UK Column News - 15th December 2025

Good afternoon. Today is Monday the 15th of December 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your host, Ryan Garish, Delighted to have Ben Rubin with me in the studio. And we'll be joined by Sandy Adams, who's on Live link. Now. As always, UK columns got a busy news. We're just going to mention the attack on Bondi Beach, which of course, is going to dominate the news, no doubt in the Western Hemisphere, UK in particular, in the forthcoming days and weeks.

But we need to mention that those events have taken place. We're going to be having a look at Christian persecution in the world. We're going to be having it or you will be having a look, Ben, at the business of war. We're going to be looking at the home secretary's targeting of violence against women, followed by ladies in Red, which will be interesting. Ben see what comes out of that. Sandy will then be covering social control. Ben will be on the subject of AI and vibe coding.

And we're going to end with a very happy slide of the UK column team, which will help lift the mood. Now we know that things are pretty serious across the board in the country. We know people having difficulty watching the news because most of it is so dark that every adult man and woman in this country needs to understand what's happening. And the duty falls on us to help people through the labyrinth of policies that are happening.

But let's kick off with a little look at how the BBC came across

an amazing coincidence connected to Bondi Beach. Paddy, this has been one of those mornings where a dark event suddenly emerges and will dominate the news probably for the rest of today, probably for the rest of tomorrow. And it was one of those days we were about to go on air. We started getting reports in of a multiple shooting on Bondi Beach in Australia, one of those famous places in the world. By complete coincidence, one of our guests was Layla Cunningham,

who's a reform politician. We told her what was happening. She then said her nephew lived there. She got him on the phone and he told her. And she then told us live on air, within a few minutes, there was an active situation. There were shots ringing out. He was a Doctor Who was on his way from a neighbouring beach 10 minutes away to go to try to help. And since then, some of the videos, some of the eyewitnesses accounts that have been coming out are absolutely horrific.

As we talk at 10:50 on Sunday morning, a lot of things are still evolving. And we don't have the full story, but it very much appears as if this was an attack on a Jewish holiday, a Hanukkah event. Well, there we are. There's the report by Laura Kunzberg and what an amazing coincidence. So we're going to take the incident at face value.

Tragedy, people have been shot and killed, but what a coincidence that the BBC's got a guest, that guest had a relative that lives in the very place where the incident took place. Coincidence. They're medically trained in a coincidence that they were on their way to the very beach the incident had taken or the park that the incident taken place in. If we did calculation of odds on that, which I haven't done prior to today's news, but I know that

these are incredible odds. What's your thoughts? One of my thoughts about that, I mean, it's, it's incredible, isn't it? It's utterly incredible that the BBC should have a guest intimately linked not with the general subject, but the precise event that took place in the precise location precisely at the right time. Sandy, I'm watching your faces as we're moving into this. But it is quite incredible this BBC report.

And what what we haven't shown is that Laura went on to say that she's quite sure that events on Bondi Beach or to the side of it in the little park are going to dominate the news for days and weeks to come. And I think she's very accurate with that. But what's your thoughts on the clip, Sandy? Well, it, it, it does seem like an extraordinary set of coincidences really. And, you know, you have to look at this in perspective. It is awful that I think it was 12 people were shot.

Why will this be dominating for such a long time? I mean, it does seem, you know, there's, there's a lot else happening in the world and I'm not, I'm not, you know, diminishing anybody's, you know, sort of anybody's story of, of, of horror of that particular incident. But it just seems to me they're gearing it up to make it a really, really big thing. And they will do because the BBC

do this. And you know, you look at you look at the, you know, the statistics of, you know, what's happening in other places in the world and the, and the genocides going on. And they are going to make this a really big thing, I think. What do you think?

I think they're going to make it a huge thing and I think we are going to see a result in this country that we're going going to see a tightening up of protection for the Jewish community and we're going to see a greater clampdown on anybody speaking or criticising the Israeli government. But we'll leave that for future. UK column news reports.

Now, in contrast, you've got a section here about the persecutions of Christians and this is a subject which rarely comes up. Occasionally it gets a mention, but you've decided that today is is the day to have a look at this. Yes, I mean, it's, well, it's

coming up to Christmas mainly and more and more we're seeing Christianity being marginalised and it was persecuted. And in late November, the BBC reported that Northern Ireland, the Supreme Court had ruled that Christian focused religious education taught in Northern Irish schools was unlawful. And you know, this was a unanimous judgement allowed on appeal by an unnamed father and daughter from Northern Ireland.

Now, uh, this was sent to us by one of our, one of our, our viewers and, uh, she knows who she is. Thank you Christine. Um, you know, and she's, she's given us a citizen go link to, to so that one can challenge this appeal if you, if you want to. And that is in the show notes. If, if, if you wish to, I don't know if you have to be in Northern Ireland to do this. I'm not sure, but I doubt it. I think I would imagine because Northern Ireland is part of us, you'd be allowed to.

So I I just feel that that there is a big thing with Christianity, but worse than that, all over the world Christians are being persecuted, particularly in Nigeria. And when we hear about religious persecution around the world, our minds often go to minorities in Muslim majority countries or to Buddhists or Hindus or other minority faiths under pressure.

But there there is. It's seldom spoken about the the millions of Christians globally who are enduring persecution, harassment, violence, imprisonment and even death simply for their faith. And we've got here around, you know, the the persecution of Christians worldwide has gotten worse, a papal charity report says. According to recent reports by global Christian Charities, the situation is worsening. Violations against Christians increased in nearly 2/3 of 18 countries studied.

In fact, a 2024 to 2025 assessment found that around 365,000,000 Christians worldwide are subject to high levels of persecution. And we've got here the the House of Commons library actually had a debate on it and and they looked at the the World Watch List. Now, according to Open Doors, a Christian charity that monitors persecution around over I think it's about 380 million Christians faced persecution in 2024, with 4766 killed and 4744

imprisoned. So that's a heck of, you know, that's a really big number of, of, of Christians, you know, being persecuted. They now open doors really have gone into this deeply. They've created the world watch list with areas in red, as you can see on on the map here,

areas in red. There's seventeen of them and the the the, the, the countries are North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Mali, Algeria, Iraq and Myanmar. Now these are these are the ones that are, are pretty, pretty bad for persecution.

Whereas the orange ones, I think that's a bit less that that's 33 countries and they include, I won't read the list because there's 33 of them, but it's, it's countries like China, Burkina Faso, euthanasia, Vietnam, Jordan, Malaysia, Turkey. So that's a heck of a lot of an area of the world where Christians are simply being persecuted. So the 2025 annual report work was created. This is the Commission on the the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

And their publication has a worrying list. They've created their own list, really. And the plight of the most persecuted Christians has been widely ignored except for the the Catholics and the the Anglicans have been flagging it up just recently. So the next slide is really what the, what this, this the, the religious freedom, the international religious freedom groups. And they've got a whole other list of countries which are pretty bad as well.

But obviously Nigeria is seems to be top of the top of the list. Now that site that, that's been a silence really throughout the whole world about Christian persecution. But that silence was challenged recently when on the 19th of November, the bells of Clifton Cathedral rang in support of persecuted Christians worldwide and Southwark Cathedral as well. So it was, it was called Red Wednesday and they held these events all over the, the UK.

The Christian Church did, whether it was Anglican or Catholic, so the they called it read Wednesday and and it was held by the aid to church in need, the ACN. And it was it was Bishop Bosco in in Bristol. He he held he's Bosco McDonald, his name is. He held a special mass at Clifton Cathedral calling on Christians in the UK and beyond to unite in prayer with our suffering brothers and sisters in Christ. It was a simple gesture, you know, liturgy, prayers and

support, but deeply meaningful. And Southwark Cathedral held events for Red Wednesday on the 19th of November as well. Now in a world where Christian persecution is growing from extreme extremist violence in Africa to oppressive regimes in Asia, in the Middle East, this mass reminds us that there there's, there's not distant stories. They're human lives and they, they deserve our awareness.

And I've got another slide here from, from Southwark Cathedral where they actually called it Team Red, where they were really going for, for the whole, the whole thing of, of supporting the, the Christians in, in need. Now in many countries that, you know, they face, they face violence even for just daily worship or, or, or owning a Bible. I've got another slide here from, oh, next one now it's

fine. I've got Southwark Cathedral and, and their whole way of, of, of really putting this in the forefront of, of Christian prayer and Mass. That was in Southwark Cathedral. Yeah, we've, we've got a whole load of, of, of Christians really being persecuted, uh, you know, from diverse cultures, ethnicities, ages and countries they're suffering covers, you know, different borders and races. Umm, and the moral challenge remains, if we defend religious freedom only selectively, we, we

betray that principle itself. Now I've got a video video here from Bernard Tutunji, who's a from Sydney and he works for the Aid to Church in need Australia. Now just listen to what's happening in Nigeria and it's quite shocking. Thank you. Nigeria today is an epicentre of Christian martyrdom. Since the year 2000, more than 60,000 Christians have been murdered by Islamist groups like Boko Haram, heavily armed Fulani militia.

Our organisations 2023 report I mentioned places Nigeria firmly in the red category, meaning it's it's persecution. It's not just discrimination. You know what makes Nigeria unique is that Christians are not even a tiny minority. They make up almost half the population, 100 million people, if they live as if they're second class citizens, especially in the north. The Nigerian government's failed to take any meaningful action to present attack, prevent attacks

and the violence is relentless. In the new state alone, one diocese recorded 93 villages attacked, 330 farmers killed in just a year. This past June, A couple months ago, another attack in Bennu, A gunman raided a town, killed 100 people, forced 4000 to leave. And not just killings, Gabriella. We're Speaking of abductions, burned villages, destruction of churches, millions forced into camps where they lack even the basics.

And every single gene day, Nigerian Christians wake up to the fresh news of kidnappings or attacks. It's not sporadic. It's systematic. It's targeted. It's gone on for decades with little accountability. Yes, and guess who hasn't said a word? The so called head of our our Christian Church in in England, the Church of England, who has a lot to say about climate change in the World Economic Forum, but not a word about persecuted Christians. There we are. Thank you very much for that.

And just to clarify, the International Red Wednesday was November 2024 and the Clifton Report, if I remember correctly, was 2015. So just just to clarify that. But nevertheless, this subject sits under the surface and a lot more needs to be done to bring it to the fore. But war is not a problem, Ben. It's a racket, so they say, and

I think we're about to find out why. So yes, the city, the banks and the British deep state of banging the war drums and we're better to find out about it than over at Rothschild and Co from Mark Saidwell he says we are at war just last week, this event, just not conventional warfare. Conflict now sits in the grey zone. Peace is war. Exactly right, yes. So this is echoing the integrated operating concept, this idea that the frontline is actually in the barracks now.

