UK Column News - 27th February 2026

Good afternoon. It's Friday, the 27th of February, 2026, just after 1 o'clock. Welcome to UK Column News. I'm your host Mike

Robinson. My host is Judo today, Brian Garrish. Welcome to program Brian. Pleasure to be here.

And we'll be joined today once again by Basel Valentine. And I litter in the program Brian is

going to be reporting on Hillary Clinton's appearance to give evidence on Epstein plus British

politicians Epstein and Morocco. Basel will be covering the man and nottingham who was not

put in a mental institution because he's black and who went on to commit murder. And I'm going to

be covering the reform of the justice system in the UK, including a massive AI rollout. And

Patrick will be joining us again, at least in a recorded form to report from Mexico on the continuing

unrest there. But we're going to begin today with the Gordon and Denton by election. And

well, David Lamy was tweeting this site yesterday the day before. If we bring that on screen,

pride to be knocking doors today for Labour's brilliant candidate. Only Labour can stop reform.

If you're in Gordon and Denton vote for unity, hope and local renewal over division and hit.

Well, I wonder how that went. So was Labour the only organisation or the only party that could

stop reform? Well, the turns out it was not. So let's just bring the results on screen here.

So the Greens won by 40.7% reform, 28.7, Labour 25.4. And then the rest conservatives didn't even show.

So, Basil, let me welcome you to the programme at this point and take us through your cover,

your sort of view on what happened last night.

Oh, great to be with you, Mike. Yes, it was a thumping great win for the Greens. That's

the first thing to note. A lot of people have been predicting a very close call latest polls

before we got the results showing a virtual freeway tie between reform, the Greens and Labour.

But in the end, the Greens got a 4,000 majority. Their share of the vote, 41%, is four times bigger

than their previous best by election results. And represents an increase in both five times larger

than anything they'd previously achieved, worth perhaps noting too, that the Conservative party got

just 2%. It's never been a Tory constituency, but nevertheless, officials for Green and Labour

both cited the Gaza genocide as still being a key factor. It's initiated a Labour soul-searching

crisis for many years. Labour reveled in the fact that so-called progressives had nowhere else to

go. That was a quote attributed famously to Peter Mann or son of all people. And that the fact

that Labour were benefiting from the fact that the Greens were a blank party filling your own word

for that. Labour Minister used an expletive to describe them. But saying that Labour would be

under threat should the Greens improve their leadership with a more articulate and, you know,

altogether more populist leader. Well, they've got that now in Zack Polanski. And as a result,

you know, they won this thumping result. Difficult, of course, to criticise Polanski

for the party's stance on Israel and Gaza, given that he himself is Jewish. But nevertheless,

the appropriate that's being heaped on the party because of their stance on Israel, Gaza,

and indeed at the upcoming spring conference, the due to debate and motion that Zionism is racism,

something that's prompted an official response from the Israeli embassy here in the UK.

Labour for their part, well, Stamos already been criticised for his response to the defeat,

downplaying the scale, saying it was typical for governing parties to lose by elections like that.

It's partly true, but not to this extent. I mean, this had been a Labour seat for 100 years.

It shows that the old demographics, the assumptions that people in certain parts of the country,

from certain backgrounds, would automatically vote one way or another, whether that's for the

Conservatives or for Labour, that's been completely destroyed. Greens won this seat comfortably,

reformer in second, Labour a very poor third, and the tour is nowhere. The message that comes out

of it is that people are heartily fed up of the Uniparty that has served them so badly

on the doorsteps. Of course, people talking about the cost of living crisis,

something that Labour has singularly failed to address.

Hansky this morning went interview by Nick Robinson, said he wanted to introduce a wealth

tax that wealth and power had been concentrated in far too few hands for too long. Nick Robinson said,

oh, well, a wealth tax or just simply drive all the millionaires and billionaires over season.

Polansky countered by saying that Switzerland has a wealth tax and is known for its high percentage

of high net worth individuals. So this is going to rumble on the ramifications of this,

what Labour does in future, who knows? Labour MPs are calling variously per starma himself to step

down or for at least to be a complete change of direction, and mostly they want Labour to go left

because they have been outflanked. From the left here, in fact, Stan was also criticized for

describing the Greens as extremist. So it's really put the cat among the pigeons, so to speak.

People love all the hyper bowl, these by-elections. I can remember going all the way back to

Roy Jenkins winning Glasgow Hill ahead for the nascent social democratic party.

People predicted the end of the two party system then. That proved premature, but this time

I think it's actually happening. But I mean, Basil, I would probably argue that

we have been arguing for quite some time that whether it's green or reform,

this is just another expression of the Uniparty and the veneer that they're putting on themselves

of being something different. Perhaps, doesn't quite stack up when you start looking under the

surface? Well, I don't know that that's true, certainly of the Greens. You know,

been talking about getting out of NATO. They were attacked by Labour for their policies on

immigration, supposedly open border. That will have limited appeal in most of the UK.

Also, their drug policy to legalize all drugs. And Labour were going around saying that they

would be showing primary school children, the Greens want to show primary school children how to

take drugs safely. I don't know if that's true, but personally, I think the Greens do represent

distinct alternative and they may well be in alliance at the next general election.

