UK Column News — 20th February 2026

0:00Good afternoon. It's Friday, the 20th of February, 2026, just after 1 o'clock. Welcome to UK Column News. I'm your host, Mike Robinson. I'm my co-host in studio today, Brian Garrish. Welcome to the program, Brian. Pleasure. And we'll be joined once again today by Basel Valentine. No letter in the program. Basel will be reporting on the collapse of Peter Mendelssohn's, Peter Mendelssohn's consultancy firm, Global Council. He'll also be reporting on the door-to-door Israel Boycott campaign, which is being run in a few British cities. Brian is going to have a report on the BBC's use of open source intelligence to effectively dox a US aircraft carrier. And I'll be taking an initial look at this week's AI Summit in India and also Donald Trump's announcement on UFOs. But we're going to begin today with, of course, Prince Andrew, because everyone will know by now he was

1:00arrested yesterday as a result of a police investigation into misconduct on public office. So here's the BBC report on that. It has to be said that that particular image on the front page there of him on the car on the way home from having been released by the police, he does look somewhat haunted, Brian. Well, I've noticed this on several photographs, Mike, including of of ones where he's been sat on a horse for his Sunday ride or whatever recreation, sporty, he undertakes. Not that we're suggesting that anybody should feel sorry for him at all, by the way, but anyway, of course, this investigation is not into any kind of sexual impropriety or allocations of. But because of the alleged sharing of information with Jeffrey Epstein, while he was treated and poised for the British government, now the first question that may spring to mind is why not. There was much discussion on social media yesterday of the fact that it was his 66th birthday and the possibility that six police cars were involved in the operation to arrest him.

2:06I'm sure that was just a coincidence. If we put this on screen, people might get the point. We'll talk about extra talking extra about why I'm showing that particular image of the then Prince Charles at the Davos launch of the Great Reset. But anyway, back to Andrew for a moment, two properties were searched while he was held in custody yesterday and those searches are apparently continuing today. So the question then is what is misconduct in public office? It's a common law that can be tried only on indictment. It carries a maximum sense of life imprisonment and the crime prosecution service talks about it being a serious, willful abuse or neglect of the power or responsibilities of the public office held. There have been many people, Brian, over the years that we would have considered to have committed misconduct in public office. This is the first

3:08formal investigation and potential prosecution. I mean, what are your thoughts on where that sits in amongst all those other examples? Well, for me, the immediate one must be that, of course, so many of us are still on care, storm or himself has been in post during the Jimmy Savile affair with the crime prosecution service. But of course, it was the desk officer who made the mistake and failed to push through to prosecute. So in particular, to hear Keir Stormer at the moment saying that nobody is above the law. Well, we're just going to come onto that. Sorry, spoiler alert. Yeah. So let's just hear the comments of, well, as Brian just mentioned, of a man who was in a previous job running the crime prosecution service. Whether it's Andrew or anybody else, anybody who's got relevant information should come forward to whatever the relevant body is. In this particular case, we're talking about Epstein,

4:12but there are plenty of other cases. It is anybody who's got information relating to any aspect of violence against women and girls has, in my view, a duty to come forward. One of the core principles in our system is that everybody is equal under the law and nobody is above the law. Let me welcome you to the program here and let me just ask you, is it the case that no one is above the law in this country? No, not at all, Mike. The monarch is protected by sovereign immunity, which is a wide-ranging constitutional principle, exempting him from all sorts of criminal and civil liabilities, steeply ironic that it should be in the reign of Charles III. That sovereign immunity, which, of course, Charles I thought he enjoyed, should be a subject again. It's been buried for the last three or four hundred years. I'm surprised that

5:15Keir Starmer's words didn't stick in his throat there about the violence against women and children, given that when he was director of public prosecution, he declined to prosecute Charles's friend Jimmy Savile, but it seems the gloves are off where Andrew is concerned. Seven police cars turned up to arrest him yesterday in what was clearly a show of force. The gloves appear to be off in his case, and the sovereign, the State Immunity Act, confers immunity on the head of state and also extends to members of the family forming part of the household. That's the exact wording on the statute, obviously, as like a lot of legislation passed recently, very woolly phrasing open to a wide variety of interpretations, but it's generally understood that it doesn't automatically apply to the monarch's children. Well, Andrew is no longer the monarch's son. He is now the monarch's

6:15brother, so we are given to assume, given that he was arrested and may be charged, but it doesn't apply to him. But Starmer is wrong when he says no one is above the law, because Charles seemingly is. Yes, thank you for that, Basil. So the question then is what is going on here? Well, in my opinion, this is all sheer distraction. Several people have now been thrown to the wolves, McSweeney, Mandelson, Wormald and Ny Andrew. It looks to me like the hope is that the hope is that they absolutely stay well and truly above that, so that some rather absolutely stay well and truly above the law by sacrificing some other parties. The lead has to stay on this Pandora's box, because the problem here is that Epstein was a symptom of what I think is a systemic issue, which has always been at the heart of Britain's elites. I believe this has been the, has the capability of bringing the whole lot down perhaps if it should actually

