A Dissident's Guide to the Constitution

The claim is often made that Parliament is sovereign. Often, “Parliament” is taken to mean “not the Crown”, or that the Crown should refrain from exercising a political role even if it is grudgingly acknowledged to have one.
 
Is it right that the Queen has bowed out of politics? What was she taught at an impressionable age (from twelve onwards) about her constitutional role? Why do UK Column News presenters voice consistent scepticism about the proposal of “direct” or “participatory” democracy and the likelihood that those chosen to have their say will be briefed by the Klaus Schwabs of this world? Isn’t democracy a Fundamental British Value these days? What did household names C.S. Lewis and Lord Hailsham have to say in the post-war generation about democracy?
 
Join David Scott, Mike Robinson and Alex Thomson for the first half of Episode 5 of A Dissident’s Guide to the Constitution, entitled Democracy — a British Value? The second half of the episode, released separately, will build on this ground to cover perhaps the best treatment so far written of what is wrong and unhistorical about the notion that a house of elected legislators, controlled by parties, is the cure for all ills.

A Dissident's Guide to the Constitution: Episode 5, Part I — Democracy: a British value?

Mike Robinson, Brian Gerrish and Ben Rubin with today's UK Column News.
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UK Column News Podcast 3rd February 2025

s inheritance tax the only worry for farmers? In this exclusive interview, Sandi Adams and vet Roger Meacock tell you why there is a much bigger agenda at work. In Part 2, they will explain where we are in 2025. Are we heading for a famine? Read the write-up at: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/dear-farmers-999-part-2

999, Part 2 – The Bigger Agenda – With Roger Meacock And Sandi Adams

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet and Vanessa Beeley with today's UK Column News.
00:21 Lucy Letby Panel Challenges Conviction with New Medical Evidence: “We Did Not Find Any Murders”
18:20 Kleptocracy in Action: Trump's Proposal on Gaza and the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians?
23:13 Syria Jihadist Leader Al-Jawlani Complete Rebrand
31:54 UK Column Is Member-Funded—New On Location Event
34:59 Vanessa Beeley Updates On Lebanon
39:31 mRNA Vaccines: The Problem, The Reaction and the Solution
45:06 Safer Streets: The Same 'Change' as Every Other Government and the Rise of Pre-Crime Measures
50:24 Russia, Syria, and Shifting Alliances in the Middle East
56:18 Starmer: The Call for More NATO Funding to Fuel Further Conflicts
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-5th-february-2025

UK Column News Podcast 5th February 2025

Sir Julian Rose, a man forever connected with the soil, gives Charles Malet his updated view of the world and his antidote to transhumanism. Read the write-up at: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/finding-the-moral-spine-resistance-to-faceless-modernity-with-sir-julian-rose

Finding The Moral Spine- Resistance To Faceless Modernity—with Sir Julian Rose

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with today's UK Column News.
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-7th-february-2025

00:23 Trump & Bibi's MAGAZA Mirage: A Timeshare Gambit or Geopolitical Mirage?
13:25 NATO's Next Puppet? Rumours Swirl Over Zelenskyy's Potential Replacement
20:43 Samantha Power Out: USAID Defunds and Marco Rubio's Rise Shake Up Foreign Aid
33:05 Mockingbird Media 'Free Press' Loses USAID Funding
38:20 UK Column Is Member Funded—Forthcoming On Location Event Announced
39:43 Zapping Young Minds: Stifling Free Speech and Thought in the Name of 'Misinformation'
47:05 Snooping on Citizens: UK Orders Apple to Open Encrypted Accounts for Surveillance
53:45 ICC: U.S. Imperialism in Action—Putin's DEI Pick
1:01:32 Trump's Foreign Policy Open Letter From 1987: Protection Racketeering?

