UK Column News — 13th March 2026

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1:08Good afternoon. It's Friday the 13th of March, 2026, just after 1 o'clock. Welcome to UK Column News. I'm your host Mike Robinson, joining me by video link today are Patrick Henningson and Basel Valentine. Later in the program, Basel's going to be covering the use of British weapons in Iran. And you'll be taking a look at the Mandelson files. Patrick is going to be reporting on the oil panic and also on allegations X is exposing user data to Israeli intelligence. And I'm going to be reporting on huge job losses as companies roll at the use of AI within their organizations and also met police demands mobile phone manufacturers capitulate over access to mobile phones. But we're going to begin today with Iran. Now this is day 14 of the war. And the question of British involvement is one that Charles Malat has been highlighting over the last couple of weeks. And in an effort to answer that, Charles visited RAF Fairford yesterday. And he sent us this report.

2:08Having reported on the escalation in Britain's contradictory defensive posture, I set off for RAF effort during the small hours of Thursday the 12th of March to find out for the UK column audience what exactly was going on with the United States visiting forces in their use of the airbase. In particular, I wanted to substantiate mainstream media reporting of munitions being loaded on to B1 bombers. And I wanted to get a sense of what impression, if any, the increased activity had had on the surrounding area in the local population. During the airfield from the north through the coming dawn, there was plenty of evidence of activity in particular the arrival of an atlas air flight part of the civil reserve air fleet moving personnel and equipment for the United States visiting forces and also the presence of what appeared to be a drone taking up a surveillance overwatch position.

3:10Still very much all quiet, just on the perimeter of the airfield, it's half past six in the morning. Just on the outskirts of a village called Maaston Maisie and there's a dead end track that leads right to the fence which has been cordoned off with a police road closed sign and interestingly whilst out taking a photograph of that sign, a vehicle made its way through the cones and it turned out to be a chap called Chris who described himself as being from the press. He's obviously been here quite a bit over the last couple of weeks and the view that we are so surprised in a way that perhaps we shouldn't be that nobody seems to care what's going on. I made my way north-east along the track from Maaston Maisie and within just a couple of minutes several things became clear. First of all, within very easy viewing distance of the fence, there were several B1B bomber airframes on the tarmac, the second thing to note was how close some of the residential housing was, not just to

4:14the perimeter fence of the airfield but to the aircraft themselves and I'll go on to explain the significance of that. I'm now on the fence having gone down the dead end track from Maaston Maisie and this is what I find. B1's parked up here. Now interestingly, I've just had a chat with a photographer who has been coming down here for the last few days and he's got no dog in the fight in his own words. He's just here to photograph aircraft but what was fascinating was to hear him say that last night he was down here at exactly this location and the Americans drove a load of vehicles up and pointed the headlights towards

5:15the fence in order to try to stop people from being able to take effective photographs. So there's no doubt that there is activity going on here which obviously to me now is completely visible. I mean I'm standing by the fence. There are no park from somebody just under the nose of that aircraft. There's no one around. Of course what I should absolutely point out is that there are bombs on a carrier just behind that aircraft. Those are GBU-31 joint direct attack munitions or J-dams which have a 2000 pound so-called bunker buster warhead. They're also within 300 meters of residential dwellings which makes one consider the threat level as described by the security service who say they have foiled 20 plots by Iranians within the last year and one has to ask the question does this sort of activity in such close proximity to residential houses pose

6:18a threat that has not yet been described or counted. I worked my way around the fence to the crash gate at Kempstford where I was able to observe a couple of vehicles that looked like they were providing perimeter security although on closer inspection three out of the four personnel were simply sitting in their vehicles on mobile telephones but in a fairly short space of time an American military police vehicle arrived and I moved off having filmed what I wanted to film only to find that when I next parked up on a grass verge I had the flashing lights and the presence of ministerial defense police four wheel drive vehicle mounting the curb and blocking my path whereupon to armed constables got out to have a word now it was a very cordial exchange and they were simply interested in what I was doing the thing that fell out of it was that it appeared very clear that they had been directed to act by the United States military. The day was not without comedy because as we were having our exchange and an understanding of exactly what it was I was

7:23doing one of them noticed that the tread on my tire was insufficient for the use of the roads and I ended up having a police escort into a nearby garage much to the amusement of those that worked there. There is absolutely no doubt about the level of involvement that we should attribute to the United Kingdom in what is now being described as the US Israel war against Iran that would not be happening without the explicit support of not just the British government but also of ministry of defense personnel both civil and military very significant concern is the apparent ability of the United States visiting forces to be able to direct the operational activity of ministry of defense police that is well outside of the bounds of the relationship that