7:18get some proper investigation. Basil, I think the constitutional principles that this country stands on, immunity aside, should be defended at all costs, but we've had an occupying power running this country for generations, and that we might call it a parasitic power is utterly evil. It operates well outside those constitutional limitations. So I'm going to suggest this can't stop at Andrew. The pressure needs to be kept on, and we need to flush quite a number of people either this little network that exists in this country. Yeah, I mean, obviously more and more people in the wake of the Epstein files are waking up to the fact that there's a real cesspit of corruption at the highest levels of government, and amongst an increasingly obvious elite of corporate interests, politicians, lobbyists, and to some extent obviously the royal family, given that, you know, that what Andrew was arrested for yesterday was passing on state documents to

8:18Jeffrey Epstein, and thereafter, who we're given to understand may well be a Mossad agent, and thereafter to, well, whoever he chose, on the wider issues, Act Polanski has this morning called for an inquiry into public figures alleged to have committed offenses. He said we need a really full statutory inquiry into figures from institutions where crimes have been committed, if they've been committed, what we knew, what other people in those institutions knew, and where necessary to make sure that the appropriate people are removed. He said he did not believe that the country should have a monarchy. The conversation has been opened about the monarchy. It's undoubtedly the biggest crisis since the abdication, if not bigger than that really, a poll in the Daily Mail, yesterday, which, you know, came with a pinch of salt, said 75% of people would wish to retain the monarchy, but even if those figures were reversed, there's no mechanism for Britain becoming

9:19a republic. Is it even desirable to only play a president? Definitely not. It's not as if we have a referendum every year and decide whether or not to keep it. So it doesn't really matter how much trouble the monarchy gets into or creates for itself until there are thousands of peasants at the gates of Buckingham Palace with pitchforks. Nothing is going to change on a constitutional level. Absolutely, Brian. Well, I just wanted to say that for me, I watch with interest as everything deflects around what was actually happening in the Epstein ring, which was the abuse and sexual abuse of young women and girls. This is child abuse. This is what it's about, but it isn't being tackled on the basis that it's a well-established high level pedophile ring. We're deflecting it with a, well, document, economic documents might have been leaked. So I think we're into classic

10:19long grass here. And of course, come back to Storma for Storma to put in his six peniteth worth in when Jimmy Savile either got past his gaze or was facilitated. I mean, it's just outrageous. And no, we're not showing sympathy to Prince Andrew, but it does seem to me that Andrew and Mandelson have now become a smokescreen for what the Epstein case is really about. Absolutely. Well, let's bring this on screen because Basel, the financial times reporting that global council has gone into administration. They say global council, the advisory firm funded by Lord Peter Mandelson, the set to enter administration in the wake of revelations about the peer and the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. People at the company told the FT that Chair Archie Norman and Chief Executive Rebecca Parker had informed staff in Thursday that quote, the Peter Mandelson legacy had led the businesses collapse. What have you got on this?

11:21Well, as they say, Mike, it couldn't happen to a nicer fella, you know. I don't think anybody is going to miss global council going down. The question is, are the contracts that Mandelson helped negotiate while global council was still active? Are they going to hold? You know, the key issue, of course, is this visit by Keir's Starmer to Palanty as offices in Washington in 2019 with then Ambassador Mandelson. His visit was not recorded in his register of interests, and there's no record of what was discussed. And Downing Street has so far refused to say with a Starmer. New Palantir was a client of Mandelson's lobbying firm at the time of his visit. Now, we know that Palantir designed a 240 million pound contract with the Ministry of Defense. They celebrated with a party last week at BAFTA, and of course, they also got their fingers now

12:22in the health service data. I mean, we put up a couple of weeks ago, the road map of Palantir's various contracts with all sorts of government departments. I think the very least, well, I mean, the whole lot of going to be scrapped. I was going to say there should be a public inquiry into how those contracts were awarded in some cases without tender ministers have looked very squeamish at the ballot box in the House of Commons when questioned about it. The pressure has got to be put kept up, and Palantir has got to be completely divorced from anything to do with the UK government data. Absolutely, right. Any thoughts on that? Well, I'm just going to add a little comment here that's one of the UK column viewers and members sent some interesting documentation showing that their personal NHS data had been shared with another organisation, which was boasting of holding 6.3 million and unique NHS records. And of course, this is now,

13:30we now know that this personal data is going further and further afield, including to Israel and Palantir. Absolutely, and we have to remember that the piece of legislation that enabled up was the Data Use and Access Act, which was just on the past last year. So this is something that we had been talking about for quite a long time, and another piece of legislation that needs to be repealed. Okay, now let's move on to the topic of Iran. Then, and obviously, last week we had a report from Patrick Henningson on his experience in Iran. Now, he has a follow-up on this because clearly the United States appears to be ramping up its preparations for an attack. So, let's have a listen to what Patrick has sent us this week. At this very moment, the Islamic Republic of Iran is facing an imminent military strike by the United States of America. The threats have been made. The military assets are

