Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with Monday’s UK Column News.
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When Dissent Gets Branded Terrorism – The Palestine Action Crackdown
00:48 The Guardian: Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
GOV.UK: Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: Part 1
UK Column: The Common Purpose – State Control of the Press by Appointment
GOV.UK: PM statement on the Israeli government’s decision to further escalate its offensive in Gaza: 8 August 2025Â
The Telegraph: Miriam Margolyes’s OBE should be stripped, says anti-Semitism group (Archived)
Campaign Against Antisemitism: How we fight antisemitism
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Hospitals on Hold: The Endless Waiting Room
15:16 LSC Health + Care Partnership (YouTube): Dr Geoff Jolliffe explains the New Hospitals Programme
BBC: Hopes for new hospital timeline as work begins
Visit County Durham: Terris Novalis Sculpture
Visit Consett: Project Genesis
BBC (2019): General election 2019: How many ‘new’ NHS hospitals are Conservatives building?
GOV.UK (2020): PM confirms £3.7 billion for 40 hospitals in biggest hospital building programme in a generation
BBC (2020): How is the plan for 48 hospitals going?
GOV.UK (2023): Five major hospitals to be rebuilt as part of over £20 billion new hospital infrastructure investment
BBC (2023): Consett Community hospital plans are approved
BBC (2024): Hospital plan reviewed over ‘spiralling costs’
BBC (2024): Concerns new hospital project ‘will never happen’
GOV.UK: New Hospital Programme – media fact sheet
BBC (2025): Hospital build to go ahead following review
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Stargate UAE: Opening the Gates to AI Power
28:38 Just Security: What Just Happened: Trump’s Announcement of the Stargate AI Infrastructure Project
The Washington Post: ‘King of the cannibals’: How Sam Altman took over Silicon Valley
Fox Business: Trump’s AI vision takes shape as Oracle and OpenAI expand massive Stargate infrastructure project
World Economic Forum (WEF): The UAE’s Stargate project hints at how AI can be integrated into national infrastructure
LinkedIn: Josh Payne
Let The Bull Run: AI hyperscaler, Nscale, to invest $2.5 (£2) billion in the UK data centre industry over the next three years
BBC: Loughton AI data centre plans would create 750 jobs
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Farming for Control: The Power Shift in Our Food
46:09 The Times: Henry Dimbleby sets up fund to transform global food system
Bramble Partners: We are on a mission to fix the broken food system
Linked In: Henry Dimbleby
Reuters: South Africa bans consultancy Bain from state contracts for 10 years
The National Food Strategy: The Plan
LinkedIn: Bramble Partners
Most of our farmland isn’t feeding us. 85% of UK farmland gives us just 32% of our calories.  It’s time to rethink the system.
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South Yorkshire Police Raid: Protecting Abusers or Justice?
53:33 South Yorksire Police: Force asks NCA to investigate former officers accused of non-recent abuse in Rotherham
South Yorkshire Police: Assistant Chief Constable Hayley Barnett biography
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Flames of Neglect: The Wildfire Problem We’re Choosing Not to Solve
57:19 BBC: Large gorse blaze on Arthur’s Seat brought under control
The Independent: Huge fire sweeps across landmark Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh (Video)
UK Column: Article: French Wildfires, Eye-Watering Profits, and Deloitte