammad Asaliyah. So a doctor that was taken from
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the AL Shifa Hospital is now returned to the AL Shifa
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Hospital with severe heart pain and seizure after his time in
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the Zionist prisons. Let's hope that he can be helped
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to recover. And then finally, I just want to
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play part of an interview with Professor Haim Brasheed, who's
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an associate research fellow at SOAS in the UK.
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And he's talking about basically what what I've said many times,
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that any ceasefire that is agreed upon by Israel and the
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Zionist bloc, including of course, President Trump, is
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effectively a way for the Israelis to recover from the
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conflict that they're currently involved in, in this case in
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Gaza, to pivot towards another. Let's hear what he says.
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He does agree with me. United States is doing the
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United States is ceding military bases everywhere.
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The Chinese are actually building, the Americans are
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destroying. So that's the difference between
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the two systems now fighting for control.
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And Israel is exactly where it belongs because they specialized
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in destruction. So I think the implications of a
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war against Iran might be very far reaching if the Israelis get
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their way. First of all, if the war
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happens, which is almost certain, and secondly, if they
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get the upper hand, then the destruction is going to advance
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in East and Central Asia at at the pace which we haven't seen
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yet. So this is the desperation of
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the West, which is spreading to military actions everywhere, to
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stop what is the trading nation supremacy of China and the
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American. So effectively this ceasefire, I
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won't call it a peaceful, is in my opinion, the start of
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something much bigger. Vanessa, thank you very much for
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that. I would say start of something
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else which is going to be much worse as it unfolds, but
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terrible times. And I know that reporting what
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you are or seeing and hearing there in the in the in the
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Middle East makes makes a real impact on you.
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So thank you for bringing that to us.
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We'll be able to discuss a little bit more in UK column
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extra after the news. Well, whilst that's the horrors
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in Gaza, here in UK, people are faced with an increasing sense
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of doom and breakdown. And of course, the lead is from
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the BBC. So just a screenshot from me of
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their web page earlier today. But we've we're very big on the
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the Israeli hostages who who've been saved.
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But the rest of it is a mix of pop stars, pressure, breakdown,
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sickness, death and depression. And of course, this is backed up
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by all of the headlines in the papers.
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Some of it is utterly disgraceful.
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And for them to call themselves newspapers, I think is just
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becoming nearly a joke. But what is all this designed to
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do? Well, it's calculated policy is
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designed to create chaos, fear, breakdown, strife, anxiety,
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confusion and depression in UK. And many people are telling us
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here at the UK column how depressed they actually feel as
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they see things breaking apart. This is deliberate policy by the
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government, the UNI party, it's not accidental.
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How are we going to counter it? We're going to counter it by
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sensible, measured activism. It's not enough to be at home
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and simply saying no, I don't agree with this, you have to do
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something. So I'm going to emphasise that
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in putting out the UK column Gutsy Women series, I was
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acknowledging women who were actually standing up to be
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counted. And these were interviews that
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I'd done top right Kimberly Isherwood from Public Child
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Protection Wales. But of course we've also got the
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Fanethy women. So a couple of days ago I was
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able to interview Kim Isherwood and I remember this lady has
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taken, has taken made a stand against the grooming of children
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by the Welsh government, the sexualisation of children in
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school and her stand brought other people on board and then
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it has gone international. So this is a little interview I
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did a couple of days ago where Kim was talking about what had
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happened following their visit to the United States and the
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World Health Conference, Sorry, the World Health Organization
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conference. Kim, you're back with the other
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ladies from the States. A little while ago, I was able
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to do an interview with you where you were very excited that
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your team were going over to Washington to get together with
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other people from other countries around the world who
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are also concerned at what was happening with the grooming of
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children through the education system.
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And the plan was that you were all going to challenge the World
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Health Organization at their conference.
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How did that go? It was quite interesting.
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So the World Health Organization is in a building called Pan
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American Health Organization. They had a five day conference
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there. They are completely untouchable.
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They are unreachable. There was a marquee outside
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where some people were having tea and considering there was a
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five day conference and this building has the World Health
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Organization on their sign outside, I'd say about 70% of
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people going in and out of our building had no idea what the
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World Health Organization was about.
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There was no reception desk. There was absolutely no way we
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could reach anyone at all. So some people might say that
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was a bit of a flop. However, I don't think that's a
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flop. I believe that is evidence of
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how out of reach these people are, how unaccountable they are
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and that that should show people.
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That should alarm people though. These people have massive
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influence over our education. All four countries in the UK are
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adopting their guidance and they are unaccountable, unreachable.
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And that I think that is a powerful statement, Brian, and I
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think people should be really concerned about that.
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So we didn't actually deliver the declaration of childhood to
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the World Health Organization. However, that plan hasn't gone
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away. We will continue with that.
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Even if we have to go to Geneva, we will make our stance on this
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situation known one way or another.
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So I think that's a powerful message to everyone in the UK.
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These people have a lot of influence over our lives, our
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children and our children's sexual development and the fact
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that they are completely unreachable.
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There's, there's no accountability there.
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This should be This should scream alarm bells, you know,
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for every single person watching this.
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This this is a very good point, Kim, because these are the
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powerful people, but they're hidden in plain sight in some
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ways they're hidden in other ways.
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You can you can see them, but they are operating at the global
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level. The, these, the, this is the
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level of people that when how Keir Starmer says he can work
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with Davos or at Davos because he can get something, he can get
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things done. These are the very people
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forming the policies that Keir Starmer is then implementing
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nationally. So yes, you, you by trying to
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take them on in a democratic way and not being able to do that,
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it highlights how unaccountable they are.
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The the other thing which you were very excited about was the
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fact that it wasn't just Public Child Protection Wales team that
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was going to be there in America.
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There was going to be people from other countries.
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How did that bit go? Fantastic, Brian.
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I think what we found was there are a load of ladies out there
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and gentlemen as well with the same heart, the same concerns
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and the same commitment as us. And you know, I think that in
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itself is very powerful. We've got plans moving forward,
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we've got projects moving forward and we have developed an
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international task force and this international task force is
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going to concentrate on different projects, you know,
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throughout this journey. And I, I've got nothing but
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admiration for these people. They work in a very similar way
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to what we work. And you know, I, like I said,
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we, we, we are delighted to have met these people, especially the
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ladies from the Reisman Institute as well.
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And we do have plans to fly these people over to the UK in
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April in time for our conference conference and for stage two of
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our plan regarding the bills and legislation that we want enforce
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in every country around the world.
