UK Column News – 2nd April 2025

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

 

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UK Laws Eroding Democracy: Crackdown on Dissidents

00:41 Quakers in Britain: Quakers call for rights to be restored after police raid on Westminster Meeting House

Youth Demand: Young People Are Resisting

The Tufts Daily: Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions

 

Ofcom’s Censorship: Conflicts of Interest and the Extremism Redefinition

07:09 GOV.UK: Online Safety Act: What does the Online Safety Act do?

If you witness a crime you have a vital role to play in bringing the criminals to justice.

Legislation: Interpretation Act 1978–1978 CHAPTER 30

Ofcom: How is Ofcom funded?

First Soviet Criminal Code: Seventeen Moments in Soviet History: First Soviet Criminal Code

The Criminal Code of the RSFSR, 1922. June 1, 1922

GOV.UK: New definition of extremism (2024)

 

Roger Waters’ Speech on the 80th Anniversary of Yalta: A Stand Against War

14:32 Veterans Breakfast Club: 80th Anniversary of the Yalta Conference

Vanessa Beeley (Substack): We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon

 

Weston’s ‘Council of Sanctuary’ and the Kalergi Plan Debate: The Global Migration Agenda

18:37 Somerset Live: ‘Misinformation’ row as Weston becomes ‘council of sanctuary’

Internet Archive: Practical Idealism by R. N. Coudenhove-Kalergi

Charlemagne Prize Academy: Promoting Ideas

International Organization for Migration: Global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration

House of Commons Library: The United Nations Global Compact for Migration

IOM Publications: Migration and the 2030 Agenda (PDF)

OHCHR (2007): UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

 

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29:44 Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column with only £5 a month

Access UK Column News Extra Today—UK Column Community

UK Column shop: UK Column On Location Livestream Access

Fatsoma (Event): Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival

 

De-banking as Censorship: Bad Banki Fights Back

32:11 Telegraph: PayPal shuts down accounts of Free Speech Union (Archive)

Mint Press News (on X): MintPress News post

After a long line of cancellations that saw us being banned by PayPal and GoFundMe, we are still being lobbied against and cancelled, and our journalists are detained and questioned on their investigations.

Bad Banki: Talk Liberation – Let’s hold them to account

 

Yemen Under Fire: US Airstrikes, Palestinian Medics Shot – Latest Military Results (Starvation)

39:03 Al Mayadeen: US airstrikes target the Water Authority building in al-Mansuriyah district, southeast of Hudaydah province

Al Mayadeen: Palestinian paramedics shot by IOF had hands tied

Al Mayadeen: Yemeni Armed Forces target US carrier E-2 AEW aircraft

 

Government Recruits Valuers for Livestock Culls and Farm Seizures: Preparing for Mass Agricultural Control

45:39 BidStats: Provision of Agricultural Valuation Services to Government

We require a range of valuers to work on behalf of Government to value livestock, crops, agricultural plant, equipment and other similar assets. Valuations are required to enable Government to pay compensation to owners of animals, crops, equipment etc. when we order the destruction of their property. For example, we will order the culling of animals with diseases such as TB, avian influenza and foot and mouth.

 

Unintended Consequences and the Dangers of Playing God: Gene Editing to Change Eye Colour?

47:58 Legislation: The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025

The Royal Society (YouTube): What is gene editing and how does it work?

UK Parliament: Draft Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025

[…] significant and unintended release of the GMO and which presents an immediate or delayed risk to human health or the environment.

 

Israel’s Impunity: Expanding Military Presence in Lebanon and Syria Amid Ongoing Airstrikes

54:50 The Cradle: Satellite images reveal ‘growing network’ of Israeli outposts in Lebanon, Syria

New York Times: Israel Digs In Beyond Its Northern Border (Archived)

The Cradle (on X): The top 3 floors of a residential building were destroyed in the latest Israeli airstrike on the southern suburb of Beirut (Video)

Quds Live Updates (Telegram): Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri