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UK Column News — 21st September 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Monday, 21st of September, 2026, just after one o'clock.
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Speaker 2: You're watching UK Column News. I'm your host, Ben Rubin,
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Speaker 2: and I'm delighted to be joined in the studio today
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Speaker 2: by Mr.
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Speaker 1: Brian Garish. Hello, Brian. How are you doing?
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Speaker 3: Pleasure to be here after such a fantastic weekend.
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Speaker 2: It has been a fantastic weekend, as we're going to
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Speaker 2: get into. We've got a very packed show today, loads
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Speaker 2: going on in the country, including the question as to
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Speaker 2: whether there's a general election in the offing. I think
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Speaker 2: there potentially might be, given some of the things that
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Speaker 2: have been coming through my door over the past few days.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be looking at what the BBC is
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Speaker 2: up to, which is propaganda, actually, in a word. And
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Speaker 2: we're going to talk about that a bit later on.
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Speaker 2: We're looking at the drive to war against Russia and
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Speaker 2: the historical parallels leading up to the First and Second
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Speaker 2: World War and some of the key people involved back
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Speaker 2: then who are still pretty much involved today. Those are
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Speaker 2: the dark powers and unelected think tanks behind the scenes
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Speaker 2: who are dictating government policy. But before we get into
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Speaker 2: all of that, we're going to have a little look
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Speaker 2: back at the weekend where we were celebrating 20 years
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Speaker 2: of UK column.
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Speaker 4: Brilliant.
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Speaker 3: Well, what better place to start than Plymouth Hoe in
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Speaker 3: the sunshine. And it was utterly fantastic at the end
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Speaker 3: of the day because we were able to take everybody
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Speaker 3: onto the hoe to have a look at the vista.
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Speaker 3: And our drone captured all the wonderful audience there. So
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Speaker 3: we had Just, I think, a fraction over 300 people
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Speaker 3: at our event. It was essentially full, absolutely brilliant, and
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Speaker 3: then everybody in the sunshine afterwards on Plymouth Hoe.
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Speaker 1: The sun did come out for us. That's fantastic.
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Speaker 3: Well, of course, Ben, because we booked good weather for
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Speaker 3: the weekend. People may not know, but Devon County Council
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Speaker 3: has a Director of Climate Change. They're in charge of
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Speaker 3: the climate, so you just give them a call, book
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Speaker 3: your sunshine, And sure enough, it was there shining on
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Speaker 3: the UK column. So absolutely fantastic day. We'll take you
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Speaker 3: in just a few seconds into the day itself. But
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Speaker 3: we thought that we should start with that fantastic view
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Speaker 3: over Plymouth Sound in the sunshine with a lot of very,
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Speaker 3: very happy people, because it was clear that the style
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Speaker 3: and flow of our events, the subjects, the entertainments, everybody
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Speaker 3: thoroughly enjoyed themselves. And it was utterly brilliant to end
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Speaker 3: up with such a huge burst of positive energy.
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Speaker 1: It really was, yeah. A great weekend. One for the
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Speaker 1: history books, I think. Indeed.
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Speaker 3: So I'd just like to, before we have a look
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Speaker 3: at some of the conference itself, I'd like to say
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Speaker 3: to people, first of all, a huge thank you from
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Speaker 3: me to the UK column team, because as we keep saying,
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Speaker 3: we are a very small team. We worked extremely hard
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Speaker 3: to make this conference happen. It's very clear to us
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Speaker 3: that it was a huge success. But of course, it
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Speaker 3: wouldn't have been a success without the audience present. So
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Speaker 3: a huge thank you to everybody who bought a ticket
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Speaker 3: and a particular thank you to our longstanding members and supporters,
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Speaker 3: because without you, the UK column wouldn't be here in
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Speaker 3: the first place. So 20th anniversary event. It was really,
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Speaker 3: incredible for the longer term members of the uk column
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Speaker 3: team because in fact our very first uk column office
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Speaker 3: we didn't even have a studio in the beginning was
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Speaker 3: a mere 50 yards from the hotel itself uh here's
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Speaker 3: a picture of one of the entrances into the crown
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Speaker 3: plaza hotel in plymouth um it was a fantastic day
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Speaker 3: as you can see great to see the uk column
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Speaker 3: uh banners and um The Crowne Plaza staff were also tremendous. Well,
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Speaker 3: they were brilliant, weren't they, Ben, in helping us set up.
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Speaker 3: And if we have a look at the scale of
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Speaker 3: what we put together, this was some of the preparation
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Speaker 3: in the main events hall in the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
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Speaker 3: It was a really fantastic stage, as we will come
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Speaker 3: on to. But we'd like to also give a big
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Speaker 3: thank you to the local media team, PL1, who worked
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Speaker 3: with us to create a pretty fantastic event. Real pros.
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Speaker 3: Real professional team. And if we just get into a
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Speaker 3: little bit more of the action, if you like, well,
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Speaker 3: of course, we had Charles Mallett acting as compere. He
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Speaker 3: did an extremely good job with a mixture of courtesy, humour,
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Speaker 3: and some firm control over the audience. So we had
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Speaker 3: them in the right place at the right time, doing
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Speaker 3: the right things. And that was very important because it
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Speaker 3: was a very busy weekend. And I think everything ran perfectly, Ben.
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Speaker 2: I think it was pretty much on time the whole weekend,
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Speaker 2: which is extraordinary, actually. I mean, you look at all
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Speaker 2: the moving parts.
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Speaker 3: Indeed. So I'll just take our viewers today through some
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Speaker 3: of the speakers. I haven't got all of them. We
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Speaker 3: haven't had time to do that. It was a mere
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Speaker 3: 17 hours ago since the team was still in the
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Speaker 3: hotel tidying up. But we had a mix of happy
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Speaker 3: and more serious talks. This was Raj Amir, who kicked
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Speaker 3: off on Friday talking about the cover up of the
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Speaker 3: grooming gangs and pointing a particular finger at the Labour Party.
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Speaker 3: Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham, which should resonate with people
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Speaker 3: because Andy Burnham is now, of course, our prime minister.
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Speaker 3: But the audience were absolutely enthralled with the detail and
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Speaker 3: the sincerity and the evidence that Roger Meir put across.
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Speaker 3: And there was actually a huge standing ovation at the
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Speaker 3: end of that. So end of his talk. So we
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Speaker 3: want to thank Roger very much for coming down. And
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Speaker 3: I'll say to our wider audience that having a chat
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Speaker 3: with him meant that we started to discuss the possibility
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Speaker 3: of expanding the breadth of our audience. And who knows,
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Speaker 3: we may be heading north at some stage in the
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Speaker 3: future in order to capture a greater audience base. So
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Speaker 3: some really exciting things came out of that. I'll just
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Speaker 3: pop on the next one, which is Kate Markland. Kate,
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Speaker 3: One of the mums that I did an interview with,
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Speaker 3: she's been alienated from her son. Let's see whether that'll play.
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Speaker 3: And she sat on stage, and I have to give
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Speaker 3: huge credit to this very brave lady, very nervous, but
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Speaker 3: she taught the audience through some of the really emotional
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Speaker 3: and difficult paths of what it is like to engage
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Speaker 3: with or rather be hammered by the family court's And
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Speaker 3: she brought along some really brilliant images of the storybooks
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Speaker 3: that she's written with her son. And I was very interested, Ben,
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Speaker 3: to see the reaction to Kate, because people absolutely got
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Speaker 3: caught up in the emotion of that story.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: I think it was extremely emotional. And I've spoken to
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Speaker 2: Kate before on a couple of occasions, and the story
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Speaker 2: is just incredible. You know, it's almost... Sounds like a
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Speaker 2: Hollywood script, actually, all of the different events and how
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Speaker 2: she dealt with them and the outcomes that have come
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Speaker 2: out of the whole process so far.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so happy and sad elements to the talk. But
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Speaker 3: apart from anything else, that was giving other mothers and
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Speaker 3: parents who are suffering at the hands of the vicious
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Speaker 3: Star Chamber Family Courts of the UK, it was giving
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Speaker 3: them a really positive message. Now, we also had another
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Speaker 3: one of the UK column team, Basil Valentine himself, looking
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Speaker 3: very dapper in his cream jacket, and a poignant headline
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Speaker 3: of humanity versus insanity, because of course, this is one
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Speaker 3: of the key topics of Ian Crane, who many, many
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Speaker 3: years ago set up Alternative View. There's Ian on screen.