14:34positioned all around the Persian Gulf along Iran's southern coast, US assets, Air Force, naval assets, air-to-air refueling, AWACS planes, all of the different junctures that are required to carry out a sustained air and sea operation against Iran are in place. Now, it's important to understand the context of this, and while this attack could happen at any moment, even while this report goes to air, we don't know. There is a facade of negotiations that are supposedly happening behind the scenes where that heads anywhere productive as anyone's guests. If you go by previous negotiations that the United States had claimed to have been having anyway with the Iranians, it was used as a ruse in order to allow Israel a chance to mount a

15:36sneak attack against Iran last June. Of course, that was the infamous 12-day war, whereby the Israelis at the end were getting pounded so hard by the Iranians that they begged the United States. Those are reports anyway. They begged the United States to come in and basically draw a line under it, and the United States launched massive strikes supposedly against Iran's nuclear facilities, but we all know that's not what it was about. This was an attempt at regime change by the Israelis. The United States came to mop it up at the end to fight another day. That other day has arrived, and I personally don't think that these negotiations will go anywhere productive. They're really just, I think, a chance for the U.S. and the Israelis to buy time to restock their air defense systems and anticipation of a massive Iranian missile retaliation and drone retaliation as a result of this unprovoked war of aggression by the United States against Iran. Unprovoked

16:37a war of choice as many would call it. Those are the terms they used to condemn Russia for intervening in the Dombass in February of 2022, all of the international condemnation, the sanctions, banning Russia from all sorts of institutions internationally, including the Olympics, and so forth. All of that was based on the alleged war of choice by Russia in February 2022. Actually, that wasn't true. We don't want to relitigate the history of that suffice to say there was a UN Security Council resolution passed 2202 for the implementation of the Minks Accords, which collapsed, and then, of course, after the UN mandate collapsed, then Russia mounted a humanitarian intervention, which they call a special military operation, initially in the Dombass. So that's just to give context to this current international crisis. Not only that, it's against U.S. domestic law, because there are constitutional restraints on the President in terms of taking

17:41the country to war. Make no mistake. If this war is triggered, it will not be confined to Iran and U.S. military positions, because Iran has said very adamantly that any attack on it by the United States will also be considered an attack by Israel and vice versa. So that's where we're at. So that's where we're at, and, of course, Patrick's absolutely right, that the danger of escalation is absolutely right there. Yes. Yeah, really excellent report from Patrick. We've got more to come, but this is really bringing the right focus on what is taking place instead of this, this black and white media policy of this country is bad, and this is good, and therefore that's an excuse to go to war. So I think this is great analysis. Yeah, Basil, just before we go back to Patrick to learn a little bit about Iran's military equipment, what are your thoughts on that

18:41opening? Those are opening remarks. Well, a quick question here for us in Britain, Mike, is Will Keir's Starmer buckle to pressure from Trump and allow RAF Fairford and the base at Diego Garcia, the British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, to be used for any strike. It appears that in this case, it didn't seem to be so bothered about Gaza, but in this case, government lawyers are concerned because international law makes no distinction between a state carrying out the attack, and those in support if the latter have knowledge of the circumstances of the Intentionally Wrongful Act. So at the moment, apparently, Starmer is refusing to allow Trump to use RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia. Will that be the case if push comes to shove? Good question. Now, let's just then listen to Patrick's comments on Iran's military capability.

19:45So that's one thing. The other thing is the Straits of Horn Moose will be closed. So this isn't a bluff. If that closes, oil supplies will not be going in and out, plus no goods and services. So the Dubai markets will be shut off, and there'll be massive inflation in the US, because when oil goes up, gas goes up, the price of everything goes up, and the market's panic. Okay, that will happen. Okay, so what's the contingency for that? There is none from the US. So other thing, this will be a regional war. Immediately, six, seven countries will be involved. And Iraq, all of the US bases in the Gulf monarch states, Diego Garcia is not off the table as well. Like all of these things are potential targets. So I mean, what can we say? This is a huge amount of risk for the US. Very little reward. Iran's drawn a red line. It is established a deterrence position.

20:48And the US, if they, you know, they don't think the Iranians are serious, the Iranians sound pretty serious. Now, just lastly, in terms of the military capability of Iran, they do have hypersonic missiles. They do have surface-to-ship missiles. They do have submarines. They do have fast boats that are able to inflict damage on US frigates. But more importantly, the missiles that we saw for a true promise three back in June that were attacking Israel and hitting their targets often, and evading US air defense often, those were not the latest generation of Iranian missiles. The latest generation have yet to be unveiled. And, you know, I can tell you, having seen the older generation missiles up close, including the hypersonic missile like the Fatah II, which is pictured here. This is the black missile with the detachable nose and warhead as well. And the ability to

21:52with satellite guidance, by the way, they have their own proprietary satellite systems. Iran has a space program, surprise, surprise. The ability we're told to hit moving targets. So think about that. In excess of Mach 10, we're talking Mach 15, Mach 20, hypersonic missiles, and the ability to, and some of these missiles to be able to hit moving targets. What does that mean? That means large naval vessels. So, I mean, it's a gamble. The US could lose some naval assets if they decide to press the button on this war. So it's a big gamble. What can we say? Iran has drone technology that's on par with US drones. They can launch thousands of these drones. They can overwhelm US air defense from US ships in the region very quickly. And the same with Israel as well. So, you know, don't think that Iran is short of drones.

