Derek Lavery 🏴 🇧🇪
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Derek Lavery 🏴 🇧🇪
@derek_lavery3
Former Desk Officer for Pitcairn and Tristan da Cunha at FCDO.And semi-pro Scot... Retweets and likes etc etc and now retired on ill health grounds.
Glasgow, Scotland Katılım Kasım 2016
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@PedDronio @plyons45 @Dumbartonfc Napoleon could well have watched some games from the ramparts if he’d been incarcerated there instead of @st Helena
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Not many clubs whose game can be watched from a Castle’s ramparts.
Dumbarton Rock.
@Dumbartonfc

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BREAKING NEWS (with the potential to be massive):
The Guardian reveals Peter Mandelson failed advanced security vetting before becoming US ambassador.
He was initially denied developed vetting clearance in January 2025 - weeks after Keir Starmer had officially announced his appointment.
Foreign Office was ‘encouraged’ to deploy a rarely-used power to override the recommendation from security officials.
The Government promised total transparency on the Mandelson affair after MPs forced it to release of a batch of documents about the process. But nothing it has released reveals this startling fact.
Indeed, Starmer has always insisted Mandelson was subject to 'security vetting, carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise that gave him clearance for the role'.
Developing …
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@andrewjonathanm I’m going to be back in June on a Rhine cruise , but we won’t be stopping in Bonn sadly
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Vielen Dank, lieber Nathanael, für das warme Willkommen. Man fühlt sich wie zu Hause in der Landesvertretung NRW!
Nathanael Liminski@n_liminski
Wir schulden dem Vereinigten Königreich großen Dank für die Entscheidung, Nordrhein-Westfalen aus der Taufe zu heben. Die „Operation Marriage“ verlangte Mut & Vertrauen - und sie legte den Grundstein für Wohlstand & Demokratie.
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@realcolinquinn My recollection is that you don’t get in the front door without passing vetting!
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@P_Kallioniemi I don’t think there were many celebrations on Firhill Road by the Maryhill Magyars following Orban’s defeat
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@JohnSimpsonNews @DalrympleWill So does the Cuba thing mean he’s trying to out do Kennedy? And if he goes after Yellowstone is it John Dutton he’s trying to outdo?
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@luluphooey @Jackson_Carlaw Reminds me of taxis when we were young. Bearsden? There’s a boundary charge
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@ChrisFrean @Lightning_Seeds @Emishor My wife is a die hard Galatasaray fan and a huge fan of Da Hagi
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@derek_lavery3 @Lightning_Seeds @Emishor I only have Dad’s number. Plus Popescu is his brother in law. Doddle…
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Please ask @Lightning_Seeds to rewrite the song with Hagi and Popescu on vocals. Over to you @Emishor
Alison Mutler@AlisoNJMutler
Best news this year. Priceless artifact dramatically stolen from Netherlands 14 mths ago, recovered. 'It's coming home' says FM @oana_toiu @universulnet Stolen 2,500-year-old Romanian gold found by ‘Indiana Jones of the Art World’ universul.net/stolen-2500-ye… via @Universul.net
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@johnauldwebster @spacegirlgail I’d say the same for the Ashoka
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@RomeInTheEast @IraninSA I don’t recall it working well in Vietnam…
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@IraninSA I don’t recall Darius enduring against Alexander all that well.
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Stone Age?
At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder.
We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.
Pete Hegseth@PeteHegseth
Back to the Stone Age.
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@realcolinquinn Heating up beans on a wee calor gas stove
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@comedyray @stuthejag Nice to see Westerton on Twitter!
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