Charles Malet, Ben Rubin, Vanessa Beeley and Sandi Adams with Wednesday’s UK Column News.
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Escalation, Strategy, and the Samson Option: Which Path to Persia?
01:24 The Saban Center For Middle East Policy At The Brookings Institution: Which Path To Persia? Options For A New American Strategy Toward Iran (PDF)
The Telegraph: Israel’s Netanyahu ‘exaggerated’ Iranian nuclear threat (Archived)
The Progressive: The Samson Option: Israel’s Plan to Nuke Its Opponents
Vanessa Beeley (Telegram): Iran will hit back much harder (Marandi video)
The Times of Israel: 38 years later, pilots recall how Iran inadvertently enabled Osiraq reactor raid
SDG Superman? John McArthur’s 17 Rooms and the Global Goals Playbook
11:36 Brookings Institution: 17 ROOMS (PDF) – Rejuvenating the Sustainable Development Goals through shared action
Brookings: 17 Rooms is an experimental method for advancing the economic, social, and environmental priorities embedded in the world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The Rockefeller Foundation: 17 Rooms
Brookings: All participants attend 17 Rooms in their personal capacities (PDF)
Catalyst Now (YouTube): The Not-So-Secret Secret To Accelerating The SDGS
World Economic Forum (WEF): World Economic Forum and UN Sign Strategic Partnership Framework
Brookings: Research, commentaries, and events
Good News: Gunning Principles Help Defeat Unlawful LTN Plan
16:14 Rory Wilmer: West Dulwich LTN High Court Ruling: A Watershed Moment for Active Travel Policy
Command and Control: Reorganising Councils, Recentralising Power
19:22 GOV.UK: Understand how your council works: Decision making
Smart Survey: East Sussex Local Government Reorganisation survey
GOV.UK: Spending Review 2025 (PDF)
Polly Curtis (LinkedIn): Today we launch our plan for public service reform
The Guardian: Civil service is ‘too remote’ from people’s lives across UK, says minister
New Journal Enterprises (2009): From stressed out student to youngest MP in Parliament?
From Right to Buy to Steal-Back: Councils Reverse Course Amid Housing Crisis
30:19 The Guardian (2023): Leasehold nightmare: why owning a council flat could land you with a ‘wipeout’ bill
Islington Citizen: Town Hall plans to borrow £35m to buy back sold-off council homes
Property118: Council repurchases homes sold under Right to Buy scheme for housing expansion
Islington Council News: Islington Council to buy back 907 ex-Right to Buy homes
“There are currently 1,737 homeless households living in temporary accommodation in Islington – the highest figure since records began”
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UK Column shop: UK Column On Location Livestream Access
Event: Sounds Beautiful Festival – 26th to 29th June
Competition: Sounds Beautiful Festival 2X Ticket Giveaway
Event: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival – 18th July
Event: Hope Sussex Community: HOPE Freedom Music Festival – 22nd to 25th August
Event: UK Column: On Location – Saturday, 18 October 2025, York (Tickets on sale soon!)
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition: We sail until Palestine is free
21st Century Wire (YouTube): Gaza Flotilla, Greta Thunberg + Joe Rogan’s Controversial Comments
March To Gaza: Global March To Gaza
Dissident meet-up: South West: Sunday 20th July 2025 – Goffin Land, Grays Barn EX49JL (9:30 to 4:30pm)
Miracle Weight Loss Injections: Big Pharma’s Newest Subscription Scheme
39:53 The Telegraph: How the Ozempic hormone works – and ways to increase it naturally
Saxenda (liraglutide), Wegovy (semaglutide), and Mounjaro (tirzepatide), Ozempic is not licensed for weight loss in the UK
Robert King Law Firm: What Are the Bad Side Effects of Ozempic?
The Independent: Does Ozempic also hold the secret to a cure for depression and dementia?
The Telegraph: Ozempic hailed as ‘fountain of youth’ (Archived)
The Guardian: Giving weight loss jabs could bolster UK economy by £4.5bn a year, study says
The Telegraph: Britons not deemed obese could soon use weight-loss jabs to live longer (Archived)
Drug Watch: Ozempic Lawsuit
Ozempic lawsuits claim the drug can cause severe gastroparesis, ileus and intestinal blockage. Lawyers are also pursuing cases of Ozempic vision loss. Plaintiffs claim they weren’t properly warned of these risks. The first Ozempic stomach paralysis lawsuit was filed on Aug. 2, 2023.
European Health and Digital Executive Agency: European Congress on Obesity 2025: Meet the Horizon Europe projects that will take part in this year’s edition
GOV.UK: Landmark collaboration with largest pharmaceutical company
The Independent: World Health Organization makes U-turn on weight loss jabs
The Telegraph: Blair Institute: Send fat jabs by post to half the population (Archived)
Conscription Threatening Britons — But Who’s Really in Charge, the EU?
54:24 The British Army: Would You Go For It? (Advert campaign)
Brookings: How must Europe reorganize its conventional defense?
The House of Commons Library: Conscription and national service in the UK
Clean Air Zones? Take a Closer Look at Musk’s xAI Data Centre Pollution
57:56 Politico: NAACP launches lawsuit over pollution from Musk’s xAI
I don’t care if he’s a millionaire or a billionaire, what we want is clean air! […]
From UK Column News Extra
TheyWorkForYou: New Clause 1 – Removal of women from the criminal law related to abortion