And the public's the. Enemy, exactly, yes, now, said Will, former head of the civil service. We'll come back to him a little bit more later because he's a crucial player in all of this. But if we can just flash that back up, we can see that he is now and was immediately having left the civil service, the chair of geopolitical advisory at Rothschild and Co. So this is big business in conflict and an enormous racket for international capital.

The event was run by the London Defence Conference. It's their investment forum held at the Rothschild and Co offices in the City of London last week. And you can see here one of their senior analysts, Olivier Brochet, chairing a panel discussing the opportunity for investors throughout the capital stack. Opportunity to invest in death. Absolutely. Yes, carnage and death.

Exactly. So that's from seed funding all the way through to institutional investment funds, pension funds, all the different, the full spectrum of risk appetite across the capital stack, how they can all invest in and potentially make enormous amounts of money from conflict. Ultimately that's what this is all about.

We had various other representatives of the British civil service, this chap, Angus Lapsley, the UK permanent representative to NATO, he's been buried in Whitehall for 40 years and then gets put into this plum job at NATO. And he's there saying, and the defence sector in Europe is going to be bigger, change faster and require more investment for a generation. It's an entire generation of investment regardless of when and how Russia's war against

Ukraine ends. Obviously he has to present this as as Russia's war against Ukraine and then he goes on. Not shown on the screen here, but the quote continues to say there will not be a neat distinction between defence investment and wider needs. Alongside the traditional defence primes, we will need growth, innovation and planning for resilience from a whole range of sectors including tech, telecommunications, transport, energy, civilian space and

health. So the entire economic system and the whole of society is being placed on a war footing by these fellows. These men sitting around conference rooms in the City of London who most people have never heard of, are certainly unelected and are deeply conflicted I would say, in terms of their interests. We also had the MP for Plymouth was there, we can bring that back home. We got Luke Pollard who's the Minister for Defence, Readiness and industry.

So he's working out how to put his snap in this through. We had the Lord Robertson, the former NATO secretary general and the UK defence secretary. So there's a top, top, top tier people. All the old names still there, still in the wings, now coming forward for their share. A piece of the cake. Absolutely. Neil Ferguson, or Niall Ferguson, who is basically the historian of choice for the Anglo American establishment. He's a Harvard professor who's involved in the ARC programme.

He's also a member of the Group of 30, which is the kind of top tier of the central banking cabal, people who coordinate policy across all of the central banks. He's in that group. He's there representing those interests at this event at Rothschild and Co. And then this is all, of course, not just about war. It's about deterring war, you see. So bring said Will back on screen, He's chairing a panel discussion about building a modern deter a war economy.

So the best way to deter a war is to spend billions in building weapons and other infrastructure required to fight armed conflict. Yeah, sums it up quite nicely, doesn't it? I think we've seen all the key players, what they're up to, what the incentives are just in that little snapshot from that event last week. But key people coming to the fore now. So we've we've seen the racket and the war and obviously everybody providing ammunition, munitions, war supplies.

The longer the war in Ukraine goes on, the more money that's made under the surface, the assets of Ukraine, the the grain, the food supplies and also the rare earth minerals raped. So this is big, big profits for the big players. Absolutely. And now they're becoming visible. It was Black Rock in the beginning and now we're into the banking boys that actually fund organisations. Yes, such as Black Rock, Exactly.

And this completely symbiotic relationship between the banks, the City of London and the British civil service, deep state, the remnants of the empire. Ultimately, that's what we're talking about here, Ryan. So we actually take a look at Sedwell. He's a perfect example of this civil service into the City of London grandy type individual who has extraordinary amount of power and influence but no one has ever heard of unless you watch programmes like the UK columns.

So who is he said? Well, so many years in the civil service. He actually ran the civil service. He was the cabinet secretary for a number of years left at the end of 2022. He was also through his career the national security adviser, the permanent secretary of the Home Office and also the British ambassador to Afghanistan had other advisory roles around NATO and and other organisations like that. Since leaving, he has picked up a number of extraordinarily

influential roles. He was deputy chairman of Lloyds of London Insurance Market, as we've touched on, he's chairman of global geopolitical advisory at Rothschild and Co. He's also the chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, IISS, which is basically the think tank for

the military industrial complex. So they do all the long range strategic planning about where walls are going to pick up and where they're going to kick off around the world and what the industry needs to do in order to capitalise on that. Ultimately, it's what they're up to. And he's also been to the Bilderberg meetings at least once. He was in 2022 while he was still running Cabinet Office. We're still running the UK civil

service, right? And, and so you can just see here this this collection of influences and connections coalescing around Said Will and as an extension of Said Will, the Lords and the top tier of the British establishment into international capital and the military industrial complex and how this whole thing is put together.

Basically, we'll put links to all of these organisations and some profiles we've said with and what have you should go and have a proper read through what what these organisations are up to. And I'll provide other links to these two videos. The first one is this one, which is a discussion that he had in his capacity at Lloyd's with Baroness Patricia Scotland while she was Secretary General of the Commonwealth. This is really revealing.

Actually, she describes the Commonwealth as a Petri dish that you can grow almost anything in. You come up with solutions that work not just for the Commonwealth, but for everybody and actually the Commonwealth, which essentially revealing there is that the Commonwealth is one of the main mechanisms through which Britain or the remnants of the British Empire continues to the geopolitical power into the UN and other bodies through the Commonwealth.

