Daniel Bond

NHS worker, East Yorkshire resident, on the libertarian side of UK Politics

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

This is not the IDF. There are no Israeli soldiers in this video. It’s Hamas killing their own people. Hamas hoarded all the food aid and sold it at inflated prices. Anyone who tried to take it was killed. That’s what is actually happening here.

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

This is correct. The test is simple. Duriing the period between October 7 and the beginning of Israel's military campaign did we see sympathy that was subsequently lost by the ferocity of that campaign? We did not. what we saw - especially on campuses was the celebration or rationalisation of the mass murder, sexualised sadism and torture and hostage taking as legitimate resistance against colonial oppressors irrespective if they were children, Nova festival goers, elderly holocaust survivors, people who had spent lives working for peace. The slaughter excited a thirst for more not less Jew- killing and not the end of occupation but the end of Israel. Then came the world wide avalanche of Jew hatred and Hamas cosplaying by drum- beating white people guilty about their own colonial history and displacing it on to Jews that gets ever more toxically racist; a virulent hatred so intense it of course strenthens not weakens the case for Zionism,

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

@MothinAli, your prayers are noted. So is everything else.

You are the co-leader of a party whose activists described Jews as an abomination to this planet in private WhatsApp groups. Whose spring conference was supposed to vote on a motion declaring Jewish self determination racist, a motion that also endorsed armed struggle against Israel and called for the abolition of the Jewish state entirely. The motion was not defeated. It was filibustered by procedural tactics and has been deferred to the Autumn conference where it will be voted on. Your party's membership overwhelmingly backed keeping it on the agenda. When their antisemitism was exposed, members immediately began searching for a more covert messaging platform. The briefing document did not tell them to stop being antisemitic. It told them to hide it better.

You have more decisively than your co-leader thrown your weight behind that motion. And neither you nor Polanski were present at the conference to address any of it because you were both at the Together Alliance march, the same march that carried Iranian regime flags through central London, flags of a regime that hangs gay men from cranes, stones women and whose proxy networks claimed responsibility for firebombing those same Hatzola ambulances you are now praising.

Two Jewish worshippers were murdered outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. An ISIS plot to carry out what Greater Manchester Police described as potentially the deadliest terrorist attack in British history, targeting Jewish schools, synagogues and nurseries, was foiled by an undercover operative. Four Hatzola ambulances were firebombed in Golders Green. A memorial wall was set alight on Monday. And this morning an elderly Jewish man was stabbed repeatedly in the face at a bus stop outside his synagogue.

The atmosphere in which that man felt emboldened to do that was built word by word, motion by motion, march by march. Your party contributed to it. Your support for that conference motion contributed to it.

Keep your prayers. Withdraw the motion at Autumn conference. And explain to the Jewish community of Britain why the party you co-lead is preparing to declare their identity racist while their elderly are being stabbed in the face on their way home from synagogue.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Thank you for your messages @richardpbacon
Israel faces an enemy in Hezbollah that is committed, absolutely, to eradicating it. In other words it is committed, like Hamas, to genocide. If I were Israeli I’d want my govt to do its utmost to destroy it. 
Even as a non Israeli I would like to see the group destroyed. It sends unguided rockets into civilian areas, it embeds itself in civilian areas, all but guaranteeing any response by Israel harms civilians and it has torn Lebanon apart - which is why so many in Lebanon despise the terror group. 
All civilian deaths are abhorrent. In war they are also inevitable and much more so when the enemy goes out of its way to maximise the death of its own civilians (like Hamas, which despite all the billions it has spent on rockets and tunnels has never built any shelters for its civilians). 
But if Israel were to succeed in removing the threat of Hezbollah (and/or Hamas) there will be vastly more civilian lives saved than lost. 
I’ve just seen that you have bombarded me with tweets in the last 24 hours. I’m flattered you think my opinion matters that much. But I’m also confused why you only seem to be animated by casualties where you can blame Israel. 
Tragically the world is full of horrors of a different magnitude. But you seem completely obsessed by Israel, even though its actions (unlike those of the IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Syrian govt, the Sudanese armed forces, the RSF, the Afghan govt etc) are very obviously governed by a desire to remove acute and direct risks to its own citizens from organisations that are unambiguously committed to genociding Israelis.
Israeli attacks have resulted in civilian deaths. Like you I don’t know all the details. But I do know that is not the purpose of its attacks. Obviously I wish there were no civilian deaths caused by Israel or anyone else.  Even more, I wish death cult groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Taliban etc didn’t exist.  They are the real enemy Richard. Not Israel.

[Daniel Bond @danbond]

@rebecca_ryder21 My guess is, the building was PFI and the clock (attached to the wall) falls within their maintenance contract. While ordering a battery from NHS Supply Chain would be cheap, staff won't be allowed to do that themselves and instead will have to log a PFI job.

