Alasdair MacLeod

Former bus-driver, fisherman, tree-pruner, digger-driver, drainlayer...and other stuff.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Hamas is still using hospitals.
Hamas is still using hospitals.
Hamas is still using hospitals.
Hamas is still using hospitals.
Hamas is still using hospitals.
Hamas is still using hospitals.
Hamas is still using hospitals.
Hamas is still using hospitals.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Lewis Hamilton, the Formula 1 driver and Kim Kardashian's boyfriend, visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing this week, shown around by the governor of North Sinai. He wrote that he saw walls stretching for miles, built to keep Gazans in, and in the post to his 44M followers he blamed Israel.

Except those walls are Egyptian. Egypt razed the homes of their own people near the border to make room for them, and reinforced them during the war so that Palestinians fleeing the fighting could not cross into Sinai.

He stood in the country that built the wall, next to the official who runs the province it sits in, and never thought to ask who put up the wall or why.

He's not wrong about aid and how Palestinians need it, but advocacy sort of loses its efficiency when you show that you are either entirely ignorant about the situation or lying to feed a narrative.

Oh and Shawn Mendes reposted it too. I guess fact-checking is for a bygone era.

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

This INSANE tunnel network was built using stolen construction materials, on the watch of the UN. There were approx 13k UN staff members stationed in the Gaza Strip, or 92 per square mile, and over 15+ years they did NOTHING (except pass over 400 resolutions condemning Israel).

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Just how are these ridiculous decisions made?

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

In the seven Māori seats, TPM’s party vote was down from 58,237 (2023) to 10,153.

Meanwhile, the Greens’ party vote in the Māori electorates has gone from 17,988 to 68,267.

Tell me who benefited from vote splitting again? Who rorted the system?

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Israel will not apologize for existing. We will not apologize for winning. And we will not apologize for refusing to go back to the days when our enemies thought they could wipe us out without consequences. Those days are over.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Lewis Hamilton stood next to Egypt’s heavily fortified border wall with Gaza and blamed Israel for building Egypt’s fortified border wall

Smart guy

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Jews have been indigenous to this land for over 3,000 years. Israel isn’t a colony. It’s the return of a people to their ancestral home.

The Jewish connection to Israel predates Islam, the Arab conquests, and every empire that tried to erase it.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

When I spoke at the UN in Geneva they cleared the room after me of all women because the Taliban would not entertain them in their Meeting! Disgraceful useless out of date organisation

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

What the heck’s wrong with the UN… really guys? 🥺🤡

[Alasdair Thompson @ajthompson13]

.@TVOneNZ Melissa said tonight that there was a big right-side overhang (6)
Yes . But there was a similar sized left-side overhang (5) favouring Te Pati Maori
Adding 11 seats in parliament . 131 in all.

[Unfiltered @Infideliter2026]

Helen Clarke....
and also Helen Clarke.

An utter hypocrite.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

He's a fucking man. What Muslim woman would be allowed to do this?

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

Yesterday’s election confirmed what so many already knew -National’s list MPs were never getting back in. The maths never lies. The writing had been on the wall for a long long time. Losing talented people is incredibly sad and i'm gutted for some of them.

But strategic voting helped National win electorates and create an overhang to counter the left’s almost flawlessly executed overhang strategy. Without it the centre-right would have little chance of forming the next government. The left used the rules of MMP. The right had to do the same to have a chance.

The numbers show a 20% increase in vote splitting on the right from the last election. The message clearly gained traction and thankfully has given the centre-right a real chance of forming the next government.

Yet 706,000 party votes still went to National without adding seats beyond its electorate wins. Essentially wasted votes.

I do wonder whether @NZNationalParty should have understood that maths and been more upfront about it with voters. Once the list seats were out of reach the success of the right bloc should have become the priority.

We can be sad about losing good people and still recognise why strategic voting made sense. The maths doesn’t change to suit party loyalties.

For me this comes back to the future we want for New Zealand.

We should remember the damage history shows socialist and communist economic policies have done when they crush incentives to build and invest. They shrink the pie and drive out talent and capital. Then politicians act surprised when productivity falls and living standards go backwards.

Sometimes I think the left forgets how much our living standards depend on businesses creating jobs and wealth. You cannot keep promising to spend more without backing the people who make that possible.

At ZURU we employ hundreds of people here and plan to grow that to thousands over the next decade. Around 99.5% of our projected revenue of more than $10 billion next year will come from overseas. We are fighting to bring more of that wealth home and create opportunities for talented Kiwis to build careers and eventually businesses of their own.

We need more companies doing that. More investment. More well-paid jobs. A bigger tax base to pay for better hospitals and schools. Higher living standards for everyone and better support for our most vulnerable.

I want young people to see a future here and families to get ahead. That takes a country willing to back people who build things and create wealth.

That is what I care about. Far more than any one party.

At the end of the day I want NZ to kick ass.

[Mossad Customer Support @LionOfJudahX]

Israeli woman vs Jordanian man:

Her: “What’s the difference between a Palestinian and a Jordanian?”

Him: “Nothing. Same language. Same culture. Same traditions. Same religion. Not only Jordan… all our countries are the same.”

Her:
“So Arabs came from the Arabian Peninsula, colonized the entire Middle East, and now have **22 countries**…
But the Jews, Bnei Israel, can’t have **one**?
The Holy Land that **your own book** says Allah assigned to us?”

She quotes the Quran directly.
He has no answer.

Then she drops Golda Meir:
“The day Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews… that will be the day we have peace.”

He just sits there smiling.

Same language. Same culture. 22 countries.
And still somehow the Jews are the problem for wanting one.

Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱

[Very Jewish and Proud 💪 @Jewishlegend18]

70,000 people died in Gaza during the war. According to Hamas itself, 50,000 of them were Hamas fighters. And of the 20,000 “children” killed, 80% were male combatants aged 16-18.

The Gaza “genocide” is the biggest hoax of the 21st century.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Shame on all the people , mostly men, for enabling this travesty. It’s a total joke

[Dr Pam Spurr Psychologist & Artist 🟢⚪🟣 @DrPamSpurr]

🚨 Calling all TERFs: we CAN make a difference tackling a business, org or charity one at a time that's AVOIDING the law!

Excited to say my persistent challenging of The Bridge Women's Charity's women-only gym, in Southwark, means it'll now be MEN-free.

This is their new guidance (left image) & part of the CEO's email to me. (Note her pronouns 🤪)

ps amusing that in previous emails she used my title & spelt my name correctly (far right image). BUT when she had to concede defeat she misspells my name & doesn't use my title 😀)

[Connie Lee @RealConnieLee]

I was usually the ONLY WOMAN in my convoy in Afghanistan. Not only was I a military police team leader, I was the one who searched the Afghan women.

Those women told me things their husbands never would. They also told me things they wouldn't tell their husbands. They let me hold their babies and talk to their kids. These women had NO voice in that country. No rights. They were men's property.

40 months in a Muslim country taught me this: Sharia doesn't "coexist." It TAKES. And here in the USA, it will take from women FIRST.

Ladies, it starts with your voice. DO NOT hand it over. It wasn't very long ago at all that we fought for and WON our freedom here in America. We owe it to our daughters not to go backwards. 🇺🇸🪖

[Joo @JoosyJew]

@translatingpal 100s of kilometres of high tech tunnels, but no drainage. You might want to raise that at the next elections in 3026.