Essentially it's a way of kind of reputation washing the British establishment saying Oh no, we did it with the Commonwealth. And and of course we got King, King Charles especially interested in the power of the Commonwealth through the power of the the growing population of young people in the Commonwealth. So yes, the Commonwealth almost seen as a as a parallel vehicle to the power of the European Union, but obviously controlled by Britain. Yes, exactly.

And then a final one which you should certainly go and have a look at is this, which is Sidwell's Oxford Union speech from October 2020. Well, he basically stands up. This is right in the middle of all the lockdowns that he was responsible for overseeing or part of the team and, and basically says what we know by 2050. And then he just lists out all of the biggest things that are definitely going to happen, According to him. So it's going to be about climate change, climate, what he

calls volatility. And that might involve the UK getting colder, not necessarily warmer as well. Quite interestingly, he talks about demographic shifts in every part of the world. We're going to have ageing populations. The UK is going to have the largest population in Europe, apparently bigger than Germany by by 2050. Like how we're going to be able

to feed ourselves, I don't know. We're going to we're going to see significant migration flows from north north from sub Saharan Africa. He talks about the fourth industrial revolution, the inevitable destruction of white collar jobs. And then also this idea that competition and conflict are going to become multi domain. So health, democracy, cyber, information warfare are all going to be part of this new conflict environment.

And what he doesn't say, but I guess he's, you know, hidden in the background, is the fact that Rothschild and Co and people like that are going to make him pack. It off the back of the may hammer the chaos. Exactly. And thank you very much really important segment because this is talking about where real policy comes from. This is the rules based international order at work. This is where the policy is coming that then philtres through UK government.

So the illusion of democracy and, and laws and, and that proper governance of the country coming through Parliament is clearly a nonsense now in 2025. And your description is, is setting the scene for where policy is coming. Now part of that policy is absolutely the drive for AI.

There was a demonstration in London on Saturday. Not a huge demonstration, I understand, but Will Coleshill was there to report for UK columns. So let's have a look at what he had to say. Hello, this will go to Reporting for UK column today I'm down here outside the BBC Portland Place, the Eric Gill statue right behind me. And today I'm reporting on the digital ID protests massive that's going on down here in London. So why are you out here today

then? I'm out here today because I believe in fighting for our liberty and our democracy, and I think that digital ID is completely against that and it curbs our rights and our freedoms. Came to all the things before with the backseat, what have you, but just the digital ID in the control network that's closing and for our grandchildren. Shortest future? Just watching the way things are going, you know, since Kovid freedoms are being

systematically dismantled. And yeah, we're we're seeing that everything is just going in One Direction. I'm brought out here today because this is the hill I'm willing to die on. If we let this pass, we become an open prison. Now, this is an important one. I mean, digital ID if we if we're forced into this, I mean, there is absolutely no freedom if they can do whatever they like with us. So it really is 1A bet we must

win. You know, it can lead to an authoritarian state, which is, I guess, the final. Goal. They'll be enforced by having a unified system of ID so that even your bank account is being monitored and money could be taken out of it if you do something wrong, like breaking your carbon footprint. Because it's nothing we don't need. We've never needed it before, and the plans to put it in place

are completely tyrannical. And it's there for monitoring and surveilling us in a way that nobody really wants to happen. We've. Never got passports, driving licence, first ticket. It's just, it's just bringing an Agenda 20-30. You know, we just have to look at the Agenda 30 actually for the UN, the United Nations, it's all there. You know, they want us to stay in these cities, these 15 minute cities. We shall, we own nothing, and we shall be happy.

If they have that information about you all in one place, then they can easily control and manipulate that information. They can make you do anything you like. They can stop you going places. They can stop you buying certain things if you you know, if you're writing certain things on the Internet. They can freeze your bank account, They could they can stop finances when if you if you oppose certain government policies, our.

Spending our travel, the climates, just everything, the food that you eat, how much you watch each day. They're going to base it off the Chinese social credit system that's already in place. And we already have a version of this with our credit scores where we're not allowed to have certain loans and we're not allowed to have certain credit. It'll be like that, but amplified.

And if you want some sort of demonstration on how this will work, then you'll need to watch the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror. Baby steps as they say, and before you know it will be locked in our houses or, you know, told where we can and cannot go. The main thing is they're rolling it out now. They're saying it's to stop so called illegal work and stuff

like that. You know, they give some, you know, bad reasons for it just to get the public on board and then they introduce something else and something else and before you know it you've lost all your freedoms. So. They're going to put penalties on people and punish people for not complying and I'm not being funny, but that it's never really a good thing, is it? And this is another thing about convenience.

They're gonna not force you to have it, but it'll be extremely inconvenient for you to exist in society without it. And that's how they're gonna try and trip us up. We know that they've already done the veterans cards for veterans and now they're trying to get everyone who's company director onto the government one login system. They're taking our biometrics and that's the key things.

If you give up your biometrics, the government creates a digital twin of you, something that represents you in the digital space, and you've got no control over what happens to that and how the government uses it and where that might end up do. You think that this is going to change people's minds coming out here today? Honestly, I don't know.

We've got a lot of people that understand what this means and a lot of people who think this is going to happen anyway no matter what we do. But that's the problem. It will happen if no one does anything. So you may as well stand up. You may as well say something just to say that you did and you have. Yeah, well, they didn't make any decisions on their quotes, but you know, talked the other day. So I think with the amount of people that are speaking up against this, there is hope.

