Rob Ward

[Adeo Ressi @adeoressi]

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story...

Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us.

When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination.

Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime.

So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice.

We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM.

Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable.

As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space.

Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history.

I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing.

Congratulations, E. Amazing.

[Valentina Gomez @ValentinaForUSA]

@Keir_Starmer Their sacrifice is in vain because 82 years later, you destroyed everything they fought for.

[Le Crapaud @Le_Crapaud47]

British Police :

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

Michael was brutally attacked by riot police at the Southampton protest. His fault was that he was filming the protest and was armed with a lethal mobile phone. If anyone has any footage of the incident, please share. He wants to sue these corrupt police.

[Malcolm Needs FBBTS @MalcolmNeeds54]

I see that the number of arrests after the Southampton Police/Henry Nowak protest has risen to FIVE and Starmer is almost incandescent with rage.
At Notting Hill Carnival in 2025, there were FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT arrests, and he hardly said a word.
Two-Tier - as ever?

[Tee Rickey @OCRichardP]

"Life is hard...but it's harder when you're stupid."
~Sen. John Kennedy

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

Good morning Annette

Since the "taboo has been broken" as you put it, perhaps you can tell your readers and the British public why they should want to accept:

⚫️ An obligation to adopt the Euro
⚫️ An obligation to join Schengen
⚫️ An obligation to be part of the Migration Pact, which would allocate tens of thousands of additional illegal migrants to the UK each year
⚫️ Annual membership fee exceeding £35bn a year
⚫️ Worse trade deals with major global economies
⚫️ Worse trade with USA - our largest trade partner
⚫️ Worse animal welfare regulations
⚫️ Worse financial services regulations
⚫️ Worse agriculture regulations
⚫️ Worse AI regulations
⚫️ Worse environmental protection regulations

Am sure you have an answer for all the above.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Meet Parm Sandhu. She sued @metpoliceuk for discrimination and pocketed £120k - despite becoming the force's highest-ranking Indian officer.

She then wrote a book calling everyone racist.

She’s now @CollegeofPolice's Chief Executive, which explains everything RE: Henry Nowak.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

So the flotilla activists were rightly and justly held by Israel, though for just half a day, then released and deported. And the world went into complete meltdown. Outrage went to delirious levels.

Now the same flotilla activists have been detained and imprisoned in Libya for the past 10 days, and that prison term has been extended significantly.

And the reaction from the world?

Total silence. Not a peep.

Weird huh? 🤔

[Goosey @Goosey30111568]

Henry Nowak was murdered in December.
The force in question has had 6 months in which to investigate the failures by their own officers.

THEY HAVENT EVEN STARTED.

This tells me that they were hoping the time-lag would allow it all to just blow over.

It's a travesty.

[BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧 @BROKENBRITAIN0]

🚨BREAKING: Remember the man who was arrested by MULTIPLE police officers and SMASHED with a riot shield in Southampton? 🇬🇧

Well he is a MILITARY VETERAN who suffers from Complex PTSD and has 13 metal pins in his ankle - the police BEAT HIM because he didn’t get out of their way fast enough - This is pure police brutality❗️

Read his lawyer’s statement below 👇

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

As if I wasn't already entirely pissed off with the police already, I had the most insane interaction with 2 bully-boy coppers this morning.

I dropped home an elderly little old lady, who was taking some time gathering her things and trying to get out of the car. I was on double yellows, but had my hazards on - as I am allowed to do as per the council rules. When a police car came up behind me, and then drove around me to be window level, to tell me that, despite clearly being able to pass me, as he literally was, I was illegally parked and causing an obstruction, and I needed to park on the kerb.

I told him I wasn't parked a) at all, as I was offloading an elderly lady and b) wasn'tstopped illegaly, and I wouldn't be moving on to the kerb because that *would* be illegal as I would then be obstructing the pathway, whereas, I was legally allowed to drop of and pick up, on double yellows. He told me he would arrest me. I told him to try it. He then drove off - proving I wasn't obstructing traffic.

I finished helping the old lady and drove off.

The officers were waiting for me around the corner, put on their lights, pulled me over and demanded to see my licence and insurance before lecturing me about my attitude and demanded I show them some respect.

They could have waited patiently like most people do, or they could have gone around me as they eventually did. Instead they threatened to arrest me for laws I wasn't breaking, simply because they didn't know the law, and then tried to intimidate me afterwards because they realised they were totally wrong about the law, and we're too immature to apologise. They were fully prepared to try and make me loose my job and my lifelong out of nothing but pure spite, ego and vengeance because they made themselves look stupid.