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Right, let's pick up on one thing straight away, the Reisman
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Institute. That's Judith Reisman no longer
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with us, but she did so much work to expose the work of
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Kinsey and his use of paedophiles to produce so-called
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data on children. Horrific stuff.
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But that that's one of your key points that that's been brought
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into the education system in UK for very young children.
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The other thing is, and you just mentioned to me a little bit
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before we became Live Today, that you're working now on a
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bill which you you want adopted. Tell us a bit more about that,
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Bill. So back in the 1990s, Judith
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Reisman produced a bill. This bill was to investigate
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Fred Kinseys influence over legislation and education.
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This pill is supposed to remove all of that stuff.
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So this was in the 1990s. It got kicked into the long
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grass and the ladies from Purple for Parents United Indiana.
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So Audrey, who has worked very closely with Judith for over 30
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years, Audrey was a sex educator.
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And there's Rhonda Miller who is the CEO of Purple for Parents
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United. They have now revived that bill.
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And that was the second part of our visit to Washington, DC.
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There was an entire day, a full day of meeting congressmen in
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their offices, presenting this bill, presenting footage of all
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of us from around the world, explaining what it's done to our
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country, what it's done to our children.
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And that was received fantastic. I think that was the best part
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of the whole trip. Highly exciting.
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So what we've decided is this needs to be a worldwide
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response. So out in America the bills have
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got a code for what they call like HR5742 and things like
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that. Over here bills are named
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something different. So the bill we have produced for
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the UK is called the Child Protection and Research Ethics
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Bill 2026 and this is what we need everybody to get behind.
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We have 17 parent groups who are willing to get behind.
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It are their logos and their signatures.
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We have two barristers, we have some politicians out there and
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even though we are starting the campaign for this in January, we
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plan to deliver. This bill to Parliament in
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April, during the time that we fly these wonderful ladies over
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to the UK, so all you guys will get a chance to meet these
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ladies yourself. You can join us in our
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conference and we will be going to Parliament to deliver it
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then. We're unable to deliver it to
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the Senate at that time in Wales because we'll be going through
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an election. However, it will be handed in
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after the May election has taken place.
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This is something we're excited about.
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We are not naive enough to think of this is going to go through
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first time you know this started in the 90s with Judith and it
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was kicking the long grass. But the fact that all of these
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countries are on board on this project is tailored to our own
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countries needs. We've already got people behind
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it. We're going to keep pushing it.
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We've got a piece of paper that we can actually fight with now,
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Brian, you know, an actual bill, a piece of legislation that
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should have been in force a long, long time ago.
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So that's something we're massively excited about.
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I know our followers are delighted with that as well.
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And I cannot wait to see what the the next year brings.
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Well what a fantastic woman and she has achieved so much
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initially with the drive and enthusiast, her own drive and
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enthusiasm, but of course that brought other people on board
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and this is the whole point that if we sit and do nothing we
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achieve nothing and if we stand up to start doing things we can
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achieve a huge amount. So from South Wales to
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international, all is the work of this group, Public Child
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Protection Wales, we just pop that up on the screen so that
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people can see the website. And of course, what are these
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amazing women doing? They're taking action to stop
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the state sexually grooming children through the education
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system. Diane, welcome to the to the
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news. And of course, you've been
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tracking what's been happening through the universities and the
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libraries. What have you got?
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Yeah, thanks Brian. Really great to be here in
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Plymouth here today and hello to everyone out there.
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And also thank you again for making you one of your gutsy
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women back in the past. Pleasure.
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Thank you. So last week in the American
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Library Association was Banned Books Week.
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And I want to look at this because we do have direct
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connections, obviously with the child grooming that's going on
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in libraries and schools and in in the UK and increasingly
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throughout the world. So last week with Banned Books
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Week, according to the American Library Association and others.
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So who is the chair of Banned Books Week 2025?
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Actually it's George Takei. Let's hear what George had to
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say about Banned Books Week. I'm George Takei, honorary chair
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of Banned Books Week 2025 as one of 125,000 Japanese Americans.
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Incarcerated in US concentration camps during World War 2, I know
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what it means to lose freedom. My graphic memoir, They Called
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Us Enemy, tells that story, and it has been banned multiple
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times. Why?
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Because it reveals unvarnished American history and shows how
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freedom can be taken away. Today, books about LGBTQ lies,
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including stories like my own, are also being targeted in
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schools, libraries and bookstores across the country.
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Those who banned books want to lock away ideas they fear.
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But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom.
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Our freedom to choose what we read and what our children read.
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Our freedom to learn our full history, our freedom to see and
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understand each other. Banned Books Week is a time to
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remind our communities that access to books and knowledge is
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essential to democracy. Readers deserve to see
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themselves as reflected in the stories we tell and to discover
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the stories of others. So together, let's stand up for
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the freedom to read so that all Americans can find ourselves and
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find eachotherinbookslearnmore@bandbooksweek.org.
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So what do you think, Brand? Are there any banned books?
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What do you think? Are books being banned?
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No, no they're not actually, no. What it does mean though,
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however, is that some books, some books maybe are not age
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appropriate for children, correct.
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And as you might see, George Takai's book is sort of a
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graphic novel style, which typically appeals to young
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people, which I do not believe is age appropriate considering
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some of the content that is in that particular book.
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So let's take a look at some of this in greater detail, where
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this comes from and where it leads to.
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So the American Library Association has something that's
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called the Office for Intellectual Freedom, which
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actually, if you look at it, is is really kind of the opposite.
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We look at things like that go things that go in front of
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adults and in front of university students that they
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want to ban those things, but they want to put everything
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possible in front of children. And that's kind of their whole
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agenda. Every library and other
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associations are called grassroots organizations, but
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they have huge amounts of funding that are part of or
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related to in some way the American Library Association.
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Here's one of their things they did last week for Banned Books
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Week. It's called Read on Tools to
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help you prepare for and respond to book challenges.
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So what happens in America is that you can actually challenge
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books. It's what they call it.
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A concerned parents, grandparents, and other citizens
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who believe that things like violence, sexual content,
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etcetera, should not be placed in children's sections in public
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libraries or in school libraries.
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So this was an instruction manual essentially, or an
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instruction webinar for librarians on how to deal with
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the the pesky idea that children should not be looking at certain
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things and that parents want to bring this up And what, what can
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we do with those horrible homophobic parents?
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American Library Association has the top 10 most challenged books
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every year. The list from 2024.
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The number of books that are mostly LGBTQ or sexualized
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content in general is very high. And they're mostly written for
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children, not based on the content, but based on the
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reading level. So we can say something, it
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maybe is for children, but it the content is not just based on
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the words that are used in the book.
