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UK Column News — 10th August 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's a Monday, tenth of August twenty twenty six, just
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Speaker 2: after one o'clock the UK time.
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Speaker 1: You're watching UK column News.
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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Ben Rubin and I am delighted to
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Speaker 2: be joining in the studio today by it mister Brian Gerrish.
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Speaker 1: Brian, how are you very good?
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Speaker 3: As a wonderful weekend with lots of sunshine and I've
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Speaker 3: just say you to our viewers today wherever you are
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Speaker 3: in the UK or the world, doom to just your
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Speaker 3: sets because the blue sea is actually true.
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Speaker 1: It's looking pretty good bye and is it yes?
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Speaker 3: Complete with the burnt grass of course, but that's part
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Speaker 3: of a very hot summer.
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Speaker 1: It certainly is. Yes. So we've got a pack show today.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be looking at the migrant protests which
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Speaker 2: have been kicking off in Sheptford in Norfolk over the
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Speaker 2: past week. We're going to be talking about the experiments
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Speaker 2: being carried out with artificial intelligence by the UK government,
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Speaker 2: looking at how the Epstein class are disseminating policy from
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Speaker 2: the highest levels of global governance right down to your
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Speaker 2: local high street, the weaponization of academia, the horror show
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Speaker 2: that's going on at the BBC before we get into
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Speaker 2: all of that. But Andy Burnham is back from holiday
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Speaker 2: and he's up to no good.
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Speaker 3: What's happening, Brian, Well, this is the thing which we're
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Speaker 3: going to We need to say to people you have
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Speaker 3: to keep your eye on Anti Burnham and number ten
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Speaker 3: of the North because this is where all of the
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Speaker 3: action is going to take place. I think one of
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Speaker 3: the key things that we should be encouraging people to
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Speaker 3: think about is that Westminster increasingly the theater, the puppet show,
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Speaker 3: maybe a bit of debate, maybe a little bit of
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Speaker 3: the raucous cheering when something said that the MPs agree with,
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Speaker 3: the really hard hitting policy is going to come out
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Speaker 3: number out of number ten of the North. And of
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Speaker 3: course that has absolutely no public transparency at all. There's
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Speaker 3: no handsard recording what's being said and what's being discussed.
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Speaker 3: This is where Andy Burnham is going to do the
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Speaker 3: bulk of the damage as he goes for England. In particular,
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Speaker 3: the objective is the breakup of the UK. Let's kick
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Speaker 3: off though with a look at the turbulent news both
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Speaker 3: Ben and I, or Ben and I had a chat
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Speaker 3: about it as we were starting to discuss what was
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Speaker 3: in today's news, and it's very evident that the press
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Speaker 3: and the media are becoming ever more confusing in what
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Speaker 3: they're talking about. So of course we've got the story
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Speaker 3: of the heat wave and we're short of water. That's
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Speaker 3: all to do with breakdown the mirror here with heat wave,
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Speaker 3: water warning, days of danger.
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Speaker 1: I mean, wow, line Ben is incredible, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: And then of course we've got the general stirring. But
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Speaker 3: we're going up market apparently, so the Times here with
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Speaker 3: PM's advisor concerned over labor wealth taxes. But at the
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Speaker 3: same time we've got a highly emotive image of more
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Speaker 3: yellow life jackets and the unstoppable migration across the channel,
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Speaker 3: even though the thousands coming across is a tiny proportion
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Speaker 3: of the approved migration. So let's carry on through that slide.
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Speaker 3: So we've got labor jail plan. This is the Daily
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Speaker 3: Mail labor jail plan to spark eighty nine thousand more crimes. Now,
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Speaker 3: is the Daily Mail just stirring the whatever here or
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Speaker 3: are they onto something? I think they're actually onto something
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Speaker 3: because if we look at crime statistics, the government doesn't
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Speaker 3: want to talk about crimes committed by migrant into the country.
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Speaker 3: They simply refuse to come out with clear detail on that.
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Speaker 3: So that's another thing we should apparently be worried about.
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Speaker 3: And then of course we've got the Daily Express being
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Speaker 3: more invotive over a particular case where it's saying keep
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Speaker 3: our Fanella's killer in jail, and the Sun here taking
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Speaker 3: it down a level. Jet bomb plotters free in week.
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Speaker 3: So this is all designed to build up angst in
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Speaker 3: the public minds financial Trump Times here stays on the
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Speaker 3: bigger overseas stuff, Trump Bus dismantling the US Democratic guardrail's
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Speaker 3: worn Former CIA officials, Well, I'm surprised it's taken the
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Speaker 3: CIA so long to understand America's also being broken apart.
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Speaker 3: But there we go. We've got the Guardian Labour wants
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Speaker 3: deeper ties to the EU under Burnham says, minister absolutely
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Speaker 3: sure that's true. Just adds to the seething mass of
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Speaker 3: media reports. The Metro here with a cart well it's
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Speaker 3: a man with a cartoon animal. This is all about
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Speaker 3: undermining what it is to be adult. But then the
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Speaker 3: main headline and he wants a cancel culture and the
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Speaker 3: Daily Telegraph Chinese spy camera has found on Navy drones
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Speaker 3: and apparently equipment that the Navy has been using out
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Speaker 3: in the Gulf was transmitting information back via presumably dark
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Speaker 3: chips to China. And the last one we're bringing is
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Speaker 3: the Daily Star, which says that Texans are coming to
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Speaker 3: Wrexham apparently, So that's just nonsense. But if we labeled
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Speaker 3: a lot of it, this is absolutely an attack on
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Speaker 3: our minds. And what are we looking at. We're looking
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Speaker 3: at constant reports of breakdown in the country. Nobody seemed
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Speaker 3: able to explain chaos increasing chaos, and then of course
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Speaker 3: we should be fearful of everything. So let's move on through.
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Speaker 3: We're just focus on the BBC here because this is
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Speaker 3: actually from a couple of days ago, but Andy Burnham
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Speaker 3: to embark on cost of Living tour through the UK,
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Speaker 3: and if we summarize what's on screen, it's general BBC
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Speaker 3: dross of Burnham. It's about death, and it's about self harm,
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Speaker 3: and it's about east Enders. The BBC ben is truly appalling.
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Speaker 3: It always was bad, but it's definitely getting worse because
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Speaker 3: there is nothing which is uplifting, positive constructive about the
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Speaker 3: United Kingdom. Everything is taking people's minds into a sort
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Speaker 3: of depressing pit and this isn't accidental. But as you've said,
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Speaker 3: Andy Burnham back at work, has been on holiday, although
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Speaker 3: he didn't want to say where he has been. But
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Speaker 3: now he's back he's going to help solve the country's
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Speaker 3: cost of living problems by going on tour. So we'll
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Speaker 3: try and pull this part a little bit, and maybe
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Speaker 3: the starting point is to have a look at what
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Speaker 3: Rachel Reeves had to say a little while ago as
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Speaker 3: a look at this video here where she was speaking
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Speaker 3: at the end of May.
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Speaker 4: The government has also this week set out additional targeted
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Speaker 4: support for those businesses most exposed to rising fuel costs.
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Speaker 4: For hauliers, the government is granting a twelve month road
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Speaker 4: tax holiday for HGVs, saving the typical heavy lorry up
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Speaker 4: to nine hundred and twelve pounds. To support farmers and
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Speaker 4: the rail freight industry, I have decided to cut duty
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Speaker 4: on red diesel by over a third until the end
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Speaker 4: of this year, and having heard from my honorable friend
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Speaker 4: the Member for Oldham, West, Chatterton and Ruyton and the
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Speaker 4: trade union Unison, I can today announce a ten p
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Speaker 4: per mile increase in tax free mileage rates backdated to
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Speaker 4: April twenty twenty six. Benefiting those who need to drive
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Speaker 4: for work, from care workers to plumbers. That is why
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Speaker 4: I have already taken action to provide help. I increase
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Speaker 4: the National Living Wage and the National minimum wage to
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Speaker 4: their highest rates ever. I have frozen prescription charges for
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Speaker 4: two years in a row, and I have frozen railfares
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Speaker 4: for the first time in thirty years. I've taken one
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Speaker 4: hundred and fifty pounds off energy bills, which contributed towards
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Speaker 4: the fall in inflation last month. I have already extended
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Speaker 4: the three pound bus fair cap to March twenty twenty seven,
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Speaker 4: and today I can confirm that bus travel across England
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Speaker 4: will be free for children aged between five and fifteen
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Speaker 4: throughout August. Finally, Madam Deputy Speaker, I recognize that what
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Speaker 4: matters for families is not just getting by, but being
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Speaker 4: able to enjoy time together without worrying about the next bill.
