UK Column News - 29th July 2024

Source: ukcolumn

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with today’s UK Column News.

All Hail Blue Bacchus at Satan’s Supper! Thomas Jolly’s Fetish Olympics Opening Ceremony

00:28 The Guardian: Paris Olympics organisers apologise to Christians for Last Supper parody

BBC (Sport): Olympics opening ceremony: Paris 2024 sorry for causing offence after complaints—choreographer’s statement:

You’ll never find in my work any desire to mock or denigrate anyone. I wanted a ceremony that brings people together, that reconciles, but also a ceremony that affirms our Republican values of liberty, equality and fraternity […]

The Sun: Who are Thomas Jolly and Thierry Reboul? Duo behind the Paris Olympics’ ceremony [sic, with illiterate apostrophe]

Daily Mail: Paris 2024 Olympics: Did everyone get it wrong about THAT controversial opening ceremony moment?

Rev. Benjamin Cremer (on X): Rev. Benjamin Cremer’s post

Opening ceremony choreographer denies Last Supper parody at launch of Paris Games.

Progress for Fornethy House Abuse Survivors

11:10 Exploring With Natasha (YouTube): Inside Fornethy House

Scottish Parliament: Petition PE1933: Allow the Fornethy Survivors to access Scotland’s redress scheme

Scottish Parliament: Petition PE1933: Copy of report provided by Dr Emma Fossey

Scottish Parliament: Petition PE1933: Professor Diane McAdie submission of 11 March 2024

The Scottish Parliament (YouTube): Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee—20 March 2024

The Scottish Parliament (YouTube): Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee—26 June 2024

The Courier: Major compensation breakthrough for Fornethy House abuse survivors

Labour’s ‘Democratically Elected’ Class Of 2024

22:13 Labour List: A picture is worth 412 MPs: First group photo of Labour class of 2024

The Guardian: Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review—the women who tried to carve a path in a new China

Financial Times: Yuan Yang

UK Parliament: Parliamentary career for Laura Kyrke-Smith

Portland: Portland is a fully integrated communications consultancy

UK Column article: The International Rescue Committee: A Trojan Horse of the Globalists?

TheyWorkForYou: Katie White MP, Leeds North West

TheyWorkForYou: Tom Hayes MP, Bournemouth East

Wikipedia: Polly Billington

TheyWorkForYou: David Pinto-Duschinsky MP for Hendon

Wikipedia: David Pinto-Duschinsky

UK Column Live In Bristol—Saturday, 19th October 2024

31:38 Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column with only £5 a month

Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community

Request For Assistance: Abduction of 2-Year-old Twins—Hillingdon Council Childcare Services: hearing at West London Family Court, 4 Dukes Green Avenue, Feltham TW14 0LR, 30 July 2024 at 9.00 am 

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

Forthcoming UK Column interview: John Beaudoin, Part 2—Tuesday 30th of July at 1 pm

Date For Your Diary: UK Column Really Live: Saturday, 19th October 2024 (Bristol)

Fabian Change Agents Partnering With Labour

34:38 CRUX (YouTube): “We Want Our Country Back…” Far-Right Protesters March In Tommy Robinson-Led Rally

Foundation for European Progressive Studies: About

Foundation for European Progressive Studies: Members

Foundation for European Progressive Studies: Event: A free and democratic Europe: Countering far-right populism

Solidar: Civil Society for EU | Unlock the potential of EU democracy

European Policy Centre (EPC): The Social Pillar and the future of the EU Social Agenda

The Party of European Socialists: Home

University of Sheffield: Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI)

University of Greenwich: Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre (GPERC)

Progressive Britain: Home

Center for American Progress: Project 2025

The People Who Talk About Democracy The Most Don’t Seem To Understand Democracy

49:03 United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability: Comer and Raskin Statement on Attempted Assassination of President Trump

NBC News: Kamala Harris’ 2020 campaign was a mess. If she replaces Biden, this time could be a lot different

USA.GOV: National convention: What happens at a national political convention?

CNN: Democratic Presidential Primaries and Caucuses 2024

Cornell Law School: 25th Amendment of the US Constitution Procedure for replacing the President or Vice President  

Newsweek: Democrats Might Not Be Able to Replace Joe Biden on Ballot in These States

NBC News: Majority of pledged Democratic delegates endorse Harris on first full day as a candidate

Democrats: DNCC Rules Committee Passes Permanent Rules for 2024 Presidential Nomination

Kamala Harris (YouTube): Barack and Michelle Obama Endorse Kamala Harris for President

Spads’n’Spooks Get Political: The Class of 2024 with Ben Rubin

57:25 Financial Times: Keir Starmer turns to arch-networker Varun Chandra to woo business

Institute For Government: SpAdCast: What is it really like to be a special adviser? Episode 1: Into government 

Intelligence Online: Hakluyt attempts to unlock mysteries of Investment Security Unit 

Hakluyt: Lord William Hague becomes chair of Hakluyt’s international advisory board 

Wikipedia: Tony Blair Associates (TBA)

GOV.UK: Lord Timpson OBE

Waterstones: The Happy Index by James Timpson

Metro: Prisons minister James Timpson thinks ‘two thirds of inmates shouldn’t be there’

GOV.UK: Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation: Lord Patrick Vallance 

GOV.UK: Nearly £50 million unlocked for world-leading UK Biobank following new industry backing 

Citadel: Kenneth C. Griffin—Founder & CEO

Eric Schmidt: About Eric