UK Column News Podcast 7th February 2025

Brian Gerrish, Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie and Ben Rubin with today's UK Column News.
00:00 Dewi Evans, Expert Witness in Lucy Letby’s Conviction, and His Advocacy for the Decriminalization of Sexual Acts with Children
14:17 Common Knowledge with Professor Richard Ennos
24:23 Need Your Propaganda More Local? Meet the BBC's Local Democracy Reporting Initiative
35:12 UK Column Is Member Funded—On Location Event Tickets On Sale
37:50 Ideological Showdown: The Backlash Against DEI Policies
49:50 The “Independent Media” Saviours: Funded By Rockefeller Philanthropy
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-10th-february-2025

UK Column News Podcast 10th February 2025

Food Of The Future Or Perhaps No Food In The Future.
Is inheritance tax the only worry for farmers? In this exclusive interview, Sandi Adams and vet Roger Meacock tell you why there is a much bigger agenda at work. In Part 3, they will explore where we are in 2025. Are we heading for a famine?  Will we even be eating food? Is the UK’s collapse inbound? Read the write-up at: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/dear-farmers-999-part-3

Dear Farmers- 999, Part 3 – With Roger Meacock And Sandi Adams

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, Vanessa Beeley and Sandi Adams with today's UK Column News.
00:00 The Focus Ramps Up War Propaganda to Hype the Iranian Threat
09:48 Trump Warns ‘Let All Hell Break Loose’ as Escalations Loom
15:25 The Trojan Horse of Devolution: Beware the Hidden Costs with Sandi Adams
25:38 British Regime Dangles the Cancer Cure Carrot to Funnel Billions into AI
32:12 On Location Event Tickets On Sale—UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
34:25 Lebanese Tribesmen Humiliate HTS Elite Forces, Challenging Al Jolani’s Power
42:33 Inheritance Tax Grabs Full Attention While Land Grabs Surge in the Name of Climate Change
51:57 Questionable Sources: Are They Relying on Wikipedia?!
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-february-2025

UK Column News Podcast 12th February 2025

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

UK Column News Podcast 14th February 2025

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

00:00 Ukraine: Western Media Lies and Propaganda 
14:23 Fear and Safety: The Same Old Tricks
24:52 From the Group of Thirty to The Elders—Leading to Project Dandelion
39:30 UK Column On Location Event Tickets On Sale—UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
42:51 UK Column Covered the Sodium Valproate Scandal While the BBC Covered It Up
48:15 The “Space 2030” Agenda: Aiming for the Stars, Green for Net Zero, Of Course
57:24 Brainwashing the Next Generation: What Do Kids Really Think About AI?

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UK Column News Podcast 17th February 2025

Since the early days of the COVID 'vaccination' programme, Rosie Marshall has been working tirelessly to raise public awareness about those injured and killed by the experimental jabs in her home town of Sydney, Australia, and to hold local government and the health system to account. Read the write-up at: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/forest-of-the-fallen-rosie-marshall

Forest Of The Fallen- Remembering Those Damaged By COVID Vaccines - With Rosie Marshall

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, Vanessa Beeley and Sandi Adams with today's UK Column News.
00:00 War with Russia? Arms Sales Brings Bankers Billions for Bullets
11:13 Abraham Shield Plan: “With Crisis Comes Opportunity – A New Regional Order in the Middle East”
24:23 Businesses Warned: Align with Net Zero or Face Shutdown – People Power Push-Back Growing
32:44 Stigmatising Homeschooling: Attacks on Parental Choice and Education Freedom
40:26 UK Column On Location Event Tickets On Sale—UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
43:40 Lebanon: Ongoing Occupation, Airstrikes, and Regional Tensions Escalate
50:02 Bird Flu Latest: What’s Really Behind the Panic? It’s Not the Flu, It’s the Culling
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-february-2025

UK Column News Podcast 19th February 2025

In Part 1, we heard from a brave mother who was desperate to speak out and tell the story of her babies. They were snatched by the powerful and secretive child snatching system of the UK’s Star Chamber Family Courts. Read the write-up at: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/child-stealing-by-the-state-part-2


Child Stealing by the State- A Mother Criminalised for Speaking Out – Part 2

Brian Gerrish, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with today's UK Column News.

