UK Column News - 7th March 2025

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with today's UK Column News.

 

1.00 The EU Has Decided to ‘ReArm’ Itself at Zelensky’s Request

European Commission: Press Statement by President von der Leyen on the Defence Package

Oneindia News: Poland’s Tusk Calls Trump a ‘Difficult Partner’ as Europe Struggles to Align with U.S. Priorities

GOV.UK: Advanced Attack Drones for Ukraine in New Deal Struck by UK Government and Anduril UK 

Jose Vega: ‘Is Zelensky Cooked?

Financial Times: Europe Must Trim Its Welfare State to Build a Warfare State

New York Post: Meet the Tough Women Leaders Taking on Vladimir Putin

Financial Times: US Cuts off Intelligence-Sharing with Ukraine

 

16.00 Will Starlink Be Blocked in Ukraine? 

Reuters: Exclusive: US Could Cut Ukraine's Access to Starlink Internet Services over Minerals, say Sources

The Telegraph: Britain and France Plot to Replace Musk’s Starlink in Ukraine

Elon Musk: ‘There are no angels in war’ 

Elon Musk: ‘The word “Nazi” doesn’t mean what he seems to think it does

The Bulwark: Elon Musk Is Putin’s Best Weapon

Elon Musk: ‘A major factor for why Ukraine was NOT overrun by Russia is the Starlink support I provided …’

 

21.00 The 2025 Ukraine Recovery Conference Will Align with Agenda 2030 

Ukraine Recovery Conference: 10-11 July, Rome 

Ukrainian World Congress: Lugano Declaration & Principles 

25.00 Healey Visits the US to Heal the UK-US Special Relationship

Royal Air Force: Exercise Red Flag 2025 Begins

 

28.00 Trump Might Leave NATO

The Times: UK Urged to Prepare for Donald Trump Halting Trident Partnership

The Telegraph: Starmer and Macron Consider Accompanying Zelensky to White House

 

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UK Column interview: Social Workers, Police and UK Family Law Courts: State Protectors Turned Child Abusers

UK Column article: Guernsey: The Tiny Island That Beat the Big Bankers for 20 Years of Monetary Freedom

 

34:00 Apple Continues to Fight  UK’s ‘Back Door’ Order as Data Security Continues to Decrease

National Cyber Security Centre: Cyber Security Tips for Barristers, Solicitors and Legal Professionals (WaybackMachine’s Capture from 12 November 2024; Now Removed) 

Financial Times: Apple Launches Legal Challenge to UK ‘Back Door’ Order

Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice: Cloud Act Agreement between the Governments of the U.S., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

 

41:00 How and Why Is Georgetown’s School for Foreign Service Covering Bilderberg?

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs: The Bilderberg Meetings: A Forum for Trans-Atlantic Dialogue and Elite Career Advancement

Academia.edu: Lukas Kantor

UK Column (Mark Anderson): Bilderberg: Beyond the Meetings, Part 1: Big Tech & Big Media Interests Busily Branching Out

UK Column (Mark Anderson): Bilderberg: Beyond the Meetings, Part 2—Secretive Gatherings a Collusive Conduit for AI-Big Media ‘Marriage’

 

47:00 Euro War Hawks - Macron’s Ukraine War Propaganda Gets Even Worse 

Wikipedia: List of Countries with Highest Military Expenditures

Voroni: Breaking down the U.S. Government's 2024 Fiscal Year

Responsible Statecraft: Getting the Defense Budget Right: a (Real) Grand Total, over $1.4 Trillion

 

57:00 Are Republicans ‘Going Populist’, and Will They Break Up Google? 

New York Post: Google Met with Trump’s DOJ in Effort to Avoid Historic Break-up of Search Giant

New York Times: U.S. Proposes Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly

Texas Attorney General: Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Deliv­ers Major Win against Google’s Inter­net Search Monop­oly and Anti­com­pet­i­tive Busi­ness Practices

Texas Attorney General: Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures $1.4 Bil­lion Set­tle­ment with Meta over Its Unau­tho­rized Cap­ture of Per­son­al Bio­met­ric Data in Largest Set­tle­ment Ever Obtained from an Action Brought by a Sin­gle State

 

1:01 Ofcom Announces Compliance Enforcement Programme

Ofcom: Enforcement Programme to Monitor Compliance with the Illegal Content Risk Assessment Duties and Record Keeping Duties