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So I heart Libraries is another one of these organizations that
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talks about banned books week in relation to the American Library
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Association. They have a whole website.
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All of these links to these organizations will be in the
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show notes. Amanda Jones I don't know if
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anybody remembers when I talked about Miss Jones last year, I
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believe it was on UK column. She wrote this book called Bat
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Librarian, which has a large range of I wouldn't say that it
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was academic or intellectual or library professional
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information, but it certainly was a polemic about how much her
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life was horrible when people started to challenge the books
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that she was putting in front of children.
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So if we look at this this information here she is now one
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of the world's most influential rising stars in the top 100
27:41
according to Time magazine. And she has a wonderful profile
27:44
written about her by Sarah Jessica Parker, who is the
27:46
executive producer of a documentary that was released
27:49
recently called The Librarians, which features librarians like
27:53
Amanda who are all about putting sexual content in front of
27:56
children. And this is a a quote from the
27:59
book that I reviewed for the Scottish Union of Education and
28:02
as well as here and UK call them last year.
28:04
And I just want to read the words of Amanda Jones that was
28:07
in this book that has all kinds of funding behind it.
28:10
Quote. Have you ever just wanted to
28:12
punch someone in the face with all your might?
28:15
Maybe someone has said something awful to you and the thought
28:18
crossed your mind that a good ass whipping sorry Ryan would
28:21
wipe the smirk off their face and teach them a lesson.
28:24
I don't advocate violence, but I have thought about how good it
28:27
would be to feel my haters in the groin.
28:30
And the haters are the people of course, who are challenging
28:32
putting this content in front of children.
28:35
The Influence Watch website talks about Ala and we can see
28:38
their budget from 2022 is millions and millions of
28:41
dollars, $91,000,000 in assets as of 2022.
28:45
So there is obviously huge amounts of globalist funding and
28:48
other types of funding put it going behind the American
28:50
Library Association. This is their number one banned
28:53
book from 2024 called All Boys Aren't Blue by George M Johnson.
28:58
If I could just quickly read the synopsis from the back cover
29:01
there saying George by the way, is they they them?
29:04
From getting their teeth kicked out by bullies at age 5, to
29:08
their loving family relationships, to their first
29:11
sexual experience. Sexual experience.
29:13
There we go. Those powerful stories wrestle
29:16
with triumph and tragedy, leaving a rich tapestry of
29:19
experiences both everyday and extraordinarily.
29:23
Covering topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity,
29:27
brotherhood, inequality, consent and black joy, George's
29:31
remarkable story is a story for us all.
29:33
Now you might think, OK, that's fine, he's got a story to tell.
29:36
However, if we look at libraries around the UK and around the
29:39
West, this one is placed on the shelf in the children's non
29:43
fiction section. This is from a library here in
29:47
England up in the Northeast in the sort of the Stockton and
29:51
Tees. I believe it is from this
29:52
library. And we can see the subject
29:54
descriptions include juvenile literature, gays, identity,
29:58
juvenile literature, teenage non fiction, audience level,
30:00
adolescent. And it is placed in the
30:02
children's non fiction material like, oh, sorry, this was in
30:05
York libraries. This is York Explorer, but this
30:08
is around the country. We can find these examples.
30:11
So at this point, I'd like to bring in Kathy Mudge who is a
30:13
guest with us today. She's been on UK column
30:15
previously an interview with me and on the news she is from
30:19
Protect and Teach. Kathy, welcome.
30:21
And could you tell us about some of the amazing activism work
30:24
that you have been doing locally, please?
30:27
Yeah, sure. Well, we went to our local
30:29
library, Exeter, and we went round the shelves and found four
30:32
books which you've got posted there.
30:35
We could have probably found more if we looked longer.
30:37
And we decided to challenge the librarians about their books and
30:41
the content in the books. So we are to speak to the
30:44
librarian manager. He came down to speak to us and
30:50
we showed in the book and we explained our concerns about the
30:53
fact that it discusses sexuality.
30:57
It actually teaches children about gender identity, sexual
30:59
relationships and different families.
31:02
And we thought it was inappropriate that it was in the
31:03
children's section, all brightly coloured to attract children in.
31:08
We found the average age of children going in with eight is
31:12
unaccompanied by adults. So from 8 years old they can
31:15
pick these books up. So I've got a few examples of
31:19
books that you sent me from your visit to the library.
31:22
If you could maybe just I'll put these on the screen if you can
31:25
just tell us what these books are and just to say that you
31:28
people can look up these titles for themselves if they would
31:30
like to do so. OK, well, first of all, as you
31:34
can see, it's LGBTQ plus. What is the plus?
31:38
No one ever tells us that bit. It's advertising the frag.
31:41
That's the Pride progress flag. The inverted V is to do with
31:47
trans children. And basically we call it the
31:49
transmutilation flag because the child mutilation flag because
31:54
that's really what it represents.
31:55
So whenever you see that flying, be very aware that they're
31:58
targeting children. It's not just about the LGB.
32:01
The LGB are trying to reclaim just the rainbow stripes and the
32:06
rainbow flag. So that was one that we found.
32:11
Again, you can see on the front there, it's all about it's
32:15
mixing things up. It's called it's queering
32:17
Children, really. Again, linking in with your
32:20
earlier talk that you had about Wells and the work they're doing
32:23
there. All of these books, we don't
32:26
want them bound. We just want them in the adult
32:27
section. If an adult wants to get it out,
32:29
by all means do, but I don't think that children should be
32:31
able to. They're also holding a queer day
32:35
there, a Queer Fest on Saturday in Exeter Library, where our
32:39
children and families are invited to go in and discuss
32:44
being queer and how to introduce LGBTQ into your school.
32:51
Yeah. And so we've got here if we
32:54
could go on to the decolonization issue, Kathy, as
32:59
I've covered previously on UK column, decolonization in
33:02
university settings and museums and increasingly other
33:05
organizations are basically is what they're doing is, is
33:08
changing curriculum, changing books in libraries, changing
33:12
what students are being taught at all levels because we can't,
33:15
for example, have white men from Britain.
33:18
Sorry, Brian, not allowed because, you know, you need to
33:21
be decolonized. So here's an example from the
33:23
University of Exeter decolonizing your reading list.
33:26
And so this is happening in universities around the UK.
33:29
So anything written by a straight right white man, sorry,
33:31
again, Brian, needs to be decolonized because it is no
33:34
longer considered to be inclusive or diverse enough.
