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UK Column News Podcast 1st May 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the first of May twenty twenty four, just
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after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Colin News. I'm your host Mike Robinson
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joining me in the studio today, Charles Mall Welcome to the program. Charles,
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thank you, right and from Damascus, Vanessa, Billy and Vanessa.
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We're going to get started today with assisted dying because on Monday in the House
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of Colins, some MPs decided to get together and have a discussion about how
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they can dispatch us even quicker. A big good afternoon everyone, and I'm
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very sorry that I'm bringing Matt Hancock back to your screens. As Mike said
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on Monday, MPs they assisted dying after a petition calling for changes to the
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UK law hits two hundred awesome. So let's have a look at what Matt
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Hancock put out on x formerly Twitter. For fifty years, we've had a
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legal choice over who to love. For a decade, we've had a legal
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choice over who we can marry. The time has come for Parliament to vote
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on changing the law to allow a sister dying to help prevent terminally ill people
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from suffering very painful death. And again I apologize, but we're just going
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to roll a video of part of Matt Hancock's speech. We'll have a discussion
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about his expression after the video. Thanks Mike. And I was also deeply
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affected and persuaded by my constituent David Mins, and today I had the honor
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of meeting his son, Matt Mins. David, who has now died.
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He had was in the awful situation of having a disease that he himself had
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watched his own daughter die an incredibly painful death. And to those who say
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palliative care needs to be better and palliative care can be enough, of course
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it needs to be better, and of course people give their careers to amazing
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palliative care. But the best paliative care in the world cannot prevent hugely painful
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deaths for some. So yes, the safeguards are vital. Internationally, we
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now can see many states in many countries like Australia, that are brought in
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a narrow and a clear set of rules. But the people I want to
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have the choice are those facing a painful death when they know that death is
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coming. With the protections of course for people with disabilities, for those with
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mental ill health, but making sure that all of us should have the choice
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when we know, for certain, facing such pain at the end, that
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we can instead have a dignified and good death. And I know want that
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choice for myself. I'm sure there might be a queue to respond to his
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request for that choice for himself. But let's have a look at what people
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on Twitter came out and basically mobbed his tweet on x I apologize, so,
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Rustler, you were responsible for a live trial of this back in spring
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twenty twenty when the UK had fifty thousand excess deaths during lockdown cause not by
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COVID but by the COVID Response and Treatment Protocols DNR in G one sixty three
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and of course madazolam, and then another one which was pretty representative of what
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was being said to him. Obviously, if mat Hancock assisted fifty thousand people
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to die with his COVID response, then he's going to want it legalized before
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he'd be charged of depraved indifference, manslaughter and murder. That's an interesting point
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to be made. Then let's have a look at those that are pushing back
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against the idea of assisted dying, which of course we've covered extensively in Canada
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can not killing. An organization that is definitely countering the idea of legitimizing medically
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assisted death is a UK based organization, and what they're basically arguing, of
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course, is that it will put pressure on those that are either terminally ill
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or depressed, some that are homeless, to effectively force them into making a
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decision to accept medically assisted into their life. Now. Back in twenty twenty
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one, Matt Hancock calls for more data on end of life care and assisted
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dying. He apparently addressed an organization, an APPG group called Dying Well that
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is effectively against assisted dying. If we can just move on there and move
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on again, because what he basically said in this article, he's endorsed the
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idea of setting up What Works Center to gather evidence on the quality of paliative
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care in the UK and informed debate around assisted dying. As I said,
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he was speaking to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well. But let's
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have a look at these What Works centers. This is what he was recommended
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to gather the evidence on the effectiveness of paliative care and the argument for assisted
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dying. So the claim is the center will bring together the evidence about the
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relative impacts on well being of policies and projects, their cost, and the
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quality of the evidence. The evidence programs have been commissioned by the Economic and
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Social Research Council on behalf of the What Works Center for Well Being. The
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Center also has a role to support the developer of their evidence base. They
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claim that they are independent of government with a clear and relevant policy and delivery
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process. But let's have a look. This is from the Cabinet Office in
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November twenty twenty three. The What Works Network Strategy sets out how the Evaluation
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Task Force Secretariat of the Network expects to deliver its vision over the next five
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years. And then let's have a look at who's funding them. The centers
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are funded by a combination of government and non government sources, including the Economic
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and Social Research Council, the Dormant Asset Scheme and the National Lottery Community Fund.
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The Evaluation Task Force, as the Secretariat, promotes and supports the independent
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What Works Network. From the actual strategy document, stronger advocacy for the importance
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of long term funding and independence of WWCS funding. Aements of the current thirteen
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WWC's are diverse. For the ten WWC's that have been established as independent organization,
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but over eighty five percent of their funding comes from government departments, research
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agencies, or other public bodies, and IT mentions notable exceptions. So I
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think we again see a government funded evidence producing network that will potentially corroborate government
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policy. And then I sort of stumbled on this because I was actually looking
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to see what China and Russia's policy is on assisted dying. In Russia and
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in China it's currently illegal. And this is one Yizhu, who is a
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Chinese academic who wrote for Unheard on Matt Hancock's proposal for assisted dying. One
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only has to consider the experience of the now memory hold Liverpool care pathway,
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under which patients were starved to death in the name of end of life care
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to realize the immense potential for abuse of legalized euthanasia within the NHS. Healthcare
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is ruinously expensive, euthanasia is cheap and value for money. No healthcare administrator,
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however well intention can ignore utilitarian considerations entirely that the legalization of euthanasia marks
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will make the moral hazard irresistible. The incontrovertible truth is that at a time
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of aging populations and strained government budgets. It is absolutely impossible to establish a
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euthanasia regime that will not be abused, as has happened in every country in
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which it has been legalized. I think those are pretty strong points that are
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being made by pretty much everyone that is against the idea of medically assisted dying.