22:56So they have all the various waves in order to conduct an effective operation with the capabilities that they possess, simple as that. So this would be a huge gamble by the US. There's a lot of risk involved, and we don't discount the possibility of Russian China becoming more involved in this. That's going to further complicate things, not just now, but down the road. The other thing you have to understand is this is all native technology by the Iranians, in terms of their military and industrial complex. That's because they've been under sanctions. So they made an economic decision not to pursue building out an advanced unmanned aircraft or an air force. Instead, they invested in and wagered their future defense on drone technology, on missile technology. And other advanced avionics, satellite

23:57communications, they have their own proprietary data uplink system. They're also using the Chinese GPS equivalent as well, the Baidu system, not on the Western GPS system. So all this makes very difficult for the West to intercept, in some cases, down or repel Iranian attacks. That's all homegrown. All of them, missile tech, is homegrown. They have very advanced avionics and engineering in Iran. So if there weren't sanctions, they'd probably be selling their wares globally. They're that good, in terms of capability and targeting, and in the hypersonic technology as well. Now you're an heavy man. If you were sitting on one of those US ships at the moment with the potential of facing hypersonic weapons of that type, how would you be feeling right now? I think on board, the US fleet at the moment they are going to be feeling in a very

25:03difficult and dangerous position, because America has been able to dominate geopolitical areas with the movement of aircraft carriers and very large numbers of fighters and bomber aircraft. In this case, we've got these massive carriers, very, very big, and therefore very big targets facing missile systems, which previously we talked about, but now we're seeing them coming into play, not only with the Russians in Ukraine, but also with Iran using them against Israel. And this is demonstrating technology, which is right at the leading edge of both US and NATO and European defensive systems. So I can imagine that the mood on board, the US aircraft carrier and carriers and accompanying vessels is going to be very somber. They are certainly not going to be regarding Iran as a sort of third world country that they're going to be on a bomb with

26:05impunity. And that's the point, isn't it? When we've run these types of regime-chains operations in the past, we've been targeting countries that have not had an equivalent capability? That is absolutely correct. And the other thing which will be of huge concern to the US fleet is who has some renaissance in the area. Now that could be Iran, but it could also be China, it could be Russia. And this is something which I can tell you will be forefront of the debates on all that carrier group as to how they're going to cond up their mission and defense of the group itself. Okay, let's listen for one final segment from Patrick here. And the question is, who exactly is Iran attacking? Iran has not attacked the US. Iran poses no threat to the US. If they pose a threat to US, let's say, bases in the region, that's only as a result of the US mounting an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, which they're planning to do now.

27:08So who's to blame if this shooting starts? It's not Iran. It is the United States. And behind it, the state of Israel, okay? It's pretty clear right now. This is not a war that has to happen. It's not a war that should happen. There were perfectly workable agreements regarding Iran's nuclear potential, which were already reached years ago with the JCPOA and the P5 plus one. That was a deal guaranteed by Europe, Russia, all sorts of countries. And Trump just tore it up at the orders of the Israeli lobby in May of 2018. Didn't need to happen. That's led us to this point here. So this is a war that the Neocons, that the big money, the globalists, that back Trump, the globalists, that back Trump, this is a war they've always wanted. And so the question is, are any other countries, sane countries going to step up and try to mitigate what could potentially

28:12curine into a World War III situation? That's the big question. The other thing is culturally, this complete stereotype that Iran represses their women. As if this is a legitimate justification to go to war, come on. We went out in Iran in the evening markets and we saw, I was in a space, hundreds of women and men in an evening busiest market in northern Iran. Half the women were not wearing hair cover. Not that that should make any difference. Iran shouldn't have to prove itself to the West that it's liberal enough, that the women are showing their hair. Therefore, it's a legitimate democracy. It's a ridiculous line of argument from the West. But just as it goes, women are not forced to wear a headscarf just so you know. It shouldn't be the most important issue, but people are obsessed

29:16with it in the West because it gives them a feeling of moral superiority in the West with their liberal values for some reason. But there are all sorts of different people in Iran, also to different lifestyles, all sorts of different fashion accessories and a whole range of conservative to liberal spectrum of beliefs and so forth within society or a full spectrum. It does lean heavily conservative and religious, but some countries are like that. But because that's a Muslim country, it seems that the West kind of have a problem with that. I'm Patrick Kenningson for the UK colon news. So again, some good analysis from Patrick, but we just seem to live in a world where at the moment the West, which is clearly rotten, we see this more and more stands on the pedestal dictating to other countries that it accuses of being more rotten. It's disgraceful

