Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Alex Thomson and Mark Anderson with today’s UK Column News.
Sources
Finance
00:28 Jeremy Hunt becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) and bails out markets
HM Treasury and Bank of England to launch the Energy Markets Financing Scheme (EMFS) (8 Sept 2022)
Energy Markets Financing Scheme opens today
07:54 Director of Payment Systems at Bank of Finland warns people to keep cash in case of system outages
10:00 Tesco supermarkets in London reportedly requiring apps and loyalty cards as condition of entry
Jonathan Rowson Twitter thread
12:20 Fifteen Swiss banks need $6 billion of extra credit
British Intelligence and China
14:11 Chinese technology poses major risk, says Director of GCHQ
17:15 Who is Jeremy Hunt—and who is Mrs Hunt (Lucia Guo)?
Florence Trust partial biography of Mrs Hunt
The Week (India) article (2019) on "weaponisation" of Mrs Hunt
Daily Mail article (2021) on Mrs Hunt's Chinese TV career
History Heist entry for Lucia Guo Hunt
24:55 Liz Truss the victim of a very British coup?
Tim Stanley opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph
Covid status quo
26:10 Irish Republic makes contingency plans for winter mask-wearing
28:17 Joel Smalley blogs that someone has fraudulently logged him as having had Covid jabs—can viewers attest to similar?
World Health Summit, Berlin, plans global health treaty
32:20 Outsmarting Pandemics panel
35:20 One Voice for a European Global Health and One Health Strategy panel
38:55 Ports to Arms Approach to Access—Supercharging ACT-A for Future Pandemics panel (featuring Dr Tedros)
39:45 What is the ACT-Accelerator?
Iain Davis article on accelerationism
One Shot — Our New Vision for Global Health: Global Health Security Consortium, a partnership of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine and the University of Oxford
Ukraine war
45:20 German Government confirms genuineness of leaked document
UK Column translation of original NachDenkSeiten.de report
48:20 "Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine — Zelensky": BBC report
48:35 "How Ukraine is winning the social media war" — BBC report
49:10 Defense of Ukraine tweet on Swedish support
50:00 "Bakhmut: The Ukrainian city where Russia is still advancing" — BBC report
50:45 Io Sto con Putin tweet on censorship
53:20 "Inside Britain's £5.5 billion military disaster" — Daily Telegraph report
Iran unrest stoked by West?
54:00 White House statement
NATO wants Austria despite its constitutional neutrality
57:25 Two-hour interview of Brig-Gen Gaiswinkler by Dirk Pohlmann (TNT Radio): Hour 1 | Hour 2
Public order or dictatorship?
1:02:30 Home Secretary Suella Braverman's article on eco-zealots — Daily Mail
1:03:20 Just Stop Oil climbers on Dartford QE2 bridge — BBC report
1:03:40 London climate protesters spray paint on Aston Martin showroom — The National (UAE) report
1:04:00 Public Order Bill to be resubmitted to Parliament — Parliament.UK bill status
1:05:40 Broadcasting regulator Ofcom to investigate Mark Steyn for Dr Naomi Wolf interview — Ofcom tweet
1:07:10 West Midlands policeman tells journalist he'll be arrested if he uses "derogatory, defamatory or discriminatory terms" and asks bystander whether she was insulted — footage courtesy of Bad Law Team on Twitter
Same police policy in Bristol: David Scott interview of Pastor Dia Moodley
Same police policy in Hampshire and Surrey: Charles Malet article on bad law giving rise to woke police
England & Wales' current (1986 Public Order Act, §4 and §5) statutory framework: Crown Prosecution Service guidelines on "fear or provocation of violence; harassment, alarm or distress" — N.B.:
With effect from 1 February 2014, section 5 no longer includes words, behaviour, or displays which are simply “insulting”.