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It was also interesting to see that Matt Hancock on April the twenty six
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was pushing that rnaa vaccine technology for cancer. Fantastic to see person personalized cancer
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treatment available on the NHS using the mRNA vaccine technology that saved so many life
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during COVID. I hope one day we will look back and say this moment
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was a turning point in the battle against cancer. And I just want to
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go back to twenty twenty two, The Right to Life News Matt Hancock to
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make a documentary on assisted suicide, and in the headline photograph they included a
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few comments, again from people on Twitter, genuinely frightening. I think you've
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assisted enough? Is this a parody account? I can't read the rest of
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them because it's a little bit small for me. Here he's still obsessed with
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killing people off the care home scandal clearly wasn't enough of a fix for him.
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And I think it's worth going back to the COVID era. And in
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twenty twenty, the BBC reported that Matt Hancock was allowing those that were seeking
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assisted dying in Switzerland to travel even during lockdown. So perhaps that saved some
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of the cost of madasman or care home death. Yes. Indeed, Vanessa
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in his little video clip, what was he said? That would of course
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be protections for disabled and for people with ill health. What was he saying?
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He was mainly focusing on people that were going to otherwise suffer an extremely
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painful passing, and that was what he wanted. That was the issue that
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he wanted to solve. But don't worry, we've got protections in place for
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these people. Does that mean that they that they don't get to have a
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pinless passing. I'm not quite sure exactly what this argument was there, but
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nonetheless, I think, yeah, go on, sorry, No, I
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was just going to say, nonetheless, his whole demeanor when he was delivering
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those lines rigged of insinceritly, shall we say he was utterly shifty throughout the
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entire presentation, as or as I can work out. And of course that's
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coming hot on the heels of a serious pushback in Canada against assisted dying,
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where homeless people were effectively being pushed down that route. Depressed people were being
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pushed down that route, and it was being their desire not to be a
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burden on relatives, for example, was being exploited and people were being fast
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tracked down the assisted dying route. So that I think is a very cynical
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attempt by Hancock to effectively say, well, we won't be doing that.
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We won't be you know, suggesting to the homeless, the depressed, and
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the terminally ill who might benefit from palliative care but might be persuaded that they're
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too much of a burden for their relatives, their family and too much of
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a cost on the state. I think that's also an extremely important point that
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was made by the Chinese academic, is that cost effectiveness of this policy will
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definitely come into play. Indeed, and you know, recently we have hosted
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a symposium on the issue of deaths in the NHS, and then of course
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we premiered Jackie devoice documentary Playing God a couple of weeks ago on the same
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issue. So that's the sort of type of assisted dying that is going on,
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Charles, whenever there's no law in place, to Alliot, what would
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the situation be when the breaks come off? Well, I think this is
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it. I mean, it's totally absurd to suggest that it could be an
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objective procedure of exactly what, like Vanessa has been saying that there's absolutely no
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question that other factors would be introduced into the decision making process. And the
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other thing that jumped out at me was his reference to mental ill health and
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in effect the conflation of two separate issues, but both under the banner of
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pain. And when would it come that somebody who's deemed to be in mental
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pain would then be put forward as a candidate for this so very it's very
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disturbing. Yes, okay, Well, let's move on then to a reminder
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about the King's speech from last November, and in the course of the program
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today, we're going to talk about two pieces of legislation that were on this
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first to the Investigatory pars Braget's Amendment Bill, which is now the Investigatory pars
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Braggett's Amendment Act, and we'll talk about that a little later. In the
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program. But first of all the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Because
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this was tweeted out by Silky Carlo a couple of days ago, New David
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Davis mp AS today warned that the government's new Bank Snoopers Charter would erode financial
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privacy like never before in our country and must be dropped. How much longer
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will you attempt to defend the indefensible mel stride, said Sulky Carlo, And
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this link to an Express article. Now, in the article, this is
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what David Davis was saying. Under the proposals, everyone in receipt of money
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from the government's Department for Working Pensions will be of special interest, including the
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ten million Breads who receive the state pension. The idea that pensioners should be
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caught up in the net of this giant financial fishing exercise is completely absurd.
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So the legislation is going to allow the government access to people's bank accounts and
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so on. But of course this is the least of the issues here.
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Now, if we go back again to the I can't remember exactly when this
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Frequently Asked Questions document was released, but we covered it at the time and
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there were a number of common claims that the government was attempting to address in
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their Digital ID FAQ and has related to the legislation that we're talking about here.
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And the first claim that we talk about is here that the government is
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creating a mandatory ID card, and they claim that the fact is that the
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proposed legislation does not include any proposal to create either a digital or physical ID
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card. The government is committed to making it as easy as possible for people
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to prove who they are online and access the services that they need without creating
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mandatory ID cards. And of course this is at the very least misleading.
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I would say it's possibly more than misleading, because whether they mandate the use
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of ID cards in law, the mandate the mandatory nature of them is coming
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through the fact that you're required to have them for accessing government services online because
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everything is being made digital and many other services, so that is at the
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very least a misleading statement. Here's another one. This will make it easier
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for hackers to get hold of my data is the claim, and they say
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that that the fact is that cybersecurity is a critical priority for the government.
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We recognize how important it is to protect users and their data and robust measures
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in place to ensure the security and integrity of online government services and systems.
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And again, at the very least this is completely misleading because there have been
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some fairly major incidents of data breaches with in this case millions of children.