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Speaker 4: That is why I am launching the Great British Summer
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Speaker 4: Saving Scheme to help families and support our hospitality sector.
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Speaker 4: So I can today announce a temporary cut in the
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Speaker 4: rate of V eighty on summer attractions from twenty percent
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Speaker 4: to five percent over the summer holidays. This will apply
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Speaker 4: to ticket prices for both adults and children, covering attractions
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Speaker 4: such as fairs, theme parks, zoos and museums. It will
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Speaker 4: include children's tickets for cinemas, concerts, soft play and the theater.
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Speaker 4: And it will cut the cost of children's meals in
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Speaker 4: restaurants and cafes from twenty percent vi eighty to five
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Speaker 4: percent as well.
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Speaker 3: Well, Ben, I don't know what you made about that.
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Speaker 3: Obviously those were excerpts, so she starts off on semi
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Speaker 3: serious things. But the points I want to come to
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Speaker 3: is the fact that we are going to save the
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Speaker 3: country by giving youngsters free bus fares, and we're going
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Speaker 3: to make it easier and cheaper for people to go
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Speaker 3: to summer attractions. The great British saving Scheme, which is
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Speaker 3: apparently going to save the country being ripped apart by
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Speaker 3: the increase in the cost of living directly as a
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Speaker 3: result of the war in the Middle East against Iran,
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Speaker 3: and of course that war absolutely supported by the Labor
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Speaker 3: Party and by Andy Burnham. So to see this unfolding
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Speaker 3: and being talked about as if well, we've just got
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Speaker 3: to keep the families occupied and happy, the arrogance is
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Speaker 3: simply breathtaking, and of course this is the theater that
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Speaker 3: I'm talking about in Westminster, whilst Andy Burnham's going to
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Speaker 3: be doing his stuff in the Number ten bunker, so
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Speaker 3: BBC reporting him like this, but you get a little
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Speaker 3: bit more detail by going into the House of Commons Library.
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Speaker 3: Have a look at this report on Economic Update Middle
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Speaker 3: East Conflict in the UK Economy, where there's a much
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Speaker 3: more serious analysis of what's taken place, albeit back in
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Speaker 3: March twenty twenty six. But in the final paragraph it
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Speaker 3: says this, how severe this shock is for the UK
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Speaker 3: economy at least in the near term, will primarily be
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Speaker 3: determined by decisions made overseas. So even the House of
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Speaker 3: Commons Library, which details the fact that we are going
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Speaker 3: to be in for this economic hammering as a result
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Speaker 3: of the war and the Golf says effectively, well, it's
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Speaker 3: nothing to do with Westminster, it's nothing to do with us.
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Speaker 3: It's all those naughty people overseas that have created the war. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: Andy Burnham of course supporting the Americans in that war
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Speaker 3: while allowing the US planes attacking Iran to use UK basis. Now,
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Speaker 3: if you think that some of the newer parties are
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Speaker 3: going to make a difference. I think you need to
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Speaker 3: think again. This is an article from the Middle East Eye,
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Speaker 3: but it's the main picture which says it. Also the
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Speaker 3: headline UK secretly considered suspending Israeli trade deal during the
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Speaker 3: gals of famine. Well, there is no gas or anymore,
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Speaker 3: so that's that problem out the way. But of course
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Speaker 3: it was Seeing Mike Tice here on the demonstration in
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Speaker 3: support of Israel means essentially that while we've got reform
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Speaker 3: routing for Israel, which helped instigate and carry out the
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Speaker 3: attacks on Iran and also pressurize the US into the
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Speaker 3: attacks which ultimately disrupted the oil markets, this party is
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Speaker 3: not going to be assisting the economic situation of the country.
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Speaker 3: Now we just end this little section. Boy just looking
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Speaker 3: at the gray man in the ten North bunker. So
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Speaker 3: here's Burnham as he came in and listen to the
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Speaker 3: key thing he's talking about towards the end of this split.
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Speaker 5: All right, all right, hi everyone, thanks everybody, all right.
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Speaker 6: Oh, thank you everybody. I cannot tell you what a
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Speaker 6: proud moment this is. I think this might be the
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Speaker 6: best day of my life. I'm not joking either. I
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Speaker 6: know you think I am, but I'm not that opportunity
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Speaker 6: has not been evenly spread around the country and not
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Speaker 6: all places have felt that they're part of the national story.
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Speaker 6: And that is what this government is going to work
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Speaker 6: every single day to change, and that is what Number
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Speaker 6: ten North is all about, putting power in every postcode
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Speaker 6: so that people can turn things around for themselves and
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Speaker 6: make changes, just as this great city has done and
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Speaker 6: the other English cities are doing through devolution, turning things
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Speaker 6: round because of that ability to be able to do
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Speaker 6: more for themselves.
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Speaker 3: So Andy Burnham absolutely telling the truth. There Number ten
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Speaker 3: North as the powerhouse of change and they're going to
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Speaker 3: be bringing their power to the lowest level in every city,
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Speaker 3: every community across UK and of course Number ten in
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Speaker 3: the North totally opaque to the public. There will be
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Speaker 3: no visible debates. You will just see policy coming out
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Speaker 3: to be enacted and I think people in the not
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Speaker 3: too distant future ben are going to be reeling as
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Speaker 3: they see massive changes constitutional changes in this country and
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Speaker 3: they will say well, where did this come from? Well
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Speaker 3: it won't have come through Westminster because Westminster is now
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Speaker 3: being sidelined. That's the old organization and the bunker where
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Speaker 3: Andy Burnham is going to destroy first of all England,
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Speaker 3: but the nation as a whole. That is going to
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Speaker 3: be number ten in the North.
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Speaker 2: It certainly is Brian that phrase again, power in every postcode.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, his power, his power.
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Speaker 2: But also the power that is behind him, which is
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Speaker 2: what we're going to look at now. And I was
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Speaker 2: delighted to see this event pop up on my feed
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Speaker 2: on LinkedIn a couple of days ago. In a rapidly
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Speaker 2: changing world, the Athens Democracy Forum twenty twenty six its
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Speaker 2: how democracies can adapt, innovate and deliver for future generations.
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Speaker 2: Key topics include AI in society, global security, civic engagement,
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Speaker 2: the future of work. Run by the Athens Democracy Forum
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Speaker 2: in association with the New York Times. Guess what they
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Speaker 2: called the conference, Brian, I think I might know, so
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to do a spoiler.
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Speaker 1: Okay. It is building order out of chaos. That's all
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Speaker 1: that couse. That is what this conference is called.
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Speaker 2: And it's just people might be familiar with this term
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Speaker 2: because actually this is what Freemason's talk about it talking
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Speaker 2: about ado ab ko order out of chaos. But as
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Speaker 2: Brian's just revealed, this is of course just a coincidence.
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Speaker 2: Those things are completely unrelated to each other. But I'm
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Speaker 2: going to dig into this event, the people behind it,
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Speaker 2: and then look at how that relates to what we've
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Speaker 2: just been talking about in terms of Burnham's drive towards
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Speaker 2: getting power in every postcode. Now that event is coming
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Speaker 2: up at the end of September. Last year, they ran
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Speaker 2: a similar program, so it was overseen by this chap
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Speaker 2: who's a big wig from the New York Times, and
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Speaker 2: essentially he was running a debate to talk about whether
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Speaker 2: democracy can benefit from authoritarianism.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't that fit beautifully with Burnham talking about getting power? Yes,
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Speaker 3: to the lowest level. There's probably another coincidence.