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Speaker 3: And it was Ian that invited UK column team to
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Speaker 3: speak at his event on And from then on, we
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Speaker 3: had a very positive working relationship. So I felt whilst
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Speaker 3: I was in the hall that Ian would be looking
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Speaker 3: down on us. He's no longer with us, I'm afraid,
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Speaker 3: but I thought he'd be looking down on us. Very,
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Speaker 3: very pleased to see his style of event so well attended.
8:55
Speaker 3: And Basil did an extremely good talk. And of course,
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Speaker 3: all of these talks will be available online.
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Speaker 1: In the future.
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Speaker 3: We're just processing them at the moment. Now, many of
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Speaker 3: our viewers will recognize this particular gentleman. It's Patrick Henningsen.
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Speaker 3: And Patrick gave a really fantastic talk, largely based on
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Speaker 3: his recent reporting of his time in Iran. And of course,
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Speaker 3: the thing that he was stressing was that he was
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Speaker 3: on the street surrounded by millions of Iranians whilst having
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Speaker 3: a flag pinned on his chest as part of his
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Speaker 3: identification as being pressed. What he was inferring to was
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Speaker 3: it was like having a target put on his chest.
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Speaker 3: But in fact, he said every single person that he
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Speaker 3: interacted with was very calm and polite and peaceful. And
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Speaker 3: so he contrasted this with the brutal misinformation and disinformation
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Speaker 3: of BBC reporting on Iran. Now, who have we got here?
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Speaker 3: This is Lucy Morgan Edwards. She also spoke early at
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Speaker 3: the conference. She did a really good slot talking about 9-11.
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Speaker 3: And of course, it's clear that when you get a professional,
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Speaker 3: highly educated lady like Lucy Morgan, digging into the narrative
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Speaker 3: that the ordinary person is told about 9-11. There are
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Speaker 3: so many holes and inconsistencies that the official narrative cannot
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Speaker 3: be true. And it was really brilliant to listen and
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Speaker 3: watch and see what she had to say. Now, big
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Speaker 3: focus must come on to a key part of this event,
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Speaker 3: which is, let's see whether we can get Mike Robinson
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Speaker 3: out in action there because Mike Robinson was talking about
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Speaker 3: the future of UK column. And this was really a
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Speaker 3: key thing. We've reached 20 years. It's great to consider
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Speaker 3: that anniversary and look back, but essentially the important thing
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Speaker 3: is where we go now. And Mike was not only
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Speaker 3: setting out a little bit of the magnificent work that
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Speaker 3: he and the technical team have done to produce applications
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Speaker 3: and programs to help how we compile and present news
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Speaker 3: and research. But he also indicated that the UK column
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Speaker 3: team are so keen to take the UK column into
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Speaker 3: a new level. We could be where we are. We
11:37
Speaker 3: could be sort of harping back to our roots. But essentially,
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Speaker 3: we want to move on and we want to do
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Speaker 3: bigger and greater things. Now, if I've got the sequence
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Speaker 3: right in these slides, we also had a surprise guest.
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Speaker 3: And if you can't quite see who it is on screen,
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Speaker 3: this is Sukrit Bhakti. He's a retired Thai-German microbiologist. And
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Speaker 3: of course, he was incredibly outspoken during COVID-19 scandemic and lockdown.
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Speaker 2: And extremely elegant as well, eloquent in his criticism of
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Speaker 2: what was happening.
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Speaker 1: Yes, very calm.
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Speaker 3: We can see him being presented with a cartoon picture
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Speaker 3: by Germ on screen, which I think went down extremely well.
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Speaker 3: But we were really delighted that Sukhraj Bhakti had decided
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Speaker 3: he wanted to come to the UK Column event today.
12:36
Speaker 3: not just to give a little bit of history about
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Speaker 3: his work during the COVID period, but also to say
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Speaker 3: that he's involved at the moment with some really important
12:47
Speaker 3: work around possible therapies for people who've suffered at the
12:51
Speaker 3: hands of vaccines. And he has said to the audience
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Speaker 3: of our UK column event that he will be promoting
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Speaker 3: vaccines his research and findings through the UK column. So
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Speaker 3: that was a great, absolute great honour for the UK
13:11
Speaker 3: column team. And it's particularly pertinent as we have started
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Speaker 3: to engage with the Reiner Formick team. Reiner Formick, still
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Speaker 3: in prison, and there's a lot of his story still
13:26
Speaker 3: to come out. So I think matters around COVID-19 and
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Speaker 3: lockdown are going to come to the to the fore. Now,
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Speaker 3: if we touched on some serious subjects in UK column
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Speaker 3: 20th anniversary, we also did ensure that our audience was
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Speaker 3: lifted up. And probably there was no better way for
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Speaker 3: this to happen than by the wonderful work of Jonathan,
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Speaker 3: who flew a falcon live in the room. And many
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Speaker 3: people absolutely thrilled with this.
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Speaker 1: Um jonathan marshall just fantastic.
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Speaker 3: Thank you yeah absolutely fantastic and it was very interesting
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Speaker 3: to see how how we went from yes some quite
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Speaker 3: heavy subjects but then we had some birds brought into
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Speaker 3: into that huge presentation space and they were flying freely
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Speaker 3: and close above the heads of the audience.
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Speaker 1: They certainly were, and also just an extraordinary personality.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it just radiated out of him on stage,
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Speaker 2: and he was singing and telling jokes and reciting poems
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Speaker 2: and telling us about his life.
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Speaker 1: It was quite something. Indeed.
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Speaker 3: I'm just going to bring, or ask William if he'll
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Speaker 3: just pop that image back on screen, the previous, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 3: that one. Let's say to the audience... Just watch the
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Speaker 3: clip very carefully and you can see how low, shall
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Speaker 3: we do it one more time? You can see how
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Speaker 3: low that bird flies over the heads of the audience.
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Speaker 3: It was utterly, it was utterly lovely. And if anybody
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Speaker 3: was sort of worried, the birds were very disturbed while
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Speaker 3: they'd been brought into the space beforehand to a couple
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Speaker 3: of days before to acclimatise. But if we had birds
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Speaker 3: flying at the UK Column, event, we also had something very,
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Speaker 3: very special, unique in fact. Let's have a look at
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Speaker 3: this clip and you'll understand what it was on your own.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps I'll do a bit of narrating here for the audience,
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Speaker 3: because we've got a horse trailer, we've got Jonathan Marshall,
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Speaker 3: and we've got a fantastic horse Amadeus backing out of
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Speaker 3: the trailer, black beautifully groomed, shining coat. And yes, this
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Speaker 3: horse is being led through the doors into the UK
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Speaker 3: column event arena. And of course, this was at a
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Speaker 3: particular point in Jonathan Marshall's presentation. So the audience had
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Speaker 3: no idea what was going to happen. But that's absolutely brilliant.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic to see this horse come into the room.
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Speaker 2: What a character the horse was. Recently featured in a
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Speaker 2: Lloyd's Bank advert, it was actually the Lloyd's horse.
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Speaker 1: The black horse. Yes, absolutely.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And then also in Game of Thrones, it was one
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Speaker 2: of the horses of one of the White Walkers. If
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Speaker 2: you were a Game of Thrones fan, Jonathan was one
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Speaker 2: of the White Walkers and Amadeus was his horse. after
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Speaker 2: quite a lot of application and makeup by the sounds
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Speaker 2: of it i think they were both in makeup for
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Speaker 2: two or three hours a day so yes.
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Speaker 3: Um that was a real treat what we witnessed was
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Speaker 3: this very calm horse very big very calm horse just
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Speaker 3: bringing a delightful atmosphere into the event which absolutely resonated
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Speaker 3: with the audience and i'd like to say thank you
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Speaker 3: so much to all the people who spoke to us
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Speaker 3: on the day and said how wonderful that component part
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Speaker 3: of the event was and how brilliant it was to
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Speaker 3: see a horse just calmly walk into the event. So
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Speaker 3: we'll just say to summarise, we did try our best
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Speaker 3: to give people an entertaining weekend as well as take
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Speaker 3: them into some of the darker and more serious political
17:31
Speaker 3: and and other subjects that they need to know. Now, overall,
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Speaker 3: what were we looking for in the event? It was
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Speaker 3: whether the UK column has made a difference in our
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Speaker 3: 20 years. We just pop up that big banner on screen.