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The data breach four millions of children ruled unlawful, but actually it was a
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huge amount of data going missing for children in the UK. Another claim that
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they wanted to debunk in their Digital id FAQ that sharing data in this way
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will erode my privacy rights, and their claim is that the government has stringent
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data protection processes in place, all data sharing is compliant with data protection legislation
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and guidance published by the Information Commissioners Offices will remain the case for any and
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all data sharing subsequent to the proposed legislation. This again is the very least
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misleading, if not a complete lie, because when we look at the legislation
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itself, which is the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, and we look
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at the long title, it says a Bill to make provision for the regulation
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of the provision of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals, to make
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provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about
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individuals. To make provision about access to customer data and business data. To
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make provision about privacy and electronic communications. To make provision about services for the
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provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals, and other trust services. To make
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provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery. To make provision
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for the implementation of agreements on sharing information for law enforcement purposes. To make
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provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths. To make
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provision about the information standards for health and social care. To establish the Information
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Commission. To make provision about oversight for biometric data and for connected purposes.
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This will allow the broad brush sharing of data like we've never seen it before.
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This effectively removes data protection in this country in many areas, and not
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least our medical data. So when they say that it's making provision for medical
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use of data, we've got to realize that what they intend to do is
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to export that data. And just one example here, This is a scientific
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paper from twenty eighteen in fact, and this was discussing the transfer of genomic
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data to third countries, which is now being enabled by Brexit, because of
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course, once the UK was out of the EU's data protection regime, the
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UK could basically do what it wants, and so in fact this legislation enables
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exactly this, the sharing of medical data with companies outside the UK and particularly
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in the United States, with impunity and no particular restrictions. Now we're going
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to come on to the information to the Snippers charter later on in the program,
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which takes us even further. But this is quite an incredible piece of
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legislation which needs to be opposed, and I don't think there is the public
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awareness of what it actually does yet to build that opposition. Charles. In
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the meantime, Digital Ida in Africa, what's going on there? Yeah,
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thanks very much, Mike, Yes, I'm good aftenoon all changing continence,
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but effectively the theme is the same. And as we can stask ourselves with
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every initiative like this that concerns Africa, is it really an African initiative and
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is it really for the benefit of African So we start with the announcement from
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Kenya the Cabinet Secretary a whileo advocating for an integrated African Digital Identity and This
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was a recent announcement last week. He is the Information, Communications and Digital
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Economy Cabinet Secretary and he talks about a uniform digital identity that Africa as a
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continent moves together in growing its digital economy and fulfilling the aspirations of the African
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Continental Free Trade Area. And this was during the launch of the Transform Africa
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Summit. So we'll just remind ourselves of the Free Trade Area, which effectively
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is a single market. And again, is this really for the benefit of
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Africans and is it an idea from within or not? Here are some jollyfolk
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from the government's Cleania talking about the announcement of the Transform Africa Summit, which
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will take place later this year. So we don't have any further information about
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that, but what we can point towards again from outside Africa. You'll note
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in the top left hand corner the familiar colors of the United Nations Sustainability Goals,
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sorry, Sustainable Development Goals in this case number sixteen point nine. And
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we now have the annual Identity Day. So where has this come from and
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why is it there? And we look at the ID four Africa, the
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organization that was started in April twenty eighteen in Abuuja. It was enthusiastically received
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by the global identity and development community, and it's said that ninety nine percent
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of delegates intendants who saw the initiative as a rally and cried keep in mind
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the importance of SDG sixteen point nine and to keep countries focused on its achievement.
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So substantial pressure from without, and we'll just look at id for Africa
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in a bit more detail. The reason for that is that they have a
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conference or a summit coming up in May twenty first to twenty fourth in Cape
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Town, and their objectives or the outcomes they want to deliver on and listed
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on this sort of checkerboard here, So we'll just pick out a couple of
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them just to get the drift of what they're doing with it. They want
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to highlight the various approaches for digital transformation, including the emerging digital public infrastructure
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anchored on digital identity. And that's the crux of all of this is the
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anchoring on digital identity. This is why it's being pushed so hard. But
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they talk about it being all this confidence being to do with game changes for
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digital transformation and the adoption of digital identity across the continent. Now, with
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all of these things going back to the influence and whether it is from within
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or without, we should look at how these things are funded. And of
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course what we see is that amongst the development partners are the Bill and Melinda
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Gates Foundation, and it's worth noting that a lot of the others concern the
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development of children and indeed sort of capturing people while they're young. But specifically
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on the Gates Foundation, here's the committed grants section of the foundation showing the
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id for Africa. Admittedly not an enormous sum of money, but they receive
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two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which in fact is an annual thing to
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advance responsible use of digital identity and digital public infrastructure. So little doubt as
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to whether the Billin Milinda Gates Foundation is in fact pulling the strings. Children's
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health Defense on x or Twitter are fairly outspoken about what they think this is.
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And you'll remember that a couple of months ago I referred to the Myisha
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Namba the system sort of identity for life, number for life in Kenya.
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Bill Gates pushes digital idea for newborn's in Kenya Myisha Namba is a biometric system
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that will replace birth certificates and track children from birth to five years of age
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to ensure children receive vaccines. And that's a quote from doctor Wahomei and Ghari.
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So Children's Health deventse very much on the front foot with that. But
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why would they be and we see from Business Daily this is going back to
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last autumn twenty three, the Gates Foundation to advise on the Myisha Namber road
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lights quite clearly, perhaps not to be described as a conflict of interest,
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but they're both controlling it from all sides, and the chief executive there of
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the Foundation talking about their role which they describe as being always as an advisor.
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We can connect the government to key technical experts and partners. But we're
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very encouraged by what we see a strong, robust, open source digital identity
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system which leverages financial inclusion, advances in healthcare, in education and other services.
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We've been working with some other partners that we have, said mister Susman.
