Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford 4m Olly Robbins' bombshell evidence so far: * The Cabinet Office suggested there was no need to vet Mandelson *at all* * No 10 applied 'constant pressure' on Mandelson to approve Mandelson's appointment and took a 'dismissive' attitude to vetting * Mandelson was given access to the FCDO building, to low classification IT and to 'higher classification briefings' before he was granted security clearance * No 10 showed **no interest** in the actual vetting. The entire focus was on getting Mandelson to Washington as quickly as possible

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Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford ***BREAKING*** Sir Keir Starmer considered giving Matthew Doyle an ambassadorship, Sir Olly Robbins reveals He says that in March 2025 Number 10 initiated discussions with him about finding an opportunity for Doyle, who was then the prime minister's director of communications He says he was under 'strict instructions' not to discuss it with Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary He said he found it hard to explain to colleagues what Doyle's credentials would be for a senior mission role. He says he felt uncomfortable about it and that it would have been hard to defend Doyle was elevated to the Lords. My colleague @Gabriel_Pogrund subsequently revealed that he publicly supported a sex offender after he had been charged

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Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford 1m Sir Keir Starmer tried to make his director of communications - who had publicly supported a paedophile - an ambassador, Olly Robbins revealed This is a problem for Starmer, to put it mildly. He was already under pressure over his eventual decision to elevate Matthew Doyle to the Lords It means that Keir Starmer attempted to appoint two men who had friendships with sex offenders as ambassadors. It comes back to the fundamental question of his judgement The fact that No 10 told Robbins not to inform Yvette Cooper that he was considering an ambassadorship for Doyle is really quite something. Presumably No 10 inferred that Cooper would not appove of Doyle's appointment

However, in terms of GDP per capita we are no higher than 21st in the world and also have one of the highest income disparities between the richest and the poorest

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Our politics needs to be totally overhauled. The ability to call out MP's for lying MUST be allowed.

The way the speaker gets on there is an absolute embarrassment

Casemiro would have got a red for that. In fact any United player would have got red for that. Taylor as big a bottler as Arsenal

Maybe he'll explain to them how he can't actually do anything without getting prior permission from Peter Thiel

It was never 'America First'

It was Brexit First

Not much point in him making this announcement.

Sure he never knows anything about Mandelson and everything regarding him is always news to Starmer.

Useless. And a liar.

Enhertu is giving women more time in Scotland and around the world.
But NICE denied it in England, Wales & NI, saying we’re not “cost effective.”
We’ve lost friends waiting.
As of April 2026, the money is now there. We need to drug companies to resubmit Enhertu immediately.
#metastaticbreastcancer

Get in lads. Great win. GGMU #MUFC

Line chart of reported cervical cancer deaths per 100,000 women in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2021 where the rate falls from about 8.6 deaths per 100,000 in 1950 to about 1.7 in 2021, an approximately 80% decline.

Death rates for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950—

Cervical cancer death rates among women in the United Kingdom have fallen by around 80% since 1950. You can see this reduction in the chart.

This progress happened for a couple of key reasons.

Excellent

We should be learning from other countries...

Starmer is treasonous

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Well this cannot be Jesus. Because Jesus was not white.

Extraordinary report of a massacre of Palestinians in southern Gaza. This journalist reporting she saw the beheaded bodies of 10 children.
This journalist is reporting that Israel has slit the throats of ten children and placed them on the side, all of whom were less than 5 years old.
I saw all of

Easily my favorite rescue ever I would say.

Going to see him is always a highlight.

Big Shaq is a legend

Hillsborough Law Now

Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”

Zuck's new rules: merely write the word "Antifa" and you've violated community standards, and may be kicked of the platform. theintercept.com/2026/04/14/f...

WTF is that twat playing at. Gave a goal away, now a red fs

You wait 24 days and this shit turns up

Sanctions now.

Orban’s defeat shows that when we stand together against the politics of hate and division, hope wins and the far right friends of Farage can be defeated.

Pure evil.

Just Israel’s security minister posting hype videos about the execution chambers they’re about to begin exterminating Palestinian abductees in.

Israel is worse than every Hollywood depiction of Nazis.

Evil vile psychopaths 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱

Abby Martin Went To Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think YouTube video by Double Down News

Netanyahu isn't the problem.

This is the problem.