Well, that's all I can say. There's hope, definitely. I mean, if you look around, like the streets are filled here. So definitely right. And it's about raising awareness. And I think that we can

definitely do that. I think a lot of people are aware of it. I mean, it was 3 million people that wrote, you know, signed the petition, wasn't it, to the Houses of Parliament. So yeah, people aren't waking up. Maybe they're not coming out on the streets, but a lot of people, a lot of people I know and I meet and come and say, you know, yeah, we agree with you. It's just that they don't feel powerful. They're going to try their hardest to implement it.

And we need to stand up and say, no, we're not doing it. We're not doing it, no. And that's what we need to. That's what the message is. Do not accept the digital ID, don't accept it Defiance. We're fighting for everyone's freedom. I just wish there are a few more people standing on their own. Well, an encouraging report by Will Coleshill there and I think the young lady said it all. Of course if people do nothing, these policies are absolutely

going to be implemented. So really wonderful to see the people that did attend and the fact they were also well informed speaking out in order to try and get this stopped. And good to see some of the smaller parties there, David Curtin from the Heritage Party, but also Piers Corbyn and Andrew Bridgen. Now, were there many mainstream media reports in UK on the day? I don't think so.

But This is why it's beholden on all of us, people who do understand what's going on to get out and spread the word to other people. Now let's move on with the

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yesterday. Thank you very much for that. So that will be available for people to look at. So keep your eyes open for that on UK column website. I'm getting ahead of myself there. Right, Let's come on to the subject of the Home Secretary

and the announcement that there's to be a massive effort to target violence and particularly sexual violence against women. So according to Shabana Mahmood, violence against women and girls is a national emergency. Now it's getting difficult to know where the emergencies are now because I thought it was Putin and the war in Ukraine, but apparently now women and girls have become the national

emergency. She went on to say that we, the government, have got a plan to set up specialist rape and sexual offence investigation teams in every police force in England and Wales by 2029. Now my comment on this is that of course sexual offences against women shouldn't be taking place, but it's very interesting that the government can set up teams to tackle this issue, but consistently they've failed to set up effective teams to tackle the horrific and

widespread abuse of children. So I have to be a bit cynical here because it seems to me that the real, real serious crime that against children who are unable to defend themselves at all, the government doesn't want to get to grips with. But suddenly they've moved on to this area of the women. So if we add a little bit more, apparently the plan is to halve the violence against women and girls within a decade.

Now, I'm going to take a little bit of a different look at this because the circumstances that we live in today, the violence against women, what does this actually mean? Where's it come from? What is it being generated by? I think we need to have a wider and a deeper look. We can only do part of that in the news. But if we go into some of the statistics, of course, something we should flag up straight away. Is it as a result of violence?

Who gets hurt most by violence? Well, in fact that's men, if we can pop this one up on screen. So men are more at risk of violence, but women are more at risk of sexual violence, and this is a key thing. So they're going for the sexual violence, but the government is not interested about the greater risk of general violence to men, which is interesting.

Then the BBC really gets into the weeds here because it gives us a headline saying that in this policy, which is about sexual violence against women, boys are to be targeted. And essentially the plan which is VAWG, violence against women and girls. The strategy is going to be built around three goals, preventing the radicalisation of young men, stopping abusers and supporting victims.

And I'm going to flag up straight away, we know what's going to happen here, which is that young boys are going to be absolutely targeted to be reframed that they don't go near girls. And of course, where does that lead? That is going to lead into further breakdown in later life when as adults they should be forming relationships with girls. But let's take a little look about the female side itself.

And I think, yes, this could be a bit controversial to some members of our audience, but I think we need to dig into this area, as some people would say. And this is one of the killer headlines. So it's the Manchester Evening News. And the headline is beautiful ladies losing control in Manchester. Viral nightlife video trends, disturbing new turn. So what is this article about? Well, there's an embedded video. This is just a screenshot of the opening frame of that video.

But what I wanted to highlight to people is it says vulnerable women filmed on a night out in Manchester. Vulnerable women filmed in a night out in Manchester. So let's just play a little bit of video. I'm going to talk over this as it plays and let's just have a look at at the video itself. And I'll just say to Chris, the video we should be playing is the next one. So the embedded one I can see on screen. I'm not I'm not sure that is going to be the right video

then. So let's see what what you should see is a street scene. I'll just wait and see whether we can key that video up. This is it. So let's play this and it'll become apparent to the audience. What's what's actually going on here? So if we bring that on. So this is what late night looks like with these vulnerable young ladies on the on the streets.

And I think we could start to ask some questions about what exactly these young ladies are doing, why they feel the need to be dressed like this sat in the gutter because they're too drunk to stand up. This is just a tiny snapshot of what's going on in UK and in UK cities. And of course the police have to deal with the fallout of this. But these are women who are being described as vulnerable.