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So the point is, and this relates very much back to Mike's segment,
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is that it's not necessarily a question of enforcing the digital identity, but
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it's making it perfectly clear that financial exclusion and being shut out of provision to
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healthcare are the consequences of not taking it up. Back to the ID for
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Africa summit, and we see the patrons here in the bottom left Tales which
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if it is a familiar name to you at all, will be one that
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you associate with. And here we see from their website Defense and Security in
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the UK, but in actual fact they're very much involved with digital identity and
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security and in fact trusted digital identity by Tylers. So we'll just have a
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look at a video clip affairs from three years ago as to the direction of
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travel on this Hello everyone, meet Lucy, student in psychology, and me
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her digital ID wallet issued by the government to offer a wide range of identity
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services. In fact, I am a handy way of proving and protecting her
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identity both online and face to face. Let's have a closer look at what
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I can do. I can help governments to better communicate with citizens. Right
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now, I'm reminding Lucy of the appointment she needs to schedule for her meny
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vaccination. There we go. I cut it short there because you get the
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idea. But that is part of a longer clip in which essentially this technology
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controls absolutely every aspect of her life. And so why is this relevant to
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us Because recently tala Is acquired a firm called Jamalto, who in fact the
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contract here for producing passports in the UK. And we see from the government
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website that they're described as being an experienced and trusted company and they work with
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over forty countries around the world and with the UK government they're involved in a
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number of areas including the production of driving licenses, UK biometric residence permit cards
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and on eGate at the border. So this is all very very much connected,
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and we link it back to Africa, and of course we see in
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fact this is not so much an African initiative, it is a one world
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initiative and it's being pushed very very hard at the moment, and we see
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especially in the UK, and of course we know have to have digital light
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or some form of photographic idea to vote, which some people will be doing
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tomorrow. Absolutely, yes, Okay, let's move on. Then if you
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the field of susceptibility to mind control via repetitive messaging, particular sort of mainstream
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media messaging, and indeed how to avoid falling into those traps, into what
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he would call self sabotage. So it's a subject that he has a very
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very deep knowledge of not just how to control the mind but for ill but
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also for good. So I would really encourage you to get into that.
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It was fantastic talk to him and Brian's interview with Rosie from the White Rose
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went out at one pm yesterday. If you didn't see that, that's on
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the UK Column website now. It's the next in the Gutsy Women series.
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And on Sunday we will be hosting a symposium on the World Health Organization with
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David Bell, Sylvia Burent and others calling for the safeguarding the rule of law,
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equity and appropriate review process in the World Health Organization lawmaking processes as merely
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looking at the legal aspects of this. But that will begin a six pm
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on Sunday in the usual places UK column dot Org, slash Live and also
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on the community website for UK column members. Now we mentioned that there is
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an election tomorrow, but we are keen to support anybody standing as an independent.
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I think that's exactly the way it should be put really, because it
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puts a marker in the sand, and it is a register of the public
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mood concerning democracy as a whole, but specifically the very sort of sensitive area
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of police and Crime commissioners. And you may recall that on the third of
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April we had Matthew Randolph on Extra who is campaigning for Police and Crime Commissioner
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in Gloucestershire, and what I'd like to do is talk a little bit about
29:42
the shameful way in which he was treated as an independent candidate by the BBC,
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who had a duty to interview all the candidates. And will just listen
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to something from Rachel Matthews's Cultures to Council Watch in which she spoke to Matthew
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about what happened during his interview. And it's worth dating that he's campaigning on
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a ticket of truth and transparency and in particular the illegal rollout of five year
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in Gloucestershire and the vaccine injuries and the failure to act on this by police.
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Just before you listen to clip point out you hear some laughing in the
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background. That's because it was recorded by somebody else who was absolutely astonished to
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be hearing what you are about to listen to now doing. You were then
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escorted and I was not escorted of the premises at all. You had a
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conversation with the plan. I've had a conversation with the police, and the
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police left and I was then allowed to carry on and ask my question,
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so please are not twisted. And so I was escorted off the premises as
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I was not. The reason I ask this is because for whatever the reason
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with the police being called to that meeting, do you think that's the sort
30:45
of conduct that people expect from the next Police and Crime commissioner. I think
30:49
what we expect is when a question is raised to the council, we get
30:53
an honest answer, and we attend these council meetings regularly, and we did
30:59
not get honest answers from the council. They have installed five gene illegally throughout
31:03
Gloucestershire. We were trying to raise that with our counselors and they didn't like
31:08
to hear that. Matthew, thank you very much for coming in and joining
31:11
me on the show today. Take Care. That's Matthew Randolph, an independent
31:15
candidate to become Glossag's Police and Crime Commissioner. During the interview, mister Randolph
31:21
made a number of allegations which are completely unfounded about the police, Glossa City
31:25
Council and the BBC. It's claimed the police has failed to investigate death link
31:30
to the vaccine is false and not with scientific evidence. Scientific consensus says the
31:34
COVID vaccine has in fact saved millions of lives driving excess deaths. We would
31:40
know Glossa City council has in the past refuted claims around five g mass been
31:45
unsafe and why do scientific consensus backs up the case that they aren't harmful on
31:49
the BBC misleading people and that's coming out in the COVID inquiry that isn't true
31:56
false claims. Felt it important to give you the opportunity to hear mister Randolph's
31:59
views. It's hard to know what to say to that, Charles, because
32:05
what, yeah, I don't know. We'll talk about that in the Extra
32:09
tragic and comic at the same time. So we'll just and by reinforcing the
32:14
message for sort of you know, look at for your independent candidates. This
32:16
is how Matthew has presented himself with his campaign literature. And again you see
32:22
on the bottom right his appearance on Extra. So if you are minded,
32:27
please do get out tomorrow to look out your independent candidate. Thank you.