33:37
So Kathy, just a bit more here that you've done some Fois on
33:41
what what they were doing with decolonizing library collections
33:44
at the University of Exeter. So what happened when you sent
33:46
that FOI? Yeah.
33:49
So following up from working with children, we wanted to find
33:52
out what they were doing with their books and the books they
33:54
were teaching teachers with next to library.
33:56
So we sent an FOI in which we wanted to find out the minutes
33:59
of their decolonisation meeting that they held regularly and who
34:03
was funding them. Because we'd really like to know
34:05
who's paying for this decolonisation, where the money
34:08
is coming from, because I think that would be very interesting.
34:11
And they refused the first two questions of our FOI, which you
34:15
can see there. And they said they didn't hold
34:19
any information, they basically done a computer search and that
34:22
they didn't show up. So I didn't believe that that
34:25
was possible, that you didn't have minutes of meetings which
34:28
signed as though someone would have been keeping them
34:31
somewhere. So I asked for an internal
34:33
review. And again, after the return
34:35
internal review, they felt happy that the computer search they've
34:38
done on my original questions was fine.
34:41
So I've now centred on Further and the Ombudsman.
34:46
Hopefully we might get some feedback there, but minutes
34:49
should not be hidden. What are they doing there?
34:52
They're involving young people. That's what we found.
34:55
We found from their pictures from text on on Twitter and
34:58
stuff asking young people which books they'd like to be removed
35:01
from extra university. So they start at university age
35:05
and start removing the books that they should be being taught
35:08
on. And as you know, there's an
35:10
issue with that then for people who want to get books at.
35:13
Absolutely. So I think the the real
35:15
hypocrisy here that's going on, Brian, is that we're attacking
35:17
the children and putting everything in front of them.
35:19
And if we don't agree with putting sexual content in front
35:22
of children in the library sections, then then we are
35:25
somehow homophobic. And if we are against the fact
35:28
that we are removing things like British history from British
35:31
libraries and British university teaching, then we are not
35:34
inclusive. So we see the inversion
35:36
happening here, Brian. Absolute inversion.
35:39
Absolutely. So what I would like to point
35:41
out is tomorrow I have an article that's being published
35:43
on the Scottish Union for Education sub stack which will
35:46
be available and I'll also continue to maybe share that
35:49
through UK column as well, if that's possible.
35:51
This will be about my coverage that I've done previously in
35:54
Granddad's Pride, Granddad's Camper, where we exactly what
35:57
they're trying to do with children, to parentify children
36:01
and to put symbols in front of children that do not belong in
36:04
front of them. So that's quite an extensive
36:07
article that will be out tomorrow, Brian.
36:09
And just to just so everyone is aware, next year's banned books
36:13
week has already been announced for the 4th of through 10th of
36:17
October 2026. So we have something to work
36:21
toward, not to support, but to say no notebooks are banned.
36:25
They are just maybe, hopefully placed in the right place in the
36:28
library. Brian.
36:29
Yes, OK. Well, we thank Kathy for that
36:33
report. And of course, Kathy is another
36:35
activist that has absolutely been pressing to expose what's
36:41
actually what's actually happening Now.
36:45
Then we've got, sorry, just come on to a slightly different
36:51
section now because we're back on the subject of activism.
36:54
And back in 2021, UK column was reporting on a lady called
36:59
Debbie Hicks who had exposed that a hospital, Gloucester
37:03
Hospital, was empty with regard to COVID patients.
37:08
And she was ultimately arrested for filming an empty hospital.
37:12
This is how desperate the system was.
37:15
I spoke to Deb, spoke to Debbie a couple of days ago and she was
37:20
telling me about an event on the 25th of October, what it's about
37:25
and what she is trying to do as an activist.
37:28
So absolutely we're staying on this theme of activism and these
37:31
wonderful women who are making things happen.
37:34
They are not sitting at home just commenting about what's
37:37
taking place. So let's have a listen to what
37:40
Debbie Hicks had to say. Hello Debbie.
37:44
Thank you very much for joining UK column News Today.
37:48
Now a little while ago I I was given an advert for an event in
37:52
Cardiff. It was near the Nye Bevan
37:55
statue. Nye Bevan of course being the
37:56
man who created the NHS and the the leaflets or the the advert
38:05
was was about no to digital ID and no to conscription in the
38:11
military. So you've been helping set this
38:15
up. What is it about and what do you
38:17
hope to achieve? Yeah, the the event is, is a day
38:21
of outreach that's planned. It's not a rally, it's not a
38:26
March, it's a day of outreach. So we're planning to leaflet as
38:29
many people as possible about digital ID and about
38:34
conscription and to go around to shop some businesses and talk to
38:38
them and have as many conversations as possible.
38:43
So it's about digital ID, it's about resisting digital ID,
38:48
about how to not comply, saying no, what people can do, but also
38:53
linking it together with the likelihood, the very strong
38:57
likelihood of war conscription in this country that Keir
39:02
Starmer and Rishi Sunak have talked about over the last
39:07
couple of years. So it's it's putting those two
39:09
messages together to get people to see that this digital ID is
39:14
likely to be used for more conscription to coerce people.
39:21
Debbie, I certainly share your concerns over that and a little
39:25
while ago Charles Malice and myself did a recorded
39:28
conversation about the military advantages.
39:32
I can look back on my own career and there was there was a lot of
39:36
time that I really enjoyed. I learnt lots of things out of
39:40
it. But the thought of fighting one
39:43
of these proxy wars on behalf of Keir Starmer truly frightening.
39:49
A really disgusting thing. And both Charles and myself felt
39:52
that we couldn't, in 2025 recommend the military as a
39:56
career to young people because of the risks.
39:59
That's one point and the other. The point I'd make to you is
40:02
that we discovered a little while ago that the MOD was
40:07
boasting it had more young cadets than actual.
40:12
People in the military in in the in the British Army.
40:17
So there's no doubt at all that they are eyeing up young people
40:22
as a means to filling the armed forces, presumably for yet more
40:26
proxy wars overseas. Yeah, no, absolutely.
40:31
I mean for me I'm, you know, one of my driving forces as an
40:34
activist. I've been an activist most of my
40:36
life. Last five years I've been quite
40:39
prolific and unknown for my anti lockdown activism and also for
40:44
keeping cash and my driving force in particular is my young
40:49
son. I've got an 18 year old son, not
40:52
just my son. I just see this whole younger
40:55
generation. I don't want to see them as
40:56
cannon fodder. Brian, I'm sorry.