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Speaker 2: Here, well, and this is the thing, so that he's
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Speaker 2: saying can democracy benefit from authoritarianism? It's because they actually
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Speaker 2: really like authoritarianism. People who spend their whole time talking
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Speaker 2: about democracy actually and supposedly their biggest advocates internationally, actually
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Speaker 2: find it incredibly frustrating because you have to gain consensus
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Speaker 2: and actually go through a democratic process, and then sometimes
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Speaker 2: people don't agree to the right thing. So actually, what
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Speaker 2: they'd like to do is to fuse authoritarianism with democracy
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Speaker 2: using these deliberative processes so that they can just do
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Speaker 2: whatever they want, but give it a thin veneer of
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Speaker 2: respectability and citizens assemblies and all of these kind of
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Speaker 2: democratic innovations that we talk about. So this is what
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Speaker 2: they were talking about last year that session, we can
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Speaker 2: get that back up on screen. That was actually called
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Speaker 2: Rethinking the World Order, and it had a number of
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Speaker 2: people on stage debating this idea of democracy and authoritarianism,
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Speaker 2: whether one can learn from the other.
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Speaker 1: In particular, the name of interest for me was this one.
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Speaker 2: So this is Bjorn Berdeger, who is a Norwegian fellow
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Speaker 2: Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe. There's his
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Speaker 2: profile on the Council of europe A homepage and he's
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Speaker 2: been Assistant Secretary General since twenty twenty one, but he's
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Speaker 2: actually been there since two thousand and nine, and in
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Speaker 2: that time he ran the private office of Tulborn Jaglund,
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Speaker 2: another Norwegian politician who had to resign recently because of
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Speaker 2: his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. So essentially what we're looking
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Speaker 2: at here is an Epstein class agenda, a global policy
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Speaker 2: agenda that's been cascaded down through these international conferences and
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Speaker 2: talking shops and think tanks and then down into societies.
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Speaker 2: We're going to come on to now. So what's the
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Speaker 2: event in Athens is being run by this organization. This
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Speaker 2: is the Democracy and Culture Foundation. Their mission and vision
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Speaker 2: or their visions. First of all, should I say, is
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Speaker 2: to drive the evolution of democracy to meet today's challenges.
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Speaker 2: Their mission is to empower society through scissors and engagement
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Speaker 2: and better governance. Sounds exciting, doesn't it. And the way
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Speaker 2: that they do this is through what they're calling an
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Speaker 2: impact chain, which involves first thinking, so conceiving new ideas
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Speaker 2: and innovative concepts to produce policy proposals for reform. They
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Speaker 2: then talk, so they engage in constructive dialogue to term
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Speaker 2: proposals into structural policies. And then importantly they do and
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Speaker 2: the way they do that is by using grassroots organizations
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Speaker 2: and movements to persuade decision makers to implement policies.
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Speaker 3: And this workflow then is happening now, Yes, in every
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Speaker 3: major city in UK. This is how policy is developed.
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Speaker 3: This is why one day people who sort of think
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Speaker 3: they understand what's going on and next day it's changed,
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Speaker 3: or the next week it's changed, and they haven't seen
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Speaker 3: what's driven that change. It hasn't been debated in the
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Speaker 3: in the City council chamber. There hasn't been any any
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Speaker 3: written documents put out explaining what's happening. This is all
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Speaker 3: seamlessly happening in the background and this is what Andy
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Speaker 3: Burnham's political team are going to be immersed in this
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Speaker 3: new form of politics.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, and if we can get that back on
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Speaker 2: screen we can see the think and the talk bit
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Speaker 2: to the first two books. Is there that's happening out
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Speaker 2: of the country, Yeah, I mean pretty much exclusively that's happening. Well,
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Speaker 2: certainly this forum coming up is in Athens, but most
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Speaker 2: of this stuff is happening outside of the UK.
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Speaker 1: But the do bit, the grassroots.
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Speaker 2: Organizations who are being used essentially to promote policies and
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Speaker 2: to get them implemented, are in, as Brian's just said,
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Speaker 2: every single postcode around the country. Now who is behind this?
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Speaker 2: So they've got a number of strategic partners. Top of
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Speaker 2: the list for me is the Gruen Institute. I've talked
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Speaker 2: about Nicholas Grewen quite a lot previously is an extremely
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Speaker 2: important and influential character.
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Speaker 1: I'll come back to him shortly.
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Speaker 2: They've also got the better Politics Foundation, which is what
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Speaker 2: is the new name for the A Political Foundation I
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Speaker 2: spoke about a lot over the past eighteen months who
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Speaker 2: are basically re engineering political systems in one hundred and
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Speaker 2: seventy countries, with a lot of that work being tested
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Speaker 2: and developed here in the UK. And also you mentioned
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Speaker 2: the Bertlesman Foundation. Brian is one that.
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Speaker 3: Has been in the background, certainly European politics, global politics
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Speaker 3: for over twenty years.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 2: And then finally, the strategy partner for the organization is
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Speaker 2: McKinsey and Company, who are also the strategy partner for
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Speaker 2: the World Economic Forum. Just a coincidence, well yes, perhaps,
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Speaker 2: but also perhaps not, because essentially what you're looking at
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Speaker 2: here is the democratic machinery that gives a kind of
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Speaker 2: validity to the World Economic Forum agender. They're going to
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Speaker 2: manufacturer consent to what it is that they want to implement. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's have a look at some individuals who are running
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Speaker 2: this organization. So the first too, just to note on,
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Speaker 2: is this guy on the top left is an interesting
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Speaker 2: chat John Alexander. I actually know him relatively well in
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Speaker 2: the scheme of things. So he's a friend of a
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Speaker 2: friend and I've had a couple of conversations with him,
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Speaker 2: and I've told him quite bluntly that I think he's
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Speaker 2: in with the wrong crowd, and I think he's a
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Speaker 2: nice guy and he probably shouldn't be working with these people.
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Speaker 2: And actually, John, I'm going to send this to you,
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Speaker 2: you might want to take a closer look at the
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Speaker 2: background and some of the people running this organization.
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Speaker 1: I'll just put it like that.
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Speaker 2: Nicholas Bagrun I've already mentioned, so he's the chairman of
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Speaker 2: the Bagroon Institute, who's funding and coordinating this thing. A
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Speaker 2: few other key people who jumped out of me. Brunello
23:21
Speaker 2: Cucinelli's an Italian. He's on Linda Rothschild's Council for Inclusive Capitalism. Again,
23:27
Speaker 2: very top level individual. Nathan Gildals, who's the co founder
23:32
Speaker 2: of the Bagruon Institute, showing that Nicholas Bagrun has absolutely
23:36
Speaker 2: got his hands around this, as well as being a
23:38
Speaker 2: strategic partner. Bernard ari Levy, the French philosopher who I'll
23:43
Speaker 2: come back to you later. And then finally Mark Thompson,
23:47
Speaker 2: the former director general of the BBC, then New York Times,
23:51
Speaker 2: currently achiev executive of CNN, big time news guy and
23:56
Speaker 2: actually got a really good clip of him that I
23:58
Speaker 2: was showing extra and then also eyeway Way, who as
24:01
Speaker 2: a Chinese artist, which I think is a really important
24:04
Speaker 2: thing to pull out because this kind of confluence between
24:07
Speaker 2: politics and democratic process and creativity and art is absolutely
24:13
Speaker 2: the way that this stuff is being aggressed out there
24:15
Speaker 2: in society, just out there.
24:19
Speaker 3: So whilst we are seeing the mainstream media trying to
24:24
Speaker 3: indicate that it's the politicians that we should pay attention to,
24:27
Speaker 3: they are the ones who are developing with their civil
24:30
Speaker 3: servants the positive policies. This is absolutely not what's happening
24:36
Speaker 3: the politicians now simply the puppets to pay attention to
24:40
Speaker 3: the Punch and Judy show and the people pulling those
24:44
Speaker 3: strings of these sorts of people, and this is where
24:47
Speaker 3: the policy is coming. So fascinating, Ben that the mainstream
24:51
Speaker 3: media that's partaking in the development of this new political
24:57
Speaker 3: paradigm doesn't want to report it at all. We're not
25:00
Speaker 3: seeing any analysis on these sorts of organized nothing organizations
25:04
Speaker 3: on the BBC or in CNN or whatever.
25:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, of course, And it is exactly the same
25:09
Speaker 2: thing as last week when we were talking about Tudor
25:11
Speaker 2: Evans and key cities she has a write up in
25:14
Speaker 2: the Plymouth Herald. It's not we never once mentioned he's
25:16
Speaker 2: part of an organization called Key Cities, which is explicitly
25:19
Speaker 2: trying to sell off land to property investors.
25:22
Speaker 1: You know, So.
25:24
Speaker 2: Sean's this is the way that they approached this stuff.
25:27
Speaker 2: So I'm just going to so that's the organization, some
25:30
Speaker 2: of the key individuals involved in it who are driving
25:33
Speaker 2: this process or order out of chaos. Although ko and
25:36
Speaker 2: they're literally telling us what they're doing. I'm going to
25:38
Speaker 2: just focus in on two of them in particular. The
25:40
Speaker 2: first one is this chat. So this is Bernu Henri Levy,
25:45
Speaker 2: who is a French philosopher and intellectual and political agitator who,
25:50
Speaker 2: amongst other things, convinced Nicholas soarkose to go to war
25:54
Speaker 2: in Libya to top all Goodafi, which directly led to
25:58
Speaker 2: the mass immigration crisis. Right racially, Gadaffi was stopping small
26:01
Speaker 2: boats coming across the Mediterranean.
26:03
Speaker 1: They've got really good, Daffy.
26:04
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, we've got a huge influx of
26:07
Speaker 2: millions of migrants coming over from North Africa into Europe,
26:11
Speaker 2: delivering chaos from which a new order could theoretically be
26:17
Speaker 2: could emerge exactly. That was just over back in twenty twelve,
26:22
Speaker 2: but more recently he was referenced by Jared Kushner. This
26:27
Speaker 2: is Trump's son in law, and he was on X
26:30
Speaker 2: saying that Bernard on Levy wrote, I keep reading everywhere
26:36
Speaker 2: that Lebanon is on the brink of collapse. No, it
26:39
Speaker 2: is on the brink of relief and deliverance. Moments like
26:43
Speaker 2: this come once in a generation, if they even come
26:45
Speaker 2: at all. The Middle East is too often a solid
26:49
Speaker 2: were little changes. Today it is a liquid and the
26:52
Speaker 2: ability to reshape is unlimited. Do not squander this moment.
26:57
Speaker 3: The language is so offensive when you reflect on the
27:02
Speaker 3: violence and the death and destruction.
27:04
Speaker 2: This yes, absolutely, and this idea that it's normally solid.
27:11
Speaker 2: So let's think of solid as order. It's now liquid.
27:15
Speaker 2: Let's think of that as chaos, and then the new
27:18
Speaker 2: solidity can emerge from the chaos that's been created. And
27:21
Speaker 2: when we talk about relief and deliverance, this is actually
27:25
Speaker 2: what they mean. So this is an image from the
27:29
Speaker 2: end of twenty twenty four when Jarry Kushner put out
27:31
Speaker 2: that statement of Lebanon, and this is how, in this
27:38
Speaker 2: instance chaos has been implemented. In the society so that
27:42
Speaker 2: a new order can emerge. And this is the kind
27:44
Speaker 2: of people that we're dealing with and the methods that
27:45
Speaker 2: they're very happy to deploy. Now, the second individual of
27:50
Speaker 2: particular interest is this guy. So this is Nicholas Gruen,
27:54
Speaker 2: a billionaire property developer and supposed philanthropists extraordinary character. I'll
28:00
Speaker 2: put a link in the show notes to his personal
28:02
Speaker 2: website where you can go and hear his thoughts on
28:04
Speaker 2: everything from God to AI to Europe, the future of
28:09
Speaker 2: the world, the future of humanity. And he does so
28:12
Speaker 2: from this institute in the hills outside La kind of
28:18
Speaker 2: a James Bond villain esque layer where he disseminates his
28:23
Speaker 2: ideas out of the world. He's been doing this for
28:26
Speaker 2: a very long time now, so actually he was active
28:29
Speaker 2: back in This is from twenty eleven.
28:32
Speaker 1: The big focus on Europe.
28:33
Speaker 2: So he's running a Future of Europe program from his
28:36
Speaker 2: own personal foundation, which involved people like Tony Blair, Jack
28:39
Speaker 2: de Law, Mariamonte, geiber Hofstadt and others. So this is
28:43
Speaker 2: top tier European political leadership. And it's not just Europe.
28:49
Speaker 2: He's also got a global focus, increasingly a global focus.
28:53
Speaker 1: This was an event that he.
28:54
Speaker 2: Was running through the Bagruan Institute at the end of
28:58
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, which was hosted in Vents, And you
29:01
Speaker 2: can see here that the topic of discussion is the
29:03
Speaker 2: limits of current planetary governance. So they want to expand
29:09
Speaker 2: the capacity of planetary governance, and that's explicitly what they're
29:14
Speaker 2: doing use of.
29:15
Speaker 3: That term as well. This is pre programming people the moment.
29:19
Speaker 3: You've heard planetary governance a couple of times. Presumably it exists.
29:25
Speaker 3: It exists, is the way you think about it? And
29:27
Speaker 3: then they're saying, well, of course it exists. Now we've
29:29
Speaker 3: got to look at the limits of it. How do
29:31
Speaker 3: we change it? How do we progress it? So isn't
29:35
Speaker 3: this a cover name for one world government?
29:37
Speaker 1: Exactly what it is? Yes, And this was delivered well. Actually,
29:41
Speaker 1: the entire.
29:42
Speaker 2: Premise of the event was essentially defining this category of
29:45
Speaker 2: planetary It's what they were talking about across the entire event.
29:47
Speaker 2: It's called the Planetary Summit. They actually did that in
29:50
Speaker 2: collaboration with an organization called Dark Matter Labs, which is
29:54
Speaker 2: actually is buried in the text on the vision on
29:57
Speaker 2: the right hand side there. But they then sub ssequently
30:00
Speaker 2: in the past six months launched a website called Governorplanet
30:03
Speaker 2: dot org, so they're literally talking about global governance and
30:08
Speaker 2: Art Matter Labs are absolutely active and central to what's
30:12
Speaker 2: going on in terms of the transformation agenda in the UK.
30:15
Speaker 2: I've talked about them previously. That's the guy who runs
30:17
Speaker 2: at Indy Joha. They're working with communities and particularly local
30:22
Speaker 2: councils in Newham and East London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Oxford,
30:27
Speaker 2: Croyd and Sheffield and many many more. And actually they're
30:31
Speaker 2: absolutely linked into this mycelial network that I talked about
30:35
Speaker 2: at the end of last year where this is just
30:38
Speaker 2: one example of one of these networks in excess of
30:42
Speaker 2: thirty different community organizations which are the groups on the ground.
30:50
Speaker 2: Democracy and Culture Foundation are explicitly going to be working
30:56
Speaker 2: with in order to progress and implement the global policy
31:00
Speaker 2: agenda and the is it everywhere around the UK.
31:04
Speaker 3: And just add to that then, and of course for
31:06
Speaker 3: the audience that if you're able to see these organizations,
31:10
Speaker 3: they're hidden in plain sight, but if you start to
31:12
Speaker 3: see them in your local city or community and you
31:17
Speaker 3: can then track through what they're doing, you can then
31:20
Speaker 3: see the engagement with your local elected city councilor. Then
31:27
Speaker 3: you've got the route to challenge what's happening. Because you
31:30
Speaker 3: can hold that counselor to account. You can also challenge
31:33
Speaker 3: the city council itself. And one thing none of these
31:37
Speaker 3: people like is the idea that they've been exposed and
31:41
Speaker 3: that people can actually see and understand what they're doing.
