Ben Donaldson

Dad/European/Global citizen. Advisor @UNAUK. Coordinator @1for8billion. Freelance advice #advocacy #UN #MEL #ArmsControl

[Fred Carver @Arbeider4Fred]

In Devex alongside @benaldson and @PlataformaCIPO teasing a report I've been working on which should be out shortly on the history of the backroom deals that underlie, and sometimes undermine, Secretary-General selections

https://t.co/jTkI6DfDGW

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

"Arrested", Guardian? Stop pretending that Israel has any kind of legal right to abduct peace activists – either in international waters or in Gaza's waters.

This was yet another act of piracy by Israel.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Absolutely horrific

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Horrible news of multiple stabbings at a synagogue in Manchester. On Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar.

My thoughts are with the victims of these senseless attacks.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

This looks absolutely horrific.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Kieran Andrieu, my colleague at @novaramedia & a friend I admire, has now been kidnapped by Israel. What is happening off the coast of Gaza is illegal under international law.

Share this video.

A British citizen has been kidnapped @Keir_Starmer.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨A new investigation by Channel 4 indicates 110,000 bullets were sent from Britain to Israel last month.

The value of UK arms shipments to Israel in August 2025 totalled more than £150,000, the second largest monthly amount since January 2022.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

DEMAND SAFE PASSAGE NOW.
Governments failed—so ordinary people are risking their lives to deliver aid and open a lifeline to Gaza. After 17 years of siege and total collapse, the minimum governments can do is ensure safe passage for this legal, vital mission

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

This is astonishing: My colleague Paul Holden - author of the forthcoming revelatory book on Starmer & McSweeney ‘The Fraud’ - and myself were investigated by a private intelligence firm trying to dig dirt on us on behalf of Labour Together, the entity that brought Starmer to power. Is this what democracy looks like to Keir Starmer? U investigate your electoral opponent & a journalist! Fortunately, our investigative work exposing political corruption & my political record speak for themselves. I have a number of questions for Starmer & McSweeney:
1. How long have these investigations been going on for & are they still ongoing?
2. The ridiculous suggestion that we are funded by Russia could have been shown to be farcical if the well paid private intelligence organisation had bothered to read our published work in which we say we can’t travel to Russia for safety reasons because we have revealed Putin’s involvement in arms trade corruption
3. Is this how u believe democratic politics is conducted?

[Ben Donaldson @benaldson]

Wonderful to hear to be part of this event, thank you Maria for sharing your perspective - lots of foos for short!

Did i hear you tight when you said 8 men control half the world's wealth?!

[Nobel Women @NobelWomen]

Can you believe that there has never been a woman secretary general of the @UN? That is shameful. @NobelWomen’s ED Maria Butler taking part in a timely discussion on this failure, hosted by @gnwp_gnwp on the fringes of #UNGA #itsherturn

[Nobel Women @NobelWomen]

Can you believe that there has never been a woman secretary general of the @UN? That is shameful. @NobelWomen’s ED Maria Butler taking part in a timely discussion on this failure, hosted by @gnwp_gnwp on the fringes of #UNGA #itsherturn

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Such a pleasure to be invited to a Dabke to raise funds for a legal action against St. Bart’s for its suppression of Palestinian solidarity. The health workers leading this action are heroes, taking on their NHS Trust for the right to show solidarity with Palestine. They are Muslim & Jewish, Christian & of no faith. They are heroes in their work & their humanity. Please donate: https://t.co/n0gkUZHfhr

[COPS @copscampaign]

New details about #spycops released today by the Undercover Policing Inquiry. More than 10 years after the Inquiry began, it has today given a list of groups spied on by key officers Mark Kennedy, 'Lynn Watson', 'Marco Jacobs' & 'Rod Richardson' 🧵

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Middle East Eye's editor-in-chief has written to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer with a series of questions after Israel killed two MEE journalists in Gaza on Monday morning
https://t.co/VQzN0DXq0T

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

Sorry, am I being STUPID? Or do you agree?

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

"I imagine the girl these feet belonged to, wandering through the streets, looking for the perfect rug, one that suited her taste and matched the warm furniture of her home, before that home was reduced to rubble,
before the rug became part of her suspended grave, bearing silent witness to the crime. I imagine her barefoot the day she first laid the rug down, skipping like a child with joy, telling her siblings not to eat on it, sweeping it ten times a day, spritzing it with perfume. I imagine her spreading her books across it, reading a page here, pointing to a line there, opening one book, closing another. I imagine her dreaming, yes, dreaming she had wings made of light, wings that would carry her to the sky. She used to dream, before the dream became real, and she truly flew into the sky." - Amal Asy

The photo, taken by Palestinian journalist Mahmoud Abu Hamda, is from Israel's yesterday massacre in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central #Gaza Strip.

[Ben Donaldson @benaldson]

South Africa and Romania circulate strong foundation to improve Secretary-General selection process https://t.co/5MfUcOLoiZ

[SwitzerlandUN @swiss_un]

Today, the ACT-Group met with @benaldson of the @1for8billion Campaign to discuss possible reforms ahead of the #SecretaryGeneral selection process beginning later this year.

Inclusivity, transparency & good cooperation among key actors, including #CivilSociety, will be key.

[Ben Donaldson @benaldson]

They're back!!!

And they're early

First sightings in Lewisham:
2025 - 29 April
2024 - 7 May
2023 - 4 May
2022 - 9 May
2021 - 9 May

@LewishamSwifts
@Natures_Voice

https://t.co/IWgFkKvWPw

[Ben Donaldson @benaldson]

THEY'RE BACK!

Just saw my 1st swift of 2023!

"And I was lifted above all care ❤️"...

time to listen to @msimpsonian's sublime tribute Dark Swift and Bright Swallow.

"Come from savannah and desert and sea, to mark another year for me"

@LewishamSwifts
@Natures_Voice
#Swifts

[Ben Donaldson @benaldson]

THEY'RE BACK!!!!!

[Ben Donaldson @benaldson]

whole poem available here

https://t.co/XW1emKHgTm