32:31
And also on Sunday this weekend, the International Center for nine to eleven Justice
32:37
is presenting Peace, War and nine to eleven. This is public screening at
32:40
Q and A at Chapel Arts Center and Bath and so that'll be matt Campbell
32:45
and Pierce Robinson will be answering the questions. So if you're able to get
32:51
to that on Sunday at seven pm do and we will have Peers and Matt
32:55
on the program on Friday for a brief discussion of this. And then on
33:00
May the eleventh in the Standing Center in Fletcher's Craft Standing in West Sussex,
33:07
an event is taking place called Western Empire in the Great Reset. Now that
33:13
is not the complete list of speakers because I am also speaking at this event,
33:15
and so is Sandy Adams. So that's a fiver through pay power on
33:20
the door if you The link for where to send that or where to how
33:23
to contact the organizers will be in the show notes. So hopefully we'll see
33:28
as many people as possible at that event on the eleventh. Now, where
33:32
does that take us to Gaza Fedessa? Yeah? Today, really deplorable situation
33:45
in Gaza. We spoke previously about the US establishing this ridiculous humanitarian here which
33:53
is going to be anything but humanitarian. One thousand US troops will deploy for
33:59
temporary port operations to move AID into Gaza. It's now been revealed in the
34:06
last few days that the cost of this project for the United States is three
34:10
hundred and twenty million. And this has been reported by Reuters and various others.
34:20
And of course, you know, we have to ask the question,
34:22
why not just open the Rafa border from Egypt and allow in the daily five
34:29
hundred trucks that were coming in prior to October the seventh. This is a
34:34
short excerpt from a Sky News program on the building of the port itself.
34:42
We can just roll the radio they what would actually build there. We've got
34:45
some video of the source of facility that the US have. This isn't in
34:47
Gaza. This is to illustrate the sort of the capability they have basically leaning
34:52
onto the shore but from the deep water, and that they hope this will
34:57
be able to be completed in a matter of two so the claim that this
35:02
will only take two weeks to build. Of course, there's no coincidence that
35:07
this is about twenty nautical miles from the Gaza gas exploration area off the coast
35:15
of Gaza that has not yet been used for the benefit of Garsans since it
35:22
was discovered. There's also reports that UK troops could be sent to Gaza to
35:28
help deliver aid. So let's have a look at what they're claiming and the
35:31
Independent. The government is considering whether to send troops to Gaza to help deliver
35:37
AID via a new sea route. The US confirmed on Friday that work on
35:43
a temporary peer, and I need to point out here that the rubble that
35:45
is being bulldozed to fabricate this temporary peer, without doubt contains the remains of
35:52
Palestinian bodies that have not yet been retrieved from under the rubble. And while
35:59
the US is spending three hundred and twenty million on this project, it never
36:02
considered spending three hundred and twenty million sending bulldozers to help the civil defense in
36:10
Gaza to retrieve bodies, both dead and alive. Britain is already providing logistical
36:17
support for construction of the pier, including a Royal Navy ship that will house
36:22
hundreds of US soldiers and sailors working on the project. In addition, UK
36:29
military planners have been embedded at the US Central Command in Florida and Cyprus,
36:36
where AID will be screened before shipment to Gaza. It's worth also noting that
36:42
Israel will then have a further verification mechanism when the ships arrived at Gaza.
36:46
Which could potentially of course delay even further the so called humanitarian aid. Now
36:55
at the same time, what's happening, so bear in mind they're saying this
36:59
will take about two weeks to establish this humanitarian peer cought. Israel is planning
37:06
a ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Raffia. This has actually been
37:10
confirmed by my sources inside Rafa that tanks and snipers are establishing a ring around
37:20
Raffa. The claim is that, according to Middle East Diygeh in the reports
37:23
so on the next slide, that they will allow they will prevent men of
37:30
military age, so in other words, everybody will be designated as hamas,
37:36
as combatants, and they will allegedly allow women and children to leave. Of
37:43
course, we have absolutely no guarantees or assurances that they will be able to
37:50
leave safely, as we've already seen women and children being sniped or shot or
37:55
shelled by tanks as they do try to leave to what described as safe areas.
38:01
And of course the other point to make is currently as well as bombing
38:06
heavily in central Gaza, so it's actually creating a buffer zone between the north
38:12
and the south. There's around seven hundred thousand people in the north currently suffering
38:16
predominantly from famine and disease, and then another one point five million in central
38:25
Gaza but being pushed to the north or to the south. Sorry, there's
38:30
about one million in the south, and then the remainder in the middle which
38:34
are being pushed north or south. And with the potential, of course,
38:38
with this Ruffa operation which is being spoken about by various members of netan Yahoo's
38:45
administration, including by Netanyahu himself, the timing is potential, of course that
38:52
refugees from Rufa will be deported via the so called humanitarian But also my fear
39:00
is of course that the US and the UK are now intending to establish a
39:07
military footprint in Gaza itself, perhaps not immediately but in the future after the
39:13
devastation, which will be rougher if the operation goes ahead, and we're looking
39:19
at a horrendous massacre or potential of a masacre if that does go ahead,
39:27
and it's looking much more likely that it is going to go ahead, Vanessa,
39:30
because the news is that they are starting to train reservists to take part
39:35
in that, so that the training is happening at which it wasn't before.
39:38
So it's looking much firmer that it's going to go ahead. But coming back
39:44
to the UK then, Charles and what's the liddest on the Holocaust Memorial?
39:49
Well, thanks Mite. It relates closely of course to Vanessa segment in that
39:53
it's extremely controversial prospects from the start, but made much more so in the
40:00
events since the seventh October last year. But this is the report from well
40:06
the latest on the Holocaust Memorial. The government now has a department the foundation
40:10
there and effectively it's been proposed for a site just south of the Houses of
40:15
Parliament in Victoria Tower Garden. And the reason I've got another icon on the
40:21
right hand side of the map on the east side is that that's where the
40:23
Imperial War Museum hosts the Holocaust galleries. So a while back I asked the
40:30
Imperial War Museum what their view was about the very controversial use of land that
40:35
was supposed to be protected in Victoria Tower Garden, and of course they highlight
40:39
that it was it's less than a mile away and that they want to ensure
40:43
that the curation and narrative does not replicate the iwm's own galleries. Now,
40:50
last week there's an update here reported in the Jewish News. MP's issue warning
40:54
on Holocaust memorial projects, rising costs and security. And this is because there's
41:00
now a Select Committee which have produced a report on the Holocaust Memorial Bill.