31:45
Speaker 3: So there's some very simple things that people can do
31:48
Speaker 3: to make a big difference, provided they understand what they
31:52
Speaker 3: are looking for, what the characteristics are, what the language
31:56
Speaker 3: is being used.
31:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely absolutely must be done. And actually, just on
32:02
Speaker 2: that point I think was really important to re establish,
32:05
Speaker 2: because I've said this before, is the vast majority of
32:08
Speaker 2: people working inside these community organizations. We can just flash
32:11
Speaker 2: that back up on screen quickly. So most of the
32:13
Speaker 2: people running these organizations are decent people. I would say,
32:17
Speaker 2: They've just been brought into a program that they don't
32:20
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33:27
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33:29
Speaker 3: I heard that I will add more details will be
33:33
Speaker 3: coming out about this with the actual format of the
33:37
Speaker 3: three days, We've got interesting talks. We've got some serious ones,
33:43
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33:47
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33:52
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33:56
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33:59
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34:04
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34:13
Speaker 3: absolutely looking forward to seeing people laughing and joking and smiling,
34:20
Speaker 3: which we have seen at live events many times before.
34:23
Speaker 3: Are we going to try and magnify that event that
34:27
Speaker 3: feeling for our twentieth anniversary. So if you haven't got
34:30
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34:33
Speaker 3: because it's all going to be serious stuff, I think
34:36
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34:39
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34:44
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34:49
Speaker 2: Sounds great, Brian, it is going to be great. It's
34:52
Speaker 2: going to be fantastic, And this in the tho it's
34:56
Speaker 2: your bet.
34:57
Speaker 3: I know, And I think the weather is going to
35:00
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35:06
Speaker 3: of course it controls the weather. So we've put in
35:09
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35:13
Speaker 3: very summary.
35:15
Speaker 2: Yes, fantastic, looking forward to it. So I'm coming up
35:19
Speaker 2: this evening. We've got Germ and the chaps talking about systems,
35:24
Speaker 2: goals and human excellence. The weekly band session that's tonight
35:28
Speaker 2: from seven. Following that, at nine o'clock we've got carls
35:31
Speaker 2: Ar with Silk and Steel talking about China's most Dangerous
35:34
Speaker 2: Dinner the Homemen Banquet explained.
35:37
Speaker 3: Goodness, I don't know what that is, so that would
35:39
Speaker 3: be interesting one to watch.
35:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, So tomorrow Brian and Charles talking about military matters.
35:47
Speaker 3: Indeed, well there's lots to talk about, not least the
35:49
Speaker 3: fact that the British Army is finally caught up with
35:52
Speaker 3: the war in Ukraine. Russians were at one stage using
35:56
Speaker 3: motorbikes on the field to great effect to move small
36:00
Speaker 3: numbers of troops around very quickly and making them very
36:03
Speaker 3: difficult targets. Of course the British Army has to go
36:06
Speaker 3: one better and they will be using e bikes.
36:10
Speaker 1: So this is more of.
36:12
Speaker 3: The general madness that's in the Ministry and Defense. But
36:16
Speaker 3: I think we're going to have a lot of other
36:18
Speaker 3: interesting topics to talk about in military matters.
36:21
Speaker 2: Amazing riding line bikes into battle now and then finally
36:24
Speaker 2: this coming up on Thursday from West Point two Military
36:27
Speaker 2: Accountability Child speaking.
36:29
Speaker 1: With Brad Miller. Now, Brian onto the BBC.
36:35
Speaker 3: Well, yes, this is just a little quick one that
36:38
Speaker 3: I couldn't really resist. I pointed out a little while
36:42
Speaker 3: ago the BBC's glowing statement of itself with one hundred
36:46
Speaker 3: years of our BBC. Yes, that means the BBC's BBC,
36:51
Speaker 3: because they're obviously not working for the wider public in UK.
36:55
Speaker 3: But what I wanted to just talk to our viewers
36:59
Speaker 3: about was facts that back in July, the twenty third
37:02
Speaker 3: of July, I wrote to BBC Media Action asking for
37:07
Speaker 3: details of their new podcast season four quote Traumatized Children
37:13
Speaker 3: in Gaza. This has been mentioned in the latest released
37:17
Speaker 3: edition of the BBC Financial Accounts. It said that one
37:21
Speaker 3: of the things the BBC and BBC's charity Media Action
37:25
Speaker 3: was going to be doing was helping traumatized children in Gaza. Now,
37:31
Speaker 3: when we look at the carnage in Gaza, I found
37:33
Speaker 3: this very difficult because where are the children and how
37:37
Speaker 3: many traumatized children are there? So I emailed BBC Media
37:42
Speaker 3: Action to say, please, can you give me some details
37:45
Speaker 3: of what your plans are. I didn't get a response,
37:50
Speaker 3: so a couple of days ago I sent them this
37:53
Speaker 3: follow up emailed following my recent email to you below
37:57
Speaker 3: and your response which was acknowledging my email. I do
38:02
Speaker 3: not appear to have received a reply to my original
38:05
Speaker 3: query regarding details a BBC Media Actions planned podcasts for
38:10
Speaker 3: traumatized children in Gaza. Please can you respond to my
38:13
Speaker 3: email and provide the information requesting regarding the project or
38:18
Speaker 3: direct me to where I might find that information. Now,
38:22
Speaker 3: viewers probably won't be surprised that the result of that
38:25
Speaker 3: was silence from BBC Media Action. I don't mind, because
38:31
Speaker 3: we're now building a little trail showing that BBC Media
38:35
Speaker 3: Action the charity doesn't want to talk about this planned initiative,
38:39
Speaker 3: and the next step will be to challenge the BBC itself.
38:43
Speaker 3: But I'd also like to remind people that if you
38:46
Speaker 3: really don't understand what the BBC is about, then consider
38:50
Speaker 3: the fact that it's charity. BBC Media Action has essentially
38:56
Speaker 3: worked ALONGSIDEC monitoring and the government's system monitoring other nation
39:04
Speaker 3: states and their governments. And in this article which I
39:08
Speaker 3: wrote back in twenty fourteen, we said a lot of
39:12
Speaker 3: it BBC Media Actions subversion from Broadcasting House to Kazakhstan.
39:18
Speaker 3: So if you haven't read this article, encourage you to
39:20
Speaker 3: get in the avel look because it seems to us
39:23
Speaker 3: that BBC Media Action hasn't changed its spots and although
39:27
Speaker 3: it's boasting of helping traumatize children in Gaza, Gaza doesn't
39:32
Speaker 3: really exist anymore. Thousands and thousands of those children are dead.
39:37
Speaker 3: The BBC doesn't want to talk about that, but apparently
39:40
Speaker 3: it's going to help the traumatized ones still living by
39:44
Speaker 3: giving them a BBC podcast. What could go wrong?
39:48
Speaker 2: Ben, That's a very good question, Brian, quite a lot.
39:51
Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, it's sickening. Really, there we go,
39:54
Speaker 2: It absolutely is now. I was talking earlier about the
39:58
Speaker 2: networks around the country who are looking to pressure politicians
40:04
Speaker 2: into implementing new policies. But there's a lot of stuff
40:07
Speaker 2: going on behind the scenes inside the government itself, particularly
40:12
Speaker 2: as it relates to the implementation of artificial intelligence. So
40:15
Speaker 2: I'm just drawing your attention to this program. This is
40:18
Speaker 2: the building a Better Britain with AI program being run
40:21
Speaker 2: out of central Government, leaks into the Cabinet Office and
40:24
Speaker 2: the top levels of the civil service. You can go
40:27
Speaker 2: and check out the website at AI dot gov dot
40:29
Speaker 2: UK for a full suite through all of the different
40:33
Speaker 2: projects that are running here. Two that really jumped out
40:36
Speaker 2: of me. The first one was this this is parlex
40:39
Speaker 2: So this is just a screen grap from the website.
40:41
Speaker 2: You can see here what's described as a research assistant
40:45
Speaker 2: for Parliamentary Information. It can quickly find them analyze key
40:48
Speaker 2: contributions from members of Parliament, parliamentary questions and committee hearings.
