UK Column News - 6th September 2024

Source:  ukcolumn

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

 

New Proposed Health Restrictions: Public Consultation on New Measures for Northern Ireland

00:19 Department of Health (Northern Ireland): Consultation on a new Public Health Bill for Northern Ireland 

Consultation closing date: 27 September 2024—Documents

 

Crisis in Care: Two-Thirds of Migrant Nurses Consider Leaving the UK Amid Cost-of-Living Pressures

05:00 NHS Networks: Internationally educated nursing staff

Royal College of Nursing: RCN calls for unfair benefit rules to be scrapped, as new report shows migrant nursing staff twice as likely to be in financial difficulty

Evening Standard: What is the sloth fever? Symptoms of virus that is spreading across Europe and the US

GOV.UK: Students urged to protect themselves from deadly meningitis

GOV.UK: Antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea cases are on the rise

GOV.UK: UKHSA warns of back to school measles surge 

GOV.UK: Marketing campaign launches to drive up childhood vaccinations 

GOV.UK: National RSV vaccination programme announced 

The rollout, which will start from 1 September 2024 in England, includes a vaccine for pregnant women

NHS: NHS vaccinations and when to have them

UK Column interview: You are not alone—Peter Todd, Consultant Solicitor, ‘Maverick’ Vaccine Injury Expert (2023)

CVIB Legal Fund: Covid Vaccines Injured & Bereaved Legal Fund

Crowd Justice: Covid Vaccines Injured & Bereaved Legal Fund

Reuters (2023): Pfizer is sued by Texas over Covid vaccine claims

The Hill: Kansas sues Pfizer over Covid vaccine

JD Supra: FDA Approves Moderna’s and Pfizer/BioNTech’s Updated Covid–19 Vaccines

Pfizer (YouTube): Pfizer School of Science Mobile Experience

Pfizer (YouTube): Introducing PfizerForAll 

Pfizer (YouTube): PfizerForAll—Magic Moments

 

Is the World Running Out of Children? 

14:15 Life News: Baby Hope, Born at 25 Weeks, Proves Unborn Babies are Human Beings

Daily Record: Scots mum finally holds premature baby daughter born at 25 weeks

The National Interest: Indiana Abortions Drop 98% as Abortion Ban Saves Babies

Population Research Institute: The world is running out of children as global birthrates collapse

 

UK Column On Location: Bristol—October 2024 (Limited tickets)

20:19 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 Wonky Scales of Justice—with Clare Wills Harrison

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)

Children’s Health Defense: Attack on Food and Farmers and how to fight back Symposium—September 6th and 7th

Brian Gerrish (YouTube): Walking The Dog Episode 5: The Light Festival, Cumbria—Premieres at 11.00 a.m. 8 September 2024

Event: Died Suddenly Exhibition: London, November 2024. Exact location TBD; contact: jakehfern@yahoo.co.uk

 

Prison Overcrowding: Could Sending Offenders to Estonia Solve the Crisis?

23:20 Sky News: Offenders could serve sentence in Estonian prisons to ease overcrowding

The government is considering sending offenders to Estonia as a means of alleviating severe overcrowding on the UK prison estate

UK Parliament: Parliamentary Bills: Criminal Justice Bill

Make sentences longer for the most dangerous criminals, including by making rapists serve every day of their sentence behind bars

The Times: Risky offenders will go free, warns prisons watchdog

 

Walter Russell Mead on the End of the American Unipolar Moment

27:00 UK Column archive: UK Column News—4th September 2024

American Enterprise Institute: The American Dream Lecture Series: Walter Russell Mead on American Foreign Policy in the Next Presidency

The National Interest: Toward a New Pax Americana

 

Swedish Casualty Claims—Fact Checkers in the Hot Seat as Sweden’s Top Diplomat Steps Down

38:40 BBC: Ukraine says soldiers among 51 killed in Poltava missile attack

Logically Facts: False claim that Swedish people died in missile strike

Bloomberg: Sweden’s Top Diplomat Billstrom, Who Led NATO Talks, Resigns

 

Pay-Per-Mile Controversy: Are They Just Stirring Up More Outrage?

40:48 Twitter/X: NickWalker1972—Mix Master Mirage

CAR Magazine (2007): Road-pricing petition closes

RAC Foundation (2019): The road pricing petition

UK Parliament (2019): Committees: Transport Committee to kickstart conversation on national road pricing

The Telegraph: Hit petrol car drivers with pay-per-mile tax, RAC urges Reeves

Express: New pay-per-mile car tax changes could force huge number of UK drivers to ditch vehicles

Cinch: Pay-per-mile road UK: what you need to know for 2024

London.gov: Pay-per-mile in London—Greater London Authority

Full Fact: Is the Mayor of London planning to introduce pay-per-mile road charging?

Mr Khan has repeatedly said he’s ruled out bringing in a pay-per-mile scheme while he is mayor. The Conservatives have argued this pledge can’t be trusted

GOV.UK (2020): Sales of new petrol and diesel cars to end in the UK by 2030

GOV.UK: Read the full outcome: Outcome and response to ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans

BBC: Is the move to electric cars running out of power?

i News: All new cars must be electric by 2030 to hit net-zero target

Express & Star: Volvo abandons plan to sell only pure electric cars by 2030

International Fire & Safety Journal: Data highlights increase in electric vehicle battery fires in the UK

RAC Shop: EV Batteries—How Much Do They Cost and How Often Do They Need Changing?

Geoff Buys Cars (YouTube): We are being LIED to about Road User Charging and Pay Per Mile 

GBNews (YouTube): Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State Of The Nation—Tuesday 3rd September

IoT World Today: Humanoid Robot Prototype Launches; for Home Use

1X (YouTube): Introducing NEO Beta—A Humanoid Robot for the Home

 

Abusing the System Through NGOs And CSOs: RT Indictments, and Telegram CEO’s Stand Against Censorship

51:57 United States Department of Justice: Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests

The Guardian: US conservative influencers say they are ‘victims’ of Russian disinformation campaign

UK Column interview: Abusing The System Through NGOs & CSOs

UK Column: Insight Vox—Smart Power & The NGO Complex

CNBC: Telegram CEO says French charges against him are ‘misguided’—read his full statement

Telegram: Du Rove’s Channel - Thoughts from the CEO of Telegram (Pavel Durov)

Yoti: Yoti’s key recommendations for the Digital Information and Smart Data Bill

The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT): CFIT Forms Industry Coalition – ‘Fighting Economic Crime Through Enhanced Verification’

FindBiometrics: Mauritius Launches Digital ID as Part of Digital Transformation Strategy

Next Billion: Brazil Strengthens DPI and Digital ID Push to Boost Economic Growth Ahead of G20

Biometric Update: Azerbaijan plans rapid digital ID adoption to boost economy

Biometric Update: Kenya’s digital ID rollout holds trust, transparency lessons

Biometric Update: Fime adds digital identity advisory expertise with Consult Hyperion acquisition

The Council of Europe: Council of Europe opens first ever global treaty on AI for signature

Reuters: US, Britain, EU to sign first international AI treaty

GOV.UK: UK signs first international treaty addressing risks of artificial intelligence