kerry ritz

@wolfejosh the numbers are misleading-e.g. the largest foreign born nationalities in the UK are from India and Poland; Germany, it's Turkey and not far behind Romania; Colombia & Venezuela dominate spain. Re: your previous chart US has similar fertility problem.

3/ Immigration. MOSTLY from North Africa + Mideast+ sub-Saharan Africa is filling the demographic gap.

1/ Europe has an extraordinary RICH history. One I admired my entire life. I fear that without real talk and interventions, it faces a POOR future. One I don't wish for my children. The math is straightforward...

okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here. Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch. Let's go.

well worth reading.

The human brain is an amazing organ. it works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, from before you leave the womb right up until you vote Labour.

London under rent control vs today.

@hkanji @British_Airways i wonder if the engine maintenance team receives the same message when they login to their tablets?

Hey @British_Airways can you share API access to your backend so I can rewrite your piss poor mobile and web frontend in Claude?

it cannot be. It's simply not how Europe is or wants to be. The US was able because it was more or less culturally homogeneous and it's literally in the first article of the US constitution that states cannot interfere with interstate commerce. European countries fight over who is the "national champion" and actively resist any company reaching scale by blocking M&A. The EU is forced to spread funding. It is dire and I think nothing is going to change unless there is a crisis (and even then, Greece only partially changed). European government are captive by their voters, who demand ever increasing pensions and welfare payments even if the GDP does not grow. Europe will buy US hyperscalers services from a local reseller, and they will be glad for it, and claim "sovereignity" because they also opened a local data center with the creation of 30 temporary jobs. They will make some noise, give some funding, do another Quaero with great fanfare, but then at the next R&D refresh those companies will go belly up because they can't keep up R&D cycles with customers who are not used to pay for R&D because they get US products who get their R&D funding from the US market. Just look at Fluidstack. The French government promised them 1GW of nuclear energy and tried to help them raise. Did not matter, they still went to the US and did a much bigger deal and completely dropped Europe because the customers here are small and slow. Look at Mistral, every European company should have thrown them millions immediately, to have a local frontier AI lab - but instead barely any French company did, and they asked equity for it. the result is that it couldn't keep up with the R&D spend. I have built companies and invested in UK/US/EU/China over the last 30 years, so I think I have a pretty good bird's eye view of the market, and Europe is cooked beyond hope. Not impossible to turn things around, in fact Argentina showed that the rebound is almost immediate. Just the political willpower of the median voter and median politician in the EU is nil. Recently at a meeting of some of the top UK startups, they were asked the #1 issue they were facing, and they all converged on one: culture. Not funding, not regulation. Writing this out of frustation and love.

In 1998, Abu Hamza sent a group of terrorists (including his son) to blow up the British consulate in Yemen. They were caught. During their trial, others amongst Hamza’s thugs kidnapped foreigners in an attempt to bargain for their release. Hamza was eventually convicted in the USA of, inter alia, ordering that kidnapping - during which four of the hostages (including three Brits) were killed. Separately, amongst the gang convicted of the attempt to blow up the consulate alongside Hamza’s son was Shahid Butt. Shahid Butt is now a candidate for council in Birmingham Sparkhill in May’s local elections. This is where our suicidal empathy brings us. Someone convicted of explicitly targeting this country’s diplomatic mission for destruction is a political candidate in… this country, today.

Britain is building a culture where people think they can do what they like and nothing will happen. All too often, they’re right. Crime, disorder and welfare dependency all point to the same problem: a country where rules exist, but no consequences follow. We must change this.

@HarryStebbings $1.2m in $10bn company isn’t huge. You might build a replacement in 3 weeks, but without knowing how it fits into the workflow, that’s only part of the picture. If it’s even moderately integrated, reworking around it could run into $10–20m and add real risk at company level.

I just walked with a $10BN public company CEO. He told me his CoS replaced a piece of software they had been paying $1.2M per year for. It took him 3 weeks to build. F*** me software is more toast than I thought.

@BrodieMitchell1 @SurreyPolice is anyone going to help him? @sarahsackman @LauraTrottMP @UJS_UK @MarkJSewards

This photo was taken from behind at Royal Holloway Freshers’ Fair. I stood with the British flag and Star of David - welcoming Jewish students into an atmosphere already filled with “End Israeli apartheid”, “Genocide supporters”, “Boycott Israel”. What you don’t see: from late September to January, two students subjected me and my Jewish friend to almost daily harassment - sometimes 10+ no-caller-ID calls in an hour. Vile antisemitic, homophobic and sexualised abuse: “you love Israeli dck”, “obsessed with Jewish dck”, “I’ll be antisemitic with my full chest”. We reported it. We have evidence - voice recordings etc. We know who they are. University: “We can only act when the police do something.” Police were told in November. I signed a statement in February. They said they were looking at arrests. Promised me a call on 5 April. Still nothing - it’s now 11th April. Contrast that with my one light-hearted “tea towel” reply to a keffiyeh. I was suspended the next day. Missed 7 weeks of my degree. Now facing potential hate crime charges with the file at the CPS. Next slide 👉 a keffiyeh. Two photos. Two completely different stories. Two tiers of justice. @SurreyPolice please act on the reports I made. This has gone on long enough. Everyone is watching. Free speech and equal protection can’t be optional in Britain. I will NOT be silenced. 🇬🇧🇮🇱 #TwoTierJustice #FreeSpeech #RoyalHolloway #twotierpolice

Why don’t any of the “End the Occupation” anti-Israel lunatics ever speak about Turkey’s occupation of Cyprus?