8:25should exist between those two organizations. This is Charles Mannett for UK column at RAF Fairford. Patrick be interested to get your thoughts on that because obviously as he says as Charles says the US is absolutely using UK facilities to prosecute this war. It is and I thank you Charles for that report. It is excellent to see that the proof that this is actually happening but the main point of this from a strategic point of view is report suggests the United States has run out of what they call precision, precision munitions and Trump himself the president has publicly said we have run out of targets and so now they are using bunker busters using high altitude gravity bombs bunker busters to do what to search for targets well invariably we know if that is going to lead to look at Lebanon look at Gaza more civilian casualties so they are already complaining

9:31the intelligence was old that is why the girls school got hit so how good is this so-called targeting intelligence that the US have not very good probably so this is just a terrible development that is underway indeed now unfortunately it looks like we've lost basil just before mentioned we move on to the next thing though I'm going to just mention the Charles Will join us an extra to discuss this further so if you are UK column member then please join us for that but let's move on then to the question of dual use because of course the question of UK midweapons being used to destroy well in this case this is the campaign against the arms trade is asking the question where UK midweapons reportedly used to destroy girls primary school in Iran and in fact declassified UK is asking the same question here but to sort of dive into this a little bit more

10:34I wanted to mention this situation because this is an Iranian hacktivist group hackers named Handala and now they have posted messages on both the hacked systems themselves but also on social media on social media click claiming credit for hacking striker which is a leading maker of medical devices now this happened early yesterday morning striker has acknowledged the attack and called it severe when they when they announced this to employees in emails and so on Handala say this was partly in retaliation for the US bombing of the girl school in Iran which occurred as we know on the first day of the war and their statement said we announced to the world that in retaliation for the brutal attack in the Menab school and in response to ongoing cyber assaults on the infrastructure of the access of resistance our major cyber operation has been executed with complete success the Zionist rooted corporation striker one of the key arms of the global

11:38Zionist lobby and a central ring in the new Epstein chain has been struck with an unprecedented blow in this operation over 200,000 systems servers and mobile devices have been wiped and 50 terabytes of critical data has been extracted a clear warning to all Zionist leaders and their lobbies who hide behind concrete walls and closed windows the era of Epstein rings and the demons of our time is over so that was their statement now they attack on a company that's perceived to be providing medical devices to hospitals has gone down like a lead balloon in the west as we might imagine and there's been significant outrage I'd rage at an attack on what is perceived to be a civilian target and this of course follows attacks on data centers belonging to Amazon and Microsoft also argued by some to be crossing the line but the problem here is that that line is not so blurred

12:39as to be non-existent now we've mentioned the term dual use many times on the UK column news and this is exactly the type of scenario that we've been warning about because as of the last decade or so dual use is at the heart of British war doctrine and the same goes for the EU and the United States now to take a couple of quotes from the Starmer regime when they launched the national security review and the defense review so we just have a look at a couple of quotes from this they said sorry that a new 11 billion invest annual budget has been established under the NAD this will fund kit for our frontline forces which is affordable and grows our UK industrial base our new partnership with industry and a decade of consistently rising this defense spending will encourage more private finance to grow our world leading scale up and do dual use tech companies and they also said that today much of the best innovation is find in the private sector

13:39while the increasing prevalence of dual use technologies has widened the net of potential suppliers that can contribute to the defense to defense outcomes so the inevitable outcome of this kind of thinking is an organization's infrastructure which until now has been clearly civilian in nature can no longer be claimed to be so and so Patrick first of all what are your thoughts on this because to my mind this effectively potentially makes us all a form of human shield it does indeed when we saw for instance Iranian retaliation against us positions in the Gulf they had data centers Microsoft Amazon all of these companies that are basically openly dual use as it were so and they're nested within commercial and civilian areas so they're paying they're painting a target effectively so yes we all become part of this total warfare strategy whether we opted in or not and this is the great danger of mixing these things together and somehow

14:42this doesn't seem to be a problem for our our government leaders who are just so quick in a busy signing contracts left right in the center with all of these transnational firms absolutely a battle glad to see your back what are your thoughts on this and also what we have here is this report from the from the national talking about airports being used and of course these are civilian airports that they're talking about and specifically Prestwick yes that's right Mike John Swinney the First Minister of Scotland is seeking an urgent meeting with the government to discover the extent to which Prestwick has been used but even the BBC using publicly available flight records have said they've discovered that American heavy bombers were refueling at Prestwick at the end of February on their way to the Middle East to conduct strikes against Iran and of course Scotland is also I believe the home of the Glenroth factory but where components for the Tomahawk are made so two

15:49different ways there that Scotland is certainly against the will of its people contributing to the illegal war on Iran you know this of course comes on top of the week when a leaked memo came out from the Prime Minister recommending overruling devolved governments a memo that has been endorsed by Anna Sawa the leader of the Scottish Labour Party so you know some considerable friction going on there thanks Basil Patrick let's come to you then and just bring us up to date with with the situation with the war itself then well we're seeing the civilian casualties mount so far total number of dead Iranians is past the 1200 mark 1200 according to sources and official records have been released to the public on that so and now you have these major sort of events