00:00 The Big Rift Of Trump Not Going Europe's Way
08:00 RAND: Overextending and Unbalancing Russia
21:13 Swedish Press: The US has Given Us Three Weeks to Accept Ukraine's Surrender
24:13 US-EU Trade Relations: Balancing Economic Security, Tariff Threats, and Public Support
33:12 UK Column On Location Event Tickets On Sale—UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
36:17 US Knew of Gonzalo Lira’s Torture and Murder, Yet Allowed Him to Suffer in Silence
38:34 UN Blames Fishing Trawlers, Not Sabotage, for Majority of Undersea Cable Damage
44:25 Kash Patel as FBI Director: A Potentially Game-Changing Appointment
48:55 JD Vance in Europe: Standing Against EU Tyranny
55:44 Same Playbook: Problem, Reaction, Solution — A Path Toward a Greater Israel?
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-february-2025

UK Column News Podcast 21st February 2025

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with today's UK Column News.
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00:00 Brexit Without Exit: Germany's Chancellor and the EU Military Unification – Is the UK Next?
11:06 Institutions Eroding from Within: The Country on the Brink of Collapse
15:17 Stasi Starmer and His Thought Police Arresting Grannies – A Cabinet Full of Wrong’uns
19:44 Diane Reports on the Common Knowledge Event: The Scottish People's Covid-19 Inquiry
34:51 Cheltenham Event Tickets On Sale—UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
38:38 David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ Plan: How’s That Working Out?
47:46 Who Are the People Behind This Destruction? The Organizations and Individuals Involved
57:42 The Same Tactics at Play: PCR Tests Paving the Way for the Dangerous mRNA
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-february-2025

UK Column News Podcast 24th February 2025

Iolanda Menino’s dream of a peaceful home birth turned into a nightmare when clinical malpractice almost cost her life, and false child protection claims led to the wrongful removal of her newborn. Her story exposes the harrowing reality of the UK’s child protection system.
Read the write-up here: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/child-stealing-by-the-state-iolandas-newborn-baby-snatched

Child Stealing by the State: Iolanda’s Newborn Baby Snatched by UK's ‘Child Protection’ Racket

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, Clare Wills Harrison and Sandi Adams with today's UK Column News.
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-26th-february-2025

00:22 Defence Spending: Whatever Starmer Is Selling, We’re Not Buying It
08:43 Crime and Policing Bill Update: Escalating Pre-Crime Punishment with More Legislation
15:59 Legislation Watch with Clare Wills Harrison: Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2025
26:31 Parliament Bills Whack-a-Mole: Smashing the Data (Use and Access) Bill as It Raises Its Ugly Head
35:01 Cheltenham Event Tickets On Sale—UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
37:26 Op Interflex: Lethal Aid and the Largest Military Training Programme Since WWII
43:58 State Snooping on Private Citizens: Investigatory Powers Act Expand Surveillance and Control
46:10 UK Firearms Legislation: Stricter Rules Target Farmers Amid Land Grabs and Mass Cullings Spread
53:40 The Culling Has Just Begun: Mass Slaughter for Supermarket Cartels and their Fake Food


UK Column News Podcast 26th February 2025

Mike Robinson, Mark Anderson and Patrick Henningsen with today's UK Column News.
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UK Column News Podcast 28th February 2025

UK Column News Podcast 3rd March 2025

Mike Robinson, Vanessa Beeley, Charles Malet and Sandi Adams with today's UK Column News.If you would like to support our independent journalism, please join the community: https://community.ukcolumn.org

UK Column News Podcast 5th March 2025

Mike Robinson speaks to Vanessa Beeley about the latest tragic events in Syria.