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Speaker 1: There it is.
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Speaker 3: Has the UK column made a difference? Well, of course,
17:51
Speaker 3: we can also say that we know we've made a
17:54
Speaker 3: difference when certain things happen. So let's get these images
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Speaker 3: up on screen. When the police turn up at your home,
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Speaker 3: which they've done on several occasions for me to try
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Speaker 3: and intimidate me, but they've also turned up on occasions
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Speaker 3: at the UK Column Studios to intimidate the team for
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Speaker 3: our reporting on the abuse of children. When this happens,
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Speaker 3: you know you're making a difference. You also know you're
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Speaker 3: making a difference when UKC journalists are stopped and questioned
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Speaker 3: by airport border force team, and certainly this has happened
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Speaker 3: to Alex Thompson, but Patrick Henningsen's also experienced things in
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Speaker 3: the state. The state is interested in us, and there
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Speaker 3: can only be one reason, and that is that they
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Speaker 3: are fearful of the accurate reporting by the UK column.
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Speaker 3: We also know we made a difference when my particular
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Speaker 3: laptop was hacked by 77 Brigade and files destroyed, some
18:57
Speaker 3: of them work files, some of them personal files. But
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Speaker 3: the ones which really made me think is that a
19:02
Speaker 3: file was destroyed, which had very unique audio segments given
19:11
Speaker 3: to me by a survivor of abuse. So the government
19:16
Speaker 3: said it was going to use the Army 77 Brigade
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Speaker 3: to hack and interrupt and disrupt things. any members of
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Speaker 3: the public that were challenging the government on its policy
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Speaker 3: over COVID-19 and lockdown. And sure enough, my computer was hacked.
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Speaker 3: And I have very, very good reason to believe that
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Speaker 3: it was a 77 Brigade team that did it. So
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Speaker 3: clearly UK column making an effect. But this one produced
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Speaker 3: a laugh from the audience. You know that you've made
19:47
Speaker 3: an effect when a deep state or this is Chris O'Donnelly,
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Speaker 3: the man associated with the Integrity Initiative. He came face
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Speaker 3: to face with some of the UK column team in London.
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Speaker 3: And when I said, how did he look? The reply
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Speaker 3: was he looked like a cat caught in the headlights
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Speaker 3: of a car. So that produced many smiles. And also,
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Speaker 3: we couldn't resist this one, but you know you're having
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Speaker 3: an effect when the BBC's misinformation priestess, I've forgotten her name, actually,
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Speaker 3: so important.
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Speaker 2: Well, Santa Mariana, according to the people who made this
20:24
Speaker 2: triptych we talked about last week.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Mariana Spring. Yeah. God love her.
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Speaker 3: But she doesn't want to see us, and I think
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Speaker 3: there's a reason for that. But poor old Mariana, she
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Speaker 3: did look a very, Nice young lady, very relaxed, sort
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Speaker 3: of open face. And now she's got that rather drawn
20:44
Speaker 3: face that we see with many people who work from
20:46
Speaker 3: the BBC. And I think this is when you work
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Speaker 3: in an organisation which your conscience really doesn't want you
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Speaker 3: to do.
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Speaker 1: Takes a toll on the spirit, I would say.
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Speaker 3: I think that's what it is. But can we end
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Speaker 3: there and just on that segment and say, utterly utterly
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Speaker 3: brilliant weekend all of the uk column team enjoyed it
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Speaker 3: tremendous work by many people especially jemma cooper who did
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Speaker 3: the the main arrangements for the conference but the wonderful
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Speaker 3: thing for the uk column team was the thank yous
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Speaker 3: we received on the day and the emails that are
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Speaker 3: coming into us uh post the event to say it
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Speaker 3: was brilliant yeah there we are.
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Speaker 2: It really was and um You know, having left the
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Speaker 2: conference on such a high, I actually didn't think that
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Speaker 2: my Sunday could get much better.
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Speaker 1: But then I.
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Speaker 2: Arrived home and found out that this gentleman is bringing
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Speaker 2: back hope. And this is the cult of personality that's
21:48
Speaker 2: being built up around Andy Burnham. The fact that he's
21:51
Speaker 2: just a normal guy like you and me. He likes
21:53
Speaker 2: chips and beer and football and Johnny Marr and Manchester Grey.
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Speaker 1: And I think they're going to spring a general election.
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Speaker 1: What do you reckon, Brian? If you start seeing the
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Speaker 1: prime minister put through your letterbox, is something in the offing?
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Speaker 3: Well, I could believe this is the case because they
22:09
Speaker 3: know they're in a very fragile position at the moment
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Speaker 3: and that And for him to be able to finish
22:14
Speaker 3: destroying the country, they need to have him in power
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Speaker 3: for his full term.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 3: And then he can unleash the final devolution and breakup
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Speaker 3: of the country.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes.
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Speaker 2: Because I think they probably, despite all of the spin
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Speaker 2: that we're being given, are acutely aware that he doesn't
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Speaker 2: actually have any legitimacy.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 1: He hasn't won a general election.
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Speaker 2: And they're talking about the total transformation of our political
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Speaker 2: and economic system. And in order to do that, I
22:43
Speaker 2: think that this looks to me like they're going to
22:45
Speaker 2: start moving towards going to the country. So perhaps next spring,
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Speaker 2: who knows? It certainly won't be this side of Christmas.
22:52
Speaker 3: I'll just add to that, Ben. It's a shame that
22:54
Speaker 3: with the Andy Burnham leaflet doesn't also come a leaflet
22:59
Speaker 3: from Roger Meir himself. Spelling out the evidence, really, that
23:03
Speaker 3: the cover up of the abuse of children by the
23:06
Speaker 3: Labour administration and both Keir Starmer's and Andy Burnham's names
23:12
Speaker 3: are clearly, how do we say, on the edge of this.
23:17
Speaker 1: Yes.
23:17
Speaker 3: That people really need to think, do we want this
23:21
Speaker 3: man as prime minister?
23:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a very good point, Brian. Now,
23:25
Speaker 2: what are they talking about here? So we've got a
23:27
Speaker 2: little bit of a glimpse into policy. Most of this
23:29
Speaker 2: stuff's already been announced, of course. So the idea that
23:32
Speaker 2: he's going to end rough sleeping when actually when he
23:35
Speaker 2: was mayor of Manchester, rough sleeping went up. I think
23:37
Speaker 2: it doubled, in fact, while he was mayor of Manchester.
23:40
Speaker 2: So not sure what lessons he's going to bring with him.
23:42
Speaker 2: Cutting VAT on electricity bills, which is, I think, worked
23:47
Speaker 2: out about £ 40 a year for each family or something
23:50
Speaker 2: like that.
23:50
Speaker 1: So really.
23:51
Speaker 2: you know, negligible stuff, capping bus fares, introducing a 20%
23:56
Speaker 2: business rate cuts for pubs, clubs and live music venues,
23:59
Speaker 2: which I think is probably a good thing, but it's
24:01
Speaker 2: really just kind of bread and circuses stuff, isn't it,
24:04
Speaker 2: to keep people distracted. Fix the broken social care system.
24:07
Speaker 2: Who did break the social care system? Were there any
24:09
Speaker 2: Labour politicians involved in that, do you think?
24:12
Speaker 3: Absolutely, because all of the parties have done it. It's
24:16
Speaker 3: a uniparty system. The colour changes, but the destructive... Policies
24:22
Speaker 3: have continued over a great many years.
24:24
Speaker 2: Yes, they certainly have. And then the big thing, of course,
24:27
Speaker 2: tackling youth unemployment. And we'll come back to that in
24:30
Speaker 2: a moment because the headline message is obviously about hope.
24:35
Speaker 2: This is all about hope that Britain can regain its stability. Well,
24:39
Speaker 2: these are the people that destabilise the country. So there's
24:42
Speaker 2: hope that we can regain stability. And it's quite an
24:44
Speaker 2: extraordinary statement. But then also hope that we can build
24:46
Speaker 2: a new sense of unity, common purpose and positivity. Really
24:51
Speaker 2: interesting to see those two words there, Brian.
24:52
Speaker 1: Common purpose.