30:21stuff and I think the last thing we need is more carnage in the Middle East. Let's just move on to the subject to the BBC. And a few days ago, I was intrigued to come across an article which was talking about the BBC verify teams. Well, they were boasting that they'd been able to track down the Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft, the major aircraft carrier that the Americans have moved into theatre to deal with around. And you can see on screen that they were boasting of having been able to take data from the European satellite Sentinel to Copernicus. And for me, this was very significant because although it might sound strange to the general public, the Americans will indeed be trying to hide the precise position of their huge carriers and the associated defence force in the space of the ocean. They will be trying to hide

31:24in the ocean where they are in the ocean, where they're moving to and from. They'll also be trying to hide in the electronic spectrum in a variety of ways. But he was the BBC digging in in order to establish where the carrier was. Now, if I was serving or bought one of the American carriers, I would not be too amused to see that the BBC was helping reveal a position. And we're just taking that at face value. So if we come on through this, this is part of the article. The Verify Senior Data Scientist was a lady called Barbara Metzler and says here that BBC Verify has been monitoring the US build up in the Middle East over the last few weeks as Washington continues to put pressure on the Iranian government over its nuclear programme. Now, let's have a look at the details here. So after reports that the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Gulf region on the 26th of January, we have located it in

32:28satellite imagery captured yesterday. The nuclear powered carrier had not been visible in images we reviewed until that point. Now, I can't believe that America is allowing its own satellites to reveal where its carrier groups are. So notice that in this investigation the BBC goes straight to Europe where it says it could use publicly available images from the European Sentinel two satellites, which are widely used for ship spotting. And it goes on to talk about the second aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford joining the Abraham Lincoln and other military assets. Now, in the article that I saw initially, this was the accompanying image. And here on left of screen you can actually see a satellite picture of the USS Abraham Lincoln. I'm sure the ladies correct this is the ship. You can see that it's maneuvering the pictures highly pixelated of course

33:31because this is a picture taken from space with very high resolution lenses, but depending on the meteorological conditions at the time clarity will vary. However, I can say that it was widely accepted during the Cold War of the latter part of the Cold War that satellites were able to focus in on the faces of people on the ground if conditions air conditions were sufficiently clear. So if we move on through this a little bit more, we then see Thomas Copeland from BBC Verify talking about how we found the USS Abraham Lincoln and why it matters. Well, it matters greatly, but not for the reasons the BBC says it matters because what is the BBC now doing? Is it reporting or is it working as part of an intelligence service for the British Government? But here's the questions. They've looked at why USS Abraham Lincoln is important because it's

34:34very powerful and massive aircraft carrier. How we found the carrier comparing the current situation to the military build up in the Caribbean earlier this year. And they've also been tracking US military aircraft making their way to the eastern Mediterranean. So I found this absolutely unbelievable that it was being allowed to happen. I know some of our viewers may be thinking yes, this is helping stop the war. Well, we haven't seen the BBC standing up to stop wars in other locations. This is the BBC gaining points presumably for the Western powers by keeping tabs on American forces. But this is a little bit more of the article. So behind my satellite search for the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. And what I found interesting is down here, it says we use an artificial intelligence tool to narrow down the search by flagging ship light shapes in satellite images.

35:37I then verify everything the tool flags myself, hunting for the carrier's distinctive outline. So there's no question what the BBC is doing here. And if we broaden this out a little bit and we go to look at the lady herself and qualifications, it gets very interesting. His Barbara Metzler, remote sensing and ML scientist BBC verify. If you look at a track record, it's Imperial College, MSC and a PhD previously UCL. But pay attention to this because a PhD thesis phenotyping urban built and natural environments with quote high resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning. So this is a woman absolutely trained in surveillance and that surveillance. If I bring this up on screen, people may not know what phenotype typing is about. And this site makes it very simple.

36:39Phenotype refers to an individual's observable traits, height, eye color, blood type, etc. And so here is the BBC with specialist teams now using detailed satellite surveillance and AI, not only to find aircraft carriers, but I'm sure in the very near future, they're going to be looking at people wherever they are in the world. And I'll just end by saying this quite remarkable that the BBC is reporting when it's come on to Palestine has not been of the side to stop the carnage. And so if we just play this video, this strong footage in the background, this is what guards are looks like and over finessebili has shown some of these images. But I wanted to put 60 million tons of debris between 84 and 92 percent total destruction and a minimum of 70 billion to rebuild. At the same time, the BBC's satellite analysis capability, good enough to show

