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UK Column News - 8th September 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon, today is Monday the 8th of September 2025, just
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after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host Brian Garish, delighted to have Ben Rubin with
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me in the studio and Diane Rasmussen Mccaddy will be
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joining us on a live link from the North East of England.
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Probably the first thing for me to say.
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And of course you can all see it on your screens.
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It's an utterly beautiful day here in Plymouth.
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It's warm sun shining, obviously blue sky there in the
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background. So we've got a lovely setting
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for today's news, which is just as well because over a number of
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months UK column has been saying to our audience, if you can't
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understand what is happening in politics in the UK but also
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elsewhere in the world, try getting your mind into the idea,
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the concept that we are being attacked by our own government
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and its agents. And I think really that theme
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sticks with us for, excuse me, today's news.
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So Ben, you're going to be kicking off with states within a
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state. We're going to be having a look
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at the militarisation of UK. We're going to be looking at
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that continued attack on the minds of children, Children
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particularly via books. And we're also going to be
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looking at so-called agents of chaos.
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And we're going to be looking at the people who've been appointed
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in positions of power with regard to protecting individuals
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from sex abuse. And finally, we're going to get
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into a little bit of what life should be like having a look at
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a big rural show. So we are going to end on a
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higher plane. But first of all, we need to get
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through some pretty serious reporting as to what's taking
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place in UK, Ben. Thanks Brian.
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Good afternoon everybody. And it was a tumultuous week
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last week in the Labour Cabinet. And I think it's fair to say
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that the age of Angela Rayner has ended and the era of David
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Lammy has begun. David Lammy has been elevated.
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He is now the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for
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Justice and Deputy Prime Minister, a heartbeat away from
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running the country, as they say.
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But who would Lammy be running the country for?
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The British nation as a whole or a small, racially segregated
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subset of the British people at the expense of everybody else.
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It's a big question. And for some clues as to the
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answer, I think we can head to this event that was held earlier
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on this summer in the University of Cambridge celebrating David
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Lammy's 25 years in public service.
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Look at his smile on his face. He's absolutely loving this he.
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Looks very pleased. He looks very pleased with
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himself. What's all this about?
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Let's hear from the host. This is from Lord Wooley.
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What an honour, what an evening. Friends came out to share
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stories of how their lives and hopes had entwined and bonded
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with the working class kid from Tottenham who now stands as the
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most powerful black political figure in Europe, Capital B on
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black. Remember that Brian?
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And when David took the mic and scanned the room, he paused,
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took a knowing deep breath and said.
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I'm amongst many dear friends. We've done so much together.
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There's so much more to do, so much more to do working
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together. What was this event all about?
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It was about black excellence working Better Together.
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Let's have a little read of some of this.
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Black excellence working Better Together emerges as a bold and
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necessary outcome of this landmark dinner convened by
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Baron Woolly of Woodford. Woolly spelt incorrectly.
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By the way, there's 2L's in Woolly Aaron Wooley with the
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presence of the Right Honourable David Lammy MP, Secretary of
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.
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As I said, this is a few months ago now goes on to read.
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This exceptional gathering of distinguished leaders and change
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makers marks the beginning of a visionary agenda towards 2030
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Big year that and beyond, and is centred on fostering, curating
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and harnessing the power and collective prosperity of people
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of African and Caribbean descent in the United Kingdom and across
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the wider diaspora. Alami is part of a network that
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is seeking to build power and prosperity for Afro Caribbean
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people in the UK and elsewhere on earth at the expense of
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everybody else, not the British people as a whole.
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Based on what that says, this event was held in his honour.
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This is going to be governing essentially for a discreet
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minority of the British people. It goes on to say working
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together seeks to ensure that the whole becomes greater than
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the dynamics of its parts. It's about creating a network of
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connected individuals and culture, politics, industry
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elsewhere who are working to further their own ends at the
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expense of everybody else. It's a discreet, the powerful
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networks, a bunch of people here you can see in the room there
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not particularly diverse, which is interesting given that I'm
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sure that they spend a lot of time talking about diversity.
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It includes the likes of Oswald Barteng on the left there, the
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Savile Row. Taylor.
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Lord Hastings, currently chair of SOAS, the School of Oriental
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and African Studies. He was also former head of
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public affairs and corporate social responsibility at the BBC
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through the 90s. Former head of citizenship at
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KPMG. Big time UNSDG proponent Lord
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Hastings, big time, right? So these are people pushing AUN
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agenda. That's what's going on here.
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And ultimately working to undermine the British system for
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their own benefit. That's what this is all about.
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This event was convened by Lord Wooley on the right hand side
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there, spelled his name correctly for him this time
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who's principal at Homerton College in Cambridge, despite
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the fact that he can't spell his own name and he is the founder.
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Well back in the 90s with the founder of this thing, Operation
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Black Vote describes itself as the home of black politics.
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This was founded back in 1996. You can see here Lord Willie in
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the middle there just to the right hand side of the guy with
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the megaphone. Also Lee Jasper on the right
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hand side with his hand over the front of the banner.
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Very closely linked into the Blair regime.
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Spent loads of time lobbying Blair and closely aligned with
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the Labour Party which is traditionally the party of
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ethnic minorities. One of the reasons why people on
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the left are so pro migration ultimately, but linked into all
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of the major political parties and also apparently has a very
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loose definition of of what black is.
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So it's not just Afro Caribbean, it's also basically anyone of
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kind of not non-native ethnic identities you can see should be
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gone on the right hand side of this picture.
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This is from 2010, Lord Mervyn Rees back centre right there as
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well. So you know, some very, very
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powerful and well connected people here in this network.
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Since this parallel network, this state within a state that
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is designed to benefit a subset of the population, ultimately it
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has to be at the expense of everybody else.
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That's certainly the way it seems, Ben.
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And of course they're meeting, as those pictures have shown, in
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very, very privileged circumstances, winning and
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dining. And this is always a key
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statement. So members of the black and
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minority ethnic groups in UK should be very, very concerned
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about what's happening here because this this is the same
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sort of privileged structure that's produced people on Tony
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Blair's side. So we're heading to the white
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side of community. So this is an equivalent.
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This is like the dark mirror of what is already in place.
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And this isn't not going to benefit black people as a whole
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in this country. It's going to benefit the elites
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within that community. It's.
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Exactly right. That is exactly right.
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They are playing the corrupt power game.
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They're not trying to make things fairer for the
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collective. And it's really important point
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to make. Let's bring it back to David
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Lammy and bring it up to date. So actually, how does this link
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to this Operation Black Vote organization?
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How does that link into to Lammy beyond the obvious personal
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relationship between Lord Woolley and David Lammy?
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Well, Operation Black Vote was the primary inspiration for this
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organization. The Black Equity Organization,
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which I've spoken about a few times over the past year or two,
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launched in 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd situation.