40:53
Speaker 2: This is about helping bring the views of parliamentarians directly
40:56
Speaker 2: into the policy making process. That's what they say. But
40:59
Speaker 2: essentially what the he's doing is scraping handsard, looking at
41:03
Speaker 2: what different current sitting members of Parliament have said in debates,
41:10
Speaker 2: how they voted on key issues, and then rewriting legislation
41:17
Speaker 2: in order to make it more likely that they'll approve.
41:19
Speaker 2: It is the automation of the policy creation process.
41:25
Speaker 3: And an automation of lobbying. There's always been a problem, yes, lobbying,
41:29
Speaker 3: powerful very rich corporations, buying people, putting in the documents,
41:35
Speaker 3: trying to win over an MP to get them to
41:38
Speaker 3: vote in favor of that particular organization or its business area.
41:44
Speaker 3: Now we're going to sharp and that wedge with AI
41:48
Speaker 3: and politicians who can't think for themselves in general are
41:52
Speaker 3: now going to be at the mercy of targeted. It's
41:56
Speaker 3: a mixture of AI, isn't it? And psychological manipulas.
42:00
Speaker 2: To say this is behavior economics, nudging, or whatever term
42:04
Speaker 2: you want to use. So this is essentially been weaponized
42:07
Speaker 2: against members of Parliament in order to make it more
42:10
Speaker 2: likely they'll just acquiesced to things and pass them through extraordinary.
42:14
Speaker 3: I'd also suggest that if it's coming in through parlex,
42:18
Speaker 3: the same manipulation is actually going to come through the
42:21
Speaker 3: political party itself, because if you traditionally run a whip
42:25
Speaker 3: system where people have been bullied, intimidated and some would
42:29
Speaker 3: say blackmailed into voting as the party wants in the chamber,
42:35
Speaker 3: this will give the party the opportunity to actually be
42:39
Speaker 3: manipulating the minds of its own MPs, using amongst other
42:45
Speaker 3: other tools AI.
42:47
Speaker 2: Exactly yes, And you show a little screen grab a
42:50
Speaker 2: bit here is you can see what the interface would
42:52
Speaker 2: look like for the civil servant is actually accessing the tool.
42:56
Speaker 2: You can see here a little summary of you know
42:59
Speaker 2: what math Matthew Pennycook, Minister for Housing and Planning might
43:02
Speaker 2: think about the policy that you're writing, and these suggestions
43:06
Speaker 2: get injected into their workflow and essentially, it's just the
43:09
Speaker 2: slow grinding removal of human contribution to the process ultimately.
43:15
Speaker 2: And then the second one, which call my attention, which
43:18
Speaker 2: I don't how many screen grabs for, but it was
43:20
Speaker 2: described on the website. It's called lex and essentially this
43:24
Speaker 2: is a way of searching all UK laws all the
43:26
Speaker 2: way back to twelve sixty seven, and apparently it draws
43:29
Speaker 2: on a large trusted data set, including one point five
43:33
Speaker 2: million sections of legislation one point five million not words
43:39
Speaker 2: sections of legislation. Well, so if you need an AI
43:43
Speaker 2: to actually understand your legal system, isn't the legal system
43:47
Speaker 2: that's the problem. It's too complicated, isn't it?
43:50
Speaker 3: Well, and the system of law? And I can say
43:53
Speaker 3: to viewers, have a look at the interview I did
43:55
Speaker 3: recently with Robin Tilbrook, leader of the English Democrats, because
44:00
Speaker 3: he brought up this very subject by saying, well, if
44:03
Speaker 3: we go back a few hundred years, society was running
44:07
Speaker 3: with law which could be contained within a few books,
44:12
Speaker 3: and now we're at the state where not only do
44:15
Speaker 3: we have two shelves full of books full of law,
44:21
Speaker 3: it's now emerging so fast that nobody can keep up
44:24
Speaker 3: with it. Maybe only AI can keep up with the
44:26
Speaker 3: speed legislation's coming in, so this is very dangerous.
44:30
Speaker 2: While at the same time loading more and more legislation
44:33
Speaker 2: in on top of it. So maybe we'll just have
44:35
Speaker 2: to just hand control over to the AI because the
44:38
Speaker 2: whole thing is just too complicated and we can't keep on.
44:40
Speaker 1: Top of it all. I think it's probably where we're
44:41
Speaker 1: heading to.
44:42
Speaker 3: But we the UK column are giving people the pointers
44:46
Speaker 3: as the where you need to be looking, what you
44:49
Speaker 3: need to be looking at in order to understand where
44:52
Speaker 3: the change comes from. And then the target is, of
44:55
Speaker 3: course those human representatives, some of whom just simply don't
45:00
Speaker 3: understand what's going on around them. Those are the ones
45:03
Speaker 3: that we should be seeking to get a dialogue with
45:07
Speaker 3: to get this stopped and just leave you to think
45:10
Speaker 3: about that.
45:11
Speaker 5: Now.
45:11
Speaker 3: I just want to come onto the subject of universities
45:16
Speaker 3: because we have discussed several times what universities are really
45:20
Speaker 3: about in this country. Now I get alerts for certain
45:24
Speaker 3: information and the Center for Statecraft sent through an alert
45:30
Speaker 3: over a report that had actually been written by Dr
45:36
Speaker 3: Jade McGlynn, Kimberly Metcalfe and Alexander Shulga. So this has
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Speaker 3: come out as Center for Statecraft and National Security. We'll
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Speaker 3: just show you this document first, But my goodness, this
45:50
Speaker 3: document I found I'm going to use the word obscene
45:54
Speaker 3: in how brutally casual it was about. It was looking
45:58
Speaker 3: at what the war has done to Russian society. It
46:01
Speaker 3: was trying to weigh up whether it had weakened puting
46:05
Speaker 3: people in Russia. Very tired, I'll say happily in inverted commas.
46:10
Speaker 3: They didn't actually use that word, but that's how I
46:13
Speaker 3: felt about this document. Happily. Now most Russians know of
46:18
Speaker 3: a family or a family member that's been killed in
46:22
Speaker 3: the war. So these three ladies that had written this
46:27
Speaker 3: document very excited that the brutal ongoing war has now
46:32
Speaker 3: started to really cause damage inside Russian society. And if
46:37
Speaker 3: we just put that one back up on screen, please,
46:40
Speaker 3: I just put a label over the top. This was
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Speaker 3: one of the comments. This report traces a Russian population
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Speaker 3: increasingly exhausted and personally touched by loss, yet still committed
46:54
Speaker 3: to the war's underlying justification. Now I qualify this remark.
46:59
Speaker 3: It is interesting in some ways. Although they're saying there's
47:02
Speaker 3: exhaustion coming inside the Russian population as the result of
47:06
Speaker 3: the special military operation going on over the years. It
47:10
Speaker 3: has despite all that, the Russian population is still very
47:15
Speaker 3: much staying together, supporting each other because they realize that
47:20
Speaker 3: they are being attacked by the combined forces of not
47:24
Speaker 3: just Ukraine but the West itself. But a very callous
47:29
Speaker 3: document this is the league lady. And where I'm coming
47:34
Speaker 3: to is of course that this is one of the
47:37
Speaker 3: people major power within King's College, London. So what is
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Speaker 3: King's College doing? Is it actually educating youngsters in the
47:46
Speaker 3: UK so that they can achieve a good job and
47:49
Speaker 3: have a good family life and an enjoyable life. No,
47:53
Speaker 3: this is much more political weaponization of their academic material
47:59
Speaker 3: in order to get at the Russians. But I've just
48:01
Speaker 3: struck then by the picture of this young lady. I've
48:06
Speaker 3: looked at this picture quite a bit because to me
48:09
Speaker 3: it absolutely seems if we can just pop that back
48:13
Speaker 3: on screen again, please William, that we're looking at some
48:17
Speaker 3: sort of enhanced it's almost cartoon image. This doesn't appear
48:23
Speaker 3: to be a normal image.