16:50obviously the rally for the appointing of the new supreme leader the electing of the new supreme leader but also coulds day this is the Jerusalem or Palestine day it's a huge event in Iran and people came out in the hundreds of thousands I don't know the numbers exactly but we have a clip here and notice on this clip what's happening at the same time as all of these people are out in the streets in the capital bombs are dropping and they seem totally undeterred it's extraordinary sight we've we've got this if we can roll this clip

17:50I mean men women and children on the street for for the Palestinians in Tehran as the bombs are dropping so that that's that's what the U.S. is up against so no capitulation there they're not the it's not falling apart the government's not collapsing so I guess it hasn't gone to plan so far for the U.S. Okay so let's move on then to Trump himself. Well this is Donald Trump is well many caution to him not too prematurely declare victory you don't want to have that George W Bush a moment on the aircraft carry with a mission accomplished banner behind you but here is Donald Trump doing just that in front of a rally of loyal maggot supporters watch this is that a great name well it's only good if you win you know you can only and we've won let me say

18:53we've won you know you never like to say too early you won we won we won the bet in the first hour it was over oh we won but but they gave me a list of names that you're sure you could pick the name it like sir I said the name of what the name of the attack on a rancher and they gave me like 20 names and I'm like fallen asleep I didn't like any of them then I see epic fury I said I like that name I like that name I mean he's he's really becoming a parody of himself at this point so at least there's a few people willing to go to the rallies and laugh at his jokes and cheer for him because Mike the poll numbers don't look very good if we look at the latest Ipsos poll we'll bring up on screen here 27% of Americans approve of Trump's war on Iran this is the lowest public

19:54approval for any war since the Vietnam War I would say historically speaking we're not really in a good place here for this so whatever Trump believes he can extract in terms of some political capital out of this it's just a baffling to be quite honest but the the main problem here Mike is the Straits of Horn Moose have been effectively closed for all intents and purposes and this is a big problem for the United States they're talking about is a great report will appear this is a bifredi ponton this shows all the details of Iran's navy it's not a typical navy in the standard military sense this is the besiege navy with tens of thousands of boats and you know up to 30,000 potential volunteer marines and enables officers and staff and people working in this and so there's no way that Trump says he they eliminated Iran's navy it's mathematically impossible they couldn't

21:01have they don't have enough munitions to have destroyed all of the different boats that Iran has the details of this is a great well researched report we'll put a link links for this in the show post here but they're talking about you know the press are pushing they're pressing the Trump administration are you going to allow us naval boats to escort oil tankers through the Straits of Horn Moose and they're saying well we're doing that we're we're planning that but we're not quite ready yet it's not till the end of the month so I mean I want to see how they're going to actually pull this off if they are able to do it at all and I'm going to tell you by the end of March the pressure on the global economy on the price of oil on inflation especially in the United States is going to be immense if what we're seeing right now is any indication this week uh absolutely Patrick but the thing that strikes me is you know we've seen the fire on the uh on the USS

22:02Gerald Ford over the last couple of days and the question or the discussion about whether that was the result of some kind of attack or whether it was something else now that defense or the sorry the war department in the United States absolutely saying that that was a fire in the laundry department and it was nothing to do with with the war but the fact of the matter is here if they do attempt to run escorts through the Straits of Horn Moose they are simply providing targets and they're not going to win that yeah it's just tiny it's a tiny waterway we're talking about you know 15 17 kilometers we're talking about Iran having the high ground the cliffs there are honeycombed we're told with anti ship missiles as well and it's only going to take a few shots fired and we're going to have a complete mayhem on our hands in you know the images of a US frigate with smoke building out the billowing out the top and sinking in the Straits of Horn Moose

23:05I can't see that being a very good public relations image for the United States and this president yeah thanks for that and now we're going to come back to oil prices in a second with Patrick but before we get to that let's come back to the issue of the United Kingdom and its involvement in this entire conflict so this is a declassified article had lined the UK military and intelligence figures backing pro-Israel regime change in Iran an array of former British security officials are advising a US-based group that is cheerleading the US-Israel war on Iran as a subhead now the group that they're talking about is the United is united against nuclear Iran it's a US-based neo-conservative organization it is close ties the United States and it's really intelligence and has long advocated for military action in Iran its leadership includes Jeb Bush who is the chair and the Mark Wallace a former Bush era ambassador who's the chief executive and they have absolutely been supportive of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and they talk they called Trump

