Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, Clare Wills Harrison and Sandi Adams with today's UK Column News.
Sources:
Defence Spending: Whatever Starmer Is Selling, We’re Not Buying It
00:22 GOV.UK: Speech PM statement on defence spending: 25 February 2025
The London Standard (YouTube): Prime Minister delivers statement on defence bill increase
GOV.UK: Prime Minister’s Oral Statement to the House of Commons: 25 February 2025
Keir Starmer (YouTube): Keir Starmer delivers historic announcement on increase to defence spending in Parliament
BBC (2021): HMS Defender: What will be the fallout from Black Sea incident?
BBC (2024): RAF fighters track Russian bomber over North Sea
AAG IT Services: The Latest Cyber Crime Statistics (updated January 2025)
UK Defence Journal: Britain to boost cyber warfare capabilities
UK Column article: The Day of the Skripal
Crime and Policing Bill Update: Escalating Pre-Crime Punishment with More Legislation
08:43 GOV.UK: Crime and Policing Bill: Knife crime factsheet
GOV.UK: New powers for police to tackle neighbourhood crime
GOV.UK: Search and seizure (PDF)
House of Lords Library: Terrorism in the UK: Legislation and government strategy
Legislation Watch with Clare Wills Harrison: Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2025
15:59 GOV.UK: Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2025: factsheets
Big Brother Watch (YouTube): DWP, stop plans for mass bank spying
Conscientious Currency (Substack): Legislation Watch - The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
Big Brother Watch: Stop the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts
UK Parliament: Parliamentary Bills: Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
TheyWorkForYou: Examination of Witness: Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:45 pm on 25 February 2025.
Parliament Bills Whack-a-Mole: Smashing the Data (Use and Access) Bill as It Raises Its Ugly Head
26:31 UK Parliament: Government Bill: Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
Parallel Parliament: Debate: Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords] - 12th Feb 2025
An outdated approach to data is holding Britain’s economy back. This Bill will take the brakes off, unleashing a new era of wealth and opportunity for all. - Peter Kyle
Didomi: What is consent fatigue?
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UK Column shop: UK Column On Location — Cheltenham — 5 April 2025
UK Column interview: Child Stealing by the State: Iolanda’s Newborn Baby Snatched by UK's ‘Child Protection’ Racket
PCPW (Event): Public Child Protection Wales Conference 2025 - 22nd February 2025, Cwmbran
Billetto (Event): Supporting Farmers for Food Security (16th March 09:15 - Shurdington Community Centre, GL51 4TB)
Eventbrite (Event): Free Speech: No Ifs, No Buts (27th Feb 2025 7pm - Liberty House, Newcastle NE1 1TT)
Op Interflex: Lethal Aid and the Largest Military Training Programme Since WWII
37:26 Argus Media: Ukraine's Rare Earth Minerals: Trump's Ambitions and Supply Chain Impact
United Nations Peacekeeping: Principles of peacekeeping
Forces News: Ukrainian recruits learn fighting in the trenches on latest phase of Op Interflex
Army Technology: Operation Interflex: Ukrainian recruits prepare for war
The Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom: Embassy Comment on a warm reception at The Reform Club the Ukrainian neo-Nazis from the “Azov Brigade”
International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine: Join the Brave - International Legionnaires of Ukraine
UK Defence Journal: MoD prioritises recruitment and retention with new approach
State Snooping on Private Citizens: Investigatory Powers Act Expand Surveillance and Control
43:58 Legislation: Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024
Sustain: Inheritance Tax: What the new rules mean for farmers
Parliamentary Bills: Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024
The Washington Post: U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts (Archived)
UK Firearms Legislation: Stricter Rules Target Farmers Amid Land Grabs and Mass Cullings Spread
46:10 GOV.UK: Firearms
Legislation: The Firearms Rules 1998
The Culling Has Just Begun: Mass Slaughter for Supermarket Cartels and their Fake Food
53:40 UK Parliament (2022): Avian influenza (PDF)
UK Column documentary: Insight: Slaughtered on Suspicion
1 PCR case = over 48,000 killed
NFUonline: NFU25: How science and technology can help agriculture grow
BP: Renewables and power - What we do
BP: Sustainability Report 2023