Martin Hill-Wilson

I design and host critical conversations on topical customer & colleague issues.

[Martin Hill-Wilson @martinhw]

This is what I do - Emotive CX for Customer Interaction https://t.co/vdePi689S2

[Martin Hill-Wilson @martinhw]

@MastrXYZ The world has indeed been turned inside out. The only grace is time measured in centuries and a constant stream of enough people to remain curious. I’m sure the Palantirs of today and tomorrow will find it impossible to entirely snuff out evolutionary randomness

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Yesterday, Reform UK dropped a billionaire bombshell via their pet [paid] media channels.

Ben Delo — one of the UK's youngest self-made billionaires, declared that he would re-migrate to the UK in order to donate to Nigel Farage's pension fund.

I had questions — I went looking.

A mathematician and tech entrepreneur, he made his fortune in cryptocurrency as co-founder of BitMEX alongside two others in 2014.

By 2018, he was reportedly the UK's first Bitcoin billionaire. So far, so standard for this type of guy.

But when you start reading about those he has donated money to, and the circles in which he moves, things become a bit murkier.

There are few firm details about Delo's philanthropy, but among other things, he helped fund Toby Young's Free Speech Union.

He maintains a suite of offices called The Sanctuary, close to Westminster Abbey, in which he allows 'guests' to use his facilities for free. Podcasts, office space, networking events.

The notorious Triggernometry podcast, hosted by Konstantin Kisin, records from the Sanctuary. From which he told the world that Rishi Sunak could not be British because he is a brown Hindu.

Other notable purveyors of Ben Delo's generous office complex are: Rupert Lowe, Ben Habib, Kemi Badenoch [multiple times], Claire Fox [and her Academy of Ideas] and his close friend, Jordan Peterson.

A genuine smörgåsbord of right-wing, free speech warriors.

Another feature of Delo's philanthropy is his summer party in Westminster Abbey. Attended last year by such notables as Matt Goodwin, Maurice Glassman and Paul Coleman — director of ADF International, the Christian law firm that opposes abortion.

When Nigel Farage gave testimony to the US Congress last year, he was flanked by Lorcán Price from ADF. The ADF helped topple Roe V Wade in the US and have cosied up to Farage in recent years. Watch this space for Reform UK's forthcoming anti-abortion stance, I'd suggest.

Of course, it's widely reported that Delo pleaded guilty to financial crimes by failing to implement anti-money laundering controls within his company and received a 30-month probation sentence alongside a $10 million fine.

In 2025, the crypto president pardoned him.

According to the Guardian, Delo has been biding his time, burnishing his reputation since receiving the seal of Trump approval [and by extension, of course, Farage's]. He is now launching himself into the UK political sphere as the latest white knight to attach his steed to Nigel Farage's rickety bandwagon.

The timing yesterday was not coincidental, nor was its method of delivery. It's no secret that Reform UK have been fighting to keep the spotlight in recent weeks. Dropping poll numbers testify to that.

Farage and Delo coordinated their announcement yesterday to coincide with a lull in the war [supposedly] in order that they maximise the headlines. And it worked.

But, as you can see from the examples above, Delo runs in the same right/far-right circles as all the others. Propping up some of the most hardline anti-immigration and Christian Nationalist figures.

This isn't a story about money — these people run together. It's an assault on our British freedoms. We need to be VERY wary of them.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

MAGA calls Europe freeloaders. Here’s what they’re not telling you.

​1. Ramstein Air Base, the most important US military hub outside America, is built on German land provided rent-free, with Germany contributing hundreds of millions to its upkeep. The US couldn’t replace it anywhere in the world.

2. Every US military operation in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia flows through Ramstein. Lose it and US power projection in the Eastern Hemisphere is crippled.

3. The UK provides and maintains RAF Lakenheath used almost entirely by the US Air Force. Italy provides Aviano. Greece provides Souda Bay. Turkey provides Incirlik. European land. European infrastructure. American operations.

4. The US Sixth Fleet depends entirely on European ports for fuel and supplies. Souda Bay, Naples, 11 Greek ports. Without them the Sixth Fleet cannot operate in the Mediterranean or project power into the Middle East.