24:12courageous for doing what he's done now the funding of the group is secret it doesn't disclose its sources and it's as I say consistently backed military action and so on so the question is who is involved well the their advisors include of course Pete Hegseth this is the Secretary of State for War they also include an unnamed senior CIA CIA Iran specialist and Mossad's former director of intelligence and counterterrorism chief but the British figures on this include Sir Graham Lam former director of UK special forces and deputy commander of US UK operations in Iraq pulling otherwise known as barren as novel Jones former UK security minister and chair of the joint intelligence committee Sir Eiver Roberts former British ambassador and foreign office head of counterterrorism until his death last year field marshal Charles Guthrie

25:13former UK military chief and Tom Tugantat conservative MP and former security minister and his role Tugantat's role involves providing just what's described as strategic guidance on Iran's strategy so who else is involved well if we go back to previous advisors it includes some names we might know but Sir Richard Deerlove is one of course and another one is Mayor Dagan who is former Israeli intelligence so Basel what are your thoughts on this it is a fantastic report from declassified but what are your thoughts on this organization and the fact that Britain has so many advisors giving a direction well it's indicative of the extent to which the which is establishment is embedded with an aggressive Zionist posture it's worth pointing out that this group is also advised by Mossad's former director of intelligence and counterterrorism chief

26:15Zohar Palti while the group senior advisor Draud Doron served for 17 years in Israel's government as a senior analyst in the prime minister's office but the point to make is that as far as I know and perhaps Patrick can correct me on this the now murdered Ayatollah Khamenei explicitly stated many times that it was not Iran's intention to produce nuclear weapons because it's against their religion to indiscriminately kill so many civilians the inevitable consequence of using nuclear weapons Iran of course sign the JCPOA under Barack Obama which was ripped up by the first Trump administration and is open to IAA inspection of course there's another country in the Middle East which has undeclared nuclear weapons so in a way this whole UNA thing is a phantom it's created in order to destroy the Iranian state not because it's actually concerned

27:21about a nuclear Iran given that the opportunities all the way along until a couple of weeks ago have been for a purely peaceful Iranian nuclear program yeah Patrick this is a good point that Basel makes here because I'd like to get your thoughts on this report first of all but also the fact that the UK narrative at the moment seems to be well the Ali Hhamenei was very moderate with respect to nuclear but his son the new head of state is quite the opposite and they're trying already to persuade us that he is extremely aggressively pro-Nuclear yeah then the important thing about this declassified report is you see these pressure groups these pressure groups with staffed with Israeli intelligence staffed with leading Israeli political figures melded in and mixed blended in with UK and US officials as well high profile people

28:26and these pressure groups have always existed they're working during the JCPOA this is how Trump attracted the attention of the Israeli lobby during the 2016 presidential campaign because he came out and spoke and how we're going to tear up the JCPOA it's a terrible deal it's a bad deal Obama's done it to etc the whole stick and why he did that why Trump withdrew from that deal is because if that deal was in place if the Iran nuclear deal that Obama put in place was in place there would be no pretext for the war that we're seeing right now they they withdrew in order to create the conditions or the excuse to wage war against Iran that's exactly why it was done it was done at the insistence of Israel so you know everything beside that is really academic yes indeed well look let's come on to the issue of oil prices and let's bring this on screen because the Trump administration has had to well what have they done back down are this is this

29:30an acknowledgement that the oil situation is so dire that they've now relaxed the sanctions on the purchase of oil from Russia I mean this is something that they said they would never do Patrick yeah well they've they've done it the extraordinary thing here Mike is that Russia hasn't had to do anything they've just had to sit back and wait for this situation in the Persian Gulf to continue to deteriorate so absolutely incredible and so this is I think in a you know the pendulum of geopolitics here is now swinging before our eyes and Donald Trump himself has made this some some crazy statements here I don't know if we have this this was on true social and ex he's basically saying the United States is the largest oil producer in the world by far so when prices go up we make a lot of money says Trump make a lot of money and his number one competition at least well in the 2028 presidential race on the democratic side will be competing against the

30:31Republicans as Gavin Newsom this is his response who's the we says Newsom making quote a lot of money from skyrocketing gas prices Donald Trump it's definitely not the America struggling to pay the extra 1.5 billion at the pump this week and prices in California right now Southern California we're looking at five dollars and 40 cents per gallon that's for unleaded the state's southwest states where I'm at slightly cheaper between 430 and 450 in Arizona right now this week and in these coast much cheaper because of course the supply chains are much more buoyant and easy to get to the pump on the east coast so it's much cheaper relatively speaking nonetheless it's going in this direction so and we have this announcement this week everyone knew this was coming $100 per barrel there's so much pressure coming from the futures market on this so that the more

