UK Column News – 25th June 2025

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, Vanessa Beeley and Sandi Adams with Wednesday’s UK Column News.

Sources:

Mainstream Fear Factory: Selling Total War

00:26 GOV.UK: The Strategic Defence Review 2025 – Making Britain Safer

The Telegraph: Britain to prepare for enemy attack with practice drills

GOV.UK: Policy paper: National Security Strategy 2025: Security for the British People in a Dangerous World

UK Parliament (2023): Artificial Intelligence in Weapon Systems (PDF)

arXiv: Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Fog Networks: Architecture, Technologies, and Challenges 

The Telegraph: British bases on high alert for Iranian drone swarms (Archived)

Amazon: How Amazon proved its new delivery drone is safe for takeoff

 

NATO Summit 2025 – War, What is it good for? Money, Of Course

06:00 NATO: 2025 NATO Summit

Euromaidanpress: Frontline report: Sweden to confront Russia’s shadow fleet in Baltic—100 Gripens on alert

 

Trumped-Up Claims and Israel Damage Media Blackout

13:04 Fotros Resistance (Telegram): In an interview on the Israeli I24news network

The Iranian Fordow nuclear facility can only be destroyed from the inside. Let’s stop with illusions and fantasies—it can only be done from within, or with 100’s of bombs dropped one after another.

Euro News: Have US strikes ‘obliterated’ Iran’s three main nuclear facilities, as Trump claims?

Haaretz: Israel Police Authorizes All Officers to Block Media Coverage of Missile Strikes

Mohammed Zubair (on X): Sophie von der Tann, A German journalist with ARD reporting from Israel reveals that Israeli authorities pressure journalists not to report on military base damage or troop casualties following Iran’s missile strikes

Strategic Culture: The key nuclear allegation that started the war was coaxed from a Palantir counter-intelligence algorithm 

Soureh (on X): Iranian girl asks good questions

 

Fabians and the Politics of Health: Care or Control?

24:20 Fabian Society: Hard Fought

The Labour Party (2023): Rachel Reeves speech at Fabian Society New Year Conference

Fabian Society (YouTube): Fabians-FEPS New Year Conference 2023

Fabian Society: Healthy Britain

In this new report, Kim Leadbeater MP makes the case for a new approach to government which will centre the health and wellbeing of the population.

 

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

Event: UK Column: On Location – Saturday, 18 October 2025, York (Tickets on sale soon!)

Event: Dissident meet-up: South West: Sunday 20th July 2025 – Goffin Land, Grays Barn EX49JL (9:30 to 4:30pm)

 

Another Day, Another Green Energy Hustle

30:58 Ofgem (2023): Replacing your Radio Teleswitch electricity meter

GOV.UK: Government steps in to protect consumers with old energy meters

World Weather Attribution: Climate change turns warm summer days in England into health threat

 

UK Plans DNA at Birth for Future Digital ID – Lessons From the Nazi’s?

34:30 Innovatrics: Entering the era of DNA IDs: Will DNA become an integral part of our personal identity documents?

UK Parliament: Parliamentary Bills: Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

Palantir (2021): A National Technical Framework to Underpin the UK Life Sciences Vision (PDF)

The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE): Hollerith Machine

NHS England: NHS Genomic Medicine Service

Holocaust Encyclopedia: Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4

 

Biodefence: Preparing for a False Flag ‘Outbreak’?

40:50 The Council on Strategic Risks: US Biodefense Budget Breakdown: Fiscal Year 2025 Update (PDF)

Biodefense Commission: The National Blueprint For Biodefense Report Of The Bipartisan Commission On Biodefense – April 2024 – Immediate Action Needed To Defend Against Biological Threats (PDF)

Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense (YouTube): 2025 State of U.S. Biodefense Address

U.S. Government Accountability Office (2023): Biodefense: Actions Needed to Address Long-Standing Challenges

 

City of London, Queen’s Remembrancer and the Freemasons Web

45:53 BBC (2018): Secret society and funny handshakes or brotherhood of man? 

Newsroom City of London: City elects Sheriffs of London for 2025 – 2026

City of London: The Sheriffs

City of London Sheriffs play an important role both in supporting the Mayoralty as well as promoting and enhancing the rule of law and links between the City of London Corporation and the judiciary at the Old Bailey.

Philippine Embassy in the United Kingdom (Facebook): Ambassador Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. receives the prestigious Freedom of the City of London Award

UK Parliament: Hansard: The Queen’s Remembrancer

 

Glastonbury Profits Doubles and Lambeth Council Fence off Brockwell Park

49:47 BBC: Profits from Glastonbury Festival double to £5.9m

Daily Mail: Neil Young throws ‘BBC bosses into chaos over Glastonbury set as star makes unusual demand’ after saying festival was ‘under corporate control’

London Evening Standard: Fresh legal challenge over Brockwell Park festivals as campaigners accuse council of ‘silencing residents’

 

FCDO Spending Update – Billions On Vaxxes

54:53 UK Column: FCO Spending

World Bank: International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm)