This had 155 views in 2023. It might gain a bit more traction upon second reading! 👇

In 2006, this Statutory Instrument came into effect, 'The Avian Influenza (Vaccination) (England) Regulations'. Section 5 prohibits the use of vaccination against avian influenza in birds.

Section 6 grants emergency powers to vaccinate birds 👉🏼 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2703/regulation/6/made

The i 'newspaper' reports Prof Ian Brown of APHA as saying Govt to look at vaccinating birds 👉🏼 https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/bird-flu-uk-could-mass-vaccinate-chickens-to-prevent-avian-influenza-spreading-between-humans-2181376

Prof Ian Brown is also a Director of OIE/FAO World Organisation for Animal Health 👉🏼 https://aphascience.blog.gov.uk/author/ian-brown/

World Organisation for Animal Health receives regular donations from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 👉🏼 https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants?q=world%20organisation%20for%20animal%20health

Zoetis, a former subsidiary of Pfizer, has had a conditional licence for an avian influenza vaccine since 2016 👉🏼 https://www.zoetisus.com/news-and-media/zoetis-receives-conditional-license-from-usda-for-avian-influenza-vaccine.aspx

I wonder which way this will go.

A video from the House of Lords is doing the rounds, in which the noble lady speaking describes the Government as being "out of control". She is, of course, correct. However, this is from a debate on the Public Order Bill 2023, which became the Public Order Act. The Government was a different one, so I would put it that the only amendment to her assertion should be removal of "the", as all Governments are the same.

It is extremely unlikely that you will agree with all that she says, but the essence of her remarks is sound. The fact that her concerns were roundly ignored tells you all you need to know about "liberal democracy".

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

"My Lords, I admire the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, for trying to convince us. I support and have signed Amendment 1. I cannot argue the law—I cannot argue how many angels dance on the head of a pin—but I can question the politics. My concern about the politics of the whole Bill is that the Government are seeking to be “regressive” and “repressive”—these words have been used. This is nasty legislation.

You have to ask: is it appropriate for a few dozen protesters? Is this heavy-handed legislation appropriate for that number of people who occasionally disrupt our lives? I would argue that it is not. It is almost as if this legislation is perhaps designed instead to prevent millions of people protesting, because the Government know they have lost the confidence of the public in Britain. In a recent poll, two-thirds of people thought that the Government were corrupt. That suggests that any legislation this Government try to bring in is possibly not very well designed for the majority of people in Britain. They are giving very heavy powers to the police when we have already seen that the public do not trust the police, and they are giving more powers to Ministers—and we do not trust Ministers.

It is very heavy legislation. I am worried that the Government are actually bringing legislation for when there are general strikes and hundreds of thousands of people on the streets protesting about the collapsing and soon-to-be privatised health system or the fact that everybody’s pay is getting squeezed apart from the pay of the bankers and the wealthy. I worry that they are bringing in these laws for far more people that just the protesters. Quite honestly, who would not agree with Insulate Britain? It is the smartest thing we can possibly do if we are worried about our energy crisis. So it seems that the Government are not really focused on the protests we have had so far; they are focusing on protests we might have in the future.

We are going to vote very soon on whether to declare a protest illegal if it disrupts somebody. The whole point of protest is that it disrupts life to some point, so that you notice and start debating it and it gets reported in the newspapers. It is incredibly important, in a sense, that protest is disruptive. I heard the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, say that Amendment 1 was not suitable, but I have taken advice from lawyers
and I think it is entirely suitable, so I will be voting for it. My big concern in this House is that we have a Government who are simply out of control. They talk about protesters being out of control, but it is the Government who are out of control."

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https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2023-01-30/debates/90096A36-7A89-4C49-B83E-3E488B5DF430/PublicOrderBill

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War with Russia? Arms Sales Brings Bankers Billions for Bullets - UK Column News - 19th February 2025

- Institute for Government (YouTube): In conversation with John Healey MP, Secretary of State for Defence (Timestamp 13:44)
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Abraham Shield Plan: “With Crisis Comes Opportunity – A New Regional Order in the Middle East” - UK Column News - 19th February 2025

- Coalition for Regional Security: The Abraham Shield
“With Crisis, Comes Opportunity - A New Regional Order in the Middle East”
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- Middle East Eye: Saudi crown prince said he personally 'doesn't care' about Palestinian issue
- Reuters: Yemen's Houthis say they will attack if US, Israel try to displace Gazans (Archived)
- Brunella C (on X): Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud says the Middle East will be the new Europe. 5 years and Saudi Arabia will be completely different
“This is the Saudis' war. This is my war! And I'm not going to die until I see the Middle East at the forefront of the world! […] There are no accidents in politics”

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Businesses Warned: Align with Net Zero or Face Shutdown – People Power Push-Back Growing - UK Column News - 19th February 2025

- Plymouth Live: Plymouth elected mayor's bumper pay packet revealed
- World Economic Forum: Annual Meeting 2023 - Nature and Climate Programme (PDF)
- United Nations: Secretary-General's briefing to the General Assembly on Priorities for 2023 
“If you cannot set a credible course for net-zero, with 2025 and 2030 targets covering all your operations, you should not be in business.”
- United Nations: The Summit of the Future (22-23 September, 2024)
- United Nations: Secretary-General’s opening remarks at press conference to launch the Global Principles for Information Integrity
“The spread of hatred and lies online is causing grave harm to our world.”

