UK Column News - 24th September 2025

Good afternoon. It's Wednesday the 24th of September, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your host Mike Robinson, joining me live by Livelink. Today we have the UK columns, Charles Mallett and journalist and peace campaigner Vanessa Bailey. Welcome to the program, both Now, later in the program, Vanessa's going to have the latest from Lebanon. I'm going to covering the recognition of Palestine by the

United Kingdom and others. And Charles is going to be reporting on connections between the migrant issue in the UK and digital ID. But we're sadly going to have to begin with the United Nations General Assembly, because yesterday Donald Trump spoke at the UNGA. It was mostly pretty obscene, actually. He began by blowing his own trumpet, if you know what I mean. And he was basically telling us all what a wonderful person he is. He stopped 7 wars, you know, and personally he stopped them.

He deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, but that's not why he's doing it. He's doing it. He's stopping all the wars to save lives, except in Gaza, of course. He's heavily, he heavily criticized the United Nations. And we can discuss this later, but perhaps with some justification. But he didn't mention systematic breaches of international law by the US, the UK, the EU and Israel over the years.

He was, however, very upset that the United Nations didn't give him $500 million to rebuild the UN building a number of years ago. That was very upsetting to him. He would have provided marble floors for that money. Instead, they spent billions and only got Toronto. So there you go. The speech lasted 57 minutes. It could have been delivered in five to seven minutes instead, because he was constantly repeating himself and migration in net zero policy was the crux of it.

Now in in fairness to him, he did make a couple of valid points. And the net zero point I think Charles will be covering in a minute was pretty much on the money as far as I was concerned at least. But there was also this on on Ukraine and specifically on the EU, which I think is is going to be an interesting, it's an interesting comment that he makes here. Let's have a listen to this. This war would never have started if I were president. This was a war that should have

never happened. It shows you what leadership is, what bad leadership can do to a country. Look what happened to the United States and look where we are right now in just a short period of time. The only question now is how many more lives will be needlessly lost on both sides. China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian

oil. But inexcusably, even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products, which, as you know, I found out about two weeks ago and I wasn't happy. Think of it. They're funding the war against themselves. Who the hell ever heard of that one?

In the event that Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the war, then the United States is fully prepared to impose a very strong round of powerful tariffs, which would stop the bloodshed, I believe, very quickly. But for those tariffs to be effective, European nations, all of you are gathered here right now, would have to join us in adopting the exact same measures. I mean, you're much closer to the city. We have an ocean in between. You're right there.

And Europe has to step it up. They can't be doing what they're doing. They're buying oil and gas from Russia while they're fighting Russia. It's embarrassing to them. And it was very embarrassing to them when I found out about it, I can tell you that. But they have to immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia, otherwise we're all wasting a lot of time. So Vanessa, maybe I could get a comment from you on that.

What? What did you what did you think of that particular comment from him? I can't, I mean, I don't know, I'm just speechless. I, you were better than me and the fact that you sat through the entire speech, but I mean, he's, he's just borderline insane. I, I don't know. I really, I honestly don't know what to say other than life has just become a theatre of the ridiculous as far as I'm concerned. Is that would you, would you

agree with that, Charles? Good afternoon, Mike and Vanessa, and good afternoon all to a point. Although what I would say, and this is not necessarily to slap him on the back, but it is to acknowledge that he is an absolute master at scoring points where they are readily there to be taken. And I think that's really what

he demonstrates. OK, as you say, he certainly took his time to do it. An awful lot of repetition and congratulating himself for stuff that he probably hasn't achieved and won't achieve, but never let that get in the way of a good

story. So I I think insofar as he fires the popular imagination, this in in some ways is a masterstroke because he has so many of these sorts of catchphrases that can be pulled out and shoved around the world on the Internet, social media and all the rest of it for time immemorial. Yeah, well, absolutely. But what was he talking about? He was talking about energy and net zero policy.

He was and and in a way, this was a a revisit of what he was bashing Keir Starmer over the head with on his previous visit. So not the state visit, but when he was in the UK in the summer, he had a very awkward press conference with Keir Starmer up in Scotland, in fact, on one of his own golf courses. And one of the things that he likes to talk about.

And again, going back to your point of finding it hard to disagree with this sort of thing, he puts out just enough truth to engage a certain percentage of the population, but also to set absolutely an equal and opposite force against him. But we'll just listen to what he had to say specifically on the idea of renewable. We're getting rid of the falsely named renewables, by the way. They're a joke. They don't work.

They're too expensive. They're not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. The wind doesn't blow. Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate, and they have to be rebuilt all the time and they start to rust and rot. Most expensive energy ever conceived. And it's actually energy. You're supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. You lose money. The governments have to subsidize.

You can't put them out without massive subsidies and most of them are built in China. And I give China a lot of credit. They build them, but they very few wind farms. So why is it that they build them and they send them all over the world, but they barely use them? You know what they use? Coal, they use gas, they use almost anything, but they don't like wind. But they sure as hell like

selling the windmills. Europe, on the other hand, is a long way to go, with many countries being on the brink of destruction because of the green energy agenda, and I give. So again, what he said can absolutely be found with the basis in fact. But the point is that it's Donald Trump saying it. And since the the climate alarmism lobby is well set against him for a whole host of other ideological reasons, this in in some ways does actually play into the renewable scam as he describes it.

So one has to be very careful when considering any information that's put out by Donald Trump in particular, because he is such a divisive figure. And with that in mind, we'll just go now to what he said about the the supposed basis, the scientific basis for the pursuit of renewable and indeed net zero in the first place, IE climate change. And I hope the Prime Minister is listening because I told it to him three days in a row, that's all he heard.

North Sea oil. North Sea. Because I want to see them do well. I want to stop seeing them ruining that beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels that go 7 miles by 7 miles, taking away farmland. But we're not letting this happen in America. In 1982, the executive director of the United Nations Environmental Program predicted that by the year 2000, climate change would cause a global catastrophe.

He said that it will be irreversible, as any nuclear Holocaust would be. This is what they said at the United Nations. What happened? Here we are. Another UN official stated in 1989 that within a decade, entire nations could be wiped off the map by global warming. Not happening. You know, it used to be global cooling. If you look back years ago in the 1920s and the 1930s, they said global cooling will kill the world. We have to do something. Then they said global warming

will kill the world. But then it started getting cooler. So now they could just call it climate change because that way they can't miss climate change because if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell happens. This climate change, it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. Climate change, no matter what happens, you're involved in that.

Now whether those are his actual thoughts or not is beside the point, but they do do exactly what they're designed to do, which is to polarize and give people exactly as he articulates. Give people the feeling of helplessness because of this fundamental problem.

Either because you believe that the climate is boiling or whatever it's supposed to be doing, or you know that it's complete nonsense and you're seeing all the taxpayers money go into destroying the landscape in the name of apparently protecting it. But with that in mind, we should consider an announcement, for example, by Defra, which has just gone out about the water consumption and we see, you know, a way to apparently reduce bills.

But of course, actually it doesn't deal with the possibility that one might take control of 1's own water supply. And this is something I've talked about with regard to mosquitoes and how colonial administrations dealt with it. And from the erstwhile Public Health England, we go back to 2018 to look at their policy on mosquitoes in the garden and indeed a specific bit about the storage of water and how that

presents a hazard. And of course, in these days of bio security, it's very easy to see how that could be jacked up into something that creates much more fear. And just to draw this out and conclude it, I will just remind you that the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which is going through Parliament at contains absolutely no provision whatsoever for the harvesting of water in the new development or development of housing, either individually or collectively.

Which means that there will be a constant push to surrender water for AI and data centres, but never ever to take control of it yourself. Yeah, Charles, thank you very much for that. Now, Vanessa, Trump obviously

was grabbing the headlines yesterday at the UNGA, but he wasn't the only thing that was going on there. And for the last couple of days, Gilani, in fact, was making an appearance. So what happened there? Yes, well, apparently the first Syrian President to attend the UNGA in New York for almost 6 decades. The fact that he's an unelected president, he's formerly ISIS and Al Qaeda had a bounty of 10 million on his head and according to the establishment narratives, his group was

responsible for the twin towers. So quite extraordinary that he's seen arriving and receiving red carpet treatment while in fact back in Syria, the massacres continue.

The following video is of the current wildfires that have been raging for the last three days across Wadi Nasara, which is basically translated as the Valley of the Christians, which is an area to the South of Homs. Beautiful area where historic churches and and cultural edifices and and infrastructure are now in danger of being destroyed.

And of course, what we're hearing are reports from inside Syria that HDS themselves started the fires by dropping the thermal incendiary bombs by drones, just as they've done previously in Latakia, according to reports from people on the coast, of course, majority Alawites that have been ethnically cleansed since Geolani came to power.

And here we have some pretty dreadful footage of Geolani arriving at the UNGA, the bustle of bodyguards around all of them looking extremely tack fairy like to me. And he arrives with full pomp and ceremony, you know, touching his hand to his heart as if he has one.

While he enters the UNGA. He met with Marco Rubio, of course, Trump's point man in the Middle East, along with many others, of course, and one of the priorities of their discussion is the security agreement between Israel and Syria. That, of course, is one of the tasks that Jolani was given once he came to power by the US and

the entire Zionist bloc. A special event which I haven't had the stomach to watch yet but I will do was for the Middle East Institute to host Jolani and none other than Charles Lister. Of course. Charles Lister, a member of the Mei who invented the 70,000 moderate rebels. The the the narrative that was picked up at the time by David Cameron to excuse the funding of the terrorist groups in Syria to bring down the former Syrian

government. And then of course, he had an A very friendly chat with ex CIA chief General Petraeus, who hails the former al Qaeda leader for clear vision in Syria. I'm not quite sure how these people can utter such phrases when an ongoing massacre of the Syrian people is occurring from north to South under Jolani's unelected Takfiri regime.