31:32we see reports that the straits are closed the more you're going to see this upward pressure from the oil of futures market here on on the situation so what's that going to mean in terms of the U.S. lots of inflation so there's been a lot of lobbying to basically free up to free up the oil reserves the strategic reserves of these different countries here the international energy agency has agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil to address this short supply in the market now listen this is being hailed in the U.S. is some great victory okay 400 million barrels of oil if we run the numbers on this the shortfall from the closure of the straits of foremooses approximately 8 million barrels per day so really what you're talking about there is a 50 days supply of strategic reserves from many different countries so you have a situation after 50 days all these countries well depleted their strategic oil reserves and there's no guarantee

32:35we don't know how long this crisis is going to last based on statement conflicting statements coming out of the the White House on this so it's a it's a debacle in the making and it's going to mean we're going to have a severe economic shocks and repercussions from this here but again we'll go back to the times of India here U.S. waiver puts 19 million barrels of Russian oil back onto the market for India so there's a lot of pressures been put in the last year on India to stop buying Russian oil and as you know they're mixing the different oil products and doing sort of ghost shipments there with with Russian oil and India was heavily pressured by the U.S. tariff threats by Trump etc so now all of a sudden it's the markets back open for Russian oil in India so India and these countries like India South Korea Japan China they all rely on the Persian Gulf for a large percentage if not the majority of their oil and not only that we also

33:42have the the LNG issue from Qatar that's hitting the European prices on this in terms of supply shortages but guess who's got a bumper market mic for overpriced LNG into Europe well the United States of America so that's Trump's base big oil big gas they're very happy about all of this not but everybody else is going to be suffering Russia's also doing very well they're going to meet their balance of payments now probably over the next couple of months. Indeed and of course as you say it's going to be the rest of us that suffer from this because inflation is coming and it's not just Patrick it's not just oil prices that's of course a massive input costs and it's just about every area of the economy but if we look at the futures prices on fertilizer for example this is going to be a massive input cost increase on the cost of food production and of course farmers aren't going to get the prices that they need to cover the cost of that fertilizer so we're

34:43going to see even more pressure on the farming industry which is probably why we're seeing the the the food standards agency in the UK lauding factory grown food and insects today they've just released a new report so this is going to be massive for everybody's pockets in the not to distant future I guess asda can start restocking the cricket flower shelves after that whole product line failed over the last couple of years absolutely wonderful so not only food prices Mike inflation but food shortages as a result of that so it's this is serious and we don't see any serious commentary coming from our political leaders on this issue why is that complete silence or complete crickets no pun intended I think the pun was intended but okay well done and but let's move on then to the question of false flag because this is something that we've been talking about since this conflict began what's the latest well here's all the rage it's just

35:48a typical report here from the blaze blendbacks media outlet so they're all talking about sleeper cells sleeper cells in America this is dominating the the headlines on Fox and other networks in America leaked intelligence warns of Iran's potential revenge plot unleashing terror on us soil so there's so many of these and there's the crazy ones are coming over the Mexican border Iranian operations and cells coming there as well so it just gets crazier and crazier but here's where the main one and this was run by the New York Post was front running this this story is absolutely incredible so top US drone experts as Iran could make deadly California strike any moment now I'm looking at this mic and I'm like how what where's this coming from this is from a special report from the FBI but if you actually look at the details of this and we'll bring this back up on screen here and what are they saying here well they're saying that recently

36:49acquired information that as of early February 2026 the law Iran is allegedly aspired to conduct surprise attacks or revenge attacks or but wait a minute this predates the actual war with the war broke out on February 28th if I'm not mistaken so they're talking about be prior to that so that this thing does not add up whatsoever and you know a lot of the problems with the intelligence right now at the US is they're being exclusively fed and stoked piped intelligence from Israelis the Israeli intelligence are flooding the zone of the US DHS and also in the FBI and you wonder why you have all these absolutely rabid Zion pro Zionist pro Israeli homeland security secretaries why would the Israeli lobby be so interested in being in hand picked homeland security as Christy Noem got sacked and you've got the the new homeland security

37:53which they plucked out of Congress who has been groomed by the Israeli lobby has since he came into office so and then you see reports like this popping up it really should be no coincidence here and so we're saying is this a false flag it certainly looks like some kind of a bogus potential plot and if anything the fear value in America will probably do the job on its own without even having to launch these the serious drone attacks in California I mean what on earth how why but what's in what's in Southern California but the largest Iranian diaspora community and pro monarchist community happened to be in Los Angeles so I suppose that doesn't have anything to do with this I'm joking actually but anyway so on from there we have this report which you can marry up to the previous report the US Army that some drones have been stolen from Fort Campbell and Kentucky how is that possible they're offering up a giant reward mic of five thousand dollars

