The Week According To . . . Ben Harnwell

Welcome to "The Week According To . . .", where we take a meander through some of the news, articles and stories that have piqued our interest or made our blood boil this week and we are excited to welcome a brand new guest, the host of 'WarRoom: Rome' and international editor of Steve Bannon's 'WarRoom', the number 1 ranked US political podcast.
Plenty to get stuck into as we hear Ben's thoughts on.....

• Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's U-turn on plans to scrap 45p tax rate.
• Winter is Coming: 'All eventualities planned for' on energy this winter, says government which 'does not expect blackouts'.
• Victory was sweet for Italy’s incoming right-wing leader but 7 nightmares are in the making for Italy’s Giorgia Meloni.
• Meloni furious after France vows to monitor rule of law.
• Pull the udder one! Ugandan president apologizes for general son who offered 100 cows to marry Giorgia Meloni.
• Pretender in Chief Biden is still not at all popular among the public and we can't think why!!
• Claims that the Democrats are operating a series of 51 'fake news' websites pushing left-wing stories in a bid to turn the midterms in their favour.
• Teacher sent to prison because he would not call 'a boy a girl' spends his first night in custody isolated from general prison population.
• Campaigner, friend and regular on Hearts of Oak, Caroline Farrow is deprived of her liberty in an 'unnecessary and undignified way' as she is arrested in front of her traumatised children.
• Top robot companies pledge not to add weapons to their tech to avoid harm risk.
• Is it a bird? Is it a plane? ... No, it's a PfizerMan! US pharma giant partners with Marvel to create comic that urges children to get their Covid vaccine and be an 'everyday hero'.

In the two years between December 2006 and December 2008, Benjamin Harnwell was engaged in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Dignity, consulting widely with various experts around the world. This work was drawn to a conclusion on 8 December 2008, when (with Gay Mitchell MEP) he founded the European Parliament’s Working Group on Human Dignity (of which he remains Honorary Secretary); and on the same date, simultaneously established (with Nirj Deva MEP) the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (of which he is Director).
The Working Group was publicly launched on 25 March 2009 by European Parliament Speaker Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering MEP (now a Patron of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute). The DHI has since been engaged in launching parallel parliamentary working groups on human dignity in various legislatures around the world, all based on the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Dignity.
Ben was the Chief of Staff to Nirj Deva MEP until the end of 2010, since which point he is now based permanently in Rome, directing the development of the DHI. When involved in politics, he was an active member of the British Conservative Party for over 15 years. Benjamin identifies himself philosophically as an Austro-libertarian, co-founding (with Vincent de Roeck) the European Parliament’s Mises Circle, which exists to promote greater recognition of the Austrian School of Economics; he also co-founded the international Right Approach Group (with Patrick Barron), to explore free-market solutions to contemporary problems.
In 2002 and 2004, Ben was seconded to Colombo as Special Advisor to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
H.E. Mons. Sánchez Sorondo, Bishop Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Science and Social Sciences, appointed Ben External Counsellor in 2016.
Since February 2018 Harnwell, as director of the DHI, is also the director of the Abbey of Trisulti, founded in AD 1204 and National Monument of Italy since 1873.
From October 2021 to date Ben serves as international editor at “Steve Bannon’s WarRoom” and host of "WarRoom: Rome" on the number 1 ranked US political podcast.

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Originally broadcast live 8.10.22

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Links to stories discussed
U-turn on tax rate
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63114279
Energy this winter
https://news.sky.com/video/all-eventualities-planned-for-on-energy-this-winter-says-government-which-does-not-expect-blackouts-12714327
7 nightmares for Meloni
https://www.politico.eu/article/7-nightmares-in-the-making-for-italys-giorgia-meloni/
Meloni furious
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-giorgia-meloni-france-rule-of-law-laurence-boone/
100 cows to marry Giorgia Meloni
https://www.politico.eu/article/uganda-president-apologize-general-son-offer-100-cow-marry-giorgia-meloni/
Joe Biden unpopular
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/biden-unpopular-cnn-poll/index.html
Democrats 'fake news' websites
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11293487/Democrats-operating-series-51-fake-news-sites-pushing-left-wing-stories-toss-states.html
Teacher in Prison
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/teacher-enoch-burke-spent-his-first-night-in-custody-isolated-from-general-prison-population-41960828.html
Caroline Farrow
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11279745/Devout-Catholic-mother-arrested-series-malicious-posts-uploaded-chat-forum-KiwiFarms.html
Robot companies
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/07/killer-robots-companies-pledge-no-weapons
Pfizer-Man
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11287305/Your-friendly-neighborhood-PFIZER-MAN-pharma-giant-partners-Marvel.html