But let's have a reminder also of Petraeus's role himself in the downfall of Syria. Seymour Hersh Petraeus established a rat line between Libya and Syria to send weapons to the Nusra Front, which of course, is al Qaeda. The the group that was founded not only by Jelani, but also by Asad al Shabani, who's the foreign minister also at the UNGA and other extremist groups seeking to topple the government of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

They mentioned Timber Sycamore, of course, which was a budget of over 1 billion per year to given to around 500 moderate rebels, but ended up in the hands of ISIS by accident, of course. According to former French intelligence officer Thierry Maison, Petraeus continued to help fund al Qaeda groups, including ISIS, after he was forced to resign from the CIA in

2012 after a sex scandal. I just want to show Petraeus introduction to Jolani, which is kind of, we were talking this morning, Mike, about the fact that these figures like Ambassador Robert Ford, who was responsible for much of the creation of the death squads, the Free Syrian Army in Syria, who was kind of squealing in delight over meeting with Jelani over the last few years, both in Adlib and then in Damascus in 2025. And here we have Petraeus

literally introducing him. But a reminder to people that rumours are that it was Petraeus himself who led the radicalization and and the indoctrination of Jelani while he was in prison in Iraq. So an interesting introduction from Petraeus here. Because the fact is that we were on different sides when I was commanding the surge in Iraq. You were, of course detained by U.S. forces for some five years, including again when I was the four-star there.

And here you are now as the president of Syria. I'm not going to show anything of what Joelani actually says because it's total MI 6 Tony Blair speak. I mean, he says nothing different to the script that he's been given since December 2024. But in case people are worried here, Petraeus asks Joelani about his own personal mental health. So this next one is about you personally. How are you holding up under all this pressure? Are you getting time to do some thinking?

Are you getting enough sleep at night again? I've been there and it is so very, very hard. And you're many fans and I am one of them. We do have worries. I mean, this is just grotesque. This man has was responsible for mass beheadings, executions, terrorist attacks in Iraq even before he came to Syria. And now he's responsible for the mass ethnic cleansing of minorities in Syria that are not meant, that are barely mentioned

in the entire interview. And, and I don't know, I mean, I would love people's comments, but I just find this absolutely abhorrent that he's being fated to such a degree and that allegedly he's in among friends and allies. Well, what does that tell you about the US regime, successive regimes that have supported the breakdown of Syria and the destruction of the people of Syria? Charles, let's ask for your thoughts on that.

I think that engagement between Gilani and Petraeus has to be one of the most extraordinary things that I've seen in recent times, and it should cause anybody believing themselves to be on either side to call into question absolutely everything they thought they believed or stood for it. It makes a total mockery of everything Petraeus has supposedly done in his career or what he should have done it for. And exactly the same should be said of Jelani.

I mean, it dispels any sense of doubt that this entire narrative and situation is driven by forces out of sight that we are. Apparently never told about Absolutely extraordinary. The only thing I would add on UK column content is there's a very good interview on the website with Michael Yon. Ben Rubin interviewing Michael Yon, it's called Who Runs the Jungle and Yon gives a very interesting anecdote about bumping into Petraeus who he knows at an airport.

So please go and listen to that interview. Thank you, Charles. OK, let's move on.

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Very briefly, Just tell us a little bit about this. Well, I think it's just a very open discussion that we had, Mike, about the way that the sectarian divisions are going to be weaponized against Western populations, having historically been used, of course, to divide and conquer the countries, particularly of West Asia or as it's known, the Middle East. Yes, thank you for that. And so that will go out at 1:00 PM on the live stream tomorrow. So join us for that.

I just want to remind everybody of the interview that went out yesterday at 1:00 PM with Andrea Clarich. So I was speaking to Andrea about engagement with people in Croatia on issues as such as such as migration, digital IDCDBC, censorship, attitudes to the war narrative. And we also discuss what appeared to be attempts to recreate tensions which led to the war with Serbia in the 1990s. So if you didn't see that yesterday, we've had some really good feedback on that.

Please do join us for that or get on the website and watch that. And Charles, then the Food and Health Festival. Yes, this is being run in Edinburgh by Common Knowledge Edinburgh this Sunday the 28th of September. I will be there speaking, Diane will also be there, and it will be a very wide-ranging day considering all factors pertaining to your control of food and health. And Charles, just remind us of the 1000 Words podcast just before we show the little

trailer trailer. The yeah, Thousand Word Podcast is something that's coming to UK column. We're absolutely delighted that it is. It involves Jake Fern, the portrait artist, interviewing whilst he paints the portrait of the subject. And he's had tremendous success with it to date. And it just gives a fascinating insight into somebody that a different interview technique doesn't quite capture.

And it's it's a really, really interesting way of engaging with the with the subject and indeed a or painting to look at at the end. 1000 Words is coming to UK column. Watch Katie Jo Murphy, Co founder of Hope Sussex, sit for her portrait whilst deep diving into life, the universe and everything. First episode airs this weekend on UK column. And Charles, correct me if I'm wrong, that's 7:00 PM on Sunday. Correct. Absolutely it is. Yeah, OK. Thank you. OK, let's come back to the UN

General Assembly and well, Yvette Cooper, our illustrious new foreign Secretary, was speaking. Let's have a listen to what she said. I stand before you today, beneath the emblem of the United Nations, to confirm the historic decision of the British Government to recognise the state of Palestine.

This step, alongside friends and partners, reflects a long standing truth that statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people and the two states is the only path to security and lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike. But recognition must be a spur, not a substitute for urgent action, A ceasefire now, the release of all hostages, the restoration of aid and a lasting framework for peace.

