Doire
@doirea.bsky.social
Trainee pensioner. Cat PA. Bernadettista. Amateur Local Historian. Derry til I die.
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Journalism on Epstein is a mess.
There are 4-5 journalists (like Julie K Brown and Tara Palmeri) who are superb. Then there are well meaning uninformed journalists who don’t understand their word vomit isn’t helping Survivors. Then there are a large glut of nothing-to-see here clowns.
There are 4-5 journalists (like Julie K Brown and Tara Palmeri) who are superb. Then there are well meaning uninformed journalists who don’t understand their word vomit isn’t helping Survivors. Then there are a large glut of nothing-to-see here clowns.
Fuck Bertie. But also fuck this trash reporting that fails to mention that Sexual Predator George Mitchell was named in court depositions (that he never challenged) as far back as 2003. He’s a scumbag. Reporting like this shames journalism. Report properly or shut up.
February 5, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Journalism on Epstein is a mess.
There are 4-5 journalists (like Julie K Brown and Tara Palmeri) who are superb. Then there are well meaning uninformed journalists who don’t understand their word vomit isn’t helping Survivors. Then there are a large glut of nothing-to-see here clowns.
There are 4-5 journalists (like Julie K Brown and Tara Palmeri) who are superb. Then there are well meaning uninformed journalists who don’t understand their word vomit isn’t helping Survivors. Then there are a large glut of nothing-to-see here clowns.
I dunno, I've never believed a word #Mandelson said. Ever. It's touching if not a teensey wee bit worrying that the Prime Minister is a man of such naivety and innocence that he did. Good to have someone so devoid of cynicism in charge of the country, eh?
February 5, 2026 at 11:46 AM
I dunno, I've never believed a word #Mandelson said. Ever. It's touching if not a teensey wee bit worrying that the Prime Minister is a man of such naivety and innocence that he did. Good to have someone so devoid of cynicism in charge of the country, eh?
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The Islands of Strangers man just said he'd never denigrate the contribution of migrants.
February 5, 2026 at 11:27 AM
The Islands of Strangers man just said he'd never denigrate the contribution of migrants.
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Starmer finding that place in a Venn Diagram where he manages to annoy allies without defeating enemies
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Starmer finding that place in a Venn Diagram where he manages to annoy allies without defeating enemies
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Then and now:
Joe Dancey’s Linkedin profile on 18 Sept 2025 and today.
Spot the difference!
[Dancey is Wes Streeting’s partner]
Joe Dancey’s Linkedin profile on 18 Sept 2025 and today.
Spot the difference!
[Dancey is Wes Streeting’s partner]
February 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Then and now:
Joe Dancey’s Linkedin profile on 18 Sept 2025 and today.
Spot the difference!
[Dancey is Wes Streeting’s partner]
Joe Dancey’s Linkedin profile on 18 Sept 2025 and today.
Spot the difference!
[Dancey is Wes Streeting’s partner]
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🚨NEW Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure, with the help of Peter Mandelson
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/j...
The convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure, with the help of Peter Mandelson
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/j...
Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
bylinetimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:21 PM
🚨NEW Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure, with the help of Peter Mandelson
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/j...
The convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure, with the help of Peter Mandelson
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/j...
Retirement from the House of Lords means you keep the title. Don't think the media have realised this yet about #Mandelson's latest. @samcoatessky.bsky.social
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/retirement-f...
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/retirement-f...
February 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Retirement from the House of Lords means you keep the title. Don't think the media have realised this yet about #Mandelson's latest. @samcoatessky.bsky.social
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/retirement-f...
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/retirement-f...
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1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
www.monbiot.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:32 AM
1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
Starmer: Big boys made me do it and then ran away. #Mandelson
February 2, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Starmer: Big boys made me do it and then ran away. #Mandelson
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Of course the PM doesn’t have the power to unilaterally remove Mandelson from the Lords. But given it can only be removed via an act of Parliament in government time, Starmer is hardly powerless, indeed he is the only person who can make it happen.