41:06
And in effect one could look at it to one of two ways, because
41:09
they start by saying they do not wish to amend the bill, but there
41:12
are certain matters of concern so are they pulling their punches or are they setting
41:16
up the bill to fail? But nonetheless they say that a full consultation would
41:22
have lent more legitimacy to the final site decision, and they urged the government
41:24
to consider how ongoing costs so likely to be paid for and whether it offers
41:29
appropriate use of public money, and also the steps of the government intends to
41:32
take around the security of any memorial and learning center. Of course, we've
41:36
heard a lot recently about the concerns over security, or at least the much
41:42
hyped concerns over security for Jewish people in the UK, So it's just raft
41:46
of controversy upon controversy, but that seems to be the latest currently. But
41:52
just to refresh on, certainly on the full consultation part, what the government
41:55
totally failed to do was to pay attention to existing planning restrictions on the site.
42:02
And so they've written rough short over that, and it's now looking like
42:05
it's very hard to justify the public money that's being thrown at it, indeed,
42:08
the increased public money because of the security implications. So a model picture,
42:14
but we'll carry on reporting as we as we pick it up. Okay,
42:19
now let's come on then to the Investigatory Pars Amendment Bill. And well,
42:25
the question is what is this all about. Well, of course we
42:29
know that in this country we have some pretty draconian investigatory Pars legislation in place
42:36
that all is all kinds of unpleasant surveillance. It's called the Snooper's Charter of
42:42
course by many people, but it has been amended. And so here's Tom
42:46
tug and Had, the Security Minister. He's saying, first to reassure those
42:52
who may have been alarmed by some of the recent commentary, Britain is secure,
42:55
and to remind people of the extraordinary security we have through our being in
43:00
NATO and our being in nuclear power. I'm not quite sure that what that
43:02
has to do with snooping, but anyway, he went on to say these
43:07
changes mean that not only will our citizens be better protected from serious dangers such
43:10
as terrorism and child sexual abuse online, their privacy will be better protected too.
43:16
So my question is is he naive, does he not understand the legislation
43:21
that he's just amended and given approval to the amendments for, or is he
43:24
lying through his teeth. I don't know the answer to that, But let's
43:28
just look at what in detail what they have been talking about. So,
43:31
first of all, the government has decided to reduce what have already been extremely
43:37
weak protections against security services using our data illegally. And just to remind everybody,
43:43
security services have been using our data illegally for quite some time, and
43:46
the whole point of the Investigatory Powers Act in the first place was to effectively,
43:52
respect retrospectively legalize what they were doing and continue to do so. They're
43:57
breaking the rules left, right and center, and this reduces the protections even
44:01
further. Government has removed a reasonable expectation of privacy, so there is no
44:07
expectation of privacy as far as the government is concerned on behalf of any member
44:13
of the general public. The government has not explained why reduction of privacy is
44:16
necessary rather than just being convenient for them. It potentially permits bulk data collection
44:22
of facial images and social media data. That, of course is an intention
44:28
because we know that live facial recognition is being tested and is intended to be
44:34
ruled out by the police, but also social social media data as well.
44:38
And if you remember, I can't remember whether it was Friday's program or Wednessey's
44:43
last week, we were talking about the use of facial images to ascertain or
44:47
to identify people's political leanings and automating that process we go on here absolutely permits
44:57
bulk data collection of Internet connection data. Well, that's the case with the
45:01
Investigatory Powers Act in general, but this takes a step further and expands the
45:07
range of politicians who can authorize the surveillance of other politicians. This is quite
45:12
amazing to me that no politicians seem to be particularly concerned about this. But
45:15
requires tech companies to inform government of any plans to strength and security or privacy
45:20
features in their software. This is a direct attack on end to end encryption,
45:24
and this is one of the main features of these amendments is to try
45:29
to roll back on end to end encryption that's already out there. It permits
45:35
government vedoing such security a privacy features, so tech companies will have to inform
45:40
the government of any plans to strength and security, and then the government can
45:44
say not in this country. So that is in itself a dangerous situation in
45:51
my opinion. Enables the Secretary of State to require tech companies to provide services
45:54
or facilities for the purposes of facilitating or assistant and assisting and intelligence service to
46:00
carry out as functions, and prevents tech companies from disclosing such services or facilities
46:05
to anyone without permission of the Secretary of State. So they can instruct the
46:09
tech company to open a gateway for the intelligence agencies to look at the communications
46:15
of a particular individual or individuals or group, but they're not allowed to tell
46:20
anyone, including the individuals or the group, that the surveillance is going on.
46:23
Now, the National Crime Agency has been campaigning on the issue of end
46:30
to end encryption for years, so this is going back to twenty eighteen.
46:34
This is a National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organized Crime, and they said
46:37
in that document, now the majority of Internet traffic is encrypted and publicly available.
46:44
That's their type publicly available mobile device apps offer end to end encryption standard.
46:50
While this means enhanced privacy for the users, the use of encryption is
46:53
impacting on law enforcement's ability to collect intelligence and evidence. So they were complaining
46:59
about that six years ago, and then this week or in the last few
47:02
days, the NCAA plus others released the Joint Declaration of European Police Chiefs.
47:08
But of course we're out of the EU, and I aren't we, and
47:12
they said saying this. Two key capabilities are crucial to supporting online safety.
