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UK Column News - 15th December 2025 · UK Column Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the fifteenth of December twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Column News.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Ryan Gerrish, delighted to have Ben Rubin
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  Speaker 1: with me at the studio and we'll be joined by
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  Speaker 1: Sandy Adams who's on live link.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: As always, UK Column's got a busy news. We're just
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  Speaker 1: going to mention the attack on Bon Dai Beach, which
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  Speaker 1: of course is going to dominate the news no doubt
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  Speaker 1: in the Western hemisphere UK in particular in the forthcoming
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  Speaker 1: days and weeks, but we need to mention that those
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  Speaker 1: events have taken place. We're going to be having a
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  Speaker 1: look at Christian persecution in the world. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: be having all you will be having at little Ben
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  Speaker 1: at the business of war. We're going to be looking
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  Speaker 1: at the home secretaries are targeting of violence against women,
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  Speaker 1: followed by ladies in red, which will be interesting then
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  Speaker 1: and see what comes out of that. Sandy will then
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  Speaker 1: be covering social control. Ben will be on the subject
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  Speaker 1: of AI and vibe coding, and we're going to end
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  Speaker 1: with a very happy slide of the UK column team
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  Speaker 1: which will help lift the mood. Now we know that
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  Speaker 1: things are pretty serious across the board in the country.
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  Speaker 1: We know people having difficulty watching the news because most
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  Speaker 1: of it is so dark. But every adult man and
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  Speaker 1: woman in this country needs to understand what's happening, and
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  Speaker 1: the duty falls on us to help people through the
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  Speaker 1: labyrinth of policies that are happening. But let's kick off
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  Speaker 1: with a little look at how the BBC came across
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  Speaker 1: an amazing coincidence connected to Bondai Beach.
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  Speaker 3: Paddy, This has been one of those mornings where a
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  Speaker 3: dark event suddenly emerriages and will dominate the news, probably
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  Speaker 3: for the rest of today, probably for the rest of tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: And it was one of those days. We were about
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  Speaker 3: to go on air we started getting reports of a
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  Speaker 3: multiple shooting on Bondai Beach in Australia, one of those
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  Speaker 3: famous places in the world. By complete coincidence. One of
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  Speaker 3: our guests was Layla Cunningham, who's a reform politician. We
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  Speaker 3: told her what was happening. She then said her nephew
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  Speaker 3: lived there. She got him on the phone and he
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  Speaker 3: told her and she then told us live on air.
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  Speaker 3: Within a few minutes, there was an active situation that
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  Speaker 3: were shots ringing out he was a doctor who was
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  Speaker 3: on his way from a neighboring beach ten minutes away
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  Speaker 3: to go to try to help. And since then, some
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  Speaker 3: of the videos, some of the eyewitnesses accounts that have
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  Speaker 3: been coming out are absolutely horrific. As we talk at
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  Speaker 3: ten to eleven on Sunday morning, a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: are still evolving and we don't have the full story,
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  Speaker 3: but it very much appears as if this was an
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  Speaker 3: attack on a Jewish holiday, a Hanneka event.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there we are, there's the report by Laura Kunsberg,
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  Speaker 1: and what an amazing coincident. So we're going to take
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  Speaker 1: the incident at face value. Tragedy. People have been shot
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  Speaker 1: and killed. But what are coincidents That the BBC's got
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  Speaker 1: a guest, that guest had a relative that lives in
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  Speaker 1: the very place where the incident took place, a coincidence
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  Speaker 1: there medically trained, and a coincidence that they were on
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  Speaker 1: their way to the very beach the incident had taken
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  Speaker 1: or the park that the incident had taken place in,
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  Speaker 1: if we did calculation of odds on that, which I
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  Speaker 1: haven't done prior to today's news, but I know that
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  Speaker 1: these are incredible odds. What's your thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: One of my thoughts about that. I mean, it's incredible,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It's utterly incredible. The BBC should have a guest intimately
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  Speaker 1: linked not with the general subject, but the precise event
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  Speaker 1: that took place in the precise location, precisely at the
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  Speaker 1: right time. Sandy. I'm watching your face as we're moving
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  Speaker 1: into this, but it is quite incredible this BBC report.
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  Speaker 1: And what we haven't shown is that Laura went on
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  Speaker 1: to say that she's quite sure that events on Bondai
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  Speaker 1: Beach or to the side of it in the little
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  Speaker 1: park are going to dominate the news for days and
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  Speaker 1: weeks to come. And I think she's very accurate with that.
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  Speaker 1: But what's your thoughts on the clip, Sandy?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it does seem like an extraordinary set of coincidences, really,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, you have to look at this in perspective.
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  Speaker 5: It is awful that I think it was twelve people
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  Speaker 5: were shot. Why will this be dominating for such a
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  Speaker 5: long time. I mean, it does seem you know, there's
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  Speaker 5: a lot else happening in the world, and I'm not
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  Speaker 5: I'm not you know, diminishing anybody's you know, sort of
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  Speaker 5: anybody's story of horror of that particular incident. But it
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  Speaker 5: just seems to me they're gearing it up to make
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  Speaker 5: it a really, really big thing, and they will do
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  Speaker 5: because the BBC do this, and you know, you look
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  Speaker 5: at the you know the statistics of you know, what's
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  Speaker 5: happening in other places in the world and the genocide's
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  Speaker 5: going on, and they are going to make this a
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  Speaker 5: really big thing.
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  Speaker 6: I think, what do you think.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're going to make it a huge thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we are going to see a result
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  Speaker 1: in this country that we're going to see a tightening
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  Speaker 1: up of protection for the Jewish community, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see a greater clamp down on anybody speaking or
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  Speaker 1: criticizing the Israeli government. But we'll leave that for future
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  Speaker 1: UK column news reports. Now, in contrast, you've got a
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  Speaker 1: section here about the persecutions of Christians and this is
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  Speaker 1: a subject it which rarely comes up. Occasionally, it gets
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  Speaker 1: a mention, but you've decided that today is the day
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  Speaker 1: to have a look at this.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I mean it's well, it's coming up to Christmas mainly,
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  Speaker 5: and more and more we're seeing Christianity being marginalized and
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  Speaker 5: a worse, persecuted, And in late November, the BBC reported
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  Speaker 5: that Northern Ireland the Supreme Court had ruled that Christian
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  Speaker 5: focused religious education taught in Northern Irish schools was unlawful.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, this was a unanimous judgment allowed on
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  Speaker 5: appeal by an unnamed father and daughter from Northern Ireland.
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  Speaker 5: Now this was sent to us by one of our
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  Speaker 5: one of our viewers, and she knows who she is,
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Christine, you know, and she's she's given us
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  Speaker 5: a citizen go link to to so that one can
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  Speaker 5: challenge this appeal if you if you want to, and
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  Speaker 5: that is in the show notes. If if you wish to,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you have to be in Northern
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  Speaker 5: Ireland to do this, I'm not sure, but I doubt it.
