UK Column News — 1st December 2025

Ben Rubin, Brian Gerrish, Diane Rasmussen, and Sandi Adams with today's UK Column News

 

UK Column News Show Notes — Monday 1st December 2025

01:31 National Emergency Briefing: World War II response to alleged 'climate crisis'.

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

WATCH: National Emergency briefing on climate and nature by UK experts 

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10:11 Gender-Based Violence & Climate: Intimately linked – allegedly

Woman's life 'destroyed' by Newcastle childhood molester - BBC News 

UN Environment Programme | Nairobi | Facebook 

UN Women welcomes the adoption of the Belém Gender Action Plan and urges its effective implementation | UN Women – Headquarters 

Colliding Crises: How the climate crisis fuels gender-based violence 

Temperature and intimate partner violence - Nguyen - 2024 - Scottish Journal of Political Economy - Wiley Online Library 

Feminist-climate-justice-A-framework-for-action-en.pdf 

Gender and climate change 

Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women | Cop30 | The Guardian 

18:00 War Crimes: The BBC picks and choses its narratives

Special Forces heads suppressed SAS war crime evidence, inquiry hears - BBC News 

Two girls shot in Gaza - BBC pieces together what happened and looks at dozens more child shootings - BBC News 

Two Girls Shot in Gaza | UKColumn 

25:14 Local council drones: Spies in the skies

Council Drones: The New ‘Spies in the Sky’? #UKNews #Surveillance #Drones #BigBrother 

Revealed: West London authority using drones to 'spy'… 

Big Brother Watch's comment on the use of drones as a first responders by the Metropolitan Police — Big Brother Watch 

Use of drones | Environmental enforcement | Thurrock Council 

Drones – Use of drones 

Milton Keynes Council uses drones to monitor development sites | GeoPlace LLP 

How UK Councils Are Benefiting From DJI Drones - heliguy™ 

Drone use by Local Government in England: From ambition to action - ARPAS-UK 

UK Councils Deploy Growing Drone Fleets To Watch Residents 

37:50 Check out UKC’s website and support our work 

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44:30 We Mean Business: Coalition of Control reshaping the global economy

Home - We Mean Business Coalition 

About Us | Corporate Leaders Groups 

Sustainable Business Network and Advisory Services | BSR 

Home | Ceres: Sustainability is the bottom line 

Climate Group 

The B Team 

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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) 

Vision 2050 

CDP: Turning Transparency to Action 

Homepage - IKEA Foundation 

54:26 Pandemic: But not the one you think…

University of Minnesota program offers guidelines to 'reverse the whiteness pandemic' | Daily Mail Online 

The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities' 'Culture and Family Life Lab' features pages on 'Whiteness Pandemic'; National Institute of Mental Health is one of funding sources - Defending Education 

The Whiteness pandemic behind the racism pandemic: Familial Whiteness socialization in Minneapolis following #GeorgeFloyd’s murder. 

Gail Ferguson | Institute of Child Development 

59:57 Justice: Update on proposals to scrap juries in UK courts

David Lammy News News | Parliament Politics Magazine 

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1:03 Farmers’ Protest: Report on action in London

1:12 And finally: Rebel nuns against the system

Rebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – if they stay off social media | Austria | The Guardian