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UK Column News - 11th June 2025

Banking and Financial System Series, Part 2: What Are CBDC, and Why Do Central Banks Consider Them?

Jobst Landgrebe

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are a new form of digital money that have been under serious discussion by central banks since around 2014. Bankers are preparing a rollout of these currencies.

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UK Column News Extra - 11th June 2025

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Reflections on a Day with Mothers Separated from Their Children

Brian Gerrish and Jemma Cooper of UK Column reflect on a meeting with mums separated from their children.

Understanding False Dichotomies

Can we break free from binary thinking? Jerm and Kit Knightly explore how media narratives—mainstream and alternative—shape our view of the world, especially in times of crisis.

UK Column News Extra - 9th June 2025 (Clip)

Extra is usually just for members, but we’re making this long clip available to everyone.

Weekly UKC Banter: Episode 3

From water shortages to digital parenting — Jerm, Mike, and Charles unpack the week’s global and local challenges with sharp insight and a dose of banter.

"Don't Sell Your Morals" – with Vicki Baggett of the World Library Association

Why and how are sex manuals available to children as young as five in American public and school libraries? Diane Rasmussen McAdie talked with Vicki Baggett, a veteran English teacher in Florida who is fighting this indoctrination, to find out.

Tariffs: Trade Or Structural Change?

President Trump’s tariffs signal a major turn in US trade policy. The question is what the goal is. Are tariffs a means to rebalance trade and raise revenues, or do they constitute the first step towards a deep structural change of the economic model ...

From Sarin Nerve Agent Attacks to Chlorine Gas: the Syria Chemical Weapons Story Telling Continues

Dr Piers Robinson

Part three of our series demonstrating that the Syrian Government chemical weapons use narrative was actually a strategic deception or, in other words, a lie.

The Blair-Bush Project in Syria That Brought Al Qaeda to Power

From Tony Blair to Keir Starmer, the UK National Security Advisor is still waging war in the Middle East. After Iraq came Syria, and now the British are back in the country to defend Israeli interests.

Whose Dreams? The LGBTQ+ Manchester Housing Scheme

What happens when forced teaming enters council housing policy? UK academics have shown that most older lesbians would prefer lesbian-only or women-only housing in old age. Meanwhile, Manchester City Council forges ahead with its new LGBTQ+ "and ...

Society Subverted: How the RSA Is Being Dismantled by Its Own Leaders

One of our most important cultural institutions is being systematically destroyed in the pursuit of profit over social purpose. Ben Rubin finds out more.

A Wolf in Pigs Blankets: Starmer's Special Relationships – UK Column Pathétic News

When soft power gets soggy. Fabian wolf Starmer flies to Mar-a-Lago, lands in a hot tub of Diet Coke. Trump calls him a wolf in pigs blankets.

Remove or Rewrite the Current Government Guidance on Relationships and Sexuality Education

Current guidance about teaching of transgenderism, including the characterisation of transgender children in schools, is illogical. It promotes the concept that children can already be transgender when they cannot have transitioned, and that they can ...

Supporting Vaccine Injured New Zealanders - with Lynda Wharton of The Health Forum NZ

Lynda Wharton told Diane Rasmussen McAdie about the work she does to support the vaccine injured in New Zealand.

Schools in Wales: A Hostile Environment for Teachers and Learners?

Are we witnessing a crisis developing in relation to the behaviour of teachers and learners in Welsh schools? If so, what are the potential causes?

Ukraine and Israel — A United Force?

Ben Rubin speaks with Dr David Miller and Vanessa Beeley about the deep links between Ukraine and Israel that show these two seemingly separate nations are better understood as a single force united by blood and ambition going back centuries.

Karl Schwarz and Brian Gerrish: 9-11 Part 3

Karl W. B. Schwarz discusses the feedback from his first two UK Column 9/11 interviews, and ends on nanotechnology.

Christians in Cornwall Are Saying No to ‘On the Way’

Ross from Cornwall blows the whistle on CofE ‘On the Way’ plans to water down Christianity and destroy the county’s ancient churches.

The Steel Trap

With a piece of Draconian legislation forged on the quick, the Government appears to be seizing the means of production, but to what end?

