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Tom Doorley

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Food and wine writer, gardener, bibliophile, ALDI brand ambassador, living on Cork/Waterford border. Opinions solely my own! tomdoorley.substack.com

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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've updated my list of favourite London restaurants on Substack: tomdoorley.substack.com/p/london-cal...
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LONDON CALLING...
MY FAVOURITE LONDON RESTAURANTS
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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The Bishop and the Billionaire part 2
An update on Mount Melleray’s Americans
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a huge fan of Barrafina I'm decidedly excited about this. It's a shame you can't move in Borough Market during the Summer because of ambling tourists who never buy anything. Like Cork's English Market on steroids.
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Although she had a few (not many) points in her favour, Margaret Thatcher started the destruction of the Tory Party. But it was Boris Johnson, who has no redeeming features, who finished it off... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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With Kemi’s new shadow chancellor, the Tories must hope for a bout of public amnesia
Andrew Griffith is keen on clearing red tape. Good job he wasn’t part of a Treasury team that abolished the Office for Tax Simplification
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Alternatively, the King might be just a bit of a shit. I'm inclined to believe Spencer even if he does have a book to flog... www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
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King Charles: Grief has coloured Earl Spencer’s claims over Diana
Buckingham Palace responded to claims in a memoir that Charles showed ‘contempt’ for Diana after her death and said the world would soon forget her
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The fact that the ludicrously titled Baron Grade of Yarmouth thinks this is fine means that he is spectacularly unqualified to head Ofcom...
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: The Electoral Commission is officially looking into the luxury hospitality provided to Nigel Farage and senior party figures during their trip to Dubai last January. Transparency in politics matters—and key questions are now being raised. #FarageSleaze #ReformSleaze
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's perhaps no surprise that this animated pile of steaming ordure is unaware of what the word "laughable" really means... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Trump calls EU offer to Canada of associate membership ‘laughable’, while threatening tariffs
US president warns over ‘hostile act’, as Canada seeks to move closer to the EU and diversify its defence ties
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And some Americans still wonder why many people in the world despise America.
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US set to deliver 2,000lb bombs to Israel as part of vast arms deal
Powerful bombs prompted such concern about mass deaths in Gaza that Biden officials paused delivery two years ago
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
Andrew Wakefield was stripped of his medical license over a fraudulent, now-retracted study that falsely claimed a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.
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RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
George Galloway is currently living "in exile" in Moscow, broadcasting propaganda for Putin's gangster-capitalist regime and consorting with various far-right ideologues who also idolise Putin and are on the Kremlin payroll. Hope he loses his deposit in Holborn & St Pancras.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Hear! Hear! 💯💭💔 That'd be one quick way to reduce waiting lists and waiting times in the NHS!" via Expose Racism
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
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Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This godforesaken piece of shit will get his arse handed to him, as he has elsewhere. One of the most straightforwardly venal and despicable men in British politics.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
via Ministry of Wibble
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Difficult day at work? At least you are not being eaten by a hippocampus (so far)
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nonsense. Trump doesn't give a toss about Ireland. He was distracting from Iran and Gaza. End of. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Gerard Howlin: Trump may have been Britain-baiting but his statement on unity still mattered
Backhanded compliment from Trump, when he laughingly described business leaders as ‘vicious bastards’, shows Ireland still carries weight in his worldview
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Love it 👇😂
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It seems that the people self-styled 'man-of-the-people' Nigel Farage likes to mix with are misogynists, paedophiles, blackmailers, kidnappers, fraudsters, extortionists, trolls, money launderers, drug traffickers ... "You judge a man by the people he associates with" via Barry James
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🇺🇦💪
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So the ‘negotiation’ involves blowing smoke up Putin’s arse, asking him what he wants then attacking Ukraine for refusing to concede it. Never forget the huge swathe of UK media & political figures who celebrated Trump’s ascent while claiming to care about Ukraine. Absolute heels, the lot of them.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New statue spotted today in Dublin Ireland. Time to take out the trash 🚮! 🎥 AlternativeDublin
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Congratulations to whoever decided to put the notoriously size-obsessed Trump next to Ireland's biggest unit
U.S. President Donald Trump attends an arrival ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin on September 12, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland.