Recognition is about the future, but it is rooted in our past. 75 years ago, Britain was rightly proud to recognize the state of Israel, but the promise of upholding Palestinian rights has gone unfulfilled. For decades, my country supported A2 state solution, but only recognized one state. That changes now as we join more than 150 Member States in recognizing the State of Palestine and protecting the

pathway to peace. Now I'm sure we can talk about this in extra and so on, but for me that whole thing was complete nonsense. It changes nothing. The Starmer regime has not made any statement or taken any action to actually pressure Israel into stopping the genocide. They haven't prevented a single bullet from being shipped from to Israel from this country. Now also on Monday Keir Starmer put out an ex post wishing the Jewish people, the Jewish community a happy new year.

This was the the tweet that he pushed out and well this resulted in over 4000 comments. Now let's just have a look at a few of those. So to go gaslight someone else. Hypocrite, He was told you don't get to bless us for the new year after embracing the Palestinian Authority that pays the salaries of Jews murders and then he's more and more commentary on this. You're quite literally the second coming of Neville Chamberlain is in this new year.

May the Lord strike you and you're disgusting, inept and corrupt party and call the general strike down you and you're disgusting inept party and corrupt party and call any general election. Sorry. The the strong language started coming out at that point.

The insults against the Islamic community started coming out the from the river to the sea, but this time with the Israeli flag really sort of suggesting the Greater Israel project and more unpleasantness in the form of artwork and so on appearing on here. So this was pretty unpleasant.

So the question is what did the recognition of Palestine achieve in the meantime then Armed Forces Minister Alastair Cairns has posted an opinion piece in the Daily Mail headlined British veterans fought to bring peace and security to Northern Ireland. Now they deserve a fair deal.

Now this is about the return of the investigations into British military activity, British Army activity in Northern Ireland during the so-called Troubles. This entire process, of course, this investigation, the historical investigation is a travesty because people on the Republican side were released from prison under the so-called Good Friday Agreement with letters of amnesty from Tony Blair.

While people serving in the British Army were have had to endure decades of inquiry, criminal investigation and so on. Now he currents attempts to wrap this all up in words of reassurance for anyone that on the receiving end of it, but the question then is what has been the response to this in the comments? So this is typical of it. The courts wouldn't allow an asylum seeker to be deported to Kenya, but it's OK for soldiers because of course part of this is them having to go back to

Belfast for hearings. 2 tier care don't care about our heroes. He's a terrorist lover and so on. So more of the same. In other words, two tier care supporting terrorists and etcetera. This is all both of these situations in my opinion, and Vanessa might critique what I'm saying here in a second, but this, in my opinion, is designed to stir up these kinds of sentiments.

Everyone is supposed to feel outrage at it because Starmer knows it. Aside from a few memes on X with unpleasant words on them, none of the outrage is going to be directed at him personally or even at his government when it comes to the crunch. It's going to be directed at people perceived to be on the left because the left right split is something which is absolutely being amplified at the moment. Or else some people who have

different coloured skin. But if we go back to his ex post that we saw earlier and look at this this comment. Sorry. So the comments section isn't going as you hoped, said Arthur. Well, in fact, I believe it is going exactly as he hoped. Because they say. I believe that this was a pretty cynical attempt just to 'cause this kind of outrage. Now, two weeks ago, around 1,000,000 people came out on Britain's streets, funded and promoted by largely the Zionist lobby.

There was a counter demonstration, as Ben was pointing out, on a previous news program which also seems to have had Zionist interest behind it to a certain degree. It's is it a surprise then that the same interests would be supporting both sides of an engineered argument And, and the question is, has this ever happened before now?

This is an article on John Waters sub Stack headlined how British intelligence planned the Irish troubles of 68 to 98 and used Provisional IRA fake patriots to achieve the ruination of Ireland. I think this is important because the ruination of England is exactly where this country is

at at the moment. And I would just ask the question, what would happen if instead of coming out on the streets and waving some flags that the million people or so that were out a couple of weeks ago made a commitment instead to stop paying tax? Would the regime take notice then? Vanessa, this is obviously this segment has been a bit of an opinion piece, but I'd just be interested in your thoughts on it. Well, I mean, it's kind of interesting.

I mean, Tom Barrack, who will get onto Trump's sort of envoy to the Middle East, describe the whole operation of recognizing A Palestinian state as useless. Those were his words and I was thinking it was to appease the anti genocide protesters and and so on after they've been victimizing Palestine action and and all day pensioners who are coming out to to protest in support of Palestine action, for example.

But now I'm actually wondering when you're showing those responses to Starmer, if it's not also giving oxygen to the Zionist victimhood, which is also something that they need to be able to reinforce their 'cause as they further expand their violence and their slaughter and their genocide, not only of Palestinians, but also Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, Yemenis, etcetera. So I think there's two roles, as

you've rightly said. But I think on a local, national level, yeah, it's all about stirring up hatred, sectarian hatred again. Charles, just before we come on to to your main segment here, have you got anything to add to that? Well, I would, I mean, I would absolutely agree with with what Vanessa says. I think listening to Yvette Cooper, I mean, first of all, sounds like she had taken elocution lessons before delivering that speech and sort of searching for gravitas that

she never quite found. But it's it's as though she's sort of saying that something was so clearly the case that the unanswered question is, well, So what? Why is it taken until now? Why, why now? And also like a curve which needs flattening, A pathway to peace remains incredibly sort of ill defined that, you know, what is the end state and indeed what are the obstacles along the way and how much does it cost in human life and money to actually tread that apparent pathway to peace?