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  Speaker 5: I think I would imagine because Northern Ireland is part
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  Speaker 5: of us, you'd be allowed to. So I just feel
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  Speaker 5: that there is a big thing with Christianity, but worse
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  Speaker 5: than that, all over the world Christians are being persecuted,
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  Speaker 5: particularly in Nigeria. And when we hear about religious persecution
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  Speaker 5: around the world, our minds often go to minorities in
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  Speaker 5: Muslim majority countries or to Buddhists or Hindus or other
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  Speaker 5: minority faiths under pressure.
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  Speaker 6: But there is.
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  Speaker 5: It's seldom spoken about the millions of Christians globally who
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  Speaker 5: are enduring persecution, harassment, violence, imprisonment, and even death simply
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  Speaker 5: for their faith. And we've got here around you know,
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  Speaker 5: the persecution of Christians worldwide has gotten worse. A Papal
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  Speaker 5: charity report says, according to recent reports by global Christian charities,
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  Speaker 5: the situation is worsening. Violations against Christians increased in nearly
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  Speaker 5: two thirds of eighteen countries studied. In fact, a twenty
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  Speaker 5: four to twenty twenty five assessment found that around three
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  Speaker 5: hundred and sixty five million Christians worldwide subject to high
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  Speaker 5: levels of persecution.
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  Speaker 6: And we've got here. The House of.
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  Speaker 5: Commons Library actually had a debate on it and they
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  Speaker 5: looked at the world watch list.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 5: According to Open Doors, a Christian charity that monitors persecution
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  Speaker 5: around over, I think it's about three hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 5: million Christians face persecution in twenty twenty four, with four thousand,
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  Speaker 5: seven hundred and sixty six killed and four thousand and
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  Speaker 5: seven hundred and forty four imprisoned. So that's a heck
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  Speaker 5: of you know, that's a really big number of Christians,
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  Speaker 5: you know, being persecuted. They now open doors, really have
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  Speaker 5: gone into this deeply. They've created the World Watch List
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  Speaker 5: with areas in red. As you can see on the
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  Speaker 5: map here is in red. There's seventeen of them and
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  Speaker 5: the countries the North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan, India,
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  Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia, Mali, Algeria, Iraq and Mayanmar. Now there these
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  Speaker 5: are the ones that are pretty pretty bad for persecution,
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  Speaker 5: whereas the orange ones, I think that's a bit less that.
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  Speaker 5: That's thirty three countries and they include I won't read
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  Speaker 5: the list because there's thirty three of them, but it's
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  Speaker 5: it's countries like China, Bikino, Fasso, Utunizia, Vietnam, Jordan, Malaysia, Turkey.
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  Speaker 5: So that's a heck of a lot of an area
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  Speaker 5: of the world where Christians are simply being persecuted. So
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  Speaker 5: they're twenty twenty five annual report.
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  Speaker 6: Was created.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Commission on the United States Commission on
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  Speaker 5: International Religious Freedom, and their publication.
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  Speaker 6: Has a worrying list.
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  Speaker 5: They've created their own list really, and the plight of
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  Speaker 5: the most persecuted Christians has been widely ignored except for
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  Speaker 5: the Catholics, and the Anglicans have been flagging it up
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  Speaker 5: just recently. So the next slide is really what the
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  Speaker 5: what this the religious freedom in international religious freedom groups
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  Speaker 5: and they've got a whole other list of countries which
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  Speaker 5: are pretty bad as well, but obviously Nigeria seems to
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  Speaker 5: be top of the top of the list. Now there's
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  Speaker 5: been a silence really throughout the whole world about Christian persecution,
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  Speaker 5: but that silence was challenged recently when on the nineteenth
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  Speaker 5: of November the bells of Clifton Cathedral rang in support
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  Speaker 5: of persecuted Christians worldwide and Sothern Cathedral as well. So
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  Speaker 5: it was it was called Red Wednesday, and they held
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  Speaker 5: these events all over the UK, the Christian Church did,
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  Speaker 5: whether it was Anglican or Catholic. So they called it
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  Speaker 5: Read Wednesday, and it was held by the Aid to
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  Speaker 5: Church in Need, the ACN, and it was it was
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  Speaker 5: Bishop Bosco in Bristol he held He's Bosco McDonald his
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  Speaker 5: name is. He held a special Mass at Clifton Cathedral,
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  Speaker 5: pulling on Christians in the UK and beyond to unite
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  Speaker 5: in prayer with our suffering brothers and sisters in christ.
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  Speaker 5: It was a simple gesture, you know, liturgy, prayers and support,
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  Speaker 5: but deeply meaningful. And Southern Cathedral held events for Red
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  Speaker 5: Wednesday on the nineteenth of November as well. Now in
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  Speaker 5: a world where Christian persecutions growing from extremely extremist violence
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  Speaker 5: in Africa to oppressive regimes in Asia in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 5: this mass reminds us that there's not distant stories their
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  Speaker 5: human lives and they deserve our awareness. And I've got
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  Speaker 5: another slide here from Southern Cathedral where they actually called
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  Speaker 5: it team read. They were really going for the whole,
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  Speaker 5: the whole thing of supporting the Christians in need. Now
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  Speaker 5: in many countries that you know they face, they face
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  Speaker 5: violence even for just daily worship or owning a Bible.
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  Speaker 6: I've got another slide here, o X.
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  Speaker 5: It's fine of Southern Cathedral and their whole way of
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  Speaker 5: really putting this in the forefront of Christian prayer and
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  Speaker 5: mass that was in Southern Cathedral.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, We've we've got.
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  Speaker 5: A whole load of Christians really being persecuted, you know,
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  Speaker 5: from diverse cultures, ethnicities, ages, and countries. They're suffering covers,
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  Speaker 5: you know, different borders and races. And the moral challenge remains,
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  Speaker 5: if we defend religious freedom only selectively, we betray that
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  Speaker 5: principle itself. Now I've got a video here from Bernard
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  Speaker 5: Tutunji who's from Sydney and he works for the Aide
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  Speaker 5: Church in Need, Australia. Now just listen to what's happening
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  Speaker 5: in Nigerian It's quite shocking.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks you.
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  Speaker 7: Nigeria today is an epicenter of Christian martyrdom. Since year
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  Speaker 7: two thousand, more than sixty thousand Christians have been murdered
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  Speaker 7: by Islamist groups like Boko Koram heavily armed for Lani Militia.
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  Speaker 7: Our Organizations twenty twenty three report I mentioned places in
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  Speaker 7: Nigeria firmly in the red category, meaning its persecution. It's
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  Speaker 7: not just discrimination, you know. What makes Nigeria unique is
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  Speaker 7: that Christians are not even a tiny minority. They make
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  Speaker 7: up almost half the population one hundred million people. Yet
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  Speaker 7: they live as if they're second class citizens, especially in
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  Speaker 7: the North. The Nigerian governments failed to take any meaningful
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  Speaker 7: action to present prevent attacks, and the violence is relentless
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  Speaker 7: in Bernu state alone, one dioceis recorded ninety three villages attacked,
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  Speaker 7: three hundred and thirty farmers killed in just a year
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  Speaker 7: this past June. A couple months ago, another attack in Bernu,
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  Speaker 7: a gunman raided a town, killed one hundred people, forced
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  Speaker 7: four thousand to leave. And not just killings, Gabriella, We're
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  Speaker 7: speaking of abductions, burned villagers, destruction of churches, millions forced
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  Speaker 7: into camps with they lack even the basics. And every
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  Speaker 7: single day in Nigerian Christians wake up to the fresh
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  Speaker 7: news of kidnappings or attacks. It's not sporadic, it's systematic,
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  Speaker 7: it's targeted. It's gone on for decades with little accountability.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, and guess.
