UK Column News - 2nd September 2024

Source:  ukcolumn

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

 

The Foundations of Starmer’s Stasi State: This Is Not Incompetence, This Is Calculated

00:38 Daily Mail (2023): ‘Not just dishonest but deeply hypocritical’: Guy Adams investigates how after Sir Keir Starmer went to 21 meetings of the Sentencing Council, it decided not all child sex offenders should go to prison

The Guardian (2023): Labour strategists to press on with Sunak attack ads despite criticism

The Guardian: Why are Starmer and Reeves so determined to bring Britain down?

The Guardian (2016): Inside Ricu, the shadowy propaganda unit inspired by the cold war

GOV.UK: Prevent Strategy (PDF)

Parallel Parliament: Q. Research, Information and Communications Unit

GOV.UK: Independent Review of Prevent’s report and government response

ProtectUK: Home: Protect Your Business Protect The Public

ProtectUK: Act for Youth: RUN HIDE TELL

Pool Reinsurance: Building resilience against terrorism risk (PDF)

City University: Professor Paula Jarzabkowski wins prestigious Academy of Management prize

Relevant UK Column article: No Smoke Without Fire: PREVENTing a War on Domestic Terror in the United Kingdom?

 

Killing Fields—Lessons Not Learned: Remembering Nixon, Kissinger and Cambodia

13:09 Eye on Asia: Cambodia—A country profile

WatchDocumentaries: Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)

Columbia University: Review: “Nixon and Kissinger“

Wikipedia: Operation Menu

Yale University: Bombs Over Cambodia—Genocide Studies Program (PDF)

Wikipedia: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Daily Mail (2011): Faces of evil: Three most senior Khmer Rouge figures who ‘called the shots in Killing Fields massacres’ go on trial in Cambodia

Daily Mail: How a young Sir Keir Starmer ended up in Communist spy files after joining a Czechoslovakian work camp during Cold War

Fabian Society: Hard Fought

Warmest congratulations to Keir Starmer and the whole Labour team. The party has achieved a huge and historic victory that seemed impossible to imagine a few short years ago.

The Fabian Society is affiliated to the Labour Party, but we are also an independent voice on the centre left. With Labour in office, we will continue to publish new evidence and ideas to help the party do more, think bigger and transform the country in the decade ahead.

The Telegraph: Keir Starmer interview: “I find it easy to be ruthless” (Archived)

The Telegraph: University cancels Anglo-Saxon ‘to decolonise’ the curriculum (Archived)

 

Is Civilisation Under Siege?

24:20 Ideas Matter: Civilisation under siege? The Academy 2024

Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi (Substack): From Decolonization To Islamism: Civilization Under Siege?

Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi (Substack): The Plot to Turn The Library Into A Safe Space For Indoctrination

The Telegraph: Welsh warned over ‘racist’ buildings (Archived)

CILIP Cymru Wales Advocacy (Welsh): Anti-Racism Library Collections Resources

The Washington Post: Threatened for protesting book bans, this librarian won’t keep quiet (Archived)

SafeLibraries (BlogSport): School Librarian Amanda Jones Leads Live Oak Middle School to Hide Information from Parents and Legislators 

 

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

35:45 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)

Forthcoming UK Column interview: Discussing The Second Climate Masterclass—Tuesday at 1PM

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)

 

Fornethy Survivors Fight On

37:00 Glasgow Live: Glasgow Fornethy ‘house of horrors’ survivor calls for demolition as eerie pictures surface

Fornethy Voices (TikTok): Fornethy Voices’ TikTok Profile

STV News: Call to extend compensation to Fornethy House abuse survivors rejected

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

 

Build (Ukraine) Back Better With Blackrock

43:22 HistoryLegends (YouTube): The Ukrainian Front in Donbas is Collapsing…

Ministry of Defence (on X): Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine—1 September 2024

UK Defence Journal (2022): What military aid has Britain given to Ukraine?

GOV.UK: UK support to Ukraine: factsheet

In total, the UK has committed almost £12.7 billion for Ukraine: £7.6 billion in military support and £5 billion in non-military support. 

UK Defence Journal: Here’s everything Britain has given to Ukraine

BBC: Zelensky sacks Ukraine air force chief after F–16 crash

GOV.UK: Move to the UK if you’re coming from Ukraine

 

Festival Of The Bizarre: Kite, By Tortoise Media and Abbey Road Studios

54:22 Kitefestival: Kite Festival—A New Festival Of Ideas And Music

UK Column archive: UK Column News—12th January 2024

(34:36 Goals House: All The Names, Bizarre Tapestry)

MusicWeek: Sir Lucian Grainge on surviving Covid and the future of UMG

BBC: Abbey Road Studios to play host to next KITE Festival

Black Equity Organisation (BEO): Who we are

London Review Bookshop: Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley

Everything you know about capitalism is wrong.

Wikipedia: Meredith Whittaker

The State of Israel, The Judicial Authority Supreme Court: The painting in the lobby