38:57for information the four stolen drones I mean how could something like that go missing from a secure facility it's weird so does this have anything to do with the previous story we're just lining these up and joining the dots maybe maybe we're just being paranoid here Mike and there's nothing really to see we should just move along I guess well we could move along let's move along to this then because you know the rhetoric from Trump just gets stronger and stronger I suppose because and it even brings the world of sport in so the question is is Iran going to be welcome at the world cup and well Trump is saying the Iran national soccer team is welcome to the world cup but I really don't believe it's appropriate that they be there for their own life and safety thank you for your attention in this matter I mean that's that's clearly a direct threat Patrick so the host the president of the country that's hosting the world cup

39:58is threatening a team that qualified for the world cup after launching an unprovoked undeclared war regression against that country maybe we should think about sanctioning the United States I mean just imagine Russia seems to be off the hook now and why not move the U.S. into that frame and they should be banned from all international sporting competitions I don't know it's just it's just an idea Basel in the past you have been 21st century wire sporting so what are your thoughts on this well the world cup you know it's supposed to be a joyful occasion where politics is put aside and the nations of our world come together in a spirit of fair competition and you know fans from different parts of the world all mixing and getting to know each other so I mean I think it actually can be a good thing it also of course to some extent reinforces the whole idea of the nation's state and pride in one's own country something that

40:58with globalists are always keen to denigrate but with respect to Iran they're qualified for the competition therefore they're fully entitled to be there there's also speculation that some other countries might boycott the event because of the illegal attack on Iran imagine for a moment it was being held in Russia as we know every time Russia's special military operation is mentioned in the UK media it's always you know described as unprovoked and illegal this war is unprovoked and illegal if the world cup was in Russia this year there would be a whole host of defections of boycotts but of course the United States is different isn't it particularly when acting on Israel's behalf but we could yet see some boycotts and I hate to have to say it but in a way I hope so yes indeed thank you Basil okay let's move on then and well if you like what the UK column does

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43:05a statement in the house they were eventually released later in the day and so we now have seen that they are pretty much nothing to get excited about there really was nothing terribly surprising or unusual in those and but Basil what are your thoughts on what's been happening around that whole issue oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive is of course a famous proverb from Sir Walter Scott's epic poem Marmy and and all the way back in 1808 he might have had Keir Starmer in mind were there any standards in public life these days or indeed have already made alternative to the prime minister from within the ranks of the parliamentary labor party then he might well be gone by now following the radio relations earlier this week then he knew more than he originally admitted about the Peter Mandelson situation and indeed he may have misled the House of Commons the leader of the green party has said that the files confirm

44:06Mandelson's malign influence run through this labor government starmer knew exactly the choice he was making when he appointed him he has to go that call has been echoed by the Scottish Labour leader Anna Sawa and numerous other politicians starmer says the documents show what was known about the relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at the time of his appointment and that it quote led to further questions being asked about the prime minister said the exchange cannot be published yet as it forms part of the police investigation Starmer could suffer further ministerial and administration resignations when the WhatsApp messages are published in the next tranche of Peter Mandelson files according to senior government sources speaking to the Guardian officials are bracing themselves for these upcoming releases which are expected to include informal communications alongside the former messages like those in the

45:11first batch starmer of course apologized again that yesterday over his handling of the appointment saying it was me that made a mistake and it's me that makes the apology to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and I do that but of course he hasn't apologized to the British people for making the appointment in the first place we're still waiting for that the disclosures of the WhatsApp messages are going to be examined by the intelligence and security committee of MPs and peers which will then judge which are safe to release on national security grounds so we can expect some heavy reductions at that point in a way that of course mirrors the reductions in the Epstein files themselves so the question we have to ask as well is out of a population of 60 million plus or whatever why was it deemed necessary to home in on someone Peter Mandelson known to carry

46:13such a massive reputation or risk and the answer of course lies in Mandelson's key roles in both Labour together and he's now defunct consultancy global council which counted palantir amongst their former clients now Labour MP Ian Byrne got to the heart of the crisis in the comments this week when he identified the clique at the top of the party and called on the prime minister and the general secretary to launch an independent investigation into Labour together well good luck with that Ian also in the comments this week Norwich Labour MP Clive Lewis said the appointment reflected a wider rotten political culture a 30 year project where proximity to wealth and power isn't a means to an end it is the end goal that's what Peter Mandelson represented and the secretary of the campaign group of Labour MP Richard Burgeon

47:14asked how Mandelson was even considered for the Washington job it is because it suited the interests of a tiny faction in the Labour party he said funded by big business which wanted Mandelson at the heart of things in order to shift the Labour government away from the agenda that a real Labour government should have and that of course is exactly what's happened is worth remembering that Starmer was talking about re-nationalising the water boards before coming to power and since long since booted that idea into touch Burgeon went on that is why Mandelson was popular with these people and that's why despite his despicable character despite his greed and avarice he was put in that position now speaking of Mandelson's avarice cabinet office minister Thomas Simons told Sky News yesterday you can look at the documents you can see on a value for money basis why the decision was made