With your party, that's what they've decided to call it now. The Corbyn-Zara Sultana led

left Labour party, which recently had its central executive committee elections. The Corbyn

slate did best of all. They are finally getting themselves together. It would appear.

And there's a lot of talk of an electoral pact between the Workers' Party of Britain,

who of course have very different immigration policy from the Greens. The Workers' Party,

that your party, and indeed the Greens, to outflank Labour from the left.

Well, look, let's just have a quick listen to the couple of seconds of Hannah Spencer's acceptance

speech. And what I want to do then is, well, we'll watch this and then we're going to contrast that

with comments from my good ones. So let's listen to her first.

Okay, bear with me, because this is a lot. I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician.

I'm a plumber. And two weeks ago, during all this, I also qualified as a plasterer,

because even in chaos, even under pressure, I get things done. I am no different to every single

person here in this constituency. I work hard. That is what we do.

Except things have changed a lot over the last few decades, because working hard used to get

you something. It got you a house, a nice life, holidays. It got you somewhere. But now,

working hard, what does that get you?

So that was the beginning of what she went on then to talk about the immigration situation

and the suggestion that, in fact, the Greens, as you say, Basel, were very keen to have open

borders. But let's just have a look at the comments made then by Matt Goodwin when he was asked why

reform had done so relatively badly, or, you know, compared to the expectations.

Sectorianism, that's what happened. We more than doubled our vote. We're in Labour's backyard.

We're the second political force in this seat. We have planted a flag in Northern England.

You'll have seen the reform boards up and down this constituency. More than 10,000 people voted

for us. We can go on to Labour constituencies across Northern England, into the Red Wall,

into Wales. We can win those seats. We will win those seats. Again, the Greens can only pull

this kind of result off in a small number of seats. We can do this everywhere. Our ground game

is the best game in British politics. We're not resorting to Sectorian politics to get us over

the line. So his view is that reform can come second every where apparently. But anyway, I

realise that was probably a slip up. But look, Basel, this allegation of Sectorianism, what's your

view on that? Well, in terms largely, in this case, apparently from the Greens producing leaflets in

Urdu for members of the Pakistani community. And there's no doubt that politics has become

more tribal in the last few years. Can we bathe in the leader of the Rump known as the Conservative

Party's issue to statement this morning, blaming Labour for that shift, saying that it's Labour

that had been stirring up division among communities for decades prior to this result.

But I think we're certainly going to see more of this kind of pattern emerging in the future.

The demographics breakdown of the way people voted indicates that for one of a better way of

putting it, the sky news did a breakdown on this. White people voted for the most part for reform.

White people also voted for the Greens. Let's not forget that. But of course, the Greens also

benefited from winning almost the entire Muslim vote. Larger, of course, because of the

girls of genocide. So if people want to get away from Sectorian politics, then a good start

would be a universal condemnation of genocide. Absolutely, 100%. Now, just to sort of reinforce this

point, Richard Deerlove, a couple of days ago before the election result was I'd had this to say

about Zack Polanski and actually seemed to be heading one or two of the same kinds of points

as Matt there. So let's have a look, listen to this.

I'm afraid I do. I think his view of geopolitics is verging on the absurd.

This man is really dangerous. I dislike intensely the campaign that he's running in this

by-election, which is designed to capture the Muslim fate. He has made crazy statements about

NATO. He's come up with some weird idea about a lands militarily with Brazil and Mexico.

Now, of course, that completely misrepresents the position that Polanski was expressing no matter

what you think about the man himself, because he was saying that Britain should be in alignment

with the EU, with other nations and also nations in the global south, including Brazil and Mexico.

He wasn't suggesting just Brazil and Mexico. But anyway, what we should remember, of course,

is who Richard Deerlove is, former head of MI6. And of course, this tweet, which was underneath the,

it was a comment underneath that particular video clip, made this point very clearly. And of

course, this is absolutely valid. Mr. Deerlove knew all about the satanic sex traffic and black male

op of Maxwell and Epstein. He did nothing. How much help did he give them while they were in Europe?

And these are valid criticisms. So, you know, it is pretty rich, him making comments on domestic politics.

Well, I'm laughing. It's black humor. It's outrageous, really, the way these people step into

the limelight and then try and hold the moral high ground, because the security services in UK

have absolutely refused. It would appear to investigate what's been going on with child abuse

as just one subject at high level. And then they started meddling politics like this. I just

find it appalling. Well, look, let's stick with the abstinence. So, let's just kick off for

the little BBC clip. No apologies, but it's quite interesting because Jess Parker from the BBC is

is asking some questions of Hillary Clinton. Let's just have a little look at how the girl did.

Do you regret the links that they have been? You know, we have no links. We have a very clear

record that we've been willing to talk about, which my husband has said. He took some

rides on the airplane for his charitable work. I don't recall ever meeting him.

