UK Column News - 18th September 2024

Source:  ukcolumn

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet and Vanessa Beeley with today’s UK Column News.

 

Israeli Pager Massacre in Lebanon: Hezbollah Strikes and Explosive Revelations

00:21 Al Mayadeen: Exclusive: Hezbollah strike against Glilot base highly successful

Jerusalem Post: US urges Iran not to escalate regional tensions following pager attack

CNN-News 18 (YouTube): Spokesperson Matthew Miller’s Media Briefing

TRT World: AP–900: This what we know about one of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon

Al-Monitor:  Live Updates: Israel flights suspended as Hezbollah vows response to pager attack

Al Mayadeen: Reuters, according to a founder of the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo: The pagers that were exposed to explosions in Lebanon were manufactured by a company in Europe

Reuters: Hezbollah exploding pager trail runs from Taiwan to Hungary

Reuters: Gold Apollo says Budapest-based BAC produces model of pagers used in Lebanon blasts

 

Pushing for a Global ‘Clean’ Power Alliance—David Lammy’s Vision?

15:57 Foreign Secretary David Lammy (on X): David Lammy’s post

The climate and nature crisis is the most profound and universal source of global disorder.

We are resetting Britain’s approach to this agenda.

Climate and nature will be central to all the Foreign Office does.

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (Facebook): FCDO’s post

We will:

Build a Global Clean Power Alliance 

Unlock more climate finance 

Reverse the decline in global biodiversity

NATO: Remarks—Securing an Insecure World: Panel discussion with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland

EEAS: Sahel region—European Union

GOV.UK: UK–Sahel region development partnership summary, July 2023 

Daily Express (YouTube): In Full: David Lammy on tackling the climate and nature crisis

GOV.UK: The Kew Lecture: Foreign Secretary’s speech on the climate crisis

Al Jazeera: Ukraine is losing the plot in Africa

David Lammy: Fabian Society speech

 

Huw Edwards Avoids Prison; Two-Tier Keir’s Legal System

21:58 Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales (CPS): Ex-Broadcaster sentenced for possessing indecent images of children

WhatsApp chat between the male and Edwards was sexual in nature and it also showed that Edwards was giving him gifts and money. Within the chat there were numerous sexually explicit images, including 41 indecent images of children.

BBC: BBC Board’s statement in full on Huw Edwards

Unicef UK: A summary of the UN convention on the rights of the child (PDF)

Counsel Magazine: DPP apologises on Savile

UK Column (Substack): 7 men who committed offences against two girls in Rotherham jailed for 106 years 

Home Office (on X): Peaceful protest is a fundamental right. Committing violence on our streets is not

BBC: Man jailed for shouting at police dog and using racist slurs

NSPCC: As child abuse image crimes increase, we’re calling on Ofcom and tech companies to take action 

GOV.UK: End-to-end encryption and child safety

GOV.UK: Covid–19 vaccination of children aged 6 months to 4 years

New Scientist (2020): Coronavirus: Should children returning to school wear face coverings?

 

UK Column On Location: Bristol Event—October 2024 (Limited Tickets Available)

31:15 Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column with only £5 a month

Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community

UK Column interview: Gut Feelings: The Abdominal Brain with Dr Sabine Hazan, Consultant Gastroenterologist—Part 2

Forthcoming UK Column interview: The Presence—Dr Robin Kelly—Thursday 19th September at 1 pm

UK Column Shop: Agenda 21—Your Life In Their Hands by Martin Edwards

UK Column event: UK Column Really Live: Saturday, 19th October 2024 (Bristol)

Eventbrite: (Project Libertas events in Stroud) Expose 2024: Your Life In Their Hands

 

Assisted Dying: Could It Lead to Legalising State Murder?

35:24 The Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Assisted Dying Project

BBC (2020): Assisted dying travel allowed during lockdown, says Hancock

The Telegraph (2021): Matt Hancock takes first steps towards legalising assisted suicide

Sortition Foundation: It’s official: we use the fairest selection algorithm

Harvard Business Review: Eliminating Algorithmic Bias Is Just the Beginning of Equitable AI

Sortition Foundation: Labour indicates intention to use citizens’ assemblies to address assisted dying and House of Lords Reform

UK Column: A Dissident’s Guide to the Constitution: Episode 5, Part I—Democracy: a British value?

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Morris, William Richard, Viscount Nuffieldfree (1877–1963)

Dignity in Dying: Assisted dying bill set for Second Reading on 15th November

 

The Information War: Australia’s Crackdown and RT’s Global Shutout

43:19 Minister for Communications (The Hon Michelle Rowland MP Australia): It’s time to act on misinformation and disinformation

Parliament of Australia: Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024

Just like the UK, the “dissemination of professional news content” is specifically excluded in the bill.

Ofcom: TV loses its crown as main source for news

U.S. Department of State: Alerting the World to RT’s Global Covert Activities

GOV.UK: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Statement on RT

BBC: Media Action—Meet the BBC’s international charity

 

Jewish Chronicle Accused of Fabricating Gaza and Hamas Stories: Resignations and Fallout

48:36 Al Mayadeen: Columnists quit Jewish Chronicle over fabricated Gaza, Hamas stories

972 Magazine (Israel): Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?

The i: David Baddiel has ‘no plans’ to write for Jewish Chronicle amid fabrication row

 

US Congress’ Countering Chinese Drones Act

53:04 Congress (America): Countering CCP Drones Act 118th Congress (2023–2024)

 

British National Parks: Shifting Control from Private Owners to Corporate Interests

54:48 GOV.UK: UK helps secure ambitious declaration to promote sustainable farming and food security

G20 Brasil 2024: Agriculture

Campaign for National Parks: Party Promises to National Parks

Guy Shrubsole (on X): Guy Shrubsole’s post

REVEALED: Just 10% of Britain’s National Parks are owned by the nation. 90% of the land in them is privately owned.

This means National Park Authorities are almost powerless to influence the private landowners who too often fail to steward nature

GOV.UK: Nature markets

Nature market: A mechanism for private investment in nature through the sale of units of ecosystem services, which are delivered by nature restoration projects or improvements to land or coastal management

 

Connected Britain 2024: Sir Chris Bryant on the Future of the UK’s Digital Infrastructure

59:04 GOV.UK: Sir Chris Bryant speech at Connected Britain 2024