So it's just the latest confection in a in a sort of barrage of nonsense, I'd say. Well, we were just talking about

the million people on the streets, of course, migration being a key driver to encourage that activity. So what are your thoughts on on that issue at the moment? Well, I think specifically migration is only pushed out as a problem in order that a solution may be divined. And the the latest in the sort of summer narrative.

The latest chapter concerns the migrant arrested in Epping and he has now just been convicted by Chelmsford Magistrates Court and this is put up by the BBC who say that Epping Hotel asylum

seeker jailed for sex assaults. Now the point of the BBC article really is to continue to fan the flames of division, helpless and confusion and particularly they they go a bundle on confirming the worst fears of people who do have concerns about this in that it's the suggestion is that people who do come from other countries have different standards and that that is absolutely a well founded concern.

As though because he's Ethiopian, he didn't have any understanding of how things work here. In actual fact, of course, the age of consent in Ethiopia is 18 and he is reported as being a Christian. So further confusion here about, you know, is this another sort of dig at Christianity or a lot of language used deliberately to confuse and conflate As to the trial itself.

And indeed the ruling handed down which has come from Chelmsford Magistrates Court, point to note first of all that these offences which are now shown on screen, attempted sexual assault on a child aged 14 to incite or cause a child to engage in sexual activity, sexual sexual assault on a female twice two different people and harassment without

violence. Now they're all what's called either way, tribal either way, which means they could have gone to Crown Court, but actually they were retained by the Magistrates Court, which means there was a maximum of 12 month

sentence. And a lot of people therefore have been provoked into outcry saying was not, you know, not nearly a strong enough sentence should have been much greater and all the rest of it. Now, I can understand exactly why those concerns would be there, but of course by limiting it to the magistrate's court, meaning that the sentence was only going to be that. And what one has to look at really are the sentencing guidelines from the Sentencing Council and they're shown on screen now.

And one has to determine the offence category, which of course is done by two different categories, looking at the harms and the culpability. And it's almost as though this story has been cherry picked in order specifically to make it look like nothing has been done because the threshold in every single circumstance is not quite met.

Essex Police, of course, have reported on this as well, and they bring out the points that there's also a five year sexual harm prevention order being set against the man Hadosh Kabatou, and also that he'd be on the sexual offences register for 10 years Now. The the point being missed here, of course, is that because the UK, the Border Act 2007 has qualifying criteria for automatic deportation.

The the length of the sentence and indeed any of the other things that Essex Police are mentioning are should be academic. And this is further reinforced by the announcement made by the government just last month concerning what they're calling immediate deportation. He is now to be regarded as a foreign criminal stipulated by the Border Act 2007, and indeed he has a sentence of at least 12

months. However, the Daily Mail reporting here, of course, that now there might be a counterclaim, effectively engaging the European Convention on Human Rights in order that this is not going to lead to deportation. Again, something that seems to be deliberately put out in order to inflamed tensions. And as a banner across the top of the Daily Mail piece, it's shown on screen now it says breaking news, foreign criminals are being given 2000 lbs when they leave the United Kingdom.

So there are just so many elements of this particular story to suggest that the problem is in effect insurmountable. And then we cast our mind back to Operation Restoring Justice, which was something put on by reform a short while ago in which they proposed to have a

plan for mass deportations. And part of that was to get out of the European Convention on Human Rights and indeed to repeal the Human Rights Act in 1988, which in effect would head off exactly the situation that the male is forecasting. So they're attempting to look strong, attempting to make the case for there being a political solution to this has become a key political background. But what's not to be forgotten is that this always leads to exactly the same place.

And here we have Sarah Pochin, the Reform MP, talking about where that place is. About what Chris Philp is now saying the Shadow Home Secretary on ID cards. What do you feel about ID cards, digital ID cards? Is that something that Reform UK would support? Well, look, I personally don't have a problem with an ID card. You know, I, I don't see what the issue is. Most of our ID, most of our information now is is is on our smartphones anyway. Can.

We cross the system though. Well, what's more, how, how much more could we be at risk? As I say, all of our information is out there in a cloud, in the ether, whatever you want to call it. So I can't sit here and say that that is absolutely reform policy. But what I can say is that of course, as a as one of the few MPs at a time where Danny Krueger has just joined the party and said that they're preparing for government and there isn't of course an enormous public swing towards

reform. A political solution looks very likely to include a digital ID. And of course, I just remind you finally about Brit Card, which is the solution proposed by the Labour Together think tank. And just to quote from that, this is exactly matching the problem. A million people live in the UK without permission to do so, undermining the sense of Fair play.

And this is how Brit Card is, how mandatory universal national identity credential can help Britain control illegal migration and secure its borders. Because of course we got the question of, well, what if Kibatu is deported back to Ethiopia? Well, lo and behold, we don't have an agreement with Ethiopia. So there's another stumbling block. But of course, if we had a digital identity, then we'd know whether or not he was trying to come back or whether he was

still in the system. So what's being done about this? Well, one thing just to point out is Big Brother's Big Brother

Watches campaign. Which they're entitling Checkpoint Britain and they've just conduct had a survey conducted by you Gov which was admittedly fairly small, only just over 2000 respondents, all online, but overwhelmingly 63% of people absolutely rejecting wholesale the idea of digital ID. And finally they point you to a petition they've started which has only attracted 100,000 signatures so far. But there'll be a link in the show notes for you to take a look at that.