Did you have a meet delay in Maxwell? I did on a few occasions and thousands of people go to

the Clinton Global Initiative. So, it to me is not is not something that is really at the heart

of what this matter is about. They are accused and in both cases were convicted of horrific

crimes against girls and women. That should be the focus. And we are more than happy to say what we

know, which is very limited and totally unrelated to their behavior or their crimes. And we want to

do it in public because let's make this transparent. There are calls for another individual who

denies from doing to go before Congress on this matter. Andrew Mambatton wins a formally prince

Andrew. Do you think he should testify? I think everybody should testify. Look, including the former

prince. I think everybody should testify. Who would ask to testify? I just want it to be

fair. I want everybody treated the same way. That's not true for my husband and me because

other witnesses were asked to testify. They gave written statements under oath. We offered that.

They want to pull us. Why did they want to pull us into this? To divert attention from President

Trump. This is not complicated. So really interesting clip. I saw that earlier on this

morning. Mike, I think you're seeing it for the first time. But just fascinating to see the way

that she behaves there because I can tell you if you look at more of that interview, she is clearly

under pressure at one stage. But then she seems to gain the upper hand and says, well, yeah, we

were connected, but we didn't do anything wrong. She doesn't mention weddings. Well, that doesn't

come to light in this video clip that brought her into contact with Giselle Maxwell.

But then she's saying something really interesting that they're picking on us. We are saying

we'd have put in a written testimony. We're quite happy to do that. We've got nothing to hide.

My husband just got on the plane because of his charitable works. And of course, we can trust Bill

Clinton when we remember back to the Monica Zelensky affair. So what is she really talking about?

Well, she says she's being picked on in a way. I think she is being picked on because this takes

the heat of the people really involved. And we've said over recent days as well that Andrew is

absolutely constantly in the spotlight. But what is happening to investigate all the other high

level people? So my kind of, I don't know what you'd add to that, but I just found this a fascinating

little clip. This is theater. I don't know what about the guilt or innocence of any of the people

that have been mentioned so far, but the fact of the matter is the way this looks to be is

throw Madison, throw Andrew to the walls, throw Hillary Clinton to the walls.

Hopefully by picking a few high profile people that everybody else was involved gets away with it.

That doesn't mean that anybody is should be getting away with anything. Everybody should be

under a significant scrutiny and there needs to be a massive investigation indeed. So let's dig

deeper. I'm going to stay with the BBC because something else the BBC was promoting this morning

was this article here, which is that Epstein, according to the released emails, Epstein,

have been trying to buy a palace in Morocco days before his arrest in 2019. And he ended up

signing an 11 million wire transfer on the 5th of July 2019, the day before his arrest,

following an agreement to buy the offshore company that owns the property. Now in the BBC article,

they get into the sort of arrangements of the property in some detail. And the question is

asked was he trying to buy this in order to escape the US, but the timescale seems to be very

short and it didn't work out anywhere. The article also points out that the released files,

the Epstein files appear to show that in 2010, Epstein asked former Labour Cabinet Minister

Manderson to find him an assistant who could help find Epstein a house in Marrakesh.

So those clips are directly from the BBC reports. And if we dive in a bit deeper as the

youngsters like to say these days, so Epstein's connections to Morocco go back to at least the early

2000. Virginia Guffrey, one of his most prominent accusers, talks are being flown to Tangier by

Epstein and Maxwell to inspect the interior of properties. And if we just bring it a bit more,

in 2002, Epstein attended the wedding of them, Rock and King, having been invited by former US

President Bill Clinton. So this is a nice little circuit of people, very powerful. What were they

up to? Well, that's of course what we need the intelligence services, the FBI and the CIA to be

investigating. But so this report is fascinating what it tells us because it goes on to say that the

documents, the sale, sorry, the documents from the Epstein files show that Epstein made periodic

visits to Morocco from 2012. He stayed in the exclusive parliamentary district and there were a lot

of ex-pats there, including Katari royal family people and one of whom Epstein described as his

Arab brother. And this one here will end on this last excerpt. Subsequently, Epstein had to use his

girlfriend and her network of contacts in Morocco to conduct further inspections of the property.

And in 2018, he visited the property, this very sumptuous property, before final bids were made,

but because he'd made a very low bid earlier on, the seller got pretty surety. And so here at one

stage, it appears that they were trying to use Leon Black's name as a billionaire investor friend

of Epstein's help sale go through. Now, why am I picking up on this BBC report? Well, of course,

is what the BBC doesn't talk about. And if I just bring on this slate 2015 article,

I could have chosen many others, but it says, what's it like to be gay in Morocco? And the first

thing that comes up is that it talks about a square in Marrakesh and it says that that is the

city's primary gay cruising spot after dusk. And if we bring it a little bit more of the article,

they go on to say at one particular point, Yves Saint Laurent had a home in Tangier for many years,

as well as a villa in Marrakesh. And the darker side of this period in Tangier's history is

apparent in the diaries of the English playwright Joe Orton, which made clear he was none too

fussed about the age of the boys he was picking up there. Now, this is the key points that when you get

you get into Morocco and the dark side of Morocco, very young men, young boys and children are

available, many of whom are available because of extreme poverty in the country. Now, UK column

has held material over many years that were kindly given to us by the late Colonel Barry Turner,

one of a number of retired ex-military people desperately worried about what they saw as

corruption in this country. I've put on screen heavily redacted to Scaliwag from pages,

but why are we interested in these documents? Well, if we bring it in in the 1990s, Scaliwag was

carrying detailed reports alleging perverse corruption in Britain's political elite, including