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Lammy was a founding trustee. You can see him on the left hand
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side there in the centre on this image from from the home page of
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the website. What is equity?
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What's the difference between equity and equality?
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Importantly, well, equality means every person, group of
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people or segment of society gets the same opportunities,
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resources and support, which I think what we should be aiming
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for. But equity apparently goes
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further. People with different
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circumstances, those who have been historically marginalised
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and oppressed, for example, receive varying levels of
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opportunities and support so they're able to reach an outcome
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equal to others. It levels things up.
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This is a quality of outcome. This is by definition this is a
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communist system that is being promoted here.
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It can only be delivered by a totalitarian state intervening
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in the social order on a constant basis.
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Someone has to sit in the centre deciding what is equal and what
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isn't equal in intervening in order to make it more so, right?
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It's a necessary part of this system.
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And it's also based on this completely flawed collectivist
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worldview, which tells us that all black people are oppressed
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and marginalized and all white people are supposedly in
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positions of privilege and power, which is completely
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ridiculous, even just on some basic analysis, right?
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There are plenty of white people in this country who are
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oppressed for marginalised, extremely poor, have been
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forever. It's, you know, this
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generational stuff. And also there are plenty of
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what they call black people who are in positions of
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extraordinary privilege, particularly if you go to big
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cities like London where you have Nigerian Princess and
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princesses driving around Mayfair in in Rolls Royces, for
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example, you know, there's plenty of that going on.
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So, you know, based on a flawed and deliberately manipulative
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worldview, and importantly based on a complete inversion of the
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actual meaning of the word equity as well, because equity
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actually means this fairness or justice in the way people are
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treated, and often specifically related to freedom from
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disparities in the way people of different races, genders,
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etcetera are treated. So actual equity is about
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freedom from disparities in treatment.
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Black equity wants to introduce disparities in the way that
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people are treated in order to artificially reorder societies
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is a complete inversion of the meaning of the word equity.
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Why is that important? Two reasons.
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First one is the black equity organization itself is backed
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by, amongst other organisations, some of London's biggest law
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firms. So these are top, top
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international law firms, A&O, Shearman, Clifford Chance, Fresh
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Fields, Slaughter and May Herbert Smith, Free Hills you
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can see there on the right hand side, as well as organisations
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like Global Council which is run by Lord Mandelson and a whole
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bunch of other organisms I can't go into.
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There's just so much in here in terms of who's backing this.
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But you've got the top law firms whose job is equity backing an
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organization which has inverted the meaning of the words.
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That's extraordinary to see that happening.
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But also, crucially, to bring it right back to where we started,
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David Lanning, he's now the Secretary of State for Justice,
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and he doesn't understand what justice means.
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He thinks it's the opposite of what it's supposed to be.
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But he believes in his own view of it.
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That's, that's what makes the danger a lot more to report on
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this. And as we've said, we're going
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to stress that this is something which the black community in UK
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need to wake up to very, very quickly because the ultimate
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aim, of course, will be to get it everybody at each other's
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throats. Now, all of this is taking place
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against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine.
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And of course, the promotion of the war in Ukraine is that
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Russia is going to move further. We should all be very
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frightened. And on the basis of that, we've
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got to gear up for war. And hence the look at the
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segment I've got for our viewers and listeners today, which is
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essentially pointing at the militarisation of UK.
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First of all, let's have a listen to former Vice President
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Pence speaking and his opinion on what Russia will do.
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I've no doubt in my mind if Vladimir Putin overruns Ukraine,
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it'll only be a matter of time before he crosses a border of a
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NATO country where my country and all of our allies will have
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to confront him militarily. And so do do you say that the
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the president gets that because that is exactly the fear in the
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Baltic nations, for instance? And do you say that the US
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security guarantee should be boots on the ground?
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I've been very encouraged just this week, frankly, by the the
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leadership among our allies in Europe to, to formulate the kind
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of security guarantees that would that would create the
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conditions for a just and, and lasting peace.
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I think, I think the United States has made it clear, this
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administration has made it clear that there'll be a backstop to
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that. But with our European allies in
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the forefront. Not surprisingly, Vladimir Putin
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has has already begun to rattle his Saber to suggest that
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European troops on the ground in Ukraine would be, I think in his
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word, legitimate targets. But that that to me tells me
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that the efforts of our allies coming together in Europe, a
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backstop by the United States American military has captured
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Vladimir Putin's attention and may may well be a pathway toward
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long term peace. So for me, Ben, a very mixed
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message. He's essentially saying be
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afraid that Russians are going to come across that border and
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into the heart of Europe. At the same time, he says, well,
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the Europeans did so well in their recent meeting that
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probably Putin's not going to do that.
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But of course, this is pumped out with the aim of making
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people more and more fearful. And with it comes the branding
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of Russia. And of course the kidnapping of
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children is one of the key topics.
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So this was a Sun headline here. Putin's 35,000 kidnapped
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Ukrainian kids sent to frontline to fight for Russia at the
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moment they turn 18, Brit spies revealed.
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Now This article has got absolutely no factual
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information to back up the claim of this headline.
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James Mules, who is the journalist who produced this
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piece of text, interestingly enough is a former BBC Democracy
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reporter. So I would guess he's pretty in
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the mould of what the BBC wants to tell the nation, but no
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substance or factual information at all.
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And what it does refer to is what the Ukrainian government
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has said, which is largely propaganda while the fighting
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goes on, but also bring kids back.
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UA, this charity is mentioned. But again, if we go to look at
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where the real detail is about how many children the Russians
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have actually captured and sent to the front, it's big on words
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and pictures, but there's little evidence.
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And this also applies to this one, Save Ukraine, another
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charity apparently working to save all these children.
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But the reader is provided with absolutely no evidence as to how
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many children there are in this predicament.
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And of course, a few months ago, the Russians went public to
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actually challenge the Ukrainians on the details of
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these thousands and thousands of children.
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And no details were provided to the Russians either.
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So what? How can we summarise this?
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Well, it's be afraid. The war is designed to attract
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our attention while other things go on underneath, as Ben has
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just shown. But let's have a look at this
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BBC headline here which is UK launches 250 million defence
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strategy to boost jobs. And we'll bring in this little
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headline to remind people because the UK column a couple
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of weeks ago pointed out that at the moment UK is boasting it's
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got more child cadets than soldiers in the British Army.
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Now let's have a listen to what the Defence Secretary Healy had
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to say about the Ministry of Defence's new role in with
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regard to asylum seekers. We're absolutely determined.
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What you're seeing from Kier Starmer now is a recognition
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that this isn't just the job for the Home Office, it's all of
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government effort and we in the MOD will play our part.
