Latest / UK Column Radio / UK Column News Podcast 22nd March 2024
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- 0:08Good afternoon. It's Friday, the twenty second of the March twenty twenty four,
- 0:11just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK Colin News. I'm your
- 0:14host Mike Robinson joining me in the studio today. It's great to have Ben
- 0:17Ruben. Hi, Mike Kelly. I'm doing very well, Thank you very
- 0:20much. We've got Debbie Evans with us today as well and also a special
- 0:25guest. Now we are going to get started off with hatred, because of
- 0:29course hatred is the top of the headlines, the one particularly hatred in Scotland
- 0:33and well HOMESI Yusef is not terribly excited about what's going on in terms of
- 0:38the response to the Hit Bill or the Hit Act as it now is in
- 0:42Scotland. There's been a lot of disinformation spread on social media, he says,
- 0:46through some inaccurate media reporting and by political opponents. So what is he
- 0:52talking about. Well, this is this new law which comes into force and
- 0:56we're going to give a little bit of a detail on it at the moment,
- 0:58but it extends the offensive, stirring up hatred to other things like eage,
- 1:03disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics
- 1:11otherwise known as intersex. Now, of course a lot of the farouor over
- 1:15this came with Police Scotland putting this web page up and creating their hit Monster
- 1:23campaign, and this resulted in a huge derision online and so on. If
- 1:29you go looking for this page nine, this is what you get a four
- 1:33four page nine find in the mainstream press. They are denying that the hit
- 1:38Monster is dead, but it's certainly been taken down from the website in the
- 1:44meantime. Now we might be making light of this. Actually there's an extremely
- 1:48serious aspect to this, and I just want to look at some of the
- 1:52text from the Police Scotland national guidance on the issue. So let's look at
- 1:57what it says for recording purposes, not words for the police to record this.
- 2:01As I see, my font are a bit messed up, so I
- 2:06do apologize for this. For recording purposes. The perception of the victim or
- 2:09any other purpose is a defining factor in determining whether an incident is a hit
- 2:15incident or is recognized, or in recognizing the malice element of a crime.
- 2:20The perception of the victim. Ben right, let's go on with it and
- 2:23this is also going to be a bit wrong, but anyway, the perception
- 2:28of the victim should always be explored. However, they do not have to
- 2:30justify or provide evidence of their belief, and police officers or staff members should
- 2:36not direct the challenge this perception. Evidence of malice and ill will is not
- 2:39required the hit for a hit crime or hit incident to be recorded and thereafter
- 2:45investigated as a hit crime or hit incident by police. It goes on the
- 2:51alleged actions of the perpetrator must amount to a crime under Scottish Crime Recording Standard
- 2:57rules, so fair enough it has to be a crime. If this is
- 3:00the case, the perception of the victim or any other person will decide whether
- 3:02the crime is recorded as a hit crime. And finally, if the facts
- 3:07do not identify a recordable crime, but the victim perceives it to be a
- 3:10hit crime, the circumstances will be recorded as a hit incident, not non
- 3:15crime incident. But I don't know what you think about this, Ben,
- 3:20but it seems incredible to me that they are really trying to get away with
- 3:24evidence not being required in order for an event to be recorded as a hit
- 3:30crime, and therefore investigated by the police. And the question then is where
- 3:35does that end The police could be and perhaps this is the way that campaigners
- 3:39might go. Police could be overwhelmed by this extremely quickly. If every comment
- 3:46that anybody MIxS is reported as some kind of hit crime, I mean,
- 3:50it's a total perversion of due process, and yeah, I think it could
- 3:54descend into chaos very quickly. Maybe that's the point. Well, maybe it
- 3:59is, Debbie. I don't know if you've got any thoughts on this,
- 4:03well, yes, I certainly have. Good afternoon everybody. After speaking to
- 4:13the youngsters that I spoke to with regard to PREVENT and what's happening in England,
- 4:18you know, you've only got to say something and it gets reported to
- 4:23a Prevent officer and then you get a knock on the door. And if
- 4:26that knock on the door, the person that's knocking on the door deems your
- 4:30comment to be discriminatory or a matter of national security, it's a police investigation.
- 4:41So it's just Prevent on speed. I think in Scotland it is.
- 4:44Indeed, now let's just bring this up from the Scholarsh Union for Education,
- 4:47because if you want to know more about this, there's no better place to
- 4:50go. And Stuart Whitten, who's been on this program that's written for us
- 4:55in the past, is involved with this organization. What I'm looking at here
- 4:59is this Union for Education used letter number sixty and they're making two real points
- 5:03here, Debbie. First of all, as you say, does this mean
- 5:08that children who are often or can be a cerbic at times are going to
- 5:13be being reported a widespread basis. And if they are being reported on a
- 5:18widespread basiness, what effect is that going to have on their future lives,
- 5:21on their future careers if they have a black mark against them from the age
- 5:26of nothing. And we already have a regime in England, for example,
- 5:30where children are in primary schools are having instances of whatever kind of behavior recorded
- 5:39and this on a piece of paper, and this piece of paper falls them
- 5:42through right through the adulthood. So this is a pretty difficult direction to be
- 5:48going in. But then the other point that they also make, of course,
- 5:51is that teachers and lectures are likely to be on the receiving end of
- 5:57comments from students. In fact, as we know from the David Miller Kiss
- 6:01he lost his job at Bristol University for making what we're alleged to be antisemitic
- 6:08comments. You know where does this end, Debbie, Well, the consequences
- 6:14ripple on throughout lives. I mean this is it's going to get worse before
- 6:17it and we all need to be aware of it, and we need to
- 6:20be standing up against it. It's as simple as that. We need to
- 6:24be talking about it. Yes, indeed, Okay, Now let's come to
- 6:29you then and move on to health issues and well. Blood First of all,
- 6:33yeah, let's talk blood. Now, For an adult man weighing about
- 6:39two hundred pounds, they'll have about twelve pints of blood, that's six liters.
