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Grave analysis for dissenting news minds.
UK Column Radio gathers news panels, interviews, and partner programmes under one serious political umbrella. Its episodes move from British politics and protest law to China, Iran, Lebanon, education, Christianity, geoengineering, and food security.
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UK Column Radio is a serious, long-form current-affairs feed built around suspicion of official narratives and close attention to institutional power. It is less a single programme than an umbrella for news panels, interviews, and adjacent shows such as Silk and Steel and Jerm Warfare. The pace is measured. The tone is grave, occasionally dry, and rarely casual for long. UK Column News editions cover British politics, protest restrictions, defence conferences, NHS data and Palantir, the COVID inquiry, Lebanon, oil and gas conflicts, and the machinery of government communication. The hosts and contributors tend to name the institution first, then ask what its language conceals. That gives the show a briefing-room quality rather than a campaign-rally feel. Interviews stretch into difficult subjects, including Kim Isherwood’s criticism of school materials and Public Child Protection Wales, or Laurent Guyénot’s arguments about Christianity, Judaism, pagan philosophy, and the West. Silk and Steel brings China-facing analysis into the feed, with Carl Zha and guests discussing Taiwan’s opposition politics, KMT-CPC contact, Iran, sanctions, and the Strait of Hormuz. Jerm Warfare supplies a different current, sometimes warmer and more conversational, but still built around distrust of corporate systems, official science, and dominant media habits. Episodes on food security and local gardening sit beside discussions of geoengineering, aviation, sulfur, contrails, and stratospheric aerosol injection. The show assumes its audience can tolerate long arguments, digressions, historical detours, and strong claims about governments, media, intelligence services, and global institutions. It also assumes that politics is not separate from daily life. A discussion of Lebanon can lead to maps and buffer zones; a conversation about corporate food can become a case for neighborhood self-reliance. The show’s editorial center is not neutrality. It is scrutiny, counter-narrative, and moral seriousness. That makes it valuable for listeners who want to understand how a dissenting media ecosystem reasons through events, and challenging for anyone looking for brief, conventional news summaries.
Made for: For listeners who want long, skeptical analysis of politics, geopolitics, media narratives, and institutional power. It suits people comfortable with forceful dissent, historical detours, and interview-heavy episodes.
What sets it apart: UK Column Radio combines British news-panel scrutiny with geopolitics, interviews on difficult cultural subjects, China-focused analysis, and Jerm Warfare’s broader battle-of-ideas format. Few feeds move so freely between British procedure, Lebanon maps, Taiwan politics, school-policy controversy, food self-reliance, and geoengineering arguments.
International News From Britain with Mike Robinson and Brian Gerrish
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It pairs viewpoint-driven global analysis with interviews that stay close to institutional disputes and the people caught inside them.
UK Column Radio brings several programs into one feed, moving from Mike Robinson's multi-contributor news discussion to one-on-one interviews and Silk and Steel conversations.
This is the show that meets your distrust of official narratives with evidence and a raised eyebrow.
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A measured look at Iran, China, and the leverage each side is trying to claim.
The episode stays on U.S. pressure on Iran and the wider strategic role of China, with the Strait of Hormuz and Western reporting on cargo flights to Tehran treated as the main fault lines.
A small garden becomes a clear case for practical, local change.
This episode keeps its focus on small things and treats them seriously: a garden, a neighborly exchange of vegetables, and the plain work of solving problems where people actually live.
A sceptical current-affairs roundup that moves from Starmer and Mandelson to protests, the NHS, and wider power struggles.
This UK Column News episode leans hard on the Starmer-Mandelson saga, starting with the vetting row and the government's push to pull the story back under control.
A combative, chemistry-first argument about what geoengineering does and does not look like.
This episode offers a combative, chemistry-first look at geoengineering claims, with Jim Lee guiding the discussion from sky-gazing toward the mechanics of the stratosphere.
A measured cross-strait argument about power, business, and who actually benefits.
Carl Zha and Xiang Yu treat the KMT-CPC leadership meeting as more than a passing headline. The piece keeps one eye on cross-strait politics and another on the business ties that sit around it, while also noting the DPP's shakier footing at home.
Charlie Kirk's assassination becomes a lens on MAGA's split over Israel.
Jerm Warfare brings Laurent Gaino into a discussion of Israel's influence on American conservatism, and the episode is strongest when it traces the split inside MAGA after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
A sharp geopolitical conversation about war, spin, and the distance between a rescue story and a strategic failure.