Charles, thank you very much for that. Vanessa, let's come back to you and back to the Middle East.

Now you're obviously based in Lebanon, but what's how is the pressure building there? Because obviously Lebanon still has, you know, effectively Syria to the north and Israel to the South. Yeah, to the east and the north for Syria, of course, and Israel to the South. And Israel in reality has increased its number of occupation points in southern Lebanon to seven rather than 5

previously. And it conducts daily, if not sort of morning, afternoon, evening attacks, either by drone or by air strike on areas of southern Lebanon, but also the eastern and northeastern areas of Lebanon perceived by them to be Hezbollah strongholds. And on Sunday, I wanted to draw attention to this attack, which was a drone attack on civilians in Binchabel in the South. These are the children, Hadi and Celine Shirora, who were killed in the attack, including their

father and their sister. And their mother and their other sister are hospitalized in critical condition. And a bystander, Mohammad Moore, was also killed in the strike. This is the mother, Armani Bazi, here with the two children that were murdered by Israel on Sunday in the attack. And this is the mother at the funeral of the two children. She was brought actually in her hospital bed to bid farewell to to the children that were slaughtered by Israel

indiscriminately. And this is happening on a daily basis. But interestingly, there was an interview with Thomas Barack, who I've said is Trump's basically his main man in the Middle East trying to push through the normalization between Syria and Israel and in Lebanon to dismantle and destroy the resistance against Israel.

What was extraordinary for me about this interview, and that's why I've included a number of clips, is that he was incredibly frank and honest whether he felt disarmed by the interviewer, who I think was extremely good. But let's just hear what he how he first of all describes himself. And I'm, if you look at diplomacy and all of them are much better than me because I'm not really a diplomat, right? I'm like an event driven mercenary to get things done for

this president. Well, I couldn't really say it better myself. I mean, he's an economic hitman. He has links to corruption in the first Trump administration, links to Epstein and and so on and so forth. So he's certainly not a trustworthy individual, but let's hear what he says about the end game in the region. Trump's end game in the region. Through what exactly is the Trump Doctrine in the Middle East? So President Trump brilliantly said, look, I'm not going to

lose any more American lives. We've been there. I'm not going to take over any more countries and try and teach them the colonial method. It never worked. So we're worried about counterterrorism. We'll cooperate with our neighbors and that's it. And that's basically what he's done. Israel, a different story. Israel is a a valued ally. We subsidized them four or $5 billion a year and has a special

place in America's heart. And we're living with the confusion of what's happening in this transition. So it's it's complicated. So it's a really difficult zip code. What's the end game? I was hoping you weren't going to ask that because I don't know. I don't think anybody knows. Of course, that's absolute nonsense. They know exactly what the end game is. And actually he goes on to describe it.

But what I find interesting in in this particular response from him, he talks about the reason why the Zionist bloc policy has not been successful to basically bring our peoples under their control. So let's have a listen to this I. Don't think anybody knows. At the end game, when we say peace, it's an illusion. There's never been peace. There will probably never be peace because everybody's fighting for legitimacy. So people say, well, they're fighting over borders and

boundaries. It's not what they're fighting over. A border or boundary is the currency of a negotiation. The end result is somebody wants dominance, which means somebody has to submit in that part of the world. Submit. There's no Arabic word for submit. They can't wrap their head around submit, so eventually prosperity is the only answer. So he's very clearly saying there that submission is not an option from the Arab resistance.

And someone pointed out to me that the word Islam means submission to, to the word of God for Muslims. But of course, the Middle East is not only made-up of Muslims, there's Christians, there's, there's all manner of minorities and minority faiths in the Middle East and Lebanon, Syria and Iraq and so on. But what for me is, is this arrogance that damn it, you know, the Arabs won't submit to

doing what we want. But he then brings in the idea of prosperity, which is effectively, well, if we can't get them to submit through what we're doing, for example, in Palestine, then we'll offer them, we'll incentivize them with prosperity, which is, of course, exactly what they've done with the Arab Gulf state. So then he goes on to talk about the role of Hezbollah. And again, this is very

interesting. He actually admits that the American policy or the Israeli policy in Lebanon is effectively increasing the popularity of Hezbollah. So let's have a look at this. So until Hezbollah, which is 70,000 troops, we don't recognize Hezbollah is a foreign terrorist organization in American parlance. I get in trouble every time we go into this discussion because in Lebanon it's not right. In Lebanon, it's a political party. It has 27 parliamentary seats

out of 166 or so in parliament. But Hezbollah is an armed militia separate from the Lebanese Armed Forces, bigger than the Lebanese Armed Forces. Lebanese Armed Forces has been a stable influence. And what incentive do they have to put their weapons down? 0 Zero. I mean, this is the problem, especially when Israel is

attacking everybody. So if Israel, Israel is attacking Syria, Israel is attacking Lebanon, Israel is attacking Tunisia, as as it goes on, their argument gets better and better as we're here to protect the Lebanese from Israel. Now, we'll talk more about this an extra, but what's very interesting there is that he appears to admit that Israel did conduct the attack against the Samud flotilla heading to Gaza in Tunisia.