47:17
First, the ability of the technology companies to provide to law enforcement investigations in
47:22
response to lawful authority with strong safeguards and oversight. I think that's also typo,
47:29
but anyway, the data of suspected criminals on their service. This is
47:31
what is known as lawful access. Second, the ability of technology companies to
47:37
proactively identify illegal and harmful activity on their platforms. This is especially true in
47:42
regards to detecting users who have sexual interest in children, exchange images of abuse
47:46
and seek to a bit contact sexual offenses. So the child abuse narrative is
47:53
continues to be used to cynically, in my opinion, to push this forward.
47:59
We are therefore deeply concerned. They said that end to end encryption is
48:02
being rolled out in a way that will undermine both of these capabilities. Companies
48:06
will not be able to respond effectively to a lawful authority, nor will they
48:10
be able to identify or report illegal activity on their platforms. As a result,
48:15
we will simply not be able to keep the public safe. And of
48:19
course this was the narrative that we were receiving during COVID as well. We've
48:22
got to do away with our freedoms, with our privacy, with all these
48:25
kinds of things in the name of public safety. And this continues to be
48:30
the sort of trope that they roll out in order to try to convince us
48:35
to accept this bulk data collection and this mass surveillance. So I just wanted
48:40
to sort of end this segment by looking at what you might do about it.
48:45
And of course the first thing to do about it is to use a
48:49
VPN. Now the VPN that I personally use, and I'm not sponsored in
48:52
any way by MOVAD, but this is my choice, and explain why it's
48:57
my choice. In the second is so they use a VPN. Now,
49:01
of course this doesn't make you anonymous or hide what you're doing, because there'll
49:07
always be somebody looking at what you're doing. At companies are buolth data collecting
49:12
in terms of your browsing habits and so on. But what this does is
49:15
it moves the ability, or removes the ability for your Internet service provider to
49:21
collect metadata on what you're doing on the Internet because everything's being tunneled through your
49:27
virtual private network. So that at least moves the problem away from our government
49:31
and makes it much more difficult for them to follow what you're doing. It
49:35
doesn't remove the possibility at all, but it makes it much more difficult.
49:38
So if you pop that back up, I'll just explain why I think Malvad
49:43
is the VPN of choice, and it's this. If you want to pay
49:47
with cash in an envelope without any name, address, or any other identifying
49:52
marks, you can do so. So you just go to the Malvad site,
49:55
create an account number, and post the account number if your cash in
50:00
an envelope to them. I'm not aware that any other VPN services allow this
50:05
to be done, so this is, as far as I'm concerned, a
50:08
very big tick in the box. Aside from the fact that most of their
50:10
VPN servers, if not all of them by now, don't store any logs
50:15
because they don't have any hard disks or any other kind of bulk data storage
50:19
capability. So I just let people know about them because they're relatively compared to
50:27
others that are sort of talked about on the internet regularly. They're relatively unknown,
50:31
but they do offer a good service. And as I say, I'm
50:36
not being paid to say that that is the one I use, so that
50:39
we'll leave it there. Again, this legislation has gone through without a huge
50:45
amount of pushback, it seems, from the general public, and I do
50:47
wonder perhaps was that because there was a lack of awareness of what was being
50:52
done. Let's move on to food production. Yes, indeed, which something
50:59
we've looked at over the last few weeks and months really since the start of
51:02
the year, and we've concentrated very much on the way in which policy from
51:07
the Center has pushed farmers towards making the uneasy choice not to grow food in
51:12
order to take the risk out of their business. But what we haven't really
51:15
looked at the situations in which the decision has been taken out of their hands.
51:19
So we look at Natural England, and the reason we do so is
51:22
that last week Tony Juniper, the headman there, is talking about having a
51:25
high five for everyone driving nature recovery. But we must not rest on our
51:30
laurels. So we're just cherrypeck a few bits from his sort of five year
51:34
point and he talks about Natural England, which of course is outside of government
51:37
but funded by government, has supported the design and introduction of major legislative tools,
51:43
the Environment Act, the Environmental Improvement Plan, but also here we go
51:46
to protect thirty percent of land and sea by twenty thirty and indeed the Agricultural
51:52
Transition Plan and critically bidiversity net gain which will come onto. He talks about
51:57
the funding and to achieve nature, which has been a big theme of Steve
52:01
Barclay's push on the sustainable farming incentive, and he's tripled the budget from one
52:07
hundred and ten million, which is what it was back in twenty nineteen.