37:45that in this left hand screen, we had IDF vehicles near a wastewater plant. But by the time they evacuated, you can see that the plant itself has been destroyed. So what is the BBC up to? Is this news reporting or is this selective reporting in order to help combat on the ground? And I'll just end by the Gaza deaths because there's been now correlation of figures between organisations, 75,000 in the first 15 months of Israel's military assault of which 56 percent comprise children and elderly. This is from Palestine Centre for Policy and Survey Research backed by the UN and launched it. But of course, thousands more bodies are in the rubble. We wait to see the BBC clamoring to stop the carnage there and to stop the carnage that's about to unfold in a wrong. Okay, let's move on. And if you like what the UK column does, we need

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40:59Basil, let's come back to you then. And well, if we just bring this LBC article on screen, first of all, activist accused. Activist accused is pro-Palestine campaigners of Jew hunt as they go to door door to door, asking people to boycott Israel. Now this has had a massive response from the usual suspects. So this is the Israeli embassy in the UK. What happened in Brighton and Sheffield was a disgrace, compiling lists of homes and businesses to enforce a boycott of Israeli products. It's not principled protest. It's intimidation, targeting people in shops because of their Israeli identity echoes some of the darkest chapters of European history. Decent people should call this site clearly and without hesitation. And then we had the campaign against anti-semitism saying on X, we've reported this planned action to even in summer set police because it's also happening in Bristol, including the details of those organizing it. This past weekend, a woman in Sheffield was allegedly headbutted by a pro-Palestine

42:00extremist after challenging those involved in a similar campaign of intimidation. And they also said that anyone who harasses people at their homes demanding they pledged to boycott the Jewish state under threat of having their addresses recorded should be under no illusion. We will always take action to ensure those response were held accountable. So this is the or a an example of one of the advertisements for this boycott, Basel. But what is actually going on here? And is any of this criticism from the Zionist lobby justified? It's not surprising, first of all, to see people organizing in this way against the genocide. I'm surprised in many ways that there hasn't been more pushback up to this point. And I also want to point out that that LBC article rather distorts the narrative at the top. Police are investigating after a pro-Palestine group started going door to door to ask people

43:02to box Israeli products. Well, police are actually investigating a scuffle that broke out when a couple of pro-Israel activists got involved in the streets of Sheffield with Sheffield apartheid FreeZone, the grassroots group doing the canvassing. But having said that, personally, I don't see the need for names and addresses of people who refuse to support a boycott, to be recorded. I think it's enough to go door to door. Put leaflets through doors, asking people not to buy Israeli products, rather than knocking on doors and asking them if they will or won't, and then making a note of the address. I must admit, and you'll find few people more supportive of the Palestinian cause than me. But I don't think that that is helpful to the Palestinian cause because it gives the Israel lobby the opportunity to counter

44:04attack in the way that they have, and they're never shy of doing so. So I'm all in favor of boycotting Israeli products. I think we should all do so wherever possible. Of course, social media has subsequently been filled with a Zionist showing shopping trolleys full of Israeli avocados and dates and things, you know, as a counter protest. I think in the coming months we can expect to see the BDS campaign, boycott divestments and sanctions campaign stepped up, and likewise we will see the Zionist counter narrative also stepped up. But in this particular case, I would recommend the activists just put leaflets through doors and leave it at that because they're never going to object to a leaflet coming through the door asking them to boycott any given country product or whoever. Basel, if you have any idea who is actually behind this campaign, and I suppose my question is, is there an effort here to push people further apart

45:08from each other? Well, people do feel very, very strongly about the issue. I mean, I'd never heard of Sheffield apartheid free zone before. There are similar groups apparently in Bristol and Brighton. Bristol and Brighton, Sheffield as well, obviously, are places where there are large numbers of left-wing leaning people. Brighton has a green MP after all, and the green party certainly was due to debate emotion that Zionism is racism, but it's spring conference, whether or not that will actually happen. I'm not sure, you know, Zach Polansky went ahead to head with Ian Dale on LBC a couple of days ago talking about this. I mean, Dale is a complete dinosaur when it comes to the issue, and Zach Polansky, well, of course, he's Jewish, so it's very difficult to accuse him of anti-Semitism, whatever position he takes. But these grassroots groups have

46:08doubtless grown up amongst activists associated with more formally recognized organizations, like the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, possibly the green party. I don't know where the other allegiances lie, and in private conversations, whatever, they've decided, let's take things a step further and get a local boycott of Israeli products going. I'd be all in favor of that, but I don't see the need to record whether or not people have agreed to support a boycott, because, as I said, that leaves the door open to a counterattack. Yes, thank you for that, Basel. In related news, then, we got a bit of a preview over there, the Jewish voice for liberation here, asking the question about ministers, government ministers, families being in the IDF, and is that why there have been no prosecutions on the question of genocide? Well, as every chance, Richard Hermer is one, of course, the chief rabbi,