Silk and Steel shifts to the French and European response to the war, with Carl Zah keeping the exchange moving between the larger argument and the practical details.
Russia, Bilderberg, and the show's familiar suspicion of institutions.
UK Column News starts with Britain's renewed focus on Russia, leaning on John Healey's remarks about Russian activity near the UK and an operation in the Atlantic north of the country.
Ohio Valley talk with sharp local elbows.
Carl Shaw returns after a rough spell.
The conversation starts close to home.
17th April 2026.
This episode explores the historical connections between Christianity, the Torah, and Western civilization, challenging the notion that the West is fundamentally based on Christianity.
This episode features an interview with Kim Isherwood from Public Child Protection Wales discussing upcoming events and an international child protection task force.
Jerm brings Jim Lee back and opens with jokes about the labels thrown at him online.
Carl Zha and guest Xiang Yu focus on the Taiwan opposition leader's trip to Nanjing, Shanghai, and Beijing, with Xiang Yu reading each city as a historical, economic, and political layer of cross-strait relations.
Mike Robinson hosts UK Column Radio, covering international news from a UK perspective, starting with analysis of the London Defence Conference.
An interview with Susan Humphrey about her community's land project in Derbyshire, focusing on food production and sustainable living.
A news and politics podcast discussing international events from a British viewpoint, featuring an interview about Russia.
Host Carl Zod interviews Dr.
Brian Gerrish and Ben Rubin discuss international news including failed US-Iran peace talks, UK-Israel relations, and psychological control tactics.
Jerm sets up a grave interview with Laurent Gaino about Israel's influence on American conservatism, after a BetMGM cold open and a quick France aside.
Carl Zah brings Arnaud Bertrand back for a bleak read of the Iran conflict through Bertrand's article, "This is the First Multipolar War." The episode keeps circling one problem: what happens when the heroic rescue story has to carry more than the details will bear?
Rwanda is the doorway.
Friday the 10th starts in a grave register.
The Crown has withdrawn the appeal.
Mike Robinson and Brian Gerrish discuss international news from a UK perspective, touching on conspiracy theories and personal anecdotes.
China and Pakistan put peace language on paper, and the episode treats it as an early test of what might hold: a ceasefire, commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, and a possible U.S.
Mike Robinson and guests discuss the Iran ceasefire, UK foreign policy, food security, fuel prices, and online safety regulations.
Mike Robinson and Brian Gerrish discuss the Greater Israel project and its role in dividing Eurasia, drawing on historical British imperial strategy.
Mike Robinson discusses linguistic manipulation in media with guest Peter Duke, referencing Stuart Chase's book.
Liz Evans treats this as a return visit with unfinished business.
BRICS is handled with suspicion, not fanfare.
Discussion of US foreign policy, oil markets, and geopolitical tensions with a focus on Europe and the Middle East.
An interview segment discussing a personal story involving mysterious information and an interaction in Cornwall, set within a UK news analysis show.
A news commentary show discussing international news from a British viewpoint, with hosts Mike Robinson and Brian Gerrish.
Nick Griffin does not sand much down.
Mike Robinson hosts UK Column News, covering international news from a British perspective, including updates on offshore wind turbines affecting radar, Israel-Lebanon conflict, and Keir Starmer's remarks on the Strait of Hormuz.
An interview discussing the theory that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was the true author of Shakespeare's works.
A news and politics podcast providing international news analysis from a UK perspective, with hosts discussing current events and geopolitical issues.
Mike Robinson interviews Max Egan about a staged cartel attack in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and ongoing power issues.
Mike Robinson interviews Cliff Kirikoff about Christian Zionism's influence on Trump's foreign policy and its historical British origins.
An interview with Carl Jha discussing China's perspective on US-Iran tensions and regional stability.
A news commentary show discussing international news from a British perspective, with a focus on media censorship and current events.
Brian Gerrish and Ben Rubin discuss international news including war protests, potential invasion of Karg Island, government treatment of veterans, and BBC leadership changes.
This episode of UK Column News covers current UK political and economic issues, including the impact of Trump's Iran war on Britain's economy, corruption, transgender athletes in the Olympics, and upcoming segments on Zionist funding and Palestine action.
Legality comes first.
Jerm is pulling back from Substack.
The host discusses repeated fiber cable damage from construction work in his street, questioning modern infrastructure installation practices.
James Roguski discusses geoengineering as a psychological operation, challenging mainstream beliefs about airplane contrails and atmospheric phenomena.