in Morocco. And this was across the political divide, so it was Dories and Labour. These are some

of the articles in the gay gardens of Morocco's secret meetings missing cabinet papers and boys

galore. And if I just bring in a little more detail on this particular article, it's talking about

the procuring of children. And if we just expand this bit on screen, it's talking about a 24-year-old

in Risi, unemployed student of chemistry who supplies hashes to the hotels that have tourists,

and the reporters from Scaliwag met him. And he was happy in the gardens of a very posh hotel

to offer them children from the ages of 6 to 16, 16 pounds of boy. But they also pointed out

that if you want to do, if you want to do harm a child physically, you were going to resort

to physical violence as part of the sexual interaction with the child, that was going to cost you

a lot more. Now, the very brave reporters of Scaliwag even emphasised the horrors of what was

going on here in that particular edition by putting out an advert, and they were simply

emphasising the trail of perverted abuse. And let's remember that according to their allegations,

they were talking very senior political people in UK, UK's government. These are indicative of

other headlines that Scaliwag has had to regate love nests exposed. And if I remember correctly,

this links through to Dolphin Square type abuse in London. They were also investigating the abuse of

children in care homes and residential homes, very detailed well put together articles. And eventually

the editor Simon Regan of Scaliwag was prepared to challenge one of the biggest

libel law firms in the country over the accuracy of what they were saying. It was a challenge. We

are reporting this. You come for us if you want to. Well, at one particular stage, a challenge

was made to Scaliwag, and that cost them money. But it appears... We'll talk about that in a second,

but just before we move on to that, then Brian, you should maybe say something, but why we have

redacted those images? Well, it's a reduction of not only some images, but it's also text, because

the names being mentioned are people who are still very much currently serving in the political

arena. We get back into this very difficult situation where people have done extremely good

investigative journalism in their reports. But the danger is that mention under the current

libel laws means that there is a suppression of people trying to take the lid off the abuse of

children. Basil, just before I move on, will there do you have any comment to make on what we've

talked about here? Well, only that from my involvement in student politics at Cambridge University,

they're always sort of dark whispers about the activities of some individuals in the conservative

party like that. It was all regarded as a bit of a joke at the time, you know, a harmless joke,

really, that there might be some torries who like little boys and things. And of course,

there's that famous quote from the former chief whip saying that people would go and people go

to the whips office if they had a problem, perhaps some unpaid debts or something to do with

small boys. So I never came across it personally myself, but as I say, there were always sort of

whispers often in in joke form. Thanks for that. I just told this up on screen. That's one of the

issues we've got. We have a whole bundle of reports here that make extremely interesting reading.

But of course, let's remember what the journalists were trying to do. They were trying to

get the lid off the abuse, horrific abuse of children by very powerful people. And I think to

some extent, it appears that they paid the price for doing that. Well, yes, well, let's bring the

Scaliwag archive on screen because that is available if you want to go and see some of the

contents of this. But I just wanted to highlight a couple of quotes from this website because it says

here, Scaliwag most famously was sued for libel by John Major over an article claiming he was

having that major was having an affair with the domestic Claire Latimer. This cost Scaliwag dearly.

Of course, it turns out the major was having an affair, but with Edwina Curry, the editors had

been sold a red herring. And although strapped for cash, they battled on. It was only after

mysterious break in to the office when crucial files and computers were removed that Simon began

to lose heart. And then it goes on to say that Angus went on to produce spiked a couple of issues

which you can also find on the Scaliwag archive site. Angus was killed in a car accident in

inverted commas. Simon died in 2008. Thwarted in his attempts to expose his attempts to expose

pedophilia in high places. Well, look, the investigations that they carried out, as you say, Brian were

absolutely spectacular. And I would say that nobody has come close to date to what they

identified, particularly what was taking part place in Morocco. And of course, now we are seeing

the links with Epstein and Morocco. Why would he want to go there? Beautiful property is one thing,

but easily obtained small children at a very cheap price would be another, I would guess,

attractive thing for him. Indeed. Now, related to this, of course, just a week ago, we put out a

recording of a presentation was given at a UK Column event at 2015. If you haven't seen it yet,

it's called from rather to Epstein. I absolutely recommend everybody watches this and please do

share it as widely as you possibly can, because it is extremely important. I think that we all

have an understanding of how this pedophilic system works. It is systemic, it is systematic,

and it is something that has not gone away, nothing has changed. And so we've got to be aware

that whatever has happened historically, it's still happening. Indeed. Okay, let's move on to

the justice system then, and let's bring David Lamy on screen, because having just returned

from the AI summit in India, he then headed straight to the Microsoft AI tour at the Excel Center

in London on Tuesday to give a speech on the modernization of the justice system, the so-called

justice system. It was a bit hilarious because the people there were somewhat, well, there weren't

necessarily interested in what he was saying. But anyway, what he did say was that he wanted to

present his vision for the future of the court system, and that will, he said, deliver faster and

fairer justice for victims by combining investment reform and modernization. Now, I'm quite sure

it's not his vision. I'm sure it's somebody else's, and I'm sure that it isn't going to deliver

faster in fairer justice for victims. I think it's more likely, much more likely that this is all

about building out another part of the panopticon, but let's just have a listen to a little bit of

what he said. And I do suggest you try not to lose your lunch, but let's listen to this.

