Darragh Donnelly 💙

Make this make sense

@afneil What are your own feelings about Hungary? x.com/i/status/20445…

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 …

@ExiledPaddy62 @PippaCrerar @PaulLewis @Direthoughts Yeah that was definitely odd, just wondering if there was anything more substantial 🤷🏻‍♂️

@darragh97 @PippaCrerar @PaulLewis @Direthoughts This is it bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

EXCL: Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting clearance but the decision was overruled by Foreign Office to ensure he could take up his post as ambassador to US - a Guardian investigation by @PaulLewis @Direthoughts & me theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@ExiledPaddy62 @PippaCrerar @PaulLewis @Direthoughts You're not making any sense.

@darragh97 @PippaCrerar @PaulLewis @Direthoughts x.com/BasilTheGreat/… Rent boys

@ExiledPaddy62 @PippaCrerar @PaulLewis @Direthoughts What's all this Rent boys about?

@PippaCrerar @PaulLewis @Direthoughts Starmers current predicaments Mandelson friendship with Epstein was know for yrs Ministers who lied on CVs & inept Economy will crash & badly Expenses, donors & global flights DID Brexit betrayal Hermer & Chagos Prosecuting Vets Rent boys & funding Ukraine Muslim association ??

@allnewtomorrow @implausibleblog Have you got a link to this?

@implausibleblog This entire panel was sadly ruined by Varoufakis because after this he went straight to Russia to act as Putin's stooge and spread their propaganda.

Zack Polanski, "It's not enough to just be hopeful... It's about having hope and a plan" "I also disagree that left wing policies are popular" "Didn't you - Jeremy Corbyn - get 3,000,000 more votes than Keir Starmer got?" Jeremy Corbyn, "The highest vote this century for Labour, it was 2017" Zack Polanski, "That's 3,000,000 more people who wanted to move wealth away from private capital, to nationalise our water services, nationalise our public services, and that's very popular in this country" "Broadband is a good example of how the media jumped on saying it's not possible, not pragmatic. And that's their number one weapon, to always make people think that better isn't possible, and that change isn't possible" "And we know why. The multimillionaires and billionaires who pump money into wars, or oil and gas, or into arms companies, or into gambling companies" "Once they've bought up the assets, they buy the media, then they buy our democracy" "I guess we're here tonight to say that they're taken our power, they've taken our democracy, they're taken our media" "But collectively, we are going to take it back"

@implausibleblog @tommieharve I think it's here youtube.com/live/qxeyaa8iR…

@tommieharve YouTube

@implausibleblog @Clem_Fandingo I'm guessing here youtube.com/live/qxeyaa8iR…

@Clem_Fandingo It's up on YouTube

I'm shocked, guess he wants money more than power 🤷🏻‍♂️

@GypsyBoots8 @ClarkeMicah Read this reliable source theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

@ClarkeMicah So you believe in Iran's good faith and doubt America's. You cannot possibly have hard evidence either way, so you have made a choice.

.@gypsyboots8 Yes, at the end of February Iran was negotiating in good faith, according to independent intermediaries the talks were making progress. Then, with no declaration of war, the USA and Israel assassinated the government and began armed attacks on Iran. Imagine what you’d say if it had been the other way round.

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The party’s finally over, Nige

@Peston Which leaders? Who?

Starmer and Macron spoke this afternoon with “both leaders agreeing that any ceasefire must include Lebanon to support wider regional stability”.

@DavidWibbleone @ShaunSmiths @grok @DanNeidle @LNallalingham That's handy 👍🏻

@ShaunSmiths @grok @DanNeidle @LNallalingham Claudes more indepth answer for you - hope it helps

🚨 People are comparing Angela Rayner and Richard Tice… but the situations aren’t even close. Angela Rayner: didn’t pay around £40,000 in tax that was owed. Richard Tice: paid the tax in full. The entire “scandal” with Tice? The payment was made from his personal account instead of the company account. That’s it. HMRC still got the full amount owed. In fact, he personally ended up paying more tax than he should have. One involves Angela Rayner not paying tax when it should have been. The other is about which account Richard Tice made the payment from. And people wonder why trust in politics and the media is collapsing. The people pushing this “scandal” clearly don’t understand how finance works. No wonder the economy is in the state it’s in.

@ZacGoldsmith Made the wrong call on joining bombing school children in Iran. Your a joke. An awful joke.

On every international issue this UK govt has not only made the wrong call, it has made a catastrophically wrong call: -recognising a Palestinian state as a reward for committing the biggest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust -not recognising peaceful and friendly (formerly British) Somaliland in favour of terrorist Al Shabaab- infested Somalia. -withdrawing almost all support for efforts to protect and restore nature internationally (in favour of a one dimensional carbon approach) -actively voting to put Iran on a UN committee responsible for tackling Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women, Disarmament, Human Rights, Terrorism Prevention Etc It is actually mind-boggling

@afneil Your English will side line you.

ANDREW NEIL: Starmer’s failure to rearm Britain is a national scandal — and will sidelined us for decades to come mol.im/a/15722851

@Lowkey0nline @piersmorgan is this you?

After tagging the Metropolitan Police on the 22nd of July 2025, Piers Morgan stated “I report all threats.” Why deny it when the screenshots exist?

This is rather strange behaviour.

Sad but true. Well over 2000 deaths in Egypt 2011-2014.

Below and recently this aol.co.uk/articles/nigel…

@FranzOberh4179 @Scienceyoufools @timespolitics @joerichlaw When will it end. Reminding me of when will the Post Office Horizon IT Public Inquiry end, and Paula Venells be possibly charged.

@Scienceyoufools @timespolitics @joerichlaw There's an ongoing criminal investigation.

Peter Mandelson to be fined for urinating outside George Osborne home #Echobox=1775818053" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…