Ian

I curate @thequote in my spare time, I remember the early days of Twitter, so I’m interested in people for conversations without a sales patter. Let’s talk!

[Ian @ianmayman]

¡Buena suerte al equipo de fútbol paraguayo - @APFOficial! ¡Expulsen a Estados Unidos del deporte rey!

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[Ian @ianmayman]

@SUBRATA30016572 @jb105488 He is your master, he controls your mind. On your knees for him.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@ThomasW38962121 @chiky_handlr So much hatred of a person you dont even know shows clear evidence of manipulation and a controlled mind. Your mind is whatever Trump wants, bow to him like a slave and he will con you like so many.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@SangitaMyska Looks like his account has visibility reduced. I've reported it as I'm sure others have leading to the restrictions on him.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@PhysInHistory Because nature abhors a vacuum, so it gets filled with something!

[Ian @ianmayman]

@UberServiceCrew You seriously think I want you to DM your scam links?! Only an idiot would think you're genuine!

[Ian @ianmayman]

Why did @ubereats_uk think I was in Ghana minutes after completing a delivery on the same device in the UK? I don't use a VPN.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@YearRooster @Mangazos @allenanalysis So they should get compensation just like those that attacked police at Trump's suggestion on January 6th. Either that or different laws apply when you obey the Orange felon.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@PhantomMedz I see you decided to omit some inconvenient key legal and fundamental aspects from your question, but that's all par for the course for MAGA.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@Femi_sorry The EU veto means we had a say and same goes all member states, so that was control. What it wasn't was the power to dictate.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@Ed_Agony_Uncle @Femi_sorry Ten years and still few deals with other countries. We were told they couldn't wait to get a deal with the UK.

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

I've obtained the master contract between the Ministry of Defence and Palantir Technologies UK Ltd.
It covers 2026 to 2029. It was signed on 30 December 2025 — while Parliament was in recess. There was no competitive tender. Here's what's in it. And what they don't want you to see.
The contract is administered through Defence Digital at MoD Corsham, the nerve centre of UK military digital and intelligence infrastructure.
The contract number is redacted. Not the value. Not the scope. The contract number itself is classified.
The entire pricing section is gone. Redacted under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act, commercial interests. So is the IP clause. So are the key liability figures. So are all the contract schedules.
A US company is embedded into UK defence infrastructure for three years. The public cannot see what we are paying for it.
Now here's the clause that should be getting more attention.
Palantir staff working on classified MoD sites must hold Security Check clearance as a minimum, with Developed Vetting available when required. The contract says personnel should be UK nationals where site classification requires.
Should. Not must.
Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel. It grew out of a CIA seed investment. Its largest shareholder base is American. Its founders have direct relationships with US intelligence going back two decades.
The contract does not prohibit non-UK nationals from working on classified UK defence environments. It expresses a preference.
Condition 14. The media clause.
Palantir is contractually prohibited from communicating with press, television, radio or other media about anything in this contract without prior written MoD consent.
That is why Palantir UK has said nothing publicly about this deal. They are legally barred from doing so.
The contract was signed on 30 December 2025. Parliament was in recess. No tender process. No public announcement at signing. The contract number is a state secret. The price is hidden. And the contractor is gagged.
This is how £240 million of public money gets committed to a single American company with no scrutiny whatsoever.
Section 43, commercial interests, is a qualified exemption under FOIA. That means a public interest test applies.
The argument that Palantir's commercial sensitivity outweighs the public's right to know the cost of a no-tender three-year defence contract is not a strong one. I'll be filing for an internal review.
I'll be publishing the full analysis on Substack. If you think Parliament should be able to see what we're paying Palantir and why no other company was given the chance to bid, share this thread.
The document is real. The redactions are real. Draw your own conclusions.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@Mel97888962 You fear God and respect MAGA which immediately raise serious doubt over both your judgement and intelligence. I suppose you think you're in the greatest nation ever to exist, right?!

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Ian @ianmayman]

@DrMarianaClaire @ToryVote_ This isn't the Tories it's just a fan account sucking up to their thievery and corruption, such as that COVID VIP lane to siphon money to supporters like this.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@nostalnerd Just seen the date.... November 1991. I was 14. I think it was my first big purchase of my own money saved up from a paper round!

[Ian @ianmayman]

@nostalnerd I must have seen that advert. I'm quite sure I got the Cartoon Classics Amiga A500 pack. Do you know what year this advert is from?

[Ian @ianmayman]

@docrussjackson I wonder what percentage on welfare are pensioners receiving only the state pension.

Of course the lie is that everyone last one is someone unemployed who doesn't want to work.

[Ian @ianmayman]

@ianbremmer I'm interested to see one of these showing the impact of the EU Tax-Avoidance Directive.