- 6:44For women weighing one hundred and sixty five pounds, you're looking at around
- 6:47four point three liters, which equates to nine points. So blood is unique,
- 6:53it is unique to us. It's a very very precious commodity. And
- 6:58I want to talk about blood transfusion in particular. Now I'm not going to
- 7:01touch on the unted vaccinated blood debate because you'll see where I'm going with this
- 7:09segment. So that's a whole new segment of its own. But blood's thicker
- 7:13than water. Blood, brothers, Well, let's remind ourselves of the hepatitis
- 7:18blood inquiry, which actually this has been going on for forty years and the
- 7:25victims of some of them are dead actually, but the victims still haven't received
- 7:30any compensation. So we know that there are massive problems with infected blood,
- 7:34but it seems as though we haven't learnt our lessons. But there are other
- 7:39uses of blood. And back in two seventeen, BBC three was reporting a
- 7:44story about the super rich were injecting blood from teenagers to gain immortality. Now,
- 7:51this was a clinical trial that was held in San Francisco that was offering
- 7:55blood transfusions for older patients from younger people, and that was plasma. And
- 8:01we're looking at six two hundred pounds for two and a half of plasma.
- 8:07Now, these blood transfusions back then were being promoted at society galas. It
- 8:13was a big thing. So you bought your ticket for the gala for one
- 8:16hundred and ninety five dollars and then you would get a handout once you got
- 8:22there. Now, if you look further into what you actually had to do
- 8:24when you got the handout, is that you would have to pay two hundred
- 8:28and eighty five thousand dollars to enroll on this clinical trial and this scheme to
- 8:37be able to be transfused with young plasma. Now, there was plenty of
- 8:41interest. There was one company called Ambrosia, and Ambrosia started the whole thing,
- 8:46but there have been other companies like Cellularity and Google Calico. Plenty of
- 8:52interest in young blood, even to the point of using plus centers plus cental
- 8:58blood. So this was all about age reverse alright, and immortality. But
- 9:05the FDA soon put their foot down and said that absolutely not, we cannot
- 9:09use young blood. And that's why I'm titling this segment young blood. We
- 9:13cannot use young blood for this purpose. However, the narrative has changed.
- 9:20So what has it changed into. Well, it's changed into using young blood
- 9:26for Alzheimer's. So if we look at this study here young blood a plasma
- 9:33administration to fight Alzheimer's disease. Now this is basically young plasma, and it
- 9:41says that that has potential therapeutic properties by ameliorating aspects of disease present in Alzheimer's
- 9:48disease patients. And the clinical trials are underway now. Interesting engineering also brought
- 9:54out a very interesting article in twenty twenty three. So we're coming right up
- 10:00to date now twenty twenty three, where researchers have been finding that young blood
- 10:05could have rejuvenating effect when infused into older bodies to rejuvenate heart muscle and generally
- 10:15organs. But then in twenty twenty four March, so this month this has
- 10:22just been published, and this is exercise blood plasma promotes hippocampal neurogenesis in the
- 10:28Alzheimer's disease of a rat brain. Now, the hippocampus is in the limbic
- 10:35system and it holds all your memories, your working memory, your rote memory,
- 10:39autobiographical memories. So you can see how that plays into Alzheimer's. But
- 10:45if we go to look at the conclusion of that paper, you can see
- 10:48that it says our proof of concepts study demonstrates that plasma from exercise trained donors
- 10:54can protect neuronal cells in culture and promote hippo campel neurogenesis in Alzheimer's disease rat
- 11:03brains. Now, I just want to rewind a little bit to a TED
- 11:09talk that was given eight years ago. This was given by Professor Tony weiss
- 11:16Core Now he's a professor of neurology at Stanford and he'd studies degeneration and the
- 11:24degeneration of brains, and I want you to listen very carefully, just to
- 11:28the end of his talk. Let's have a listen. So to summarize,
- 11:33we find the old mouse and its brain in particular, are malleable. They're
- 11:37not set in stone. We can actually change them. It can be rejuvenated.
- 11:43Young blood factors can reverse aging. And what I didn't show you in
- 11:48this model, the young mouse actually suffers from exposure to the old So there's
- 11:54old blood factors that can accelerate aging. And most importantly, humans may have
- 12:01similar factors because we can take young human blood and have a similar effect.
- 12:07Old human blood I didn't show you does not have this effect. It does
- 12:11not make the mice younger. So is this magic transferable to humans. We're
- 12:16running a small clinical study at Stanford where we treat Alzheimer's patients with mild disease
- 12:24with a pint of young plasma or plasma from young volunteers twenty year olds,
- 12:31and do this once a week for four weeks, and then we look at
- 12:33their brains with imaging. We test them cognitively and we ask their caregivers for
- 12:41daily activities of living. What we hope is that there are some signs of
- 12:46improvement by this treatment. And if that's the case, that could give us
- 12:50hope that what I showed you works in mice might also work in humans.
- 12:56Now, I don't think we will live forever, but maybe we discovered that
- 13:03the fountain of youth is actually within us and it has just dried out.
- 13:07And if we can turn it back on a little bit, maybe we can
- 13:11find the factors that are mediating these effects. We can produce these factors synthetically,
- 13:18and we can treat diseases of aging such as Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.
- 13:26So, as we know, Alzheimer's is a big agenda in the UK,
- 13:30and actually the Alzheimer's Guidance has been written by our very own Raj Long
- 13:35from the MHRA, who we know has no qualifications either in geriatrics. She's
- 13:41not a geriatrician, she's not a doctor, she's not a psychologist, she's
- 13:46a nobody. But she's written the agenda and we know that it was high
- 13:48on David Cameron's agenda. So what was interesting about that was they were not
- 13:54just talking about the effects of young blood on old people, but they were
- 13:58affected. They were talking about the negative effects of older blood within younger people.
- 14:05So my question to everybody out there, and if we've got any hematologists,
- 14:09of which I haven't met very many, but if we have any hematologists,
- 14:13they could perhaps answer that question in the effect that do we know who
- 14:18we're getting blood from? Would an eighteen year old want to receive my blood
- 14:22for example? So that's a question I'm throwing out. But on top of
- 14:26that, we can see that the National Citizen Service and the NHS are very
- 14:31busy. They are encouraging teenagers to sign up to donate their first pint and
- 14:37we've got this first pint campaign going on, which actually means that at sixteen,
- 14:43please sign up, is what they're saying, and you can give as
- 14:46early as seventeen. So looking at UK fundraising you can see that they're looking
- 14:52for a lot of people though, for one hundred and thirty five thousand new
- 14:54blood donors, specifically forty new black donors, and they're encouraging teenagers to register.