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  Speaker 5: Who hasn't said a word The so called head of
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  Speaker 5: our Christian church in England, the Church of England, who
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  Speaker 5: has a lot to say about climate change in the
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  Speaker 5: World Economic Forum, but not a word about persecuted Christians
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  Speaker 5: there we are.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for that. And just to clarify,
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  Speaker 1: the International Red Wednesday was November twenty twenty four and
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  Speaker 1: the Clifton Reports, if I remember correctly, was twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: So just to clarify that. But nevertheless, this subject sits
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  Speaker 1: under the surface and a lot more needs to be
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  Speaker 1: done to bring it to the four. But war is
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  Speaker 1: not a problem band.
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  Speaker 4: It's a racket, so they say. And I think we're
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  Speaker 4: about to find out why. So yes, the city, the
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  Speaker 4: banks and the British deep state are banging the war
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  Speaker 4: drums and we're better to find out about it than
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  Speaker 4: over at Rothchild and Co. From Mark, said Will. He says,
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  Speaker 4: we are at war. It's just last week. This event
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  Speaker 4: just not conventional warfare. Conflict now sits in the gray
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  Speaker 4: zone pieces war exactly right, Yes, So this is echoing
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  Speaker 4: the integrated operating concept, this idea that the front line
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  Speaker 4: is actually in the barracks now and the public exactly
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  Speaker 4: yes now, said Will, former head of the Civil Service.
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  Speaker 4: Will come back to him a little bit more later
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  Speaker 4: because he's a crucial player in all of this. But
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  Speaker 4: if we can just flash that back up, we can
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  Speaker 4: see that he is now and was immediately having left
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  Speaker 4: the Civil Service, the chair of Geopolitical Advisory at Rothchild
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  Speaker 4: and Co. So this is business in conflict and in
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  Speaker 4: enormous racket for international capital. The event was run by
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  Speaker 4: the London Defense Conference. It's their investment forum. Held at
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  Speaker 4: the Rothchild and Co. Offices in the city of London
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  Speaker 4: last week, and you can see here one of their
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  Speaker 4: senior analysts, Olivier Brachet, sharing a panel discussing the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: for investors throughout the.
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  Speaker 1: Capital stack, opportunity to invest in death absolutely, yes, coinage
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  Speaker 1: and death exactly.
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  Speaker 4: So that's some seed funding all the way through to
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  Speaker 4: institutional investment funds, pension funds, all the different the full
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  Speaker 4: spectrum of risk appetite across the capital stack. How they
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  Speaker 4: can all invest in potentially make enormous amounts of money
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  Speaker 4: from conflicts. Ultimately, that's what this is all about. We
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  Speaker 4: had various other representatives of the British civil service, this
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  Speaker 4: chap Angus Lapsley, the UK permanent representative to NATO. It's
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  Speaker 4: been buried in Whitehall for four years and then gets
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  Speaker 4: put into this plum job at NATO, and he's there
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  Speaker 4: saying the defense sector in Europe is going to be bigger,
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  Speaker 4: change faster and require more investment for a generation. It's
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  Speaker 4: an entire generation of investment, regardless of when and how
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  Speaker 4: Russia's war against Ukraine ends. Obviously has to present this
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  Speaker 4: as Russia's war against Ukraine. And then he goes on
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  Speaker 4: not showing on the screen here, but the quote continues
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  Speaker 4: to say, there will not be a neat distinction between
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  Speaker 4: defense investment and wider needs. Alongside the traditional defense primes,
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  Speaker 4: we will need growth, innovation and planning for resilience from
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  Speaker 4: a whole range of sectors, including tech, telecommunications, transport, energy,
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  Speaker 4: civilian space and health. So the entire economic system and
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  Speaker 4: the whole of society is being placed on a war
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  Speaker 4: footing by these fellas, these men sitting around conference rooms
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  Speaker 4: in the city of London, who most people have never
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  Speaker 4: heard of, a certainly unelected and deeply conflicted I would
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  Speaker 4: say in terms of their interests. We also had the
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  Speaker 4: MP for Plymouth was there. We can bring that back home.
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  Speaker 4: We've got Luke Pollard who's the Minister for Defense Readiness
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  Speaker 4: in industry, so he's working out how to put his
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  Speaker 4: snout in this trough. We had Lord Robertson, the former
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  Speaker 4: NATO Secretary General and the UK Defense Secretary, so he's
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  Speaker 4: the top, top, top tier people.
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  Speaker 1: All the old names still there, still in the wings,
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  Speaker 1: now coming forward for their share a piece of the cake.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely Neil Ferguson or Nile Ferguson, who is basically the
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  Speaker 4: historian of choice for the Anglo American establishment, is a
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  Speaker 4: Harvey professor who's involved in the ARC program. He's also
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  Speaker 4: a member of the Group of thirty, which is the
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  Speaker 4: kind of top tier of the central banking CABOW, people
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  Speaker 4: who coordinate policy across all the central banks. He's in
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  Speaker 4: that group. He's there representing those interests at this event
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  Speaker 4: at Rothchild and Co. And then this is all, of
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  Speaker 4: course not just about war. It's about deterring war. You
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  Speaker 4: see so being said will back on screen, he's sharing
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  Speaker 4: a panel discussion about building a modern deter a war economy.
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  Speaker 4: So the best way to deter a war is to
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  Speaker 4: spend billions in building weapons and other infrastructure required to
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  Speaker 4: fight on conflict. It sums it up quite nicely, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 4: I think we've seen all the key players, what they're
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  Speaker 4: up to, what the incentives are, just in that little
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  Speaker 4: snapshot from that event last week.