I can announce that we will fund unlimited sitting days in the Crown Court next year.

This will be the highest number ever funded in the history of this country. We will also fund

the magistrate's courts to hear as many cases as we estimate the system can deliver, backed up by

funding to recruit and train more magistrates to meet the demand and a national campaign to

boost the ranks of our magistrate, increasing its size to 21,000 by 2029. Together this will enable

the criminal courts to get through more work than ever before, and of course it means that victims

get justice as quickly as possible. It is part of a record, 2.78 billion settlement for the courts

and the tribunals over the coming year, which includes 287 million for the fabric of the estate

itself, delivering more vital repairs and digital upgrades to court buildings up and down the country.

Okay, so that's what he had to say, 2.45 billion. That seems like value for money, Brian.

Yeah, let's get people into court. This is the important thing, of course. The backlog that

drives all of his agenda and levisants agenda as well, comes on the excuse of the damage done

jury lockdown, but let's get more people into court. Mike, for me, this man is one of the most

dangerous people in the country. Levisants there on his shoulder, but softly spoken, but this is

the dictatorship being put into place in front of our eyes. Well, let's bring it back on screen

then, because he said out several key measures that will be taken forward from part 2 of

Sir Brian levisants independent review of criminal courts. I laugh at that statement, but anyway,

this, he said that levisants considered the way cases are listed. So the national listing,

framework is another thing that he has announced, and this is supposedly about standardizing

the process of how it's decided when cases are heard and so on. Now, there's no mention of this

new court listing framework being made available to the press of the public following the removal

of that facility that we reported on a week or two ago, but he says it's going to help address

what many of you as a postcode lottery for victims of crime, and this is going to help ensure

serious cases like rape and sexual offenses are treated with the consistency and urgency the

deserves. So that's his position. So these are the key areas that they want to advertise.

They are talking about the highest ever funding deal, when he talked about that a second ago.

No crime court sitting days caps, so no more restriction on the number of days that the

crime court can be sitting 287 million in the estate and digital upgrades and funding for

magistrates courts at full capacity, as I say, that he then describes what sitting days are,

and they talk about the key role in how quickly cases move through the system.

And so on, but then he went on to say last year we piloted an AI tool. So now we start to get to the

the basis of the thing. So they're talking about piloting an AI tool there in the probation service

justice transcribe, which records meetings between officers and defenders, and the need for

handwritten notes to be typed up later. He wants to see many more AI initiatives like this. So

they're going to invest more in the in house justice AI unit, 12 million in additional funding.

But on top of that, they're going to go even further because they're going to strengthen the

relationship with Microsoft and others, piloting the solutions of UK based startups in order to create

as you will see in one second, an unprecedented partnership between the public and private sectors.

And that's what this is all about. It's this massive public-private partnership

that Ben Ruben talks about. So often this is absolutely key to how the governance of this country

is being changed. Let's just have a brief listen to how he justified this.

We face an uncomfortable truth. The world has changed and the justice system has not.

From our huge investment in our courts bigger than ever before, to our comprehensive reform

program, the biggest since 1971, we will renew the system after years of decline so that it's

serious about justice as it exists today. And once again, we're able to deliver the

swifter outcomes that victims should be able to expect and have always deserved.

So it's usual froth. It's all about the victims helping the victims. But of course the courts

are closing in on free people. Absolutely. So then yesterday, Lamy announced the courts and

tribunal bill, which is the legislation which is going along with all this. And he also produced

shiny new propaganda website. If we bring that on screen to add further justification,

all this, it's pathetic, really. But anyway, just finally, we leave that on screen on juries.

In a speech, he claimed that these changes are not going to diminish the role of juries,

because juries are the cornerstone he said of justice in the UK. And then with a perfectly

straight face, he said that he will diminish the role of juries, of course, by removing them for

more types of cases than ever, because jury trials take twice as long as other kinds of trials.

What we knew this was coming, and we at the UK Columnment from Brian has reported this recently.

But my question is with the direction of travel that we're saying here, how long is it going to be

before juries emit up of 12 clawed or chat GPT agents? Because that seems to be where we're heading.

Absolutely. That's where we're heading. They want to get rid of human beings in the system,

because human beings can show compassion, and we bring in jury nullification, which helps us

absolutely remove bad law, AI solves all that problem. So yes, okay, let's move on then.

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Let's just have a quick look at the trailer for this.

The threat is if you leave the cult, God will come down to smite you. Just everything shattered.

Like, you know, there's no democracy. There's no media. There's no true journalism.

Well, I grew up in a cult and then in a Muslim cult. Cult within a cult.

Amy, arrive at the studio. I need to pee. So I quickly go to the toilet. David Hike,

isn't the far right corner. Exactly as I envisioned him. In a blue sky jumper.

All right, taking a p***.

So join join us on Sunday evening at 7pm, Doc Malik. They're the guest of Jake Furn to be

painted. So at a belief, you're not too far away from this yourself. Brian, from from what might

for Portrait? Well, yes. Portrait last time I saw it had been sort of 90% completed. I think

I got off pretty lightly. It was a very enjoyable experience because we had a lot of fun talking.