And the last two clips, first of all, he's talking about the Lebanese Armed Forces, which he calls LAF, LAF. So let's just see what he says about them. Being mostly Sunnis, there are Shias and it's a good organization. It's it's well meaning, but it's not well equipped because who are they going to fight, right? We don't want to arm. We're going to arm them so they can fight Israel. I don't think so.

So you're arming them so they can fight their own people, The Hezbollah. Hezbollah is our enemy. Iran is our enemy. We need to cut the heads off of those snakes and chop the full of funds. That's the only way you're going to stop Hezbollah. So this is quite extraordinary. He's actually admitting that America is keeping the Lebanese Armed Forces at a level where they can't defend the country against Israel, but they can be used to turn against their own people, IE the the resistance.

And then the final comment that he was not the final comment. I recommend everybody watches the whole interview. But this comment he makes about if you don't come into line in Lebanon, what he will do. So let's just play this. And I don't mean it's in a disrespectful way because all they do is talk. There's never been one act. We've told them, do you want our help? We'll give you our help. We gave them a playbook. They can't get there. They can't execute.

No, absolutely not. So we said fine, we're not going to execute. You know who's going to execute? Walk across that board. Do you see where Jerusalem is? Jerusalem is going to take care of the Hezbollah for you. And that's what's happening right now. Absolutely. So that's very clear. Lebanon won't come into line with the US playbook.

So now Israel is being triggered to carry out the USS or Washington's dirty work by attacking the resistance and the civilians in the South to bring Lebanon in line with the US playbook. Yes, indeed. Thank you, Vanessa. We will talk more about this an

extra now coming back to Europe then in a sense, but unfortunately beginning with another picture of Trump. I just want to highlight this because the war hysteria continues to heat up this week LED of course by the mainstream media. This is Fox News here. Sorry. We'll go back.

One President Donald Trump, they say, on Thursday said the US could end up in World War Three over Russia's war in Ukraine and conceded that Russian President Vladimir Putin has let him down over his refusal to end his military campaign. And this is at the time that Trump is doubling down on the idea or the narrative that he was putting forward with Starmer at the press release, the press conference the other day. Fox follows this. You got a bit of a preview of it

with an outright lie. They said that one day later, Russia sent 3 fighter jets over Estonia's capital city of Tallinn in a direct and clear violation of its airspace, prompting another NATO member to spark Article 4 for the second

time as many weeks. So. But the point here is the the Russian Migs were not sent over Talon, and even the map published by the Estonian Defence Forces show that they stayed over the Baltic Sea, not coming closer than was at about 20 miles or so from the coast, even if the route was questionable. I mean, this is still being argued over.

The Associated Press then in this article claims that a senior Estonian military official alleges that the pilots of the Migs ignore signals from Italian F35 pilots who were sent to investigate the presence in allegedly in Estonian airspace. And in fact, this article makes the point that it still needs to be confirmed if the border violation, the alleged border

violation was deliberate or not. And the commander of Estonia's military intelligence centre is reported by AP here as saying that the Russian jets must have known they were in Estonian airspace. So the Russian pilots didn't pose a military threat, this article goes on to say.

But although they said or acknowledged that communication from the Italian pilots flying the F30 fives, the Russians, they say, ignored it and didn't actually follow the signs, which is I'm not sure what signs they're talking about, which is partly why they were in in Estonian airspace for so long, he said. Why they didn't do it, that's a question for the Russian pilots. So this this hysteria continues to build. This of course, began with the alleged drone attacks in in Poland.

And with all this hysteria over Estonia and Poland, it the flight of a Russian IL 20 intelligent aircraft over the Baltic Sea yesterday may have gone unnoticed by the corporate media, but not quite because two Swedish gripping jets and two German Eurofighter jets were sent to go and escort this aircraft as well. So again, this is an Associated Press article that we can see on screen here. And they were just trying to hype this situation up once

again. But the rhetoric from, if that's the media, the rhetoric from various MPs and other European leaders continues to ramp up as well. So let's have a look at that. Here is the Lithuanian defence minister. Russia is testing NATO again. Dozens of drones in Poland last week, drones in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and now fighter jets in Estonian skies. These are deliberate provocations. They're deliberate tests, tests of her readiness or resolve and

of the limits of her deterrence. The latest in an escalating pattern of pressure by Russia. And she went on safer Estonia for Poland, for Lithia and for all of NATO's eastern flank. This is a direct threat, not just the territorial integrity, but the citizen safety. And of course the idea of keeping your citizens safe is really the, the core sort of narrative that we're hearing from MPs and other leaders right across Europe and the UK at the moment.