- 15:03But just to finish this segment off, I just want to finish on
- 15:07an article in The Guardian written by Zoe Williams, columnist who woke up one
- 15:13morning and found an email in her inbox and it said would she please donate
- 15:18a kidney? And that's what she received in her in books. As crazy
- 15:24as it might sound, would she please donate a kidney? She decided she
- 15:28would decline, but maybe in the future she might give some platelets. But
- 15:33are we looking at body parts? Organ donation? Blood donation? Okay,
- 15:39thank you, Debbie. Now I'm going to welcome Jackie de Void to the
- 15:41program at this point. Thank you very much for joining us. Jackie,
- 15:46Now you have well of course, first of all, we remind everybody that
- 15:50we hosted your symposium a few weeks ago on madazolam and that was an extremely
- 15:58interesting event. If anybody hasn't seen that, please have a look at the
- 16:00UK COLMN website and watch it if you possibly can. But Jackie, you
- 16:04have a documentary and production at the moment, it's almost finished and ready for
- 16:07premiere. Yeah it is. It's called Playing God. I just want to
- 16:11say thank you very much for your support with it and forgetting me on the
- 16:17show to talk about it. So Playing God is exposing a medical demicide in
- 16:21the UK over the last fifty years, so it's quite a broad look at
- 16:26death by government policy. That's what Demoside is. So we've been actually working
- 16:33on it for two years. It is finished now and you're going to show
- 16:37it. You're going to be the UK platform that is going to premiere it
- 16:41on April twenty second. We've also got Children's Health Defense Robert Kennedy Junior the
- 16:47kindly offered to platform it in the US, so that'll be seen worldwide via
- 16:52their site as well. So yeah, it's been in production for two years.
- 16:56The reason it's taken that long is because our crowded funded it pretty much
- 17:00single handedly. So you know, we're stopping and starting quite a lot.
- 17:03We couldn't do all in one go. We're a small team. There's just
- 17:07four of us. We've got award winning directors nim My Mood and his brother
- 17:11ashm Mood. We've got Phil Graham and myself as producers. And yeah,
- 17:15it's looking pretty good. So I think you're going to actually premier it on
- 17:21the twenty second on UK column at the same time as Children's Health Defense.
- 17:26I do believe, is that right? Yes, that is our intention.
- 17:29So we'll have a page on the front page of the website for that and
- 17:33we'll give the full details in due course, but just to put your website
- 17:37on screen, just tell us the web address for this. Yeah, so
- 17:41it's playing good dot UK. Very simple, So just one word playing good
- 17:45dot UK and you can see updates there and any information that you might want
- 17:52to find out. You can actually donate there as well, because we're still
- 17:55even though the film is finished, we're now in the post production phase,
- 17:57which obviously includes marketing, promotion, distribution. There's still a few more costs
- 18:03before we can actually get it to your screens, so if you come donate,
- 18:07that will be brilliant. It's also a crowdfunder look up playing God's Final
- 18:11Phase and it should pop up on crowdfunder. We've also got a brand new
- 18:15trailer. That's that's just the teaser there, but we've got a brand new
- 18:18trailer. I don't know, are you going to let's have a look at
- 18:22the trailer. Okay, brilliant thanks. In the last thirty years you can
- 18:30see good evidence that the National Health Service has become a killing machine. Elizabeth
- 18:38was killed off after I was crimly assaulted and made to have my baby two
- 18:42months early. But I've seen no reason at all. You can imagine the
- 18:47trauma of watching your perfectly healthy partner of twenty one years just died in his
- 18:52medication. Chat appears he had me daz alamin morphine two days after he died.
- 18:56Now I want to know what happened in my steward. When you go
- 19:00to a hospital, like a National Health hospital, you go there to be
- 19:04cured. You don't go there to die. It's a moment they go into
- 19:07hospital. They're being put onto these hospital protocols which dictate which drugs, which
- 19:14treatment they're going to receive, and it's a one size fits all blanket policy.
- 19:18Once procedures are put into a protocol, it becomes a straight jacket.
- 19:22They're literally killing people. At the moment, she was in no pain,
- 19:27there was no shortness of breath. Yet she was on six or seven different
- 19:33forms of medication. We hadn't known the Badley's side effects. There was nothing
- 19:37in the paperwork that he was given. The night nurse just pomp in with
- 19:41midazilamimorphine. Helena Bye was the first fatal case of the drug ep limp.
- 19:49These big pharmaceutical companies are money making businesses, they're not healthcare companies. That's
- 19:56what we're dealing with the money making potentially for audulent certainly historically criminal enterprise and
- 20:02then children. Also a market for unlicensed medications is the lack of the draw
- 20:07whether they benefit or is causation of death. The CQC said they were doing
- 20:14an investigation but Nates England stopped it. Those two doctors were playing god.
- 20:21They were killing people. She suffered much, she died needlessly. She could
- 20:27have been saved. That she was murdered by the state. And the thing
- 20:40just to finish off Jackie. The thing here is that you know, people
- 20:42have been talking about Liverpool care Pathway and so on, but that and the
- 20:48fact that that had been replaced. But the point is it has been replaced
- 20:52and there are other care pathways that people are being put on, maybe don't
- 20:56have the same reputation that that one did. Yeah, absolutely, I mean
- 21:00the Liverpool care path it was abolished in twenty fourteen. It shouldn't have been
- 21:03replaced with anything really, but back in twenty twenty they brought it back in
- 21:10under the guise of n G one sixty three n G one nine one.
- 21:12The film isn't solely about involuntary euthanasia and care pathways. It's covering demoside in
- 21:18a much broader sense, So we're covering drug trials so that people have been
- 21:22involuntarily put on and also jabs, you know, anything that the government's brought
- 21:29in that has killed people, basically dombside. Yeah, okay, Jackie,
- 21:32thank you very much. Nig will just put the crowdfunder on screen here so
- 21:36that anybody that wants to contribute can do so, and we would encourage that
- 21:41if you possibly can. So, Jackie, thank you very much for joining
- 21:45us today and we will keep every post everybody posted for the premiere in the
- 21:49next on the twenty second it was the twenty second, Yeah, twenty second
- 21:55of April. Yeah, brilliant, thank you, thank you, Jackie.
- 21:59Right, we're back off, do you That film just looked remarkable and we're
- 22:06going to continue talking about the many and ongoing misdeeds of the British state.
- 22:10There's a lot of excitement going on at the moment about an upcoming election for
- 22:15the lower house of Parliament, the House of Commons. But today we're going
- 22:18to have a look at some of the creatures who occupy the unelected upper house,
- 22:23the House of Lords. We're going to start with Baron Mandelsson, of
- 22:26Foy and Hartlepool, also known as Peter Mandelsson, the Prince of Darkness,
- 22:33and towards the end of last year, he was asked to give some advice
- 22:37to David Cameron on his return to a senior ministerial position. From the Lords.