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Speaker 1: It's very incongruous, particularly with the topic that she's.
48:27
Speaker 3: Absolutely well, it's probably what I'm getting at is that
48:31
Speaker 3: what are we seeing is this how this individual sees themselves.
48:35
Speaker 3: If we go to her, if we go to her website,
48:39
Speaker 3: there's another picture, but it's got the same feel about it.
48:42
Speaker 3: Is this AI enhanced?
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Speaker 1: Is this? What is this?
48:46
Speaker 3: I've asked a pretty direct question. Are we're dealing with
48:50
Speaker 3: a baby doll here or a trained operative? And I'm
48:53
Speaker 3: going to say to people, go and see what this
48:56
Speaker 3: lady is about. Where she's worked. What her agenda is
49:00
Speaker 3: deep analysis, psychological analysis of the population in Russia. You
49:06
Speaker 3: can find more in a bibliogorry biography here, and if
49:13
Speaker 3: you have a read through all of this, which obviously
49:16
Speaker 3: we can't do directly on screen, But what it's really
49:19
Speaker 3: telling you is that she's working alongside organizations in Ukraine.
49:25
Speaker 3: The organization is ICAR, the Institute for Conflict Studies and
49:30
Speaker 3: Analysis of Russia. It says it's an independent crev based
49:34
Speaker 3: think tank. To me, that can't possibly be true. So
49:38
Speaker 3: King's College is pushing out what is to me absolutely
49:42
Speaker 3: direct Western military propaganda but so cynical, and it's it's
49:49
Speaker 3: with this weird, weird barbie doll type image. Ben So
49:53
Speaker 3: perhaps the audience can give me more information as to
49:56
Speaker 3: what I'm really looking at here. But I'm going to
49:58
Speaker 3: end by saying that if you're not sure what King's
50:01
Speaker 3: College is up to, then have a look at the
50:03
Speaker 3: Global culture content when they are very excited that they're
50:08
Speaker 3: not just training students, they are training students to be
50:13
Speaker 3: capable within a new global citizenship environment. So it seems
50:19
Speaker 3: to me that this is on the edge of your
50:22
Speaker 3: manipulation agenda that you've just gone through. So when our
50:26
Speaker 3: youngsters are going to university, are they actually being educated
50:31
Speaker 3: and trained in order to get into a good job
50:34
Speaker 3: and enhance their personal standing and that of their family,
50:38
Speaker 3: or are they now being groomed in order to simply
50:42
Speaker 3: suck in and follow through on this globalist policy. A
50:48
Speaker 3: lot of questions to be asked, and we'll do some
50:50
Speaker 3: more on that topic.
50:50
Speaker 2: And I think I know when I think about that question, certainly,
50:55
Speaker 2: thank you for that, Brian. That's fascinating. I'm sure we'll
50:57
Speaker 2: talk more about that in extra. Now we're going to
51:01
Speaker 2: head to up to Norfolk, where a series of process
51:06
Speaker 2: have been taking place against migrants being moved into a
51:10
Speaker 2: tiny Norfolk community over the past week.
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Speaker 7: It's unrest that's pushing Norfolk police to the limit as
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Speaker 7: they become human barriers to crowds and protesters gathering outside
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Speaker 7: properties in Thetford which they believe are housing asylum seekers.
51:27
Speaker 7: This footage shows officers escorting men out of one of
51:31
Speaker 7: the homes targeted.
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Speaker 1: Why I've been enjoyed this day.
51:37
Speaker 7: This is what police have been dealing with over the
51:39
Speaker 7: last three nights, disorder that resulted in one officer being
51:43
Speaker 7: spat at, another being hit with a rock, and another
51:47
Speaker 7: being bitten. Today we saw the aftermath where eggs and
51:50
Speaker 7: stones were thrown at windows. No one living locally condone
51:54
Speaker 7: the violence, but they defended the right to peaceful protest
51:58
Speaker 7: and understood the tensions were running high.
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Speaker 8: Just neighbors have been complaining about the noise around the
52:04
Speaker 8: corner and you know, just getting awful. Too many send
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Speaker 8: them home back to where they come from. We're tax payers.
52:17
Speaker 8: We don't want to forget for them.
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Speaker 9: They don't cause any problems. And personally, I don't put
52:24
Speaker 9: it down why they're protesting against them. You know the
52:27
Speaker 9: people that came in did it? I don't know because
52:30
Speaker 9: it's not them, it's the authorities that put them in there.
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Speaker 7: At the heart of this is government proposals to turn
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Speaker 7: the nearby former military base Arif Barnhum into accommodation for
52:41
Speaker 7: male asylum seekers. The plans were announced in June and
52:45
Speaker 7: there've been protests at the gates ever since, but nothing
52:48
Speaker 7: quite like what's happened over the past few nights.
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Speaker 10: The basic grievance of these people, it's with the Home Office,
52:55
Speaker 10: it's with the government who are putting these illegal immigrants
52:58
Speaker 10: in their communities. You know, Thetford have spoken, Deptford have
53:04
Speaker 10: made their protests, but there are hundreds of other Thetford
53:08
Speaker 10: throughout the country where the same feelings exist.
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Speaker 3: Interesting report then, I think.
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Speaker 2: Yes there was from TV News. Yes, it would have
53:19
Speaker 2: been produced by it in Yes. So the guy at
53:23
Speaker 2: the end there the Police Commission, I think is quite
53:25
Speaker 2: a good point actually, right, which is the we're going
53:29
Speaker 2: to start seeing this all around the country.
53:31
Speaker 3: And he's saying the grievance is where the policy comes from,
53:35
Speaker 3: which is absolutely on the button. And if you've followed
53:38
Speaker 3: through where the policy comes from, then that is the
53:41
Speaker 3: point where the pressure should be applied. So peaceful demonstrations, yes,
53:46
Speaker 3: they bring things to attention, but if you want to
53:49
Speaker 3: stop what's happening, you've got to apply pressure and that's
53:53
Speaker 3: got to be on the appropriate pressure point.
53:55
Speaker 2: It certainly is I think is it at the straight
53:58
Speaker 2: level as well as it is the the institutional level
54:01
Speaker 2: as well. You know, because that was presented, that report
54:05
Speaker 2: was not quite as damning as some of them. If
54:06
Speaker 2: you go and watch the reporting from them, I think
54:09
Speaker 2: the Mirror and the Independent. You know, it was poor
54:12
Speaker 2: asylum seekers of brutally targeted by vicious racist thugs. And
54:17
Speaker 2: actually what's happening is you've got a local community who
54:19
Speaker 2: can see that these individuals who've been put into these
54:22
Speaker 2: houses on local estates are actually the thin end of
54:25
Speaker 2: a very very very very thick wedge, all right, Because
54:28
Speaker 2: they just mentioned IRF on them there. That's one of four, sorry,
54:32
Speaker 2: three former military sites which have the potential to house
54:35
Speaker 2: up to nearly four thousand men in the local area
54:40
Speaker 2: around Thetford And if you don't cut that off sooner
54:44
Speaker 2: rather than later, then that's just going to bulldoze through
54:47
Speaker 2: your local community. And you know, we talk about this
54:50
Speaker 2: all the time, and we're talking to the UK column audience.
54:54
Speaker 2: Does anyone really believe that putting that many fighting age
54:57
Speaker 2: men into military barracks around the country with the current
55:02
Speaker 2: administration that we've got in Westminster it's a safe option.
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Speaker 1: You're mad.
55:08
Speaker 2: You're completely mad if you think that's a good idea.
55:11
Speaker 2: So good on the people of Sheptford. You know, I'm
55:13
Speaker 2: not advocating biting police officers or unwarranted violence or anything
55:19
Speaker 2: like that.
55:20
Speaker 1: I think that we've got.
55:21
Speaker 2: To start standing up for ourselves, quite frankly, and I
55:24
Speaker 2: was quite encouraged to see Sheptford living up to its
55:28
Speaker 2: revolutionary reputation. I lived there when I was born, by
55:32
Speaker 2: the way, eserciously, I was born in Suffolk at the
55:34
Speaker 2: West Southern Hospital in various edmonds, but we lived in
55:36
Speaker 2: Septford at the time, so I have quite a personal
55:39
Speaker 2: connection to the place.