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  Speaker 1: But key people coming to the fall now, so we've
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  Speaker 1: seen the racket and the war and obviously everybody providing ammunition, munitions,
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  Speaker 1: war supplies. The longer the war in Ukraine goes on,
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  Speaker 1: the more money that's made under the surface, the assets
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  Speaker 1: of Ukraine, the grain, the food supplies and also the
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  Speaker 1: rare earth minerals raped. So this is big, big profits
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  Speaker 1: for the big playerslutely and now they're becoming It was
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  Speaker 1: black rock in the beginning, and now we're into the
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  Speaker 1: banking boys that actually fund organizations.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, and this completely symbiotic relationship between the banks,
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  Speaker 4: the City of London and the British civil service, deep state,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: the remnants of the Empire. Ultimately, that's what we're talking
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: about here, right, So we actually take a look at
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: said well, he's a perfect example of this civil service
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: into the City of London, grandee type individual who has
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: extraordinary amount of power and influence, but no one has
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: ever heard of unless you watch programs like the UK columns.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: So who is he? Said, world? So many years in
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: the civil service, Yes, he ran the civil service.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: He was the.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Cabinet Secretary for a number of years, left at the
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: end of twenty twenty two. He was also through his
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: career the National Security Advisor of the Permanent Secretary at
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: the Home Office and also the British Ambassador to Afghanistan.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Had other advisory roles around NATO and other organizations. Like that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Since leaving he has picked up a number of extraordinarily
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: influential roles. He was Deputy chairman of Lloyd's of London,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: the insurance market, as we've touched on. He's Chairman of
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Global Geopolitical Advisory at Rothschild and Co. He's also the
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: chairman of the International Institute for the Strategic Studies ISS,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: which is basically the think tank for the military industrial complex.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: So they do all the long range strategic planning about
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: where wills are going to pick up and where they're
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: going to kick off around the world and what the
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: industry needs to do in order to capitalize on that
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: ultimately is what they're up to. And he's also been
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: to the Builderberg meetings at least once. He was in
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty two while he was still running Cabinet Office,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: where he was still running the UK Civil Service, right,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: And so you can just see here this collection of
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: influences and connections coalescing around said will and as an
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: extension of the Lord's and the top tier of the
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: British establishment into international capital and the military industrial complex,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: and how this whole thing is put together. Basically, we'll
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: put links to all of these organizations and some profiles
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: have said and what have You should go and have
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: a proper read through what these organizations are up to.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: And I'll provide other links to these two videos. The
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: first one is this one, which is a discussion that
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: he had in this capacity at Lloyd's with Baroness Patricia
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Scotland while she was Secretary General of the Commonwealth. This
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: is really revealing actiously and she describes the Commonwealth as
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: a petri dish that you can grow almost anything in.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: You come up with solutions that work not just with
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: the Commonwealth but for everybody. And actually the Commonwealth. Essentially
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: revealing there is that the Commonwealth is one of the
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: main mechanisms through which Britain or the remnants of the
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: British Empire, continues to exert geopolitical power into the UN
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: and other bodies through the Commonwealth es sincially, it's a
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: way of kind of reputation washing the British establishment. So,
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: oh no, we did it with the Commonwealth.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And of course we've got King Charles especially interested in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the power of the Commonwealth through the power of the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: growing population of young people in the Commonwealth. Yes, the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Commonwealth almost seen as a parallel vehicle to the power
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: of the European Union but obviously controlled by Britain.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Yes exactly. And then a final one which you should
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: certainly go and have a look at, is this, which
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: is said Will's Oxford Union speech from October twenty twenty.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: He basically stands up, this is right in the middle
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: of all the lockdowns that he was responsible for overseeing
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: all part of the team, and basically says what we
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: know by twenty fifty and then he just lists out
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: all of the biggest things that are definitely going to
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: happen according to him. So it's going to be about
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: climate change, climate what he calls volatility, and that might
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: involve the UK getting colder, not necessarily warmer as well.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Quite interestingly, he talks about demographic shifts in every part
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: of the world. We're going to have aging populations. The
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: UK is going to have the largest population in Europe,
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: apparently bigger than Germany by twenty fifty. How we're going
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: to be able to feed ourselves, I don't know. We're
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: going to we going to see significant migration flows from
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: north from Sub Saharan Africa. He talks about the Fourth
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Industrial Revolution, the inevitable destruction of white collar jobs. And
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: then also this idea that competition and conflicts are going
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: to become multi domain, so health, democracy, cyber information warfare
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: all going to be part of this new conflict environment.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: And when he doesn't say, but I guess he's hidden
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: in the background is the fact that Rob Child and Co.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: And people like that are going to make him an absolute.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Packet off the back of the mayhem and the chaos.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Exactly, and thank you very much.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Really important segment, because this is talking about where real
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: policy comes from. This is the rules based international border
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: at work. This is where the policy is coming. That
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: then filters through UK government. So the illusion of democracy
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and laws and proper governance of the country coming through
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: parliament is clearly a nonsense now in twenty twenty five.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And your description is setting the scene for where policy
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: is coming now. Part of that policy is absolutely the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: drive for AI. There was a demonstration in London on Saturday,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: not a huge demonstration, understand, but Will Coleshill was there
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to report for UK columns, so let's have a look
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: at what he had to say.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Hello, this wik gos.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Of reporting for UK column today. I'm down here outside
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: the BBC Portland Place that Eric Gilstatue right behind me.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: And today I'm reporting on the Digital ID protests massive
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: that's going on down here in London.
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: So why are you out here today?
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: Then? I'm out here today because I believe in fighting
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: for our liberty and our democracy and I think that
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: digital idea is completely against that and it curbs our
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: rights and our freedom.
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: See, okay to all the.
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: Things more with the vaccines, have you you're just I
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: do the control network that's closing.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I've our grandchildren, our grandchildren's feature.
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: Just watching the way things are going, you know, since
• 26:08
  Speaker 12: COVID freedoms are being systematically dismantled, and yeah, we're we're
• 26:16
  Speaker 12: seeing that everything is just going in one direction.
• 26:19
  Speaker 11: I'm brought out here today because this is the hill
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: I'm willing to die on. If we let this pass,
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: we've become.
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: An open prison. Now this is an important one. I
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: mean digital ID.
• 26:27
  Speaker 13: If we were forced into this, I mean there is
• 26:29
  Speaker 13: absolutely no freedom if they can do.
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: Whatever they like with us. So it really is one
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: a better we must win.
• 26:35
  Speaker 10: You know, it can lead to an authoritarian state, which
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: is I guess the final bolt.
• 26:38
  Speaker 14: We'll be enforced by having a unified system of id
• 26:43
  Speaker 14: so that even your bank account has been monitored and
• 26:48
  Speaker 14: money could be taken out of it if you do
• 26:49
  Speaker 14: something wrong like breaking your carbon footprints.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: Something we don't need. We've never needed it before, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: the plans to put it in place completely tyrannical, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: it's there for monitoring and surveilling in a way that
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: nobody really wants to happen.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: We haven't gone passports, drive the license, first ticket.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: It's just just bringing in an agenda twenty thirty.
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: Yeah, we just have to look at the agenda thirty.
• 27:09
  Speaker 12: Actually for the UN, the United Nations, it's all there.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: They want us to stay in these cities, these fifteen
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: minute cities. We shall we will own nothing, and we
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: shall be happy.
• 27:21
  Speaker 10: If they have that information about you all in one place,
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: and they can easily control and manipulate that information.
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: They can make you do anything you like. They can
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: stop you going places.
• 27:30
  Speaker 13: They can stop you buying certain things if you know,
• 27:33
  Speaker 13: if you're writing certain things on the internet.
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: They can freeze your bank account, they.
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: Can stop finances if you oppose it. And government policies as.
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: Spending, our travel, for climates, just everything, the food that
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: you eat, how much you watch each day. They're going
• 27:48
  Speaker 11: to base it off the Chinese social credit system that's
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: already in place, and we already have a version of
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: this with our credit scores, where we're not allowed to
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: have certain loans, we're not allowed to have certain credit.
