Rent A Terrorist To Run Syria Former Al Qaeda Commander - UK Column News - 21st May 2025

- Fontline: The Jihadist (Season 2021: Episode 3)
- Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs (YouTube): Syrian Rebels Win - Now What?
- Hussain Abdul-Hussain (on X): Robert Ford in Damascus January 2025
- Middle East News: The former American ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, in coordination between the Damascus government and the Syrian Democratic Forces
- The Wall Will Fall (2016): Disseminating Fake Information: Conversations with State Department Propagandist Robert S. Ford, Former US Ambassador to Syria
- The Lemniscat (on X): Ford Okaidi ISIS
- The National: ‘This is not going to end well’: Former US envoy to Syria warns of new government's friction with SDF
- Sana: Britain welcomes formation of the transitional justice and missing persons’ commissions in Syria
- Al Majalla: My Syria visit: Rays of hope and fears for the future
- TRT World (YouTube): Former US Ambassador Ford: Where we went wrong on Syria
- Sana: Defense Minister Discusses Issues of Common Interest with a Delegation from UK Military Attaché
- New Rules Geopolitics (on X): Jolani Administration all HTS
- This is Beirut: UK’s Defense Senior Advisor Reaffirms Lebanese Armed Forces as the Sole Legitimate Defender of Lebanon
- GOV.UK: UK’s Defence Senior Advisor ends visit to Lebanon
- UK Column: The UK Private Security Boom in Syria under Al Qaeda Regime - Part 1
- The Jerusalem Post: Britain holds first high-level military talks with Syria since 2011

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Pandemics on Demand: WHO Holds the Trigger - UK Column News - 21st May 2025

- Reuters: Slovakia to challenge adoption of 'critical' global pandemic agreement (Archived)
- Research Gate: One Health is in the mission for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
- EFSA: One Health: EFSA joins forces with EU agencies
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (on X): Photo of Tedros and Bill Gates

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Lucy Connolly Jailed in Free Speech Crackdown — Proof We Need Trial by Jury to Protect Justice - UK Column News - 21st May 2025

- The Telegraph: Lucy Connolly: ‘The judges should be ashamed of themselves. It’s cruel and twisted’ (Archived)
- BBC: Woman jailed for race hate post on X loses appeal

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State Threats: Governments Label Critics as Far-Right Extremists - UK Column News - 21st May 2025

- Crown Prosecution Service (CPS): Three men charged with National Security Act offences
- Security service MI5: Joint State Threats Assessment Team
- Politico: The AfD is a right-wing extremist group, German intelligence agency says
- BBC: Far-right leaders attempting to hijack success of Reform

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FCDO Questions: What’s Really Behind the UK’s Syria Strategy? - UK Column News - 21st May 2025

- GOV.UK: UK–Syria development partnership summary, July 2023
- Cowater: Syria Independent Monitoring II (SIM II)
- Landell Mills: Our history
- Arab News: Rubio says Syria could be weeks away from ‘full-scale civil war’
- Reuters: Trump envoy Witkoff cites US 'red line' with Iran against uranium enrichment (Archived)

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Somerset Council — Where Has the Money Gone? Don’t Councillors Have to Declare Interests? - UK Column News - 21st May 2025

- Glastonbury Town Deal: Project: The Life Factory
- The Red Brick Building: Building C Regeneration & 'The Life Factory'
“In 2022, the Red Brick Building secured c.£3.6 million in the Glastonbury Town Deal to refurbish and save from collapse the derelict wing of the Red Brick Building, known as Building C.”
- GOV.UK: Managing Public Money May 2023 (PDF)
- BBC: Glastonbury: 'Fiasco' youth regeneration project is paused
- The Glastonbury Town Deal Website: Dr Lynne Sedgmore CBE
- FE Week (2015): Dr Lynne Sedgmore to step down from 157 Group executive director role

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BioNTech’s Billion-Pound AI Boost—AI Set to Use One-Third of UK Water Supply - UK Column News - 21st May 2025

- GOV.UK: £1 billion BioNTech investment sets way for jobs, growth, breakthroughs
- The Academy of Medical Sciences: Outstanding return on investment in medical research
- Techerati: UK AI expansion strategy raises concerns about water supply
- GOV.UK: AI Growth Zones: open for applications
- BBC: Work on new reservoir could get under way in 2031
- Microsoft: Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably

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MHRA Accelerates Clinical Trials — Trading Safety for Speed as Industry’s Enabler, Not Regulator - UK Column News - 21st May 2025

- GOV.UK: Building a faster, more effective clinical trials system
“[…] which could speed up vital parts of our clinical trial application review from 3 hours to just 35 seconds.”

