Daniel Ashman

@spikedonline Irreparable imminent risk of prejudice to the rights found to be plausible under the genocide convention. And the Crown government has aided and abetted for last three years.

When the West Bank is mentioned in parliament more than the West Midlands, we have a serious problem: buff.ly/mK8O4gU

@spikedonline Nah it's the billionaire tax haven class that has them. Forget Epstein and Mandleson determining 250 million squid contracts? How convenient.

The charity-industrial complex is crippling British democracy. Forget about shady millionaires nobbling ministers in exclusive dining clubs. Today, it’s well-funded ‘human rights’ NGOs that have politicians at their beck and call, says Andrew Tettenborn buff.ly/Drp6bBn

@chrisloynes4 @jomickane Yes indeed as should happen with fracking

@jomickane Right Green Party/Milliband supporters, time for proper due diligence on your policies. Start with solar panels ! Where do they come from, how are they manufactured, what is the real cost/benefit & what’s their eco footprint. Challenge your leaders don’t assume they have this?

Somebody should ask Ed if he knows that once Solar Panels go onto farmland they can NEVER be used again to grow food.... EVER This is a Representative from Michigan talking about their potato farms & what happens when solar leeches onto the fields & the heavy metal contamination. This applies to everywhere pushing these things 🤬. They are destroying our farmland

@JohnFitton1950 @spikedonline It was not democratically created by the inhabitants of the space, it was forced. The genocide is being enacted on majority unarmed people. Having house destroyed or child blown up would make anyone angry.

@spikedonline Small population, only democracy in the M.E. Been continually attacked since its creation as a country. Every peace offer made to its enemies rejected. Leave them alone.

Why are so many MPs so utterly obsessed with Israel? Three in four urgent questions from Green MPs are now about Gaza. The obsession with the world’s only Jewish state is unhinged, says Elliot Keck buff.ly/mK8O4gU

@RolandBasilides @spikedonline The UK Crown opposes the war crimes of Putin

@spikedonline Especially when the suffering of Ukraine is so serious and has been going on for 5 years.

@AlanJLSmith Who hasn't put their livelihood on the line, done night shifts? Or is a month away from destitution? This is clap trap. Do you think other people haven't worked hard?

Serial entrepreneur Phil Hollingdale has founded, scaled and exited 6 companies. He sold everything, put his family home on the line, slept in his office for weeks at a time. He’s employed thousands of people and paid millions £ in tax. Increase CGT rates again and he’s leaving the UK. There are thousands of Phils across the country.

@xela19721 @DanielPriestley @garyseconomics For example William Hague best man at Guy Hands of Terra Firma's wedding. Sells a subsidiary of Terra Firma MOD housing in high Barnet. 450 pounds a house. That invisible hand. Two decades later kicks everyone out cashed in proper. Sweetsway.

@daniel_ashman @DanielPriestley @garyseconomics ?

Well this is awkward … @garyseconomics central claim is that billionaires hoard wealth and plunge people into poverty. The data does not support this claim. Between 2010 and 2025 the number of US billionaires rose from 400 to 900. At the same time the rate of people living in poverty declined from 15% to 11%. In the UK the number of billionaires rose from 74 to a peak of 177 and is now in decline. During that time the percentage of people living in poverty was stable at 21-22%. It’s as if, a growing economy lifts people out of poverty and a stagnant one doesn’t. Billionaires clearly do not create poverty. They do however pay a lot in taxes. Driving them out is stupid and based on envy not data. BONUS FUN FACT: The number of people who describe themselves as “socialists” in the UK is 1 in 5 and in the USA it’s 1 in 12… almost perfectly aligned to the poverty rate in each country.

🔵 Nearly 10,000 children in Gaza have contracted chickenpox as Israel’s blockade has left the Strip without the vaccine and deprived its health system of medicines and essential supplies, according to Dr. Ahmed Al-Fara, head of pediatrics at Nasser Medical Complex. 🔹A 2-year-old child died today from complications of the disease, Shehab News reported. Al-Fara said Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians into overcrowded shelters, alongside devastated sanitation, medicine shortages and collapsing healthcare, is accelerating the spread of infectious disease. 🔹Child malnutrition is also rising sharply, while anemia now affects 50–55% of pregnant women and the abortion rate has reached about 47%, he said. 🔹UN reporting has independently documented more than 9,000 chickenpox cases and the severe overcrowding and health-system breakdown driving the outbreak.

@GeorgeFSinclair @DanielPriestley AI is not bad, in the sense it's an amazing technical achievement. Though it's deployment when it works well will destroy many jobs. And is being used in war crimes and mass surveillance.

@daniel_ashman @DanielPriestley I don't think the problem is AI based on your description. You just prove the economy is bad, not AI is bad.

