Robert Lewis

Guided walks in the beautiful Cotswolds. Digital & OOH media. #LUFC since 1972. OW. Aspiring AT thru-hiker. Dad of future P.M.

[Robert Lewis @RobOpenSpace]

A must read.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

I’ve had enough conversations with dozens of Pro-Palestine activists to come to one unavoidable conclusion. https://t.co/VDHGfz7ziL

[Tensions Rising🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 @Sutton1Mr]

My sister works in the NHS.And a lot of her colleague's went to the Jason Arday memorial the other night. And she's had to put up with them all jabbering on about how wonderful he was and how it was all whiteys fault he killed himself.
And that's o.k. It's their opinion and they are entitled to it.
But,here's the rub.If my sister attended a perfectly legal political meeting of either the Restore Party or the Reform party and came in to work the next morning and started talking about how great Rupert or Nigel was she would be reported to her management and ostricied by her workmates.
We should not feel bullied in the workplace to keep our opinions to ourselves.Whilst it's perfectly acceptable for leftists to spout their nonsense

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

¿Por qué el nuevo estudio de UNICEF que indica que los niños de Gaza están mejor alimentados que los niños de los países árabes musulmanes vecinos no es tapa de portada en todos los grandes medios de comunicación a nivel mundial?

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

This is one of the most extraordinary interviews I have ever conducted. It is also, by some distance, the one that has most defied my expectations. Jason Arday is a remarkable & brilliant man. If you only listen to one podcast this week, make it this one.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: UNICEF confirms that Gaza has the lowest rate of malnutrition in the Middle East.

The Gaza famine was a complete hoax.

[David Collier @mishtal]

Thirty Christians were just buried in Nigeria. Eleven of the victims were children.

They were all massacred by Islamic terrorists in the last few days.

And nobody is talking about it.

Ask yourself this: what is @bbcnews for - if it is not to tell you the news?

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

There is no shortage of issues regarding FIFA. Let me start by clarifying what some of these are from an FA perspective, in particular that of Jordan going into a World Cup for the first time.
We are a small country with a minimal budget for our FA and had to deal with enormous hurdles. First, getting our fans into the USA: not all were granted VISAS, even though they had tickets -which we also know were sold at exorbitant prices. Secondly, we are being taxed by the US govt through FIFA for our participation. Money that should go to players and staff. This was not the case for those who played and set up camp in Canada and Mexico. But we happened to be in the USA so now we face these huge costs in taxes for having participated.
Thirdly we have been waiting for reward money for our players since December for the Arab cup in Qatar, which is a FIFA event. The money our team should receive for having reached the final has not been delivered yet, while at the same time FIFA brags about how many billions they have in reserve.
It is clear the problem really is with leadership. For months, FIFA has been refusing to help us on any of these or other matters- until it was verbally communicated to me during the World Cup that if I endorsed Infantino it would go a long way to helping our FA out.
We pride ourselves in Jordan in upholding ethical values. We did not endorse him before and certainly will not now. But the whole situation amounts to blackmail and we refuse to give in to that.

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Roy Keane on Nico Williams disallowed goal against Argentina:

“I’ve just seen the biggest robbery of this World Cup. The ball comes into the box, nobody touches anybody, everyone goes up for it, then one Argentina player starts shouting. The next thing you know, two defenders are on the floor appealing,

Nico Williams has scored, and Emiliano Martinez … who wasn’t even touched… is somehow lying there as well asking for a foul.

The referee blows immediately. No VAR review. No replay. No check to see if there was actually any contact. Just disallowed. Apparently if enough Argentina players fall over at the same time, that’s now considered conclusive evidence.

If we’re being honest, Paredes shouldn’t even still be on the pitch after some of the tackles he’s made today. Yet somehow the only thing the referee managed to spot instantly was an invisible foul.”

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

A Nigerian Christian gives his testimony after the Islamist massacre of his village:

“All the houses were set on fire and all our grain was burned. This morning we buried 29 people". Why is no one protesting for them?”

[Gunbuster @Gunbust09696378]

Listening to Kinnock discussing probable policy for Andy from Manc.
Its all Thatchers fault.
Tax anyone who has made anything of their lives.
Give it to everyone who has done nothing.
He is going to go for housing assets.
Everyone who owns a house is fucked.

[tag 🇬🇧 @tag4UK]

I am married with a young daughter, both myself and my husband work.

-We are not entitled to housing benefit, or any other benefit for that matter.

-We do not get free eye tests, free dental care or free prescriptions.

