UK Column News - 2nd July 2025

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, Vanessa Beeley, Sandi Adams and Alex Kriel with Wednesday's UK Column News.

 

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When MPs Stop Representing the People, What Do You Call It?

00:32 Thinking Coalition’s (Substack): Is the U.K. officially a dictatorship?

UK Parliament: What do MPs do?

WayBack Machine: UK Parliament: What do MPs do? (6th April 2025)

 

Petition Falls on Deaf Ears as the Net Zero Money Machine Heats Up

09:29 UK Parliament: Make all forms of 'geo-engineering' affecting the environment illegal 

UK Parliament (YouTube): E-petition debate relating to geo-engineering and the environment - Monday 23 June 2025

Zero Hour: About Us

GOV.UK: UN Human Rights Council 59: Joint Statement on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change

The House of Commons Library: A new precedent for climate change in human rights law

Leeds City Council (YouTube): Leeds City Council - Outer North East Community Committee - 30th June 2025

 

Climate Alarmism: The Predictions Never Land, But the Gravy Train Rolls On

19:26 UKCitizen: For The People By The People

The Pembrokeshire Herald: Council to review climate emergency declaration amid financial concerns

Leeds City Council (YouTube): Leeds City Council - Outer North East Community Committee - 30th June 2025

 

While the World Looks Away, Gaza Is Being Erased

23:26 Daily Sabah: Drugs found hidden in flour bags distributed by US-backed aid group

The Cradle: ‘Killing fields’: Israeli soldiers ordered to shoot unarmed Palestinians at GHF sites

Haaretz: 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid (Archived)

Translating Falasteen (on X): 105 Palestinians martyred in 24 hours by Israeli occupation airstrikes on Gaza since dawn

 

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Event: The Matrix Tour - Glitch In - Stratford Upon Avon, Sat June 28th - Outside Shakespeare's House CV37 6QW 10am - 4pm

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

Event: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival - 18th July 

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

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Palestine Action: Political Target or Terrorist Threat?

31:58 Palestine Action: Palestine Action take direct action against Israeli weapons factories in Britain, in solidarity with the Palestinian people

 

Syria Sanctions Lifted, Lebanon Under Pressure: ISIS Links, Political Deals and Regional Turmoil

36:29 Axios: Trump signs executive order lifting most sanctions on Syria

Vanessa Beeley (Telegram): The group apprehended in Burj al-Barajneh, in Beirut’s southern suburb, was found—through data on their phones—to have an organizational link with the ISIS terrorist group

Vanessa Beeley (Telegram): A circulating clip shows the preparation for the organized deployment of foreign Al-Julani gangs

L'Orient Today: Barrack’s proposal marks two pivotal weeks for the Lebanese state

Marwa Osman (on X): Lebanese journalist Hasan Illaik writes

What the United States is demanding from Lebanon, both in Tom Barrack’s paper and beyond, is a comprehensive deal imposed under threat, consisting of the following sequential steps: Disarmament (Outside the 1701 agreement). Normalization with “Israel”. Handing Lebanon over to [Abu Mohammad] al-Julani. No matter the sacrifices, the cost of rejecting the deal is far less than the price of accepting it.

Rudaw: Three suspected ISIS members killed in Kirkuk operation

UK Column: Syria Today: From the Fall of a Centralised Government to the Al Qaeda Junta

 

Higher Pay and Advertising Boost Targeting Young Women to Donate Eggs

44:06 UK Parliament: Hansard: IVF Egg Donation: Young Women

Egg Donors UK: Donate your eggs and turn your kindness into incredible beginnings

London Egg Bank: Freeze and Share

Women Rights Network: We Need To Talk About Egg Harvesting

Pride Angel: Research interview on Egg Donation with Prof Nicky Husdon

Parliament TV:  (13:50:10) Westminster Hall debate: IVF egg donation in young women - 26th June 2025

 

New Trade Measures: From the Steel Trap to Darktrace

50:30 GOV.UK: UK Introduces New Trade Measures to Support Steel Sector

GOV.UK: UK Trade Strategy

GOV.UK: Baroness Gustafsson of Chesterton CBE (Minister of State (Minister for Investment)

Darktrace (on X): At Founders Forum our CEO, Poppy Gustafsson, sat down with GCHQ Director Anne Keast-Butler to discuss the role of AI in cybersecurity

British Steel: £22-million project to enhance UK infrastructure and national security supported by British Steel

UK Column: The Steel Trap

 

Technocratic Takeover: From Vacuum Cleaners to Machine Farms

55:10 Dyson (YouTube): James Dyson reveals the future of farming