And I think it's reasonable to say to the audience, are we looking at vulnerable young ladies or are we looking at misguided young ladies in not only where they are, how much they've had to drink, but also how they're dressed? Now let's see how the Chief Inspector Stephen Wiggins of Greater Manchester Police, let's see how he commented on the fact

these videos have been taken. And what takes place is that they are concerned about the fact that a male was on the street taking video of young ladies in this condition. So as far as the police are concerned, the focus is simply on the people who took the video. And Stephen Wiggins says we're aware that concern over a number of online accounts filming women on nights out has been raised on

social media. We take the safety of women and girls incredibly seriously, including within the city centre's nightlife, and would encourage anyone who believes that they or others are being stalked or roused up, skirted or filmed in a manner which is causing them alarm or distress. So please speak to our officers on the ground or report fire and 999 or 101 services. And I'll just give the the last bit here. Women and girls should be able

to feel safe on a night out. So I would reiterate that anyone with concerns should contact police immediately so appropriate action can be taken. And perhaps a key question is, are these vulnerable and they were described as beautiful as well? Are these vulnerable, beautiful ladies accountable for their physical condition and their dress code? Or are they simply allowed to do whatever they like and the consequences fall on the police and wider society? Now, I know I'm raising some

serious questions here. We'll certainly discuss this more in extra after today's UK column news, but we will certainly be digging deeper into this issue. We'll also be looking both sides of the equation, women and men. But today we've taken a focus on the women. Now let's look at what we saw on the streets there against the budget which we raised a couple of of days ago, where in the budget one of the key things that came up was benefits for

families. And this was going to place a burden of another 3 billion on the country. But I'm going to ask the question, It was described as child poverty, but are we really looking at child poverty or are we looking at breakdown of the family? If we get into some of the statistics? And I've deliberately used AI to assist me here because as as our regular news viewers will know, we are looking at the accuracy of AI and we're also pointing out it's weaknesses.

But here we had to go to an AI system because statistics can be quite difficult to find without a little bit of help. And the key part that came out was that we don't know how many mums are on benefits overall, but when we got deeper in, then we do get some statistics. So the key thing is roughly 1.2 to 1.4 million single mother households were on benefits. And if we get into more of the detail, there are 3.2 million lone parents, there are 2.7 million single mothers.

And here out of those single mothers, 1.1 to 1.35 million are never married. Now why is this significant? Because if we label this, of course, with a single mother, there's no fathers as role models for the boys. Yet we can see the BBC is indicating that the the country, the system is absolutely going to target boys because they're deemed as as the problem with the violence against the women.

So we've got a number of things going on, but we can be sure that the BBC is not going to dig deeper into this very critical social, these social problems. Now the other thing I'm just going to flag up and again, I know this is going to be quite a motive to some, probably some ladies in the audience. But when you look at statistics for partnerships of women 25 to 34, and I've taken this report here, which is a combination of of universities, it says that at least 30% of the women had at

least 10 sexual partners. If we go on to other studies here, and this is you, Gov 2023, it's saying that the average woman in their study had three lifetime partners. But let's put a label across this and we can apply it to both men and women. Is there a connection between promiscuity partners and the failure and the number of partners? Beg your pardon. And the failing stability of partnerships and marriage.

And of course the inference in the Home Office is that a large percentage of the violent and sexual incidents against women is happening within the home. So for the UK column team, at least, it seems worthwhile. We should be looking at the whole problem as to what's happening here and not just following the Home Office's blanket concern, violence against women. It's come out of nowhere. Women not accountable in any way for what's actually happening on

the streets. Lot to discuss and we'll have a look at this a little bit more in extra time. Now, Ben, by pure coincidence, your next topic was Lady in Red

and. Ladies. Ladies in Red, Yes. Absolutely for there are there are many of them and they're not vulnerable which I think. These are the exact other end of the spectrum because these are immensely wealthy and very powerful women. Indeed, yes. Well, we're not going to start with them, we're going to start with this fella.

This is Andrew Bailey and most people will know, I guess certainly if you're watching this, that he's the Governor of the Bank of England, but he's also a member of the Fabian Society. He was the chair of the Fabian Society at Cambridge when he studied there.

Also remember the G30, the Group of 30 I mentioned earlier, who are the group of central bankers set up by the Rockefeller family in the late 1970s to help align and coordinate global Financial Policy. And he's also the chairman of the Financial Stability Board, the FSB, which is just another one of these global entities that is there to harmonise and align the policies of the central banks around the world and basically dictate terms to international governments and

the global population. Because the central banks are the absolute focal point for the control mechanisms are being brought through for things like the central bank, digital currency, CDC. And this is completely, 100%, totally aligned to the Fabian agenda. If we can get that back on screen quickly. Let's just let's just reinforce this point.

Yeah. Because people seem to think, you know, certainly on the left hand side, as they would define it, of the political equation that Fabian socialism or even just socialism generally is some kind of counter to the banks and the city and international capital. But that's not the case at all. Yeah. So government policy, Fabian policy is central bank policy. There's absolutely nothing between them at all.

And the Fabians have been right at the forefront of of progressing this socialist agenda in the UK since in 1884. And this, they've published many pamphlets on this. This one has has caught my attention over the past few weeks, came out in 2023, which talks to this exact issue, right. It's called In Tandem. We'll provide a link to it and go and have a look.

And in this they argue for the creation of an Economic Policy Coordination Committee, or EPCC, comprising the UK Treasury and Business Department, the devolved governments, the Bank of England and then our various infrastructure banks, national investment banks, what have you, in the climate change committees

in there as well. So what they're talking about doing, and remember this is the Fabian Society, who of which the Prime Minister and most of the Cabinet are members, as well as the governor of the Bank of England, as we've just pointed out, are looking to merge and integrate the Treasury and the Bank and also a whole bunch of other departments and particularly the devolved government. So we've been talking about a lot recently.

We're going to be the dissemination point for this global policy agenda out into the country, essentially completely short circuit in Westminster and what we, what we believe to be our, our model of governance, right. So this is absolutely at the centre of this. And, and Andrew Bailey is an extraordinarily powerful and essential figure in this whole agenda. As I said, he's the governor of the Bank of England, He's the chair of the SS, the FSB is a member of the Fabian Society.