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: It'll be like that, but amplified.
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: And if you want some sort of demonstration on how
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: this will work, then you need to watch the nosedied
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: episode of Black Mirror.
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: Which baby steps.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: As they said, before you know it will be locked
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: in our houses or told where we can kind of go.
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: The main thing is they're rolling it out now.
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: They're saying it's to stop so called illegal work and
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: stuff like that. You know, they give some you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: bad reasons for it, just to get the public on board,
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: and then they introduce something else, and then something else,
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: and before you know it, you've lost all your freedoms.
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: So they're going to put penalties on people and punish
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: people for not complying. And I'm not being funny, but
• 28:28
  Speaker 11: that's never really.
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: A good thing, is it.
• 28:29
  Speaker 11: This is another thing about convenience.
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: They're gonna not.
• 28:32
  Speaker 11: Force you to have it, but it will be extremely
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: inconvenient for you to exist in society without it. And
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: that's how they're going to try and trippers up.
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: We know that they've already done the veterans cards for veterans,
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: and now they're trying to get everyone who's a company
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: director onto the government one login system. They're taking our biometrics,
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: and that's the key things. If you give up your biometrics,
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: the government creates a digital twin of you, something that
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: represents you in the digital space, and you've got no
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: control over what happen to that and how the government
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: uses it and where that might end up.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Do you think that this is going to change people's
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: minds coming out here today?
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: Honestly, I don't know. We've got a lot of people
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: that understand what this means and a lot of people
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: who think this is going to happen anyway no matter
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: what we do. But that's the problem. It will happen
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: if no one does anything. So you may as well
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: stand up, You may as well say something just to
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: say that you did and you have.
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: Yeah, well they didn't make any decisions on their quotes,
• 29:24
  Speaker 13: but you know, talk the other day. So I think
• 29:26
  Speaker 13: with the amount of people that are speaking up against it,
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: there is hope.
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: Well that's all I can say there is hope, definitely.
• 29:31
  Speaker 10: I mean if you look around like the streets, I
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: feel here, so definitely right and it's about raising awareness
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: and I think that we can definitely do that.
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: I think a lot of people are aware of it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: I mean it was three million people that wrote, you know,
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: sign the petition, wasn't it to the houses of Parliament?
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: So yeah, people aren't waking up.
• 29:46
  Speaker 12: Maybe they're not.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Coming out on the streets.
• 29:48
  Speaker 12: Were a lot of a lot of people I know
• 29:50
  Speaker 12: and I meet come and say, you know, yeah, we
• 29:52
  Speaker 12: agree with you. This is that they don't feel powerful.
• 29:55
  Speaker 15: They're going to try their artists to implement it, and
• 29:58
  Speaker 15: we need to stand up and say no, we're not
• 30:00
  Speaker 15: doing it. We're not doing it, and that's what we
• 30:03
  Speaker 15: need to That's what the message is. Do not accept
• 30:06
  Speaker 15: the digital I date, don't accept it. Defiance.
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: We're fighting for everyone's freedom.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: A few more people standing it.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Well. An encouraging report, I will col sill there, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I think the young lady said it all. Of course,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: if people do nothing, these policies are absolutely going to
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: be implemented. So really wonderful to see the people that
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: did attend and the fact they were also well informed
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: speaking out in order to try and get their stops.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: And good to see some of the smaller parties there,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: David Curtin from the Heritage Party but also he As
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Corbyn and Andrew Bridgen. Were there many mainstream media reports
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in UK on the day. I don't think so. But
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: this is why it's beholden on all of us people
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: who do understand and what's going on, to get out
• 31:01
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• 31:05
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• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Let's come on to the subject of the Home Secretary
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and the announcement that there's to be a massive effort
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to target violence and particularly sexual violence against women. So,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: according to Shabaah my mood, violence against women and girls
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: is a national emergency.
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: Now.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: It's getting difficult to know where the emergencies are now
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: because I thought it was Putin and the war in Ukraine,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: but apparently now women and girls have become the national emergency.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: She went on to say that we the government have
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: got a plan to set up specialist and sexual offense
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: investigation teams in every police force in England and Wales
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: by twenty twenty nine. Now, my comment on this is
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: that of course sexual offenses against women shouldn't be taking place,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: but it's very interesting that the government can set up
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: teams to tackle this issue, but consistently they've failed to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: set up effective teams to tackle the horrific and widespread
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: abuse of children. So I have to be a bit
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: cynical here because it seems to me that the real,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: real serious crime that against children who are unable to
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: defend themselves at all. The government doesn't want to get
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: to grips with but suddenly they've moved on to this
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: area of the women. So if we add a little
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: bit more, apparently the plan is to have the violence
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: against women and girls within a decade. Now I'm going
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to take a little bit of a different look at
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: this because the circumstances that we live in today, the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: violence against women, what does this actually mean, where does
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: it come from, what is it being generated by? I
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: think we need to have a wider and a deeper look.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: We can only do part of that in the news.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: But if we go into some of the statistics. Of course,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: something we should flag up straight away is it as
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a result of violence, who gets at most by violence? Well,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: in fact, that's men, if we can pop this one
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: up on screen. So men are more at risk of violence,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: but women are more at risk of sexual violence, and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: this is a key thing. So they're going for the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: sexual violence, but the government is not interested about the
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: greater risk of general violence to men, which is interesting.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Then the BBC really gets into the weeds here because
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: it gives us a headline saying that in this policy
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: which is about sexual violence against women, boys are to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: be targeted, and essentially the plan which is VAWG violence
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: against women and girls. The strategy is going to be
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: built around three goals, preventing the radicalization of young men,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: stopping abuses, and supporting victims. And I'm going to flag
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: up straight away we know what's going to happen here,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: which is that young boys are going to be absolutely targeted,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: to be reframed that they don't go near girls. And
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: of course where does that lead. That is going to
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: lead into further breakdown in later life when as adults
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: they should be forming relationships with girls. But let's take
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: a little look about the female side itself. And I think, yes,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: this could be a bit controversial to some members of
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: our audience, but I think we need to dig into
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: this area, as some people would say. And this is
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: one of the killers headline. So it's the Manchester Evening
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: News and the headline is beautiful ladies losing control in
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Manchester viral nightlife video trends disturbing new turn So what
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: is this article about. Well, there's an embedded video. This
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: is just a screenshot of the opening frame of that video.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: But what I wanted to highlight to people. Is it
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: says vulnerable women filmed on a night out in Manchester.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Vulnerable women filmed in a night out in Manchester. So
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: let's just play a little bit of video. I'm going
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: to talk over this as it plays, and let's just
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: have a look at at the video itself. And I'll
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: just say to Chris, the video we should be playing
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: is the next one. So the embedded one I can
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: see on screen, I'm not sure that is going to
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: be the right video that so let's see what you
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: should see as a street scene. I just wait and
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: see whether we can key that video up. This is it,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: So let's play this and it'll become apparent to the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: audience what's actually going on here. So if we bring
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: that on, so this is what late night looks like
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: with these vulnerable young ladies on the streets, and I
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: think we could start to ask some questions about what
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: exactly these young ladies are doing, why they feel the
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: need to be dressed like this, sat in the gutter
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: because they're too drunk to stand up. This is just
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: a tiny snapshot of what's going on in UK in
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: UK cities, and of course the police have to deal
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: with the fallout of this. But these are women who
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: are being described as vulnerable, and I think it's reasonable
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to say to the audience, are we looking at vulnerable
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: young ladies or are we looking at misguided young ladies
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: in not only where they are, how much they've had
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: to drink, but also how they're dressed. Now let's see
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: how the Chief Inspector Stephen Wiggins of Greater Manchester Police,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Let's see how he commented on the fact that these
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: videos have been taken. And what takes place is that
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: they are concerned about the fact that a male was
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: on the street taking video of young ladies in this condition.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: So as far as the police are concerned, the focus