Syria Podcast - Episode 6

Mike Robinson, Mark Anderson and Patrick Henningsen with today's UK Column News. If you would like to support our independent journalism, please join the community: https://community.ukcolumn.org


UK Column News Podcast 14th March 2025

UK Column News - 17th March 2025
Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin, Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie and Dr Jobst Landgrebe with today's UK Column News.
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-march-2025
Timestamps:

00:54 The 'New Media Nudge Unit': Steering Minds with a £697,474 Budget
11:34 Alarm Bells Are Ringing In Germany With Dr Jobst Landgrebe 
21:38 Dirty Money Shuffles: And Who Are Quadrature?
33:41 Cheltenham Event Tickets — UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
36:48 Diane's Report From Keswick: A Festival of Words and Ideas
45:54 Key Cities at the Heart of the Government's Agenda
54:30 Woke Academia

UK Column News Podcast 17th March 2025

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen, Mark Anderson and Dr Liz Evans with today's UK Column News.
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-march-2025
00:22 Heathrow’s Net Zero Plan: Airport Fire Reported at 23:23
05:55 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Updates From Dr Liz Evans
17:55 63,400 JFK Pages Released—However...
27:25 What Trump Has Released On The JFK Files Is Still Not Everything
38:04 Cheltenham Event Tickets — UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
39:42 Mahmoud Khalil: No Crime Committed, Yet Detained in Louisiana
49:53 Online Forums Shut Down Over Online Safety (Censorship) Laws
53:26 2030—That Year Again: EU’s Plan to Seize Savings & Ursula’s “No Time Left!” Warning
56:35 Japanese Children Die Within 24 Hours of Routine Vaccines, Prompting Urgent Reviews

UK Column News Podcast 21st March 2025

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with today's UK Column News.
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-28th-march-2025
Timestamps: 
00:00 Coalition of the Stupid
06:04 Trump’s ‘Shadow Chair’ Plan Collides with the Untouchable Fed
13:35 Signal Gate: Sugar Coated ‘Leaked’ War Plans and Sweet Lies
37:57 UK Column On Location Livestream Available — UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
39:57 Online Safety or Thought Policing? Ofcom’s Grip on Digital Speech and the End of Privacy
48:11 Free and Fair? The Battle Over Election Integrity, ERIC, and Federal Oversight
55:33 Arctic Power Struggle: Vance Unwelcome in Greenland


UK Column News Podcast 28th March 2025

The attack on the WTC was a day few people can forget, but that day did not happen “out of the blue”. In reality, the attack was a “Pearl Harbour” to justify a shift in Bush-Cheney Oil Strategy. At stake, were trillions of dollars in oil and gas exploration, extraction and pipeline deals, US global power politics, and personal gain.
Read the write-up: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/karl-w-b-schwarz-dissecting-the-official-911-narrative

Karl W. B. Schwarz Joins UK Column to Dissect the Official 9/11 Narrative

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with today's UK Column News.
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-4th-april-2025
Timestamps:
00:00 Liberation Day: Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs — Just Another Trade War, or Something More?
24:13 The Silence on Palestine: World Leaders Witness the Horror and Yet Still Say Nothing
31:55 Saturday’s Livestream Available — UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
33:58 Russia Declared National Security Threat to Britain — But What if You’re Acting on Israel’s Behalf? Do You Have to Register?
40:43 WAR FEVER: Are We Ready to Go to War with Iran Now?
48:44 The 78th World Health Assembly: Still Pushing for the Pandemic Prevention Treaty
58:30 The Challenges of Independent Media: Listen to the Full Report, Take It in the Context

UK Column News Podcast 4th April 2025

Charles Malet, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with today's UK Column News.
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00:00 The Unknowns of Trump’s Tariffs: Congressional Moves, Trade Policy Shifts and Industry Reactions
12:22 Bottled It: Trump Announces '90-Day Pause' on Tariff War – Except for China
29:03 Farmers Protest: The Government Won’t Save You – It’s Time to Break Free from Their Control
31:38 Saturday’s Livestream Still Available — UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
34:37 U.S. Economic Strategy from Taiwan to Spain
38:31 The Hypersonic Arms Narrative, Operation HIGHMAST and the Path to War with Iran
50:09 WHO Pandemic Treaty Delayed: Don’t Celebrate Too Soon – They Won’t Give Up
53:20 Why Does the BBC Still Celebrate Eric Gill’s Statue? A Paedophile’s Legacy Still Standing
56:08 Ukrainian Draft Dodgers, In Space…
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UK Column News Podcast 11th April 2025