41:00
I don't want to lose my son in a bankers war.
41:03
No, I'm no, I can't do it. And I just feel if there's any
41:07
time in history where people are more aware of what was or about,
41:13
you know, we've, we've, we've got all that history, that whole
41:16
never again, what happened to say never again, you know, the
41:19
war to end all wars. And I just feel like now's the
41:22
time when we can go out and put the message over that there are
41:26
ways to resist and that we need to see that these digital
41:29
systems are likely to coerce our children and that fighting back
41:35
with that is the way is the way to do it.
41:40
Now something that there's an important part part about this
41:44
gathering of people in Cardiff and just to make sure, it's the
41:48
25th of October at 11:00. But you're talking about
41:53
leafleting, you're talking about talking to members of the public
41:58
and shops and businesses. So this is not about allowed
42:02
protest with banners. This is about trying to actually
42:06
engage the public and and educate them really as to to the
42:11
concerns that you've got. Is that right?
42:14
It's a. Big conversation really.
42:17
It's my particular style of baptism that I've done over the
42:20
years that I enjoy and I, I feel it works and I feel the topic
42:24
like this with digital ID, which we know is very unpopular.
42:28
And war, of course, no one wants war.
42:30
No one wants their children to do this.
42:32
I wouldn't. I wouldn't imagine many people
42:33
anyway. I feel that we can do this in a
42:37
in a non partisan way. It's not, it's not going to
42:41
alienate people. It's the topic that I think
42:43
everyone will will understand if we talk to them.
42:47
And yeah, I mean, the beauty of this kind of outreach is we can
42:52
do something called cascading, something I learned from years
42:55
ago when I used to be involved in Labour politics for my sins.
42:59
We're going to, but it's this idea, it's it really works
43:02
actually is if you have a conversation with somebody and
43:05
they agree with you, you say, can you please have that
43:08
conversation with somebody else? And if they agree with you, ask
43:11
them to do the same. And it's just a really powerful
43:14
way of getting those conversations going.
43:16
And anybody that's listening can do the same with you, agree with
43:20
what we're talking about today with what I'm talking about.
43:22
Do that with a friend, do it with family and ask them to do
43:26
to do the same. Yeah, W this is excellent and it
43:29
certainly fits the encouragement the UK columns been giving the
43:34
audience of not to just sit there and get depressed and
43:37
anxious at what's happening is to actually stand up and do
43:41
something. And what you're suggesting is
43:43
very easy. Start a conversation doesn't
43:46
work, you move on to the next people, next person.
43:49
But when it does work, you ask them to share that.
43:52
Now you've also got some quite high profile guests for your
43:56
gathering, you've got Andrew Bridgen and Piers Corbyn.
44:01
Are there going to be some formal talks to the to the
44:04
public present? My opening speech is just to
44:08
kind of rally people up and get them, you know, get them
44:11
thinking about these things, quite sombre kind of message of
44:14
the way what we're talking about.
44:16
But also to rally people up and say, come on, you know, we we
44:20
can mobilise, we can get out, we can do things like we did
44:23
cheering lockdown with the risk of COVID passports.
44:26
We were, we were all out over the country doing this during
44:30
2021. And I feel it actually made a
44:32
big difference actually. So I think we need to do that
44:35
again. We need that spirit, we need
44:37
that energy. And I'm hoping these events will
44:39
really buoy people up with Andrew and and Piers.
44:44
Yeah. Right.
44:45
That, that's absolutely great. Final comment for me, it's
44:48
really interesting, but it appears that South Wales in
44:52
particular has got a lot of Dr. amongst the public.
44:55
You've got all the tremendous efforts of Kim Isherwood and her
44:59
team doing Public Child Protection Wales.
45:02
I've been speaking to several other people in South Wales over
45:06
the last few days and they're all talking about being active,
45:10
getting people to go out and communicate with people, not
45:14
just to be on the streets with a banner shouting.
45:19
So really fascinating segment. There are lots of positive
45:23
advice about how to actually make things happen with other
45:26
people. For anybody that can get to
45:28
Cardiff on the 15th, this is the details.
45:31
So the meeting is at 11 o'clock in the morning and it's next to
45:36
the Bevend statue in sorry, that should be statue in Queen St. in
45:41
Cardiff. So if you can get there, please
45:43
do. And I was referring to a
45:45
discussion between myself and Charles Mallett to do with does
45:48
the does your country need you, should you join up to the
45:51
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47:34
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47:42
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47:44
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47:47
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47:57
Now we've got this one, which is another major event in London,
48:02
central London at 1:00 PM Saturday the 18th of October.
48:06
This is to protest against digital ID and all the laws
48:11
coming in around that. And Patrick Henningson will be
48:14
present in London, so that will be worth attending if you can.
48:19
And I think we've got a couple here for you, Diane.
48:21
Is that right? Yeah, Thanks, Brian.
48:22
This is an article that was published on the UK column
48:25
website a few days ago. Speaking of all of the thousands
48:28
of articles we have on the website, this one is by Sarah
48:31
Newland. This is part one of two about
48:33
surrogacy, about the dystopian situation around surrogacy and
48:38
what it causes and and what's happening.
48:40
And she spoke about this article and her work on surrogacy just a
48:44
few days ago on Wake Up with Sonia Poulton.
48:46
So check out her interview there and also read the article on her
48:49
website. And as well as talking about
48:52
digital ID events, I will be speaking at a major digital ID
48:56
event in Newcastle on the 1st of November at the monument at 12
49:00
noon along with Fiona Rose Diamond and at least one other
49:03
speaker. So it should be a great event if
49:06
you are with me up in the north, or if you're not come to see me
49:08
anyway up in Newcastle on the 1st of November.
49:11
OK, thank you very much. All about activism, meeting
49:14
people, meeting up, being able to do things together.
49:17
So this is very positive stuff. Lastly, just give another
49:21
mention of course to UK column on location coming up this
49:24
Saturday. It's going to be brilliant to
49:26
see you all. I'll just say that we we are
49:29
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49:33
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49:42
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49:45
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49:48
to meet you there. And of course we will be talking
49:50
to the online audience. So if you can't come to the
49:55
actual event, well, all the tickets are gone now.
49:57
But if you want to come in over the Internet, then you can get
50:01
an online ticket and we will be speaking to you as if you were
50:06
in the room with us. Diane, you've got a a quick
50:09
update on Finethi. Yes, Finethi ladies.
