UK Column News – 14th April 2025

Charles Malet, Ben Rubin, Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie and Alex Kriel with today’s UK Column News.

 

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Steal Back the Steel: UK Sidelines China to Forge a New Path with British Steel

00:37 British Steel: British Steel Limited

GOV.UK: PM statement on British Steel: 12 April 2025

A secure future. A Britain rebuilt with British steel, in the national interest

UK Parliament (YouTube): Recall of Parliament – British Steel – 12 April 2025

GOV.UK: The steel strategy: the plan for steel (16 February 2025)

UK Steel: Mutual benefit: Steel investment could secure British-made steel for offshore wind boom and shore up national security

In the last five years less than 2% of steel used in UK wind farms was fabricated in the UK, and almost none using UK made steel.

UK Steel: Industrial Electricity prices – A barrier to growth, competitiveness, and profitability

UK Parliament: Parliamentary Bills: Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

IPPR: Up to 8 million UK jobs at risk from AI unless government acts, finds IPPR 

Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work: Digital Wages for Decent Work

 

Mindsets for the Masses: UN’s Behavioural Science Week

09:47 Purpose: Purpose uses creative storytelling and campaigns to move people to remake the world. Explore our work and impact

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Nature for People, Planet, Prosperity and Peace 

UN: Secretary-General’s video message on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations University

The Borgen Project: Tea Production in Developing Countries and the SDGs

 

Rebuilding Minds, Rewiring Communities: From Orwell to Behavioural Science

20:10 Goodreads: George Orwell, 1984

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Behavioural Insights Team: Professor David Halpern CBE

The Royal Society of Medicine (YouTube): RSM In Conversation Live with Dr David Halpern

Goodreads: Cass R. Sunstein

Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods: Baroness Hilary Armstrong Visits Wolverhampton Community Centre

Local Trust: Big Local

BBC: The English neighbourhood that claims to hold the secret to fixing the NHS

Martyr Made: The Anti-Humans

 

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Event: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival – 18th July 2025 (Angel Inn, Larling at 11am)

Event: Stand In The Light Festival (23rd – 26th May)

Give Send Go: Legal Defense for SLAPP Suits Against Free Speech

Pattern (Substack): Pattern Incubator

 

Sanctions and the Strange Economics of War

33:57 NDTV: “Horrible Thing, Mistake”: Donald Trump On Russia’s Strike On Ukraine’s Sumy That Killed 34

Euromaidan Press: America’s new Ukraine map looks like Putin drew it himself

IMF DataMapper: Real GDP growth – Annual percent change

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): Down But Not Out: The Russian Economy Under Western Sanctions

World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS): Russian Federation trade statistics

Substack: Thinking Coalition

 

Reclaiming the Narrative: Funding For Big Tech and Broadcast Giants

41:52 Public Interest News Foundation: Regenerating Local News: What’s Next?

Charitable Journalism Project: Policy and evidence to protect and develop public interest journalism 

Luminate: We envision a future where everyone has power to shape society

Ren Rubin’s chart: Global Publishing, TV and Meta Ad Revenues ($bn)

City St George’s, University of London (2020): Coronavirus is killing quality journalism – here’s one possible lifeline

 

Billions for Better Modelling: UK Doubles Down on Climate Science to Forecast a Cleaner Planet

52:06 GOV.UK: Record £13.9 billion of R&D funding unveiled to boost innovation, jobs and growth 

The Department’s investment in R&D to protect our planet also includes £310 million for the Met Office, which while most well-known for providing accurate weather forecasting for the UK also provides the UK’s most advanced climate modelling […]

GOV.UK: Professor Sir Ian Chapman appointed next CEO of UK Research and Innovation with renewed focus on economic growth 

The World Economic Forum (WEF): Ottoline Leyser – Agenda Contributor

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) – NERC is the driving force of investment in environmental science

Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Dr Shaun Fitzgerald OBE, Centre for Climate Repair

I’ll be so happy if we’ve decarbonised so rapidly that we don’t need to apply this research

Hugh Hunt (LinkedIn): Hugh Hunt’s post about the Napkin Diagram

For climate change, the Napkin Diagram (thanks to John Shepherd 2010) helps us to understand how Emissions Reduction alone is not sufficient*. Carbon Dioxide Removal CDR is also necessary but in the short term we need SRM (Solar Radiation Management) to help keep temperatures down.

Arctic Repair Conference: It’s time to talk about climate change solutions (26th – 28th June, Cambridge)

 

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