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin, Vanessa Beeley and Sandi Adams with Wednesday's UK Column News.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Fear-Based Control in Ukraine? UK State Propaganda and Mind Control
15:17 Antalya Diplomacy Forum: Jeffrey Sachs Lays It Bare
22:40 Cheltenham Event Stream Still Available — UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
26:39 Silencing Glastonbury: When the People Are No Longer Heard
31:51 From Banning the Local Press to Glory: Rees of Easton and His Lordship Ascension
39:53 Freeports in the UK: Tax Games — or Something More? What Are Special Economic Zones?
45:56 Predictix: DNA, AI, and the Infiltration of UK Mental Health

UK Column News Podcast 16th April 2025

Reform UK boldly states it will secure Britain’s future as a free, proud, and rich nation. Why, then, did Reform UK South Derbyshire’s Chairman, Job West, resign?
Read the show notes: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/nigel-farage-and-the-destructive-toryisation-of-reform

Nigel Farage and the Destructive "Toryisation" of Reform UK

Stolen by the State
It’s the UK in 2025. Your door is kicked in, your house is searched, your son is handcuffed and intimidated, and then the police come for your grandchildren.
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Stolen by the State

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, Vanessa Beeley and Sandi Adams with today's UK Column News.
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Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-23rd-april-2025
00:00 Government Borrowing at £16.4 Billion: “Putin Did It”
07:31 Ukraine Opens Its Mineral Riches and Military Arms to Globalist Corporations
10:55 Exposing Child Abuse Networks in Israeli Institutions
22:28 Levelling Up Britain — for Global Investors (Can You Level Up the Potholes Perhaps?)
31:39 UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us
35:41 Syria “Liberated” — Now Partnering with Israel?
47:10 More Musk Controversy: The Battle Over Africa’s Digital Sovereignty
47:09 Blair Still Pushing Digital IDs: A System Built for Control, Scams and Device Errors
51:29 Glastonbury: Censorship in the Name of ‘Hate’ – Free Speech Needed
54:56 2025: High Court to Define ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’? How Did We Get Here?


UK Column News Podcast 23rd April 2025

Do academics have academic freedom in the UK? The answer is no, said Prof Dennis Hayes in this conversation with Prof Diane Rasmussen McAdie. 
Read the show-notes: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/the-situation-is-dire-with-dennis-hayes

“The Situation Is Dire … Nobody Challenges It” — with Prof Dennis Hayes

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with Friday's UK Column News.
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00:00 Starmer Signs EU Defence Deal as UK Hunts for Cannon Fodder
16:13 Ukrainian Debt Crisis Unravels: From Western Unity to Doubt and Delay
26:48 Trump Tariffs: Method or Madness?
36:48 UK Column Is Fully Member Funded, Please Join Us
38:13 Cambridge Disinformation Summit: All Aboard the "You're a Conspiracy Theorist" Train!
44:20 ‘Real ID’ Rollout: When a Passport Isn’t Enough Any More
48:50 UK Lifts Sanctions on Syria — Supporting Terrorists Now?
54:56 A New 9/11 Hearing? Or Is Everyone a Conspiracy Theorist Now?

UK Column News Podcast 25th April 2025

Sam Sorbo tells Charles Malet about the critical distinction between schooling and educating, and the choice facing parents confronted by the ills of the system.
Show notes: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/building-resilience-through-home-education-with-sam-sorbo

Building Resilience through Home Education — with Sam Sorbo

Mike Robinson is joined once again by Vanessa Beeley for episode 7 of our podcast series looking at the latest developments in Syria and the wider region.