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: is simply on the people who took the video, and
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Stephen Wiggins says, we're aware that concern over a number
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: of online accounts filming women on nights out has been
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: raised on social media. We take the safety of women
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: and girls incredibly seriously, including within the city center's nightlife,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: and would encourage anyone who leaves that they or others
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: are being stalked to rast upskirted or filmed in a
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: manner which is causing them alarm or distress. To please
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: speak to our officers on the ground or report fire
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: around nine nine nine or one oh one services And
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I'll just give the last bid here. Women and girls
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: should be able to feel safe on a night out,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: so I would reiterate that anyone with concerns should contact
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: police immediately so appropriate action can be taken. And perhaps
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: a key question is are these vulnerable and they were
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: described as beautiful as well, are these vulnerable beautiful ladies
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: accountable for their physical condition and their dress code or
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: are they simply allowed to do whatever they like and
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: the consequences fall on the police and wider society. Now
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I know I'm raising some serious questions here. We'll certainly
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: discuss this more extra after today's UK column News, but
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: we will certainly be digging deeper into this issue. We'll
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: also be looking both sides of the equation, women and men,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: but today we've taken a focus on the women. Now
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: let's look at what we saw on the streets there
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: against the budget which we raised a couple of days ago,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: where in the budget one of the key things that
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: came up was benefits for families and this was going
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: to place a burden of another three billion on the country.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to ask the question. It was described
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: as child poverty, but are we really looking at child
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: poverty or are we looking at breakdown of the family.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: If we get into some of the statistics, and I've
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: deliberately used AI to assist me here because as our
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: regular news viewers will know, we are looking at the
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: accuracy of AI and we're also pointing out its weaknesses.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: But here we had to go to an AI system
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: because statistics can be quite difficult to find without a
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: little bit of help. And the key part that came
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: out was that we don't know how many mums were
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: on benefits overall. But when we got deeper in then
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: we do get some statistics. So the key thing is
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: roughly one point two to one point four million single
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: mother households were on benefits. And if we get into
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: more of the detail, there are three point two million
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: loan parents. There are two point seven million single mothers.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: And here out of those single mothers, one point one
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: to one point three five million are never married. Now
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: why is this significant Because if we label this, of
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: course with a single mother, there's no father's as role
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: models for the boys. Yet we can see the BBC
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: is indicating that the country, the system is absolutely going
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: to target boys because they're deemed as the problem with
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: the violence against the women. So we've got a number
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: of things going on, but we can be sure that
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the BBC is not going to dig deeper into this
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: very critical social these social problems. Now, the other thing
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to flag up, and again I know
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: this is going to be quite a motive to some
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: probably some ladies in the audience, But when you look
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: at statistics for partnerships of women twenty five to thirty four,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: and I've taken this report here, which is a combination
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: of universities, it says that at least thirty percent of
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: the women had at least ten sexual partners. If we
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: go on to other studies here and this is you
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, it's saying that the average women in
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: their study had three lifetime partners. But let's put a
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: label across this and we can apply it to both
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: men and women. Is there a connection between promisecurity partners
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: and the failing and the number of partners megapon and
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: the failing stability of partnerships and marriage, and of course
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: the inference in the home Office, is that a large
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: percentage of the violent and sexual incidents against women is
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: happening within the Home So for the UK column team
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: at least, it seems worthwhile we should be looking at
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the whole problem as to what's happening here and not
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: just following the Home Office. Is blanket concern that violence
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: against women has come out of nowhere. Women not accountable
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: in any way for what's actually happening on the street.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Not to discuss and we'll have a look at this
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: a little bit more in extra time now. Ben. By
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: pure coincidence, your next topic was lady in red.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: And ladies Ladies in red, Yes, absolutely, for there are
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: many of them and they're not vulnerable, which you I think.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: These are the exact are the end of the spectrum,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: because these are immensely wealthy and very powerful women.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Indeed, yes, well we're not going to start with them.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: We're going to start with this fellow. This is Andrew Bailey,
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: and most people will know I guess certainly if you're
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: watching this, that he's the Governor of the Bank of England,
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: but he's also a member of the Fabian Society. He
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: was the chair of the Fabian Society at Cambridge when
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: he studied there. Also, remember the G thirty, the Group
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: of thirty I mentioned earlier, who were the group of
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: central bankers set up by the Rockefeller family in the
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: late nineteen seventies to help aligne and coordinate global financial policy.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: And he's also the chairman of the Financial Stability or
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: the FSB, which is just another one of these global
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: entities that is there to harmonize and align the policies
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: of the central banks around the world and basically dictate
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: terms to international governments and the global population because the
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: central banks are the absolute focal point for the control
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: mechanisms are being brought through to things like the Central
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Bank Digital currency CBDC. And this is completely, one hundred
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: percent totally aligned to the Fabian agenda. We can get
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: that back on screen quickly. Let's just reinforce this point. Yeah,
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: because people seem to think, you know, certainly on the
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: left hand side as they would define it, of the
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: political equation, that Fabian socialism or even just socialism generally
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: is some kind of counter to the banks and the
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: city and international capital. But that's not the case at all.
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: So government policy, Fabian policy is central bank policy. There's
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: absolutely nothing between them at all. And the Fabians have
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: been right at the forefront of progressing this socialist and
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: they're in the UK since eighteen eighty four and they've
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: published many pamphlets on this. This one has caught my
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: attention over the past few weeks come out in twenty
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: twenty three which talks of this exact issue right, it's
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: called in Tandem, will provide a link to it and
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: go and have a look. And in this they argue
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: for the creation of an Economic Policy Coordination Committee or EPCC,
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: comprising the UK Treasury and Business Department, the devolved Governments,
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: the Bank of England and then our various infrastructure banks,
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: national investment banks, what have you in the climate change
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: committees in there as well. So what they're talking about doing,
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: and remember this is the Fabian Society, who of which
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: the Prime Minister and most of the Cabinet are members,
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: as well as the Governor of the Bank of England,
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: as we've just pointed out, are looking to merge and
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: integrate the Treasury and the Bank and also a whole
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: bunch of other departments and particularly the devolve governments that
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: we've been talking about a lot recently, who are going
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: to be the dissemination point for this globe a policy
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: agenda out into the country, essentially completely short circuiting Westminster
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: and what we believe to be our model of governance. Right,
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: So this is absolutely at the center of this. And
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: Andrew Bailey is an extraordinarily powerful and central figure in
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: this whole agenda. As I said, it's the governor of
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: the Bank of England, who's the chair of the FSB,
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: is a member of the Fabian Society. And yet you
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: can come across pictures like this and this is where
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: the ladies in red come in, because that's Andrew Bailey
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: on the left there, and we've got this woman in
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: red on the right hand side. And this I wanted
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: to brought. I had an inkling that I needed to
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: talk about Andrew Bailey. So maybe something's going to happen,
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: and will certainly come back to him in this issue
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: in our reporting next year. But this is one of
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: the photos that most struck me this year from my
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: travels across the internet. Right, look at the body language here,
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: this woman on the right hand side. She appears to
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: have him in submission control. Yes, he looks he looks
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: like a Norse little boy being scolded in his hand
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: on the table. Seems a very strange configuration here, So
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: the question is who is that? But I can tell
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: you that that's Julie Tiegland from e Y, my alma
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: mater I used to work. She's the Global Vice Chair
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: of Alliances and Ecosystems. I call her over group and
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: Feud of Tigland because I think it's quite fitting. And
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: there's another shot of her here. She's at this event.
