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Wakefield is known worldwide for transforming how millions think about vaccines and pharmaceutical products.

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And this is just the first speaker. We’ll be announcing many more soon.

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On Wednesday's UK Column News, Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen delved into Trump’s choice of Larry Ellison, the billionaire tech mogul behind Oracle.
Ellison recently made headlines with his remarks advocating for private citizens to be monitored by AI. It’s worth noting that Ellison has a long history of promoting surveillance technologies.

After 9/11, he was quick to propose a digital ID system, even offering to help fund its implementation.
What does Ellison’s track record say about his vision for the future? And what does his proximity to political power mean for individual freedom and privacy?
Watch the full news: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-january-2025

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with Monday's UK Column News.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-11th-august-2025⁠

When Dissent Gets Branded Terrorism - The Palestine Action Crackdown | UK Column News - 11th August 2025

- The Guardian: Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
- GOV.UK: Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: Part 1
- UK Column: The Common Purpose - State Control of the Press by Appointment
- GOV.UK: PM statement on the Israeli government’s decision to further escalate its offensive in Gaza: 8 August 2025 
- The Telegraph: Miriam Margolyes’s OBE should be stripped, says anti-Semitism group (Archived)
- Campaign Against Antisemitism: How we fight antisemitism

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-11th-august-2025

Hospitals on Hold: The Endless Waiting Room | UK Column News - 11th August 2025

- LSC Health + Care Partnership (YouTube): Dr Geoff Jolliffe explains the New Hospitals Programme
- Visit County Durham: Terris Novalis Sculpture
- Visit Consett: Project Genesis
- GOV.UK (2020): PM confirms £3.7 billion for 40 hospitals in biggest hospital building programme in a generation
- BBC (2020): How is the plan for 48 hospitals going?
- GOV.UK (2023): Five major hospitals to be rebuilt as part of over £20 billion new hospital infrastructure investment
- BBC (2024): Concerns new hospital project 'will never happen'
- GOV.UK: New Hospital Programme – media fact sheet

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-11th-august-2025

Stargate UAE: Opening the Gates to AI Power | UK Column News - 11th August 2025

- Just Security: What Just Happened: Trump’s Announcement of the Stargate AI Infrastructure Project
- The Washington Post: ‘King of the cannibals’: How Sam Altman took over Silicon Valley
- Fox Business: Trump's AI vision takes shape as Oracle and OpenAI expand massive Stargate infrastructure project
- World Economic Forum (WEF): The UAE's Stargate project hints at how AI can be integrated into national infrastructure
- LinkedIn: Josh Payne
- Let The Bull Run: AI hyperscaler, Nscale, to invest $2.5 (£2) billion in the UK data centre industry over the next three years
- BBC: Loughton AI data centre plans would create 750 jobs

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-11th-august-2025

Farming for Control: The Power Shift in Our Food | UK Column News - 11th August 2025

- The Times: Henry Dimbleby sets up fund to transform global food system
- Bramble Partners: We are on a mission to fix the broken food system
- Linked In: Henry Dimbleby
- Reuters: South Africa bans consultancy Bain from state contracts for 10 years
- The National Food Strategy: The Plan
- LinkedIn: Bramble Partners
“Most of our farmland isn’t feeding us. 85% of UK farmland gives us just 32% of our calories.  It’s time to rethink the system.”

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-11th-august-2025

South Yorkshire Police Raid: Protecting Abusers or Justice? | UK Column News - 11th August 2025

- South Yorksire Police: Force asks NCA to investigate former officers accused of non-recent abuse in Rotherham
- South Yorkshire Police: Assistant Chief Constable Hayley Barnett biography

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-11th-august-2025

Flames of Neglect: The Wildfire Problem We’re Choosing Not to Solve | UK Column News - 11th August 2025

- BBC: Large gorse blaze on Arthur's Seat brought under control
- The Independent: Huge fire sweeps across landmark Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh (Video)
- UK Column: Article: French Wildfires, Eye-Watering Profits, and Deloitte

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-11th-august-2025

Ryan Christian from The Last American Vagabond joined me to chat about a bunch of things including the problems with alternative media and why, just like mainstream media, we need to always test and filter what they tell us.

Watch on ukcolumn.org tonight at 7pm UK.

Carl Zha and I will be doing a regular feature in which we mock and debunk proaganda from around the world.

We started with myths about China.

Of course, what would Carl know?

Tonight at 7pm UK on ukcolumn.org.

