UK Column News - 19th May 2025

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with Monday's UK Column News.

 

A Fishy Smell of UK-EU Military

00:00 UK Column series: EU Military Unification

Sky: A UK-conducted fatal drone strike confirmed for first time since Starmer became PM

BBC: Second man arrested over fires at homes linked to PM

The Media Line: Britain Holds First High-Level Military Talks With Syria Since 2011

Wikipedia: Charles Emrys Smith

 

Epistemic Warfare

12:49 Demos: Demos is Britain's leading cross-party think tank

LinkedIn: Polly Curtis

Demos: Epistemic Security 2029: Fortifying the UK’s information supply chain to tackle the democratic emergency

BBC: The BBC - A Catalyst for Building Trust

Demos: Conspiracy Loops: From distrust to conspiracy to culture wars

 

Sisters Salon Inclusion

21:51 Ticket Tailor: Sisters Salon

Brighton Sisters Salon: Meet-ups & campaigns - By women for women

Trans Pride Brighton: Trans Pride 2025

GOV.UK: UK International Climate Finance (ICF) gender equality, disability and social inclusion guidance

Teresa Smith (on X): Teresa Smith’s post

I was fired up… Something *went* in my head. I knew I could not let it go. So I walked into the library and found the room where they were meeting

 

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UK Column article: The Secret Society Dedicated to a New World Order: the Fabians

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Event: Stand In The Light Festival - 23rd - 26th May 

The Light Paper: The Light, Issue 57 - May/June 2025 (PDF)

Event: Sounds Beautiful Festival - 26th to 29th June

UK Column Facebook competition: Win 2 Free tickets for Sounds Beautiful

Event: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival - 18th July 

Event: Hope Sussex Community: HOPE Freedom Music Festival - 22ndto 25th August

EventBrite: In Defence of Libraries June 12th 6pm

 

Liberal Democracy: Manufacturing Consent

33:24 LinkedIn: Miriam Levin

Demos: The MIMBY Majority (PDF)

DemocracyNext: Homepage

 

What Is In The Contrails?

45:21 Springer Nature (2017): Solar geoengineering and the chemtrails conspiracy on social media

Netowne (1998): Contrails: Poison From the Sky (Archived)

Defense Technical Information Center: Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 (PDF)

BBC (2022): Why do aircraft leave contrails in the sky?

Internet Archive: Weather and climate modification by Wilmot N Hess

Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (2017): 70th Anniversary of the first hurricane seeding experiment

Sunshine Project: Weather Modification: SEASIA RAINMAKING - Popey (Archived)

High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP): FAQ

Science Direct (2021): Atmospheric Environment: The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018

AP Archive (YouTube): News Item - Project Stormfury hurricane research to seed hurricanes and perhaps diminish their force (24 Jul 1972)

 

Wizards Spelling Death

58:40 Eurasia Review: Ukraine-Russia Talks End After 90 Minutes With No Breakthrough – Analysis