UK Column News — 7th January 2026

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, and Vanessa Beeley with today's UK Column News

 

UK Column Show Notes Wednesday 7th January 2026

 

00:39 Vaccines: Analysis of new childhood injection schedules. With special guest Dr. Andrew Wakefield

Changes to the childhood vaccination schedule from January 2026 – UK Health Security Agency

Families to have better access to childhood vaccinations - GOV.UK

Chickenpox vaccination offered to children across Warwickshire from January 2026 - Warwickshire County Council

More vaccines now offered at Black Country mobile clinics | Stourbridge News

Pop-up MMR and HPV vaccine clinics to run in Worcestershire | Worcester News

MHRA approves zapomeran (Kostaive) mRNA COVID-19 vaccine - GOV.UK

Latest figures show strong uptake of whooping cough vaccine in pregnancy - GOV.UK

Change of vaccine for the routine adult pneumococcal vaccination programme and individuals at increased clinical risk - GOV.UK

  

11:44 War: Coalition of the Killing

PM remarks after Coalition of the Willing meeting: 6 January 2026 - GOV.UK

U.S. plans to intercept tanker involved in Venezuelan oil trade, days after Maduro's capture - CBS News

US military aircraft arrive in UK – and online chat suggests something big is going down

Russia sends navy to guard oil tanker being pursued by US forces - BBC News

Stephen Miller comments: CNN.com - Transcripts

Remarks by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at Newport News Shipyard > U.S. Department of War > Transcript | U.S. Department of War

The North Atlantic Treaty | NATO Official text

  

21:15 Ministry of Pretence: Current state of UK defence

UK Column News Christmas Special 2025 - 19th December 2025 | UKColumn

John Simpson on BBC InDepth: I’ve never seen a year like 2025

UK gives £600m air-defence package to Ukraine (17 December 2025)

BBC: Military Gap Year on offer

MOD: Armed Forces to launch Gap Year scheme

Serco: Careers with the Armed Forces Recruitment Service

Labour will destroy special forces, warn ex-SAS chiefs, in The Telegraph

Daily Mail: Sean Rayment on 29 suicides in The Rifles

BFBS: Luke Pollard MP asking questions about the safety of the Ajax fleet

Financial Times: FTSE All-Share Aerospace and Defense Price Return Index

 

29:55 Venezuela: The Zionist hand behind Trump’s operation

The Maduro-Hezbollah Nexus: How Iran-backed Networks Prop up the Venezuelan Regime - Atlantic Council

Hezbollah expands on Maduro’s ‘terror island’ as tourism dries up | Fox News

President Trump and the Prime Minister of Israel Deliver Remarks

Meet Paul Singer, the Billionaire Trump Megadonor Set to Make a Killing on Venezuela Oil | Common Dreams

American Friends of Isaac Accords

When Zionists wanted a ‘Promised Land’ for European Jews in Argentina

https://x.com/Tracking_Power

 

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43:50 Online Safety: Substack’s censorship policy under new rules

Our position on the Online Safety Act - On Substack

Fighting back against Substack censorship

Cyberleagle: The Online Safety Act: guardian of free speech?

 

50:08 Farming: UK industry and where it’s heading

Farming Profitability Review 2025

UK Column News, 19 November 2025

Great British Energy - Nuclear: The Spark

Great British Energy

DEFRA: Government’s cast iron commitment to food production (9 January 2025)

DEFRA: Farm and business inheritance tax threshold “to rise”

HM Treasury: What are the changes to APR?

The Grocer: Highest ever supermarket sales

UK Column: Farmers’ Protests: the Wrong Target?

 

57:17 Cyber: New plan to combat ‘online threats’

Government Cyber Action Plan

 

58:48 Electric Vehicles: The wheels are finally coming off

DVLA: Increases in road tax for electric, zero and low emission vehicles

Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT): Report on UK car sales, January 2026

Auto Express: BYD beats Tesla as global sales slump for Musk’s EV brand

Trade and Investment Factsheet: Azerbaijan (17 December 2025)