UK Column News - 17th March 2025
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Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin, Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie and Dr Jobst Landgrebe with today’s UK Column News.
The ‘New Media Nudge Unit’: Steering Minds with a £697,474 Budget
00:54 The Telegraph (2012): ‘Nudge unit’ to become Whitehall’s first profit-making business (Archived)
Institute for Government: MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy (PDF)
That means that citizens may not fully realise that their behaviour is being changed – or, at least, how it is being changed. Clearly this opens up the government to charges of manipulation.
Behavioural Insights Team: Behavioural Government
GOV.UK: SAGE meetings, March 2020
The Times: No 10 seeks influencers to spread Starmer’s word on social media (Archived)
The Irish Times: Who is Morgan McSweeney, the Irishman heading up Keir Starmer’s Downing Street operation? (Archived)
UK Parliament: The role and status of the Prime Minister’s Office
GOV.UK (2023): TikTok banned on UK government devices as part of wider app review
Alarm Bells Are Ringing In Germany With Dr Jobst Landgrebe
11:37 Wikipedia: 2025 German federal election
Euronews: Explained: How does Germany’s electoral system work and what changes this year?
Reuters: German parties agree historic debt overhaul to revamp military and economy
Bundestag (German): Seat distribution of the 21. German Bundestag
Federal Constitutional Court (German): Unsuccessful applications against convening of the old Bundestag before the meeting of the newly elected Bundestag
Tagesschau (German): What has agreed on the Union, the SPD and the Green
Dirty Money Shuffles: And Who Are Quadrature?
21:37 Quadrature Capital Limited: We’re building the Ultimate Automated Trading Business
eFinancialCareers: Quadrature Capital: the hyper-secretive prop trading firm that’s “a bit of a cult”
Financial Times: Labour’s hedge fund donors took low-tax option of £160mn loans
Open Democracy: Labour given £4m from tax haven-based hedge fund with shares in oil and arms
Quadrature Climate Foundation: Our grants
The new climate reality demands unprecedented climate action…
Power Technology: Private investor Greg Skinner acquires 50% stake in Ethical Power Group
The Guardian: UK climate envoy to keep role at charity whose founders invest in fossil fuels
Apolitical (YouTube): Apolitical Government Climate Campus
Apolitical: Building energy and climate capable governments this decade
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Billetto: Supporting Farmers for Food Security Symposium, March 2025
UK Column (on X): Dick Tater video
Fatsoma: Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival
Diane’s Report From Keswick: A Festival of Words and Ideas
36:48 Words by the Water Keswick: A Festival of Words and Ideas
The University of Cambridge’s Museums and Collections: Pride In Nature LGBTQ+ tour
Key Cities at the Heart of the Government’s Agenda
45:54 Key Cities: Key Cities is celebrating its tenth anniversary
Key Cities (LinkedIn): On Monday night, Key Cities launched its latest report, On the Waterfront at the third annual Cities in Parliament reception hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Key Cities
Key Cities: Local partnerships to drive net zero innovation
The Loomba Foundation: Her Skill, Her Future: Empowering 100,000 Widows in India
Woke Academia
54:30 Cogent Social Sciences (2017): Sociology – Research Article: The Conceptual Penis As A Social Construct (PDF)
The Telegraph: Shakespeare’s birthplace to be decolonised after ‘white supremacy’ fears (Archived)
Midlands4Cities: The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C) brings together eight leading universities across the Midlands
National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE, 2022): Decolonising the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Collections as an Inside-Outsider: A Perspective on Collaborative Research
Wall Street Journal: How Federal Workers Are Dealing With the $1 Limit on Their Corporate Cards - Trump Administration Freezes Federal Credit Cards (Archived)
The College Fix: Agriculture Dept. gave university $600K to study menstruation issues, including in trans men
USA Spending: Project Grant FAIN 20243882142035
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000
Taylor & Francis Group: Queer canine becomings: Lesbian feminist cyborg politics and interspecies intimacies in ecologies of love and violence
Royal Holloway History (TikTok): Dr Shahmima Akhtar explains what the Royal Holloway history department does to promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity
Taylor & Francis Group: Who’s afraid of the vulnerable terrorist? Framing violent jihadists’ life and intimate relationships
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