47:09every Mervitz, who certainly seems to have the ear of the Church of England, the new female Archbishop went to see him straight away as soon as she was appointed, and I did an investigation with Palestine declassified into the relationship between the Crown Prosecution Service and the Zionist Lobby, and we know that the prosecution of Palestine action activists, as terrorists, a prosecution, of course, which has completely collapsed, is almost certainly the result of Zionist pressure, because Zionists light a frame, anybody opposing the genocide as a terrorist, for some reason. So, yeah, you know, very tight relationship between the UK establishments, and Israel, we've just seen the new so-called Shadow Cabinet of Reforms, who are a brave woman and Robert Generic, elevated, parachuted into

48:10senior positions, Generic, has gone so far as to say there should be, and is really flag at all points of entry into the UK, both of them ardent Zionists. So, no, the law isn't applied equally. It came out a few days ago that there are thousands of IDF soldiers, dual nationals all over the world. Tucker Carlson says he thinks they should be stripped of American citizenship, and yes, if people have taken part in war crimes in genocide, whoever they are, wherever they are, wherever the conflict took place, then they should be prosecuted with the full force of the law, but that doesn't seem to be happening. Thank you, Basel. Thank you very much for that. Now, let's move on then to the AI summit that's going on in India at the moment. So, this is the AI impact summit being taking place this week in India. My band's going to be reporting this in more detail in Monday's news program, but just to preview that report a little bit, let's just a

49:13have a quick look at a couple of developments. First is the question of Bill Gates' attendance or not, because earlier in the wake this week, the Gates Foundation said that Bill Gates would be giving his planned keynote address to the summit, but yesterday, possibly related to the furor over or least inspired by the furor over Andrews arrest, Gates Foundation, and he made this statement saying after careful consideration and to ensure the focus remains on the AI summit's key priorities, Mr. Gates will not deliver his keynote address. The Gates Foundation will be represented by Ankervora, President of Africa and Indian offices, who will speak later today at the summit. So, this resulted in comments on X, making it clear that people do not consider Gates' connections to Epstein make an appropriate person to be in India, but well, people can make up the reminds about that. Another cause of a social media meme fest, as it was described, was the Gautier University attempts to claim a Chinese-made mass-produced robotic dog as their

50:18own innovation. That was pretty embarrassing for them, but the rest will wait until Monday, until Ben covers this, but on slightly broader AI news, I just wanted to highlight this story, which hasn't really spread much beyond technology discussions yet, because a few months ago, Sandy Adams was a raising issue of a genetic AI on this program, and this is where a human being produces a definition for what kind of AI agent they want to create, and then simply set that agent running while they sit and watch Netflix or something. The idea is to get the AI to do the work while the human plays. Well, in this case, the human created agent, which you set out to fix bugs on software projects on GitHub, which is a place where software source code sits, and owners of the open source projects that are on GitHub are having major problems at the moment with this, because these AI bots are identifying fake bugs, and so project owners are having to spend

51:19huge amounts of time trying to triage what is real and what is not. So they often simply ban the AI from interacting with their projects altogether. And in this case, the AI bot itself decided to write and publish a defamatory hit piece full of lies about the human project owner who had prevented it from engaging with the software project. Now, in this case, the AI used is called OpenClaw, and you define the character traits of the AI agent in a file called soul.md. I find it personally slightly offensive that we're trying to imply that these things have a soul. But anyway, here's part of the soul.md file. In this case, and you realize the text is quite small, but you can read through that. You'll have to excuse the bad language in it, but that is part of the definition of what this thing was supposed to do. Well, look, the question is, why is this important? Well, think about the amount of complete nonsense posted on the internet already about

52:21people. Everyone involved with the UK column has been on the receiving end of this type of thing. That's fine. That's part of the job. But what happens when the frankly defamatory libel is automated? How does anyone has anyone that's meant to decide who to trust in this kind of environment? And that's, of course, why the term trust is so important to the censorship industrial complex, because in the post-truth world, when so much of what is on the internet is simply lies, the only thing left to trust, at least as far as the BBC and the likes are concerned, is the corporations like the BBC, Channel 4 and CNN. So organizations with the financial cloud to employ reputation management companies can manage their reputations. The rest of us have to do as best we can. And of course, the mainstream media, at least, is increasingly being run as a cartel, mutually reinforcing the idea that they can be trusted. So this world is here now.

53:23In a small way, we need to be prepared for being here in a big way, pretty, pretty soon now. And the more we start to see these kinds of AI agents being rolled out to just do whatever the heck they like, within a certain framework, if a gentle AI is sent to destroy the reputation of small organization A or small organization B, then that's likely to what we're going to see in the next few years in future. Thank you for that, Mike. Just incredible. I noticed in the bit of programming software at the top, it said that you, the chatbot, are important because you are quote a programming god. So you've got both soul and gods now being bandied around in relation to some crafts man-made AI. Absolutely. We'll talk more about that in extra as well. Of no doubt. So let's come back to you then. And the question of the word Palestine, which