- 22:44You mentioned David Cameron's return, on the fact that you welcome it,
- 22:47What advice do you have for him on how to be a successful senior minister?
- 22:52From the Lords in a surprise return to government. Love them, love
- 22:56them to bits, love them. Go there, be open, be warm,
- 23:02be friendly, but be congenial, and in return they'll love you back.
- 23:12Not on his kiss. Love the Lords, so congenial, so smooth,
- 23:19honestly British politicians. Well, Manderson loved the Lords. Who else does
- 23:23Manderson love? He loves this fella, Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein used to call
- 23:29him Pete, you know, he had a little pet name for Mandelson.
- 23:33Here they are sharing a birthday cake. Epstein obviously the notorious pedophile, human
- 23:37trafficker, mossad agents, and he was such good friends with Mandelsson that he
- 23:45had every single contact detail you could possibly want, his direct number, multiple
- 23:51addresses. They were clearly incredibly close and Mandelsshon is still advising top politicians in
- 24:00the UK Labor Party. I don't understand how this is possible with that track
- 24:03record, but he is actually one of the main influences over Kirs Starmer.
- 24:07He's viewed as a core part of the advisory networks surrounding a man who could
- 24:11potentially be the next prime minister of the country. Remarkable. So who was
- 24:18Mandelson giving advice to in that little video clip? He was speaking to Baron
- 24:23Cameron of Chipping Norton. David Cameron, former Prime Minister bond Libya for Obama,
- 24:30helped overthrow Gadaffi, which led directly to the reopening of open air slave
- 24:36markets in Libya and has enabled the mass migration into Southern Europe over the past
- 24:41few years, which Gadaffi had done a very effective job of ending during his
- 24:45leadership of the country. He was also called up in the green Sill scandal,
- 24:51so he was lobbying government contacts for access to COVID emergency funds. He
- 24:56was paid around ten million dollars in two and a half years for a part
- 25:00time advisory role before green Seal collapsed in twenty twenty one. Just who you
- 25:04want representing you on the international stage. He also helped American genomics firm Illumina
- 25:12secure one hundred and twenty three million pounds of government contracts via an introduction to
- 25:18Matt Hancock. He's an ongoing advisor to Illumina. I believe that actually makes
- 25:23him a member of the Illuminati, by the way, I do, yeah,
- 25:26I think it does. Yes. And after committing us to two ongoing
- 25:34conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, he spent the start of this year celebrating with
- 25:42a trip to the Satanic Temple at Goals House in Davos, just to let
- 25:48us know exactly whose side he's on. He's also the chairman of NCS.
- 25:52By the way, Debbie was talking about NCS trying to get young people to
- 25:57donate a pint of Bloodavid Cameron is the chairman of that organization. Nothing sinister
- 26:03about that at all. Now. Cameron is very very close with this fella,
- 26:08Lord Bethel of Romford, Jim Bethel, who has Ministerial responsibility for Innovation
- 26:15and was absolutely front and center in the COVID scenario. He was actually personally
- 26:22responsible for overseeing all COVID procurement. And we're going to have a little clip
- 26:26from him now talking about his relationship with China as part of that process.
- 26:33I completely agree with those speakers who have noted the failure by the government to
- 26:38publish a clear China strategy. Noel Barness Barns to SUSA was quite right when
- 26:45she said that is a big mistake. My area is the area of innovation,
- 26:52and I want to just talk about what the implications are of that mistake.
- 26:56For the area of innovation. I saw for myself as a health minister
- 27:00during the pandemic the absolutely critical importance of trade and scientific dialogue with China.
- 27:07When the supply chains collapsed, I was on the phone trying to rustle up
- 27:12ppe from supplies, literally standing on the tarmac of Hong Kong Airport. And
- 27:17I had a role in the three and a half billion pounds worth of the
- 27:19lefties that had been bought off China that were incredibly important to our battle against
- 27:26COVID. And I gave minister a oversight of development of new therapeutics and diagnostics,
- 27:30often with Chinese academic partners and supplies involved. So I am in no
- 27:34doubt about the value of Chinese scientists to some of the great challenges of our
- 27:40time. So he was on the tarmac of an airport in China personally cutting
- 27:48deals with PPE manufacturers and spending billions and pounds of taxpayer money. He was
- 27:53actually caught up in a scandal directly as part of this. There was an
- 27:56eighty five million pound contract that he was personally involved in that was put in
- 28:03question, and he had personal ministerial oversight of the development of new therapeutics working
- 28:10with the Chinese state. I mean, this guy is absolutely in the sick
- 28:14of everything that we've seen over the past few years. He was also the
- 28:18author of this report Genome UK the Future of Healthcare, which basically sets out
- 28:22a vision of a biotechnological industry focused on genetic genetic engineering manipulation of the human
- 28:32genome, and which would actually make us dependent on technology acquired from Illumina,
- 28:38which is where David Cameron is helping out and also has very very deep links
- 28:45into the Israeli technology ecosystem that Vanessa spoke about on the News earlier this week.
- 28:52Now, finally I want to finish up by talking about this gentleman Baron
- 28:56Vesi of Didcot, and we're going to show a short video here of him
- 29:02speaking on a panel about elections, misinformation and democracy at the AI Fringe in
- 29:07November last year. Yeah, we weren't allowed to do a Q and A,
- 29:11but we should have done. Shuldn't we because everyone wants to get stuck
- 29:15in theresh? Okay, what do you want to say about censorship? About
- 29:19the censorship of the Hunter violent laptop by Twitter Trust and Safety Team and have
- 29:23run after the twenty twenty presidential elections. I don't know any of you about
- 29:29I have no clue who was that then? So that was that was Baron
- 29:34Vasi and a lady could say Akio. She's a former labor counselor in Newham
- 29:41and a feminist campaigner type person, and she was also a member of the
- 29:45Twitter Trust and Safety Team in the UK. So both of them just denied
- 29:51knowledge of the existence of the Hunter Biden laptop. By the way, that
- 29:53was me who had made that little interjection. If that wasn't clear, I
- 29:56didn't say it, But yeah, I thought I'd take the opportunity to pose
- 30:02a question to the noble Lord while he was sat there in front of me
- 30:06going on about elections and disinformation and being incredibly disingenuous. Now, Baron Veazi,
- 30:11if you're listening, just to be clear, this is what I was
- 30:15talking about, right, So this is Hunter Biden's laptop. It was widely
- 30:19available on the internet in October twenty twenty three years before our little altercation there
- 30:26in King's Cross back in November last year, and it was easily validated by
- 30:30anyone with access to the Internet and the stomach to go through the contents.