50:13
Yes, thanks, Brian. So the Finethi Residential
50:15
School trial against Patricia Robertson, I can say at this
50:19
point that the jury is out. We are currently waiting for a
50:21
decision. There was some mainstream media
50:24
coverage of the start of the trial a few weeks ago.
50:26
Here's one example from STV News of talking about the start of
50:30
the trial. This was just from the first
50:32
day, but I can say that the trial is almost over as soon as
50:37
we get a decision. I went to attend one day of the
50:40
trial and listen to some testimonies from at the time was
50:45
three former staff at Fernethi Residential School who testified
50:49
examined by the Crown Prosecution.
50:50
And here's just a photo of some of the women that were with me
50:54
who are Fernethi survivors who were have been attending almost
50:57
every day of the trial. This was outside of the High
50:59
Court in Glasgow. And some of these women are
51:01
familiar to UK column because Brian has interviewed them
51:04
previously as gutsy women. So more women speaking out and
51:08
trying to fight for their rights and justice that they deserve.
51:11
Brilliant. Thank you very much, Diane.
51:14
Vanessa, let's bring you back with us.
51:17
And you've got a report about what's happening with children
51:20
and I think including trafficking of children.
51:26
It looks very much like it. I mean, basically somebody
51:28
tagged me into a video post yesterday on X, which was
51:34
slightly alarming when I first looked at it, but got
51:36
increasingly more alarming the deeper down the Bunny hole that
51:40
I went. So let's just play, first of
51:43
all, a section of the video that that was on X.
51:46
And this is Tim Ballard speaking.
51:50
We just crossed. I think this is our 177th border
51:53
crossing in the last 48 hours. The way we infilled was not
51:58
traditional but very much deliberate.
52:01
We, we basically leveraged several different partnerships.
52:05
But like you don't know who is who anywhere, especially in Indo
52:09
Syria. Once we got in, we, we, it was
52:12
mission accomplished. We got to see everything.
52:15
We saw all the people we wanted to see.
52:16
We got the evidence we needed. This evidence is going to be
52:19
valuable because it's the thing that triggers the.
52:24
The, the, the, the clause in the agreement between Syria, US and
52:29
Jordan that allows the United States to come in and secure the
52:32
corridor. So that was very key to get that
52:34
evidence. But really it was to see the
52:36
kids, see the people, bring hope to them, let them know that
52:39
people do love them. They feel very unloved.
52:42
And I don't blame them because nobody in the entire world of
52:45
billions of people has done much of anything.
52:49
It's just crazy. So that's the introduction to
52:55
Tim Ballard that I had yesterday, and then I started to
52:58
look into it. So first of all, from a
53:00
political perspective, we've spoken many times.
53:03
This is an article in Haaretz, fairly recent one that Israel
53:08
was basically weaponizing the conflict that grew out of
53:12
Jolani's attacks through the tribal forces on the communities
53:16
of Swedar in southern Syria that led to some appalling massacres.
53:21
Israel seeks humanitarian corridor of influence in Syria,
53:25
threatening regime stability. Regime of course is now the Al
53:28
Qaeda regime put in power by the British, Israel, Turkey and the
53:34
US. This is just quickly to show
53:36
people the map. So the yellow arrow at the
53:38
bottom going from the occupied Golan territory, which is Syrian
53:42
territory, of course, being gifted to Israel by President
53:45
Trump, shows how the humanitarian corridor that
53:49
Israel wants to create will cross through Dada in the South
53:52
and into Sweda. And then join with what is known
53:55
as the David Corridor, which will give Israel access up the
53:59
eastern border with Iraq and Jordan and Syria and join up
54:04
with the Kurdish separatist factions in the North East.
54:09
So that's that's the political aspect of of what Tim Ballard is
54:12
doing. And that's what I was first
54:14
focused on. And here he is in the same
54:17
video, basically confirming that he's working for Israel.
54:21
So if we just run this. But it was mission accomplished
54:27
and now we've got to get to Jerusalem to get the information
54:30
to the right government officials to go to the next
54:33
phase, which is established A corridor, get provisions and
54:36
continue to liberate and restore.
54:41
So very clear confirmation there that he is working for the
54:45
Israeli regime in securing their assets in southern Syria.
54:49
Then I started to look into who is Tim Ballard, and this came up
54:54
as the Tim Ballard Foundation, which is where the alarm bells
54:58
started to sound very loudly. As you can see there, he's a
55:03
vigilante focusing on ending child trafficking.
55:07
Now, as soon as I see that generally speaking, particularly
55:10
in American NGOs or UK government backed NGOs, I
55:14
immediately start to get highly suspicious that rather than
55:18
preventing child trafficking, they might actually have a hand
55:21
in facilitating it. Very close to President Trump.
55:25
This was back in 2019. He was brought into Trump's
55:28
administration to help Trump argue for a border wall in the
55:33
in the South with Mexico on the basis of course, that it will
55:37
halt sex trafficking. He's from Utah.
55:40
That's why Tim Ballard on, on Trump's right there is with him
55:45
and is very, very close to Trump even now.
55:48
Which of course, immediately also made me start thinking of
55:52
the the Epstein files and, and Trump's refusal to release
55:55
information because it's very difficult to avoid that kind of
55:59
connection when we're looking at someone who's dealing as a
56:03
vigilante with the extraction of children from child trafficking
56:08
rings, allegedly. Then let's have a look at the
56:12
this is an interview that he did very recently in the last few
56:15
days with a Christian Zionist outfit called Media Line.
56:20
The headline there says it all. Tim Ballard sacrifices all to
56:23
save Syrian children. Again, alarm bells are going off
56:28
and I just took out the main details from the article on Tim
56:32
Ballard, which again are not going to be very reassuring.
56:35
Over a decade as a special agent for the Department of Homeland
56:39
Security. Close friends, as he says in the
56:41
article, with President Trump working with the Israeli regime
56:45
to access Sweder, as we've just mentioned, promoting the Abraham
56:49
Accords, which of course his normalization with the Gulf Arab
56:53
states, with Israel, and he's pushing Syria towards such a
56:58
normalization. He was in Iraq 2017 to 19.
57:02
He allegedly evacuated 10,000 Yazidis and Christians to
57:07
Australia. He was also involved in Haiti.
57:10
He adopted two children himself, which according to Against Child
57:15
Trafficking is nothing more than legalized trafficking if you're
57:19
actually going to adopt A child from its indigenous country and
57:22
bring it outside of that country to another culture.
57:25
And currently he's pivoting towards Latin America, of
57:28
course, as Trump is ramping up propaganda, particularly against
57:33
Venezuela again. And I started to go further.
