UK Column News - 31st July 2024

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

Katie-Jo Murfin joins for UK Column Extra.

British Policing: Problem, Reaction, Solution

00:20 College of Policing: Legal framework

Use of force

Police officers only use force to the extent that it is necessary, proportionate and reasonable in all the circumstances.

College of Policing: Use Of Force Reminder (PDF)

Legislation: The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020

Sky: New video shows police officer who stamped on suspect pepper spraying man at Manchester airport

GOV.UK: Police use of firearms statistics, England and Wales: April 2023 to March 2024 

Statista: Homicides by method of killing England and Wales 2023

Office for National Statistics: Homicide in England and Wales: year ending March 2023

GOV.UK: Serious Violence Reduction Orders: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 factsheet 

UK Column article: Search without suspicion: The Serious Violence Reduction Order

Urban Scoop (on X): Urban Scoop’s post

JUSTIFIED ANGER IN SOUTHPORT

After reports of a man wearing a balaclava in possession of a knife near the vigil in the town centre, locals are venting their anger and frustration at the police in the aftermath of three children being murdered by an ‘unknown’ assailant.

Wikipedia: 2024 Southport riot

The Times of Israel: Why are US ‘pro-Israel’ groups boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim UK extremist?

Middle East Forum: Tommy Robinson Free—MEF Heavily Involved

Middle East Forum: MEF Organizes 25,000 Strong Protest in Support of Tommy Robinson; Plans Additional Rallies

Middle East Forum: News: MEF Funds Tommy Robinson Defense … To No Avail

The Nation (2012): The Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate

Gatestone Institute (2018): Swift Injustice: The Case of Tommy Robinson

Law Enforcement Action Partnership: Sir Robert Peel’s Policing Principles

The basic mission for which the police exists is to prevent crime and disorder.

David Lammy Tells British Citizens Not To Travel To Northern Israel

13:09 Mondoweiss: Who are the Syrian Druze of Majdal Shams?

The Times of Israel: Ministers authorize Netanyahu and Gallant to order retaliation for deadly Golan strike

The Jerusalem Post: Israel strikes Beirut: Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr killed

The Jerusalem Post: Leave Lebanon immediately, don’t travel to northern Israel, UK tells its citizens

The Jerusalem Post: US carried out strike in Iraq, US official says

AP News: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran

AP News: US shifts assault ship to the Mediterranean to deter an escalation of the Israel-Lebanon conflict

Further NATO Escalation Funnelling Weapons Into Black Sea

22:35 Hindustan Times (YouTube): Russian Jet Again Beats Back NATO Spy & Warplanes: West Trying To Provoke Putin Amid Ukraine Losses?

USNI News: U.S., Ukrainian Navies Practice Mine Countermeasures Off Scotland For Sea Breeze 2024

TASS: NATO funnels weapons into Black Sea, threatening Russia

Fortune: The Polish ‘are doing business with the Russians’, says Hungary’s Orbán as relations between the two nations take a hit

Polskie Radio: Hungarian PM’s ‘selfish’ actions lead to isolation

The Connexion: Mobile phone and internet cables cut in several areas of France

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

28:48 Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column with only £5 a month

Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community

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

UK Column interview: Irrefutable Evidence with John Beaudoin—Part 2

Forthcoming UK Column interview: Gutsy Women: Exploring Fornethy With Natasha McCallum—Thursday 1st August at 1 pm—for all the women abuse survivors past and present

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

Hope Sussex Community: HOPE Freedom Music Festival 2024

DoubleSpeak: Legal Manipulation

31:45 Counter Terrorism Policing: Schedule 7

Legislation: Schedule 17, National Security Act 2023

GOV.UK: Terrorism Act 2000 Remember your rights whilst detained

[…] you do not have to say anything. However, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court.

Legislation: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000

The Labour Party: Change Labour Party Manifesto 2024 (PDF)

Judiciary: (KB-2023-002102) Hibbert v Richard Hall (PDF) (February 2024)

GOV.UK: Options for increasing adherence to social distancing measures (March 2020)

Perceived threat: A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened […] 

[…] The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting Evaluation of options for increasing social distancing emotional messaging. To be effective, this must also empower people by making clear the actions they can take to reduce the threat

Crown Prosecution Service of England & Wales (CPS): Terrorism

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41:35 BBC: Why Google’s ‘woke’ AI problem won’t be an easy fix

Rolling Stone: The Right Is Absolutely Terrified of ‘Woke’ AI

Fox News: Mastering ‘the art of brainwashing,’ China intensifies AI censorship

GB News: End of free speech in Wales: GB News ‘permanently banned’ in Senedd in major ‘censorship’

Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament): Petitions: Stop the ban on GB News in the Senedd

Wales Online: Presiding officer explains why she banned GB News from being shown at the Senedd

The Hill: The most chilling words today: I’m from NewsGuard and I am here to rate you

NewsGuard: NewsGuard Statement: WHO Partnership - NewsGuard is partnering with the World Health Organization to fight the “infodemic” of online misinformation

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Israeli Soldiers Accused of Rape Sparks Riots

46:18 Middle East Eye: Israeli soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian prisoner arrested, sparking far-right riot

Going Underground (on X): Going Underground’s post

Israel is descending into civil war on the right of Israeli soldiers to rape Palestinians

The Times of Israel: ‘Bordering on anarchy’: IDF chief sounds alarm after right-wing mob overruns 2nd base

Vanessa Beeley (Substack): Israel’s culture of rape and child abuse 

Future Underground Cities Where “Verticality will alter hierarchies and territorial boundaries”

53:35 Connected Places Catapult: HMGCC Challenge: Underground Tunnelling Techniques

GOV.UK: Future Cities (PDF)—Underground Cities (see page 53)

GOV.UK: Bunker and tunnel detection innovation shines with support from Defence Innovation Loans 

The British Army: The Desert Rats go tunnelling

The Bank of England Is Still Trying to Create A Problem With CBDCs 

58:22 Bank of England: The Bank of England’s approach to innovation in money and payments

Building on our work in recent years on new forms of digital money and renewing the Bank’s own RTGS infrastructure, we can now do more to explore new technologies in wholesale payments and to encourage greater innovation in interbank retail payments.

UK Parliament: The digital pound: still a solution in search of a problem?

Bank of England: Bank of England and HM Treasury respond to digital pound consultation