The Online Safety Bill: The Penny Is Beginning To Drop - UK Column News
The Online Safety Bill: The Penny Is Beginning To Drop Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-27th-september-2023 - Ofcom (YouTube): Online Safety Bill passed its final stage in parliament - Parliament Publications: Bill 285 58/2—Online Safety Bill (PDF) - Carol McGiffin (on X): “The Online Safety Bill is no more no less than a volume control that allows the authorities to turn down, all the way to silence, voices they don't want anyone to hear” - James Melville (on X): “Online Safety Bill to become law in crackdown on harmful social media content. But for government & tech companies to act as arbiters over online content risks becoming a road to hell that is paved with biased censorship intentions.” - Silkie Carlo (on X): “Whose device is your phone anyway? The message from the encryption debate is, ‘this isn’t *your* device, it’s the government’s device to police what you’re doing online’” - The Daily Beast: Rumble Loses Advertisers Over Russell Brand Accusations - MintPress News (on X): “Rumble to shutdown in the UK? After the passing of the Online Safety Bill, Rumble is at the risk of shutting down in the UK.”
Net Zero: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards To Gain Support
* Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-22nd-september-2023
- Sky News: Did Rishi Sunak 'scrap' net zero measures—or were they not even policies?
- Sky News (Farm video): Rishi Sunak 'absolutely confident' UK will hit international and domestic net zero targets
Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-march-2023
- French protesters march in Paris on the tenth day of nationwide strikes
- El País: Laurent Berger is the general secretary of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT), the largest French trade union
- Peter Sweden on Substack: Young Dutch Farmer—The State Wants To Seize his Farm
- Michael Yon’s Newsletter—Netherlands: Eva [Vlaardingerbroek] Takes Lead Tractor Despite Warnings
- UK Column article by Rafael Benjamin: Ultimately, the Netherlands has no actual constitution—Part 1
- UK Column article by Philip Ridley on Tobias Ellwood's serving of two masters: 77th Brigade and the Parliamentary Conflict of Interest
Western Funds For Ukraine's Destruction Finally Being Questioned
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-4th-october-2023
- Ukrainian World Congress: Nobel Peace Prize: Zelenskyy's chances
- NTD News (YouTube): ‘What Is the Goal Here’ for the US?—Sen. Hawley After Zelenskyy Makes Cases for More Funding
- Free Russia Channel (YouTube): Russians Launch Two Successful Counter Attacks In The East, Inflicting Heavy Losses In The Process.
- Ukrainian World Congress: “EU from Lisbon to Luhansk”: highlights of EU ministers meeting in Kyiv
- Politico: German Greens leader Baerbock under fire for resumé inflation
- New Strategy Center: The reconstruction of Ukraine. The topic of a new NSC study
- NATO: Euro-Atlantic Resilience Forum: Strength in Societies, at Sea, on Land
- Telegraph: Grant Shapps: 'Migrants must learn our language to integrate'
- Independent: Sunak insists no plan to send British troops for training in Ukraine ‘here and now’
- Politics Home: The James Cleverly interview: "Trump's particular style can be surprisingly effective"
- ZeroHedge: Supporting Ukraine Is 'Tough & Painful' Amid Growing War Fatigue, UK Foreign Secretary Admits
Monica: "They got a warrant signed ...." "... sometimes it works out to say no to intimidation"
Full interview: www.ukcolumn.org/video/monica-smit-becoming-a-freedom-advocate
Eastern Approaches Roundup
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-23rd-august-2023
- De Telegraaf: Omtzigt presents new party: ‘Our country has major problems’
- Escaping Mass Psychosis (Substack): Germany to ban political parties?... Again?
- Eugyppius: A Plague Chronicle (Substack): Nowhere do the climateers enjoy so much ascendancy over politics and the media as in Germany, and nowhere have they faced so many setbacks and humiliations
- Politico: Springtime for Europe’s fascists
- Reuters: Russia may annex Georgian breakaway regions—Medvedev
- Military Times: The Netherlands and Denmark will give F–16 fighter jets to Ukraine
- Air Force Times: Ukraine war prompts new US air tactics in Europe
- Mitchell Aerospace Power: A Conversation with Air Marshal Harvey Smyth: Allied Perspective
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Drug Safety Update
Spikevax storage change
£1.8 mil for digital mental health tools
Sources:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-october-2022
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Pandemic Treaty Update—Contact Your Politicians
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-14th-august-2023
- UK Government and Parliament: Petition: Hold a parliamentary vote on whether to reject amendments to the IHR 2005 (103,028 signatures)
- Government responded to this petition on 4 July 2023:
“We support targeted IHR amendments to ensure a suitable global framework to respond to international spread of disease. Parliament may scrutinise legislation relating to amendments accepted by the UK.”
- World Health Organization: WHO Director-General's statement at the press conference following IHR Emergency Committee regarding the multi-country outbreak of monkeypox—23 July 2022
- Forthcoming UK Column interview: Katie Hopkins—Tuesday 15 August at 1 pm
- Correction: The Irish Light did not directly attribute a young boy's death to the Covid–19 vaccine
Hidden Hands
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-october-2023
- United Nations in India: UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on Local and Regional Governments
“Local and regional engagement, action and multi-level cooperation are vital to rescue the SDGs and contribute to topics under the Summit of the Future.”
- C40 Cities: C40 is a global network of mayors of the world’s leading cities that are united in action to confront the climate crisis
Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-april-2023
- Voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access (VPAS)
- NHE: World-leading pharmaceutical deal to save NHS £7bn by end of 2023
- MHRA Chair Stephen Lightfoot Standing Down–After almost 8 years as a Board Member, Stephen has decided to step down on 11 July 2023
- Cornwall Live: NHS introduces radical changes to how GPs work and it will affect millions
- Sky News: Nurses' strike: Health Secretary Steve Barclay says he is 'left with no choice but to proceed with legal action'
- Nurses’ leader blasts Steve Barclay over ‘disgraceful’ use of legal action to stop strike
- Steve Barclay vows to halt horror of sex attacks in hospitals: Health Secretary calls urgent meeting with NHS chiefs following revelation that dozens of patients are raped and sexually assaulted every week
- The Independent: Hundreds of nurses and other health workers disciplined over sex assaults or abuse
- Nurses to wear body cameras in crackdown on hospital sexual assaults
- NHS England rolls out its ‘lung trucks’
- WHO: Get monkeypox jabs ahead of ‘kink and fetish events’
- All ministers and advisors who played a significant part in Covid crisis response will be told to hand over their WhatsApp messages to public inquiry, chairman announces
- Valiant News: Biden Teams Up With Bill Gates For $5 Billion Vaccine Project, Successor To ‘Operation Warp Speed’
- Parliament TV