57:36
This was an article in the New York Times in October 2024.
57:41
To the world, he's an anti trafficking hero.
57:44
Women tell a different story. So what is this all about?
57:48
Effectively, six women have brought cases of aggravated
57:54
abuse and assault against them. Sexual abuse.
57:57
If we actually look at one of the examples in the article
58:01
itself, and then I'll cover several more.
58:04
In interviews and legal papers, the women described similar
58:06
scenarios. Mr. Ballard recruited them to
58:09
act as his romantic partner in undercover operations in which
58:13
they would pose as wealthy sex tourists, A tactic he referred
58:17
to as a couple's ruse. It had two purposes, he told
58:21
them. It provided an easy excuse to
58:23
avoid having sexual contact with the sex workers.
58:26
And some people might need more open to confiding in a woman.
58:30
Apparently the the the role play went beyond of the actual
58:34
operation. What he would say is that as
58:38
they're constantly under surveillance by the trafficking
58:40
gangs, he would have to prove to them that he had a sexual
58:43
relationship with the women that he had trapped into, as they
58:48
believed helping children. So he would sexually assault
58:52
them in the car or in the hotel room, in the office and so on.
58:57
He was also reported as having handed over money to sex
59:00
traffickers to procure underage teenagers for sex.
59:06
But which as someone said, that's tantamount to to creating
59:09
a market for the very thing that he's ostensibly trying to
59:13
prevent. He created or he was the subject
59:17
of a film called The Sound of Freedom.
59:19
The executive producer on that, Paul Hutchison, was actually
59:23
filmed, for want of a better word, groping an underage
59:27
teenager on film. Ballard excused that behaviour
59:31
by saying that he had invested heavily in Ballard's operations.
59:35
Hutchinson himself has now started a Child Liberation
59:39
foundation again to rescue children from sex trafficking.
59:44
So I just want to play this section of his latest interview.
59:48
Ballard's latest interview with Media Line, where he protests
59:53
the cases against him. Maybe 4.
59:57
So it's all going to come out. You know, it's funny that when I
1:00:00
won in court in Utah, the media in Utah who's who's owned and
1:00:03
controlled by the very people who are trying to keep me
1:00:05
looking bad because if I'm, if I'm guilty.
1:00:09
If I'm innocent, they're guilty, right?
1:00:11
And so they'll do anything. So I literally win in court and
1:00:14
they spin and lie to make me look like the bad guy.
1:00:17
Like it's unbelievable. Don't trust any news outlet,
1:00:19
right? They're all none of them are
1:00:21
Matthew 18 compliant you. Matthew 18 compliant.
1:00:27
I mean I have to say he is an out and out Christian Zionist.
1:00:31
That is very clear from many of his interviews and and
1:00:34
statements in the media. The fact is that the case was
1:00:38
not actually withdrawn. This was only one of the
1:00:41
lawsuits filed against Operation Underground Railroad, which was
1:00:45
his original organization. He's actually being sacked
1:00:49
according to Operation Underground Rail Railroad.
1:00:52
That is now known as Our Rescue. He claims that he left on the
1:00:57
basis of claims of sexual abuse and so on, but effectively it
1:01:02
was dismissed not because of the merits of the case were lacking,
1:01:07
but he said the case must be dismissed.
1:01:09
Sorry, could I just have that back on?
1:01:12
It was dismissed because of the way evidence against Ballard was
1:01:15
obtained. Celeste Boris, one of the women
1:01:19
bringing the case against Ballard, accused him of grooming
1:01:22
and sexually assaulting her when they were supposed to be on
1:01:24
operations to save children from human trafficking.
1:01:28
And for evidence, she downloaded more than 90 documents from
1:01:31
Ballard's e-mail. Boris worked under Ballard as
1:01:34
his executive assistant, including after he was accused
1:01:37
of sexual misconduct and permanently separated from OUR.
1:01:42
As I said, I've only just started really in the last 24
1:01:45
hours to go down this this really rather sinister and
1:01:49
sordid Bunny hole. But the fact that this guy is
1:01:52
now in southern Syria, actively involved with the so-called
1:01:58
rescue of children, I find extremely disturbing.
1:02:04
Vanessa, thank you very much for that report.
1:02:07
The key bit is that truth is coming up to the surface and
1:02:10
it's exposure which is the first, the first thing which has
1:02:14
to happen in order to deal with these horrible things happening.
1:02:17
So thank you for all your effort in keeping tabs on what's
1:02:20
happening there. Now we're coming towards the end
1:02:22
of today's UK column news. Diane, you're going to give us a
1:02:25
little bit of a lighter light hearted look at fear, I think.
1:02:30
Yes, Brian, I think the only thing that we can do at this
1:02:32
point is laugh at the fear that they are putting in front of us,
1:02:36
especially as it relates to the fact that it is now autumn and
1:02:39
getting colder and therefore we are all apparently going to fall
1:02:42
dead of sore throats from what I've heard.
1:02:44
Does that make any sense? No.
1:02:47
No, okay, well let's look at it anyway.
1:02:49
So let's start at the BBC. They posted here on the 30th of
1:02:53
September that Covic cases are rising with new variants Nimbus
1:02:57
and Stratus. Now I kind of like the pun,
1:02:59
right? Because Nimbus and Stratus are
1:03:01
both clouds. So we're rising to the clouds
1:03:04
with Nimbus and Stratus and you know, where they're absolutely
1:03:07
miserable to have a sore throat. Look at that poor man.
1:03:10
Right. It's a little bit.
1:03:11
So we started with the BBC and, you know, if you have a sore
1:03:13
throat, you need to call your doctor.
1:03:15
You need to line up for whatever medication they want to put into
1:03:19
your Yeah, whatever that whatever is waiting.
1:03:21
So the UK Health Security Agency posted on Facebook on the 9th of
1:03:25
October that respiratory viruses circulate all year, but during
1:03:30
winter several circulate at the same time.
1:03:32
So I guess only one circulates during the summer.
1:03:35
Is that what it means, Brian? Who knows because the advice
1:03:38
changes regularly and and it's so confusing and nonsensical.
1:03:42
It certainly does, but the the sad emoji on the the fingers
1:03:46
pointing downward give the UKHSA quite a bit of credibility, I
1:03:49
think. Especially the woman who
1:03:51
apparently is coughing through her hand, which they told us in
1:03:54
2020 wasn't safe, right? Weird.
1:03:57
So, so she's, she's spreading viruses, coughing into her hand
1:04:00
there. Should be put in prison.