-Our daughter is not entitled to free school meals, or free breakfast clubs, or free wrap around care, no help with her uniform.

-We don’t get council tax discount, or any other discount.

-We don’t get help with our energy bills, or low cost broadband.

-We don’t get help with the cost of going to the cinema, or days out at theme parks.

-My daughter is unable to play outside unsupervised, because you have failed to secure our borders and the streets aren’t safe.

-If I work more hours, I fall into the higher tax band.

Why should someone like me, vote for someone like you? @UKLabour @andyburnham

What are you offering my family?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Aren’t you the minister for safeguarding women against violence?
And you have to apologise for what you tweeted after a fellow female politician was violently murdered?
Isn’t that a resigning matter?

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Muslim MPs pushed so hard to ban Israeli fans and were successful.

Then last night London (and other major European cities) saw exactly how Moroccan Muslim fans act and now those same Muslim MPs are completely silent.

Tells you everything you need to know.

[Ben Cooper @bencooper]

It is pretty funny that the Tories, who don’t give a damn about identity politics, have been led by several women, a man of Indian descent, and now a black woman - whereas Labour who are obsessed with identity politics have entirely been led by white men.

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

🚨🇮🇱 ÚLTIMA HORA: Israel confirma que solo en las últimas 24 horas, Hezbolá ha disparado 147 cohetes, 20 drones y 9 misiles antitanque.

Nadie puede negar el derecho a la defensa de Israel.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

The media response to the Belfast beheading has once again focused on the 'racism' of the working class rather than on the horror of the crime itself and the dysfunctional immigration system behind it, says Andrew Devine. https://t.co/pf2SZTWM6O

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Over the last 48 hours of “ceasefire” Hezbollah has attacked Israel 72 times, including:

• 25 assaults
• 63 rockets
• 1 missile
• 7 UAV strikes
• 2 IED explosions
• 1 infiltration of 5 terrorists

Now Iran cancels peace talks because Israel responded.
See the game here?

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

Jews who were born in Israel have no right to live in Israel because the Arabs say they were there first, but Arabs who illegally entered the UK ten minutes ago have every right to live there and it's fascist and racist to even suggest otherwise. Is this about right?

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.

But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.

That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.

There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.

The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”

Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.

That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Even Arab leaders admit it.

Everyone is sharing the Bill Clinton clip where he describes how Yasser Arafat rejected a generous peace offer at Camp David that would have given the Palestinians a state on 96 percent of the West Bank, land swaps, and a capital in East Jerusalem. Clinton says Arafat lied to him and that the Palestinian leadership never actually wanted a two-state solution. They wanted to destroy Israel. It’s a video often shared by people like @VividProwess, and it’s an important one for people to see.

Of course, critics immediately dismiss it. They claim Clinton is biased or he’s pro-Israel. They’ll tell you that you cannot trust the American perspective.

Ok, so let us set that aside.

Now watch this.

In this powerful interview, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a major Arab leader who was directly involved in negotiations, says exactly the same thing from the Arab side. He talks about the Mena House Conference in Cairo as well as the Camp David negotiations of 1978. All failed because of the Palestinians repeatedly rejecting any offer. The Oslo accords were signed but because Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were not involved, they derailed the accords and any chance for peace by initiating 4 years of terrorist suicide attacks in Israel. Then came the second Camp David negotiations in 2000 which Arafat agreed to, then rejected and instead initiated the Second Intifada.

Mubarak explains how the Palestinians refused to even participate in the Mena House conference of 1977. He describes repeated opportunities they were given, including a detailed document that called for Israeli withdrawal from the Samaria, Judea and Gaza, security arrangements during a transitional period, and other major concessions. The Israelis were willing to negotiate on difficult issues like who would control security. The Palestinians, according to Mubarak, kept saying no and wasting chance after chance.

He speaks with clear frustration about how for decades the Palestinian side has rejected peace initiatives and realistic compromises.

The video further shows footage from the PLO representative in 1977, as well as old footage of Egyptian president Sadat who was involved in the Mena House and first Camp David negotiations of 1978.

This perhaps is far more impactful than Clinton’s account because it is not a Western or Israeli voice. It is prominent Arab leaders who lived the negotiations, who represented the broader Arab world, and who had zero incentive to defend Israel.

When leaders from both sides of the table describe the same pattern of Palestinian rejectionism and violence, it becomes much harder to dismiss as bias.

The pattern is clear across decades and across different voices… generous offers, repeated refusals, and continued demands for everything while giving nothing in return.

This is not ancient history. It is the core reason the conflict continues today.

If you value the truth, please share.