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Stigmatising Homeschooling: Attacks on Parental Choice and Education Freedom - UK Column News - 19th February 2025

- GOV.UK blogs: Government Digital Service: Launching the Artificial Intelligence Playbook for the UK Government
- UK Parliament: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Parliamentary Bills
- Education Otherwise: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
“The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is “conflating home education with safeguarding risk despite there being no evidence that home education represents a risk to children”.”
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- The Conservative Woman: Lost in the digital world – children deprived of family ties, identity and values

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Lebanon: Ongoing Occupation, Airstrikes, and Regional Tensions Escalate - UK Column News - 19th February 2025

- The Cradle: Israel maintains occupation in five key areas after withdrawal from south Lebanon
- The Cradle: Israeli airstrike kills several in south Lebanon as 'ceasefire' nears end date
- L’Orient Today: Air France and Emirates suspend their flights to Beirut on Feb. 23
- Myriam (on X): Lebanese MP Elias Jradi, who is an Eye Doctor given the title 'Resistance Doctor', had been attending the injured from the pagers attack

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Bird Flu Latest: What’s Really Behind the Panic? It’s Not the Flu, It’s the Culling - UK Column News - 19th February 2025

- BBC: Poultry farmers in bird flu 'panic' call for UK vaccination plan
- BBC: Farmers call for new rules amid bird flu risk
- Zoetis: Zoetis Receives Conditional License from USDA for Avian Influenza Vaccine, H5N2 Subtype, Killed Virus, for Chickens
- APHA Vet Gateway: Vaccine Development Brochure by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (PDF)
- World Bank (2010): People, pathogens, and our planet: Volume one: towards a one health approach for controlling zoonotic diseases (PDF)
- The Sun: Wetherspoons pulls key breakfast item from the menu due to shortage as fans rage ‘what’s happening to the world?’
- The Grocer: Egg prices up by almost 20% since start of year
- BASC: Government's decision is an erosion of civil liberties, says BASC
- GOV.UK blogs: The Education Hub: Everything we are doing in education to tackle climate change
- National Education Union: NEU statement on Climate and Nature Bill

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Will Tony Blair's Dream Come True? Digital ID Policy Advances - UK Column News - 19th February 2025

- GOV.UK: Electoral Commission's reports on the 2024 elections
- Politics Home: MPs Across Labour Urge Ministers To Back Digital ID In Fight Against Farage
- Thales: Mobile ID: Trusted Digital ID for Governments - From eID to Mobile ID
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- Anthropic: Anthropic signs MOU with UK Government to explore how AI can transform UK public services
- GOV.UK: Memorandum of Understanding between UK and Anthropic on AI opportunities
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (on X): The UK has signed an agreement to deepen collaboration with leading AI company AnthropicAI
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It is little wonder that a lot of people would prefer to forget what had started to happen by this time five years ago, but it is best that we remember.

Rosie Marshall, along with many others, is doing just that, Down Under.

She tells Ben Rubin all about the Forest of the Fallen project, giving dignity to those maimed and killed by COVID jabs:

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https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/forest-of-the-fallen-rosie-marshall

Once you get to the end of the interview, I think it highly unlikely that you won't be wondering how to listen to that wonderful song again. So, here it is:

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https://rumble.com/v4ap0mi-the-forest-of-the-fallen.html

Sometimes, I think this would be an excellent way to close out UK Column News, though better with a live audience, of course:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4N2lIFKWgc

Imagine if Elon Musk actually knew how to do something useful, like using a real chainsaw.

Before the modern assault on confidence, competence, capability and common sense: health and safety.

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https://youtu.be/w3ma9iYx4rg

Just some of the interests registered by Sadiq Khan, that there was not room enough for in the main body of the form!

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https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-mayor-does/mayor-and-his-team/sadiq-khan/register-of-interests

The BBC acting as the government's mouthpiece, pushes tighter control over children outside school.

A proposed register would assign a "consistent identifier", expanding state oversight & control.

This isn’t just about education—it’s about increasing government power over families.

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The 2015 Biosecurity Act in Australia introduced the notion that there is a General Biosecurity Duty.

Guess where the UK's Chief Vet, Christine Middlemiss, started working in 2016?

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https://vets.blog.gov.uk/author/dr-christine-middlemiss-bvms-mrcvs/

The old ones are the best ones.

Peter Mandelson, from one of the 1992 debates which created the inheritance tax opportunity for this Labour Government:

"I assure the Minister that I am not motivated by greed. I am motivated by a desire to see everyone, no matter how big or lowly, not given opportunities to cheat the public purse or wider public interest in disreputable and unlawful ways."

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https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1992-07-07/debates/26078d23-5002-4c12-8f1a-eddfa1f45575/InheritanceTaxAndAccess

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