Syria Podcast Episode 7

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin, Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie and Cathy Mudge with Monday's UK Column News.
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-28th-april-2025
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00:32 Full Fact Pushes Early Indoctrination: Teaching Children About 'Conspiracy Theories' in Primary School
07:20 Be Tolerant — or Else: Trans Rights Activists Demand Unquestioning Acceptance
21:39 The Curious Case of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
29:03 UK Column Is Fully Member Funded: Check Out UK Column Articles On Our Homepage
38:33 The Overseers: Tunde Olanrewaju and the Architecture of Power
51:31 Geoengineering Expands to Sky and Sea: UK Experiments Begin as Debate Over Climate Control Grows



UK Column News Podcast 28th April 2025

Jeremy Nell (Jerm) tells Charles Malet about his bumpy ride from cartoonist in the mainstream media to dissident podcaster in the information war, as well as his Jerm Warfare show for UK Column.
Read the show notes: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/the-battle-of-ideas-with-jerm

The Battle of Ideas—with Jerm

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, Vanessa Beeley and Sandi Adams with Wednesday's UK Column News.
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-30th-april-2025
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00:00 Carnage Inc: Mark Carney, the Bilderberger For Canada — Spain’s Net Zero Blackout 'Achievement'
05:13 Malvern Hills Trust Shake-Up: Taxpayer-Funded Body Faces Governance Overhaul Bill
10:13 Food Security Farce: Government Turns to Fake Food Giants for 'Expert' Advice
18:09 From Guns to NGOs: Emerald Solutions’ Perfect Timing to Rebuild Syria—One Private Contract at a Time
28:29 UK Column Is Fully Member Funded, Please Join Us
31:47 Meet the Censors: Ofcom’s Online Information Advisory Committee and the War on Dissent
36:30 Serving Royal Marine Interrogated for Exposing Falling Standards
43:00 Army Numbers in Decline: Turning to Gurkhas to Fill the Ranks
47:39 Unchecked Power: Lack of Regulation in UK Private Military Contracts Fuels War Crimes
55:11 Sandi Adams Reports Back From The Tax Rebellion Event - Pay or Resist?

UK Column News Podcast 30th April 2025

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with Friday's UK Column News.
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-2nd-may-2025
00:00 Constitution: Right to Jury Trial Faces Erosion
07:01 Gaza Aid Ship Hit by Drone Strike in International Waters off Malta
11:18 Foreign Policy Crisis Of The Week and Trump Touts WWII as His Victory
21:16 Florida Rejects Geoengineering as Weather Control Programs Expand (PT1)
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28:34 Joint UK-US Airstrikes Hit Yemen as US Signals Consequences for Iran's Role
35:01 Florida Rejects Geoengineering as Weather Control Programs Expand (PT2)
41:35 US Secures Mineral Deal with Ukraine – UK Signs 100-Year Partnership: Is This Really Saving Ukraine?
45:59 More Government Overreach: Access to Your Bank Account and Money Taken Without Permission
51:53 WHO Pandemic Treaty: Who’s Still Pushing It, Who Said Yes and Why?
57:47 Fake News Spreads Like Wildfire: Always Read Beyond the Headlines

UK Column News Podcast 2nd May 2025

How does government work? Who tells government where to stop?

By popular request, and to meet the need of the times, Alex Thomson is joined by Mike Robinson and David Scott to brief dissidents on the Constitution. The podcast will be of interest to overseas listeners too but primarily explores the English and Scots Constitutions, the common law, and the British constitutional legacy.

This is not a series of history lectures. After a few initial episodes on key concepts (constitution, common law, rights, democracy, the rule of law, the nation state), we aim to go through the last thousand years of constitutional development with an eye for what has been hidden (how we have been governed in the past), then to explore how the state fits together (how we are governed now), and finally what plans there are for our future.

A Dissident's Guide to the Constitution: Episode 1

Why does English have the Norman French word “legal” as well as the Anglo-Saxon word “lawful”? Is the law the Crown’s or ours? Is “jury nullification” the most hazardous phrase to utter near a courthouse?

Alex Thomson discusses with David Scott and Mike Robinson how the stirring phrase “the common law” has been understood down the ages, and whether the legal and political fraternity is right to hold as an article of faith that common law is the most inferior of the sources of law. Where does society’s conscience come into it? Are the Continental philosophers right to accuse English and Scots law of being unknowable because we have no single text that calls the Crown into being or criminalises theft or murder?

Join us to find out why state bodies like to masquerade as The People when prosecuting; why juries are being curtailed and abolished step by step; whether it is true that a freeman can individually say he does not consent to statutes; and what it was that got former Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption so riled this week that he said “I reject that claim” in a lecture to Cambridge Law Faculty.

A Dissident’s Guide to the Constitution: Episode 2 — Common Law

How come we have such different visceral reactions to the assertions “I am entitled to a house” and “I am immune in my house”, even though both entitlements and immunities are kinds of rights? Is it really a step forward that the UN has enumerated “rights” in an International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and an International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights? What are the practical effects of Locke’s and Rousseau’s thought-exercise propounding that man is a blank slate? Were our rights won for us by being asserted by our forefathers against government, or are they graciously granted by government and then curtailed and withheld again by that same government with a supposedly heavy heart?

How is it that the first time the phrase “human rights” was weaponised as a slogan was by sexual proclivity activists in the Weimar Republic organising as the “Human Rights League”, a century and a half after the coining of the term by philosophers? Why can an Englishman eject an intruder from his home but a Continental must wait for the police to turn up and do it for him? Is it sheer coincidence that Article 29 of Magna Carta 1215 seems to have been subverted by the same-numbered article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, the so-called Global Magna Carta? Are rights truly about “fairness” or “equity” — or is that actually a swizz?

Join us to hear why David Scott argues that the twentieth-century rights discourse has made us “part-time slaves”; how “You can’t interfere with me” has degenerated into “The government must interfere with you because of my rights”; whether we even have a right to bodily integrity any more; how statutes as apparently innocuous as the Local Government Act 1888 hive off rights from us to government; what it means when Continental judges “set aside” their national laws and constitution because of a treaty ratified by their government; and what the lawyerly trick of conflating rights with powers involves. There is no better time to be discussing these questions than in 2020.

For an example of the thinking that we politely disagree with, this recent podcast on human rights may also be of interest to our listeners as they consider our current episode: it goes into detail on the mediaeval Christian background of “natural rights” but sadly skips over immunity from theft and harm, in its haste to assert equal entitlement to positive goods — thereby tragically forming the very pretext for such theft and harm by modern governments.

Dissident's Guide to the Constitution Episode 3 — Rights

Self-government or the consent of the governed? One or other of these assumptions about democracy must be a sham if the other is valid. Either we are ruling ourselves, or someone else is ruling us, and one or other of these has to be the preferable model.

Democracy has been elevated to the status of an object of worship in recent decades, particularly in the English-speaking countries and in the discourse of the European Union, but it is accused by some dissidents of being a god that failed. Why is it that Homo democraticus tolerates no end of blatant corruption and has no qualms about the tyranny of the 51% over the 49%, as long as he is allowed to "have his say" in tokenistic votes choosing between increasingly pre-cooked outcomes? Is an "undemocratic upper chamber" (the accusation slung at the House of Lords in recent decades) an outrage or an intentional safeguard? How does the degenerate standard of British rhetoric in the "democratic" 2020s, and the political tolerance of dissent, compare with that of forty years ago?

Last episode, we considered several aspects of — and accurate names for — the distinction between immutable personal rights (immunities) and redefinable civil or civic rights (entitlements), and concluded that there was great tyrannical power in the deliberate obfuscation of these two fundamentally different categories. We now proceed further into the mirk and engage with the thinkers who have dared to question the axiomatic goal of democracy, considering seminal works by Hoppe, Hayek, Mises et al., Ferrara, Legutko, Barnett and Orbán. Just as Episode 1, on constitutional design, inevitably "did God", so this episode will surprise some by necessarily dwelling on economics and on the capture of thought-leadership channels, the media and academia, by a swelling government. After all, it is in those circumstances that dissidence becomes necessary.

Listeners who are keeping up with our book discussions might already wish to obtain a copy of Ben Greene's pamphlet The British Constitution and the Corruption of Parliament and an incisive review of its issues on the UK Column website by "A Musing Michael"; these sources will be the focus of Episode 5, Democracy — A "British Value"? (N.B.: due to the amount of material to discuss on democracy, we are again splitting the theme into two episodes, so the introductory section of this series will now be seven episodes long).

A Dissident's Guide to the Constitution: Episode 4 — Democracy: The Books

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