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UK Column News - 15th May 2024

Mike Robinson, Alex Thomson and Vanessa Beeley with today's UK Column News.

00:34 Foreign Interference: Why Would Any State Possibly Be Worried About British Intrigue?
09:05 Georgia: British War Secretary Urges Opposition To “Resist” Majority In Parliament
22:50 Rafah Update and Plans for Gaza
29:50 Whistleblower David McBride Jailed
32:50 Danish Ex-NATO Head Engineers Pro-EU Armenian PM And Georgian Change Agents
39:28 Chatham House Foresees British Troops In Ukraine
41:53 Netanyahu’s Dystopian Vision For Gaza and West Bank: Will Palestinians Be Let Out?
54:02 Online Safety: Age Verification Will Have To Be For All

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Foreign Interference: Why Would Any State Possibly Be Worried About British Intrigue? - UK Column News - 15th May 2024

- GCHQ: GCHQ and NCSC heads warn of increasing cyber risk from China
- GOV.UK: UK summons Chinese Ambassador following allegations of foreign interference in the UK
- Metropolitan Police: Three people charged with offences under the National Security Act
- Radiotelevisione (Italian): The Enemies of Moro and Falcone
- BBC: Timewatch—Operation Gladio (1992)
- The Guardian (2008): UK discussed Italian coup to halt Communists
- UK Column resource: FCO Spending

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Georgia: British War Secretary Urges Opposition To “Resist” Majority In Parliament - UK Column News - 15th May 2024

- United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Risch, Shaheen, Colleagues Condemn Passage of Russian-Style Foreign Agents Bill in Georgia
- National Post: Federal government [of Canada] tables bill to create foreign agent registry
- Telegram: Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
- Front News: Georgia will become EU member by 2030 as “independent, sovereign state” 
- Civil Georgia: PM: We don't Want the U.S. Reputation to be Damaged
- Civil Georgia: PM: Ivanishvili “Refused to Meet” with Assistant Secretary O’Brien, Cites Blackmail and Threats 
- OC Media: Georgian Dream to create database of 'undesirables'
- Channel 1 of the Georgian Public Broadcaster (YouTube): Protest action held near Parliament
- Strategic Culture: Don’t confuse them with facts
- Euractiv: EU scrambles to adopt common position as Georgian parliament passes ‘foreign agent’ law
- Copenhagen Democracy Summit: Democracy Tech Fellows

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Rafah Update and Plans for Gaza - UK Column News - 15th May 2024

- United Nations: 450,000 Gazans now uprooted from Rafah as Israeli bombardment continues 
- The Cradle: US building Gaza port to facilitate mass 'voluntary' migration: Anadolu Agency
- Videos from Vanessa Beeley’s Telegram channel: https://news.1rj.ru/str/VanessaBeeley

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Whistleblower David McBride Jailed - UK Column News - 15th May 2024

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- Jen Robinson (on X): 
“David McBride is a whistleblower. Today he was jailed for 5 years 8 months, with no parole for 2 years 3 months. He is the first person jailed in relation to war crimes in Australia—but for revealing them, not committing them.
This is wrong—and a shame on Australia. #FreeMcBride”

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Danish Ex-NATO Head Engineers Pro-EU Armenian PM And Georgian Change Agents - UK Column News - 15th May 2024

- ArmenPress: The war in our region was a preface to further developments—Nikol Pashinyan
- Telegram: Moneycircus
- Substack: Moneycircus
- Alliance Of Democracies (YouTube): Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2024—Day Two
- Politico: The ICC should consider the new Armenian genocide petition
- Lemkin Institute: Statement Condemning Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Cryptic Engagement with Genocide Denial

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Chatham House Foresees British Troops In Ukraine - UK Column News - 15th May 2024

- Chatham House: The UK should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine—despite Putin’s nuclear threats
- UK Column series: Integrity Initiative

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Netanyahu’s Dystopian Vision For Gaza and West Bank: Will Palestinians Be Let Out? - UK Column News - 15th May 2024

- New York Times: Israeli Officials Weigh Sharing Power With Arab States in Postwar Gaza (archived)
- Vanessa Beeley (Substack): Gaza 2035—Netanyahu's dystopian vision for Gaza's future 
- Foreign Policy: Arab Countries Have Israel’s Back—for Their Own Sake

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Online Safety: Age Verification Will Have To Be For All - UK Column News - 15th May 2024

- Internet Democracy Initiative: Internet and Society: The Trans-Atlantic Research Future
- Northeastern Global News: More researchers needed to rid the internet of harmful material, UK communications boss says at Northeastern conference
- GOV.UK: The King's Speech 2023
- UK Parliament: Bills: UK—Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2 Bill)
- Oracle Films (on X): 
“Couldn't resist @bobscartoons”

