Brian Gerrish, Patrick Henningsen and Mark Anderson with Friday's UK Column News.

Mark Playne from Not On The Beeb joins us for today’s News Extra.

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-23rd-may-2025

Timestamps:

00:00 EU War Drive: Germany Lets UK Build Gun Barrels Amid Defence Unification Push

11:35 U.S.–South Africa Relations: What’s Changed—and Why Now?

28:37 Americans Grow More Divided on US Support for Israel

41:50 The UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us

45:21 The Quiet Architects of War: Charles Smith

53:24 The Trilateral Commission and the Foundations of the Rules-Based International Order