I’m not defending billionaires. I’m defending the economic system that protects the freedom to own property and to compete in the market. I’m not worried about billionaires, I’m worried about big government destroying the economy. Billionaires make money through voluntary trade and achieve wealth through voluntary investment. Governments get their money through forced extraction and spend it through box-ticking bureaucrats. A billionaire must create a win-win to get money and we know this creates an economically richer society - albeit unevenly distributed. Government can extract from the productive and do unproductive things with the money - which creates an economically poorer society. Neither is ideal but I’d chose an unequal wealthy society over an equal impoverished one any day.

While the world watches the war, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged a 19-year-old boy today. His name is Erfan Esfandiari and he was his parents' only child. He did not kill anyone. He did not carry a weapon. His crime, according to the Islamic Republic, was opening a door. Sheltering protesters who were running from security forces. That was enough to send him to the gallows. Erfan was one of 12 young men in the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan, arrested during the January 2026 uprising. Yesterday, all 12 were moved to quarantine. Today, the Islamic Republic hanged him. This is a government that is so terrified of a generation that refuses to be silent, that it executes teenagers for the act of compassion. Say his name. Because the regime is already trying to erase him. Because his mother and father are left with nothing, not even the right to grieve loudly.

@ErinStapylton @AlinejadMasih It's easy for folk to commit others families to conditionalities that will destroy them. A full scale war will do that. It would be a war that would see greater violence emerge.

@AlinejadMasih Our Democrats wish for this to continue. They oppose the thing that will end it out of pure spite for one man. They call it an illegal war. They turn a blind eye to atrocities to pursue power. Because power is all that matters.

@NJ_Timothy A two hour essay, are you really complaining about two hours of contemplating racism? Clutching at straws.

Police are spending hours in "anti-racism" training. Unconscious bias training. Brexit labelled the cause of hate crime. Headlines about immigration branded Far Right. This is ideological brainwashing - and must be stopped. The police are there to fight crime.

@AlanJLSmith Sure but also where it's appropriate. Majority are paying their meager income on record high prices so the privileged can continue to hoard and bribe democracy

Everyone’s a fan of a tax they don’t have to pay.

@spikedonline I don't think they do, perhaps if charities just bunged 5 million to Farage it might increase favourable decisions.

We need to talk about the charity-industrial complex. Woke activist charities and NGOs with millions of pounds at their disposal have far more influence on democracy than shady millionaires. It’s time they were treated like every other lobbyist, says Andrew Tettenborn buff.ly/Drp6bBn

@SageDespatches Do you find international genocide and Geneva conventions disturbing?

If anyone is wondering why I have an interest in Israel and Gaza etc, it's because the Disneyfication of terrorism isn't limited to events in Northern Ireland. It's happening right now, on a grand scale, in real time, a couple of years after one of the worst terrorist atrocities in modern times. That's why I'm interested and also sickened by what is occurring. The dishonesty, the ignorance, the hate, the moral bankruptcy is off the scale but if you are interested in propaganda and social psychology, it's hard to look away. It reveals something very dark and disturbing about a sizeable section of the human race and it's worth paying attention because that's the type of people who live in your society. If you already knew that about people, it serves as a useful reminder.

Are you still talking about Gaza? Or do you think the war ended, like they told you? “They Lied to You” is a campaign launched by Gazan youth to remind the world that the story is far from over Don’t forget us. Keep talking about Gaza

“Gaza is ours.” Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir declared that “there will be Jewish settlements in all of Gaza,” openly calling for the colonization of the besieged Strip and the forced removal of its Palestinian population.

@afneil Do you think the people of Britain should be sacrificed on the alter of the highest energy prices?

I didn’t say it would. But there are other strong reasons for doing it — more jobs, investment, security of supply, balance of payments, tax revenues etc etc. As for cheaper energy bills ‘in the long run’, one, there is no evidence for this, two, as Keynes said, in the long run we’re all dead. Like most UK manufacturing, killed on the alter of the highest energy costs in the world.

@spikedonline Because aiding and abetting war crimes is a serious offence. And the UK Crown cabinet have been consciously doing it since 2023. So questions have to be asked repeatedly.

Why are British MPs so insanely obsessed with Israel? buff.ly/mK8O4gU

@Irish_Bees @anthonyboutall That's not an answer what does he do? Majority of countries are in bankruptcy states. Because of the practice of tax havens.

@daniel_ashman @anthonyboutall He paid a lot of tax in your country, he is now going elsewhere, that means less tax receipts in a country that is verging on bankruptcy

Another billionaire quits Britain for Italy. More tax revenue disappears. The Laffer Curve lives on. telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…