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: This is in the in Washington, d C. At the
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: World Bank Spring meetings, and it was attended by, amongst
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: other people, the head of the UN Development Program and
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: Andrew Bailey. As we've talked about, and this is this
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: is where the real big decisions are made. This is
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: where policy is disseminated, where the direction is set. She's
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: talking about no longer navigating episodic chains. We're operating in
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: a time of permanent disruption, permanent disruption, and it's been
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: driven down from the top by ladies like that. So
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: she was chairing this meeting alongside this other in red.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: I don't know who that is. The whole thing is
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: being shared by ladies in red. And you see this
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: occurring again and again and again across the civil service,
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: across the city. And I think there's something in it.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know exactly what my interest has been piqued, there's.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Something in it. And one thing we can be sure
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: of that these ladies in Red don't have any concern
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: for those poor young women who are drunk on the
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: streets of the major city. So what a contrast between
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: the destruction of the family life and those young girls,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: presumably nobody taught them to do anything better than they're doing,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: and all of the tragedy that unfolds from that sort
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: of lifestyle. And then we have the contrast with these
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: immensely powerful women. We will talk a lot more about
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: this in extra but thank you for that, Ben Sandy.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Let's bring you back in my goodness, there's so much
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: happening in this country at the moment. It's difficult to
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: know quite where to go, and we've never got enough
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: time on the news. But take us on to a
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: bit more about what you're seeing happen.
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I was looking at the budget a
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: few weeks ago, and another lady in Red, Rachel reeves
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: the budget was very much about dependency, about benefits and
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: dependency and it actually worked out that actually it's cheaper
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: to go on benefits than it is to work. Now,
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: what kind of society is that? And it's all framed around,
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: you know, a single assumption that more people will depend
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: on the state for longer and at greater cost and
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: rising benefits. Dependency is no longer treated as a warning sign.
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: It's presented as inevitable, the unavoidable response to a permanent crisis.
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: And this is what seems to be happening now. There's
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: a political.
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: Theory that developed decades ago that treats this outcome not
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: as failure but a strategy. And it's called the Cloud
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: Pivens strategy. Now a lot of people have said to me,
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: why haven't I mentioned it before? I learned about it
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: quite a while ago. And the original idea, the Cloward
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: Piven strategy comes from this nineteen sixty six article the
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: Nation magazine, which was written by sociologists.
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: I think we had it up a moment ago. Yeah,
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: And it.
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: Was written by sociologist Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven.
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: They were a married couple and they both studied at
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: Columbia University.
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: Their argument was direct.
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: They believed that welfare systems were deliberately kept limited to
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: preserve social order, and that meaningful reform would never come
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: through debate or gradual change. Instead, they proposed in you know,
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: encouraging maximum legal participation in welfare, pushing the systems beyond capacity.
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: Now we've got a picture here of Howard Howard Richard Cloward,
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: and then his wife is is yeah, Their she is
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: is yes?
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: Is Rachel Piven?
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: Their reasoning was simple. They overloaded the system to create
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: crisis and enforced central government to expand welfare and authority.
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: In their view, crisis were not something to avoid. It
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: was a mechanism of change. And they keep talking about change.
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: So the cloud pivet logic reverses that idea. In this framework,
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: high dependency is not failure, and it's administratively used to
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: overload a system and long term reliance on the state
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: increases political leverage. Now it becomes dependency, stops being temporary,
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: it becomes a sort of structural way of dealing with things.
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: And it becomes a whole thing.
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: Instead of being a temporary fix for people, it becomes
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: a way of living, which is not good for society.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: And this is where this is what we're seeing now
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: where people are long term dependent on the state. But
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: it fulfills the whole agenda for technocracy and everything that
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: they've got coming, because it means that that you know,
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: recent budgets expand the means tested support, monitoring and conditionality,
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: all that kind of thing. So they just keep this
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: whole dependency machine going. And what's presented as compassion also
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: becomes governance by necessity, and that's a bit of a problem.
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: So you know, incentives to work, wee can, family stability declined,
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: community responsibility eroads, and social trust breaks down also so
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: that you know, the damage isn't evenly shared. So we've
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: got a dependency which leads to breakdown. Breakdown justifies expansion,
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: and expansion deepens the dependency. So it's all this like
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: this awful cycle. Interestingly, Cloud Piven was never it was
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: never about shrinking the state. It was about expanding it.
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: So and today that expansion takes on the technocratic form.
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: Now we mustn't forget that Columbia University was the hotbed
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: in the nineteen sixties of technocracy and before actually right
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: even before the nineteen sixties, you know, you had all
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: the major technocrats went there Amatai Etzioni. Who's you know,
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: the whole thing with communitarianism and social policy and social
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: engineering as well. So you've got this, you know, these
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: these systems that strain governments and introduced digital benefits, platforms,
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: algorithmic of eligibility, checks, behavioral conditions, all that kind of thing.
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: So these are presented as efficiency solutions. Now what I've
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: got here is, I you know, it's not about whether
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: society would help the vulnerable. It's about whether permanent dependency
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: is being normalized as a method of governance. And that's
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: that's really what we're seeing. So I've got a video here,
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: really and it's from back to fronteen, twenty twenty, and
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: it just shows you how dependency has eroded society in America,
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: in certain areas of America, particularly poor black areas.
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: So if we could run that video, you.
• 56:10
  Speaker 16: See the new Left, and almost specifically one of the
• 56:15
  Speaker 16: professors in this building, Francis Fox Piven and Richard clod
• 56:19
  Speaker 16: in their book Regulating the Poor and in their movement
• 56:22
  Speaker 16: as an almost prime movers in this disintegration of the
• 56:27
  Speaker 16: Black community in one sense, and the rise of this
• 56:31
  Speaker 16: this feeling or this paradigm of therapeutic alienation.
• 56:35
  Speaker 17: Francis Fox, Pivot and Richard Cloward created so much Black pain,
• 56:39
  Speaker 17: and it's really a shame how little this is known.