55:41
Speaker 3: Okay, I just add to that that when you see
55:44
Speaker 3: local people speaking on this issue, you can absolutely sense
55:49
Speaker 3: there it's a fear of what they say talking about it,
55:55
Speaker 3: because they know if they say the wrong things, they're
55:57
Speaker 3: going to be branded a racist or an extremist or
56:01
Speaker 3: a nasty person for saying the uncontrolled migration is the
56:05
Speaker 3: wrong thing. So this show shows the power of anything
56:09
Speaker 3: which is seeking to control people's language, and well done
56:13
Speaker 3: for those not only the local people the lady on
56:18
Speaker 3: who was there on the street or outside a house,
56:21
Speaker 3: but also official for actually having the courage to speak
56:25
Speaker 3: out challenging what's happening by speaking out and using the
56:29
Speaker 3: proper words is a powerful thing in its own right.
56:32
Speaker 1: It certainly is.
56:34
Speaker 3: So moving on, Brian, Yes, I just wanted to drop
56:38
Speaker 3: this in against the background of Andy Burnham coming back
56:42
Speaker 3: from his holiday and he's going to tour the UK
56:46
Speaker 3: to help what's going on, and maybe he's going to
56:49
Speaker 3: reduce bus fairs for young people even further because that's
56:53
Speaker 3: going to significantly impact on the economy of UK. I
56:57
Speaker 3: wanted to contrast that with this really excellent substack report
57:02
Speaker 3: by Richard Medhurst. If we just put this one up
57:06
Speaker 3: on screen, so go and have a look, because Richard
57:09
Speaker 3: Medhurst here, this is from some months ago, but he's
57:13
Speaker 3: actually looking at what the American operations around the globe
57:16
Speaker 3: are doing. And what he is saying is that the US, okay,
57:20
Speaker 3: the military has taken a bit of a beating by
57:24
Speaker 3: the Iranians, which is absolutely correct, but he said, if
57:28
Speaker 3: you look at the widest strategic agenda, the US has
57:31
Speaker 3: pulled off and armed what he says as an armed
57:34
Speaker 3: robbery of the world's energy supply, and they've created the
57:38
Speaker 3: Petro gas dollar, he said, a forensic investigation into how
57:42
Speaker 3: Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace nord streams,
57:46
Speaker 3: save the dollar, and establish total commands over the world's
57:50
Speaker 3: fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean. And it's
57:55
Speaker 3: tempting to believe that the US war machine is finished militarily.
58:00
Speaker 3: Iran has indeed dealt the US their worst humiliation in
58:04
Speaker 3: modern history when I covered in clinical detail, but in
58:08
Speaker 3: the background, Washington have been quietly carrying out an armed
58:12
Speaker 3: robbery on the world's oil and gas supply, all of it.
58:16
Speaker 3: And he's specifically talking about the fact that failing businesses
58:20
Speaker 3: in Europe now are having to head towards the US
58:25
Speaker 3: in order to keep themselves going. And whilst this is
58:30
Speaker 3: the level of detail that a blogger can get into,
58:33
Speaker 3: we're supposed to believe Andy Burnham, who's going to save
58:36
Speaker 3: the country by having what was it a summer British
58:42
Speaker 3: saving Yeah, yeah, I mean it's just outrageous.
58:52
Speaker 1: Yes, very good.
58:53
Speaker 2: But I'm just just to tap in again to a
58:57
Speaker 2: story that Basil covered very well on Friday, actually relates
59:00
Speaker 2: to this chap.
59:02
Speaker 1: Jason R.
59:03
Speaker 2: Day, a Cambridge don or, former Cambridge don who it
59:07
Speaker 2: turned out had been grossly over promoted and perhaps even
59:15
Speaker 2: employed under a questionable circumstances. Just being a bit careful
59:21
Speaker 2: with my words, right, But at best, this guy seems
59:25
Speaker 2: like an absolute fantasist. If you want to run down
59:28
Speaker 2: and all the things that he's claimed to have done
59:30
Speaker 2: in his life, including running thirty marathons with a broken
59:34
Speaker 2: leg and all sorts of crazy things, go and have
59:36
Speaker 2: a little look at the segment on that ran on Friday.
59:41
Speaker 2: I just wanted to take this as an opportunity to
59:43
Speaker 2: draw our viewers' attention once again to this interview that
59:48
Speaker 2: I did probably knocking on two years ago now actually
59:51
Speaker 2: with Professor David Barnheiser, called Conformity Colleges the occupation and
59:55
Speaker 2: destruction of the academy by the radical left. Where we
59:58
Speaker 2: go and explore in significant detail the role that left
1:00:02
Speaker 2: wing politics, inspired by the Frankfurt School of cultural Marxists
1:00:07
Speaker 2: from the nineteen twenties up to the present day have
1:00:09
Speaker 2: played in the total destruction of the university system and
1:00:17
Speaker 2: the broader education system, but certainly in the university system
1:00:20
Speaker 2: here in the UK and across the rest of the West.
1:00:22
Speaker 2: Really good interview, fascinating conversation. Highly recommend it. You can
1:00:26
Speaker 2: search for it on the UK Column website and we
1:00:29
Speaker 2: will also provide a link in the show notes as
1:00:31
Speaker 2: you might expect us to do. Now we're running out
1:00:34
Speaker 2: of time, but there's always time for an afternoon on
1:00:39
Speaker 2: the boat.
1:00:39
Speaker 3: Brian Well, I'll just bring this one up on screen
1:00:44
Speaker 3: to end on a positive note for UK Column News.
1:00:48
Speaker 3: Conditions over the weekend absolutely superb on the south coast
1:00:52
Speaker 3: of England, many people out on the water where they
1:00:55
Speaker 3: were enjoying as sea breeze as well as some pretty
1:00:58
Speaker 3: hot sunshine, and towards the end of the day I
1:01:03
Speaker 3: thought quite a striking photograph to say life isn't all bad.
1:01:08
Speaker 3: And there were thousands and thousands and thousands of people
1:01:11
Speaker 3: of course out over the weekend around UK on the beaches,
1:01:17
Speaker 3: on the cliff walks, on the water in their canoes
1:01:21
Speaker 3: or on their stand up paddle boards, and a lot
1:01:24
Speaker 3: of people having a lot of fun with this weather,
1:01:27
Speaker 3: even though some had to be a little bit careful
1:01:29
Speaker 3: with the strength of the sunshine, including myself. But this
1:01:33
Speaker 3: is the reality of what's been going on as opposed
1:01:37
Speaker 3: to those headlines. We started the UK Column News today
1:01:41
Speaker 3: where the mainstream media would have us believe that thousands
1:01:46
Speaker 3: of people were dying as a result of heat stroke
1:01:50
Speaker 3: and other problems in UK. It's outrageous but really beautiful conditions.
1:01:57
Speaker 3: And thank you to the individual who kindly let me
1:02:01
Speaker 3: join them for a little trip on the water. Sort
1:02:04
Speaker 3: of a bustman's holiday for me of course.
1:02:07
Speaker 1: Yeah.
1:02:07
Speaker 2: Fantastic, glorious out there. Great Now, that's all we have
1:02:12
Speaker 2: time for today. I'm afraid that we could go on
1:02:14
Speaker 2: for hours. Thank you to everyone at home who's been watching,
1:02:18
Speaker 2: either live or back on YouTube or on our website.
1:02:22
Speaker 2: Don't forget tonight at seven the weekly band to show
1:02:27
Speaker 2: with Charles and Mike. Carls are at nine Military Matters
1:02:32
Speaker 2: tomorrow at one pm, and of course Mike and team
1:02:36
Speaker 2: will be back for the news at one pm on Wednesday.
1:02:40
Speaker 2: We'll be back in a few minutes for UK column Extra.
1:02:42
Speaker 2: Until next time, take care,