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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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.

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UK Column News - 15th August 2025
Mike Robinson, Mark Anderson and Vanessa Beeley with Friday's UK Column News.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-august-2025

Trump–Putin Summit: Peace Talks in a World Gearing Up for War | UK Column News - 15th August 2025

- The Guardian: What's at stake at the Trump-Putin Ukraine peace summit?
- Going Underground (on X): Zelensky attacks Belgorod, Russia ahead of the Trump-Putin Summit to provoke Russia into a massive retaliation 
- Russian Embassy, UK (on X): Russia has been and remains open to resolving the Ukraine conflict through political and diplomatic means
- GOV.UK: Chief of the Defence Staff speech to CSIS
“[…] NATO is stronger, Russia is weak; and the West has the military, economic and intellectual heft needed to buttress the global system.”
- Financial Times: Europe builds for war as arms factories expand at triple speed

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-august-2025

Lebanon: The Small Nation in a Big Fight | UK Column News - 15th August 2025

- The Cradle: ‘Strategy of surrender’: Hezbollah condemns Lebanese cabinet decision on disarmament
- The Cradle: Majority of Lebanese oppose Hezbollah disarmament, say army ‘incapable’ of confronting Israel
- Marwa Osman/MidEaStream (Telegram): Funeral in Southern Lebanon
- UK Column: The Last Army Standing: The US-Zionist Plan to Disarm the Middle East
- Marwa Osman/MidEaStream (Telegram): Marwa message

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-august-2025

Neuro­warfare: NATO’s War for the Human Brain | UK Column News - 15th August 2025

- The Truth Hound: NATO-Linked ‘Fictional’ War-Strategy Scenario Sees Human Mind as Ultimate Domain to Conquer
- Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe: Author: Hervé Le Guyader
- NATO Innovation Hub: Weaponization of neurosciences (PDF)
- NATO's Strategic Warfare Development Command: Navigating the Cognitive Battlefield: Key Takeaways from the 2024 NATO Communicators Conference
- Joint Warfare Centre: The Three Swords Magazine - NATO's JWC
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Cognitive warfare: a conceptual analysis of the NATO ACT cognitive warfare exploratory concept

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-august-2025

Willsy Reports: Paloma Shemirani Inquest Updates | UK Column News - 15th August 2025

- Resistance GB (YouTube): How the NHS Killed Her Daughter l Resistance Podcast
- Will Coleshill (on X): Paloma Shemirani (daughter of Kate Shemirani) Midway of Day 1
“NHS doctor narrative effectively calls Paloma a liar in paloma's signed court statement preceding her death.”

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-august-2025

Blocked, AI Policing Pre Crime and the End of Online Freedom | UK Column News - 15th August 2025

- Open Rights Group: Online Safety Act - shutdowns and site blocks
- Repo: Public Git Hosting
“The repo.or.cz site is no longer available in the UK.”
- Pluralistic: “Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: Today's Supreme Court Decision on Age Verification Tramples Free Speech and Undermines Privacy
- UK Parliament: Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson DBE MP Minister of State for Policing and Crime Prevention (PDF Letter)
- GOV.UK: AI to help police catch criminals before they strike
- The Guardian: UK traffic to popular porn sites slumps after age checks introduced

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-august-2025

Lebanon’s Survival at Stake: The Disarmament Controversy | UK Column News - 15th August 2025

- Kataeb: Gemayel Demands Expulsion of Iranian Ambassador, Says Tehran’s Guardianship Is Over
- The Cradle: Iranian security chief meets officials in Beirut amid push to disarm Hezbollah
- The Cradle: Iran security chief in Baghdad for talks on 'next phase' of Resistance Axis
- UK Column: Syria: Prey to the Globalist Cabal and Crony Capitalist Al Qaeda Regime

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-august-2025

Lab Leak Concerns in Switzerland and Exercise Pegasus Reminder | UK Column News - 15th August 2025

- Vereinwir: Time is running out to stop a lab leak in Switzerland!
- Schweizerischer Verein WIR (YouTube): Time is running out to stop a lab leak in Switzerland
- NHS England: Pandemic preparedness & Exercise Pegasus: Exercise Pegasus
- GOV.UK: MHRA designated as WHO-Listed Authority: a milestone for UK life sciences and global health 
- GOV.UK: Local resilience forums: contact details 

Full news and all the source links: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-august-2025

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