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Privatising public utilities like water was a huge con. Companies prioritise profit and neglect infrastructure, leaving taxpayers to fix the mess.
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Slovak PM Wasn’t Going The West’s All For War Way - UK Column News - 17th May 2024

- Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Slovakian PM Robert Fico recovering after "politically motivated" shooting
- BBC: How Robert Fico used Covid and Ukraine to gain power in Slovakia
- Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA): Slovak Vote Shows Need for NATO Action on Russian Disinformation
- Center for Countering Disinformation (Ukrainian): What should Ukraine expect from the meeting between J. Biden and Xi Jinping
- The Telegraph: We won’t send another bullet to Kyiv, says Slovakia’s PM frontrunner 
- Politico:  Slovak PM says EU, NATO members weighing sending troops to Ukraine 
- Open Society Foundation (Ukrainian): About Foundation

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Who Were The Oxford Team Behind The Now-Withdrawn AstraZeneca Jabs? - UK Column News - 17th May 2024

- The University of Liverpool: Vaccinology PhD / MPhil / MD
- The Guardian: AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine is no more—but its remarkable success must not be forgotten
- University of Oxford (2020): Oxford University announces landmark partnership with AstraZeneca for the development and potential large-scale distribution of Covid–19 vaccine candidate
- University of Oxford (2020): Research: About the Oxford Covid–19 vaccine
- The Oxford Covid–19 vaccine team is led by Prof. Sarah Gilbert, Prof. Andrew Pollard, Prof. Teresa Lambe, Dr Sandy Douglas, Prof. Catherine Green and Prof. Adrian Hill. 
- Evening Standard: Leading scientist on Covid–19 vaccine recalls ‘immensely gratifying’ work
- Barinthus Biotherapeutics: About Us
- Companies House: Barinthus Biotherapeutics (UK) Limited
- BBC (2021): Barbie of Oxford Covid vaccine designer Dame Sarah Gilbert created
- University of Oxford (2021): Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert delivers 44th Dimbleby Lecture

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Paul Polman, A Man You’ve Probably Never Heard Of But Should Have - UK Column News - 17th May 2024

- Activation Quotes: Paul Polman
- United Nations Global Compact (YouTube): Full Speech: Paul Polman at the SDG Business Forum 2019
- LinkedIn: Paul Polman—Net Positive
- Imagine One:  We believe in the power of leaders to drive systemic change 
- Food, Farming and Countryside Commission: The Hope Farm Statement
- Henry Dimbleby (LinkedIn): 
“As far as I can work out, the "Hope Farm Statement" last week is the first time serious industry figures—including the CEOs of Nestlé and Danone—have recognised they need more intervention from government to fix our broken food system.”
- The Times: Henry Dimbleby sets up fund to transform global food system (archived)
- National Food Strategy: Supplementary Evidence, January 2020—BAIN & Company (PDF)

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Nurses Performing Surgery Without Surgeons In The NHS - UK Column News - 17th May 2024

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- NHS England: Over half of England’s care home residents get NHS spring covid jab in four weeks
- NHS England: NHS App messaging saved NHS more than £1 million in last year
- Medscape: TAVI Turmoil: Did A Nurse Perform TAVI in the UK? 
- Andy O’Plasty, MD (on X):
- So are you saying that it wasn’t a momentous day and John wasn’t the first nurse-ANP who had performed the whole TAVI procedure as first operator, and it wasn’t a true transformation addressing NHS needs?
- Because your original tweet would indicate otherwise.  Please clarify.
- BBC: Non-surgeon removed gall bladders at hospital
- NHS Employers: Surgical care practitioners
- SciTech Daily: Revolutionary “Quartet Nanocage” Vaccine Effective Against Coronaviruses That Haven’t Even Emerged Yet
- Benefits and Work: DWP considers powers of arrest, seizure and collecting information on where claimants spend money
- GOV.UK: Survey of public perceptions of fraud, error and debt
- The Mirror: DWP to form new 2,500 team to check Universal Credit claims
- Theo Clarke: Birth Trauma Inquiry Report for Publication—May 13th 2024 (PDF)

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With Home Education On The Rise… - UK Column News - 17th May 2024

- GOV.UK blogs: What it means for sex education lessons in schools
- Gillian Keegan MP (on X): 
“No more situations where parents are prevented from seeing materials.
No more teaching children topics way beyond their years.
No more teaching of the contested view of gender identity.
That’s what our RSHE guidance will ensure.”
- Rishi Sunak (on X): 
“Under no circumstances should parents be blocked from seeing the content taught in their own children’s lessons.
Nor should it be controversial to teach our children that biological sex is a fact.
Today we're taking action to change this.”
- GOV.UK: Sex education: What is RSHE and can parents access curriculum materials?

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