24:54
Speaker 3: Not for me, Ben. I have to say, having tracked
24:58
Speaker 3: common purpose since its start in the UK and, of course,
25:03
Speaker 3: exposing that common purpose was embedded in the office of
25:07
Speaker 3: the Deputy Prime Minister during Tony Blair's era. Common Purpose,
25:12
Speaker 3: although it calls itself a charity, is in fact a
25:15
Speaker 3: political initiative running alongside and through particularly the Labour Party.
25:21
Speaker 3: And its agenda is to help destroy the existing country
25:27
Speaker 3: in order to build a new society to their model,
25:31
Speaker 3: which is a society I don't think we want.
25:34
Speaker 1: Certainly not.
25:35
Speaker 2: And I would say probably not just Labour, it's all
25:39
Speaker 2: of the parties and actually increasingly not just this country.
25:43
Speaker 2: Common Purpose is operating internationally and this is really at
25:48
Speaker 2: the core of what we're dealing with here. Now, what's
25:54
Speaker 2: Burnham saying in terms of the transformation of our economic fortunes? Now,
25:58
Speaker 2: he's been talking in The Guardian last week here about
26:02
Speaker 2: the fact that the British people understand the climate crisis
26:05
Speaker 2: threat and that today that he's going to empower them, i.e.
26:08
Speaker 1: Us to tackle it.
26:10
Speaker 2: He then goes to say that there is nearly 30
26:12
Speaker 2: million pounds of funding that he's giving to communities to
26:16
Speaker 2: take power over their local energy. And he says they
26:19
Speaker 2: know the gravity of global heating.
26:23
Speaker 1: They want to be part of the solution. It's not
26:24
Speaker 1: just global warming or climate.
26:25
Speaker 2: Change, it's global heating, according to Andy Burnham. They're ramping
26:29
Speaker 2: up the rhetoric around this stuff. I've got to say,
26:32
Speaker 2: it's fascinating looking at these policy announcements coming out because
26:37
Speaker 2: £ 30 million of funding for the whole country in the
26:40
Speaker 2: energy sector is barely even a rounding error. The energy
26:46
Speaker 2: infrastructure in this country is worth at least £ 100 billion,
26:51
Speaker 2: at least. And he's saying £ 30 million.
26:54
Speaker 3: Well, what we're seeing here, Ben, is what you've absolutely
26:57
Speaker 3: pointed out in Plymouth and other cities, which is this
27:02
Speaker 3: will be given out as a few thousand pounds into
27:05
Speaker 3: little community groups. They'll get very excited because they're being
27:10
Speaker 3: given some money, a few thousand pounds. They help build
27:14
Speaker 3: and install Andy Burnham's central policy on clients. temperature, sorry,
27:22
Speaker 3: what was that expression used?
27:23
Speaker 1: Global heating.
27:23
Speaker 3: Global heating, thank you. So this is where you see
27:27
Speaker 3: central political manipulation of local communities so that they build
27:34
Speaker 3: the policy the central government wants. It's deeply cynical.
27:39
Speaker 1: And they get.
27:39
Speaker 2: Strung along as well because 30 million is nothing. It's
27:42
Speaker 2: just nothing. That wouldn't even be that much for a postcode,
27:46
Speaker 2: let alone the entire nation. So You know, these things
27:51
Speaker 2: get announced. That's a headline article, thought piece in a
27:55
Speaker 2: major national and international news publication, The Guardian. And people
28:00
Speaker 2: are going to get hope from this. He's talking a
28:02
Speaker 2: lot about hope, but they're not really going to get
28:04
Speaker 2: much else, actually. Now, I think the rhetoric around the
28:09
Speaker 2: climate crisis, I think, is really important.
28:11
Speaker 1: He's really doubling down on this.
28:13
Speaker 2: He says in that article that the climate crisis is
28:15
Speaker 2: not a distant threat. It is here and with us now.
28:18
Speaker 2: But that it presents an enormous challenge and possibility that
28:22
Speaker 2: in the coming years, we're going to have to change
28:24
Speaker 2: the way that we travel, we build homes, that we
28:26
Speaker 2: produce energy, and that he sees the green transition as
28:30
Speaker 2: the best chance we will ever have to re-industrialize Britain.
28:33
Speaker 2: So this green transition is the globalist policy for the
28:38
Speaker 2: economic system. So that's a new fourth industrial revolution, highly extractive,
28:44
Speaker 2: going to move us to a completely new economic model,
28:47
Speaker 2: while at the same time building a digitally enabled surveillance state.
28:52
Speaker 2: This is the Trojan horse. It's being presented as the
28:55
Speaker 2: only solution to fixing the economic problems in the country,
29:01
Speaker 2: solving the cost of living crisis. This is what youth
29:03
Speaker 2: employment is going to be all about. This is what
29:05
Speaker 2: number 10 in the North is all about. It's what
29:06
Speaker 2: he talks about. And when they're going on constantly about
29:09
Speaker 2: putting power in every postcode, these types of initiatives where
29:13
Speaker 2: they say that power is going to be owned by
29:15
Speaker 2: local people, generated by local people, that's exactly.
29:19
Speaker 1: What is being put forward here.
29:21
Speaker 2: Now, that leaflet, I'm actually slightly gutted I wasn't at
29:24
Speaker 2: home on Sunday because I would have loved to have
29:27
Speaker 2: opened the door to Luke Pollard, my Plymouth MP. who
29:32
Speaker 2: was delivering these by hand. This is from his social media.
29:35
Speaker 2: And he was shouting about the fact that the Labour
29:39
Speaker 2: government is going to build a new economy. They're going
29:41
Speaker 2: to put power in every postcode. And that image, if
29:44
Speaker 2: we can get that back up on screen, that's actually
29:46
Speaker 2: taken at Tothill Park, which I've talked about quite a
29:49
Speaker 2: lot recently.
29:50
Speaker 1: Because this is my local park.
29:52
Speaker 2: And as regular viewers will know, Um, we've had some
29:56
Speaker 2: serious dramas down there because the local council or labor
30:00
Speaker 2: control Plymouth council has, um, caused a local business to
30:04
Speaker 2: have to move into a temporary location that you can
30:06
Speaker 2: see there because they came in, in February and closed
30:08
Speaker 2: down that building, which is the small cafe. And then
30:11
Speaker 2: the building on the right hand side, which is basically
30:15
Speaker 2: 60% of the rest of the community center. And, um, uh,
30:20
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of protests, uh, in the local area.
30:24
Speaker 2: We talked to Councillor Sue Dan, who's the local councillor
30:29
Speaker 2: for this area of Plymouth. You can see her on
30:31
Speaker 2: the left there. And I did a little interview with her. Well,
30:34
Speaker 2: she looks like a rabbit in the headlights. We're going
30:36
Speaker 2: to use that phrase again, which we'll put some links to.
30:39
Speaker 2: So you can go back and watch that if you're
30:40
Speaker 2: not familiar with it. We were told there was some
30:43
Speaker 2: good news coming out of the back of this, actually.
30:45
Speaker 2: So we were given a date for the reopening of
30:47
Speaker 2: the cafe at the end of October. But then lo
30:51
Speaker 2: and behold, again, when I got back home yesterday, I
30:53
Speaker 2: saw this announcement come up from Sudan saying, on Facebook,
30:57
Speaker 2: and I'll just get to the important bit, which is
30:59
Speaker 2: that following a leak in building B, the large hall,
31:02
Speaker 2: which was the only bit of the community centre that
31:03
Speaker 2: was still open, at Tortill Community Centre, a building safety
31:06
Speaker 2: issue regarding the integrity of the ceiling in the main
31:09
Speaker 2: entrance has been identified. Due to this, we've had to
31:11
Speaker 2: take the difficult decision to temporarily close the building. The
31:15
Speaker 2: rest of the building has now been shut. So rather
31:17
Speaker 2: than the thing being opened, which we've been promised for
31:21
Speaker 2: over six months, they're actually going to shut down the
31:24
Speaker 2: rest of the building.
31:25
Speaker 3: So the Labour administration shuts this very important community facility.
31:30
Speaker 4: Yeah.
31:31
Speaker 3: And then we have the Labour MP turning up with
31:33
Speaker 3: Labour councillors to tell you.
31:35
Speaker 1: How fantastic everything is.
31:38
Speaker 3: Jam tomorrow with Andy Burnham.
31:40
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, yes.
31:42
Speaker 2: So this is what putting power in every postcode means,
31:44
Speaker 2: I think, actually, that unaccountable and unelected government officials are
31:48
Speaker 2: going to come along and shut down and seize your
31:50
Speaker 2: assets in order to deliver on their own agenda and actually...
31:54
Speaker 2: My summary of this is that hope is all we
31:56
Speaker 2: get with these people. We don't get anything else. It's
31:59
Speaker 2: just hope.
32:00
Speaker 1: Just hope. Yes.
32:02
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34:03
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34:10
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34:15
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34:18
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34:21
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34:23
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34:27
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34:34
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34:38
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34:40
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34:45
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34:50
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34:52
Speaker 2: legislation that we gets put out there into our societies.
34:58
Speaker 2: We look at the Fabian society, the wolves in sheep's clothing,
35:01
Speaker 2: these kind of Fabian socialists who talk about universal brotherhood
35:07
Speaker 2: but are actually building a vicious global dictatorship. And importantly,
35:13
Speaker 2: we look at a lot of the secret networks that
35:15
Speaker 2: have been operating behind the scenes over centuries to build
35:19
Speaker 2: the case for things like perpetual... conflict, right? So actually,
35:26
Speaker 2: one of the organisations that we talk about in the
35:29
Speaker 2: report is the Roundtable, which was founded by Lord Milner,
35:34
Speaker 2: who also then went on to write the Balfour Declaration,
35:39
Speaker 2: to found Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
35:43
Speaker 2: one of the most influential people in global policy and
35:48
Speaker 2: governance over the past several centuries, who most people have
35:52
Speaker 2: never heard of. You can see this article, which is
35:57
Speaker 2: from the first edition, the first issue of the Roundtable magazine,
36:00
Speaker 2: which came out in 1910, where they're talking about the
36:04
Speaker 2: Anglo-German rivalry. And this is an absolutely perfect example of
36:10
Speaker 2: how the propaganda push towards a war with Russia that
36:14
Speaker 2: we're seeing at the moment is a tried and tested
36:18
Speaker 2: formula that's been used many times before. So this is
36:21
Speaker 2: from 1910. where they talk about the central fact in
36:24
Speaker 2: the international situation today being the antagonism between England and Germany.
36:28
Speaker 2: It is the universal element which every foreign minister has
36:31
Speaker 2: to take into account in appraising his country's fortunes. And
36:34
Speaker 2: it is the topic which dominates all others in the
36:36
Speaker 2: columns of the world press, which are devoted to the
36:38
Speaker 2: discussion of foreign affairs. Four years later, we enter the
36:42
Speaker 2: First World War, millions dead on all sides. And the
36:48
Speaker 2: groundwork from that laid for the Second World War, which
36:53
Speaker 2: obviously started just over 20 years after that, more millions dead.
36:58
Speaker 2: And actually, we were up on Plymouth Hove on the
37:03
Speaker 2: weekend looking at the war memorial. We took a bit
37:05
Speaker 2: of a break to get some fresh air from the conference.
37:08
Speaker 2: And you can see here the extraordinary memorial for the
37:14
Speaker 2: dead from both of those world wars.
37:17
Speaker 1: All of these.
37:18
Speaker 2: Individuals, individual human beings who were slaughtered in pointless conflicts
37:25
Speaker 2: that were initiated at the behest of a transnational ruling
37:31
Speaker 2: class who want to make as much money as possible
37:36
Speaker 2: from military, industrial, apparatus and warfare and to play power
37:45
Speaker 2: games at the expense of everyday people. And unfortunately, this
37:50
Speaker 2: stuff is happening continuously. It's not gone away. It's the
37:54
Speaker 2: same organizations, really, you know, the different individuals, because obviously
37:59
Speaker 2: 100 years has gone past, but it's the same groups,
38:02
Speaker 2: the same networks that are promoting the agenda. And of course,
38:06
Speaker 2: our own vaunted BBC is right in the thick of this.
38:12
Speaker 2: So this article was very widely circulated at the end
38:17
Speaker 2: of last week.
38:17
Speaker 1: This idea that war may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
38:21
Speaker 2: So you can see the drumbeat for kinetic warfare with
38:26
Speaker 2: Russia is absolutely picking up.
38:29
Speaker 3: And BBC Central too. And we have a bit more
38:31
Speaker 3: to say on the BBC in a moment. Yeah, we
38:34
Speaker 3: absolutely do. Patrick talked about this.
38:37
Speaker 2: In his excellent presentation on Saturday afternoon at the UK Conference.
38:42
Speaker 2: So this was a central topic to the entire weekend.
38:48
Speaker 2: And one thing that's been noticed on social media on
38:53
Speaker 2: this particular issue, not least by Morgoth, is.
38:56
Speaker 1: That we're actually now beginning to see white men in
38:59
Speaker 1: ads again.
39:00
Speaker 2: Only when it relates to a very specific set of topics.
39:05
Speaker 3: Get them on the battlefield so that you can kill
39:07
Speaker 3: them off.
39:07
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.
39:08
Speaker 3: It's all becoming a little bit obvious. And one of
39:12
Speaker 3: the threads through the UK column event at the weekend
39:16
Speaker 3: was having a look at some of the hidden, the
39:19
Speaker 3: occult symbology, where you can clearly see a statement as
39:25
Speaker 3: to what the real policy is. It's just under the surface,
39:28
Speaker 3: hidden in plain sight. And I think one of the
39:30
Speaker 3: important jobs that UK Column's done over the years is
39:33
Speaker 3: to help ordinary people see through this and understand it.
39:38
Speaker 3: So the fact we're reporting it so easily today is
39:41
Speaker 3: a good thing.
39:42
Speaker 1: It certainly is.
39:44
Speaker 3: Well, let's just move on to the dear old BBC,
39:49
Speaker 3: the Auntie Beeb. And this was a screenshot of the
39:54
Speaker 3: Welcome to the BBC News headline page this morning. It's
39:59
Speaker 3: full of dark, very depressing news. But one thing caught
40:03
Speaker 3: my eye in particular was this article. It said, young
40:06
Speaker 3: people aren't snowflakes. Mental distress is rising, says head of
40:12
Speaker 3: official review. And for me, this is the BBC gloating
40:16
Speaker 3: that it's deeply upsetting style of reporting over so many subjects.
40:23
Speaker 3: I mean, on the screen, we've got gang abuse survivors
40:28
Speaker 3: talking out rape and abuse. The BBC is not investigating
40:32
Speaker 3: the causes and the proper solutions. It seems to be
40:36
Speaker 3: getting a thrill out of pumping very dark stuff into
40:39
Speaker 3: people's minds. And we want to remind... everybody that of
40:44
Speaker 3: course it was our own government and its mind space
40:47
Speaker 3: initiative through the cabinet office in 2010 that was boasting
40:52
Speaker 3: of its ability to interfere with normal thought processes in
40:58
Speaker 3: the population in the united kingdom how deep did it
41:02
Speaker 3: go well this was a key statement because that and
41:06
Speaker 3: they were talking about their own ability in this psychological
41:09
Speaker 3: field That means that citizens may not fully realise that
41:14
Speaker 3: their behaviour is being changed, or at least how it
41:18
Speaker 3: is being changed. Clearly, this opens up the government to
41:21
Speaker 3: charges of manipulation. Well, the UK column has led that charge,
41:27
Speaker 3: that accusatory charge of manipulation, over 20 years. But to
41:33
Speaker 3: help people really understand it, and all credit to Zaghir Bakhti,
41:40
Speaker 3: in warning about COVID, it was during the COVID period
41:43
Speaker 3: that the government's scientific body, SAGE, used an internal psychological
41:50
Speaker 3: scientific body, SPY-B, to attack the population. And this was
41:56
Speaker 3: part of the minutes of a meeting released to the
41:59
Speaker 3: UK column. It said under the title, Perceived Threat, a
42:04
Speaker 3: substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened.
42:10
Speaker 3: And it goes on to say the perceived level of
42:12
Speaker 3: personal threat needs to be increased amongst those who are
42:15
Speaker 3: complacent using hard hitting emotional messaging. This was the government
42:22
Speaker 3: of the United Kingdom attacking the minds, particularly of young
42:28
Speaker 3: people by making them more fearful so that they would
42:32
Speaker 3: better adhere to the absolutely outrageous policies of COVID-19 and lockdown.
42:39
Speaker 3: It's Utterly brutal, Ben.
42:41
Speaker 1: It's terrorism. Indeed. Literally, the dictionary definition of terrorism.
42:47
Speaker 3: So we'll just follow through with the BBC from today.
42:50
Speaker 3: I briefly mentioned this just a little while ago, but
42:55
Speaker 3: here's the article itself. Oxford grooming gang survivors tell BBC
43:01
Speaker 3: that hundreds of abusers are still free. The BBC, of course,
43:05
Speaker 3: gloating about this because the BBC absolutely hates refusing to
43:10
Speaker 3: report the reality that the grooming gangs are a tiny
43:13
Speaker 3: subset of the overall abusers who are protected and encouraged
43:18
Speaker 3: by the state itself. Then the BBC got even darker
43:23
Speaker 3: with this story from the States. Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband explains
43:28
Speaker 3: why he forgave her over children's killings. Apologies with this one,
43:33
Speaker 3: it's distressing, but the mother killed the children. But the
43:37
Speaker 3: BBC thinks the British public needs to know about this.
43:41
Speaker 3: And Patrick Clancy, the ex-husband of a US mother accused
43:45
Speaker 3: of murdering their three children, has said he would have
43:48
Speaker 3: been eaten up inside forever had he not forgiven her
43:53
Speaker 3: for those deaths, for the deaths.
43:55
Speaker 1: Of the children.
43:57
Speaker 3: The BBC taking this sad story and making it prominent
44:03
Speaker 3: in the minds of the population in UK. There's only
44:06
Speaker 3: one reason, it's to cause distress in the minds of
44:11
Speaker 3: the UK public.
44:13
Speaker 2: And in some sense to normalise this kind of behaviour.
44:15
Speaker 2: I mean, that is an extraordinary story. We probably haven't
44:17
Speaker 2: spoken about enough on the column, to be honest with you.
44:20
Speaker 1: This is true.
44:20
Speaker 3: And another headline from the BBC here today, specialist courts
44:26
Speaker 3: for rape cases to be rolled out across England and Wales.
44:29
Speaker 3: So Is this a positive story? Don't worry if you've
44:33
Speaker 3: been raped because there's going to be better courts where
44:36
Speaker 3: you can give your evidence and testimony remotely. Is that
44:41
Speaker 3: what this article is about or is it actually glorifying
44:44
Speaker 3: the fact that we now have a serious rape problem
44:48
Speaker 3: in a United Kingdom where morality is breaking down, criminality
44:55
Speaker 3: is on the rise as a result of central government policies,
45:00
Speaker 3: which the BBC will not report. And I'll just reinforce
45:04
Speaker 3: the BBC's powers of manipulation of misinformation and disinformation. This
45:12
Speaker 3: was their report about German Chancellor Merz. So the headline
45:16
Speaker 3: from the BBC said that he was calling the state
45:20
Speaker 3: election a disaster for his party, but he vows to
45:24
Speaker 3: stay on. Now, when you saw the image on screen,
45:29
Speaker 3: Your immediate thought was you were going to click on
45:32
Speaker 3: the video reel, the little clip, and listen to Mertz
45:37
Speaker 3: talking for himself. But no, that's not the case. You're
45:41
Speaker 3: going to see a picture of Mertz and then the
45:43
Speaker 3: BBC is going to tell you what they think. Let's
45:47
Speaker 3: have a look at this appalling little clip.
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Speaker 6: It's a bit of a mysterious situation in terms of
45:55
Speaker 6: the rumours that have been swirling for months about the
45:57
Speaker 6: idea of a Kanzlertausch, a Chancellor swap. I've been sort
46:01
Speaker 6: of calling it the coup with no name because no
46:03
Speaker 6: challenger has actually publicly come out against him. But there
46:07
Speaker 6: is certainly deep concern in the CDU that Chancellor Friedrich
46:10
Speaker 6: Merz is personally unpopular. that he has failed in his
46:14
Speaker 6: stated mission, really, to try and counter the rise of
46:17
Speaker 6: Alternative für Deutschland, the anti-immigration, Russia-friendly party that continues to
46:22
Speaker 6: gain ground and appears to have topped the polls in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
46:27
Speaker 6: In terms of what happens next, Friedrich Merz is due
46:30
Speaker 6: to have a series of meetings with party figures, presumably
46:34
Speaker 6: to try and shore up support. And his remarks, I think,
46:37
Speaker 6: tonight were designed by him to get out there, get
46:41
Speaker 6: his message, his narrative across that he needs time to
46:45
Speaker 6: deliver a reform programme that he hopes can revive Germany.
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Speaker 3: So no accurate reporting from the BBC, simply their smear,
46:58
Speaker 3: their take on what is happening. And you know that
47:02
Speaker 3: they're into the business of disinformation because, of course, they
47:06
Speaker 3: spin the AFD party in Germany. which has been calling
47:11
Speaker 3: for a cessation of the war in Ukraine. Let's get
47:15
Speaker 3: peace into Ukraine. Let's stop the German state providing weapons
47:20
Speaker 3: to the Ukrainians. Let's stop the killing. The BBC translates
47:25
Speaker 3: that as the AFD being Russia friendly. It's blatant when
47:31
Speaker 3: you know where to look for it, Ben. And what's
47:34
Speaker 3: clear is that the BBC absolutely keen to ramp up war,
47:40
Speaker 3: wherever it may be, and they don't want anybody to
47:43
Speaker 3: speak out to try and stop it. So a lot
47:47
Speaker 3: of work to be done by the awake population in UK.
47:50
Speaker 1: It certainly is, Brian. It certainly is.
47:53
Speaker 2: Now, we're going to move on to take a little
47:54
Speaker 2: look at who's actually writing government policy at the moment,
47:59
Speaker 2: or certainly controlling the apparatus through which that policy is produced. Now,
48:04
Speaker 2: regular viewers will be very familiar with Demos. One of
48:07
Speaker 2: the original think tanks, progressive think tanks from the mid-90s.
48:12
Speaker 2: They were very closely linked to common purpose back in
48:16
Speaker 2: the early days.
48:17
Speaker 1: They actually shared an office. And Jeff Mulgan, Sir Jeff Mulgan.
48:24
Speaker 2: Who's the founder of Demos, is a close friend and
48:27
Speaker 2: collaborator with Julia Middleton from Common Purpose. Mulgan's still absolutely
48:32
Speaker 2: front and center in the development of the international governance
48:36
Speaker 2: infrastructure funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. active within University College
48:41
Speaker 2: London and really pushing that whole thing forward. Demos is
48:47
Speaker 2: run these days by this lady. This is Polly Curtis.
48:50
Speaker 2: She's the chief executive of Demos. She's a former journalist.
48:54
Speaker 2: And actually, just before Demos was the editor of Tortoise Media,
48:59
Speaker 2: who we've spoken about a lot, maybe not as much
49:01
Speaker 2: as we should have done recently. And in that position
49:05
Speaker 2: at Tortoise Media, who were a key partner of the
49:08
Speaker 2: Rothschild Foundation, amongst many other organizations, she was responsible for
49:13
Speaker 2: putting out this podcast.
49:14
Speaker 1: This was Hoaxed, released in 2022, which was about.
49:18
Speaker 2: Um the supposed satanic ritual abuse hoax in hamstead north
49:23
Speaker 2: london but actually we don't think that that was a
49:27
Speaker 2: hoax do we brian.
49:28
Speaker 3: Well it absolutely wasn't a hoax because the facts are
49:32
Speaker 3: that both children were sexually abused and the documentation um
49:39
Speaker 3: Medical documentation confirming that was introduced into the court, but
49:44
Speaker 3: the BBC simply did, and the hoax team, Tortoise Media,
49:51
Speaker 3: did not go near this evidence. So this, again, is spin.
49:56
Speaker 3: They did give me a personal mention, which I suppose
49:59
Speaker 3: I should be thankful for.
50:00
Speaker 1: I think so, okay.
50:01
Speaker 3: But no, six hours of audio on a hoax, but
50:06
Speaker 3: they didn't bother to go near the key evidence that
50:09
Speaker 3: the children were indeed sexually abused.
50:12
Speaker 1: Who did it?