[Higgy @higgyboson]

The supply of oil will be severely affected by the current situation in the Middle East.

We are so lucky in this country to have an abundant supply of this commodity constantly on tap from our own North Sea reserves.

It's just a matter of sheer luck that we're sat next to literally billions of barrels of oil providing us with energy security for decades.

Now, just imagine if a government decided not to utilise this bounty and instead decided to completely ignore it's existence in favour of relying on other countries to supply it to us at greatly inflated prices.

That would be insane.

[Daniel Bond @danbond]

@DanielJHannan I work from home pretty much permanently, and get way more done because people can't just drop past my desk and talk to me, they have to write an email/Teams message or ring me which all require they order their thoughts a little before engaging (and helps avoid social chat).

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

"Venezuela was a rich and democratic country and it became poor and authoritarian because of socialism"

"That is why the case of Venezuela is SO IMPORTANT for us in the west, because it is what could happen to us.

Superb @triggerpod interview with @DanielDiMartino.

[Mark Littlewood @MarkJLittlewood]

This is unbelievable. Truly unbelievable. I had to watch it 4 times. It’s not a hoax. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️👇

WATCH: Ed Miliband’s car crash interview . https://t.co/ayU5bQKAaB via @YouTube

[Daniel Bond @danbond]

I like that you can walk between the sets of gates at @HeathrowAirport Terminal 5, but the lack of bins along the whole route is a bit of a pain. Presume it's a security measure but still mildly annoying.

[Daniel Bond @danbond]

Just seen a bin man removing a spider from our wheelie bin lid that was big enough to see from an upstairs window. Now that's customer service!

[Mike Jones @technopopulist]

Liberal commentators like Nelson and Finkelstein are guilty of what philosophers call the moralistic fallacy - the belief that something *cannot* be true simply because it would be morally undesirable if it were. Let’s take their objections one by one:

(1) No one is claiming that every illegal migrant is a sex offender. The debate concerns specific cohorts of young men from particular countries and the *higher* statistical risks they bring, not blanket slurs on every individual. Pretending otherwise is a cheap straw man.

(2) The phrase “whipping up protest mobs” is dishonest and demagogic. Protest is a democratic right, and the anti-migrant hotel demonstrators are overwhelmingly decent, peaceful, and diverse in background. If anything, these protests are moral, given that successive governments have refused to repeal the Human Rights Act or reopen detention centres... the very measures needed to deliver on their own manifesto promises.

(3) No one is “thrilled” by the prospect of ethnic violence. Quite the opposite. The idea fills many of us - myself included, and academics like David Betz - with dread. It is not something we want to happen. But intellectual honesty demands that we take the risk seriously rather than banish it to the realm of taboo.

(4) The claim that white Britons face harsher treatment in the courts is a subject that needs proper academic inquiry. But the grooming gangs scandal already provide enough evidence to suggest a form of two-tier justice exists.

Columnists like Finkelstein just can’t adapt to the demographic and political realities staring them in the face. They’re stuck in a New Labour/Cameron-era timewarp, clinging to scripts the public has long since stopped buying. They remind me of that tragicomic band Crème Brulee from The League of Gentlemen - especially Les McQueen, forever trapped in nostalgia, boring anyone within earshot with tales of his glory days.

[Daniel Bond @danbond]

@dhlexpressuk The experience was very positive, just wanted to highlight where a company (who I guess will mostly get complaints via social media) has really gotten it right.

[Daniel Bond @danbond]

Outstanding service by @dhlexpressuk: Parcels piled up on front step, but rather than leave them visible the guy moved the wheelie bin in front of the step to hide them. Simple gesture, took 30 seconds, but really appreciate the effort.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

https://t.co/5qLpXD35UO

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

One of Sir Keir's favourite lines is that Liz Truss "crashed the economy" -- a reference to the interest rate on 30-year gilts peaking at 5% after Truss's mini-budget.

Today, the interest rate on 30-year gilts climbed to 5.453%.

[Daniel Bond @danbond]

@DrEilidhMaria If you mean in person ID checks with HR, pretty sure that's a Home Office requirement, but there's no excuse for them to have to make an extra journey to see HR vs. sending a scanned copy and then the final physical check being performed at induction

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

STARMERS EU RESET TAX

As the details start to leak out, and the caveats and conditions emerge, it is clear that all the #SurrenderSummit achieved was tying the UK back into the EU, and paying through the nose for the (dis)pleasure.

#StarmerResetTax

[Daniel Bond @danbond]

@GBNEWS https://t.co/Es40vfkIGU

[Daniel Bond @danbond]

Really encouraging to hear effectively using existing technology (as well as looking at what's over the horizon) is being prioritised at #HETTNorth2025