@netanyahu bravo!

מדינת ישראל לא תשתוק מול מי שתוקף אותנו. ספרד הכפישה את גיבורינו, חיילי צה״ל, חיילי הצבא המוסרי בעולם. ולכן הנחיתי לסלק את נציגי ספרד ממרכז התיאום בקריית גת, לאחר שספרד בחרה שוב ושוב להתייצב נגד ישראל. מי שתוקף את מדינת ישראל במקום את משטרי הטרור, מי שעושה זאת, לא יהיה שותף שלנו לגבי עתיד האזור. אני לא מוכן לסבול את הצביעות הזאת ואת העוינות הזאת. אני לא מתכוון לאפשר לאף מדינה לנהל נגדנו מלחמה מדינית בלי לשלם על כך מחיר מיידי.

“But there was no Hezbollah when Israel occupied Lebanon in 1982!” True. But you don’t get to draw lines wherever it helps your case. Chronology doesn’t work that way. So here’s a quick timeline for you: 1943: Lebanon is born. 1948: Arabs invade Israel. 100k Palestinians flee to Lebanon. Jordan occupies Judea and Samaria, names it West Bank. Egypt occupies Gaza. 1950s-60s: Lebanon prospers. Beirut the “Paris of the Middle East.” 1964: PLO is born in Jerusalem. 1967: Six-Day War. Aggressors lose, Israel gets control of Judea and Samaria, Gaza, Sinai, and Golan Heights. 300k Palestinians flee to Lebanon. Arafat and PLO expelled from Israel for collaborating with the invaders during war, flee to Jordan. 1970-71: PLO “state within a state” in Jordan. Attempts to assassinate King and overthrow government. Crushed by Jordanian forces with help from Pakistan’s Zia ul Haq. Expelled from Jordan. 1971: PLO relocates to Southern Lebanon. Another “state within a state,” named “Fatahland.” Sudden demographic shift in Lebanon. Resented by the natives. 1970s: Regular artillery and rocket launches and border raids from Southern Lebanon into Israeli border towns. Avivim School Bus Massacre (1970), Kiryat Shmona Massacre (1974), Ma'alot Massacre (1974), Kibbutz Shamir Attack (1974), Savoy Hotel Attack (1975), Coastal Road Massacre (1978), Nahariya Attack (1979)... 1975: Start of Lebanese civil war between Muslims and Christians, largely fueled by the sudden influx of Muslim refugees from Israel eroding Lebanon’s own sovreignty. 1982: PLO splinter Abu Nidal Organization attempts to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to the UK in London. Israel demands destruction of “Fatahland” to eliminate the nuisance once and for all. Lebanon helpless. IDF invades Lebanon. Occupies Southern Lebanon. Massive cleanup operation, Arafat and PLO expelled. But this didn’t end the civil war. PLO was then about 14k terrorists in Southern Lebanon. Even after their expulsion, the region still had more than 300k Palestinians who were not “officially” PLO but a nuisance all the same. That’s when Ayatollah Khomenei steps in. Hezbollah is born to occupy the militant leadership space left vacant by Arafat. Yes, Hezbollah was born AFTER Israeli occupation. Which happened AFTER a decade of terrorism by PLO jihadis in Lebanon. Do not confuse cause with effect. It’s dishonest and in this day and age, impossible to get away with. x.com/HadiNasrallah/…

Actions speak louder than words.

Obsession and craft of the highest order. If you squint for a moment and consider each episode as a feature doc film - it’s easy to see into the future of Hollywood and entertainment businesses… Creator owned. Creator managed. Congratulations @gilbert & @djrosent

This is excellent news. It will be a lot harder for Palestine Action to manipulate the civil court system. This might actually be a better deterrent than criminal proceedings. Well done Allianz 🙌

so what does the Royal Navy actually do these days? Navy barred from boarding Russian ships telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

Inside Nepal’s fake rescue racket kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/…

Kanye West is banned from entering the UK. Good – it’s what we at @antisemitism asked for. But there’s something else you may have missed in the noise. Melvin Benn, the man in charge of @WirelessFest is also director of @Glastonbury. So the same person who this morning was telling us Jews to give Kanye West (yet) another chance, even while his track called “Heil Hitler” is still on release, is also one of the people behind Glastonbury, home of Kneecap and “Death death to the IDF” and “working for f***ing Zionists” Bob Vylan. Have a look at Companies House! Melvin Benn wants you to believe that he is a champion of “diversity”, but how come some of the most hyped acts on his stages have one thing in common? Will the sponsors who dropped Melvin Benn’s Wireless Festival now shun his other ventures until he resigns?