UK Column News - 16th June 2025
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Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with Monday’s UK Column News.
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Endless Inquiries: Still No Answers – Tim Fortescue Admits Whips Cover Up Child Abuse for Brownie Points
01:27 British Stand (YouTube): Angry News Host Torches Rachel Reeves Over Their Treatment Of People Following Grooming Gang U Turn
BBC: Strip-search police told girl she may be arrested
The girl, known as Child Q, was strip-searched at her school by officers in Hackney, east London, on 3 December 2020 after her teachers wrongly suspected her of carrying cannabis.
BBC: Leon Brittan’s widow says ‘no closure’ from false abuse claims after case dropped
GBNews (YouTube): Dominic Cummings: I saw the British establishment cover-up grooming gangs
BBC: Abuse claims: Senior whip ‘would help colleagues’
Tim Fortescue suggesting to the BBC in 1995 that party whips might not disclose certain behaviour of colleagues including that “involving small boys.”
Still No Justice: Fornethy Survivors Left Waiting With Empty Promises
12:03 Scottish Parliament Website: Meeting of the Parliament: Fornethy Survivors
Scottish Parliament Website (2023): Meeting of the Parliament: 25/05/2023 - Fornethy House Survivors
Scottish Legal News: Lib Dems call for compensation scheme to be opened to Fornethy survivors
Daily Record: Survivors of Fornethy ‘House of Horrors’ plead for redress as debate taken to Holyrood
Leigh Day: Church of England abuse – more cases in the news and a long wait for victim compensation
Covered-Up Atrocities Build Rage — Until the Explosion They’ve Been Waiting For
23:12 GOV.UK: Wood Report – Sector expert review of new multi-agency safeguarding arrangements (PDF)
Community Care (2018): Social work isn’t falling to bits – it has some deep challenges to which we can provide remedies
GOV.UK: Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023
QUT ePrints (1997): Breaking the code of silence: the Wood Royal Commission into New South Wales police: a brief overview
Stamergeddon & Mark Carnage: Cooking Up the Crash Together in Canada
28:11 GOV.UK: Joint statement between the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Prime Minister of Canada
London Evening Standard: Canada agrees to ratify Britain’s accession to major trans-Pacific trade pact
Affaires mondiales Canada: Canada and the G7 - Global Affairs Canada
Carne Ross (TikTok): Starmer Israel Palestine Gaza Iran (Video)
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Event: Sounds Beautiful Festival - 26th to 29th June
Competition: Sounds Beautiful Festival 2X Ticket Giveaway
Event: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival - 18th July
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The Freedom Flotilla Coalition: We sail until Palestine is free
21st Century Wire (YouTube): Gaza Flotilla, Greta Thunberg + Joe Rogan’s Controversial Comments
March To Gaza: Global March To Gaza
MPs Sworn to Serve – For Britain or Israel?
40:10 UK Column (2011): Britain Or Israel?
Sky News: UK military could ‘potentially’ be used to defend Israel, chancellor tells Sky News
Independent: Britain ‘not at war’ despite sending more RAF jets to the Middle East, Reeves say
Middle East Eye: Exclusive: David Cameron threatened to withdraw UK from ICC over Israel war crimes probe
Blaise Metreweli: First Woman to Run MI6 — Was Also There When We Lied Our Way Into Iraq
45:48 GOV.UK: First ever female MI6 chief appointed
GOV.UK: Foreign embassies in the UK
Ditchley Foundation: Conference Summary Transforming democracy (PDF)
The Guardian: Blaise Metreweli named as first woman to lead UK intelligence service MI6
Libraries Purged: Academic Material Disappearing While No One Notices
50:07 Buckingham Academics For Academic Freedom (on X): Diane defending libraries as we knew them at The University of Buckingham
Deported for Decency: Speak for Palestine, Get Cuffed at Customs
55:27 Substack: Kitchen Counter | Alistair Kitchen
Daily Mail: World’s most secretive society meets in Sweden as tensions between Europe and Trump reach boiling point
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