UK Column News — 22nd April 2026

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet and Vanessa Beeley with today's UK Column News.

00:43 Mandelson: Sir Olly Robbins goes all Sir Humphrey Appleby

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07:20 Lebanon: Ceasefire and Christians

IDF confirms photo of soldier smashing Jesus statue in Lebanon is genuine, vows action | The Times of Israel

Netanyahu on X https://x.com/netanyahu/status/2046166181258650016

Jerusalem Christians: ‘We shrunk from 20% to 2% of population due to Israeli violence’ · Global Voices

‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown | Palestine | The Guardian

A Terrorist Suicide Bombing in a Damascus Church Triggers a Wider Takfiri Purge of Syrian Minorities | UKColumn

The Truth about Hezbollah: What the main stream media doesn’t want U.S. Citizens and Christians to know. | by JR --- | Medium

16:19 Live Facial Recognition: High Court challenge fails – the implications

High Court: R (Thompson & Carlo) vs Met Police

Met Police wins judicial review over use of Live Facial Recognition (on X)

Big Brother Watch: Briefing on police use of Live Facial Recognition

The Telegraph: Police ‘too busy to arrest paedophiles’

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26:42 Bird Flu: Yet another onslaught of pandemic propaganda

BBC: Bird flu vaccine trial against potential pandemic strain begins

NIHR: Bird flu vaccine trial launches to prepare for potential pandemic

CEPI: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome pledge $300 million to CEPI to fight COVID-19 and combat threat of future pandemics

WHO: Influenza (avian and other zoonotic) key facts

UKHSA: Human case of avian flu detected in England (27 January 2025)

National Accident Helpline: The most accident-prone day of the year

APHA: Confirmed findings of influenza of avian origin in non-avian wildlife

DEFRA: New avian influenza vaccine trials begin in UK

DEFRA: Bird flu latest situation in England

The Avian Influenza (Vaccination) (England) Regulations 2006

Poultry World: Building a flag-ship poultry farm in the UK

34:14 Dead Scientists: Normal presented abnormal to distract

FBI looks into dead or missing nuclear and space defense scientists | Fortune

38:39 War Fail: State of global forces

UK and France to lead multinational Strait of Hormuz military planning conference - GOV.UK

MOD: UK and France to lead multinational Strait of Hormuz military planning conference

Healey and Starmer thank submariners (on X)

The Telegraph: SAS soldiers resign over war crime ‘witch hunts’

Daily Mail: Staggering 242 Special Forces troops - including some who could be called up in WWIII - now 'being harassed in witch hunt by human rights lawyers over past operations'

Express: MoD loses track of 95,000 'fit and willing' veterans for urgent recall

Hansard: Armed Forces Bill (seventh sitting)

Japan Today: Japan opens door to global arms market with biggest export rule change in decades

Japan Ministry of Defence: Japan-US Alliance

47:19 Syria: Regime Change

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Privatisation of healthcare https://x.com/SyJusticeArc/status/2041950242971750493

Syria Clarifies Hospital Privatization Plan as Partnership - Enab Baladi

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name. - The New York Times

55:10 B-1’s: Flying Over Plymouth

'US B-1 bombers flying over Plymouth is not normal' | Plymouth Live

58:19 Young Say No: We don’t want to fight

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