Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Alex Thomson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News, with special guest Hedley Rees of Inside Pharma (Twitter|blog).
Excess Mortality Continues to Build
00:34 Office for National Statistics—Deaths registered in England and Wales: Week ending 13 January 2023
BMJ—Recent cash injections won’t solve emergency service problems, says leader
UK to introduce first-of-its-kind framework to make it easier to manufacture innovative medicines at the point of care
Institutional and infrastructure challenges for hospitals producing advanced therapies in the UK: the concept of ‘point-of-care manufacturing readiness’
Hedley Rees Provides Breaking Pharmaceutical News
06:26 14th November FoI—MHRA changed regulations
11:53 The UK competent authority for licensing is the MHRA—Hedley Rees
These injections have not been manufactured by the companies selling them
17:34 MHRA Passes the Buck
MHRA Freedom of Information reply of 11 January 2023 pointedly stating that the Health Secretary is responsible for medicine licensing decisions
Daily Sceptic: Blame Game Begins as MHRA Passes the Buck
European Court of Accounts—Tools facilitating travel within the EU (evaluating Covid pass and track-and-trace)
MHRA—Consultation on how we communicate with healthcare professionals to improve medicines and medical devices safety—last week to answer survey
Portuguese parliamentary petition: COVID-19—Against mass vaccination of children and young people
Ukraine is Moving Down the Mainstream News Agenda Whilst the War Rages
31:00 German Government announces delivery of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine—precisely 14 of them, so as not to outdo the British
Katrin Göring-Eckardt—The #Leopard’s freed! (Twitter)
Type of aircraft Ukraine will receive has already been determined—Col. Yuriy Ihnat
According to Ihnat, the aircraft supply topic has never left the agenda as it is constantly raised by the Ukrainian top military leadership and the Ministry of Defence
NATO Policy Planners' Conference takes place in Paris
Boris’ Trail from Davos to Ukraine
40:53 Tweet:
Thank you @PinchukFund for hosting the Ukrainian Breakfast at Davos.
Johnson was pictured signing his name on an anti-tank weapon in Ukraine
Russian passion inflamed by US/UK/NATO/EU-fomented war
Ukrainian Presidential Adviser Arestovych Resigns After Controversy Over Dnipro Civilian Deaths
Arestovych censored for speaking out and may have defected; his successor calls for long-range strikes on Russian cities
Ukrainian recruitment drive
Magyar Nemzet: Hungarians in Ukraine being disproportionately conscripted for the worst jobs
Hungary Today: Ukraine punishes Transcarpathian Hungarians again
Hungary Today: Ukraine’s New Minority Law Codifies Injustice
Felvidék: Joint statement on Hungarian minority in Ukraine:
58:32 French viewer's e-mail—Macron nationalises SNPE, apparently to bankroll Ukrainian ammunition
EURENCO Group is developing its organisation “to boost its growth”
Foreign Affairs (CFR journal): The Sanctions on Russia Are Working—sub-intellectual clichés
AND Magazine: Who Wants To Blow Up Poland's Largest Oil Terminal?
Orania's local currency Φ Twitter
Hold The Line event: #ProtectChildhood at Leinster House, Dublin, at noon on 26 January 2023
NHS Matters—Device, Diagnose, Die
1:04:56 The NHS turns to maggots to heal wounds
Telegraph: Assisted suicide could be seen as ‘an opportunity for cost saving’ by NHS
NHS urges women to book a cervical screening as a third don’t take up vital offer
Managing Heart Failure @home: An opportunity for excellence
Policy paper: A plan for digital health and social care
NHS: Personalised care
The Week: The pros and cons of self-referral on the NHS
Digital health app market booming, finds IQVIA report
NHS App and your NHS account
ORCHA digital healthcare
ORCHA, from William Currie Group
Boris, The BBC and the Snakes’ Wedding
1:18:03 Express: Boris Johnson denies BBC chairman helped arrange £800,000 loan
BBC: Why would Boris Johnson need an £800,000 loan?
Times: The BBC chairman, the prime minister and the £800,000 loan guarantee
Times: Who is Richard Sharp? BBC chairman
Sky News: Boris Johnson rejects BBC chairman loan claims as 'complete nonsense'
BBC: Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw killed in Soledar rescue attempt
Viewer-Supplied And Finally
1:23:41 What if the BBC were honest?