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The 'New Media Nudge Unit': Steering Minds with a £697,474 Budget - UK Column News - 17th March 2025

- The Telegraph (2012): 'Nudge unit' to become Whitehall's first profit-making business (Archived)
- Institute for Government: MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy (PDF)
“That means that citizens may not fully realise that their behaviour is being changed - or, at least, how it is being changed. Clearly this opens up the government to charges of manipulation.”
- Behavioural Insights Team: Behavioural Government
- GOV.UK: SAGE meetings, March 2020
- The Times: No 10 seeks influencers to spread Starmer’s word on social media (Archived)
- The Irish Times: Who is Morgan McSweeney, the Irishman heading up Keir Starmer’s Downing Street operation? (Archived)
- UK Parliament: The role and status of the Prime Minister's Office
- GOV.UK (2023): TikTok banned on UK government devices as part of wider app review

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Alarm Bells Are Ringing In Germany With Dr Jobst Landgrebe - UK Column News - 17th March 2025

- Wikipedia: 2025 German federal election
- Euronews: Explained: How does Germany’s electoral system work and what changes this year?
- Reuters: German parties agree historic debt overhaul to revamp military and economy
- Bundestag (German): Seat distribution of the 21. German Bundestag
- Federal Constitutional Court (German): Unsuccessful applications against convening of the old Bundestag before the meeting of the newly elected Bundestag
- Tagesschau (German): What has agreed on the Union, the SPD and the Green

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Dirty Money Shuffles: And Who Are Quadrature? - UK Column News - 17th March 2025

- Quadrature Capital Limited: We’re building the Ultimate Automated Trading Business
- eFinancialCareers: Quadrature Capital: the hyper-secretive prop trading firm that's "a bit of a cult"
- Financial Times: Labour’s hedge fund donors took low-tax option of £160mn loans 
- Open Democracy: Labour given £4m from tax haven-based hedge fund with shares in oil and arms
- Quadrature Climate Foundation: Our grants
“The new climate reality demands unprecedented climate action…”
- Power Technology: Private investor Greg Skinner acquires 50% stake in Ethical Power Group
- The Guardian: UK climate envoy to keep role at charity whose founders invest in fossil fuels
- Apolitical (YouTube): Apolitical Government Climate Campus
- Apolitical: Building energy and climate capable governments this decade

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Diane's Report From Keswick: A Festival of Words and Ideas - UK Column News - 17th March 2025

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- Billetto: Supporting Farmers for Food Security Symposium, March 2025
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- Fatsoma: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival
- Words by the Water Keswick: A Festival of Words and Ideas
- The University of Cambridge's Museums and Collections: Pride In Nature LGBTQ+ tour

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Key Cities at the Heart of the Government's Agenda - UK Column News - 17th March 2025

- Key Cities: Key Cities is celebrating its tenth anniversary
- Key Cities (LinkedIn): On Monday night, Key Cities launched its latest report, On the Waterfront at the third annual Cities in Parliament reception hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Key Cities
- Key Cities: Local partnerships to drive net zero innovation
- The Loomba Foundation: Her Skill, Her Future: Empowering 100,000 Widows in India

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Woke Academia - UK Column News - 17th March 2025

- Cogent Social Sciences (2017): Sociology - Research Article: The Conceptual Penis As A Social Construct (PDF)
- The Telegraph: Shakespeare’s birthplace to be decolonised after ‘white supremacy’ fears (Archived)
- Midlands4Cities: The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C) brings together eight leading universities across the Midlands
- National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE, 2022): Decolonising the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Collections as an Inside-Outsider: A Perspective on Collaborative Research
- Wall Street Journal: How Federal Workers Are Dealing With the $1 Limit on Their Corporate Cards - Trump Administration Freezes Federal Credit Cards (Archived)
- The College Fix: Agriculture Dept. gave university $600K to study menstruation issues, including in trans men
- USA Spending: Project Grant FAIN 20243882142035
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000
- Taylor & Francis Group: Queer canine becomings: Lesbian feminist cyborg politics and interspecies intimacies in ecologies of love and violence
- Royal Holloway History (TikTok): Dr Shahmima Akhtar explains what the Royal Holloway history department does to promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity
- Taylor & Francis Group: Who’s afraid of the vulnerable terrorist? Framing violent jihadists’ life and intimate relationships

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Vanessa Beeley highlighted the dire situation faced by Syrian families seeking refuge in Lebanon. She discussed their heavy reliance on Western NGOs, EU NGOs and UN agencies for basic support. As well as the intense surveillance and fear that prevents them from speaking openly. Even liking social media posts risked the safety of loved ones still in Syria.

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Just as UK Column covered yesterday. Germany reassembled the old parliament to vote on a massive spending budget on the military. €800 billion.