- 30:36It's absolutely remarkable, and I suggest going to look at the Marco Polo report
- 30:40on the laptop and its contents, which demonstrate a network of corruption into Ukraine
- 30:45and China straight into the top of US politics. Obviously, Hunter Biden is
- 30:51Joe Biden's son and further afield. But obviously Vasi, you know, we
- 30:56can tell from the way he responded there and from more recent comments, is
- 31:02a big is a big fan of censorship. He spoke about the Online Safety
- 31:07Act being an important act. This is from a recent statement in the House
- 31:10a couple of weeks ago. Says the Online Safety Act regulates the content of
- 31:14the platforms and gave offcom very important powers to regulate them because you don't want
- 31:18that nasty misinformation floating around. He also went on to say that our public
- 31:22broadcasters are important because many of the senior executives that you meet at global media
- 31:29corporations trained at places like the BBC. He actually sees that as a way
- 31:33of projecting soft power actually probably more like hard power across across the world.
- 31:40Actually, I mean this is working with big referring to big streaming platforms like
- 31:45Netflix and Disney and Amazon and what have you. And Lord Vezi just to
- 31:52finish up, is another one of these remarkable individuals who seems to be an
- 31:56incredibly important high level political figure but also has his own radio show on Times
- 32:05Radio that he's very excited about bringing people through from AKQA, which is owned
- 32:09by WPP, the big communications network Kirk Geiger the apparel brand, and apparently
- 32:17sees absolutely no issue with this, and he even had the goal in his
- 32:22speech to big up Time's radio in the House of Lords, which I thought
- 32:24demonstrated a total lack of class on his part. Okay, let's move on.
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- 33:04well Ben was quickly out with his PILM to record this. Uh and well,
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- 33:25mean, what an incredible thing to arrive in the office on a Friday morning,
- 33:30right, I mean, it's such a treat. He's one of the
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- 33:42I mean, his work has been absolutely incredible, just pointing out the
- 33:47hypocrisy and the the horror really of the whole situation, but making it,
- 33:53you know, laughable and entertaining at the same time. It's quite a skill,
- 33:58yes, so thank you. Quite amusing and those will be going up
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- 34:15It certainly is, and I have to say just wow, wow,
- 34:17wow, Bob Moran. Every picture tells the story, doesn't it. I
- 34:21mean, that's just amazing. And this too, I mean, we have
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- 35:00Thank you, Debbie. And speaking of Cheryl, she will be joining
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- 35:24okay. And finally your blog is up, yeah, the War on our
- 35:30Minds. I've done a big piece on that, as you can see NHS
- 35:36electric ambulances and also antimicrobial resistance and also what's geo fencing. You know when
- 35:42you walk into a shop and suddenly something pops up on your screen and you
- 35:45think, how did my phone know that I was looking at that? It'll
- 35:50explain in my blog this week. Okay, thank you, Debbie. And
- 35:53yesterday's interview of course on fluoride is up on the UK Colm website now if
- 35:58you would like to go and have a look at that. And then I
- 36:00just want to mention that on the eighteenth of April there will be a bit
- 36:07on the floor of the House of Commons now on excess mortality related to COVID
- 36:10nineteen and so Andrew Bridge very pleased about that. I'm very pleased about that.
- 36:17So I encourage everybody to watch it live on the eighteenth of April.
- 36:23No, let's just quickly move on and to psychological effects. Debbie of Water
- 36:31Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, when something. When I hear words
- 36:37that three times in twenty four hours, that's my rule. When I hear
- 36:40the same words, it is a red alert. And I kept hearing this
- 36:45term psychological safety. Now, we've been hearing loads from doctors, from people
- 36:51in different areas of science who have tried to speak up but they haven't been
- 36:55allowed to They've been censored, or people that are too scared, nurses that
- 37:00are too scared to speak up, people that are too scared because they may
- 37:02lose their job. Well, we have a new agenda and it's being pushed
- 37:07big time, and it's called psychological safety. So this is just to give
- 37:10you an example from the Ministry of Defense how psychological safety is playing a part
- 37:15in most major mod projects. Now, I just want to bring your attention
- 37:22to Dr Amy Edmondson. She says, there when people believe they can speak
- 37:25up at work, the learning, innovation and performance of their organizations is greater
- 37:30teams and organizations in which people believe that their voices are welcome outperform their counterparts.
- 37:37Dr Amy Edmondson nov Artist, Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business
- 37:42School. She's also she's the pioneer if you like of psychological safety, and
- 37:47she was I don't know how people get awarded these things, but she was
- 37:52awarded something for being the most influential thinker influential things since twenty eleven. I
- 38:00don't know how you measure how you're an influential thinker, but apparently you do.
- 38:05But I've just picked out a very very short little video for you just
- 38:09to get a flavor of Dr Amy Edmondson, the pioneer of psychological safety.
- 38:15We'll talk a little bit more about it afterwards. I heard Lionel Richie tell
- 38:21a fantastic story. He is a young performer, was crippled by stage fright,
- 38:27crippling stage fright, and yet look at him today, you know,
- 38:32this remarkable performer. And he says, the difference between the hero and the
- 38:37coward is not the presence or absence of fear. He says, the difference
- 38:42is they both feel fear. The difference is one steps forward and the other
- 38:45steps back. It's exactly right. It's exactly right. You know. I
- 38:49think I often say that psychological safety and encourage or two haves in the same
- 38:54coin. It's a psychological safety. Is that belief that when I take a
- 39:00risk around here, it will prove failal but I still have to take the
- 39:05risk, and that's where the courage comes in. So we have to be
- 39:13psychologically safe in order to challenge the narrative, to question, or even to
- 39:19form a different opinion. But that's obviously not what's happening. So let me
- 39:22take you to a McKinsey article what is psychological safety? They describe psychological safety
- 39:30as the absence of interpersonal fear. Feeling psychologically safe allows people to perform their
- 39:36best at home, school, and work. And this is all based on
- 39:39something called the Maslow's hierarchical needs. So you can see there there are five
- 39:45hierarchical needs. There's physiological needs, which is air, food, drink,
- 39:50shelter, clothing, warmth, sex, and sleep. And then you've got
- 39:52safety needs. So people need order in their life, predictability and strives and
- 39:59of course momency is complete chaos. They need love and belongingness needs. That's
- 40:06human emotions, interpersonal relationships. Esteem needs are the fourth level, and self
- 40:12actualization, so that's referring to a person's potential. And there's a little pyramid
- 40:16diagram to show you this hierarchical need system. And I just want to highlight
- 40:23the safety and security because we're hearing the word safety and security, peace and
- 40:28security all the time. And it says health, employment, prosperity, family
- 40:34and social ability. Now, in my opinion, we have become socially disabled
- 40:39on purpose. So the whole intention is to disable people. But you know,
- 40:45psychological safety is a bigger gender. So it's the words that I want
- 40:49you to listen out for. Even the World Economic Forum have their fingers in
- 40:52the pots of psychological safety. They say we have a shared belief that team
- 41:00members can feel safe to take chances without being marginalized and punished. Well,
- 41:05that doesn't seem to be happening, does it. Many doctors and many experts
- 41:08are being punished for doing exactly that, speaking out. If we just go
- 41:14back to that, WEF slide very quickly. It also says that it is
- 41:19to enable employers to ask employees, to ask questions, to make mistakes,
- 41:23to address difficult topics whilst feeling valued and connected. It's time to build trust.