48:17to pay Mandelson 75,000 pounds as a settlement Mandelson had originally requested 547,000 pounds that's his contract being paid up in full and he went on to where there was a risk of an employment tribunal that Mandelson had made bail threats to take the government to an employment tribunal I mean it sounds incredible when you think about it doesn't it I mean Mandelson has apparently denied intending to go down that route Thomas Simons himself expressed moral outrage over the payment and called for the money to be donated to a victim's charity well watch this base as they say if you think Mandelson's going to hand the 75 grand over meanwhile of course one of Mandelson's former clients Pallancy has come under renewed pressure this time from Medical Charity Med Act which says that Pallancy is NHS contract opens the door to Big Brother style data sharing that reform UK might use for a version of US

49:22immigration rates their report published yesterday is backed by doctors lawyers patients and human rights groups from the no-pallenty in the NHS campaign and has been sent to hospital trusts an integrated care board to nationwide it was shared with the Guardian and the BMG of course Pallancy here at the data analytics company founded by Peter Till and Alex Kant both of whom are known to Epstein I believe one of 330 million pound NHS contract to deliver the federated data platform the UK government is urging health bodies to adopt this platform which the health secretary was treating says will ensure the NHS is brought into the digital age but if you'd like if you're like me and you'd like to see all Pallenty government contracts cancelled then there is a petition online and I think we've got the slide for that 38 degrees stop Pallenty taking over our public services and if you haven't signed

50:22that already I would urge you to do so Basel thank you very much for that now let's just move on to the issue of job losses in AI and well here we've got an announcement from Atlassian this is an important update to our team apparently because Atlassian the tech company is going to fire 1600 employees in fact they already have done that because of their want their desire to invest in artificial intelligence they are not the only organisation to have announced this Oracle has announced already the figure that I heard a few days ago was 30,000 others are suggesting it could be as high as 45,000 job losses as they attempt they're saying that this is an order to allow them to have the money to invest in AI for the next stage of their AI rollout and Jack Dorsey's company block his company since he sold eck twitter to Elon Musk

51:26has also decided that it is going to cut jobs in order to invest in AI apparently so what are the AI companies saying about this we'll hear some Altman who's accusing these corporations of or these supposed they're not much more than startups really but anyway they employ lots of people Oracle is not the startup of course but they're accusing them of AI washing so in other words using AI as the excuse for making layoffs that they otherwise would have made but which would have perhaps gone down very badly with their various investors and so on so they're using AI as the mechanism that they can get away with the potential or at least turn the potential negative into a positive as far as the investors themselves are concerned so what's the space because I believe that over the next year or two we're going to see a much greater degree of farings as a result of the rollout of AI if we allow it to go that way because this is

52:28every company is of this type is disastrous to remove themselves of the obligations that they have under the various employment legislations in various parts of the world so they'll be delighted to hand that over to AI where they can we'll see where that goes I think they're going to massively overreach and find themselves in a bit of difficulty but Patrick let's come back to since we've mentioned Elon Musk and X just a second ago what's what have they been up to with respect to Israel? Well AI washing by Sam Altman is extraordinary AI is giving AI a bad name Mike it's it's absolutely tragic so this this is a story that caught a lot of some of our some people's attention but not enough not enough and this is a this is one of the best tech reports on this story that that luckily we have published this at 21centruari.com again great work by Freddie Ponton Musk in the verification trap exposing X users to Israeli intelligence now this is not

53:35a hyperbolic headline if you look at the details of what happened here it's extraordinary now this was brought to the attention of Elon Musk at the time that why is he using an Israeli company linked to Israeli intelligence to do all of the biometric and ID verification for X users why and Musk's strange relationship with autentics the shadowy Israeli identity verification company whose administrative credentials sat exposed on a public telegram channel for over a year at the same time X continued to mandate biometric data submission to this already compromised system I mean this is just unbelievable so if people knew Mike and so the question is what did Elon Musk know and when did he know it because this is at least corporate negligence and maybe maybe worse in fact but the fact that he's so tightly wound with with the state of Israel with Benjamin Netanyahu

54:37having to do with these sort of I guess a struggle session that he was pulled in to do after October 7th and also to visit Auschwitz with Jewish leaders and so forth that was all going on at the same time as this and we'll bring this back up again according to the cyber security from spider silk and 404 media outlet good media outlet by the way 404 for these types of stories the chief security officer at spider silk discovered that exposed credentials belonging to the autentics network operation center had been harvested by redline info stellar malware in December 2022 and posted on the telegram channel whether you remain for a year so what happened was rather than address this story after the fact Musk was just aloof pretended to be aloof totally avoided talking about it and then quietly did a shift later to to switch the identity verification job if you will to stripe okay now why why did he even use this autentics when users

