UK Column News - 23rd August 2024

Source:  ukcolumn

Mike Robinson, Mark Anderson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.

 

His Majesty’s Censor-General: Ofcom Recruitment Drive For New Online Speech Law

00:19 Ofcom Careers: Search jobs

TechRadar: Ofcom kicks off hiring spree to help enforce new online safety acts

In recent years we’ve grown our expertise in technology, data and cybersecurity. We’ve hired specialists from firms such as Meta, Google and Amazon, and experts from bodies like the NSPCC.

Ofcom: Update on implementing the Media Act

Conservative Home: Miriam Cates: We should not defend extreme online discourse in the name of free speech

BBC: Rotherham: Conspiracy theorist jailed over hotel riot by Oli Constable

Grandfather Peter Lynch, 61, went to the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham, on 4 August with a placard which called police officers, MPs and the media “corrupt”

Angel & Emma Justice Alliance (on X): Sam Nass’ post

I was arrested by the police, handcuffed, and thrown in a police van for peacefully protesting in front of the cabinet office this afternoon (Whitehall). 

UK Column interview: Trafficked: Child Stealing by the State—Part 2 (January 2024)

The Times: Magistrates told to stop jailing offenders to ease prisons crisis

 

NHS Collapsing, Tests Increasing and Virtual Wards (also known as Hospital at Home)

08:55 The Labour Party: Build an NHS fit for the future

GOV.UK: The NHS is broken: Health and Social Care Secretary statement

Daily Mail: Skin cancer patients face delays of a year as NHS waiting list soars by a quarter

The Sun: NHS waiting lists rise for third month in a row after ‘irresponsible and dangerous’ strikes

The Access Group: Employee Health Report: The Most Common Sick Leave Reasons in the UK in 2024

Birmingham Live: DWP lists 10 health conditions see biggest rise in people receiving PIP worth up to £737

Rethink Mental Illness: New survey reveals stark impact of NHS mental health treatment waiting times

The Children’s Society: Children’s Mental Health Statistics

NHS: Cancer

1 in 2 people will develop some form of cancer during their lifetime.

NHS England (2022): NHS launches new dementia diagnosis drive

NHS England (2022): NHS expands lifesaving home testing kits for bowel cancer

NHS England (2023): NHS expands lifesaving home testing for bowel cancer to catch disease earlier

GOV.UK (2022): Advising men without symptoms of prostate disease who ask about the PSA test 

British Journal of General Practice: The worried well

Collins Dictionary: Worried Well definition and meaning

British Medical Journal (BMJ): Reframing the “heartsink” feeling can help doctors find a resolution

Psychology Today: Illness Anxiety Disorder

British Medical Association: BMA Survey on Physician-Assisted Dying (PDF)

The Telegraph: Public fears GPs would encourage assisted dying to ease NHS pressures, poll finds

Retail Gazette: How did Lloydspharmacy quietly disappear from the high street?

Chemist+Druggist: Revealed: 300 Boots branch closures to begin this month

Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP): A quarter of GP practices could close because of workload pressures, warns Royal College of GPs

British Medical Association: GPs prepare to take collective action after overwhelming ballot result

BBC: Crumbling concrete: Raac found in 18 more hospitals in England

Construction News: Health secretary casts doubt on hospital build plans

GOV.UK (2023): Government to deliver 160 community diagnostic centres a year early 

NHS England (2021): Supporting information: Virtual ward including Hospital at Home

 

Desperation For A New Pandemic Continues

19:20 Exposing The Darkness (Substack): Alex Newman: Democrats And Globalists ‘Urgently’ Prepare To Re-Impose Covid-Style Policies On Schools

National Press Foundation: Dr. Mario Ramirez

World Health Organization (WHO): WHO Director-General declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern

World Health Organization (WHO): Updated joint FAO/WHO/WOAH assessment of recent influenza A(H5N1) virus events in animals and people

Bird Flu Summit: About International Bird Flu Summit

The Economic Times: Mpox is not the new COVID, says WHO official; Here’s what you need to know about different monkey pox strains

 

UK Column On Location: Bristol—October 2024 (Early Bird Tickets Available)

26:39 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 shop: UK Column Really Live: Saturday, 19th October 2024 (Bristol)

UK Column interview: The Preservation of Fantasy: Transgender Ideology—with Kevin Lister

Hope Sussex Community: HOPE Freedom Music Festival 2024

Eventbrite: Heritage Party Conference 2024

UK Column symposium: The International Center for 9/11 Justice and UK Column presents: AVIATION IMPOSSIBILITIES—Deconstructing the Official Story of the 9/1 Hijackings and Air Defense Failures—Sunday, September 8 2024 6–10 pm BST (1–5 pm EDT)

 

His Majesty’s Previous Minister For War Still Calling For More War

29:01 The Sun: Britain must give Ukraine everything it needs to ‘finish the job’ against Russia, says ex-defence chief

UK Parliament: Military assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion

The Times: Ukraine is invading with British tanks. What does it mean for us? (Archived)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: Foreign Ministry statement on imposing personal sanctions against representatives of UK’s think tanks, consulting agencies and other similar structures with a hostile perspective on Russia

UK Column article (2018): Integrity Initiative: A Look Into the Deep State?

NATO (2019): Press point by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US President Donald Trump

It’s not about moving NATO into the South China Sea, but it’s about taking into account the fact that China is coming to closer to us. 

EEAS: Sahel region (European Union)

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

Al Jazeera: Ukraine is losing the plot in Africa

 

Sack The Medics: Tony Blair Is Really Excited To Be Part Of A Massive AI Revolution

39:12 Dwarkesh Patel (YouTube): Tony Blair: How Governments Should Deal with AI (Full video)

Digital Health: Blair Institute calls for crash programme of digital health records

Politico: Tony Blair’s NHS dream? Fewer GPs, more chatbots

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change: Preparing the NHS for the AI Era: A Digital Health Record for Every Citizen

Accenture: Accenture Invests in QuantHealth to Accelerate Use of AI-powered Clinical Trial Simulations to Drive Cost-Effective Drug Development

Eureka Health (YouTube): Introducing Eureka, the world’s first AI doctor

The Big Issue: Tony Blair thinks the DWP could be automated by AI. Here’s why that’s so dangerous

 

Rising Home Energy Costs (Again)

48:17 Cornwall Insight: Cornwall Insight release final forecast for October price cap

Ofgem: Energy price cap

Between 1 October to  [sic] 31 December 2024 the energy price cap is set at £1,717 per year for a typical household who use electricity and gas and pay by Direct Debit. This is an increase of 10% compared to the cap set between 1 July to 30 September 2024

 

Kamala’s Race For The White House

49:46 USA Today: Sen. Kamala Harris has ended her bid for president. Here’s how California factored into her rise and fall

Chuck Baldwin Live: Is Trump Trying To Lose The Election?

Wired: Abortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala Harris

CNN: Walz accepts Democratic VP nomination in DNC remarks

Guttmacher Institute: Despite Bans, Number of Abortions in the United States Increased in 2023

Ballotpedia: Randall Terry

Fox Business (YouTube): Maria Bartiromo interviews real-life clone on-air