{"podcast":{"title":"UK Column News","slug":"uk-column-news-315425","podcast_index_feed_id":315425,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1044e334c/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://www.ukcolumn.org/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43572011/3e727f1068800296.png","author":"UK Column","episode_count":1204,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T02:17:04.047862+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425"},"episode":{"title":"UK Column News — 20th May 2026","slug":"uk-column-news-20th-may-2026","published_at":"2026-05-20T13:48:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425/uk-column-news-20th-may-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukcolumn/episodes/UK-Column-News--20th-May-2026-e3jl55n","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1044e334c/podcast/play/120279671/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-20%2F424541496-44100-2-70e8a4e3c16c8.mp3","summary":"UK Column News — 20th May 2026 ► Subscribe to the UK Column YouTube channel ► https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficial Charles Malet, Vanessa Beeley and special guest Alex Kriel present today’s UK Column News. ► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live ► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/ ► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/ ► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficial Follow #UKColumn on: ► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn ► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news 00:00 Welcome 01:07 Home Front: Round-up of events since King’s Speech 08:22 Trump & Xi: UKC’s analysis of meeting 20:52 Bank of England: Machinations in the bond market. With special guest Alex Kriel, founder of The Thinking Coalition 28:30 UK Column — 20th Anniversary tickets selling fast 31:47 Energy: Continued push for Net Zero 37:45 Trump Insanity: Nuclear Dust! 43:45 Debt: Limitless money lockdown legacy 50:27 Behaviour: Comply, co-operate, in face of latest ‘threat’","meta_description":"UK Column News — 20th May 2026 ► Subscribe to the UK Column YouTube channel ► https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficial Charles Malet, Vanessa Beeley and special gu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3670,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/uk-column-news-315425/episodes/uk-column-news-20th-may-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425/uk-column-news-20th-may-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}