55:45brought it to his attention and was kind of an uproar early on when then this was a time when Twitter became X okay right around the same time when they did the rebrand so I mean what is going on here I mean to me Mike this is extraordinary I'd like to know your thoughts on it but the the links to Israeli intelligence in this firm it's it's staff with 8200 veterans basically well that that is the key point Patrick because the problem is that as we're seeing this massive roll out of age verification right across the world originally if you remember driven by the online safety act but this is something that everybody has there's a bandwagon everybody has jumped on they are being unit 8200 spawned venture capital funded companies are right at the heart of this and and we've got such a spread of them right across the tech industry that is practically impossible to not be using one of these types of companies and you know unit 8200 with intelligence

56:53agency equivalent to the national security agency or the or GCXQ except that they openly admits to being offensive cyber war experts as well as being defensive allegedly that the NSA and GCHQ might say that they are but but anyway the point is they run an alumni network very similar to the type of thing that we've seen from other organizations like common purpose on a civilian level but when you've got a alumni network operating that's setting up and spawning tech startups in Silicon Valley and other parts of the world and and effectively taken over the entire western internet that this is a problem and it's something that I think people just have no awareness of and so we like to see these types of exposures exposés of these types of situations as often as we like there's one more aspect of this one that you need to realize as well think of all the pro-Palestinian

57:55activists think of the people who live in Gaza or who live in the West Bank or just internationally journalists people like that who support the Palestinian cause or are critical of Israel at some point in this story that we've just showed you all of their home addresses their driving license passports biometric data is potentially being handled by a firm based in Israel and that are staffed with Israeli intelligence veterans or you know former are they former are they present is there a difference at this point because we've made the same argument with all the CIA and NSA people that are staffing meta and staffing Google and so forth so that's that's that's that should concern people especially since the Israeli intelligence are using this type of profiling to target journalists in occupied Palestine and possibly in Lebanon as well to extend that

58:56you know globally on this that's basically what Elon Musk has opened up his user base to I mean the potential here for lawsuits is also quite quite massive so maybe that's why he's avoiding talking about this in public and indeed no doubt we'll be talking about that in extra in a couple of minutes but let's just end with this story then because metropolitan police has pushed out a press release now this is citing the head of the metropolitan police to Mark Roli who some are describing as having thrown down the gauntlet to mobile phone industry and this is all about taking action over stolen mobile phones now over the last year so a couple of years we have been saying press coverage in on the BBC and mainstream media showing video footage of mobile phones being stolen by children or young people on on scooters and so on and it's it's become a really big talking point over the last couple of years and now we're beginning to understand why now he is claiming

1:00:00that phone companies are leaving customers at risk until they take action to make stolen devices quote unusable bricks and he's talking about giving them a deadline of the first July and if they haven't done this by then he will be asking the Home Office to legislate to force them to do this now he was making these comments at the phone crime conference in London and he claims that he doesn't understand why tech giants haven't done more so let's just have a look at the quote from him here he said that while stolen phones remain file sorry while stolen phones remain valuable this market will continue only manufacturers and operating systems can break this model at source if by the end of June industry has now come forward in a genuinely serious solutions focused with concrete commitments that make stolen phones unusable anywhere in the world the Met will formally ask the government to legislate but look this is bad for us all for a number of reasons

1:01:04and it's got nothing to do with keeping us all safe from having our phone stolen and this is building on building what's effectively a legally mandated or certainly he wanted to be a legally mandated remote kill switch on every phone sold in the United Kingdom it's going to grant the state the technical capability to disable personal communications at any time the same infrastructure that bricks a stolen phone could insprinciple be misused by authorities or demanded under legislation like the Investigatory Pars Act for other purposes and he said that for breaking after a theft he's expecting that to be done within 90 minutes but there'll be no due process there's no independent verification of that step before a device would be permanently disabled and in the current environment we've got to ask what the risks are in this and so I think this is something that should concern us all aside from the fact that what this would actually do is prevent any

1:02:06independent we put all the independent repair businesses like their other business immediately because what one of the things that they're they're absolutely requiring is that only any repairs or any changes done to the system itself of a mobile phone would have to be done by the manufacturer and that each chip would be actually coded to the specific device so there's lots to talk about around this but it is in the legislative environment that we're in at the moment this is a dangerous slippery slope to be joining and we'll talk more about this an extra as well but look we've got to leave it there for today I want to say thank you very much to Basel and to Patrick for contributions today and to everybody that's been watching stay with us if you're UK call member Charles will be joining an extra to talk more about his experiences at RAF Fairford yesterday and otherwise don't forget germ tonight at 7000 words podcasts at 7 on Sunday

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