Grave interviews from the distrustful edge.
UK Column News follows public controversies through extended interviews, political readings, and skeptical monologues. Its episodes move from climate policy and Covid-era medicine to child protection, British nationalism, historic power struggles, and survivor testimony.
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UK Column News is a counter-establishment current affairs show with a patient, argumentative style. It does not behave like a short bulletin. A segment may begin with climate policy, a tribunal, a court appeal, a school-library dispute, or a political movement, then expand into a much larger account of institutions and motive. The tone is grave. The method is conversational. Speakers often talk through documents, personal histories, public controversies, and suspected power networks in long, layered sequences. Recent episodes show the range clearly. Ben Rubin frames climate policy as a political and economic project tied to net zero, finance, infrastructure, food systems, health, defense, and urban planning. Liz Evans presents Dr David Cartland’s case as a professional and medical whistleblowing story tied to lockdowns and Covid jab safety concerns. Diane Rasmussen speaks with Fornethy Residential School survivors about abuse, the withdrawal of an appeal, and the strain of being left without answers. She also interviews Bonnie Wallace about sexual content in public and school library books, using religious language and child-protection framing. Other episodes bring in nationalist politics, religious conflict, technology skepticism, and a Chinese history discussion about Qin court intrigue and rebellion. The show is at its strongest when it lets guests explain how they arrived at a position and why they distrust the official version. It is less interested in balance for its own sake. Claims are often forceful, and some episodes rely on conspiracy-framed interpretations that listeners will need to verify independently. Still, its editorial identity is consistent: skeptical, institution-focused, and drawn to people who believe public systems have failed them. It suits an audience looking for dissenting analysis, long interviews, and current affairs treated as part of a deeper political and spiritual conflict.
Made for: For listeners who want long-form, skeptical UK-centered current affairs with a strong appetite for institutional critique. Best suited to people comfortable weighing controversial claims against outside evidence.
What sets it apart: UK Column News gives unusual space to dissenting guests, survivor testimony, and thesis-led readings of policy, courts, medicine, education, and national politics. Its conversations feel less like news packages than extended attempts to connect public events into a larger argument.
The UK Column is an independent news organisation analysing the information war. Operating without financial backing or external investment, we remain free from advertisers, foundations, and political parties, relying solely on support from our audience through memberships and donations.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
UK Column News traces how spiritual conviction and moral judgment enter arguments about institutions, history, children and political power.
UK Column News moves between desk-led argument and extended guest conversation, treating spiritual conviction as a force in public disputes rather than a private practice.
Qin palace intrigue sits beside net-zero power maps here, if your curiosity likes sharp turns.
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A climate polemic that ties policy, capital, and control into one extended argument.
Ben Rubin, speaking for UK Column, lays out a firmly skeptical view that climate policy is being used to pull more power and wealth into fewer hands.
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Bonnie Wallace frames a Texas library-book campaign as a Christian case for protecting children's innocence.
Bonnie Wallace frames sexually explicit material in public and school library books as a Texas concern with a Christian duty at its center: protecting children's innocence.
Armenia-centered analysis for a volatile region.
Diane Rasmussen interviews Bonnie Wallace, an activist from Texas who exposes explicit sexual content in children's library books.
Ben Rubin interviews former BNP chairman Nick Griffin about the recent surge of nationalistic fervor in Britain.
Liz Evans interviews Dr David Cartland about his ongoing persecution after raising safety concerns about COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccines, including his recent removal from the medical register.
Diane Rasmussen discusses the Crown's withdrawal of the appeal in the Furnethi Residential School case with survivors, expressing shock and disgust.
An interview with Carol White, a survivor of the Fenethi Residential School, discussing her personal journey and how she connected with other survivors online.
Host Carl Zah interviews French geopolitical analyst Arnaud Bertrand about the ongoing war between the U.S./Israel and Iran.
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UK Column News opens on a familiar, friendly return.
Ben Rubin opens at his desk at UK Column and presents Climate Cabal as part of a bigger project.
The Qin court begins to close around Li Si.
UK Column News examines a proposed African high-speed rail network, its connection to China's Belt and Road Initiative, and claims that Western media underreport positive development stories.
UK Column News on 6 July 2026 features Ben Rubin and Brian Gerrish discussing Andy Burnham’s “good growth in every postcode, hope in every heart” speech and the concept of the common good.