February 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Of course the PM doesn’t have the power to unilaterally remove Mandelson from the Lords. But given it can only be removed via an act of Parliament in government time, Starmer is hardly powerless, indeed he is the only person who can make it happen.
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When news was brought to the studio floor of Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador during the recording of this, I involuntarily and rather embarrassingly said "fuck" quite loudly on mic. It didn't make the edit. But I see no reason to retract my view.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Naked Week, Series 1, Episode 4: Spies, Uncanny Ghosts, and Christmas Crackers
We recruit a spy, and try to contact Nigel Farage with a ouija board.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM
When news was brought to the studio floor of Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador during the recording of this, I involuntarily and rather embarrassingly said "fuck" quite loudly on mic. It didn't make the edit. But I see no reason to retract my view.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
100 times this.
It’s long past time for a general boycott full stop.
The National
☕️🥐
The National
☕️🥐
October 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
100 times this.
Not for the first time.
some of the columnists are making themselves look absolutely deranged over this i must say
October 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Not for the first time.
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One thing this election seems to be showing is that the influence of the Indo, Mail etc has declined considerably. Nobody is listening anymore. #aras25
October 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
One thing this election seems to be showing is that the influence of the Indo, Mail etc has declined considerably. Nobody is listening anymore. #aras25
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Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates odd ceramic figures #womensart
September 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates odd ceramic figures #womensart
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I'm self-radicalizing online to become a better gardener and cat aficionado. 🌱😻
September 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I'm self-radicalizing online to become a better gardener and cat aficionado. 🌱😻
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'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....
September 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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Someone braver than me needs to get a friend, go to a protest, one of you with a 'I support PA' sign and the other hold a UVF flag.
See what happens.
See what happens.
August 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Someone braver than me needs to get a friend, go to a protest, one of you with a 'I support PA' sign and the other hold a UVF flag.
See what happens.
See what happens.
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It’s quite easy to cling to free speech absolutism when you are not the target of a promised ethnic cleansing. The “marketplace of ideas” is a legitimising myth for such politics of annihilation, and “debating” ethno-nationalism is nothing more than the gamification of another’s humanity.
March 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It’s quite easy to cling to free speech absolutism when you are not the target of a promised ethnic cleansing. The “marketplace of ideas” is a legitimising myth for such politics of annihilation, and “debating” ethno-nationalism is nothing more than the gamification of another’s humanity.
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Forget armed bodyguards: I need someone to invent an Auntie app. It pairs you with an Auntie (any gender/race) about a generation older than you. They spend the day on the phone with you, tell you not to worry because you’re amazing, and make you give the phone to strangers so they can talk you up
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Forget armed bodyguards: I need someone to invent an Auntie app. It pairs you with an Auntie (any gender/race) about a generation older than you. They spend the day on the phone with you, tell you not to worry because you’re amazing, and make you give the phone to strangers so they can talk you up
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I never want to hear another American joke about the French surrendering quickly. They had an actual resistance.
February 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I never want to hear another American joke about the French surrendering quickly. They had an actual resistance.
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The equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane due to hit County Clare in the next few hours
January 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane due to hit County Clare in the next few hours
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A poem I wrote to perform at Glastonbury on the anniversary of Sinead O Connor’s death. Today would have been her 58th birthday - a truly great artist - “they buried me, but they didn’t know I was a seed”
December 9, 2024 at 12:15 AM
A poem I wrote to perform at Glastonbury on the anniversary of Sinead O Connor’s death. Today would have been her 58th birthday - a truly great artist - “they buried me, but they didn’t know I was a seed”
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Scarred For Life advent calendar door seven: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, a show with one of the moodiest title sequences of the 70s, and some of the trippiest visuals...
December 7, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Scarred For Life advent calendar door seven: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, a show with one of the moodiest title sequences of the 70s, and some of the trippiest visuals...