UK Column News - 10th January 2025

Source: ukcolumn

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

 

Climate Alarmism for Global Authority: A Manufactured Solution for a Manufactured Crisis

00:00 The Hollywood Reporter: How the L.A. Wildfires Are Becoming a Conspiracy-Theorists Haven — And a Political Weapon

Telegraph: Man arrested on suspicion of starting Los Angeles fire (Archived)

BBC: What’s the latest on the Los Angeles wildfires and what caused them?

Nature: Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth

Michael Crichton: State of Fear by Michael Crichton

Independent: Everything we know about ‘armed’ arson suspect arrested over Kenneth blaze as LA wildfires rage

U.S. Senate Committee On The Budge: Next To Fall: The Climate-driven Insurance Crisis Is Here – And Getting Worse (PDF)

Financial Times: The crippling home insurance crisis hitting America (Archived)

 

Is Trump Reviving the Monroe Doctrine? A New Era of American Hemisphere Dominance

11:42 LiveNOW from FOX (YouTube): Trump answers questions about Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal, Gulf of Mexico

 

Rand Paul’s Government Waste Report: From Ice-Skating Drag Queens to Cat Torture

19:51 U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs: Dr. Paul Releases 2024 ‘Festivus’ Report on Government Waste (PDF)

 

The Annual NHS ‘Crisis’: As Predictable as Christmas

26:31 The Telegraph (YouTube 2021): Coronavirus: Chris Whitty appears in new TV campaign urging public to stay at home

Today (2022): What should you do if you have asymptomatic COVID-19?

Debi Evans (on X): Debi’s question for ⁦CMO England (Chris Whitty)

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UK Column article: The Censored Scientific Issue at the Heart of the OPCW-Douma Cover Up

Dissidents Meet-Up Event: Food & Farming Security Solutions Event Exeter Devon – Saturday 18th January 2025 from 09:30 – 16:00 (Direct Ticket Link)

⁩Petition: Review how to turn the MHRA into a fully transparent, patient first regulator

 

People Smuggling: A National Scandal We Can’t Ignore

32:19 GOV.UK: The Locarno Speech by the Foreign Secretary: January 2025 

It is completely unrealistic to combat irregular migration without a role for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

International Labour Organization: Forced labour, modern slavery and trafficking in persons

Development Tracker: Modern Slavery Fund

GOV.UK (2021): The economic and social cost of contact child sexual abuse

The Times: Andy Burnham backs inquiry into grooming gangs (Archived)

 

The Future of Citizen Data Systems: They Want Your Data – Scrap the Apps

37:33 GOV.UK: Evidence and scenarios for global data systems (PDF)

10 Downing Street (YouTube): Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces the government’s plan to end waiting list backlogs

Financial Times: UK studies pricing plan for selling NHS patient data (Archived)

Digital NHS: Public attitudes to data in the NHS and social care

Digital Health: NHS App upgrades planned to help cut elective care waiting lists

NHS England (on X): Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive of NHS England video

The Elective Care Reform Plan will allow millions of patients to receive quicker diagnosis and treatment for routine care. This ambitious blueprint will empower patients and put them in control of their own care.

BBC: Weight loss jabs for jobless not dystopian - Streeting

Society for Acute Medicine (SAM): Urgent regulation needed for online weight loss drugs

BBC: Top doctor alarmed by weight-loss drug misuse

Sky: Obesity rates may start falling this year due to weight loss jabs, seller says

NHS England: Reforming elective care for patients – January 2025 (PDF)

Pulse Today: GPs to be paid £20 per A&G request in bid to cut hospital waiting lists

The BMJ: GPs to get £20 when they seek guidance on referrals in bid to cut waiting lists

 

Unexplained Deaths in Young Athletes: Tragedy, Questions and Growing Concerns

50:56 USA Today: 15-year-old Tennessee boy on cross-country team collapses, dies on routine run

The Tennessean: Sycamore cross country runner’s death ruled accidental, body temperature reached 105 degrees

The Tennessean: ‘Why did this happen?’ 3 high school cross country deaths leave only questions for doctors

National Library of Medicine: Severe hyponatraemia with cerebral oedema after Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination against COVID-19

Nashville Banner (2024): Newly reformulated COVID vaccines available in Midstate

 

MHRA Appoints New Chair: Anthony Harnden – Conflicts of Interest to Watch

58:02 Cochrane Library (2020): Death audits and reviews for reducing maternal, perinatal and child mortality

National Institutes of Health (NIH 2017): Moving forward on strengthening and sustaining National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) globally: Recommendations from the 2nd global NITAG network meeting 

General Medical Council: Annual Report 2020 (PDF)

Our structure, governance and management: Professor Anthony Harnden MB ChB MSc FRCGP FRCPCH

Zoë Harcombe: JCVI conflicts of interest

“COVID-19 sub-committee. The members of the sub-committee are: Professor Anthony Harnden, Deputy Chair”

Patient Safety Learning: Robot-guided ‘smart biopsy’ technique tested on patients in UK first

Building (2013): Government primes Islamic bond to boost UK infrastructure

GOV.UK (2014): Britain set to become first western nation to issue a sovereign Islamic bond 

Metro (2016): Five Whitehall buildings operating under Sharia rules