UK Column News - 13th August 2025
Charles Malet, Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Sandi Adams with Wednesday's UK Column News.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-august-2025

Israel is Killing More Journalists Than Any War Ever | UK Column News - 13th August 2025

- Al Jazeera: Anas al-Sharif among four Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
- The New York Times: What to Know About Al Jazeera, the Broadcaster Targeted by Israel
“Al Jazeera said the strike killed five of its journalists and denied Israeli claims that its reporters have ties to Hamas.”
- Al Jazeera: Here are the names of the journalists Israel killed in Gaza
- Jonathan Cook (Substack): The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists
- The National: Questions on UK spy plane 'over Gaza as Israel killed journalists'
- 21st Century Wire: Anas al-Sharif Unyielding Voice for Palestinian Justice Will Not Be Silenced
- GOV.UK: National Committee for the Safety of Journalists
- House of Lords Library: Media Freedom Coalition and the UK’s actions to ensure the safety and security of journalists worldwide

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-august-2025

AI Policing, Policy Overhauls and the Illusion of Safety as Big Brother Tightens His Grip | UK Column News - 13th August 2025

- GOV.UK: Updating the operations and response guidance for police
- GOV.UK: Live Facial Recognition technology to catch high-harm offenders
- College of Policing: Live facial recognition – five things you need to know
- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): Biometric recognition
- GOV.UK: New ‘Restriction Zones’ To Boost Protection For Victims
- GOV.UK: Foreign criminals to face immediate deportation
- National Police Chiefs' Council: New national guidance for disclosing suspects' details
- House of Commons: Crime and Policing Bill, As Amended (Amendment Paper)
“A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (or both).”

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-august-2025

Drone Technology Soars — Will We Act Before It’s Too Late? | UK Column News - 13th August 2025

- PwC UK: Skies Without Limits v3.0
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Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-august-2025

High Court Sides With Government in Wikimedia Online Safety Fight | UK Column News - 13th August 2025

- Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
- GOV.UK: Keeping children safe online: changes to the Online Safety Act explained 
- National Crime Agency (2022): NCA responds to final report by Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)
- Missing Kids: 2024 CyberTipline Report
- UK Government and Parliament: Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
- GOV.UK: Companies House confirms identity verification rollout from 18 November 2025

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-august-2025

Are They orchestrating a Repeat Of The Lebanese Civil War? | UK Column News - 13th August 2025

- Politico: Israel-Lebanon truce in danger after fresh attacks
- X: Ambassador Tom Barrack
- The Economist: Nerves are fraying ahead of the Trump-Putin summit

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-august-2025

Public Funds Poured Into Ideologically Driven Projects | UK Column News - 13th August 2025

- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): UKRI Strategy 2022–2027: Transforming tomorrow together (PDF)
- European Conservative: UK Spending Tens of Millions on Woke Research
- UKRI: Who AHRC is
- UKRI: The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000
- Marlborough Productions: Galatea: exploring trans narratives in pre-Shakespearean drama
- Lewis Brackpool (on X): The Home Office confirmed that 14 organisations were formally involved in 'Asylum accommodation' policy development
- Museum of the Jewish People: Frankfurt School: The Jewish Intellectuals Who Made the 60's

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-august-2025

Fear, Funding and Farming: Vaccinate Every Animal So Investors Cash In | UK Column News - 13th August 2025

- Gov.wales: Changes to Bluetongue restrictions confirmed for Autumn sales & markets 
- GOV.UK: Bluetongue: how to prevent it and stop it spreading
- UKRI: The Pirbright Institute: combating animal diseases
“Pirbright also attracts international investment into the UK research system. In 2019, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded US $5.5 million to Pirbright to establish the Livestock Antibody Hub”
- The Pirbright Institute: New UK Centre for Veterinary Vaccine Innovation and Manufacturing set to improve global animal health
- GOV.UK: Bluetongue serotype 3 (BTV-3) vaccination
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Chikungunya virus disease worldwide overview
- GOV.UK: National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall
“Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.”

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-august-2025

Cornish Lithium Rush: Powering the UK’s Giga Factories | UK Column News - 13th August 2025

- Gravity - Smart Campus (YouTube): Gravity Smart Campus Flythrough
- Cornish Lithium: Driving the Energy Transition

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-august-2025

Great conversation with Cuban-born author Jorge Besada on why more people need to learn about Mises, Rothbard and Hayek in order to become free and prosperous.

I've been a longtime follower of the names he mentions and certainly agree.

Tonight on ukcolumn.org at 7pm UK.