Ben Whittingham

[Ben Whittingham @BenWhittingham2]

@IanSZNian Gabriel Heinze

[Oldspeak Bookshop 📚 @oldspeak_books]

I couldn’t get an ambulance for my mum who suffered a stroke, despite all my begging. She died.

[♡ Chelsea Lewis investuk ♡ @chelsea_x_lewis]

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#RestoreBritain #VoteRestoreBritain

[ALUNCEDO @Mbakaza4L]

In case you were wondering what a holocaust looks like.

[Ben Whittingham @BenWhittingham2]

Hang the bastards
BBC News - Teacher guilty of abusing and murdering adopted baby boy - BBC News
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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 The UK Ministry of Defence just confirmed the drone that hit their base in Cyprus was not launched from Iran.

Not Iran.

So who launched it?

A British base in Cyprus. A Saudi oil refinery. Turkey. Israel present in all three incidents.

Someone is attacking Western and Gulf targets and making it look like Iran — to drag more countries into this war.

This is a false flag operation unfolding in real time.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Ben Whittingham @BenWhittingham2]

@TheAlphaThought Tax

[Whatifalthist @whatifalthist]

No..no…no. Denied…no..;denied again. You don’t get to scrap legal principles going back to the 12th century that built the most successful society ever between the largest empire ever, science, freedom, the Industrial Revolution, creating the modern world order and the rest. The current British regime is the most oppressive ever in the history of the Anglosphere

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

🚨 URGENT
Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French Government. After determining this person’s position and proximity to the French couple, I have deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something happens.
In short, this person claims that the Macrons have executed upon and paid for my assassination. Yes, you read that correctly. More specifically, that the green light was given to a small team in National Gendamarie Intervention Group. I am told there is one Israeli that is on this assasination squad and the plans were formalized.
Again, this person provided concrete proof that they are well placed within the French government apparatus.
Further to this point, this person claims that Charlie Kirk’s assassin trained with the French legion 13th brigade with multi-state involvement.
Journalist Xavier Poussard’s life is also at risk. This is deadly serious. The head of state of France apparently wants us both dead and has authorized professional units to carry this out.
I ask that every person RETWEET and share this.
I do not know who in the American government can be trusted, since this source claims our leaders are aware. But I have more specific information which is definitively verifiable, should they care to reach out to me.
To the brave official in France who did this because they were so moved by the evil of Charlie’s public execution to risk their own life— May God bless you. Truly.

Let all be revealed.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

This guys my new hero 👏👏👏

He gets asked what he thinks of Keir Starmer and what he would do if he could change our country.

His reply is as accurate as it is sincere and honest and he says what we are all thinking. 💯

[Together @Togetherdec]

We’ve got passports
We’ve got National Insurance numbers
We’ve got driving licences

We don’t need compulsory Digital ID!

We managed to defend our borders for hundreds of years without Digital ID

Digital ID won’t “control immigration”

It WILL control YOU!

#NoToDigitalID

[Ben Whittingham @BenWhittingham2]

@DaveHill Nice from far, far from nice

[Oliver @FrankHighgate]

So here we are…

Tonight, as I sat and ate dinner with my family, I was distracted.

Something was on my mind.

I’d just watched a video of an innocent English man, out walking his dog, being brutally knifed to death, by a man who should never have even been allowed in our country.

An Afghan “asylum seeker” who had apparently been important by our government and granted indefinite leave to remain here, thought it would be all perfectly appropriate to slaughter a handful of innocent English men and women today.

And of course, this comes as no surprise to anyone, and this has happened many times already. Brutal murders, stabbings, rapes, mass gang rapes, mass murders, Islamic terrorism and bombings.

And our government just keeps importing them. Day, after day, after day. Endlessly. And despite what we want, they refuse to do a single thing to protect this country and its people from those who invade us. In fact, they encourage it and facilitate it.

There are many thousands of those rabid animals walking our streets right now… tonight. Our government has imported them all and housed them in hotels, country houses and HMOs across the length and breadth of this nation.

That innocent victim today could be any one of us tomorrow. It could be you or me. It could be your father or your mother, your brother or sister. It could be your sons and daughters.