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Thousands of Syrians are fleeing into Lebanon as massacres wipe out entire villages in Syria. Eyewitnesses report the true death toll could be as high as 12,000—far beyond what’s being admitted. This is more than just another conflict; it’s systematic slaughter, hidden from the world.
Where is the mainstream media? Silent. Watch UK Column News as we expose the information war and report what they won’t.
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Government Allocates £5 Billion to Reduce Welfare Costs Amid Post-Pandemic Surge - UK Column News - 19th March 2025

- GOV.UK: Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper 
- GOV.UK: Personal Independence Payment Official Statistics to January 2025
- The Times: Labour announces major PIP and benefit cuts
- Robert St. Ephen (on X): Robert’s post
“I’m 76, and had worked since i was 16. Explain to me how the UK's State Pension is a benefit. Where has the money i paid into it gone? You talk Ponzi scheme? I give you the UK Government.”
- Image: Total Outstanding Debt chart

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Trump on the Warpath: Pushing for War with Iran and the Wider Resistance Bloc - UK Column News - 19th March 2025

- France24: Israel strikes military targets in southern Syria over national security concerns
- Al Mayadeen English: Around 50 martyred, injured in US-UK aggression on Yemeni cities
- Al Mayadeen English: USS Harry S. Truman attacked for second time within hours: Saree
- The Cradle: Ben Gvir to rejoin Netanyahu coalition praising mass killings in Gaza
- The Cradle: Yemen launches ballistic missile at Israel, says 'no dialing down' despite US war
- Al Mayadeen English: Israeli raids target missile battalion in Homs, Syria
- Iran Screenshot (Telegram): US bases in Arab world, Exposed to Yemen

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Net Zero and GB Energy: A Farce of Hot Air and Empty Promises - UK Column News - 19th March 2025

- GOV.UK: Great British Energy
“Great British Energy will be a new, publicly owned, clean energy company. Great British Energy works with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.”
- Institute For Public Policy Research: Push ahead on ‘most ambitious’ approach to Great British Energy or risk disappointing voters, IPPR urges government 
- Digital Catapult: Accelerating the digital future
- The Telegraph: Net zero makes UK dangerously dependent on China, warns Badenoch (Archived)
- Carbon Brief: Factcheck: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal
- IPPR: A second wind: Maximising the economic opportunity for UK wind manufacturing 
- China is the global wind superpower: China accounts for three-fifths of the world’s capacity in wind nacelles and blades.
- Energy Dashboard: Live and historical GB National Grid electricity data
- Nuclear Energy Institute: Land Needs for Wind, Solar Dwarf Nuclear Plant's Footprint

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Shady Actions in Bristol: Roadblocks Installed Under Cover of Night - UK Column News - 19th March 2025

- Bristol City Council: View a map of Bristol's Clean Air Zone
- BBC: Questions about police response to bus gate protest
- Bristol Live: Bus gate branded 'absolute rip-off' as judge says signage should be improved
- Bristol 24/7: Police & crime commissioner ‘investigating’ heavy police presence in Barton Hill
- GOV.UK: English Devolution White Paper: Power and partnership

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Ursula von der Leyen’s Wild Proposal: Eye-Watering Sums for EU Defence - UK Column News - 19th March 2025

- EU Debates (YouTube): Ursula von der Leyen's Urgent Call: Europe Must Prepare for War to Secure Peace! Historic Speech
- GOV.UK: UK and EU to ramp up pressure on Russia and boost defence initiatives

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The Fallout of the West’s Syria Gamble: Replacing Assad with Al-Qaeda Will Not End Well - UK Column News - 19th March 2025

- The Cradle: Former Al-Qaeda in Syria founder named as caretaker Foreign Minister
- GOV.UK: UK pledges up to £160 million to support Syria’s recovery and stability in post-Assad era 
- GOV.UK: Update on Syria: Lifting asset freezes on 24 entities
- Kurdistan 24 English (on X): Captagon seizure
- Vanessa Beeley (Telegram): Kids in Aleppo
- Vanessa Beeley (Telegram): Shocking video from Jableh shows bodies dumped after HTS massacre

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Starmer’s Not-So-Secret Mission: Brexiting Brexit - UK Column News - 19th March 2025

- GOV.UK: Strengthening ties with Europe
- The House of Commons Library: Debate on the UK applying to join the European Union

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Met Police Lose Bid for Anonymity in Tribunal Over ‘Gender Critical’ Beliefs Case - UK Column News - 19th March 2025

- Sex Matters: Met Police tribunal anonymity bid rejected
- Google Drive: Melanie Newman -v- Metropolitan Police Service - Statement Of Melanie Newman
“I have “gender critical” (GC) beliefs, by which I mean I know there are two sexes with immutable biological differences between them.”
- Legislation: Equality Act 2010, Section 15
- Acas (2020): The Equality Act 2010, a:gender and me (Emma Dunn, Chair, a:gender)

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And Finally: DOGE UK A Genuine Plan or Just More Lies? - UK Column News - 19th March 2025

- GOV.UK: Mass cancellation of government credit cards in crackdown on wasteful spend
- Keir Starmer (on X): Keir’s lies
“Taxpayers' money should be spent on improving people's lives - not wasteful government credit cards.”

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In a world gone digital, there’s something special about real, in-person connections. Wendy-Jane and Steve from the Sounds Beautiful Festival dropped by to update us on what’s coming in 2025. The lineup’s sounding beautiful and they’ve got some big ideas brewing—maybe even a live, in person UK Column show? We all really had a great time at last year's festival. Music, talks, and good vibes, this one’s going to be another unforgettable gathering.

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