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Whilst it will be very easy for many to cheer this, and I understand the anger about sex offenders and the awful crimes they commit, we are crossing a line here on body autonomy and it will come back to haunt us all, in ways people cannot yet perceive

Once we descend as a society into things like this, they become normalised and rolled out in all sorts of circumstances

Supporting this policy is the first step in setting a precedent for state intervention in bodily autonomy for everyone

Ps it will never be used on "elite offenders" either!

The only thing anyone should ever ask about things such as the above 👆is "how could this somehow be turned against me in the future"?

Many of us, myself and UK Column included, have repeatedly tried to inform people how the law is used as a weapon. It really hurts that some people still don't seem to understand this

The above is a naked attempt to nudge everyone into thinking the state has a right to force medical interventions

Imagine if the state had had this sort of power during 2020

It starts with "offenders" and it moves onto applying to the masses. It's how these things always go

Tonight on UK Column, Jerm's conversation with America's most censored comedian, Owen Benjamin.

It's an incredibly funny and un-PC chat, so be sure you're not easily offended.

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UK Column News - 23rd May 2025

Brian Gerrish, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with Friday's UK Column News.
Mark Playne from Not On The Beeb joins us for today’s News Extra.
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EU War Drive: Germany Lets UK Build Gun Barrels Amid Defence Unification Push - UK Column News - 23rd May 2025

- BBC: German troops to be permanently sent to Lithuania's eastern border

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US–South Africa Relations: What’s Changed—and Why Now? - UK Column News - 23rd May 2025

- The New York Times: Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t (Archived)
- Google Maps: Memorial Site Normandien Newcastle
- Al Jazeera: South Africa rejects Trump’s accusations, hits back at land law aid threats
- 21st Century Wire: Trump’s ‘White Genocide’ in South Africa: From Fake News to Orchestrated Propaganda
- Human Rights Watch: Israel Not Complying with World Court Order in Genocide Case
- The Jerusalem Post (2024): Israel asking US Congress to pressure South Africa over ICJ trial
- Middle East Eye: Ignore Starmer's theatrics. Gaza's trail of blood leads straight to his door

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Americans Grow More Divided on US Support for Israel - UK Column News - 23rd May 2025

- The Chicago Council on Global Affairs: Americans Grow More Divided on US Support for Israel
“Established in 2018 with a transformative $10 million gift from the Crown Family, the Lester Crown Center on US Foreign Policy is driven by the belief that the public plays a critical role in determining the direction of US foreign policy […]”
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The Quiet Architects of War: Charles Smith - UK Column News - 23rd May 2025

- Sky: A UK-conducted fatal drone strike confirmed for first time since Starmer became PM
- The Jerusalem Post: Britain holds first high-level military talks with Syria since 2011
- LinkedIn: Charles Smith
- GOV.UK: Vice Admiral Ahlgren reiterates UK support to Lebanon’s stability
- GOV.UK: General Sir Gwyn Jenkins KCB OBE RM has been appointed as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, and Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty
- The Telegraph: Head of Royal Navy ‘stepped down over affair with female subordinate’ (Archived)

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The Trilateral Commission and the Foundations of the Rules-Based International Order - UK Column News - 23rd May 2025

- The Trilateral Commission: Statement By The Regional Chairs On The Occasion Of The Global Meeting Of The Trilateral Commission - 6 April 2025
“Founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller, the Trilateral Commission brings together senior policymakers, business leaders, and top thinkers from across North America, Europe, and Asia. The members discuss issues common to democracies in the three regions and aim at deeper understanding and closer cooperation.”
- The Trilateral Commission (LinkedIn): Honoring the life of our dear friend Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
- Chicago Council on Global Affairs (YouTube): Edward Luce on the Life and Legacy of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Timestamped)
- NBNTelevision (YouTube): Studio One - George Orwell's "1984"
- Euronews: Meloni-Zelensky meeting lasted almost an hour, Italian PM

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Tonight on UK Column, Charles Malet, Mike Robinson, and I begin our weekly end-of-the-week banter covering all sorts of things on our minds.

No notes. Just riffing.

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Don’t be fooled: the same unchecked power used to deny citizenship to the children of immigrants today could just as easily be turned against you to strip you of your citizenship—based on your political beliefs, religious views, or failure to toe the party line. https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/theyre_coming_for_your_birthright_citizenship_as_spectacle_transaction_or_privilege

And finally (Wednesday’s entry)…

The Ministry of Defence has invented underwater glue—because when you're out of ideas and depth, why not try arts and crafts at the bottom of the sea? At a time when we're spending billions on war in Ukraine, hyping threats from Iran and struggling to fund basic services at home.

On the plus side, maybe they can finally glue Nord Stream 2 back together now?

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UK Column News - 26th May 2025
Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with Monday's UK Column News.
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