UK Column News - 4th October 2024

Source:  ukcolumn.org

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

 

Israel-Lebanon Conflict: IDF Reports Hezbollah Losses, Israel Issues AP Video “Kill Notice”

00:21 The Times of Israel: IDF: Some 100 Hezbollah operatives killed in south Lebanon operation in past day

The Cradle (on X): The Cradle’s post

The Associated Press has withdrawn a video of Israeli forces taken on 30 September, after it was ordered to by the military.

The video appears to show Israeli troop positions near the border with Lebanon in preparation for a ground invasion.

The America Times: Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question

TASS: Scholz calls for conference that both Ukraine and Russia will attend

The Spectator: Britain’s half-hearted support for Israel helps no one

The Telegraph: UK Armed Forces ‘not up to defending Israel from missile attacks’ 

Royal Navy: HMS Diamond (D34)

Financial Times: Ben Wallace to join defence-focused investment firm

 

Autumn Budget 2024: Higher Taxes, Steeper Bills and the Price Net Zero CO2 Pipedream

08:33 This is Money: Autumn Budget 2024: When it is and what experts predict will happen—from tax rises to pensions

Financial Times: Keir Starmer warns autumn Budget is going to be ‘painful’

BBC: People told to read meter as energy bills rise

End Fuel Poverty Coalition: Cold damp homes cost to NHS estimated as energy price cap rises

GOV.UK (2021): Plan to drive down the cost of clean heat

Future Homes Hub: Future Homes Hub Delivery Plan and Roadmap

Energy Saving Trust (2021 event): Retrofitting the UK’s housing stock to reach net zero

 

Chica-Go-Global: Mexico Emerges as New China Hub

12:02 Coalition For A Prosperous America: Mexico Is Growing as New China Hub; 2024 Exports Already Breaking Records

Deal Town: Five features that define Chicago’s role in global trade

Historicophiles (French translated): What is a global city?

Chicago Council on Global Affairs: Five features that define Chicago’s role in global trade

Chicago Council on Global Affairs: ChicagoGlobal

 

UK Column Event: Bristol—Last Tickets Available

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Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community

UK Column article: Attacks on Academic Freedom, The Times of London, and MI6

UK Column interview: Insight: Avoiding Social Care by Extending Our ‘Healthspan’—David Siegel

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

UK Column event: UK Column On Location - Saturday, 19th October 2024 (Bristol)

Brian Gerrish (YouTube): Walking The Dog: Episode 6—Poppy’s Paw Prints And A Summer Stroll With Charles Malet—premieres YouTube 11.00 am, 6 October 2024

UK Column interview: Governments make everything worse—with Wanjiru Njoya

Event: Capitalism vs Climate Change Debate—Friday 4th October 6.30 pm, The Bateman Lecture Theatre, The Business School, Exeter

Stand For Peace: Upcoming Rallies For Peace

Alternative View: Event Tickets

 

Switzerland’s First ‘Suicide Pod’ Death as UK Moves Toward Assisted Dying Legislation

22:57 BBC (2021): Maker of suicide pod plans to launch in Switzerland

GOV.UK: Cabinet Secretary Letter to UK Government Ministers—A letter from the Cabinet Secretary to all Government Ministers on the Private Member’s Bill to enable assisted dying

Office for Budget Responsibility: Fiscal risks and sustainability—September 2024

Discovery Institute: Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

 

Climate Alarmism Fuels Rising Child Mental Health Crisis

26:31 NHS Digital: Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2023—Wave 4 follow-up to the 2017 survey

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC Health): Antidepressants, antipsychotics and stimulants up: Why are children taking more mental health medications?

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE YouTube): Dr June Raine, chief executive of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, on NICE at 25

Nuffield Trust (YouTube): Summit 2024 session: Future patterns of disease and health care

 

Censorship Rising: UK Regulator Preparing for ‘Strong Action’ Against Free Speech

32:15 UK Column back-up channels: www.ukcolumnextracts.co.uk

NewsGuard: Transparent tools to counter misinformation for readers, brands, and democracies

UK Column symposium: The Midazolam Murders: Exposing State-sanctioned Involuntary Euthanasia

Financial Times: UK regulator preparing for ‘strong action’ against tech giants (Archive)

 

Victory: Virginia Teacher Fired Over Pronoun Stance Wins Legal Battle

37:24 Alliance Defending Freedom: VA school board to pay $575K, change policies to end ADF lawsuit on behalf of wrongly fired teacher

Alliance Defending Freedom (2023): Virginia’s new education policies protect children, parental rights 

 

Global Policy: EPC Ratings, Heat Pumps, and the Billionaire-Backed Race for Green Homes

43:15 Ideal Home: EPC ratings explained—what is an Energy Performance Certificate? The jargon-free guide

GOV.UK: Selling a home: Energy Performance Certificates

You can be fined if you do not get an EPC when you need one.

The House of Commons Library: Housing and net zero

Money Saving Expert: Heat pumps explained

Financial Times (2021): Bezos fund commits $500m to join Ikea and Rockefeller in renewable energy push (Archived)

CNBC (2022): Microsoft and Jeff Bezos are backing this start-up that aims to retrofit millions of old buildings with ‘green’ energy

BlocPower (2021): BlocPower Advancing Building Data with $5.5 million Grant From Bezos Earth Fund

BlocPower (YouTube 2021): Heat Pumps! Heat Pumps! Heat Pumps!

UK Column News (Archive): UK Column News—30th August 2024

 

Lab Leak: From Conspiracy Theory to More Covid Lies in Boris Johnson’s Latest U-Turn

54:36 Laura Kuenssberg (on X): Laura’s post

While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team.

Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson is convinced that Covid WAS made in a Chinese lab: In his explosive memoir, former PM rejects theory it started in Wuhan market and says it’s likely the virus WAS result of a ‘botched experiment

The Spectator: 15 top takes from Boris Johnson’s memoir

The Independent: Boris Johnson claims Covid originated in lab, in sudden U-turn in his views

The Telegraph (2023): No one believed the Covid Wuhan lab leak theory – then the world changed its tune

BBC: Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is so disputed

Sky (2020): Coronavirus: Former MI6 boss says theory Covid–19 came from Wuhan lab must not be dismissed as conspiracy

The Guardian (2016): MI6 stood by bogus intelligence until after Iraq invasion

One Decision: Former MI6 Head’s Insights from Ukraine Visit

UKCVFamily (on X): UK CV Family’s Covid Vaccine Injured & Bereaved video

Justice for the Vaccine Injured (on X): Stephen Bowie—I’ll Be Okay (Music video)

 

From News Extra

The Truthseeker: The UK’s “Chicken Licence” Rebellion—the GOOD way to deal with BAD laws

Goodreads: The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years by Paul Landis

GOV.UK: Introducing the AI Safety Institute

AISI: About the AI Safety Institute

GOV.UK: Tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth to lead UK’s AI Foundation Model Taskforce 

Redwood Research: AI safety research grounded in futurism

Redwood Research: CEO Buck Shlegeris