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We've got planners alongside the Home Office, we're looking at
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military and non military sites for potential temporary
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accommodation and this is about trying to restore control of our
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borders which was lost over the last five or six years and the
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confidence of the British people that we can keep them secure and
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we can reflect our values. I just want to be very clear
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about what you're saying, though.
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You say military planners will be involved in helping to manage
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what many people see as a crisis in migration.
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Are you talking about members of the armed forces being involved
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in enforcing our borders? So at the moment we got military
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planners involved in helping the border command, we've got them
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alongside Home Office planners looking at potential sites and.
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Solutions. Make no mistake, we're
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determined to end the use of expensive asylum hotels.
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We said that we'll do that by the end of the parliament.
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Keir Starmer wants to do that before now.
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The numbers are coming down, we're processing the
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applications that were completely stalled under the
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previous government and we're deporting more now than we have
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done in recent years. So carefully delivered mixed
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messages. If we can't defend the borders
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against migrants, we're hardly likely to defend the borders
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against Putin. But of course when he was pinned
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down on what is the Ministry of Defence doing, he didn't really
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give a clear answer. But at the end of the day, this
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is more fear factor in the public mind.
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This is supposedly the invasion of asylum seekers when the real
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attack on UK is the permitted migration with vast numbers of
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people coming into this country, with all the pressures on the
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infrastructure that brings. But let's just get back to that
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250 million defence in industrial strategy and have a
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look at some of the meat on those bones.
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This is the first statement that the strategy will offer working
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families across the country new opportunities.
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So this is about war, this is about the munitions, this is
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about everything that we need for war.
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But it's sold as offering families the opportunity to have
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a decent job. You can get more cynical if you
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tried. And the strategy is going to be
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used in collaboration between local authorities, businesses,
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academia and the defence sector. Ben, I'm looking at you because
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to me this is the public private partnership at work and we're
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not going to be too sure what is actually the big business, the
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military industrial. Complex and what is government?
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But now this network is drilled down to very low levels in
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society and of course presumably anybody who challenges it is
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going to be branded a potential terrorist and accused of some
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crime against the defence of the nation.
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We give you a bit more here. So he went on to say that these
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deals offer a new partnership with UK Defence to build on
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industrial and innovation strengths that regions already
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hold. So there's no doubt this is
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being driven right into the fabric of UK, down to local
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community and I preferred, say, county level.
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Now some of the things that are coming out of it.
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Plymouth is going to get a £4 billion bonus to be the UK
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national Centre for Marine Autonomy, whatever that means.
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I did do some study but it wasn't very clear.
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South Yorkshire is going to become a specialist in advanced
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materials and steel and submarine and weaponry
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components. I didn't know that we were
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producing huge amounts of steel bent, but apparently that's
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something that's going to change.
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We've got Wales becoming the centre frontman, aerial vehicles
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and autonomy research. We've got Scotland innovation,
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maritime and space technology and finally here Northern
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Ireland, the leader in cybersecurity and due use
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technologies. And if we reinforce how big this
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program is, this is blueprint for one Devonport.
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And if you can't read the bottom left hand corner small print, we
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can bring that on screen for you.
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Devonport 2050 more long range plans been very much of the
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Soviet style secure, safe support and what are we looking
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at? Apparently a world class secure,
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safe, integrated operating and support base for the Royal Navy
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and NATO. So this tends to indicate that
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NATO is going to be brought even closer into our National Defence
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structure and the mission here meet the support and operating
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requirements for the Royal Navy and the UK's allies from the
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southwest reaching worldwide. Now, excuse me if this is not
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enough. The other thing that's happening
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at the moment is we're seeing Ukrainian military industry
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burying its way into UK. What's the subject?
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It's drones. So here's the headline, 200
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million Ukrainian drone manufacturer factory.
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And this is about Ukraine's largest drone manufacturer,
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Ukraine Spec Systems, which has announced a 200 million
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investment programme in East Anglia, 11,000 square meter
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factory at Mildenhall and a test and training site at Elmset
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Suffolk. A project, yes.
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The good news? It's going to create 500 jobs
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and apprentices, apprenticeships across the region.
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What is it actually doing? Producing drones to kill people
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in the proxy war in Ukraine? But apparently this is good for
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UK society and and industry. This is Maria Eagle MP, defence
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procurement minister. She says this 200 million
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investment will also improve our industrial base and create up to
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500 jobs, driving economic growth and prosperity around the
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country, Core elements of our upcoming defence industrial
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strategy. And if that's not enough, we've
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got another one here as reported in the Kiev Independent.
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This is about Ray Bird drones to be built in the UK in a new
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joint venture between Ukraine and UK.
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And this is a partnership between the Ukrainian Skyton and
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Prevail solutions to produce military drones.
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And there are more of these. So we're seeing alongside all of
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the things that you're pointing out, Ben, we're seeing an
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integration of defence in UK with the Ukrainians in much the
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same way as we're seeing integration between UK and
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Israel without any checks and balances on what's happening.
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So let's move on from there. Diane.
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If society's being attacked here in UK, of course children are
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always at the forefront and you are still on the trail of what's
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being presented to children. Yes, thanks, Brian.
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It's great to be here today. Hello, everyone.
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I received a lot of response last week to the segment that I
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did that included the book Granddad's Pride.
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So I decided to go back and do a little bit more coverage on this
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book as well as the author that wrote it.
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So if you haven't seen it from last week's news, I talked about
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this book called Granddad's Pride, which showed Granddad and
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the grandchild they're taking a trip to, I think, organizing a
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pride parade and attending and having a wonderful, diverse and
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inclusive time. So I looked at a little bit more
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of the things that have been discussed during Granddad's
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Pride because it's been such a major thing in social media for
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the past couple of years. So here's a book review about
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Granddad's Pride by someone who loved it a lot.
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Is Pride Month. So for today's Magic Bookmark,
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we are diving into the perfect picture book to celebrate Pride
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Month with It is Granddad's Pride by Harry Woodgate.
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Take a look inside book. There's stories to explore.
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They'll let you see who you could be and teach you so much
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more. They'll take you on a journey.
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It's kind of lighter spark. Let's turn the page with the
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magic bookmark. Be who you are.
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It's the magic bookmark. Granddaddy Pride is the follow
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up to Harry's first picture book, Granddaddy Camper.
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And in this one, Millie the granddaughter discovers a pride
26:27
flag in Granddaddy attic and wants to know what it's all
26:31
about. And eventually, she ends up
26:33
organizing a Pride in their local village.
26:37
And oh, it will just make you feel so wonderful because Harry
26:41
demonstrates that Pride is about being inclusive of everyone
26:46
who's LGBTQIA plus, but it's also about bringing communities
26:50
together. As with all of Harry's book, the
26:53
pictures are absolutely incredible.
26:55
But I especially love these. And then there's some amazing
26:58
signs we've got this one. Queer, disabled.
27:02
Fabulous and out and proud trans kids are magic.
