Kenton White

Lecturer @ University of Reading. Author "The Key to Lisbon" & "Never Ready". Professional curmudgeon. All views are my own except for retweets

[Kenton White @whitey_boy]

@BBCNews - what has happened to your editors? Use English not American and check your grammar! https://t.co/N0L9qtfqQV

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Justice Secretary David Lammy:

"We're sending forces to support Cyprus because Cyprus is a NATO country".

Cyprus is not a NATO country.

How embarrassing that this is the quality of an MP representing the UK around the world.

He’s unfit for office.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

EXC: The US first asked about the use of UK bases to attack Iran on February 11, SIXTEEN days before the first missiles flew. The first warship HMS Dragon will not sail until next week, by which point at least 26 days will have passed https://t.co/tXRyQ2Gq5A

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

Solidarity with Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City University.

Students are demanding his sacking simply because he is an Israeli Jew who has done (mandatory) military service.

The antisemitic harassment he is being subjected to is horrifying. I hesitate to amplify it, but British academics need to understand what is happening.

https://t.co/8mEJufKL3o
https://t.co/426Mmo6IPc

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

Hamas has killed over a 100 Palestinian civilians in the last 72 hours. Some were shot or beaten to death with bricks and pipes, while others were beheaded.

These are the barbarians that the left and Islamists have spent two years fawning over. God help the West.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

The police have informed my lawyers that I face no further action in respect of the arrest at Heathrow in September. After a successful hearing to get my bail conditions lifted (one which the police officer in charge of the case didn't even bother to attend) the Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the case. With the aid of the Free Speech Union, I still aim to hold the police accountable for what is only the latest attempt to silence and suppress gender critical voices on behalf of dangerous and disturbed men.

[Rachel Riley MBE 💙 @RachelRileyRR]

“Now in 2025, Jews are told their safety depends on staying invisible.”

At a time where it feels like Jews’ very existence is seen as provocation in need of policing, this article by the Holocaust Educational Trust’s @KarenPollock100 really cuts to the heart.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

There isn't some mysterious force that's just guaranteed to make things better and better. That's not the way the universe works. In fact, quite the contrary, the universe kind of tries to grind us down. And if we've made progress, it's because of human efforts.

(From the @HopeExistential podcast. Full episode: https://t.co/A0iikk2Wzc)

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Something has fundamentally changed in Birmingham. And Britain, too, has changed with it.

Consider football: the rough and tumble of our national game is nothing new for the West Midlands. Growing up in the eighties, my Dad took me to more than a few matches at Villa Park in the away end. The language, chants, and antics were – at times – less than well-mannered.

But it was largely good-natured fun. Where there was violence, the police put a quick but firm end to it. Such was the rhythm of British life. The same men and women worked together all week, turning up and supporting different teams on a Saturday.

No longer. The decision from West Midlands Police to ban Jewish football fans from Villa Park marks a new low for our nation.

What has changed? Well, last week, there were howls of outrage over my answer to that question. A leaked tape recorded me saying that, in parts of Birmingham, integration had totally failed.

I’d been to Handsworth and seen a community that did not represent the full breadth of British society. It, like too much of Birmingham, resembled a segregated community.

That’s not the kind of country I want. I want a country where fellow Brits live side by side, with a strong sense of national togetherness and unity.

The Mayor of the West Midlands, the Bishop of Birmingham, the BBC, and others all lined up to say I was wrong. The local MP, Ayoub Khan, described my views as “a far-Right cliché” while simultaneously organising a petition to prevent Israeli fans from attending the forthcoming game between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Many, including the BBC and ITV, misquoted me. I faced the inevitable accusations of racism. There was the drivel about diversity being our strength. That’s what’s happened time and again to anyone voicing the mildest critique of immigration.

Others continue to attack me. Handsworth is a model community, they say. Villa Park is a few streets from Handsworth: a week after my remarks were reported, West Midlands Police have now in effect declared those streets a “no-go zone” for Jews.

My comments weren’t based on a few hours in Birmingham; I’ve known the city my whole life. They were based on a deep concern for the lack of action by successive governments to tackle the abject failure of integration. There have been at least six serious reports in the last 20 years, saying much the same thing as I did.