Behind him is an Irishman in military uniform who is a good foot taller than Trump
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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Our president looking very uncomfortable in the presence of a 34 times felon and adjudicated rapist that somehow got through security at Dublin airport.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ireland understood the assignment! ✊💚
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I didn't vote for her, indeed thought she would be a disaster. I am very glad that I was wrong...
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Love the Irish🇮🇪
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'd have very serious reservations about the soi-disant great and good who accepted invitations to applaud the tangerine fart-made-flesh yesterday. One always suspected a lack of shame, but this confirms it.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 05/09/2026
FT Political Editor George Parker shares his views on the state of British politics from the Big Ideas Stage at the #FTWeekendFestival:
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Frank McDonald, such a loss. I'm going to miss his meticulous acquisition of knowledge, and our chats over coffee when we bumped into each other on the streets of his beloved (and traduced) Dublin City.
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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I don't oppose Zionism (Jewish nationalism), because of its supposed "Jewish" nature. I opposed it because of its supremicism and nationalism. I support Jewish internationalism - for the rights of Jews to live at peace, as EQUALS - achieving self-determination ANYWHERE ON EARTH.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 05/09/2026
What a loss - had only got an advance copy of his new book on modern Irish scandals and was hoping to have him on a Monday panel soon. What a body of work he leaves. Frank McDonald, former environment editor of The Irish Times, has died www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Frank McDonald, former environment editor of The Irish Times, has died
McDonald’s reporting on planning corruption was pioneering in Irish journalism, and he regularly reported from abroad on climate negotiations
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"A gang" 🙄 The Reformograph would today have called Hitler's Nazis a 'gang of protesters' and 'deomonstrators'
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Joshua Murray-Nevill @joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How many times does the BBC lead on a murder story with a large headline stating: Man accused of murder 'not guilty,' according to man* Oh, never, right? Because you can see the obvious problem with that style of reportage, right?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/09/2026
lmao, every single thing about this car is the opposite of what you want in a taxi
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Tesla's stock drops 6% as Cybercab update 'underwhelms' Wall Street
Tesla's long-awaited Cybercab update failed to dazzle investors.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 04/09/2026
“It’s crucial to remember that Farage is a symptom, not a cause. He’s the beneficiary of forces that are upending systems across the world.” @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on why it all comes back to the cash trail… www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
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Follow the money: the Farage funding timeline
As the revelations around donations to Reform and its leader multiply, we’re keeping the receipts. Carole Cadwalladr introduces a master timeline of our investigation into Farage’s biggest funder, cry...
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Ian Parson @ianpwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I don’t think we should leave the reform family to grieve in peace at this difficult time. #farage
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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Deodorant salesman smells victory: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Germany's far-right AfD bids for first taste of power in eastern vote
If it wins an outright majority in Saxony-Anhalt, it would be the first time a far-right party has held state-level power in Germany since World War Two.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage is never drinking pints when he doesn't know he's being filmed but is always drinking pints when he does...
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is outrageous. Closing the Phoenix Park entirely because the orange fart-made-flesh is here to watch golf... www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
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No access to Phoenix Park for two days next week due to Donald Trump’s visit
Dublin park to close from 11pm on Thursday before US president’s visit on Saturday morning
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Burnham is right to say Thatcherism & privatisation are at the route of the problems in Britain. So what's he going to do about it? Not much, it seems. A PM who won't even take water back into public ownership (an incredibly popular policy) isn't going to dismantle Thatcherism
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Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As high as that?!?
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 02/09/2026
It's not normal to still think Trump is a good president.
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God @thegodshow.com · 02/09/2026
JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask where are the Epstein files.”
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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