UK Column News – 10th September 2025

Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Vanessa Beeley and Sandi Adams with today’s UK Column News.

Sources:

BBC Doesn’t Miss a Chance To Ramp Up The Fear For More War

00:43 The Guardian: Poland shoots down drones over its territory amid Russian attack on Ukraine

BBC: Poland says up to four of 19 Russian drones shot down after entering airspace

Defense Express: Russia Tests Ukraine’s Air Defenses with 741-Weapon Salvo

 

Israel’s Elbit Systems: Target of Palestine Action Now Set to Train British Soldiers

10:12 AOAV: Concern as MoD reportedly poised to hand £2bn training deal to Elbit, Israel’s largest arms firm

UK Parliament: Armed Forces Training Contract and Elbit Systems

Tell the Truth Sheffield: The Filton 24 have spent a year in prison without trial

The Guardian: Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action

Shephard Media: Final two contenders for key £2 billion British Army training contract selected

Pocket Mags: Bollum’s Up

Air marshal Sir Simon Bollom, who becomes a director at Elbit Systems UK

 

Sandi Adams on the Immigration Crisis: How Division is Being Sown

20:04 Marxists Internet Archive: Communist Manifesto – Chapter 1

The Paideia Institute: The Paideia Institute offers logistical planning and support for study abroad trips and programs for high schools & universities

HIAS: Welcome the stranger. Protect the refugee

The Global Goals: Goal 10 – Reduced Inequalities

 

Online Safety: Government’s ‘Shield’ for Citizens from ‘Harmful’ Content With AI Scanning

26:11 LBC: Social media firms to block self-harm content as online safety laws toughened up in victory for LBC

Ofcom: Consultation: Draft guidance for super-complaints under the Online Safety Act 2023

 

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IDF Snipers from Chicago and Munich Involved in Gaza Child Shootings

34:19 UK Column: Two Girls Shot in Gaza

The Guardian: The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

 

No Azure for Apartheid: Microsoft’s Cloud and Unit 8200’s Spy Files

40:20 Reuters: What is Israel’s secretive cyber warfare unit 8200?

+972 Magazine: Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians

intelNews: Israeli intelligence using Microsoft servers to store intercepted phone call data

The Official Microsoft Blog: Microsoft statement on the issues relating to technology services in Israel and Gaza

No Azure for Apartheid: We refuse to be complicit

Independent: Trump gives green light for $2m ICE deal with notorious Israeli spyware company

Trump administration appeared to restart frozen Biden-era deal with Paragon Solutions, whose products have been accused of facilitating the surveillance of journalists and activists

 

BRICS and Israel: Economic Ties Amid Genocide Silence

46:22 Times of Israel: Israel and India ink bilateral investment deal in New Delhi to foster trade ties

DataTails (on X): We did a visualization about this a couple of weeks back, based on Israel’s own imports data

The Wall Will Fall: Palestine and the Conscience of China

Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt: Why are the BRICS countries not condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza? (Archived)

Thomas Keith (on X): Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei

The Wall Will Fall: ‘The Blessing’ for Genocide. Nearly All BRICS+ Regimes Nurture Israel, Economically. Prof. Patrick Bond

International Humanitarian Law Centre: Summary of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024

Middle East Eye: How China is quietly aiding Israel’s settlement enterprise

 

Poor Land Management Causes More Floods, Not Climate Change

53:12 Internet Geography: The Somerset Levels Flood Case Study

The Telegraph (2014): The flooding of the Somerset Levels was deliberately engineered

The Global Warming Policy Foundation: A case study in groupthink (PDF)

Khalsa Aid UK: Flood, 2014-15

A Libertarian Rebel (on X): Map showing flooding Somerset Levels deliberate, EU-driven, Env Agency policy

Wiltshire Council: Drainage

Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West Ltd (FWAG SW): The Hills to Levels (H2L) project

The Global Goals: SDG 15 – Life on Land

The Global Goals: Goal 13 – Climate Action