{"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 — 8th June 2026","slug":"uk-column-news-8th-june-2026","published_at":"2026-06-08T13:27:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425/uk-column-news-8th-june-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukcolumn/episodes/UK-Column-News--8th-June-2026-e3kgau4","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1044e334c/podcast/play/121170308/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-8%2F425729014-44100-2-557dd9aeefad4.mp3","summary":"Brian Gerrish and Ben Rubin 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 Introduction 02:00 Starmer and Zelenskyy Lovingly Plan for War and More War 06:00 Chaos and Anger Preside in Parliament 16:00 Righteous Anger Pervades in the UK 22:00 Can Political Activism Save the Nation? 29:00 Support UK Column’s Independent Journalism 31:00 Is There an Incoming National Climate and Nature ‘Emergency’? 39:00 Nathan Allonby speaks from the NO CCTV protest in Glasgow 44:00 Radical Centrism Is Authoritarianism 52:00 Ofcom: New Chair, Sir Ian Cheshire, and the Online Safety Act 58:00 How People Can Counter the Manipulation in the Political System 1:00:00 The Truth Is So Dangerous","meta_description":"Brian Gerrish and Ben Rubin present today's UK Column News. ► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3792,"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-8th-june-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-8th-june-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}