50:13
Speaker 2: What an oversight. That's really strange, isn't it, Polly Curtis
50:17
Speaker 2: at Demos? And one of Polly's most senior colleagues at
50:22
Speaker 2: Demos is this lady. This is Miriam Levin. She's the
50:25
Speaker 2: Director of Democratic Practice. And she was very excited over
50:29
Speaker 2: on LinkedIn this week to launch this report on the
50:32
Speaker 2: right-hand side, Your Voice on Immigration, a report on the
50:35
Speaker 2: findings from a public deliberation process on work-related immigration for
50:39
Speaker 2: the Home Affairs Committee. So Demos have actually been running...
50:43
Speaker 2: The deliberative processes, which, as we've spoken about for many
50:47
Speaker 2: years now, are wide open to abuse and the use
50:50
Speaker 2: of something called Delphi technique, where essentially preconceived outcomes are
50:54
Speaker 2: ushered through these processes in order to manufacture consent or
51:00
Speaker 2: at least the appearance of consent to government policy. And remarkably,
51:04
Speaker 2: they actually allowed Channel 4 News to come in and
51:07
Speaker 2: film this in Leicester at some point over the past
51:10
Speaker 2: few weeks. We've got a short clip of that report
51:12
Speaker 2: to show to you now.
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Speaker 1: You get a lot of immigrants in one place. People
51:18
Speaker 1: on the periphery of that can take exception to it.
51:22
Speaker 1: We want to attract highly skilled workers. When they arrive here,
51:26
Speaker 1: how are we showing them a welcome?
51:28
Speaker 7: Of course, immigrants can have both positive and negative impacts
51:32
Speaker 7: on the communities they move into.
51:35
Speaker 8: It is the most contentious issue of our time. But
51:38
Speaker 8: how can we have a constructive conversation about immigration? Kim
51:43
Speaker 8: has concerns about the levels of immigration and is considering
51:47
Speaker 8: voting for reform. Eden is thinking about voting for the Greens.
51:52
Speaker 8: She feels there's lots of stereotypes about migrants who contribute
51:55
Speaker 8: to the economy.
51:57
Speaker 2: The government has set a goal of reducing net migration.
52:00
Speaker 2: So in what ways should work-related immigration be reduced?
52:05
Speaker 8: They've been brought together in this Citizens' Assembly. On hand
52:08
Speaker 8: were experts to answer questions and dispel myths.
52:12
Speaker 7: To get a work visa in the UK, you typically
52:15
Speaker 7: need a sponsor. Second thing to understand about work visas
52:19
Speaker 7: in the UK, there's no quota. Migrants fill jobs where
52:24
Speaker 7: we don't have the skills or perhaps where we do,
52:27
Speaker 7: but British people don't want to do those jobs. Of course,
52:30
Speaker 7: that also reduces incentives to increase pay and train current residents.
52:37
Speaker 8: This workshop was held in Leicester. one of the first
52:39
Speaker 8: cities in the country where white people are now in
52:42
Speaker 8: a minority. Nearly 60% of people who live here are
52:46
Speaker 8: from an ethnic background, mainly Asian and black. Many have
52:49
Speaker 8: settled here for generations, but new arrivals are causing concern
52:54
Speaker 8: for some.
52:56
Speaker 3: Then what about the people that have not been, the
52:58
Speaker 3: illegals that they don't know about?
53:00
Speaker 1: So no figures aren't in here, yeah. That's what I mean,
53:02
Speaker 1: so you don't know whether it's higher or lower.
53:07
Speaker 3: Well, just fascinating, Ben, and I did a wry smile
53:10
Speaker 3: because you have adults going into a building that's been
53:13
Speaker 3: painted in colourful colours on the outside in a cartoon
53:18
Speaker 3: style as if it was some sort of creche building.
53:21
Speaker 3: But the individuals that went into that highly manipulated demos
53:25
Speaker 3: meeting would have had no defence against the Delphi technique
53:30
Speaker 3: being used to manipulate their discussions and the ultimate outcome.
53:35
Speaker 3: I'd also add that we were delighted to once again
53:40
Speaker 3: see that in UK column audience at the weekend that
53:44
Speaker 3: we had people from different cultures and backgrounds united by
53:49
Speaker 3: the fact that they all see through this very dangerous
53:53
Speaker 3: political agenda. One of the keys to stopping that agenda
53:58
Speaker 3: is to get greater communication between the community groups.
54:03
Speaker 1: Yes, outside of the control of these people. Correct. Importantly, yes.
54:08
Speaker 2: And interestingly, there was an Indian gentleman at the end
54:10
Speaker 2: there who was expressing concerns about illegal immigration, which is
54:13
Speaker 2: entirely valid. But I thought it was fascinating to hear
54:17
Speaker 2: that when they wanted to find out what British people
54:20
Speaker 2: really think about immigration, they went to Leicester, which was
54:23
Speaker 2: the first city in the UK to have a white minority.
54:27
Speaker 2: So they've gone to the most diverse place in the
54:29
Speaker 2: country in order to talk about diversity.
54:31
Speaker 1: Well, what did you think the outcome from that discussion
54:33
Speaker 1: was going to be?
54:34
Speaker 3: Just a coincidence, Ben. It was chosen out of a hat.
54:38
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was, Brian, yes.
54:39
Speaker 2: Now, let's just have a little look back at some
54:42
Speaker 2: of the other reporting that we've done on Demos. And
54:44
Speaker 2: this was from 2024, an event held at the Demos office.
54:48
Speaker 2: You can see Miriam Levin there on the left-hand side.
54:51
Speaker 2: who was just facilitating that session from the Channel 4
54:53
Speaker 2: News Report, which we'll provide a link to, as you
54:55
Speaker 2: go and watch the whole thing, by the way.
54:57
Speaker 1: And importantly, she.
54:57
Speaker 2: Was working in this session, she was hosting the lady
55:00
Speaker 2: on the right-hand side, you can see there, that's Claudia
55:03
Speaker 2: Chalice from Democracy Next, who tells us a little bit
55:06
Speaker 2: about what these citizen assemblies are all about in this
55:08
Speaker 2: next clip.
55:09
Speaker 1: Let's have a listen.
55:13
Speaker 9: How could we change the way in which decisions related
55:16
Speaker 9: to housing and infrastructure mobility get taken every time they
55:19
Speaker 9: have to be taken? And so we did this work
55:22
Speaker 9: because we see these sorts of issues are the same
55:25
Speaker 9: all over the world. Before we launched this, we did
55:27
Speaker 9: interviews with people in different countries, those different roles. Actually,
55:31
Speaker 9: we spoke to some of your colleagues in Camden even,
55:33
Speaker 9: I remember at that stage. And there's just a shared
55:36
Speaker 9: sense of these problems being shared in cities around the world.
55:39
Speaker 9: And we really believe that we don't just need different
55:42
Speaker 9: policy solutions to these issues that we're facing.
55:44
Speaker 4: All over the place.
55:46
Speaker 9: We really need a different way in which we're taking
55:48
Speaker 9: these decisions on an ongoing basis. And these new governance
55:52
Speaker 9: models can help break through deadlocks and give legitimacy to
55:56
Speaker 9: the sometimes hard choices that need to be made that
55:58
Speaker 9: require trade-offs.
56:02
Speaker 2: New governance models that can give legitimacy when you've got
56:05
Speaker 2: to take trade-offs and make hard decisions about things like immigration.
56:10
Speaker 2: My goodness, this stuff is wide open to abuse, isn't it?
56:13
Speaker 2: And let's just remind ourselves very quickly about Claudia Chalice, who...
56:19
Speaker 2: I did a big report on back in January, actually,
56:22
Speaker 2: and I need to expand on this. But let's just
56:24
Speaker 2: say that she's surrounded by some rather extraordinary people and interests,
56:27
Speaker 2: including Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google, who's
56:31
Speaker 2: part of the Bilderberg Group, and Jared Cohen from Goldman
56:35
Speaker 2: Sachs and the International Strategy Forum.
56:37
Speaker 1: This is all globalist policy.
56:39
Speaker 2: And actually, DemNext is backed by the Rockefeller Foundation, the
56:43
Speaker 2: National Endowment for Democracy, which is basically a CIA front,
56:46
Speaker 2: the Open Society Foundations. and works in close collaboration with
56:50
Speaker 2: the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, MIT, which you can see
56:54
Speaker 2: down at the bottom right-hand side there next to the
56:56
Speaker 2: UN logo.
