thepolyorchid
@thepolyorchid.bsky.social
LFC season ticket holder & dad to 2 beautiful girls. Bad guitarist. Soft spot for @altrinchamfc, #BillsMafia & #GoLeafs. @thefabians @humanists_uk. Woke isn’t a pejorative term. Not a fan of Tories, Elon Musk, Farage or sportswashing. Never kissed a Tory….
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Inter 0 : 1 Liverpool
▪ xG: 0.61 - 1.36
▪ xThreat: 1.06 - 1.1
▪ Possession: 49.8% - 50.2%
▪ Field Tilt: 54.0% - 46.0%
▪ Def Action Height: 45.4 - 54.5
▪ xG: 0.61 - 1.36
▪ xThreat: 1.06 - 1.1
▪ Possession: 49.8% - 50.2%
▪ Field Tilt: 54.0% - 46.0%
▪ Def Action Height: 45.4 - 54.5
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Inter 0 : 1 Liverpool
▪ xG: 0.61 - 1.36
▪ xThreat: 1.06 - 1.1
▪ Possession: 49.8% - 50.2%
▪ Field Tilt: 54.0% - 46.0%
▪ Def Action Height: 45.4 - 54.5
▪ xG: 0.61 - 1.36
▪ xThreat: 1.06 - 1.1
▪ Possession: 49.8% - 50.2%
▪ Field Tilt: 54.0% - 46.0%
▪ Def Action Height: 45.4 - 54.5
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Liverpool are the only team to win all four matches against Pots 1 and 2 sides in the Champions League this season.
Arsenal may join them, no other team can.
Arsenal may join them, no other team can.
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Liverpool are the only team to win all four matches against Pots 1 and 2 sides in the Champions League this season.
Arsenal may join them, no other team can.
Arsenal may join them, no other team can.
Get in Redmen!!! Thoroughly deserved, and a much better performance again. That’s 4 in a row we should have won.
Referees are a disgrace though. This is why I can’t stand football anymore, my love of the mighty reds aside.
Get in!!!!
Referees are a disgrace though. This is why I can’t stand football anymore, my love of the mighty reds aside.
Get in!!!!
December 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Get in Redmen!!! Thoroughly deserved, and a much better performance again. That’s 4 in a row we should have won.
Referees are a disgrace though. This is why I can’t stand football anymore, my love of the mighty reds aside.
Get in!!!!
Referees are a disgrace though. This is why I can’t stand football anymore, my love of the mighty reds aside.
Get in!!!!
Right then - with regret, I’m logging off of here again before the cry-arsing begins as the teams announced.
Come on Liverpool! Straight into these……
Come on Liverpool! Straight into these……
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Right then - with regret, I’m logging off of here again before the cry-arsing begins as the teams announced.
Come on Liverpool! Straight into these……
Come on Liverpool! Straight into these……
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Thirteen Labour MPs have backed a Liberal Democrat bill requiring the government to begin negotiations on joining a bespoke customs union with the EU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thirteen Labour MPs vote for talks on joining EU customs union
One hundred MPs voted for and 100 against the Liberal Democrats' bill, which would require the UK to begin talks with the EU for a new customs union.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thirteen Labour MPs have backed a Liberal Democrat bill requiring the government to begin negotiations on joining a bespoke customs union with the EU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn on.ft.com/4a1qjR6
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
on.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn on.ft.com/4a1qjR6
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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
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In international terms - surely it is now obvious that the US is a Putin-inspired enemy of Europe?
In domestic terms - is Keir Starmer going to just smile and nod and accept vitriolic personal attacks on his "horrible, disgusting, vicious" friend, Mayor Khan?
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In domestic terms - is Keir Starmer going to just smile and nod and accept vitriolic personal attacks on his "horrible, disgusting, vicious" friend, Mayor Khan?
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Donald Trump criticises European leaders and renews attacks on Sadiq Khan
The US president addressed subjects such as immigration and the Ukraine war in a wide-ranging interview.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In international terms - surely it is now obvious that the US is a Putin-inspired enemy of Europe?
In domestic terms - is Keir Starmer going to just smile and nod and accept vitriolic personal attacks on his "horrible, disgusting, vicious" friend, Mayor Khan?
share.google/0tXgJ3wUgPP1...
In domestic terms - is Keir Starmer going to just smile and nod and accept vitriolic personal attacks on his "horrible, disgusting, vicious" friend, Mayor Khan?
share.google/0tXgJ3wUgPP1...
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Trump is sending the most advanced US-made AI chips to China.
Putin absolutely loves Trump's new National Security Strategy.
Trump pardoned a Central American strongman who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the USA.
This is NOT America first. It is Trump first and his dictator buddies next.
Putin absolutely loves Trump's new National Security Strategy.
Trump pardoned a Central American strongman who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the USA.
This is NOT America first. It is Trump first and his dictator buddies next.
December 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Trump is sending the most advanced US-made AI chips to China.
Putin absolutely loves Trump's new National Security Strategy.
Trump pardoned a Central American strongman who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the USA.
This is NOT America first. It is Trump first and his dictator buddies next.
Putin absolutely loves Trump's new National Security Strategy.
Trump pardoned a Central American strongman who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the USA.
This is NOT America first. It is Trump first and his dictator buddies next.
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Boy, the Prime Minister who’s repeatedly said that growth is his number one priority will be furious when he hears about this!
Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Boy, the Prime Minister who’s repeatedly said that growth is his number one priority will be furious when he hears about this!
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Sorry but this is exactly the gotcha style of questioning that inevitably brings democracy into disarray. Governments can't actually say everything they want about foreign leaders because that is diplomacy. Headline either way. And unscrupulous leaders who don't care are the winners.