27:07
But this is the image that really has struck with me
27:11
because it's someone who has the scars of their top surgery and
27:15
that's such a wonderful and simple thing to put in a picture
27:19
book but that is going to make people feel so included and
27:22
loved. So go and celebrate your Pride
27:25
Month with Granddad's Pride by Harry Woodgate.
27:32
So clearly meant for children, clearly quite intense.
27:37
So I went back to look at a granddad's camper and I have
27:40
bought a copy of that as well. So maybe we can look at the book
27:43
itself a little bit more in extra.
27:45
But let's just take a look at the cover of it now.
27:48
Basically this is the first book of this author, Harry Woodgate,
27:52
which I'm going to talk about here.
27:53
Just bits. This book is about Millie the
27:56
granddaughter again and granddad.
27:58
And granddad is sad because Gramps is no longer around.
28:02
I don't know if he passed away, I don't know if they broke up.
28:04
But anyway Gramps is sad away, Granddad is sad, everyone is
28:10
sad. But then Millie is able to cheer
28:12
everyone up because granddad and Billy decide to go in a
28:16
so-called adventure in Granddad's camper.
28:19
So after they fix up the camper they decided that they were
28:23
going to go out and enjoy the camper.
28:25
And then the the books in the book ends by saying from
28:29
granddad quote, your gramps would be so happy to see this.
28:32
It's what he would have wanted. I think we should pack some
28:35
snacks and hot chocolate and we can go and camp on the beach
28:38
just like we used to. So then granddad was cheered up.
28:42
Great for granddad. So it's all a wonderful ending.
28:45
We don't really know what happens.
28:47
We might not want to know what happens.
28:48
But anyways, we hear that there is some sort of an adventure and
28:51
the book ends there. And then we proceed to the next
28:53
one, which is Granddad's pride. So I looked a little bit more
28:57
into this author, Harry Woodgate.
29:00
So this is what the the screenshot from Waterstone has
29:04
about Harry Woodgate's. It's quite a bit of information
29:07
on him on his website as well. Oh, sorry, Harry Woodgate's
29:11
pronouns. Are they them?
29:12
Sorry for misgendering Harry. His picture book, his debut book
29:17
was Granddad's Camper, which I just showed you, which won the
29:20
best Illustrated Book at Waterstone's Children's Book
29:22
Prize 2022, followed by Children's Illustrated Book of
29:26
the Year at the British Book Awards in 2023.
29:30
It received notably a Stonewall Book Award honor from the
29:34
American Library Association and was nominated for the Stilip, so
29:38
my former Library Professional Association's Greenway Medal for
29:42
illustration. Also, he's won other awards from
29:45
the week, Junior Book Awards, Little Rebels Prize, Diverse
29:48
Book Awards, etcetera. This is another book that he
29:51
illustrated called Queer and Fearless Poems celebrating the
29:56
lines of LGB lives of LGBTQ plus heroes.
30:00
So Harry was an illustrator of this book.
30:04
We also have a little bit, there's still there's there's
30:06
Harry. They themself on Harry's website
30:10
and we also, I believe, have a video of Harry talking about the
30:16
university that Harry attended, the University of Hertfordshire,
30:20
talking about how inclusive and equitable it was to attend the
30:24
university. So let's hear what Harry had to
30:26
say. When I was at the university, I
30:30
really found it to be a really sort of inclusive open space,
30:34
especially like going to the RGBT society.
30:37
So it was really important for me to to include like RGBT
30:42
representation in the books I write for kids because.
30:45
It's a normal part of life. So we see this and it's very
30:55
obviously difficult to watch. It's difficult for me to talk
30:58
about. So let's talk a little bit about
31:00
what we can do what, what can we put in front of children?
31:03
This was surprisingly an article from the Telegraph that was
31:06
quite good that I, I want to thank the viewer who sent this
31:09
to me a few days ago. And they, the viewer said to me,
31:11
why can't children read the books that are listed on this
31:14
article instead of the books that I report on?
31:17
This is called the 50 best children's books of all time.
31:20
It actually does have some good books from the past and from the
31:23
present that don't contain this kind of sexualization of
31:26
children ideology that we don't want children to be seeing.
31:30
Obviously. Also, there's another book that
31:33
I want to talk about by an author that I met at the
31:36
Wilsingham show over the weekend that I'll be talking about the
31:38
show later on in the news. This book is called Noah's
31:41
Rocket and it's actually a really fun book to read by the
31:45
author called Tony Frace. I met him and he had a stand at
31:48
the show. Tony did not know anything about
31:52
the ideology that is being presented to children because
31:55
he's a self published author. This book was written in 2004
31:59
that I'm talking about here. So this was before this was
32:02
putting, being put in front of children with all of the
32:04
ideology and the content that we don't want them to see because
32:07
20 years ago, this was just not a thing in libraries the way it
32:10
is now. But he, he also said as well
32:14
that this book is particularly good for children with autism
32:17
and special needs, which is not something that he planned.
32:20
I just thought it was interesting to note this because
32:23
we've obviously done some work with the autism highlighting
32:26
the, the, the difficulties that children have and parents have
32:29
who are living with autism. But he had some testimonials
32:33
from parents and carers who take care of children who have these
32:37
special needs, as well as a book review by someone from the Leeds
32:40
Autism Surface who said that it was particularly good.
32:43
So it was easy to read. The chapters were broken down
32:45
nicely, big font size. The the the story is very
32:49
positive. The message is very positive
32:51
that there are good people left in the world.
32:53
And I read it yesterday morning and enjoyed it very much, maybe
32:58
on an adult level, but I would say that it's very enjoyable for
33:01
both children and adults. So I would highly recommend
33:04
checking this one out for everyone who's looking for
33:06
something good to read. Diane, thank you very much for
33:10
that. And yes, this is a good message,
33:12
isn't it? If we know about good books for
33:14
children, these are the ones to be promoting giving as gifts and
33:18
encouraging proper material to go into the minds of young
33:22
children. Your report there clearly having
33:24
an effect on the some of our audience who I've got to say,
33:28
we're appalled that this stuff is being pushed forward for
33:31
children, but this is without doubt a deliberate attack.
33:36
Now let's move on to the nicer things in life and a huge thank
33:41
you to everybody who's supporting the UK column.
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We also want to encourage people who may be watching us but
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only have, I think this should appear there we are.
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We just have 18 tickets remaining.
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So this is absolutely fantastic and a huge thank you to people
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who bought a ticket over the last few days after my last
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If you're not able to go, you can still buy a ticket for the
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remote link. So really great event and we're
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going to look forward to seeing everybody there.
34:59
If you haven't got a ticket opportunity to buy one now,
35:03
let's move on. And Diane, you've got an
35:06
interview here with an ordinary man who extraordinarily question
35:13
the COVID injections. Sorry, he's struggling there a
35:16
bit. Yeah, yeah.
