UK Column News — 1st December 2025

Ben Rubin, Brian Gerrish, Diane Rasmussen, and Sandi Adams with today's UK Column NewsThe UK Column is an independent media organisation and receives no corporate or foundation funding. We rely on the generosity of individual readers, viewers and listeners, so if you enjoy our quality reporting, please consider supporting us.🌐 Explore all our written and video content on the UK Column website https://www.ukcolumn.org/ 💪 Support our independent journalism here https://support.ukcolumn.org/ 🛍️ Check out our shop here https://shop.ukcolumn.org/01:31 National Emergency Briefing: World War II response to alleged 'climate crisis'.National Emergency Briefing on climate & natureWATCH: National Emergency briefing on climate and nature by UK experts(17) Post | Feed | LinkedIn(17) Post | Feed | LinkedIn10:11 Gender-Based Violence & Climate: Intimately linked – allegedlyWoman's life 'destroyed' by Newcastle childhood molester - BBC NewsUN Environment Programme | Nairobi | FacebookUN Women welcomes the adoption of the Belém Gender Action Plan and urges its effective implementation | UN Women – HeadquartersColliding Crises: How the climate crisis fuels gender-based violence Temperature and intimate partner violence - Nguyen - 2024 - Scottish Journal of Political Economy - Wiley Online LibraryFeminist-climate-justice-A-framework-for-action-en.pdfGender and climate changeRow over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women | Cop30 | The Guardian18:00 War Crimes: The BBC picks and choses its narrativesSpecial Forces heads suppressed SAS war crime evidence, inquiry hears - BBC NewsTwo girls shot in Gaza - BBC pieces together what happened and looks at dozens more child shootings - BBC NewsTwo Girls Shot in Gaza | UKColumn25:14 Local council drones: Spies in the skiesCouncil Drones: The New ‘Spies in the Sky’? #UKNews #Surveillance #Drones #BigBrotherRevealed: West London authority using drones to 'spy'…Big Brother Watch's comment on the use of drones as a first responders by the Metropolitan Police — Big Brother WatchUse of drones | Environmental enforcement | Thurrock CouncilDrones – Use of dronesMilton Keynes Council uses drones to monitor development sites | GeoPlace LLPHow UK Councils Are Benefiting From DJI Drones - heliguy™Drone use by Local Government in England: From ambition to action - ARPAS-UKUK Councils Deploy Growing Drone Fleets To Watch Residents37:50 Check out UKC’s website and support our workSupport the UK ColumnHomepage | UKColumn44:30 We Mean Business: Coalition of Control reshaping the global economyHome - We Mean Business CoalitionAbout Us | Corporate Leaders GroupsSustainable Business Network and Advisory Services | BSRHome | Ceres: Sustainability is the bottom lineClimate GroupThe B TeamUK Column News - 31st May 2024 | UKColumnThe World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)Vision 2050CDP: Turning Transparency to ActionHomepage - IKEA Foundation54:26 Pandemic: But not the one you think…University of Minnesota program offers guidelines to 'reverse the whiteness pandemic' | Daily Mail OnlineThe University of Minnesota - Twin Cities' 'Culture and Family Life Lab' features pages on 'Whiteness Pandemic'; National Institute of Mental Health is one of funding sources - Defending EducationThe Whiteness pandemic behind the racism pandemic: Familial Whiteness socialization in Minneapolis following #GeorgeFloyd’s murder.Gail Ferguson | Institute of Child Development59:57 Justice: Update on proposals to scrap juries in UK courtsDavid Lammy News News | Parliament Politics MagazineUK Column News - 26th November 2025 | UKColumnUK Column News - 28th November 2025 | UKColumn1:03 Farmers’ Protest: Report on action in London1:12 And finally: Rebel nuns against the systemRebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – if they stay off social media | Austria | The Guardian