But, um, yeah, sat in the chair. I did mention the dentist at one point, which I don't think.

I don't think that made Jake laugh, actually. But we will see what the audience think of, uh,

of my Portrait. I'm shaking my head. Yeah. But that's that's for a future month.

Doc Malik is the next one. So join us at 7pm on Sunday for that.

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And much more from Mark to come, a couple of interviews on the way in the next few days.

Right. Brian, on Monday's program, you showed a little bit of Patrick's initial report from

Mexico on what had been happening there, following the killing of the drug lord.

What, uh, he sent another report today. Well, he's sent a very comprehensive report.

It's too long for us to show as one on today's news. So we've got some segments, which I think

are really excellent. And what we'll do is we'll run through those. So this first one is really

an introduction again, a scene setter where Patrick is there in Mexico and he's talking about

being there and what's happened. And then we'll work through into the other segment segments

when he starts to focus in on more detail about who's involved. And ultimately, what political,

geopolitical forces seem to be impacting on Mexican politics. So let's have a look at Patrick

in a pretty sunny location. I'm still a little bit jealous. It will be at a troubled,

a troubled place at the moment. We're reporting from Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. This is on the

west coast of the country. And on Sunday, February 22, the unthinkable happened. This is normally

a place a destination known for its sun. It's great weather. This is a major tourist hub,

not only for Americans, but for Canadians as well as Europeans. And in the early hours of Sunday,

a raid took place. The Mexican federal forces conducted a raid on a cartel member from the

Jalisco cartel new generation. And his name was Nemicio Almanso Asaguerre, Suvantes. And this is a

major cartel leader that was apparently killed during the raid. Now, this was meant to capture him,

but he did die on route to hospital facilities. Four other gunmen were also killed during this raid.

As a result of this, the cartel in question mounted a massive wave of retaliation beginning here

in Puerto Vallarta. And this was the early hours of Sunday morning. This resulted in unrest on the

streets. There were clashes between law enforcement and the cartel members, but most notably,

there were buses and cars burned. Tax happened all over the city. This wasn't even confined

to Puerto Vallarta. This is a city of approximately 300,000 of which there are upwards of 50,000 of

those are expats from North America and other destinations have settled down here. So big

international presence in terms of foreigners. Now, other cities in the Alisco region and this

part of Mexico, like Guadalajara, were also affected by the clashes and the unrest. Even as far

south as Cancun, it was a city that was under lockdown. Now, the raid took place in Topalpa. Now,

this is known as a sort of cartel stronghold, which is located approximately 400 kilometers

southeast of Puerto Vallarta where we are now. But the retaliation was all across the city.

Buildings were set on fire. We have been given footage from some of the people who live here.

We'll show some of that, but buildings were set on fire cars, set on fire. Buses as well,

taxis. We even have one report of a taxi, which was attacked outside or very near the conference

center where we were participating. So a really good introduction there. But one of the key things

that Patrick had stressed was that for most people in Mexico, the thing emerged out of nowhere,

so the destruction of the violence appeared on the streets and that was a big shock and then there

was a lockdown now as it's calmed down. More pieces are coming to the surface. So in this next

report from Patrick, he's having a little bit more about the drivers and so he's talking politics

and he's also in particular talking about the power of the cartels, one in particular.

This was deemed by the Mexican authorities as a Codingo Rojo, which is Code Red.

So major civil emergency and looking at this, just stepping back, my initial

evaluation, my initial feeling was this was a power struggle. This is a constant power struggle

between law enforcement in Mexico. It's not confined to Mexico, of course, there's other central

American countries where this power struggle is ongoing and of course the cartels and various

government agencies and the various cartels. A new generation of Halisco being one of the biggest

and most powerful, not just in Mexico, but in the world in fact. So normally what you would have

is a symbolic retaliation. If governments mounted any kind of operation like this and the cartels

have to retaliate, they have to have a show of force. Otherwise they could risk be, you know,

other rival cartels could see this as weakness. So they have to make a statement, a public statement,

i.e. driving buses into intersections, you know, holding up the economy of a city like Puerto

Vierta, you know, it's a major disruption. It's a major statement. So they did that. What the

government did in return is, well, it's odd because, you know, we saw that streets were empty.

As you can see from the footage, which we shared at the time, the streets were empty. We didn't see a lot

of EMS, certainly not a lot of fire departments. I mean, in many cases these buildings is burned

and cars just burned. So no EMS, very few police officers, at least where we were in the center

of the city. So it was a bit strange. I mean, people were speculating whether this was staged.

There's all sorts of theories abound as you could imagine here, because no one had ever seen

anything quite this extensive, especially hitting multiple cities as well. So from that point of

view, it was unique in the unique event. We knew we were seeing something here that, you know,

hadn't seen before. But with cartels like CJ and G, or the Helisco cartel new generation, you'll see,

this is their brand, which is on all of their products here. So they have a near monopoly,

you could say, in terms of, in the drug trade through Mexico, and you'll see this is their,

their sort of corporate brand, if you will, of the cartels, which appears on all their products

to ensure, you know, the product's quality and reliability, much like an international corporation.