- 41:30Here we go with the rebuilding trust and respect. But it's not just
- 41:36the WEF, it's their home office. So I'll just refer you to this
- 41:40psychological safety for researchers and they're using the stress bucket. And perhaps I'll maybe
- 41:45do a no smoke with Brian about alostatic stress and alostatic load and how important
- 41:53stresses and how dangerous and how harmful stress is on the body. But psychological
- 41:59safety literally is everywhere, including of course our very own NHS. So NHS
- 42:04providers psychological safety and why it matters. And the reason that I brought up
- 42:08psychological safety this week is because I heard the buzzwords at the MHRA board meeting.
- 42:15And my question to everyone talking psychological safety is when does psychological safety have
- 42:22a stop sign where people are being discriminated against for trying to speak out,
- 42:30trying to challenge the narrative. So watch out for the words psychological safety.
- 42:37That's good question. Thank you Debbie for that. Now let's come on to
- 42:39the issue of war and well, good news David Cameron's out of the country
- 42:45in Australia and Soul's grant shabs. But the bad news are the less good
- 42:50news is that they're there to deepening the relationship between the UK and the U
- 42:54and the Australia otherwise known as August. So here's what they were pushing out
- 43:01on Twitter this morning. The Ministry of Defense August update it by working together,
- 43:07the August Partnership is delivering what's are delivering, well, it's delivering a
- 43:13new fleet to submarines. These are nuclear part submarines. They won't be carrying
- 43:15nuclear weapons, at least not on day one, but they are nuclear part
- 43:19submarines. And so part of this was the announcement that BA Systems design is
- 43:25going to be used for these new submarines. They're going to be built in
- 43:30Australia, but don't worry, seven thousand jobs will be protected in the UK.
- 43:35What else are they saying here? With advanced capabilities from artificial intelligence,
- 43:38autonomy and quantum technologies to undersee warfare and hypersamic capabilities, that deepening defense and
- 43:46security cooperation in the end of Pacific. Because you've got to remember, the
- 43:50focus on Russia is only in the short term. The long term focuses on
- 43:54China, and we are going to go to war with China once we've dealt
- 43:58with Russia. And if you understand the RNY in that statement, please don't
- 44:02take it as me being supportive of the idea. But anyway, the Russian
- 44:07narrative continues in the EU and yesterday, the lovely Ursul of Underlyon and Charle
- 44:14Michelle. We're speaking together about Ukraine, about Russian grain, about defense,
- 44:20about enlargement of the EU, and about Gaza. But defense was really the
- 44:24main focus of the thing. And so here's Charlot Michelle. He was giving
- 44:31the statement that they are more determined to bring more support to Ukraine than ever.
- 44:37The question is how are they going to do that. Well, they
- 44:39have decided that they need to start spending more and more money, of course,
- 44:46but they've also proposed that a legal task force revisit a crucial provision and
- 44:52this is known as Article forty one brackets too, which stops the EU Common
- 44:57Budget from funding operations having or defense implications. So they're going to go along
- 45:02and they're going to remove that provision anymore. And this is unprecedented and it
- 45:07basically gives the European Union, not the member states, but at EU level
- 45:13for the first time the ability to buy and commission the purchase of weapons and
- 45:19the commission the manufacturing of weapons. And this is a key part of European
- 45:25Defense Union. But don't worry. In the meantime, here in the UK
- 45:30Ukrainian pilots have been learning to fly F sixteen fighter jets by flying these things
- 45:35with propellers, because that's going to teach you how to learn to fly at
- 45:38F sixteen. Right. This is how the Royal Air Force was presenting it.
- 45:43But the UK government has announced that ten pilots have received basic flying,
- 45:46ground school and language training in the UK and will one day form the first
- 45:52line of defense and protecting Ukraine skies from Putin's forces. They will now move
- 45:57from flying these things to flying to advance jet training and it's going to be
- 46:02the French that are going to provide that level of training and eventually, at
- 46:06some point in the future they might get to fly some F sixteens. But
- 46:10I'm just going to end this segment on defense with another bit of humor.
- 46:15This is a little bit of video that the Ministry of Defense was pushing out
- 46:21this morning. Just have a look at this. So for anybody that's just
- 46:52listening and not watching the video, that was the Ministry of Defense telling us
- 46:57that Russian exports of arms have fallen by fifty four percent, And of course
- 47:01they've fallen because export because actually there's only one importer of Russian arms at the
- 47:07moment, and that's Ukraine, isn't it. I'm sorry to be making a
- 47:10joke of that, but I mean this whole video was a joke. Russia
- 47:15is not. The implication is that because they're so tied up with the war
- 47:19and they're giving you know, they're expanding so many weapons in Ukraine, that
- 47:22they don't have anything to export anymore. Well, surely the key point here,
- 47:27Ben is they're tied up with a war, winning a war. Yes,
- 47:30indeed. But anyway, tell us about the data for the City of
- 47:35Tomorrow. Data for the City of Tomorrow. I spoke about this report a
- 47:38couple of weeks ago, and this is just to kind of tea up and
- 47:43show you some continuity between what I was talking about before and what's been happening
- 47:46this week, because the stars have been aligning in London for the just transition
- 47:53to net zero technologies. This is probably the biggest industrial transition that's ever happened
- 47:59in the Holy que in history, if these people get their way. We
- 48:02talked about this report from the World Economic Forum. It sets out a roadmap
- 48:06for implementing smart cities anywhere in the world. It was created a partnership with
- 48:10these two organizations, the Business of Cities, which is a private sectors organization,
- 48:15and Connected Places Catapult, which is a UK government entity, and this
- 48:22week saw the Connected Place's Summit arrive in central London. Good morning, ladies
- 48:44and gentlemen. Let me give a very warm welcome to the six hundred or
- 48:47so people who are here in the rum at twenty two Bishops Gates as the
- 48:52UK's innovation accelerator for Cities, transport and place leadership. Our mission is clear.