35:18
He calls himself an ordinary man, but I really don't believe
35:21
that he is. His name is Tim Coulter and he
35:24
is a member of the Standard of the Park group that I am a
35:28
member of here in the North East of England.
35:31
He's a retired architect. He took action against the COVID
35:33
injections. He's quite a humorous and well
35:36
informed man. We did this interview at at his
35:39
home in a beautiful village in Northumberland, as you can see,
35:42
overlooking a, a, a beautiful naturescape that he lives in.
35:46
And so we recorded this obviously on location at his
35:49
home. And I would just like to think
35:51
we the people Northeast for filming this for us that please
35:54
join us tomorrow. There's a lot of special
35:56
surprises in the interview. So please join me and and enjoy
36:00
Tim tomorrow at 1:00. Brilliant diet.
36:03
Now you've also got some articles highlighted from the UK
36:06
column website. Yes.
36:09
This one in particular I want to talk about this is by Hugh
36:12
McCarthy, who's the retired head teacher who does a lot of
36:15
writing for us in from Northern Ireland.
36:18
And this one was published the week before last.
36:21
But if we can go to the next slide, we'll see here that
36:24
there's a bit of a testimonial from Tess Laurie, who is going
36:27
to be of obviously one of our speakers in New York.
36:29
And she said, I highly recommend this reflective article as well
36:33
as the links to UK column news in this article by retired
36:36
headmaster Hugh McCarthy. In my opinion, UK Column is
36:40
currently the best media organization reporting on the
36:43
UK. If you have finally had enough
36:46
of the BBC and want a trustworthy source of British
36:49
news, I highly recommend UK Column.
36:52
So I hope that everyone can join us in New York and thank Tess
36:54
for her review of a few and of UK Column.
36:57
And I, I have some breaking news as well.
36:59
I just want to add in quickly from Hugh, who emailed me this
37:02
morning to say that in Stormont that in Northern Ireland, they
37:06
have reported that Paul Gibbon, who's the education minister in
37:11
Northern Ireland, has recommended that the Education
37:13
Authority should immediately withdraw its current transgender
37:16
guidance to schools based on the Supreme Court ruling that we had
37:20
earlier this year. And I want to say that Hugh has
37:23
done an amazing job of of working to alert Stormont as to
37:27
what's been going on related to the Supreme Court hearing and
37:30
that our articles and our publication of his articles have
37:33
made apparently a big difference in making this happen in
37:36
Northern Ireland. So huge congratulations to Hugh
37:39
and those who have been working with him.
37:41
I think it's a wonderful news for Northern Ireland.
37:46
Right, OK, We've also got a food and health festival here, Diane.
37:51
Yes, this is taking place on the 28th of September up in
37:54
Edinburgh. I hope everyone can join us.
37:56
The tickets are free, there'll be a range of suppliers and
37:59
talks. A major highlight I believe as
38:02
well is that I will be there as a member of Common Knowledge
38:05
Edinburgh, which is organizing this event, but also Charles
38:08
Mallett will be coming to speak to us at the at the festival.
38:11
So please join us. Again, tickets are free and
38:14
still available. Excellent.
38:16
And lastly, our old friend UNESCO.
38:20
Well, last week was a big week for UNESCO.
38:23
They had a digital learning week in Paris.
38:26
And I'm just starting to get into the videos and the content
38:30
and the the hundreds of pages of policies and reports they have
38:34
published in relation to this. And mostly it's about AI and the
38:38
future of education and questioning the the role of
38:41
human teachers in this day and age.
38:43
So next week I expect to have a a more full report on the event.
38:49
OK, excellent. Thank you.
38:50
Thank you very much for that, Ben, Let's bring you back on.
38:54
And you're looking at Agents of Chaos.
38:57
Absolutely, and specifically the question RGB News, its
39:02
presenters, its financial backers, and other people in its
39:06
orbit deliberately trying to cause breakdown in society for
39:10
their own benefit. Or are they are they change
39:14
agent puppets being used? All that, but actually, are they
39:20
just actually trying to, are they, are they making money out
39:22
of this situation that's being constructed around this in
39:26
society? And well, let's have a little
39:29
look. Specifically, I'm focusing on
39:31
this guy, this Paul Marshall, Sir Paul Roderick Lucas
39:34
Marshall, should I say, British hedge fund manager, estimated
39:38
net worth of over £800 million, a major funder and backer of GB
39:43
News, owner of unheard. He bought the Spectator, he
39:46
tried to buy the Telegraph. Massive figure in what could be
39:50
called the right wing nationalist media space,
39:53
extremely powerful and influential.
39:56
Importantly, and I, I mentioned this on the news last year, I'm
40:00
just going to reiterate it because I think this is this is
40:03
incredibly pertinent given what's going on around us at the
40:05
moment. His wealth primarily came from.
40:09
A hedge fund called Marshall Waste that was started through a
40:12
5050 joint venture with George Soros.
40:16
Who he George Soros is this guy, founder of Open Society
40:20
Foundations, giving away more than $32 billion to fund that
40:25
network. It's about opening up societies,
40:28
breaking down borders, proposed promoting mass migration and the
40:32
associated social and cultural transformation of of Western
40:36
nations in particular massive donor to Black Lives Matter over
40:40
the years. And also importantly to this
40:42
organization, International Rescue Committee, again that I
40:45
spoke about last year, led by David Miliband, currently former
40:49
foreign secretary under Tony Blair.
40:51
And IRC is about supporting refugees coming into the UK and
40:56
helping them integrate into British society.
40:59
That's what IRC is about. And GB News, backed by Paul
41:02
Marshall, is very concerned about the migrant crisis that is
41:07
happening as a consequence of the activity of people like
41:10
George Soros and the International Rescue Committee.
41:13
And ultimately these are backed by the same man, right?
41:15
So George Soros is putting money into IRC and left wing figures
41:19
like David Miliband and also creating supposedly right wing
41:24
nationalist billionaires like Paul Marshall who's been
41:27
marshalling these media assets to push that political agenda.
41:30
And what's that causing in society?
41:32
It wasn't chaos, chaos and breakdown, conflict on the
41:36
streets. This is a picture from August
41:38
last year, the riots across the north of England.
41:41
And this creates huge opportunities for international
41:45
investors to come in and buy up assets on the cheap, whether
41:48
that's property or companies, whatever it might be.
41:52
Well, I'm selling technologies to the bio security state.
41:55
So for example, if you know you're a big shareholder in one
41:57
of the companies building digital ID systems, then that'd
42:00
be quite good for you if this happened.
42:02
And also betting against the banking system, importantly,
42:06
right, because George Soros, we go back to 1992 very famously
42:11
was described as the man who broke the Bank of England.