And she finished by, or she went on to say here, our biggest risk currently is miscalculation by Russia. Does Russia believe that NATO will not allow violations of its territory? Does Russia believe that Europe is going to strike back together with the United States? That's now the last line of defence between if and when a

war with Russia happens. And then we had comments from the German. For German foreign policy adviser Jurgen Hart, only a clear message to Russia that any military border violation will be sorry, will be met with, will be met with force. These propagations are tested by Russia. Again. Ray's ring is basically exactly the same words and will only end if we respond clearly to all military border violations. The alternative would be for Russian war logic to continue to

escalate. Now it is airspace violations, so it would be the bombing of individual targets. Then Russian soldiers will come. It's the the narrative is just incredible. And then Donald Trump yesterday was asked whether NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they violate NATO airspace. And he replied, yes, I do. And so just very quickly,

Charles thought. Well, in the language of the Strategic Defence Review published this year, it looks like the defence dividend is going to pay out because this is exactly what people have been itching for. The defence or war industry in particular who stand to make absolutely billions from this and already are because of the apparent requirement to mobilize and put 3% of sorry, 5% of GDP

towards spending on war. So that, you know, it's looking good for the for the reassurance force who must be beginning to think about what they're going to pack and all that kind of thing. So this is exactly where it was always looking like it was going to go. I think the only difficulty for us, perhaps as a sort of analysts and commentators, was see exactly what steps were going to be taken in order that delivered the conflict that's been so much desired. Indeed.

OK, we will move on then. And of course we've got Andrew

Wakefield speaking at our event in a in a few weeks time. But what's been going over on in the United States over the question of what causes autism? Yes. Well, I'm not actually intending to deal very specifically with the issue at hand. It's rather more the tsunami of propaganda which has come out in the wake of this. And, and I'll go on to refer to exactly how that pertains to Andrew Wakefield and indeed another speaker at our at our York event. But let's just, I'm afraid to

say it is Donald Trump again. But but this is actually going to pertain to what's happened in the United Kingdom. Let's just listen to what he said. And there are other parts of the world where they don't have Tylenol, where they don't have autism. That tells you a lot. And I want to say it right now. And you know, the way I look at it, don't take it. Don't take it. There's there's no downside in not taking it. So I'd like to ask Bobby to come

up and say a few words. I hope I didn't ruin his day. But that's the way I feel. I've been very strong on the subject for a long time. You know, life is common sense too, and there's a lot of common sense in this. And I wish things like this were brought up and this group has worked so hard on it. But I'd like to be a little bit more, a little speedier in the process of a recommendation because there's no harm in going quicker. There's absolutely no harm. At worst, there's no harm.

Thank you very much, Bobby, please. No, of course this has prompted a response from every single medical organization in the world apparently saying that there is absolutely no evidence to support what Trump is saying. Here we've got the World Health Organization issuing a statement on autism relation related issues, something that's backed up by the Department of Health and Social Care saying paracetamol and pregnancy what you need to know.

And they say there's no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Now that's either a straight lie or it's a manipulation regarding the specifics around the conditions that are actually referred to because the Dean of the Faculty of Public Health at Harvard, Andrea Baccarelli, has cited 46 studies. It was it was his paper that has effectively inflamed this.

Now of course, one of the fundamental things that come out of this are that at no point has anybody suggested that taking painkillers in the 1st place might not necessarily be an appropriate thing to do when considering the state of the human body. And that is not medical advice, by the way. It's just a consideration.

And the other thing, the coincidence, which absolutely cannot be ignored considering this is relating to pregnancy, is the astonishing campaign that's just being started with autumn vaccination in mind in the United Kingdom. We'll just have a look at the video that they've put out now. Good morning. If you're pregnant, you can help protect your baby from RSV, whooping cough and flu, which can cause serious illness. Vaccines give you both the best protection against these diseases.

Vaccinated. Yeah. During pregnancy and in your baby's first months of life, stay strong, get vaccinated, speak to your midwife or GP practice. Now one of the very interesting points to note is that something that's been particularly hammered by the NHS is the idea that a pregnant woman getting vaccinated means that delivery of that vaccination through the placenta will benefit the newborn baby. And the idea, the campaign sort of tagline is, is stay strong,

get vaccinated. Now with that, we've got all sorts of. Associated imagery which infantilises the entire situation. You'll note that the there is no opportunity missed with regard to wrapping more than one agenda into this story. Of course every single couple or parent and child shown is of some sort of ethnic minority, but then we are given the white mother with child to reinforce the point. So there we go, stay strong and get vaccinated.

The the other thing to point out is that the the wording used is vaccines help protect what matters most. Not forgetting that what matters most are the profits of the pharmaceutical companies and indeed the benefit to the people that invest in them. That's the key take away from this, hence the propaganda, hence the backlash against what Donald Trump was saying in the 1st place.

And yes, I should just finish off by saying that please do join us on the live stream for our event in New York because not only do we have Andrew Wakefield speaking, going over some of the points in his career which relate to this very topic, but also is Evans, who will be specialising on medical ethics. And that brings my report on propaganda to a close. Yeah, brilliant. Thank you. It also brings the news programme to a close because we

are out of time for now. So thank you very much to Charles and Vanessa for joining me. Thank you all for watching. We'll be back in a couple of minutes on the live stream. If you're UK column member for some UK column news extra. And if you're not a member of them, we would appreciate and consider joining us and and joining us for the extra programme as well. So we'll see you in a few minutes if you're a member.

Otherwise don't forget Germ tonight at 7, interview tomorrow with Vanessa at 1:00 PM and we'll be back for another news programme at 1:00 PM on Friday. See you then. Bye bye.