And yet you can come across pictures like this, and this is where the Ladies in Red come in because that's Andrew Bailey on the left there. And we've got this woman in red on the right hand side. And this I wanted, I had an inkling that I needed to talk about Andrew Bailey. So maybe something's going to happen and we'll certainly come back to him and this this issue in our reporting next year.

This is one of the photos that most struck me this year from my travels across the Internet, right? Look at the body language here. This woman on the right hand side, she appears to have him in submission. Be in control. Yes, he looks. He looks like a naughty little boy being scolded. And his hand on the table seems a very strange configuration here. So the question is, who is that? But I can tell you that that's Julie Teaglund from EY, my alma

mater, or I used to work. She's the global vice chair of alliances and ecosystems. I call her overgrouping Fiora Teaglund because I think it's quite fitting and there's another shot of her here. She's at this event. This is in the in Washington DC, the World Bank spring meetings and it was attended by, amongst other people, the head of the UN Development Programme and Andrew Bailey, as we've talked about. And this is this is where the real big decisions are made.

This is where policy is disseminated, where the direction is set. She's talking about no longer navigating episodic change. We're operating in a time of permanent disruption, permanent disruption, and it's being driven down from the top by ladies like that. So she was chairing this meeting alongside this other lady in red. I don't know who that is, but the whole thing is being chaired by ladies in red and you see this occurring again and again and again across the civil

service, across the city. And I think there's something in it. I don't know exactly what, but my interest has been piqued. There's something in it, and one thing we can be sure of, that these ladies in red don't have any concern for those poor young women who were drunk on the streets of the major cities. So what a contrast between the destruction of the family life and those young girls.

Presumably nobody taught them to do anything better than they're doing and, and and all of the tragedy that unfolds from that sort of lifestyle. And then we have the contrast with these immensely powerful women. We will talk a lot more about this in in extra, but thank, thank you for that. Ben. Sandy, let's bring you back in. My goodness, there's so much

happening in this country at the moment. It's difficult to know quite where to go and we've never got enough time on the news. But take us on to a bit more about what you're seeing happen. Well, I mean, I, I was looking at the the budget a few weeks ago and another lady in red, Rachel Reeves, the budget was very much about dependency, about benefits and dependency. And it actually worked out that actually it's cheaper to go on benefits than it is to work.

Now. What kind of society is that? And it's all framed around, you know, a single assumption that more people would depend on the state for longer and at greater cost and rising benefits. Dependency is no longer treated as a warning sign. It's presented as inevitable, the unavoidable response to a permanent crisis. And this is what seems to be happening now.

There's a political theory that developed decades ago that treats this outcome not as failure but as strategy, and it's called the Cloward Piven Strategy. Now, a lot of people have said to me, why haven't I mentioned it before? I've. I learnt about it quite a while ago. And the original idea, the Cloward Piven strategy, comes from this 1966 article, The Nation Magazine, which was written by sociologists. I think we had it up a moment ago. Yeah.

And it was. It was, it was written by sociologist, uh, Richard Cloward and Francis fox Π Piven. They were a married couple, umm, and they both studied at, umm, Columbia University. Their argument was direct. They believed that welfare systems were deliberately kept limited to preserve social order and that meaningful reform would never come through debate or gradual change.

Umm instead, they proposed in, you know, encouraging maximum legal participation in welfare, pushing this the systems beyond capacity. Now we've got a picture to hear of of Howard, not Howard. Richard Cloward. And and and then his wife is, is. Yeah, there she is. Is. Yes. Is Rachel Piven. Well, their reasoning was simple. They overloaded the system to create crisis and enforce central government, to expand welfare and authority. In their view, crisis was not something to avoid.

It was the mechanism of change. And we, they keep talking about change. So the cloud Piven logic reverses that idea. In this framework, high dependency is not failure. Um, and it's administratively used to overload a system and long term reliance on the state increases political leverage. Now this is, it becomes dependency stops being temporary.

It becomes a sort of structural way of, of dealing with things and, and it becomes a whole thing instead of being a temporary fix for people, it becomes a way of living, which is not good for society. And this is where this is what we're seeing now where, where people are long term dependent

on the state. But it fulfils the whole agenda for, for, for technocracy and everything that they've got coming because it means that that, you know, recent budgets expand the means tested, support monitoring and conditionality, all that kind of thing. So they, they just keep, keep this whole dependency machine going. And what's presented as compassion also becomes governance by necessity. And that's a bit of a problem.

So, you know, it sent incentives to work, weaken family stability, declines community responsibility, roads and social trust breaks down also. So the, you know, the damage isn't evenly shared. So we've got a dependency which leads to breakdown. Breakdown justifies expansion and extent expansion deepens the dependency. So it's all this like this awful cycle. Interestingly, Cloud Piven was never, it was never about shrinking the state. It was about expanding it.

So and today that expansion takes on the, the technocratic form. Now we mustn't forget that Columbia University was the, the hotbed in the 1960s of technocracy and before actually right, even before the 1960s, you know, you had all the, all the major technocrats went there, Amitayat Sione, who was, you know, the whole thing with communitarianism and social policy, but, and social

engineering as well. So, so you've got this, you know, these, these systems that strain governments and introduce digital benefits platforms, algorithmic eligibility, eligibility cheques, behavioural conditions, all that kind of thing. So these are, these are presented as efficiency solutions. Now what I've got here is I, I, you know, it's not about whether society would help the vulnerable, it's about whether permanent dependency is being normalised as a method of

governance. And that's, that's really what we're seeing. So I've got a, a video here really, and it's from back to front in 2020. And it just shows you how dependency has eroded society in America, in certain areas of America, particularly poor black areas. So if we could run that video.