42:14
This was Black Wednesday in 1992, thirty three years ago
42:17
next week actually. And essentially, he didn't
42:21
actually break the Bank of England.
42:23
The, the, the people running the Bank of England broke the Bank
42:25
of England. George Soros just made about a
42:27
billion pounds on the day as you do and as you do from from
42:31
basically betting against the bank short selling the pound and
42:37
he's he's at it. This is his MO's One of the
42:39
things that he does to make his money, the billions he's made
42:42
over the years. Paul Marshall does it as well as
42:44
you would expect. So Marshall Waste hedge fund
42:47
made $36 million, not quite a billion, but still not a bad
42:52
day's work, actually betting on the collapse of Banco Espirito
42:55
Santo back in 2014 as a Portuguese bank.
42:58
And so he was short selling. And this is still a strategy
43:02
that Marshall Waste use. This is a classic hedge fund
43:04
strategy. They talk about it on their
43:07
website. So, you know, should we assume
43:10
that Waste and his his his company are betting against the
43:15
British economy? I think the man on the Clapham
43:18
omnibus may think that. I think they probably would have
43:21
to think that it makes sense and actually it might be
43:25
irresponsible of him not to bet on the collapse of the British
43:29
economy, You know what I mean? Take the point, Ben.
43:33
No, no, like as someone running a hedge fund, you know, maybe he
43:36
has to do that. Then at the same time he's got
43:39
media platforms that are pushing breakdown in, in British
43:44
society. They're building a narrative of
43:45
civil war, civil conflict, people fighting on the streets
43:50
and actually the, and very specifically a financial crisis.
43:54
So this is not actually from GB News.
43:56
This is from Jacob Rees Mogg's personal YouTube channel.
44:00
But Rees Mogg is a high profile GB News presenter as well as
44:05
being a conservative politician. He's on the GB News twice a
44:10
week. He has a show called State of
44:11
the Nation. And what he's talking about here
44:14
in his own YouTube channel is not just if there's going to be
44:16
a financial crisis, but the fact that there is one.
44:20
And he's actually querying how serious it's going to be.
44:23
Yeah. So he's actually saying that
44:24
this has already happened, Right.
44:27
And he's also talking about jumping ship to Reform,
44:31
interestingly. And GB News are working hand in
44:35
glove with Reform at the moment. In fact, the it's almost, it's,
44:39
it's impossible to, to separate the two organisations really,
44:42
because you've got Farage and Lee Anderson earning hundreds of
44:47
thousands of pounds. They're both Reform members of
44:51
Parliament. They're earning huge amounts of
44:54
money from Reform from GB News, happening for several years now.
45:00
And what's reform all about? Well, let's take a little look
45:03
at what happened at the Reform Conference over the weekend.
45:48
That's Andrew Jenkins, former Conservative member of
45:50
Parliament, currently reform mayor of Greater Lincolnshire.
45:54
And Singer. Let's say she probably shouldn't
45:58
give up her day job, right? I mean, I don't even know what
46:00
she's like as a politician. But that was, I mean, that was
46:03
the amateur hour and, you know, wearing a spangly jumpsuit.
46:08
And I mean, what, what is that? Is that is that a serious
46:12
political party? It's just, well, it's just.
46:15
But all of this razzmatazz is to capture the audience, to bring
46:20
people in, in my opinion. Well, I don't know at least
46:23
bring in, but if you're an international investor, if
46:25
you're looking and putting money into the UK or backing our
46:28
economic system or thinking about the the how robust our
46:31
society and our economy is and is going to be into the future,
46:36
then promoting that is the the new wave of political leadership
46:40
in the country. Is, is, is not what you would be
46:43
doing. Yeah, You know, so it strikes me
46:45
that they're deliberately trying to make us look like a
46:47
laughingstock, quite frankly, you know, and and actually the
46:51
singing didn't in there. I know Mike didn't want to show
46:53
this, but we are just going to have a little listen to Andrew
46:57
Jenkins and the the reform leadership singing the national
47:00
anthem as well. So I think we should have put
47:56
out a warning before that that was shown Ben.
47:59
It was utterly dreadful what what is going on?
48:03
This has got to be a front to draw people in and to ultimately
48:07
control them. But notice the corruption of our
48:10
national flag presented in different colours with the word
48:14
change strapped across it. So I think we're beginning to
48:17
get a real insight now into what this political party is and
48:22
where it is going to go. I'm sure you do more on it if we
48:26
deal with some of the serious matters going on in this
48:29
country. Sex abuse has has always been
48:33
one. Now this is ABBC headline which
48:35
I picked up on this morning. It's where the headline says ex
48:39
Sergeant major admits sexually assaulting soldier who then went
48:44
on to take her own life. Now this is a truly tragic and
48:48
very, very sad case. But I think we need to ask the
48:51
question, was the Army's procrastination over
48:56
investigating what has taken place?
48:58
And the family are saying the cover up into what took place
49:02
and led to the tragic death of this young lady Is this
49:06
procrastination and the cover up because of the overall failings
49:10
of diversity in military policy. Now this is a very emotive
49:15
subject. UK column has been touching on
49:17
it for some time. But many people would say that
49:22
women were brought into the military for the specific reason
49:27
to create problems. Now this in no way justifies
49:31
what the Sergeant Major may or may not have done.
49:36
What we are talking about is the fact that we've had a diversity
49:40
policy introduced, which since it's inception, if I remember
49:45
correctly, it was about 1991 for the Royal Navy.
49:49
We've had problem after problem. So the sexes being played off
49:54
against each other, the chaos that you've been intimating been
49:58
taking place in the military. And at the end of the day,
50:02
people are being hurt. But of course this is not just
50:06
going on in the military. This is a report from the BBC
50:10
about harass, sexual harassment which is occurring between
50:14
barristers. So we're now into the law courts
50:17
and the chambers of these individuals.
50:20
So the headline from AKC called Eve is that one of the other
50:27
barristers put his hand down tights and this was actually
50:31
repeated before the lady was able to force this individual
50:36
off. But a review has said that
50:39
sexual harassment is widespread amongst barristers.
50:43
Now who has been conducting the review?
50:46
Well, of course it was Harriet Harman, as stated on the
50:49
previous slide there. This is just one of the quotes
50:52
from a bullying, harassment and sexual harassment is a problem
50:57
at the bar and on the bench, within chambers and courtrooms,
51:01
in open court and behind robing room doors.
51:06
So Baroness Harriet Harman is the lady put in charge of
51:09
dealing with this problem. But of course, some of us have
51:12
got a long memory about this lady.
51:15
And if we're going back into the mid 90s and further back into
51:20
the very late 80s, early 90s, we've got the fact that she was
51:26
involved with the National Council for several liberties as
51:30
the legal officer at a time when NCCL was supporting the
51:35
Paedophile Information Exchange. And much has been written on the
51:39
fact that Harriet Harman appeared to take no action to
51:44
distance her organization from this PIE organization that was
51:49
clearly promoting sex with very young teenagers and or children.