So they're protecting their brand, and they're well-known throughout the region and beyond.

I mean, that's a very interesting point. My question is, do international corporations actually

behave any differently to the Mexican drug cartel? Well, the international corporations try to do

it as if they are squeaky clean, at least if you deal with a cartel, you know what you're dealing with.

So maybe the cartel get the, get the points on that. Really tremendous reporting from

Patrick, and this next sex assigment, he is delving deeper into what I call the geo-political drivers.

So it's happening in Mexico, but what actually is also impacting on the country and who's got

a finger in the pie, and it's similar to this next segment. Just before this, there were

reports that Claudia Scheinbaum, she is the president of Mexico, she had been instituting a major

crackdown, you know, taking out some of the corrupt officials at the mayoral level, county

or regional level, as well as within the federal government, from the previous

over-door government, and also the Calderon government, just sort of legacy positions that were

somehow caught up in the middle of these corruption rings between government cartels and politicians.

So that was going on, and then this happened. Now, this is, you often also look at the fact is,

if you want to really now see what might be driving this geo-politically, this comes on the heels

of Trump making major announcements that he is going to, you know, use the US military to take

down the cartels. So think about that for a moment, and then Trump was accusing the Mexican

president Scheinbaum of saying the cartels are running Mexico. She's not running Mexico,

says Trump, the cartels are running Mexico. A major sort of insult, but at the same time, she's

cooperating with the US government and the US intelligence and so forth to try to, you know,

restrict the flow of drugs coming in, most notably fentanyl into the United States.

So this is all going on. By the way, Elon Musk also piles in claiming that she's working for

the cartels or something to that effect. And now, Scheinbaum is suing Elon Musk for defamation,

so that that's another byproduct of this. It seems like Musk wants to get in Trump's good book

by attacking Trump's perceived political enemies. Now, when I say perceived political enemies,

why would the Mexican president be an enemy of Trump? Well, there's a lot of potential answers

to that, but one of them is that Scheinbaum wants to aid Cuba. The US is imposing a military blockade

on Cuba to strangle the country and create, you know, famine, chaos, just punish Cuba for having

the government it does. So it's not allowing fuel in. Things are getting to a crisis moment in Cuba.

Mexico is one of those countries that will come to the aid of Cuban, you know,

wants to deliver oil to them to break the US blockade. So that's quite interesting if you think about it.

Now, make a mental note there for a second as to that. That's an important data point there. The

second is Trump has recently proscribed, Trump has recently proscribed the various drug gangs

as terrorist groups. Okay, what does that mean? That means that when the US government or the

British government or anybody prescribes some kind of a gang or organizations a terrorist group,

it means that they can take away due process and it means they can engage with that supposed

terror threat judicially or extra legally outside of the legal process, outside of the normal

judiciary or constraints of law. This is what, this is what designating terrorist groups gives

Western governments in the 21st century the ability to bypass any due process or law just by

labeling them an international terrorist group. What does this do? This gives the US the ability

to engage inside Mexico, either from an intelligence point of view or from a military point of view

as well. So this potentially is open the door. The other thing this has done is put a lot of pressure

on shine bomb because what's happened here is that this is not only does she want to assist Cuba

which obviously is angering Washington that anybody would dare to give any humanitarian assistance

to Cuba, but Mexico is also recognizing Palestine as a state. Okay, and also as a rebuffed Trump's

you know membership offer for the board of peace in Gaza. So from the Israeli lobby point of view

Mexico and other Latin American governments like Venezuela are deemed as enemies.

And so the Israelis are trying to push the Isaac Accords which is the Abraham Accords for Latin America

they're trying to flip all these governments to far right governments and then get them to be pro

Israel and reverse the UN vote on Palestine. That's basically the the long and the short of the Isaac

Accords. So that's interesting. It does get even more interesting if you go a little bit deeper. So this

is way beyond the so-called Don Roe doctrine of US you know flexing its muscles in the Western

Hemisphere. Shine bomb has also made a statement condemning the US for US weapons going into the

hands of the cartels. So she made a statement to that effect.

Obviously Patrick limited for time and we've had to cut these clips down by bringing in a lot of

very interesting points around what has happened here and it starts to get deeper and more opaque

the more you look at. Now there is one short clip to finish on but I wonder whether

before we go there Basil if you've been able to hear those clips okay whether you've got any

comments on what your thoughts are on what's taking place. Well the initial raid sounds like

something out of Scarface doesn't it with the cartel leader and four of his henchmen all dying

presumably as a result of gunfire you know very dramatic you know American action film type events

but you know Shine bomb who is a South Jewish incident where he the president of Mexico

has made moves through recognized Palestine and it is a fact that 90% of the weapons

that the cartels use come from the United States and the other 10% are Israeli so we have to

wonder therefore with all Trump's accusations of Shine bomb being in the pocket of the cartels

who in fact is supplying these American weapons. A few years ago the death toll

in the Mexican drug wars was around 50,000 people brutally murdered. I think that's now more like

60 or 70,000. I mean the numbers of people murdered often very sadistically are absolutely

off the charts and if Shine bomb is finally getting to grips with the situation so much the better

and lastly yes the Isaac Accords honestly they give names to these things. Israel has got its man

in place with Millay in Argentina although I don't think he's going to last very much longer

and they would do you'd be love to see that replicated they've got recalcitrant leaders in