5. The majority of NATO’s intelligence and surveillance capacity is hosted on European soil and fed directly to the CIA, NSA and Pentagon.

6. Early warning radar at Fylingdales, UK. Missile tracking in Greenland. Norwegian monitoring stations near Russia. All dependent on European goodwill.

7. It would cost America MORE to bring the troops home than keep them here. European hosts subsidise roughly a third of all basing costs.

8. Europe is America’s largest arms customer. Stop buying American and part of their defence industry goes bankrupt.

9. The bases aren’t charity. They’re America using European soil, European money and European goodwill to project power across the world.

10. We’re not the freeloaders.

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

This is horrific. MoD executives are going to party with Palantir over multi-million pound contracts that will enrich its founder Peter Thiel, Jeffrey Epstein's investment fund business partner. A slap in the face to Epstein's victims by this govt https://t.co/v1kBnQujKb

[Iqbal Mohamed MP @iqbalmohamedMP]

Months after Starmer & Mandelson visited their offices, Palantir won a direct contract worth £240m with the Ministry of Defence.

There was no tender & no bid, & there are no minutes from Starmer's Palantir meeting.

There must be a full investigation - the contracts must be halted until we have transparency!

#palantir
#mandelson
#epstein

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

The US company Palantir Technologies is hosting a lavish party for the Ministry of Defence to celebrate winning a government contract, The Times can reveal.

Senior military officers and civil servants have been invited to the evening reception in Mayfair on Wednesday to mark the company’s £241 million three-year deal to “boost military AI and innovation”.

An invitation to the event asked guests to “celebrate the next chapter in our partnership with the Ministry of Defence”.

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

A lavish party to celebrate a £241m military AI deal with Palantir.

This is the same US firm embedded in our NHS, with links to anti-democratic politics. This deserves scrutiny, not champagne.

#Accountability #Democracy

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

"It's in all of these government departments ... essentially it's running our critical infrastructure."

Carole Cadwalladr breaks down Palantir, the Silicon Valley company that owns Britain.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Mandelson & Palantir & Starmer questions:

Why was PM visit to Palantir in US, a client of Mandelson’s Global Counsel firm, kept secret from media?

Coincidence that Palantir awarded £240 million direct contract shortly after?

Answers needed

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

A £240m defence contract without tender.

Their fingerprints all over our health care data.

A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.

Everything around Palantir stinks.

https://t.co/25O4Idt3u7

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

The Prime Minister should stop all civil servants and Ministers from attending the Palantir party in Mayfair which will celebrate being given another massive contract and a *lot* of taxpayer money going into their profits.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

MPs! Please come to this. It’s a briefing on Russian interference ahead of the Westminster Hall debate with @dominicgrieve_ @Chris_D_Steele + others. Organised with @allthecitizens.
1.30pm today Portcullis House

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"I ask you - do not get tired of supporting Ukraine."

- Volodymyr Zelensky
President of Ukraine 🇺🇦

They will have my support till victory, and beyond❤️🇺🇦

And you?..
Do you continue to support Ukraine?🙌

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

SEVENTEEN TIMES he has been found to have breached the MPs code of conduct. 17 TIMES.
Please like and retweet if Reform UK's Nigel Farage should resign.
#PoliticsLive #PMQs

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Putin's little tool Farage is all over our TV screens, so I think this deserves revisiting.

Farage squirms as Rep. Jamie Raskin obliterates the "Putin-loving, free speech imposter, Trump sycophant".

Please share as widely as possible. The news media seem all too keen to forget about Farage's service to Russia.

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Mad enough yet?

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING:

🇨🇭🇺🇲 Switzerland REJECTS Palantir Software

Palantir Software Poses Devastating Risks - Netz Politik

After a risk assessment of the use of Palantir software in Switzerland, the US corporation was rejected, despite years of courting by authorities and the army. The Swiss consider the risks too great.

The fear is that Palantir is handing over sensitive data to the US and from there to Israel.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Peter Thiel is a real life super villain‼️

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

The Oregon DOJ submitted videos showing federal officers using extreme force on seemingly nonviolent protesters outside the U.S. Immigration & Customs Building, as part of its effort to block the federal deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.