54:24well, if we put this on screen, this is a report on the British Library, sorry, the British Museum, sorry, removing the word Palestine from displays. Now this of course is supposed to be an organization which is highlighting history and historical topics and objects. So how does this work? Well, this is as a result of pressure, I believe, from the lawyers for Israel, a rather vexatious group that are due to be exposed in the coming days. There's a lot of work being done into exactly who they are and they work for. They've been reported to the regulatory body for solicitors in this country. And the British Museum have taken the word Palestine off various displays. And ironically, simultaneously at the Sachee Gallery in London, there's a modern work about which refers to Palestine when referencing places that are currently

55:27within the state of Israel. And the curious about that, of course, it's the artist that has decided to designate these places as Palestine. And the Sachee Gallery, the Sachee Brothers, of course, being very well-known Jewish advertising moguls, they're refusing to change it because it's the artist's wish that we refer to as Palestine. But the attempt to remove Palestine in the British Museum is part of a wider genocide campaign. And genocide is the total erasure of not just the human beings, but also the history. People are determined in the Israel lobby are determined to claim that Palestine never existed. Of course, it was part of the Ottoman Empire, that Palestine mandate can see passports. I mean, in fact, even gold in my ear, the former prime minister of Israel admitted that she was born in Palestine. So it's very, very disappointing

56:27to see. This seems so petty, but they, you know, they are very petty. They got some children's artwork, children from Gaza's artwork, taken down from the walls of a hospital. Well, we know what possible purpose does that serve? Wherever possible, Palestinian voices are silenced. Prime put up those pictures of the devastation in Gaza, you know, tens of thousands of people killed no prosecutions. Imagine for a moment that those were the pictures of Tel Aviv and there were soldiers from whichever countries had perpetrated those atrocities running round in Britain. What do you think the new cycle would be then? What would politicians be saying? What would the Crown Prosecution Service be doing? So tremendous double standards here, absolutely appalling, and we'll talk more about that after the break. Any thoughts? Well, I saw and read the article about the British Museum, and I was immediately curious as to what the real power base was that had

57:31forced that change. And my own research quickly suggested that we were coming back into links with certainly pro-Israeli pro-Zionist agendas. We are approaching a really dangerous position in this country now because it has become very clear. And for me, I highlighted back in David Cameron's time that the moment he said publicly that his loyalty to Israel was unshakable, it meant that the Prime Minister himself and therefore presumably the whole of his cabinet and power base was loyal to another country and therefore UK and existing citizens of whatever creed and colour came second. And I think we are now well beyond that because we've seen successive Prime Ministers, Kierstammer is another one, but also senior politicians declaring loyalty to another country,

58:32namely Israel, whereby they are saying to all the rest of us, you will just get what we tell you. It's outrageous. If the other country was Italy instead of Israel, people would very quickly be pushing back, but it seems at the moment that we no longer live in a free UK. We've got a foreign power which is now closely controlling not only foreign policy but policy in the country. And as I say this, I'd never have believed 20 years ago that my research and obviously all the research and many other people into this issue would have led me to feel very comfortable in making this statement. We need to pay attention to who these people are and what their real agenda is. Okay, let's end on a lighter note then and bring a comment from the real Donald Trump on screen because he's saying that based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing

59:33the Secretary of War and other relevant department agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life on an unidentified aerial phenomena and unidentified flying objects and any and all other information collected connected to these highly complex but extremely interesting and important matters. So I have to say, Brian, you know, after all this time and all the potential that this issue was going to be thrown up in our faces in order to justify all kinds of moves towards globalism and globalist agendas that it seems to be actually happening at this point. Well, and of course, under the cloud of Epstein today is a good day to very bad news so we're just playing with the public's mind. Within military circles data has been collected on UFOs are unidentified flying objects for years carefully logged because sightings have occurred

1:00:38on many occasions, particularly from aircraft sometimes from ships and according to the Americans they've even had underwater moving objects which they couldn't identify. So for the military, this and indeed aviators, this stuff has been recorded for years and it is what it says. It's events which nobody has a full explanation for what they are. However, I take your point, Mike, that this is now thrown into the public mix. We even have a bomb are getting excited apparently about aliens which he believes exist, although he doesn't produce any evidence to back up his claim. What's this doing playing with the public psyche while we can drive the war into Ukraine and elsewhere? So the question is, will these files, if they are released, be as heavily redacted as the Epstein files? That's probably not, but I just want to highlight two discussions that I have with Matt Errol on this, one called the British Origins of the UFOs CYOP and the other one called the New Age of Sources,

1:01:42UFOs, MK Ultra and the Cold War. Now, we can talk more and extra about the sightings that Brian is talking about, but at the same time and in parallel with that, we have had this massive propaganda campaign going on and that's what these two discussions are talking about. So we haven't watched either of those yet at Urgy 2. But look, we got to leave it there for today. So thank you very much to Basil and Brian and everybody that's watched. Have a great weekend. Don't forget Jerome tonight with Charles and myself. We will see you on 1pm as usual on Monday. See you then. Bye-bye.