UK Column News – 3rd November 2025

Mike Robinson, Ben Rubin, Diane Rasmussen and Sandi Adams with today’s UK Column News. 

00.48 State of Terror: UK train stabbings and hysterical headlines

Police investigating whether train attack suspect linked to stabbing of 14-year-old on Friday – BBC News

Metal detectors at train stations would ‘make life impossible’, says UK transport secretary | UK news | The Guardian

Police ‘forced to disclose ethnicity of suspects to counter far-right speculation’ | Police | The Guardian

Man charged in connection to major incident at Huntingdon station – CambridgeshireMan charged in connection to major incident at Huntingdon station – Cambridgeshire | British Transport Police 

05.04 Censorship: Online ‘sensitive content’

Chat control proposal fails again after massive public opposition | Andrea Fortuna

Europe Postpones ‘Chat Control’ Vote – BankInfoSecurity 

Hummelgaard abandons controversial proposal for surveillance

Ofcom’s ‘legal but harmful’:Qualtrics UE Trial Insights Paper

13.15 Agentic State: AI authority and agency over humans

Mastering Agentic AI: Chatbot Summit 2025 in Berlin | Techedge AI | Latest AI & Technology News Today 

Stanley Milgram 1968 Stanley Milgram – The Agentic State

About – Berlin Global GovTech Centre

A Primer on the Evolution and Impact of AI Agents | World Economic Forum

Klaus Schwab World Government Summit 2025 (06.32 – 08.23)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVbzuog4qz4&t=524s

24.06 Darlington Nurses: Update on the tribunal

Kellie-Jay Keen and I Confront Trans-Identified Male Outside Newcastle Tribunal Court

Darlington trans objection nurses advised to change elsewhere – BBC News

Case briefing Darlington nurses

Told to be ‘more inclusive’ – Darlington nurses go public with legal case against NHS Trust

30.15 Check out our website, see what we do, and support us

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Lest We Forget — Part 2: They Knew. They Did It Anyway. We Know, Too. | UKColumn

34.16 Med Safety Week: MHRA the UK’s global pharmaceutical enabler

MHRA calls on public to report side effects and suspected fakes during #MedSafetyWeek – GOV.UK

Major change for rare disease treatments on way, signals MHRA – GOV.UK

38.40 EU Global Digital Governance: Public response is resoundingly negative

Jacques Attali, Europe requires a single economic and political discipline – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXoNdxsQo28

Ursula von der Leyen – “Europe is the values of the Talmud” https://x.com/IpIndependent/status/1909561898477007022

Christine Lagarde, final phase of CBDC – https://x.com/ecb/status/1984214157743292520

46.19 Digital ID Rally: The North says “No!”

FIRST EVER exclusively Digital ID protest in Newcastle upon Tyne!

53.38 Project Servator:

Project Servator | Avon and Somerset Police