51:56
So part of the reports here did in fact also come out in the
52:00
BBC. And the part of the quote to
52:03
this article is that the NCCL of which Harriet Harman was a part
52:08
continued to defend having the organization PIE as a member.
52:13
As late as 1983, an NCCL officer was quoted in the Daily Mail
52:19
saying the group was campaigning to lower the age of consent to
52:23
14. And that is a very mild
52:26
statement because much other evidence showed that this
52:29
organization was absolutely promoting paedophilia with very
52:35
much younger children. So, Ben, I don't know what your
52:38
reaction is, but is Harriet Harman the safe pair of hands to
52:42
protect ladies within the legal system or any other persons in
52:47
the UKI would suggest not. And so that we understand how
52:51
bad the situation is. This is part of the article
52:55
reports on Harriet Harman herself.
52:58
It says in her report, Harman writes about a fee page judge
53:02
who had sex in his judicial chambers more than 15 years ago.
53:07
Paul Curtly was found to have committed misconduct and issued
53:11
with a formal warning. He remains on the bench.
53:15
And this really is where we start to spell out that Harriet
53:20
Holman, I would suggest with her Labour colleagues, later New
53:24
Labour colleagues, was actually promoting, helping to promote
53:30
actions which clearly place members of the community at
53:33
risk. And we are now reaping the
53:36
so-called rewards in what we see happening in wider society
53:40
today. So a lot of questions to be
53:42
asked around these individuals, their networks and what they
53:46
would, what they were trying to achieve within UK society.
53:53
Diane, let's bring you back with us.
53:56
And of course, abuse of women through the FNAFI system.
54:01
UK column has reported on a great deal but that's now moving
54:05
forward with the court case coming up I think.
54:09
Yes, thanks, Brian. I I received some updates from
54:12
Lynn Sheeran who was you've interviewed previously as part
54:15
of your Gutsy Women's series as one of the leaders of the fights
54:18
for justice for the Fidelity Residential School survivors.
54:22
She told me that as reported by the BBC earlier this year that
54:26
one of the former staff of Fanethi would be facing trial.
54:30
That trial is now scheduled to start on the 22nd of September
54:34
and will finish on the 20th of October in the Glasgow High
54:37
Court as she faces a total of 26 charges alleged to have happened
54:42
at Fanethi and Angus between 1967 and 1983.
54:46
According to the BBC, which lists a string of allegations of
54:49
quote, cruel and unnatural treatment of the girls,
54:52
including claims of physical violence.
54:54
So we will be watching that trial with great interest.
54:57
I would also like to mention Colin Smith, who I mentioned
55:01
briefly when we did our live news at the Hope Festival a
55:04
couple of weeks ago. He's AMSP Labor member who while
55:09
he's no longer in Labor, he's been expelled from the Labor
55:12
Party. He's been the one leading the
55:14
fight for the petition and scribes Parliament for these
55:16
survivors of For Nothing to access the child abuse redress
55:19
scheme in Scotland. He's scheduled now to appear on
55:22
the 24th of September in Dumfries Sheriff Court.
55:25
And why is that? Well, he's been charged in
55:28
connection with alleged possession of indecent images of
55:31
children and also he has allegations against him that he
55:35
had placed a hidden camera in a cubicle inside the loo in the
55:39
Scottish Parliament. So he's denied these allegations
55:43
that there are questions obviously that people have
55:46
raised. We don't know for sure.
55:48
Did he really do these things? Is it a setup by the Labour
55:50
Party? Is it possible that they're all
55:53
doing these kinds of things and he's just been called out
55:56
because of this case coming up with Fernette either?
55:59
These are all allegations, nobody really knows.
56:01
But just to say that we need to be watching this trial carefully
56:04
as well, since he's been the leader for their fight for
56:06
justice for the last few years. Yes, Diane, thank you for that.
56:11
So there's a lot more to come out about for Nathi and UK
56:15
column will be working with the ladies more.
56:18
We're looking to do another interview shortly with another
56:23
individual who unfortunately suffered that system.
56:26
So more and more of the women are coming to light as time goes
56:31
on. But the establishment seems to
56:33
drag its heels over the investigation and indeed
56:37
prosecution. So and take us on to some better
56:41
things. And you've been there visiting
56:43
County Durham show. Yeah, so over the weekend I
56:49
attended the Wolsingham Show, which according to their website
56:52
is County Durham's biggest and best open air show and also
56:56
England's oldest. So it was over the weekend, as I
57:00
said, and I, I want to take you through some good and bad parts
57:03
of it. So I want to do a few things
57:05
here with this. First of all, I just have some
57:07
images we'll go through quickly of things I took when I that I
57:10
saw when I was there just to kind of lift things up a bit.
57:14
There's some giant tortoises that were near the entrance to
57:17
the show. We have of course, the usual
57:19
sort of horses of horse riding, horse shows, goat shows, sheep,
57:26
you know, the all of those sort of farm animals you would expect
57:29
to see at a country show. It was particularly interesting
57:32
to see the the tractor races and the tractor pulls and watching
57:36
all that CO2 being emitted up into the sky with vintage
57:41
tractors. So lots of tractors, lots of old
57:43
cars. Again, lots of CO2 emissions
57:46
taking place, I'm sure. Of course, you can't have a
57:49
country show without guns. So here's a rifle arranged
57:52
Bolton branch. There was a very small gun
57:54
display from what I understand. I didn't go into that one, but
57:57
that's what I heard up here was a man drawing tractors.
58:01
So it's nice to see people doing some sort of something artistic.
58:05
And he was selling some of the work for sale there right behind
58:09
him. And I really enjoyed seeing some
58:11
of the the local crafts because it was all things based here in
58:14
counties around the Northeast. Jewelry, different kinds of
58:18
crafts. This was sea glass, which is a
58:20
famous in the area because of that can be found on the shore.
58:23
Ugly pots we also have as well. These were just a couple that
58:28
decided to start this business to create these ugly pots that
58:31
were for sale. Different things on them.
58:34
There were some bands that we enjoyed listening to.
58:37
This was the Bebops. Somebody called her the just in
58:41
in the audience, somebody said, oh, this is the Dolly Parton of
58:44
the Northeast. She was actually quite spirited,
58:47
enjoyed that as well. These were some Christmas
58:50
crafts. So we had the craft shows on
58:52
display. People, you know, different
58:54
people of all ages making crafts and having was judged.
58:58
I bought a couple of local foods.
59:00
I guess you could say this is local honey from bees that it's
59:05
been distributed and and made in County Durham because I left the
59:09
dogs alone all day. I felt really guilty about that.
