Ben White

Pubs and food. Left handed. I chat absolute rubbish about most things. MCC, GCCC, GRFC. XL Club cricket.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

Wetherspoons corrects the Daily @MailOnline, poppies are not banned and are even sold in the chain of pubs.

Last year they raised £55,867.00 for the Royal British 🇬🇧 Legion.

[Gaz Weetman @GazWeetman]

Ugly scenes in Hampstead right now. It’s all kicking off

[Ben White @Ben_Chalky]

@CharlotteCGill It’s not about it being a Lidl. Or any supermarket.
It’s about the location not being suitable - unless you can walk to it. Adding a destination supermarket with parking and traffic needs, would not be wise on that stretch of road. (I’m no supporter of those councillors either)

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

You are the laughing stock of the world.

I don’t care where you come from or which community you serve.

Get your finger off the f***ing trigger, unless you are about to shoot someone imminently.

Page one. Line one. Lesson one.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

Teach Black children their history? ABSOLUTELY! But teach them ALL of it, not some carefully curated historical narrative designed to leave them perpetually angry, resentful, and convinced that their future is imprisoned by their ancestors’ past.

You want to teach them about slavery? EXCELLENT! Then let’s teach them about the African kingdoms and merchants who captured, enslaved, and sold other Africans. Let’s discuss the Kingdom of Dahomey, the Asante Empire, and the role African intermediaries played in the transatlantic slave trade.

Let’s teach them about the Arab slave trades, which operated across centuries, and the indigenous systems of servitude that existed in Africa before Europeans arrived.

And absolutely teach them about European colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, the barbarity of plantation slavery, and the laws that systematically deprived Black Americans of their liberty.

But don’t you dare selectively edit history to manufacture an eternal racial grievance.

Let’s teach Black children about Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and the extraordinary accomplishments of Black Americans who refused to let oppression define the boundaries of their existence.

Let’s teach them that African history did not begin with slavery and that Black American history did not end with emancipation.

Let’s teach them about African civilizations, scientific achievements, entrepreneurship, intellectual independence, family formation, and the extraordinary resilience of our ancestors.

And while we’re examining historical culpability, let’s examine the American political institutions that defended slavery, enacted Jim Crow laws, and resisted civil rights. Let’s name the politicians, examine their party affiliations, and acknowledge how those parties and their coalitions changed over time. No selective amnesia for anybody.

Here’s where I fundamentally disagree with you.

You appear more interested in teaching Black children whom to resent than teaching them what they can accomplish.

My ancestors endured extraordinary suffering. Their suffering deserves historical accuracy, reverence, and remembrance. It does not require me to surrender my intellectual independence or teach my children that their destiny is controlled by people who lived centuries before them.

History should produce knowledge, not inherited animosity.

Teach the entire historical record, including the uncomfortable chapters that contradict your preferred narrative.

Because a child who knows only the atrocities committed against his ancestors knows only a fraction of his ancestry.

And that is an egregious intellectual disservice.

I will teach my children what happened to their ancestors. But I will also teach them who their ancestors WERE before captivity, what they accomplished afterward, and what they themselves are capable of becoming.

My God did not create my children to spend their lives shackled to the grievances of yesterday.

Teach history. Don’t manufacture helplessness.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

@TowerHamletsNow It isn't a coincidence you have chosen this date and time.

Zero respect for British culture, tradition or history.

[Ben White @Ben_Chalky]

@gloucesterrugby @jam_rugby Shifts!

[Ben White @Ben_Chalky]

That’s a very good win!!
Proper shift.

#GLOvBAT 🍒⚪️

@gloucesterrugby

[Ben White @Ben_Chalky]

@craigmccrum @premrugby at the start of BT sports, new style commentary. Analysis etc. was good

[Ben White @Ben_Chalky]

Did Ridley come on the Bath bus?!

He’s doing all he can to get Bath to score!

#GLOvBAT @premrugby

[Ben White @Ben_Chalky]

@craigmccrum @premrugby Ha ha yep. He used to be brilliant.

[Ben White @Ben_Chalky]

@BenW_03 @premrugby Ha Ha! Some of them aren’t. Thankfully the TMO also spotted his try-awarding mistakes!

[S4C Chwaraeon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @S4Cchwaraeon]

CERDYN COCH 🟥

Cerdyn coch i Curtis Gregory am chwarae brwnt.

Ebbw Vale are down to 14 players for the rest of the game.

@llandoveryrfc @evrfc
💻 https://t.co/NKyREilISO

#SRC | @SuperRygbiCymru

[Ben White @Ben_Chalky]

Grew up watching Gazzetta Football Italia. Mark Richardson, espressos, pink newspapers, cafes etc.

AC Milan were THE team. Not just in Italy but of Europe.

Tonight they lost 3-0 to…..checks notes…Bournemouth. Wow!
⚽️🤯⚽️🤯⚽️
@footballitalia @EuropaLeague

[Ben White @Ben_Chalky]

@GeoffNorcott Indeed. And on the same day a crazy-ass ODI took place as well!!

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 BOOM: Marine Le Pen just addressed France while Macron hid, and she said exactly what he won't.

She blamed "DECADES of anarchic immigration" and decades of rioters walking away without paying for what they burned.

She called Macron a "GHOSTLY" president with no authority who "has lost all contact with reality."

She said the destruction came from an alliance of political wreckers, antifa groups, and thugs from the suburbs.

Her fix is simple. If you BREAK it, you PAY for it.

"Violence is not an opinion," she said.
That is what leadership sounds like.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

This is a warning for every one of us who insists that Britain or France or Italy etc are just fine.👇

I have been shouting for decades - we must care about what we teach our children in our schools!

No one was interested.

I only hope people are willing to listen now.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 BOOM! A shop owner in Lyon who spent ALL NIGHT guarding his store looked the city's Green Party mayor in the eye this morning and told him to RESIGN.

"Are you proud today? Look at the damage you've done!"

"You should be ashamed. You must resign!"

Mayor Gregory Doucet came to see the damage in the city center, and police had to stand between the two men.

Yesterday, masked rioters smashed and looted shop after shop and burned the city's historic tourism office to the ground.

Some shop owners stood in their doorways with baseball bats because that was the only protection they had.

Lyon made just 20 ARRESTS.

This is what happens when leftists run a city. The rioters walk, and the shop owners clean up the glass.

He's right. Resign.

[Revd Canon Fr Phil Harris† 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 @PhilHs10]

As France burns, I must ask: how is this despicable person fit to be a Member of Parliament?

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

If London was being burnt like the French towns and cities, I’d want to see our army take charge.
The scenes across the channel are like a war.

Very disturbing.

And a warning what the left and some our new foreign intake are capable of.