- 49:00We connect people, places and businesses for a future of sustainable growth and
- 49:07prosperity. Places that aren't connected don't get housing, don't get jobs, and
- 49:13don't contribute to our column or twenty first century. What's so good about the
- 49:16Catapult is it's innovation lead. So I'm delighted to be here and delighted to
- 49:22be able to give small and major enterprises a little bit of a lift.
- 49:29It's only by joining the dots the potential of our cities and regions will be
- 49:34unlocked, and the Connected Places Catapults is the glue through which that happens.
- 49:40I'm delighted that we and D and B are sponsoring the summit. It is
- 49:45about connecting people, it is about meeting industry leaders. It is about meeting
- 49:50technical experts. What I enjoy most about the summit is being able to connect
- 49:54with people who have the same objectives and the same ambitions for their communities as
- 49:59I have. For MI, I have to say it's been amazing being at
- 50:01the Connected Place as Summit, and I'm really excited that we're announcing our partnership
- 50:06with a Connected Place as Catapult to be looking at the Crown of State portfolio
- 50:08and how we can bring innovation toward the new ways. The Connected Places summer
- 50:14has been a wonderful moment to network and to share ideas. I think it
- 50:19really marks a moment of setting out what we can do in the next five
- 50:22years, what can be achieved in the next ten years, and how we
- 50:24can get on with it. So that is a public private marketplace. That
- 50:37is how a fascist system is built, how it's enabled. We've got a
- 50:40bunch of extremely high profile establishment figures promoting this message like it's some kind of
- 50:46organic transition that is just popping up out of nowhere. This is all centrally
- 50:52planned. One of the people that we saw there was Chris stig Skidmore,
- 50:55former UK Energy Minister. He said said outside of that film that there is
- 51:00no going back, no future economy without a green economy. The work of
- 51:02connective place in Cantapot is so integral. Businesses and industry is are raring to
- 51:07go. They want that leadership position of net zero and to start to introduce
- 51:10best practices and take pilots and put them into place nationally and globally. A
- 51:16lot of local politicians there here you can see Marvin res Obez, the mayor
- 51:22of Bristol. One of the challenges with a place and they love using this
- 51:24word place. Everything's place based. It's all about place. The thing about
- 51:29that is you should never underestimate the power of very small politics to get in
- 51:32the way of very big delivery. You will have heard of Nimby's that's not
- 51:37in my backyard for people who don't know what that is. But there is
- 51:39a banana build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone. That's Marvin's view on things.
- 51:45He wants to cut through all of that and get into big delivery, like
- 51:50all of these people do. Who else do we have there? Sir John
- 51:52Armitts cbe Chair of the National Infrastructure Commission. The next government will not have
- 51:57any choice but to pull all of the leavers at their disposal. If we
- 52:00want to increase UK productivity and that means increasing public investment in infrastructure, this
- 52:08is absolutely on the top of the agenda for the next government. They've already
- 52:13been told by these people. Who else do we have there? Andrew Ruffin,
- 52:17who I spoke about before, is the chief executive of Plexel, which
- 52:22is the US State Department MI six Rothschild family backed innovation facility based in the
- 52:30Olympic Park in East London. He was there on a panel with Emma Frost,
- 52:34chair of the UK Innovation Districts Group, and actually it turns out we
- 52:38already have a bunch of these innovation districts that are going to be the hubs
- 52:42for disseminating this technology all around the UK. There's eleven of them, from
- 52:45Glasgow in the north to London in the south and a bunch of other places
- 52:51in between. They talk about themselves as a peer network of UK innovation districts
- 52:55and knowledge quarters. Better together we enable the delivery of and maximize the benefits
- 53:00from innovation districts and knowledge quarters. They're all about pushing innovation out into the
- 53:06country and if you remember Jim Bethel earlier talking about his remit is being innovation.
- 53:12A lot of that stuff is coming from here and other people elsewhere in
- 53:15the House of Lords, and we can see how all this stuff is connected.
- 53:19Essentially, this is one organization pushing this forward. There might be some
- 53:22different logos, but actually they're all interconnected via non exec positions and even just
- 53:28dual roles that people play. So Emma Frost, who's the chair of the
- 53:31UK Innovation Districts Group, is also a strategic advisor to the Business of Cities,
- 53:36which is the organization that partnered with the World Economic Forum on that report.
- 53:39So who's going to pay for all of this because it sounds quite expensive,
- 53:44Well, it's going to be a public private partnership. Three CI,
- 53:47which is another organization that we've already spoken about, which is absolutely in the
- 53:52thick of this new Marketplace issued this report on the same day that the Connected
- 53:55Places Catapult started. I said, it's been a busy week this week.
- 54:00Whole bunch of things have happened. This report was issued from challenge to opportunity.
- 54:05We've got to unlock a UK wide net zero investment dividend. Obviously,
- 54:08this is going to payback to ask the taxpayer. There's no way that it
- 54:13could possibly go wrong or all of the benefits go to the people investing from
- 54:16overseas and also from a home here in the UK. This was launched by
- 54:22this crowd in the House of Commons, obviously because these people have got access
- 54:27to the halls of power, and there were three recommendations. They said that
- 54:30we need active demonstrators, which is what the innovation hubs will be doing.
- 54:35So they've got to move from theory to practice. We need demonstrators. These
- 54:38are going to address the task forces challenges, starting with pilot projects to take
- 54:44a place based approach, ensuring community buy in and tailoring financial models for a
- 54:49just transition. That's another word they love, just transition. This needs to
- 54:52be a national conversation. We've got to get the public involved with this.
- 54:57They're obviously talking about sortition and other democratic innovations to make that possible, and
- 55:06we need an enabling environment which actually sounds like the language the MHRA uses where
- 55:10the regulator doesn't get in the way of them doing whatever the hell they want.
- 55:14Essentially, that's what we're looking at here. And then just to finish
- 55:16up, sorry, there's Ed Milliband looking awkward as he always does. This
- 55:22was also coupled just by pure coincidence, I'm sure, with the annual CEO
- 55:28summit held at Saint James's Palace for the Sustainable Markets Initiative, where the top
- 55:32one hundred CEOs from the biggest companies get together to talk about climate and the
- 55:37Chief Executive of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, Jennifer Jordan CEFI, said that these
- 55:42people are delivering a private sector leadership and innovation to help drive this important transition
- 55:47that is under way. They are control of trillions of assets under management.
- 55:52The private sector is playing an outsized role to shift the global economy onto a
- 55:57more sustainable trajectory. So everything is lining up just perfectly for these people to
- 56:01put their plan into action. Now we've already talked about censorship and online safety
- 56:07earlier in the program, but I just want to let everybody know that rest
- 56:10assured. The regulators are at work, and they have been for the last
- 56:14couple of years, but it's starting to build now. So the various regulators
- 56:19in multiple countries absolutely increasingly desperately working to deal with online safety regulation legislation which
- 56:25is popping up everywhere, and in the UK, of course, there's the
- 56:30UK, there's the Online Safety Act, as everybody knows. In the European
- 56:32Union there's a Digital Services Act and their new Online Safety Acts in Ireland and
- 56:37Australia and Singapore and Sri Lanka a bunch of other countries. And of course
- 56:43they want to build this global information space which is basically conducive to Western narratives
- 56:50and the rules based international order. So let's just bring a little bit of
- 56:53text on here. Membership of the Global Online Safety Regulators Network has opened to
- 56:58regulators with le legislated online safety functions who meet criteria on independence from political commercial
- 57:04interference and are committed to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
- 57:08So I mean everybody should be absolutely comfortable with that. Ben it goes
- 57:12on. Well, first of all, they've got three stages in this.
- 57:15First of all preparation, that's pretty much of the stage we're out at the
- 57:19moment. Then they're going to consolidate this all in the one uber regulator,
- 57:23and then they're going to grow from there. And so we've got much more
- 57:29to say on this, but it is just this international network, which of
- 57:34course isn't global at all. It's only Western and its outlook continues to build.
- 57:39Now we're going to end then on a little bit of health news.
- 57:43First of all, I just wanted to give everybody a bit of a laugh
- 57:45because the UK government has managed to track down six horsewarming medicines packages which have
- 57:52been seized. This is a package containing horse medicines was identified by a career
- 57:57company based at a depot in East middle As Airport. They said the package
- 58:01arrived from the USA continue medicine destined for residential address in Reading. The medicine
- 58:07was detained and subsequently seized band inspector from the VMD that's the Veterinary Medicine's Directorate.
- 58:13Of course, what are we talking about here ivermectin. They don't want
- 58:15it coming into the country under any circumstances and so on. And just finally
- 58:22on this Gordon the Office of Gordon Bryan and Gordon and Sarah Brown sorry have
- 58:28issued a joint letter to the leaders of World Health Organization member states calling for
- 58:32an urgent agreement on pandemic accords. So they're getting concerned that this deal is
- 58:37not getting done right, it's just not getting done. There's too much pushback,
- 58:42and so he has written to them in an effort to get them give
- 58:45them the confidence to move ahead. And frankly, this is the most unbelievable
- 58:51bit of bad grammar and spelling mistakes and no spaces between words. They they're
- 58:57clearly desperate to get designed as quickly as possible, not really paying too much
- 59:00attention into hire it was put up. But there you go. And Debbie,
- 59:06we're going to end then with a little bit of video about Jenny Harris.
- 59:12Yeah, well I promised to show you this last week. We featured
- 59:15Professor John Bell at the Select Committee and we were talking that that select committee
- 59:21was actually attended by Jenny Harris. Now let me just paint a very quick
- 59:23picture for you. So Chris Green, who's the MP for Bolton West,
- 59:29at the previous Health Select Committee, asked Dame Jenny Harris about excess deaths,
- 59:35but she couldn't answer the question, so he tries to answer ask her again.
- 59:39Let's look at Chris Green asking the question again. Let's week on these
- 59:45Science and Technology Select Committee. You asked a question about the data around access
- 59:52deaths or excess deaths, and you're quite cautious about supporting the release of that
- 59:59data, but you said you look into it, have you looked into it.
- 1:00:04I'm reaching for my piece of paper. Let's listen to the answer.
- 1:00:15But I think an important point as well is there are very large data sets
- 1:00:19on things like open Safely as well, where vaccine mortality has been looked at
- 1:00:25and it's actually shown protective effects for when it's actually restricted to non COVID mortality.
- 1:00:32So if you like, if you're looking at people who have not had
- 1:00:36COVID but have had a vaccine, actually there is no increased risk. So
- 1:00:40this is stepping right away from some of those risks. And if you just
- 1:00:45look generally, if you look at countries which have had a higher vaccine update,
- 1:00:49they have lower excess or cause mortality. That's quite generalis But I think
- 1:00:53the key point here is we have looked. We don't routinely share. We
- 1:00:58will look. We've got there is a commercial sensitivity element around this, and
- 1:01:01we will answer that question very soon in full commercial sensitivity. A yes.
- 1:01:10And also the claim that people that countries that had higher vaccine uptick had lower
- 1:01:16excess mortality lower than what I've just been looking at the Office for National Statistics
- 1:01:23mortality statistics over the last few days and looking at how the change and how
- 1:01:29we measure what is considered excess mortality has managed to make the number of deaths
- 1:01:35fall consistently below which is no longer a five year average. Of course,
- 1:01:39they're new measurement level, so in my opinion, my personal opinion, those
- 1:01:46figures are now fiddled, and we can no longer get any kind of serious
- 1:01:51assessment on whether we have excess mortality or not. So for her to sit
- 1:01:54there and say, well, countries that had more vaccination had lower excess mortality,
- 1:02:01I would like to know exactly what she means by that and exactly how
- 1:02:05she is making that statement or what evidence she's using to base that statement from.
- 1:02:09But anyway, we will leave it there for today. Thank you very
- 1:02:14much to Debbie and to Jackie Duvoi for joining us today. Thank you,
- 1:02:17Ben. We'll be back for some extra in a couple of minutes. Cheryl
- 1:02:22Granger will be joining us. But otherwise, have a great weekend and we'll
- 1:02:27see you Monday.