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The Foundations of Starmer’s Stasi State: This Is Not Incompetence, This Is Calculated - UK Column News - 2nd September 2024

- Daily Mail (2023): ‘Not just dishonest but deeply hypocritical’: Guy Adams investigates how after Sir Keir Starmer went to 21 meetings of the Sentencing Council, it decided not all child sex offenders should go to prison
- The Guardian (2023): Labour strategists to press on with Sunak attack ads despite criticism
- The Guardian: Why are Starmer and Reeves so determined to bring Britain down?
- The Guardian (2016): Inside Ricu, the shadowy propaganda unit inspired by the cold war
- GOV.UK: Prevent Strategy (PDF)
- Parallel Parliament: Q. Research, Information and Communications Unit
- GOV.UK: Independent Review of Prevent’s report and government response
- ProtectUK: Act for Youth: RUN HIDE TELL
- Pool Reinsurance: Building resilience against terrorism risk (PDF)
- City University: Professor Paula Jarzabkowski wins prestigious Academy of Management prize
- Relevant UK Column article: No Smoke Without Fire: PREVENTing a War on Domestic Terror in the United Kingdom?

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Killing Fields—Lessons Not Learned: Remembering Nixon, Kissinger and Cambodia - UK Column News - 2nd September 2024

- Eye on Asia: Cambodia—A country profile
- WatchDocumentaries: Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)
- Columbia University: Review: "Nixon and Kissinger"
- Wikipedia: Operation Menu
- Yale University: Bombs Over Cambodia—Genocide Studies Program (PDF)
- Wikipedia: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
- Daily Mail (2011): Faces of evil: Three most senior Khmer Rouge figures who 'called the shots in Killing Fields massacres' go on trial in Cambodia
- Daily Mail: How a young Sir Keir Starmer ended up in Communist spy files after joining a Czechoslovakian work camp during Cold War
- Fabian Society: Hard Fought
“Warmest congratulations to Keir Starmer and the whole Labour team. The party has achieved a huge and historic victory that seemed impossible to imagine a few short years ago.”
“The Fabian Society is affiliated to the Labour Party, but we are also an independent voice on the centre left. With Labour in office, we will continue to publish new evidence and ideas to help the party do more, think bigger and transform the country in the decade ahead.”
- The Telegraph: Keir Starmer interview: “I find it easy to be ruthless” (Archived)
- The Telegraph: University cancels Anglo-Saxon ‘to decolonise’ the curriculum (Archived)

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Is Civilisation Under Siege? - UK Column News - 2nd September 2024

- Ideas Matter: Civilisation under siege? The Academy 2024
- Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi (Substack): From Decolonization To Islamism: Civilization Under Siege?
- Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi (Substack): The Plot to Turn The Library Into A Safe Space For Indoctrination
- The Telegraph: Welsh warned over ‘racist’ buildings (Archived)
- CILIP Cymru Wales Advocacy (Welsh): Anti-Racism Library Collections Resources
- The Washington Post: Threatened for protesting book bans, this librarian won’t keep quiet (Archived)
- SafeLibraries (BlogSport): School Librarian Amanda Jones Leads Live Oak Middle School to Hide Information from Parents and Legislators 

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Fornethy Survivors Fight On - UK Column News - 2nd September 2024

- Glasgow Live: Glasgow Fornethy 'house of horrors' survivor calls for demolition as eerie pictures surface
- Fornethy Voices (TikTok): Fornethy Voices’ TikTok Profile
STV News: Call to extend compensation to Fornethy House abuse survivors rejected
The Scottish Parliament: Petition Summary PE1933: Allow the Fornethy Survivors to access Scotland's redress scheme

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Build (Ukraine) Back Better With Blackrock - UK Column News - 2nd September 2024

- HistoryLegends (YouTube): The Ukrainian Front in Donbas is Collapsing...
- Ministry of Defence (on X): Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine—1 September 2024
- UK Defence Journal (2022): What military aid has Britain given to Ukraine?
- GOV.UK: UK support to Ukraine: factsheet
“In total, the UK has committed almost £12.7 billion for Ukraine: £7.6 billion in military support and £5 billion in non-military support.”
- UK Defence Journal: Here’s everything Britain has given to Ukraine
- BBC: Zelensky sacks Ukraine air force chief after F–16 crash
- GOV.UK: Move to the UK if you're coming from Ukraine

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Festival Of The Bizarre: Kite, By Tortoise Media and Abbey Road Studios - UK Column News - 2nd September 2024

- Kitefestival: Kite Festival—A New Festival Of Ideas And Music
- UK Column archive: UK Column News—12th January 2024
(34:36 Goals House: All The Names, Bizarre Tapestry)
- MusicWeek: Sir Lucian Grainge on surviving Covid and the future of UMG
- BBC: Abbey Road Studios to play host to next KITE Festival
- Black Equity Organisation (BEO): Who we are
- London Review Bookshop: Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
“Everything you know about capitalism is wrong.”
- Wikipedia: Meredith Whittaker
- The State of Israel, The Judicial Authority Supreme Court: The painting in the lobby

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Smarmer or Stürmer? For UK Column News, Ben Rubin summarises the dangers of the King’s “dismissive, cold, happily ruthless Marxist” Prime Minister, who “has form” and appears prepared “to commit acts of atrocity against his own people”.
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Starmer’s Britain: The Rise of Authoritarianism - UK Column News - 4th September 2024