You see the new left and and almost specifically one of the professors in this building, Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward in their book regulating the poor and in their movement as a almost prime movers in this disintegration of the black community in one sense and the rise of this, this healing or this this paradigm of therapeutic alienation. Francis Fox Pivot and Richard Cloward created so much black pain and it's really a shame how little this is known.

It's very simple. The idea that there could be a kind of welfare policy where generation after generation stayed on it and nobody cared whether the people got a job and you were paid for having kids didn't exist until the late 60s. A lot of people seem understandably to think that that's the way welfare always was. It was that play for a good 30 years that only started then.

There's a reason why when you read a novel about the black poor in in say the 1930s or 40s, that welfare is generally mentioned once or twice. It was hard to get on it barely paid you enough to eat, and social workers were always trying to get you off it and discounted for whites as well as blacks. So there's more I'm talking about. Welfare is a racial issue in the 30s or 40s, but starting in the late 60s, welfare was expanded by those Columbia social workers.

Their idea was benevolent. They were trying to create a guaranteed income. But that didn't happen, and it left black communities where it was possible to spend your life if you were a woman living on welfare and to spend your life making children you didn't have to take care of if you were a man. You couldn't do that in 1958 because the government wasn't going to take care of the kids.

So the issue is not that black people were somehow evil to go on the welfare, if it was offered, of course, that every third person took it. That's human nature. But if that welfare hadn't existed, the black community today would be much more coherent than it was. There's no such thing as whole communities where having a father was strange until welfare was changed that way. It was one of the most important aspects of black history, what those people did to welfare legislation.

Although it should also be said that it was spearheaded by George Wiley, who was black. But still, it was a grievous, grievous wrong. And the people involved in that, even today, the ones who are alive have blood on their hands. And they had a more profound effect on the black community across this country than factories moving away or anybody using the word *** or any of the other things that we're trained

to think more about. So, you know, once the society is governed by dependency and emergency, independence itself starts to look like a bit of a problem. So Sandy, we will keep the little bit on assisted dying for extra. It does dovetail into the report that you've just made, but we're looking at the clock a little bit. So we'll we'll keep that for for UK column news extra. Are we on track with the vibes? Ben is the key question. Well, I'm hoping you can help me

out with that actually Brian vibe coding. Go on. What is it? What do you reckon? I think it's the use of art artificial. You can read the next slide coming up. You're cheating at. Least we've got a a proper studio here queued up, so I'm pretty confident I know. OK, so this is the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code. And it is the word of the year 2025. Isn't that exciting? Where AI meets authenticity as

society shifts, it's nothing. It's not social engineering, Brian. That's definitely not what it is. Tired of wrestling with syntax? Just go with the vibes. That's the essence of Vibe Coding, Collins's Word of the Year 2025, a term that captures something fundamental about our evolving relationship with technology. Coined by this guy Andre

Carpathy, who's AI pioneer apparently and part of the Open AI. Original team. There's a new kind of coding I call Vibe Coding. This is the original tweet from February this year where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LMS are getting too good. I feel like you've been in, but you might be vibe coding soon. Brian, you've been using Chatter GPT quite a lot of notice. Do you think you're going to

vibe code over Christmas? I'm pretty confident I won't be, I'm pretty pleased to tell you that. But yes, chap GBT was in my mind as you're talking about this, because UK Column viewer sent in some challenges they had made to ChatGPT where they'd quickly got another admission of bias in the system. And I'll try and bring that on to UK Column News possibly at the end of the week. We'll, we'll see. But thank you very much to the viewer who sent that in. Yes, as I think there's nothing

but bias in those systems. So they're really pushing this. They're trying to make it a cultural phenomenon. And there was this thing that came out as well a few months ago, The Way of Code, The timeless Art of vibe coding made by Uncle Rick, Rick Rubin and includes such such gems as the Vibe Coder builds without labouring, which is basically the big lie of all this technology. You bet you won't have to do anything. You don't have to learn anything.

You just speak to the machine and it will do everything that you need to do. And and and it's all part of this drive towards merging humanity with technology and artificial intelligence in particular. And I just think that they're on a hiding to nothing, unfortunately, because it's a bit like this. You try and mix oil and water. Yeah. So this is the vibe coding. That's the vibe coding. They're trying to shake it up and to make the things merge.

But actually they separate because they're fundamentally different. And of course, destroying language destroys the whole ability of humans to not only communicate, but properly interface with each other. So let us end with a positive note. Yes, this is a fun. This is a fun shot from the road trip to York, Brian, Sandy and me that I came across and I thought it was. It was, it was. That was a good day. It was a great weekend, yes. What we're really? Highlight what?

We're really saying to our audiences, although we have to deal with a huge amount of what can often be very dark, very stressful news, the key to dealing with it is to ensure that you stay happy and sane and upbeat.

And we'd like to reassure the audience that although we do appear very often serious in the way we report what's happening around, around us and worldwide, we still keep this baseline of of keeping ourselves fit, healthy and happy in order to deal with it. So we'd encourage the audience to do the same. We must end there. We're out of time. Huge thank you to everybody who's joined us for UK column News Today.

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