Christians in Cornwall Are Saying No to ‘On the Way’

Brian Gerrish and Ross

Ross, a long-standing Christian in Cornwall and a dedicated member of the Church of England, exposes the ‘On the Way’ policy that is driving an unwanted change agenda in a dangerous and destructive plan to change churches and the face of Christianity ...

Debs Speaks about Fornethy and Her Life

As a little girl, Debs stayed at Fornethy Residential School three times. The memories never go.

The Truth about ME — with Catherine Vandome and Dr Liz Evans

Catherine Vandome and Dr Liz Evans spoke with Diane Rasmussen McAdie about their personal and professional experiences with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), a debilitating long-term health condition. 12-18 May is ME Awareness Week 2025 in the UK.

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People's Reactions to Opposing Trans Ideology

How do people react when presented with cold, hard facts about trans ideology? One brave man is taking to the streets to find out.

The International Commission of Jurists and the Rape of the Children

If the International Commission of Jurists had its way, there would be no justice for victims of UK’s child rape gangs, as the rape of children would no longer be a crime. There would be no age of consent.

An Introduction to Trust

Some friends and family members may have expressed opinions on the hot issues of the day in defiance of all rationality. This article explores an important underlying factor of this phenomenon, which has risen to the fore recently; namely trust and its close association with abductive reasoning.

Individualism: The Basis of Public Health or Its Nemesis?

The attempt to codify the concept that individualism is a threat to health into international law, through the draft Pandemic Agreement, should alarm us all. Those advocating this change should reflect on why we have designated the individual as primary.

Covid Vaccination and Cancer

Dr Mike Williams

The concern that Covid-19 'vaccines' may contribute to or cause a significant, even fatal disease like cancer is now very high.

The Loss of Freedom of Speech

In the UK, parliament pretends to protect freedom of speech, but it would seem that with every passing year that that freedom is qualified and qualified again.

Niemöller on the bench

They will come for you eventually.

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Mark of the Beast: Digital Identity and the Cashless Cartel

With the release of the iPhone X people have been asked to accept a new level of biometric intrusion so that their phone can identify them. But is this a simple security measure, or is there a global policy agenda at work?

‘One Health’ and the demotion of humankind to the level of livestock

To save the social contract, the scientific and media establishment prefers the redistribution of people across the globe over more births.

Imminent risk of EU control of British defence procurement, industry and training

David Ellis, Strategic Defence Initiatives

On Monday 24 November 2017, Strategic Defence Initiatives UK submitted the following report to the Defence Select Committee of the House of Commons.

Why Are There "Huge Gaps In Britain's Defences"?

The top brass offer highly unconvincing explanations for the brand destruction of the British military.

Ukrainian policy in the Donbass: Is it fair to call it genocide?

LONG READ: As long as states like Ukraine go on trying to copy the nineteenth-century western European unitary model of the nation state, there will only be endless conflict.

The End Game

President Obama may have forgotten to mention that the American troops due to leave Iraq at the end of 2011 would need to be deployed almost immediately elsewhere.

Who Is The Enemy?

Following the events in Woolwich last week, we are revisiting an article originally written for the UK Column newspaper in 2010. While we deplore anyone's killing, it is important to look at the historical context, and ask the question, if our ...

The Not So Great Carbon Reset

The Covid-19 "pandemic" has presented a global 'public-private partnership' with the perfect opportunity to reset the global economy.

Insight: Slaughtered on Suspicion

In 2001, the north-west of England was ravaged by livestock slaughters imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture, which had just changed its name to DEFRA. This unique UK Column documentary, with testimony by intimidated locals, reveals the role of Professor Neil Ferguson's modelling and of hidden policy agendas in that huge blow to the farmers of Cumbria.

‘For as long as it takes’: NATO’s War on Russia

War is first and foremost a means of impoverishment and theft. The longer the war is waged, the richer become those who invest in it and in return gain access to the taxes, resources and assets of both sides. 

Council Tax & Lawful Rebellion

For those who wonder what they can do as individuals to resist encroachment on their common law rights, withholding Council Tax (CT) is a lawful option. It is also, as I will show below, a legal obligation. I would not wish to encourage anyone to ...

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