Brazil and Colombia amongst others so we'd have to see how that develops in the coming months and

years. Yes Basil thank you very much for that and a nice little segue into Patrick's last comments

you've mentioned weapons let's see what Patrick has say. Now we've been covering this for years

at 21st century wire operation fast and furious. We've documented this problem in ongoing issue

but this recent report by Freddie Ponton which we filed this week a great investigation by a great

journalist there. He is basically saying that most of the weapons in Mexico are Israeli and American

origin. Huge amounts of Israeli weapons as well as 150,000 50 caliber rounds that were also

traced to the US military and you have to what do you have to realize is these cartels like

halisco cartel new generation they they're armed to the teeth I mean here's a video from 2020

where you can see just how well-armed and equipped they are so in some cases probably be better equipped

than the Mexican military in some cases so there's that to contend with as well.

We also have the the Ukrainian foreign legion recruiting from the the Mexican Latin American

Colombian drug cartels to train fighters to fight in Ukraine to learn UAV drone training

as well as urban warfare tactics and then ostensibly bringing those back to Mexico or back to

Latin America on behalf of the cartels so that PMC's private military companies were actively

recruiting among those sectors to bring them to Ukraine so this was also reported and confirmed

by Russian SVR intelligence so there's that Ukrainian angle as well so the US would have full

knowledge of this because they were effectively managing operations in Ukraine so for anyone the US

or US intelligence to play dumb on this it would be disingenuous. So clearly a lot more to be said

on Mexico because there's many fingers in the pie and very interesting that the darker those

are more dangerous those fingers are the more trouble there is for the Mexican people which is a common

theme we're seeing in countries around the world so we'll do more on that in the in the forthcoming

days and Patrick no doubt be giving us more material in any case. Yeah we'll have the full report

on the UK Column website after the news program this afternoon. Basil let me welcome you back

to the program we just bring this telegraph article on screen here because this is quite an

interesting headline this headline saying and most of the other mainstream press recovering this

and more or less the same thing. Nottingham Keller was not sectioned because he was black. Valdor

Kalakhin was given at home treatment plan after psychotic episode because of over over representation

of young black meals in detention. Absolutely off the charts and it ended in tragedy when he

murdered three people two young students and a 65 year old care worker and as you say Mike

he wasn't sectioned because of apparently the overrepresentation of black people in mental health

institutions something that the health sacred tree was treating described in December as

unacceptable but surely any mental health decision about sectioning a paranoid schizophrenic

who may be capable of extreme violence should be purely on clinical grounds. The car of his skin

must be irrelevant anybody's skin so the idea that streeting wants to go now towards sort of

quotas of number of people. I mean if it's unacceptable that black people are overrepresented

amongst those sections then what is he is he proposing to actually do something about this?

Well if so this is the result isn't it and three people have lost their lives. It's

it begger's belief Mike it really does. Basil if to add to this just comes into my head but if you

if you remove the clinical diagnosis part of the pathway to putting somebody into a psychiatric

unit or not putting them in but putting them in you're actually well on your way to the you know

to the true sort of Soviet state where the psychiatric Gulag forms part of the overall prison system

so I wonder whether something a lot darker is going on here this is meddling possibly just to see

how the public reacts to this. Well we can talk more about this in extra because I want to bring

in the parallels between this type of incident and the way that the grooming gangs were permitted

to continue their activities allegedly because the people in positions of authority were worried

being perceived as racist in some way so anyway we'll talk about that in extra but let's finish

with this because in Wednesday Charles was talking about the threat from the Pentagon to cancel

and rob and throbbic contracts if and throbbic did not lift safeguards and if you remember the

article said that ptexas had met with and throbbic CEO on Tuesday at the Pentagon amid a dispute

over the AI firms usage policy which bars this model Claude from being used for mass surveillance

or to develop weapons that can be used without human oversight. Now quick as a flash

on literally within 24 hours just put that back up and screen a second Chris if you don't mind

quick as a flash this happened because and throbbic published a new post down here

their responsible scaling policy version 3.0 that was published on the 24th and it says this

it says our new rsp introduces a requirement to develop and publish a front air safety road

map which which will describe our concrete plans for risk mitigations across the areas of security

alignment safeguards and policy rather than being hard commitments these are public goals that

we will openly create our progress towards we may never get there but we'll get towards them

this strategy of non-binding but publicly declared targets borrows from the transparency

approach we paid champion championing for frontier AI legislation although it provides the

public with much more detail than this required under existing legislation and from the successes

of our previous rsp version so they have caved completely to access threats to withdrawal

funding and withdrawal contracts and they've removed the limitation on the use of their AI product

for war fighting purposes and i think that is pretty much says it all does not it does Mike yeah

what is everything seems to be coming more obvious in this crazy world but more discussion

in extra yeah so we will be back in a few minutes for you kick hold news extra if you you

kick hold members stay on the live stream and we'll see you there in a couple of minutes otherwise

have a great weekend don't forget germ and carl tonight and also dark malic at 7 pm on sunday

we'll see you in monday at 1 pm as usual have a great weekend bye bye