UK Column News - 25th November 2024

Source: ukcolumn

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

 

United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29): Trillions of People’s Money To Go Up in Smoke

00:57 Channel 4 News (YouTube): COP29: fury over $300 billion climate deal

Telegraph: Net zero targets will force people to change their lives, says Labour chairman of energy committee (Archived)

Outrage + Optimism (LinkedIn): This graphic from UNCS News shows how the $1.3 trillion per year climate finance target could be realised, with private finance making a substantial contribution at the top step

We Mean Business Coalition: Mission 2025

3Ci Cities Commission for Climate Investment (LinkedIn): Councillor Tom Hunt, Kate Josephs CB and William Stewart joined 3Ci’s roundtable to make the strong case for investment into Sheffield’s decarbonisation plans

 

Tragic Consequences of The Banned List: Academics For Academic Freedom Calls for Urgent Action

07:01 Academics For Academic Freedom: Who We Are

UK Column News archive: UK Column News—16th September 2024

Academics For Academic Freedom: The Banned List

Courts and Tribunals Judiciary: Alexander Rogers: Prevention of Future Deaths Report

Sex Matters: Learning from the Jo Phoenix case

On Being A Professional Academic In An Anti-intellectual Age (Substack): The Dandridge Review, The Open University and The Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act 2021

Michelle Shipworth (on X): @MShipworth’s post

Astronauts for space travel! Is another way of saying Academics for Academic Freedom.

Academics For Academic Freedom: Free Speech Wales (FSW) 

GOV.UK: An anti-racist Wales

We are committed to being an anti-racist nation by 2030.

Spiked: Is dog-walking racist?

Parliament TV: Monday 9 September 2024—Oral questions: Education

Legislation: Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023

UK Parliament: Hansard: Universities: Freedom of Speech Volume 754: debated on Thursday 10 October 2024

Free Speech Union: Education Secretary faces court over shelving free speech laws

 

Fermented War in Ukraine’s Mineral Grab, Yet Starmer Denies We’re at War

16:04 Independent: Starmer denies UK at war after Ukraine fires British Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory

BBC (2005): Fact check: Did Blair lie over WMD?

Kyiv Post: Opinion: Ukraine Will Win—Ukraine is not a burden to the West but a valuable investment

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies: Ukraine’s energy policy and prospects for the gas sector

The World Economic Forum: The future of critical raw materials in Ukraine and the world

 

Independent Journalism Needs You—Join or Rejoin the UK Column Community

23:00 Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column with only £5 a month

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UK Column interview: Christian Zionism: Its origins, goals, and influence—with Stephen Sizer

Concerned Citizens Advisory Assembly: Video recording of the first CCAA Zoom call held on 28th October 2024, attended by over 70 participants

Stand For Peace: Forthcoming Rallies For Peace: Edinburgh—Saturday 30th November 12.30pm

 

BlackRock’s New Playground: Ukraine

27:51 BlackRock: BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory to advise Ministry of Economy of Ukraine

Quartz: BlackRock and JPMorgan are backing a $15 billion investor fund to rebuild Ukraine

openDemocracy: The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s ‘close partnership’

LinkedIn: Antony Manchester—Managing Director, Co-Head, EMEA Region, Global Public Policy Group, BlackRock

The National: Keir Starmer slammed over ‘gushing’ tweet about BlackRock meeting

Keir Starmer (on X): Keir Starmer’s post

I’m determined to deliver growth, create wealth and put more money in people’s pockets.

This can only be achieved by working in partnership with leading businesses, like BlackRock, to capitalise on the UK’s position as a world leading hub for investment.

Max Tempers (on X): From Private Eye: New Crawley MP, Peter Lamb, was leader of Crawley council when a major taxi corruption racket took place where mostly Asian taxi drivers paid bribes in the thousands for licences despite the fact they could “barely speak any English”

 

Apolitical Foundation (sic): Who Do They Think They Are, Shaping Politics?

36:00 UK Column search: Keyword: Apolitical 

Apolitical Foundation: Announcing ‘Apolitical Day’ 2024

Apolitical (LinkedIn): It’s finally here! Today is Apolitical Day

Daniel Sachs Foundation (LinkedIn): Reflections from the road: momentum is building for political philanthropy

 […] the push for private sector and philanthropic involvement in supporting democracy is gaining strength.

GOV.UK: Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE

Forces News: British Army is ready to fight Russia if necessary, says senior military leader 

Apolitical (YouTube): Apolitical Day 2024

 

Documenting the Destruction of the British Library

56:07 British Library: British Library Cyber Incident Review: Learning Lessons From The Cyber-attack (PDF)

Barracuda: Rhysida ransomware: The creepy crawling criminal hiding in the dark

British Library (YouTube): Knowledge Matters—50 years of the British Library

Scottish Union for Education (Substack): Newsletter Number 50

British Library (2020): Reopening and reinterpretation—our Front Hall busts

 

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The Guardian: Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer

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