There will be countless more murders, countless more stabbings and assaults and countless more rapes, sexual assaults and abductions in the coming weeks, months and years.

This is because, over the last 30 years, our successive governments have deliberately worked, to turn this country into a third world, violent hell-hole, infested with thousands of violent, angry, backwards foreign men, who hate everything about us, our country and our culture.

And of course, not a single word on this from our disgusting, treasonous, mass-rape and murder facilitator-in-chief, our Prime Minister. This is all part of the plan, and all part his government’s idea of acceptable collateral damage, in the grand scheme of destroying everything that was once good about this country, our culture, heritage and proud history.

This should have come as no surprise to anyone. And this will only get worse.

The people of this country are going to need to be vigilant at all times, and watch our backs and each other’s. The streets are no longer safe, wherever you may be. No one is safe.

Those responsible for this must pay. Those facilitating this must pay. And those encouraging this must pay.

The English people have had enough.

We need to stand up and start defending our homeland from those animals who are invading us and from the enemy within who have brought this about.

And we must deport them all.

Every single fucking one of them.

No excuses.

Zero tolerance.

Enough is enough.

[Ben Whittingham @BenWhittingham2]

@StokeyyG2 Ban Marc Casado for 5 or 10 games for cheating, keep repeating until players stop cheating

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

Since early morning, my family and I have been living in a state of total psychological collapse.
Today we learned that our homes, our land, and our entire neighborhood, every house belonging to our family and our neighbors, have been completely erased. Bulldozed. Flattened into a barren stretch of yellow dust.

From the first light of day, we have been living the full meaning of defeat.
We have lost more than seventy members of our family. We have lost our land.
We now have no home to return to, no walls to protect us, no place left to call our own.

And then, one of Hamas’s leaders appears on television declaring that “the people have not been defeated,” that “Gaza has stood firm and fought a historic war.”

So let history record this:
I, Dr. Ezzideen Shehab, from Gaza, together with my family, my friends, and their families, did not fight any war.
We were the victims of an annihilation ignited by Hamas from within our homes, only for the Israeli army to descend upon us and unleash its full cruelty on the civilians of Gaza, while Hamas’s fighters vanished into their tunnels.

Let history record the truth: we were defeated, utterly, painfully, and completely defeated.
And it is we, the people of Gaza, who have the right to say whether we were defeated or not, not those who sit comfortably in Qatar or Turkey.

We were crushed, humiliated, and broken after our city was destroyed, occupied, and erased from existence.
We were displaced, stripped of everything we had built, left to wander through the ruins of our own lives.

And somewhere amid all this, I understood something simple and terrible:
My mother’s tears are holier than the homeland itself, and my father’s brokenness matters more to me than any flag.
Because what meaning does a homeland hold when it devours the ones you love, when it glorifies death but forgets the living?

We were not steadfast. We were held hostage in our own land.
We could not leave. We could not change those who claimed to rule us.
We were trapped between a merciless occupier and rulers who feed on our suffering.

And if there is one moment in my life when I must speak the truth, without fear, without hesitation, then this is that moment.

Let it be written clearly:
We were not soldiers in a war.
We were the bodies buried beneath it.

#GazaGenocide

[MILO @Nero]

Well shit

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Elon Musk Says, "The British government are traitors to their own people."

Do you AGREE with him?

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

Countries with the highest number of arrests for online comments in 2023:

🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 12,183
🇧🇾 Belarus: 6,205
🇩🇪 Germany: 3,500
🇨🇳 China: 1,500
🇹🇷 Turkey: 500
🇷🇺 Russia: 400
🇵🇱 Poland: 300
🇹🇭 Thailand: 258
🇧🇷 Brazil: 200
🇸🇾 Syria: 146
🇮🇳 India: 100
🇮🇷 Iran: 100
🇫🇷 France: 54
🇺🇸 USA: 50
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 45
🇪🇬 Egypt: 20
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 15
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: 13
🇭🇺 Hungary: 10

And then Brits come and lecture the world on the so-called "free speech" 🤡

[Ben Whittingham @BenWhittingham2]

@InCarlisle Hello @InCarlisle any chance of a follow up on this story? Can't find any info on what happened, seems to be nothing anywhere on website or court file? https://t.co/M8moSzJDBC