Keir Starmer’s spokesman refuses to criticise Trump for calling Europe a group of “decaying” nations led by “weak” leaders
Asked about Trump saying European countries will no longer be “viable" thanks to migration, Keir Starmer’s spokesman says the UK is “returning control to our asylum system”
Asked about Trump saying European countries will no longer be “viable" thanks to migration, Keir Starmer’s spokesman says the UK is “returning control to our asylum system”
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Sorry but this is exactly the gotcha style of questioning that inevitably brings democracy into disarray. Governments can't actually say everything they want about foreign leaders because that is diplomacy. Headline either way. And unscrupulous leaders who don't care are the winners.
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"Analysts think it's nothing short of miraculous that a nuclear strike hasn't happened yet," says the writer of House of Dynamite, Noah Oppenheim.
"In the last 80 years, the number of near misses that we've had is pretty staggering"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
"In the last 80 years, the number of near misses that we've had is pretty staggering"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
‘The number of nuclear near-misses is staggering’, says House of Dynamite writer | The News Agents
Noah Oppenheim, writer of new Kathryn Bigelow movie House of Dynamite, tells The News Agents of what he discovered about the world’s nuclear situation, and why people are not as worried as they…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Analysts think it's nothing short of miraculous that a nuclear strike hasn't happened yet," says the writer of House of Dynamite, Noah Oppenheim.
"In the last 80 years, the number of near misses that we've had is pretty staggering"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
"In the last 80 years, the number of near misses that we've had is pretty staggering"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
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"Laying down red lines against joining the customs union and single market is now as deeply regretted by many Labour people as the manifesto’s fateful tax straitjackets. But the dam has broken because there is no disguising the truth about what Brexit does to UK growth" ⬇️
Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee
Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Laying down red lines against joining the customs union and single market is now as deeply regretted by many Labour people as the manifesto’s fateful tax straitjackets. But the dam has broken because there is no disguising the truth about what Brexit does to UK growth" ⬇️
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Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
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Europe must stand together.
"If Europe is to survive a future attack by Russia — and that is the kind of language being used — its big players must behave in a way they haven’t done before. They must be joined at the hip."
https://politi.co/4iIsk6W
"If Europe is to survive a future attack by Russia — and that is the kind of language being used — its big players must behave in a way they haven’t done before. They must be joined at the hip."
https://politi.co/4iIsk6W
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Europe must stand together.
"If Europe is to survive a future attack by Russia — and that is the kind of language being used — its big players must behave in a way they haven’t done before. They must be joined at the hip."
https://politi.co/4iIsk6W
"If Europe is to survive a future attack by Russia — and that is the kind of language being used — its big players must behave in a way they haven’t done before. They must be joined at the hip."
https://politi.co/4iIsk6W
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We really are on the brink of a health golden age.
Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients
Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We really are on the brink of a health golden age.
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So, Farage who’d previously failed 7 times to be an MP, decided that in Clacton he’d rely on his old Brexit friends - cheating (and racism) - to get him his win.
With millions now pouring into Reform, it’s beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
With millions now pouring into Reform, it’s beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform campaign for Farage’s Clacton seat was a ‘juggernaut’, say candidates
Defeated Tory and Labour rivals describe force of Reform ‘machine’ as police assess claims of overspending
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
So, Farage who’d previously failed 7 times to be an MP, decided that in Clacton he’d rely on his old Brexit friends - cheating (and racism) - to get him his win.
With millions now pouring into Reform, it’s beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
With millions now pouring into Reform, it’s beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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European leaders rally behind Ukraine in Downing Street talks
🇺🇦 🌎
Hopes rise of a breakthrough in using £78bn of frozen Russian assets to bankroll Kyiv
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
🇺🇦 🌎
Hopes rise of a breakthrough in using £78bn of frozen Russian assets to bankroll Kyiv
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
European leaders rally behind Ukraine in Downing Street talks
Hopes rise of a breakthrough in using £78bn of frozen Russian assets to bankroll Kyiv
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
European leaders rally behind Ukraine in Downing Street talks
🇺🇦 🌎
Hopes rise of a breakthrough in using £78bn of frozen Russian assets to bankroll Kyiv
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
🇺🇦 🌎
Hopes rise of a breakthrough in using £78bn of frozen Russian assets to bankroll Kyiv
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Pretty much an accurate summary of US legal news nowadays.
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Pretty much an accurate summary of US legal news nowadays.
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Ed Davey has raised one of the most serious questions in British politics: why have Nigel Farage and his senior team repeatedly aligned themselves with Kremlin-backed media and messaging?
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Ed Davey has raised one of the most serious questions in British politics: why have Nigel Farage and his senior team repeatedly aligned themselves with Kremlin-backed media and messaging?
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Round about the time he was taking money from Russia Today I think.
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Round about the time he was taking money from Russia Today I think.
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Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
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A reminder that when Kemi Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman's website it was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A reminder that when Kemi Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman's website it was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison
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The Trump administration's foreign policy strategy attacks allies including the UK & has been enthusiastically greeted by the Kremlin. Last month, the USA announced a 'peace deal' the Kremlin had written.
And in the UK, the media is full of people still wibbling about 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'.
And in the UK, the media is full of people still wibbling about 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'.
December 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Trump administration's foreign policy strategy attacks allies including the UK & has been enthusiastically greeted by the Kremlin. Last month, the USA announced a 'peace deal' the Kremlin had written.
And in the UK, the media is full of people still wibbling about 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'.
And in the UK, the media is full of people still wibbling about 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'.