56:57
Speaker 1: Which is where Jeffrey.
56:58
Speaker 2: Epstein did some funding into deception with the Gates Foundation.
57:05
Speaker 3: Just a coincidence.
57:06
Speaker 1: Just a coincidence.
57:06
Speaker 2: It's got nothing to do with the work that Democracy
57:09
Speaker 2: Next is doing with MIT.
57:13
Speaker 1: But, you know, what do I know?
57:14
Speaker 2: These are the people who the current Labour government have
57:19
Speaker 2: chosen to help them develop their policy around immigration.
57:23
Speaker 1: What could possibly go wrong?
57:25
Speaker 2: I think that's probably enough on that for now.
57:29
Speaker 9: It is.
57:30
Speaker 3: Well, we'll just close the news today by coming back
57:33
Speaker 3: on the topic of common purpose. You've mentioned Andy Burnham
57:38
Speaker 3: using the phrase, but of course, this organisation is is
57:42
Speaker 3: not only still working at maximum rate in the United Kingdom,
57:46
Speaker 3: it's also overseas. What are they doing? They're choosing and
57:51
Speaker 3: training future leaders. So nothing to do with democracy at all.
57:56
Speaker 3: These are the leaders being put in place to control society.
58:00
Speaker 3: And we thought at our UK conference in Plymouth that
58:04
Speaker 3: it was appropriate to take a little look at the
58:07
Speaker 3: then chief executive, Julia Middleton, who formed common purpose. Let's
58:13
Speaker 3: have a look at this slightly ancient video.
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Speaker 5: My first common purpose program was in Newcastle. There's no
58:23
Speaker 5: real major city in Britain that doesn't have a common
58:26
Speaker 5: purpose program, so I think it's about 45 common purpose programs.
58:31
Speaker 5: And then there's a lot of programs across most of
58:35
Speaker 5: the cities in Germany and growing in a number of
58:37
Speaker 5: other countries. In the UK, if you talk about adults,
58:41
Speaker 5: because there's a lot of people who've been on the
58:43
Speaker 5: youth programmes, if you talk about adults who've been on
58:45
Speaker 5: the common purpose programmes in the UK, it's about 24,000.
58:47
Speaker 3: Well, there we are now, common purpose still going. Julia
58:53
Speaker 3: Middleton retired as chief executive, but their agenda, selecting and
58:59
Speaker 3: training future leaders, putting them in positions of power. Where
59:03
Speaker 3: did common purpose come from? Well, it was simply created
59:06
Speaker 3: by Julia and her chums and funded our group. of
59:10
Speaker 3: major banks. The details about that are not fully released
59:14
Speaker 3: to the public. But as I said, common purpose was
59:18
Speaker 3: working at the heart of the Labour government through the
59:20
Speaker 3: office of the Deputy Prime Minister. And it's still a very,
59:23
Speaker 3: very powerful force in helping to break down our existing
59:28
Speaker 3: constitution and lifestyle in order to bring in the lifestyle
59:33
Speaker 3: that they want. Now, if that's a political charity, common
59:37
Speaker 3: purpose operating, of course, we can go up a level
59:40
Speaker 3: to the deep state as we did during the UK conference.
59:44
Speaker 3: And this organization, Integrity Initiative, working not to counter misinformation,
59:54
Speaker 3: to withhold truth so that the state propaganda can get
59:57
Speaker 3: through integrity initiative was taken apart by some really excellent
1:00:03
Speaker 3: UK column research by Mike Robinson and David Scott many
1:00:10
Speaker 3: years ago. You can find the details on our website.
1:00:13
Speaker 3: But let's have a look at the main man of
1:00:15
Speaker 3: influence with integrity initiative, Chris Donnelly. Let's look at what
1:00:22
Speaker 3: he had to say.
1:00:22
Speaker 4: The Institute for Statecraft, is an organisation which looks at
1:00:28
Speaker 4: issues of governance, of how to improve governance in modern
1:00:33
Speaker 4: societies so that they can keep pace with the changing world.
1:00:38
Speaker 4: And recently we've been looking particularly at the issues of
1:00:42
Speaker 4: disinformation and malign influence because this is one of the
1:00:45
Speaker 4: biggest threats to democracy at the current time. We seek
1:00:49
Speaker 4: to educate and inform policy makers and decision makers so
1:00:54
Speaker 4: that they understand the nature of the problem and can
1:00:57
Speaker 4: better track, expose and counter this disinformation wherever it comes from.
1:01:03
Speaker 4: The Integrity Initiative programme actually addresses the problem in all
1:01:09
Speaker 4: European countries. We have across Europe networks, we call them clusters,
1:01:18
Speaker 4: and that's why institutes like the Institute for Statecrafts, Non-governmental
1:01:24
Speaker 4: organisations run by specialists without governmental direction are so important
1:01:31
Speaker 4: because they can generate from the grassroots a movement of people.
1:01:37
Speaker 4: They can educate people more effectively. They can respond more
1:01:41
Speaker 4: rapidly to the kind of informational, disinformational threat we're now facing.
1:01:48
Speaker 3: That's a tiny segment of what he actually said. And
1:01:51
Speaker 3: don't be fooled by this rather innocent looking elderly gentleman
1:01:55
Speaker 3: in his nice kitchen with the agar and the fresh
1:01:58
Speaker 3: bread and the cups of tea, because he's saying the
1:02:01
Speaker 3: government doesn't know what to do. Not to worry, we,
1:02:06
Speaker 3: Unelected Integrity Initiative, we are going to create the clusters
1:02:10
Speaker 3: and we are going to control the information across the
1:02:14
Speaker 3: European Union. extremely dangerous stuff uk column worked very hard
1:02:19
Speaker 3: we bring this on screen to expose this really uh
1:02:23
Speaker 3: exceptional exposure by mike robinson and david scott and if
1:02:27
Speaker 3: you want to understand more go and search for integrity
1:02:32
Speaker 3: initiative on the uk column website now i'm just going
1:02:35
Speaker 3: to end really with a little a little bit a
1:02:38
Speaker 3: major theme of the event at the weekend which is
1:02:42
Speaker 3: the UK column and really what we have achieved, what
1:02:45
Speaker 3: we've done over the years. So, of course, you get
1:02:48
Speaker 3: a feel for it by having a look at our
1:02:50
Speaker 3: fantastic website, just packed full of information. But if we
1:02:55
Speaker 3: have a look at what we've reported and exposed over
1:02:58
Speaker 3: the years, this is just a tiny proportion of it.
1:03:03
Speaker 3: And a lot of this absolutely unique reporting. And you'll
1:03:07
Speaker 3: notice that we end on press freedoms because we, as
1:03:11
Speaker 3: free press are being attacked, but so is the mainstream media.
1:03:15
Speaker 3: And without free press and free media, we cannot expose
1:03:20
Speaker 3: the attack on us. So I'll leave the audience to
1:03:23
Speaker 3: think about that. And I'd like to close by saying
1:03:26
Speaker 3: that we've had some guests with us in the UK
1:03:30
Speaker 3: Column Studios this morning. That was part of a prize
1:03:33
Speaker 3: that we gave at the weekend. So welcome to our guests.
1:03:37
Speaker 3: And I'd also like to give a huge thank you
1:03:40
Speaker 3: to the people at the UK Column Conference that held
1:03:44
Speaker 3: the prayer group, which was such a wonderful experience on
1:03:51
Speaker 3: Sunday morning. So I'd just like to end giving recognition
1:03:55
Speaker 3: to those people who came together to make a very
1:03:58
Speaker 3: quiet and measured difference to our event. Amazing event, incredible news, Ben.
1:04:08
Speaker 1: It certainly was, Brian. Thanks for that.
1:04:10
Speaker 2: 20 years at the UK column, but the work doesn't stop.
1:04:13
Speaker 2: We're out of time today. If you remember, join us
1:04:15
Speaker 2: for Extra. We're going to have some guests in the studio.
1:04:18
Speaker 2: It should be quite fun. And the team will be
1:04:22
Speaker 2: back for the news on Wednesday at 1pm.
1:04:25
Speaker 1: Until then, take care. Goodbye.
1:04:28
Speaker 9: Bye-bye.