None of that had to happen. Luckily I filmed the entire thing. Utterly disgusting behaviour. This inherent arrogance in the police has to stop.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Henry Nowak's godmother, Kelly Hatchard, has slammed @HantsPolice for their anti-white bias.

"Shame on the monster who took him, shame on the officers who should've helped him & shame on the organisation that trained police to prioritise accusations of racism over a dying man."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@miranowhere Good question

[Tom Foster SDP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Afuera! @tompfoster]

I don't think enough emphasis is being put on the fact that neighbours called 999 to report shouting and a possible stabbing before the Digwa brother called the police. Between the snapchat video (which was just before the stabbing occurred) and the body cam footage of the police nearly an hour had passed.
The neighbours heard someone shouting that they had been stabbed and called 999.

If Henry was shouting then he was still well enough to be saved. So where were the police for nearly an hour? Why wasn't an ambulance arranged when the initial 999 call was made? And why when they eventually bother to show up did nobody know that a stabbing had been reported earlier? And then to top it all off they cuff the victim like a violent criminal and oversee his painful death with callous indifference?

So much is not adding up but everything points to failures by the police at every possible level.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

BBC Newsnight have just issued an apology to Nigel Farage for wilfully misquoting him.

This is the THIRD apology in THREE years.

Once is a mistake.
Twice is incompetence.
THREE times is 100% deliberate.

I honestly can't wait until the licence fee is scrapped.

[Justice For Henry Nowak @HenryNowakSol_]

The Daily Mail has now published details from sentencing that almost no one has reported.

As Henry Nowak — bleeding from five stab wounds — tried to climb a commercial rubbish bin and over a fence to escape, Vickrum Digwa filmed him.

And taunted him.

“You’re not going to get away with this big man.”

Henry landed on top of a parked car on the other side of the fence. Digwa walked round and took close-up photos of him lying on the ground.

A home security camera then captured what may be the most chilling exchange in this entire case.

Henry: “I am dying.”

Digwa: “You’re not dying bro.”

Ten minutes later, Henry said: “You stabbed me.”

Digwa replied: “No, I didn’t.”

In the ten minutes that followed the stabbing, Vickrum Digwa did not call an ambulance. He filmed Henry for a full five minutes instead.

That clip was deemed too disturbing to be played in court.

Stop and process what that means. A judge and a jury sat through video of Digwa describing his blade in “loving terms,” through bodycam of Henry being handcuffed as he died, through pathologist evidence of the eight-centimetre chest wound — and the only piece of footage the court ruled too disturbing to show was the five minutes Vickrum Digwa spent filming an 18-year-old as he bled to death on a Southampton pavement.

The judge said it in sentencing: “You continued to make films of Henry suffering, ignoring much of his desperation at having been stabbed. You told him that had not happened, no doubt to convince others who were nearby.”

The lie Digwa told the police did not begin when officers arrived. It began ten minutes earlier, in Henry’s face, as Henry told him he was dying.

This is what Hampshire Police walked into. This is the man they believed when they got there. This is what the court has now formally established took place between the stabbing and Henry’s death.

The five-minute video exists. Henry’s family knows what is on it. The court knows what is on it. The public does not.

It is too disturbing to be shown.

But not too disturbing to have been done to him.

Henry — forever 18. 🤍

#JusticeForHenryNowak

[Paul Weston @PWestoff]

Dear Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
@policeconduct - the @HantsPolice officers are using their shields as weapons, including the edges, as they mob beat lone individuals. Is this legal? Do you condone police officers shouting "I'm going to fuck you up" before they mob beat lone men?

You seem to have completely lost control of Hants Police who are operating well outside the law. I am a 63 year-old middle-class man. I admired and defended the British police for most of my life - up until Covid, actually.

But I fear you and hate you now. You have become something last seen in Ceausescu's Romania where his Securitate thugs gang-beat their victims. You have now lost the country and the consent of the British people. You are our enemy, and the enemy of decency, bravery, courage, and civilisation itself. God Damn all of you to hell you vicious sub-human scum. @elonmusk

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

He didn't apologise. Watch it again. He didn't actually apologise.

He said "we have said sorry." Past tense. Somewhere else. As if the apology already happened off camera and he's just reminding you it exists.

That's the trick. He referenced a sorry so he'd never have to give one.

Then he asks the country not to judge what it has already watched with its own eyes. A stabbed boy, begging nine times to breathe, treated as the criminal while the man who knifed him was walked inside to choose his food.

There is no other side to that footage. There's only what happened.

He isn't sorry Henry was failed. He's sorry it was filmed.

Every word of that statement is built to protect his officers and manage you. Not one is built for Henry.

That's not contrition. That's a man choosing his force over a dead child.

His name was Henry Nowak. He deserved an apology. He got a press line.