- The Crispin Flintoff Show (YouTube): UK journalist under house arrest on terrorism charges (Sarah Wilkinson interview)
- Consortium News: UK Prime Minister Terrorizing Palestine Supporters
“After the arrest of Sarah Wilkinson on Thursday, Jonathan Cook says Keir Starmer is determined to silence critics of his — and his government’s — complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”
- Socialist Worker: Palestine Action co-founder faces charges under Terrorism Act
- Consortium News: Acclaimed Journalist Charged With ‘Anti-Semitism’

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Who Are The Terrorists? - UK Column News - 4th September 2024

- Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales (CPS): Terrorism
- Legislation: Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11)
- GOV.UK: Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations
- GOV.UK: Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation: Arrests, outcomes, and stop and search, Great Britain, quarterly update to March 2024 
“212 arrests for terrorism-related activity in the year ending 31 March 2024”
- Magistrates' Association: Becoming a magistrate
- GOV.UK: Pre-charge bail statutory guidance

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Ukraine’s Cabinet Crisis: Key Figures Depart Amidst Turmoil - UK Column News - 4th September 2024

- AP News: Ukraine’s defense minister resigns following Zelenskyy’s announcement of his replacement
- Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov submitted a letter of resignation on Monday
- Financial Times: Ukrainian foreign minister resigns in government shake-up
- Financial Times: Poland has ‘duty’ to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine, says minister
- Reuters: Romanian lawmakers approve donation of Patriot missile system to Ukraine
- GOV.UK: UK-Ukraine digital trade set to grow
- Parallel Parliament: UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement: Entry into Force
- HMS Queen Elizabeth (on X): HMS Queen Elizabeth’s post
“Summer leave over!
Good to be heading back to sea for a busy period of equipment trials and training.”
- CobraEmergency (YouTube): Aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, heading out to sea after being in Portsmouth for summer following repairs in Scotland

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Targeted as Extremists: The Crackdown on Independent Media, and the Battle for Free Speech - UK Column News - 4th September 2024

- UK Parliament: Hansard: Violent Disorder (Debated on Monday 2 September 2024)
- The Free Speech Union (on X): The Free Speech Union’s post
“We've threatened to take the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to court over he plan to revive the perception-based version of the non-crime hate incident (NCHI). NCHIs are a recent and chilling restriction of our free speech”
- The Free Speech Union: Labour and the return of Orwellian non-crime hate incidents
- UK Column article: Britain had the First Amendment first

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David Lammy’s Arms Export Policy: Virtue-Signalling or Real Change? - UK Column News - 4th September 2024

- iNews: UK and Europe ‘running out of weapons’ to help Taiwan if China invades
- GOV.UK: UK policy on arms export licences to Israel: Foreign Secretary's statement 

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Global Vaccine Efforts: From Polio in Ukraine and Syria to U.S. Health Controversies - UK Column News - 4th September 2024

- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF, 2023): UNICEF delivers over 650,000 doses of polio vaccine to Ukraine
- World Health Organization (WHO 2023): On the move for health: defending Ukraine against vaccine-preventable diseases
- Scientific American: The Pentagon’s Antivaccine Propaganda Endangered Public Health and Tarnished U.S. Credibility
- US Department of Veteran Affairs Public Health: Vaccinations and Gulf War Veterans
- Global Polio Eradication Initiative: Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus confirmed in Syria
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Polio—Eradication, Vaccination, & Access

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Digital ID By Hook or By Crook: One Login Mandatory for Companies House - UK Column News - 4th September 2024

- GOV.UK: Companies House to join GOV.UK One Login
- GOV.UK: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act
- Legislation: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023
- GOV.UK: FAQs on government digital identity consultation response
- Yahoo Finance UK: HMRC customer service at ‘all-time low’ as phone line wait gets longer
- GOV.UK: Enabling the use of digital identities in the UK
- GOV.UK: List of certified digital identity and attribute services
- Advai: Identity Verification Assurance
“AI is core to online identity verification. As the complexity of verification tools have advanced, so too have the methods to deceive them.”
- Sumsub: Sumsub Becomes First Verification Provider to Achieve New Global Digital Identity Certification
- LinkedIn: Jacob Sever—Sumsub
- GOV.UK: Companies House: Sum and Substance LTD
- Sumsub: Face Authentication for Banks—Facial Recognition in Fintech (Banking)
- Finastra: Where will UK Payments be in the next 10 years?
“[…] and the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The review suggests that it will take at least 5 years and a total cost of between £10bn and £20bn to deliver this payments roadmap.”

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No Food or Water for Gaza: Only Bombs and Vaccines Provided - UK Column News - 4th September 2024

- Foreign Office junior minister Anneliese Dodds (on X): Anneliese Dodds’ post
“I welcome the news that the polio vaccine campaign is underway in Gaza.
UK funding to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is supporting the delivery of this vital vaccine.
It’s imperative that staff have sufficient time to continue vaccinating in safe conditions this week.”
- World Health Organization (WHO): Humanitarian pauses vital for critical polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip
- Middle East Eye: Former Israel general says “severe epidemics” in Gaza would help Israel win the war
- Husseini (Substack): Israel Wanted Disease and Genocide in Gaza, So Why Is It Agreeing to the Polio Vaccine Being Given?
- The Unz Review: Vaccination Campaign in Gaza: Polio Eradication or Transition to Bio-Warfare?
- ABC News: Deadly diseases ripping through Gaza after destruction of water, sewage systems
- Oxfam (Policy and Practice): Water War Crimes: How Israel has weaponised water in its military campaign in Gaza
- Childrens Health Defense (2019): Polio Vaccination—Still Causing Polio After All These Years
- Science (2018): Alarming polio outbreak spreads in Congo, threatening global eradication efforts (Archived)
- Vanessa Beeley (YouTube): Journalist Bisan Owda in Gaza distrusts the polio vaccine campaign

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