52:10
He's always at pain to point out the closeness of his relationship with the now
52:15
King Charles shown here in the photograph with him, and he goes on to
52:20
talk about food security, but in a slightly toned deaf manner that In effect,
52:23
he's suggesting that there isn't really any sort of mutual disagreement between taking land
52:30
out of production and food security. He is right, of course to point
52:34
out the long term food security is impossible without a healthy, sustainable natural environment,
52:37
but there's a way of doing that, and possibly not the way in
52:42
which it is being done currently. For much more depth on this, I
52:45
would encourage you to go to the No Smoke Without Fire series that Brian Gerrish
52:50
and Debbie Adams are doing the Minute, particularly part three, which deals with
52:53
exactly this issue. But the reason I bring it up now is because there's
52:58
a private member's bill going for Parliament at the moment, Sites of Special Scientific
53:02
Interest Bill which was just mentioned in Parliament back in March by Derek Thomas MP,
53:10
and specifically he talks about allowing the environment sectually to interrogate the science and
53:15
scrutinize Natural England's decisions. It's Natural England that seems to have ridden rough shot
53:20
over farmers, countryside management and their understanding of how to care for their natural
53:24
environment. Now. The reason he says that is that to date the Natural
53:30
England have had the power to enforce a special scientific an area of special scientific
53:37
interest. So he goes on, so why does this matter because now following
53:40
confirmation of the SSSI, farmers are subject to the same Natural England staff dictating
53:45
how they operate their farms. That includes their demand that farmers apply for consent
53:50
to milk cows or keep livestock. There is the risk that farming businesses will
53:53
become unsustainable which will impact on the rural economy and food security, while no
53:59
mean for benefit to the environment is delivered. So he's absolutely right to call
54:05
this out. And we look at the Nature Recovery Network, which of course
54:07
is they say, a joined up enterprise between DEPHRAH, Natural England and our
54:13
partners talking about their APEX goal of improving nature. But the point again on
54:17
the sort of accelerated process is taking us from protection to active restoration and critically
54:23
the three areas biodiversity lost, climate change and public health and well being again
54:28
not really substantiated. To go on to pick out a few things that they're
54:31
trying to target. An enormous amount of land five hundred thousand hectares of wildlife
54:37
rich habitat they want to have achieved from this, and down at the bottom
54:40
there which is really important improve access to nature, working across government to ensure
54:46
that everyone lives within fifteen minutes walk of a green or blue space, so
54:51
a lot of walking. No mention of cars of course, And a reminder
54:55
therefore, when we think about the thirty by thirty thing, that the teen
55:00
million hectares of land that are in agricultural use account for seventy percent of the
55:04
total area of the UK. So just on the food security front is an
55:07
absolutely enormous challenge to be able to produce enough food for an increasing population and
55:14
give over thirty percent of that land to nature recovery. But on the biodiversity
55:21
net gain side we see the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board here additional income stream,
55:25
So again talk about incentivizing farmers to actually do this, and in case
55:30
you're sort of a bit shaking on the biodiversity implications, this came into effect
55:36
into planning law in January, working to increase biodiversity. Essentially, it's an
55:40
offsetting process, so they say it's mandatory for all new developments, regardless of
55:45
whether this improvement is seen on or off site. But for offsite improvements,
55:51
farmers can often lease their less productive land to developers or gain payment from these
55:55
organizations for managing and improving the habitat in line with the management plan to improve
56:00
biodiversity. So again who decides what actually constitutes an improvement in biodiversity. And
56:07
finally they talk about this going on for at least thirty years. So this
56:12
is really being driven by the Terra Carta and Sustainable Markets incentive, which as
56:15
I say, is covered in great depth in the No Smoke Without Fire series
56:20
at the moment, which i'd really encourage you to get into. But this
56:22
is something we will continue to monitor over the course of this year. Yeah,
56:24
and no doubt we'll talk about that an extra as well. Now let's
56:29
just end with online safety and media literacy. And well we'll start off on
56:34
the online safety with this, which is a joint statement by OFCOM and the
56:37
Information's Commissioner. Because they have got together, we reported them this is the
56:40
time to form the Digital Regulation Cooperative Cooperation Forum. Actually, so anyway,
56:46
they have issued a joint statement on the regulation of online services and so they're
56:52
collaborating on themes that they describe as age assurance with that's digital ID Recommender systems,
56:59
that's the the algorithms that YouTube and others are using proactive tech and relevant
57:06
AI tools, default settings and geolocation settings for child users. Let's make sure
57:10
the children are included, so that that gives us a justification for this online
57:15
safety privacy duties, upholding terms, policies and community standards, and of course
57:21
that's how they're dealing with content online. They're going to enforce the requirement for
57:27
community standards to be imposed across the board by the tech companies. So working
57:34
together is going to move the online safety regime forward, and so that's what
57:38
they're doing. But in the meantime, ofcom has launched a consultation on their
57:45
three year media literacy strategy, so they're very excited about this because of course,
57:49
media literacy is how we all identify whether something that we're looking at is
57:52
mis or disinformation or genuine. So let's see what the quote is from each
58:00
young Tay from offcom publication. This strategy is timely. Indeed, it's more
58:05
important now than ever to think strategically about media literacy given the dramatic changes to
58:09
landscape over the last two decades since OFCOMB started its work. OFCOM now defines
58:15
media literacy as the ability to use, understand, and create media and communications
58:20
across multiple formats and services. Does that seem like a good definition to you?
58:24
It doesn't seem to, don't really mean anything, but anyway, okay,
58:28
the price, he says, is clearly worthy of the collective effort.
58:30
Imagine the UK where people possess the critical thinking skills, the better spot miss
58:35
and disinformation. Yes, indeed, imagine that. Imagine when people are actually
58:39
critically looking at the BBC and the Independent and the Times in the Telegraph and
58:44
thinking what a pile of nonsense they're pushing out on a daily basis. But
58:47
don't worry, because Rishie Sunak was speaking at the Society of Editors Annual meeting
58:55
a couple of days ago, pretty yesterday in fact, and well he had
59:00
this to say. Over the last five years, we the government have backed
59:05
international media and free flow of information with over six hundred million pounds. It
59:08
includes supporting the BBC World Service, which reaches over three hundred million people each
59:14
week and has planted kindless seeds of freedom. And he is admitting here that
59:17
BBC World Service is a soft part weapon of the British government in order to
59:24
work towards regime change in other countries. That's what planting kindless seeds of freedom
59:30
means. And he also said it includes in training for journalists around the world,
59:36
and that of course is part of the same exercise, because that's the
59:38
use of Thompson Rogers Foundation and BBC Media Action to train journalists in the British
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mold and with British narratives and British ways of doing things. And just to
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end this little segment, the Financial Times and open AI, you will be
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glad to know, have struck a content licensing deal. This means that open
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AI now it has full access to the full Financial Times archives, everything that
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they publish. Because once you start looking at media literacy and how you want
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to view things on the Internet, and with the increasing use of artificial intelligence
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and chat, GBT and the likes in the future, we want to make
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sure that those ways of gathering information are only trained using proper sources. Isn't
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that right? Sorry, yes, okay, We'll leave you to think about
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that and say thank you to Vanessa and the Charles for joining me today and
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thank you to everybody who's watched. We will be back in a couple of
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minutes. If you're a UK column member for some extra but otherwise see you
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on what is this? Yes, see on Friday. See you then bye bye,