UK Column News – 16th May 2025

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with Friday’s UK Column News.

 

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The Assisted Dying Bill: It’s Time to End It — Not Life

00:22 The Independent (YouTube): Live: MPs debate controversial Assisted Dying Bill after major changes

 

When ‘Our Side’ Includes Al-Qaeda: A Dirty War for Middle East Dominance

3:18 The White House: Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic $600 Billion Investment Commitment in Saudi Arabia

CNBC Television (YouTube): President Trump speaks at U.S.-Saudi investment forum during Saudi Arabia visit

NBC News: Is Syria’s new president a U.S. ally or enemy?

Patrick Henningsen (on X): MUHAMMAD AL-JAWLANI wanted poster

Voice of America: Rubio says Syria must hold accountable ‘perpetrators of massacres’ 

The Cradle: Survivors of Syrian government massacres recount tales of ‘death, destruction’

Al Jazeera: Donald Trump live: US president signs $1.4 trillion AI deal with UAE

BBC (2024): Starmer welcomes fall of Assad’s ‘barbaric regime’

BBC (2024): Too early to remove Syrian rebels from terror list – Starmer

 

Securing Peace or Sustaining Conflicts? NATO’s Expanding Budget Demands

21:26 NATO: NATO Foreign Ministers meet to prepare the Summit in The Hague

GOV.UK: UK at heart of NATO talks on strengthening Euro-Atlantic security and support for Ukraine 

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (Facebook): Allies, friends, defenders of Europe’s security – Photo of Lammy

ReliefWeb: Weimar+ joint statement on Ukraine and Euro-Atlantic security (12 May 2025)

Council of the European Union: EU-UK summit, 19 May 2025

 

Tax Contagion-Digital Tax Spreading Like Malware

29:13 Politico: US still pushing to scrap UK’s tech tax

GOV.UK (2020): Policy paper: Digital Services Tax

 

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UK Column article: The Secret Society Dedicated to a New World Order: the Fabians

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

The Light Paper: The Light, Issue 57 – May/June 2025 (PDF)

Event: Sounds Beautiful Festival – 26th to 29th June

UK Column Facebook competition: Win 2 Free tickets for Sounds Beautiful

Event: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival – 18th July 

Event: Hope Sussex Community: HOPE Freedom Music Festival – 22ndto 25th August

 

Pfizer Finally Faces Legal Heat at State Level Over Vaccine Messaging

39:00 WIBW: Case filed against Pfizer for COVID vaccine marketing to be heard at state level

 

Same Lies, New War: How Legacy Media Keeps Recycling Propaganda

41:09 BBC: Iran using criminal gangs for hit jobs abroad, court papers show

Fox News: Satellite images reveal alleged secret Iranian nuclear weapons facility

GOV.UK: Media law reforms to boost press sustainability and protect independence

 

Gaza in Crisis — But U.S Headlines Focus on White South Africa

45:44 PBS: White Afrikaners from South Africa arrive at Dulles airport to seek U.S. resettlement

PBS NewsHour (YouTube): Trump claims white farmers are target of genocide in South Africa

WJTV: South African leader and Trump will meet next week after US took in white South Africans as refugees

PBS: Persecution of South Africa’s whites a ‘false narrative,’ president says as Musk repeats genocide claim

 

Starmer’s Asylum Plans in Albania: More Evidence of The UniParty

55:42 The Guardian: Starmer reveals plans to send refused asylum seekers to overseas ‘return hubs’

 

Is FEMA’s Fate Sealed? New Council Set to Assess the Agency’s Role

57:44 The White House: Council To Assess The Federal Emergency Management Agency

Northeastern University: Trump signs executive order reviewing FEMA, raising concerns over disaster response