They have all ended on a dusty shelf. Why? Partly, because of the fear of our gutless political class to stand up and speak out. They are shameless cowards, more concerned about retaining respectability amongst the liberal elite.

Take the Prime Minister himself. Last night, he tweeted his outrage over West Midlands Police’s decision. But last week he denounced me for crossing “a red line” in discussing integration in Birmingham. He’s happy to criticise the police, but runs scared of even acknowledging the big problems we face.

Keir Starmer isn’t a bystander. He’s the Prime Minister. What is he actually going to do? Bury his head in the sand when it gets uncomfortable.

So I won’t be silenced.

During my speech at the Conservative Party Conference last week, I said that “a Britain where our Jewish friends are afraid is just not Britain”. I meant it.

The same goes for football. A football in which Jewish fans aren’t welcome just isn’t football. What should we do?
Send in as many police officers as required. Sack the Chief Constable if he won’t change his mind. Deal with the extremist Imams in Birmingham who have spent the past few days fomenting hate. We must tackle the vile sectarian MPs who have polluted our politics.

But the longer term strategy is harder. Thirty years of mass migration have changed our country in ways that we’re only beginning to feel. Unintegrated communities will continue to be hotbeds of extremism and division.

Our country cannot have no-go zones. It cannot have sectarian MPs. The time has come for muscular action to make integration a reality.

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

In 1938 my Jewish grandfather was banned from football games in Nazi Germany despite his father (Hugo) once being a star player. Never thought I’d see that hatred in Britain in 2025. This is pure evil and it’s been allowed to flourish because of our cowardly leaders

[Marika Cobbold @Marikacobbold]

Swedish foreign office has confirmed that Greta Thunberg never reported ill-treatment at their many meetings and that she refused to sign the papers securing her release, thereby deliberately prolonging her time in Israeli custody. The woman is a pathological liar and media and useful idiots swallow it all.

[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

Now that Israel's attacks on Gaza have ended but large scale violence is continuing-- perpetrated by Hamas--I will be watching to see how much concern is expressed by pro-Palestine groups. If there is none, it will confirm my suspicions about underlying antisemitic motivations.

[WH Fan Place @WestHamPlace]

For context:

Ajax v Maccabi Tel Aviv

59 arrests: 49 Ajax fans, 10
Maccabi fans

5 injuries: All Maccabi fans

Don’t believe the narrative.

It’s anti-semitism.

[Kenton White @whitey_boy]

@WillHillHelp are you here to help? I need to speak to someone about my late father’s account and the money we are owed

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 The BBC featured the crying sister of a Palestinian prisoner but failed to mention her brother was serving four life sentences for his role in a suicide bombing

https://t.co/V4w4GjVMgI

[Kenton White @whitey_boy]

@GlynHopkinGroup @MGmotor who do I complain to about poor service getting faults with mg ZS EV fixed?

[Kenton White @whitey_boy]

@WillHillHelp
I closed my late father’s account two weeks ago but haven’t had any money back. Been stonewalled by your customer service. Egregious behaviour

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The Last Enlightenment Man (that would be me). Profile in AirMail. https://t.co/rY1TRhSCDa

[Kenton White @whitey_boy]

@WilliamHill I closed my late father’s account two weeks ago but haven’t had any money back. Been stonewalled by your customer service. Egregious behaviour.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

I explain why the accusation that Israel is committing "genocide" is blood libel.

Me:
The application of the word genocide to refer to tens of thousands of war deaths is, I mean, I think it is a kind of blood libel. It's trying to import the moral opprobrium that we associate with genocide to a designated enemy, in this case, Israel. I think because I alluded to my side bias, the sides in this case being the sides that a lot of hard left critical theory has defined, namely white oppressors against everyone else's victims.

Moynihan:
It's pretty strong to say this is like a blood libel.

Me:
Well, it is a blood libel in the sense that it is an accusation of deliberate murder, ill-founded in that the, and one could disagree with Israel's campaign against Gaza, one could say that this is not justifiable, it's not a just war. It's still different from deliberately murdering as many people as possible, as in, and we know there have been genocides. I think it really is a terrible blood libel, and it's a sign of how people's moralizing in the service of demonizing and dichotomizing, dividing the world into good and evil can just flatten their ability to analyze and to think clearly.