1:04:02
Absolutely, absolutely lock her up.
1:04:05
So up from where I am in the northeast normally, except this
1:04:08
week when I'm in Plymouth. This is from County Durham, live
1:04:12
with one of the mainstream papers where I live where I'm
1:04:15
not sure what the mask is doing to help anybody because the hat,
1:04:18
the mask had to be moved down to stick the swab up the lady's
1:04:22
nose. So I'm not sure why she's masked
1:04:24
up. It doesn't really do any good if
1:04:26
it's not, you know, obviously over the nose not helping
1:04:28
anything. But we have a new vaccine
1:04:30
warning because the so-called code cases are rising across the
1:04:34
Northeast. So make sure you're lining up if
1:04:35
you haven't done so already. Are you, have you lined up,
1:04:38
Brian? No, I haven't.
1:04:40
Good. Thank you. 7 live so locally
1:04:44
here where we are in Devon. I've gone from my house to
1:04:46
yours. Medical experts have explained
1:04:49
when, why IOU. So we've got a typo there that I
1:04:52
think maybe the vaccine got to their spelling abilities need to
1:04:55
test and when you need to see AGP.
1:04:58
So exactly how to tell if you have a cold or the new COVID
1:05:01
strain. So are you, do you have a
1:05:03
Stratus or a Nimbus COVID or what do you have?
1:05:05
Well of course it's nonsense because nobody can get to see
1:05:08
AGP anyway, so the advice is completely, completely rubbish
1:05:14
because you cannot see AGP. That's a very good point and and
1:05:18
so Yorkshire live so sort of just South of me a new COVID
1:05:21
strain or flu. How to tell different symptoms
1:05:25
apart this winter. I'm not sure what that is that a
1:05:27
is that an insect? That little green looking is
1:05:31
that? A cucumber possibly?
1:05:32
Cucumber. Yeah, maybe half a virus, yeah.
1:05:35
Something healthy, maybe. I don't know.
1:05:37
Anyways, emoji needed a tissue, so there we go.
1:05:41
According to this particular source, the new study finds
1:05:45
COVID-19 infection can alter sperm and affect brain
1:05:50
development in future. Children can't be the vaccine.
1:05:53
It's got to be the COVID infection.
1:05:54
That cold is going to affect the sperm of these these men who
1:05:58
want to conceive. Children can't be the vaccine,
1:06:00
can it Brian? Well, and and the phrase future
1:06:03
children to me is very creepy. So that's a special in that
1:06:06
version. Of future children that might be
1:06:07
that dystopian surrogacy that Sarah Newland has been writing
1:06:11
about for us. The Express says Brits urged to
1:06:15
do so, isolate. So again, there's those spelling
1:06:18
and grammatical issues occurring in people in the mainstream
1:06:21
occurred to do isolate. Now if infected with new COVID
1:06:26
strain as cases sore. Now my biggest question I put
1:06:29
this one on my own Facebook page, Brian, is why is it that
1:06:32
the woman is messed up all alone in her house, which is she going
1:06:36
to give? Does she have a dog that might
1:06:37
get the virus? Like what?
1:06:38
I don't know, I don't know. And so the Daily Mail said to us
1:06:43
on 13th of October, quote like a biological bomb, scary emoji,
1:06:49
haunting prediction of where next pandemic will strike and
1:06:53
how it could kill over 7 million.
1:06:56
So we don't know what this is, but it could be at any that
1:06:59
scary virus is out there could get us any moment.
1:07:01
We don't know where, but it's out there.
1:07:03
We're putting a bit of black humour into this, but of course
1:07:05
many people out there are sucking up this information and
1:07:09
it's making them very fearful of the future.
1:07:12
It's So I'll just clarify that what we're doing today by
1:07:15
mocking this stuff is 1 to boost morale, but also to get people
1:07:19
out there spreading the word about what disgraceful political
1:07:24
applied psychology this is. Yeah, no, it, it is.
1:07:28
We have to laugh at it because it's about the only way that we
1:07:30
can fight it, I believe. But we also have to say, well,
1:07:33
this is what what is out there on these Facebook posts.
1:07:36
And I found these all on my Facebook feed.
1:07:38
So even though we might think that, you know, they're not
1:07:40
worth listening to, clearly people are because they're
1:07:43
continuously pushing out this content for people to get afraid
1:07:47
about the fact that their throat hurts.
1:07:49
So just one last thing I have here and, and this is obviously
1:07:54
not true. Breaking news is AstraZeneca is
1:07:57
now available in powder form to get encourage more people to get
1:08:01
vaccinated. And this I'm on my third bag
1:08:05
today, said one woman. So she's doing lines.
1:08:07
I personally, if it were powder, I'd probably mix it in with my
1:08:10
coffee or tea instead of, you know, I don't like putting
1:08:13
anything in my nose. So but she has chosen to just do
1:08:16
some lines. OK, we'll, we'll leave it there.
1:08:19
We'll leave, leave it there, Diane.
1:08:21
But if people can smile, they are doing a great job in
1:08:25
boosting their physical and mental well-being to deal with
1:08:29
this stuff. Now we must end because we've
1:08:31
run over slightly for today's UK column news, but my last comment
1:08:35
is very +1 is that yesterday I was able to be with Kate
1:08:40
Markland who was telling me how a single FaceTime call once a
1:08:45
week with her son who's been taken away from her by social
1:08:48
services. That single call once a week for
1:08:52
nine months allowed them to develop a book.
1:08:55
We just popped the image up on screen initially 6 short
1:08:59
stories, now A25858 page book. So good has this exercise been
1:09:06
that Kate has been invited into 9 schools and has helped over
1:09:11
460 children in various schools to also learn how to write
1:09:16
stories for themselves. So there's a very positive note
1:09:19
for a mum who suffered the horrors of having a child taken
1:09:22
away from her by using that telephone call.
1:09:26
She's done in tremendous good not only for her son Gabriel,
1:09:29
but also for herself and other mothers.
1:09:33
We must end there. We've got UK column Extra coming
1:09:36
up for our members. We've got a lot to discuss.
1:09:39
We'll also have guests Kimberly Isherwood who will be telling us
1:09:43
more about her activism and I will be surrounded by gutsy
1:09:47
women. That's it for today.
1:09:50
We'll be back for UK column news on losing track of my days.
1:09:54
Where are we? We will have AUK column going
1:09:57
out at the end of the week, but of course, the major event for
1:10:00
us is the Saturday on location. Let's leave it there.
1:10:03
Thank you for joining us. Bye bye.
1:10:05
Bye.