UK Column News - 7th July 2025

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with Monday's UK Column News.

Sources:

Understand That We Are Being Attacked By Our Own Government 

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  • Propaganda & Language Control
  • War (Proxy) Stress & Fear
  • Promoted Migration
  • Destruction of the Constitution
  • Destabilisation of Society
  • Attack on the minds of our children

BBC: Trans troops in US military 'in survival mode' as ban on serving kicks in

USAFacts: How many people are in the US military?

0.2% Trans

Curtis Brown: Megha Mohan

Second Source: The Second Source was created by a group of female journalists to tackle harassment and create an alternative network for women in the media

Montgomery Toms (on X): I Was Arrested For Wearing A Placard That Said "Trans = Mental Illness"

 

The War on Words: Language, Power and the Politics of Censorship

09:51 Ideas Matter: Upheaval: why politics needs a new language – The Academy 2025

Daily Mail: Angela Rayner to put 'BANTER POLICE' in your office: Watch what you say by the water cooler! Workers' rights Bill pressures firms to spy on 'inappropriate' conversations

Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi (Substack): The Normalisation Of Alienation And The Acquiescence To Cultural Loss

The London Standard (YouTube): Keir Starmer: UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’

BBC: Starmer says he regrets using 'island of strangers' phrase

Citation (WordPress): Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech (PDF)

 

Ten Years to Flatten the NHS?

21:17 GOV.UK: 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future

Change NHS: A new 10 Year Health Plan for England

HSJ: Revealed: The leaders shaping the 10-Year Health Plan

 

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UK Column shop: UK Column On Location Livestream Access

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Event: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival - 18th July 

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

Event: Freedom Fest 2025 - Leicestershire - 1st to 3rd of August

Event: UK Column: On Location - Saturday, 18 October 2025, York (Tickets on sale soon!)

Dissident meet-up: South West: Sunday 20th July 2025 - Goffin Land, Grays Barn EX49JL (9:30 to 4:30pm)

Event: They're Burning Books Again: Stop the Destruction of Our Libraries! - 10th July, Edinburgh EH7 4JE

 

State Control: Out of Control and On the Rise

36:34 GOV.UK: Strategic Defence Review oral statement - Statement from Defence Secretary John Healey on the Strategic Defence Review

The Guardian: Palestine Action isn't a danger to British democracy

GOV.UK: The Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP (Secretary of State for Education)

 

Words Fail Us: The Literacy of a Failing Culture

44:16 BBC: Backlash as Reform claims trans books removed from children's library section

Guardian: Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat

Reform Party UK Exposed (on X): We've looked at where this photo was taken, it's Herne Bay Library, it's the only one with that shelving. The shelves you've photographed are NOT in the children's section - it's a display area

 

The Climate Gravy Train: Net Zero, Infinite Budgets

52:35 London Climate Action Week: Net Zero Delivery Summit

Rise (Substack): Babylon the Great is Fallen

Imagine: The Global Leadership Community For Impact

Imagine (LinkedIn): What happens when leaders gather not just to talk about climate action but to advance it together? 

iWe: Join the coalition that’s upgrading global governance

Global Assembly: A global assembly in 2021 on the climate and ecological emergency to influence COP 26

Community Organisers: History of our organisation

UK Column (2011): The Big Society