59:12
So I bought them some premium duck treats that were local as
59:15
well. So they got venison duck and
59:16
pheasant and Partridge. They've enjoyed the pheasant and
59:19
Partridge so far today. And again, it gets a bit
59:24
dystopian here. This was a a display from a
59:26
security company that showed these kind of robot looking
59:29
things, which really didn't seem to fit in with the overall good
59:33
feelings that were at the show. But that was something that they
59:37
were trying to sell, I guess, for security equipment for your
59:40
farm. I'm not entirely sure.
59:41
I didn't talk to anyone but this was a piece of artwork showing
59:46
all of the rubbish. This was done by some Cubs in, I
59:51
forget which school it was somewhere here in the northeast
59:53
where they were. They're making artwork out of
59:55
rubbish. So there's I guess, some
59:58
Sustainable Development goals things going on there.
1:00:00
This was displayed from The Farming of the Future from the
1:00:04
UK Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural
1:00:07
Affairs. And so they had a lot of
1:00:10
information that they're on display.
1:00:11
I picked up several of their cards.
1:00:13
Maybe I can talk about this more an extra, but one in particular
1:00:17
was them showing that, you know, what are we going to do about
1:00:21
20-30 that's coming up. So we can see as well here in
1:00:24
another booth, we have no farmers, no food, no future.
1:00:27
Now half price was £50, now 25. But back in the, the farming
1:00:32
booth there we had cards out saying asking what do you hope
1:00:36
the farming sector will look like by 20-30?
1:00:39
And that was the card that I took a photo of.
1:00:41
And people were asked to respond to that by putting in their
1:00:44
responses to say, well, this is what we think it will look like.
1:00:48
So we'll talk about stop that some more an extra.
1:00:50
But I, I just want to say that, you know, it was interesting to
1:00:53
think about how how much fun that was.
1:00:55
But that ultimately, as I heard somebody comment, if, if the
1:00:59
people in power have their way, these kinds of shows would no
1:01:02
longer exist because these kinds of things won't be allowed to be
1:01:05
happening anymore, especially when it comes to farms and just
1:01:08
families having a good time and enjoying local ingredients.
1:01:13
So we need to keep these things going, Brian.
1:01:16
Absolutely. And yeah, it's, it's very
1:01:19
interesting to see that government policies are brought
1:01:22
right into these sorts of rural shows in, in order to help mould
1:01:28
people's opinions. And as we discussed prior to the
1:01:32
to the news in the in the question, if I bring this one
1:01:37
just up on the screen, it's asking what do you hope the
1:01:40
farming sector will look like by 2030?
1:01:43
So as usual, nothing about the present and getting on with life
1:01:47
and making the best of each day and producing food on a daily
1:01:51
basis. This is all drifting people's
1:01:53
minds into utopia in the future. But great to see that farming
1:01:58
and rural communities still alive and well.
1:02:01
And as you say, Diane, a very, very important part of our
1:02:05
culture and we all need to help support it.
1:02:08
Now, before we finish today, we're just going to show a
1:02:12
little clip. This was amusing in my eyes.
1:02:16
But this is Sky Australia commenting on the illustrious
1:02:22
Mr. Lammy. People here might not know David
1:02:26
Lammy. David Lammy is the new Deputy
1:02:30
Prime Minister now. David Lammy has never been known
1:02:33
as a great, shall we say, intellectual genius of of London
1:02:38
political circles. This footage of him on a
1:02:42
celebrity quiz show has just emerged.
1:02:46
I just have a. Look, yeah, play along.
1:02:48
It's probably the case that only that trans women don't have
1:02:53
ovaries, but a cervix I understand is something that you
1:02:56
can have following various procedures.
1:02:59
And hormone treatment. And there's also been other
1:03:03
clips of him where he went on a quiz show and he didn't know
1:03:07
that he thought that they were, that it was The Godfather and a
1:03:12
whole bunch of other. Things and he also once even
1:03:14
when they were trying to find a new Pope and the BBC tweeted
1:03:18
about will there be black smoke or white smoke, which is of
1:03:20
course how the Vatican announces the vote has been successful
1:03:24
said do we have to make this a racial.
1:03:26
Thing. That's how dumb he is.
1:03:31
And being mocked overseas. And Diane, let's finish on the
1:03:35
government's alert system. I think we should have the alert
1:03:39
system warning about the government, but what did you
1:03:42
get? Yeah.
1:03:44
So I'm not sure how many people experienced the the warning
1:03:49
alerts that came out yesterday at 3:00 PM.
1:03:52
This first started, I believe it was in 2022.
1:03:54
I think it's what Kenny reminded me of.
1:03:56
And, and, and so this was back when we were supposed to be
1:03:59
scared three years ago. At the time, I turned off the
1:04:02
extreme and the severe alerts on my phone, and they're still off
1:04:05
to this day. But this was from earlier this
1:04:08
year, from January, saying that at some point this year we were
1:04:11
going to have the Armageddon alert that will override
1:04:13
millions of Brits phones and trigger a loud siren and what to
1:04:16
do if you're driving because apparently it was going to be so
1:04:19
scary that if you were driving, you might actually crash your
1:04:23
car. So for those of you who may have
1:04:26
experienced this on Sunday, I know some people had a really
1:04:29
loud sound. Brian, I know you said yours was
1:04:31
quieter. But this was from GB News on
1:04:34
Facebook that I saw alerting us what was going to happen over
1:04:37
the weekend, saying that this emergency alert could trigger
1:04:40
heart attacks days before the alarm was set to sound on our
1:04:44
phones. So I'm just, I, I know some
1:04:46
people have been turned off, some people didn't get them.
1:04:49
And, and so Brian, you said yours was nice and, and
1:04:52
pleasant. So I would like to hear what
1:04:54
yours sounded like because that's not what I heard from
1:04:56
everyone. Well, Diane, mine was was just a
1:04:59
melodic ring tone. I mean, if it had been a real
1:05:02
crisis and nuclear war, it would have been quite amusing to hear
1:05:06
this soft music and then suddenly somebody's saying
1:05:09
you've all been bombed to pieces.
1:05:11
But the whole thing is sheer madness.
1:05:13
And nobody should take any attention, pay any attention.
1:05:16
It is all designed to ramp up the fear so that the government
1:05:20
can introduce the source of mad policies, which we've covered on
1:05:24
today's news. So let's leave it there.
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Diane, thank you very much for joining me.
1:05:29
Ben, great to have you here in the studio.
1:05:32
Huge thank you to everybody who's joined us today, wherever
1:05:35
you are in the world. And finally, once again, thank
1:05:39
you all so very much for the fantastic support you've all
1:05:43
given the UK column. And it's going to be great to
1:05:47
move on from 2025 into exciting things in 2026 for today.
1:05:54
That's the news. Thank you for joining us.
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