• 56:43
  Speaker 17: It's very simple. The idea that there could be a
• 56:46
  Speaker 17: kind of welfare policy where generation after generations stayed on it,
• 56:51
  Speaker 17: nobody cared whether the people got a job, and you
• 56:53
  Speaker 17: were paid for having kids didn't exist until the late sixties.
• 56:57
  Speaker 17: A lot of people seem understandably to think that that's
• 56:59
  Speaker 17: the way welfare always was. It was that way for
• 57:01
  Speaker 17: a good thirty years. That only started then. There's a
• 57:04
  Speaker 17: reason why when you read a novel about the black
• 57:06
  Speaker 17: poor and say the nineteen thirties or forties, that welfare
• 57:09
  Speaker 17: is generally mentioned once or twice. It was hard to
• 57:12
  Speaker 17: get on it, barely paid you enough to eat, and
• 57:14
  Speaker 17: social workers were always trying to get you off it,
• 57:17
  Speaker 17: and discounted for whites as well as blacks. So there's
• 57:19
  Speaker 17: where I'm talking about welfare as a racial issue in
• 57:21
  Speaker 17: the thirties or forties. But starting in the late sixties,
• 57:24
  Speaker 17: welfare was expanded by those Columbia social workers. Their idea
• 57:29
  Speaker 17: was benevolent. They were trying to create a guaranteed income,
• 57:32
  Speaker 17: but that didn't happen, and it left black communities where
• 57:34
  Speaker 17: it was possible to spend your life if you were
• 57:37
  Speaker 17: a woman living on welfare, and to spend your life
• 57:40
  Speaker 17: making children you didn't have to take care of if
• 57:42
  Speaker 17: you were a man, you couldn't do that in nineteen
• 57:45
  Speaker 17: fifty eight because the government wasn't going to take care
• 57:46
  Speaker 17: of the kids. So the issue is not that black
• 57:49
  Speaker 17: people were somehow evil to go on the welfare if
• 57:52
  Speaker 17: it was offered. Of course, that every third person took it,
• 57:54
  Speaker 17: that's human nature. But if that welfare hadn't existed, the
• 57:58
  Speaker 17: black community today would be much more coherent than it was.
• 58:01
  Speaker 17: There's no such thing as whole communities were. Having a
• 58:04
  Speaker 17: father was strange until welfare was changed that way. It
• 58:09
  Speaker 17: was one of the most important aspects of black history
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  Speaker 17: what those people did to welfare legislation. Also should also
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  Speaker 17: be said that it was spearheaded.
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  Speaker 4: By George Wiley, who was Black.
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  Speaker 17: But still it was a grievous, grievous wrong, and the
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  Speaker 17: people involved in that even today, the ones who are alive,
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  Speaker 17: have blood on their hands, and they had a more
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  Speaker 17: profound effect on the black community across this country than
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  Speaker 17: factories moving away or anybody using the word nigger or
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  Speaker 17: any of the other things that were trained to think
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  Speaker 17: more about.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, once the society is governed by dependency
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  Speaker 5: and emergency independence, itself starts to look like a bit
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  Speaker 5: of a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Sir Sandy, will keep the little bit on assisted dying
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  Speaker 1: for extra. It does dovetail into the report that you've
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  Speaker 1: just made, but we're looking at the clock a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll keep that for UK column News Extra. Aren't
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  Speaker 1: we on track with the vibes?
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  Speaker 6: Ben?
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  Speaker 1: Is the key question.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hoping you can help me out with that, actually, Brian,
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  Speaker 4: vibe coding, go on?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: What do you reckon?
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  Speaker 13: I think it's the use of artist and you can
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  Speaker 13: read the next slide character you're cheating.
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  Speaker 1: At least we've got a proper studio, so I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: confident I know guy.
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  Speaker 4: So this is the use of artificial intelligence prompted by
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  Speaker 4: natural language to assist with the writing of computer code.
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  Speaker 4: And it is the word of the year twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that exciting? Where AI meets authenticity as society shifts.
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  Speaker 4: It's nothing. It's not social engineering, Brian, That's definitely not
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  Speaker 4: what it is. Tired of wrestling with syntax. Just go
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  Speaker 4: with the vibes. That's the essence of vibe coding, Collins's
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  Speaker 4: word of the Year twenty twenty five. The term that
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  Speaker 4: captures something fundamental about our revolving relationship with technol enogy.
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  Speaker 4: Coined by this guy Andre Carpathi, who's an AI pioneer
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  Speaker 4: apparently and part of the Open ai original team. There's
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  Speaker 4: a new kind of coding I call vibe coding. This
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  Speaker 4: is the original tweet from February this year, where you
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  Speaker 4: fully give into the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that
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  Speaker 4: the code even exists. It's possible because the lms are
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  Speaker 4: getting too good. I feel like you've been in you
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  Speaker 4: might be vibe coding soon.
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  Speaker 8: Brian.
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  Speaker 4: You've been using chatter GPT quite a lot of notice.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think you're going to vibe code over Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty confident I won't be. I'm pretty pleased to
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  Speaker 1: tell you that. But yes, chat GBT was in my
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  Speaker 1: mind as you were talking about this, because UK column
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  Speaker 1: viewer sent in some challenges they had made to chat GBT,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: where they'd quickly got another admission of bias in the
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  Speaker 1: system and I'll try and bring that on to UK
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  Speaker 1: column News possibly at the end of the week. We'll see,
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  Speaker 1: but thank you very much the viewer who sent that in.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, there's nothing but bias in those systems. So they're
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  Speaker 4: really pushing this, they're trying to make it a cultural phenomenon.
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  Speaker 4: There was this thing that came out as well a
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  Speaker 4: few months ago, the Way of Code, the Timeless Art
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  Speaker 4: of vibe Coding, made by Uncle Rick Rick Rubin, and
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  Speaker 4: includes such gems as the vibe cod of builds without Laboring,
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  Speaker 4: which is basically the big live all this technology, but
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  Speaker 4: you won't have to do anything, you don't have to
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  Speaker 4: learn anything. You just speak to the machine and it
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  Speaker 4: will do everything that you need to do. And it's
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  Speaker 4: all part of this drive towards merging humanity with technology
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  Speaker 4: and artificial intelligence in particular. And I just think that
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  Speaker 4: they're hiding to nothing unfortunately, because it's a bit like this,
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  Speaker 4: you try and mix oil and water. Yeah, so this
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  Speaker 4: is the vibe coding. That's the vibe coding. They're trying
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  Speaker 4: to shake it up and to make the things merge,
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  Speaker 4: but actually they separate, Yeah, because they're fundamentally different and
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  Speaker 4: of course.
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  Speaker 1: Destroying language destroys the whole ability of humans to not
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  Speaker 1: only communicate, but properly interface with each other. So let
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  Speaker 1: us end with a positive note.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this is a fun This is a fun shot
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  Speaker 4: from the road trip to York Brian, Sandy and May
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  Speaker 4: that I came across and I thought it was it
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  Speaker 4: was That was a good day, It was a great weekends,
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