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….
Just imagine the global party when he dies though….
a group of people are dancing in a room with a zebra costume in the foreground that says party time .
Alt: a group of people are dancing in a room with a zebra costume in the foreground that says party time .
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just imagine the global party when he dies though….
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A council’s £1 asset deal on a $4.6m centre has triggered police arrests and a criminal probe. The fallout now includes £1m in irregular payments and governance failures.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Three arrests as £4.6m centre sold for £1 plunges council into crisis
A statutory report into a city council has uncovered unlawful asset disposal, £1m in irregular payments and police arrests
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A council’s £1 asset deal on a $4.6m centre has triggered police arrests and a criminal probe. The fallout now includes £1m in irregular payments and governance failures.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Ben Houchen's chaotic and incompetent management of the Tees Valley Combined Authority
Excellent reporting from Peter Morris of @northeastbylines.co.uk
Bad debts bring £140mn chaos to Tees Valley budget northeastbylines.co.uk/business/bad...
Excellent reporting from Peter Morris of @northeastbylines.co.uk
Bad debts bring £140mn chaos to Tees Valley budget northeastbylines.co.uk/business/bad...
Bad debts bring £140mn chaos to Tees Valley budget
Houchen’s Teesworks and airport projects owe £520mn to TVCA, missing repayments and forcing £140mn more borrowing this year
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ben Houchen's chaotic and incompetent management of the Tees Valley Combined Authority
Excellent reporting from Peter Morris of @northeastbylines.co.uk
Bad debts bring £140mn chaos to Tees Valley budget northeastbylines.co.uk/business/bad...
Excellent reporting from Peter Morris of @northeastbylines.co.uk
Bad debts bring £140mn chaos to Tees Valley budget northeastbylines.co.uk/business/bad...
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Make Racism Indefensible Again
Reform candidate Chris Parry said David Lammy should “go home to the Caribbean”.
Reform MP Danny Kruger says “context” is important
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...
Reform MP Danny Kruger says “context” is important
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...
Reform MP Slammed For Trying To Defend Party Candidate Who Told David Lammy To 'Go Home'
Danny Kruger said Chris Parry is "a very distinguished public servant".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Make Racism Indefensible Again
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Fun fact - The Daily Mail has not favoured a party other than the Tories since its support for the British Union of Fascists - a pattern that would end with an endorsement of Reform UK.
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Fun fact - The Daily Mail has not favoured a party other than the Tories since its support for the British Union of Fascists - a pattern that would end with an endorsement of Reform UK.
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A horror story in 5 words 🤣🤣
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A horror story in 5 words 🤣🤣
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Nigel Farage’s response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.
Farage’s attack on the BBC tells us who he really is
His response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Nigel Farage’s response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.
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All the UK party leaders are giving messages of sympathy, solidarity and compassion this morning following the dreadful events in Australia. Nigel Farage is calling for a Muslim group to be banned.
December 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
All the UK party leaders are giving messages of sympathy, solidarity and compassion this morning following the dreadful events in Australia. Nigel Farage is calling for a Muslim group to be banned.
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Syrian hero in Sydney single handedly disarms antisemitic terrorist shooter.
Farage and Reform would have this guy deported: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Farage and Reform would have this guy deported: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘It was a matter of conscience’: Ahmed al-Ahmed’s family reveal why he risked his life to disarm alleged Bondi shooter
Family say al-Ahmed ‘doesn’t discriminate’ and would have done anything to save lives during the attack
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Syrian hero in Sydney single handedly disarms antisemitic terrorist shooter.
Farage and Reform would have this guy deported: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Farage and Reform would have this guy deported: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The whole of the UK - not just its armed forces - needs to step up to deter the threat posed by Russia of a wider war in Europe, Britain's military chief will say
news.sky.com/story/everyo...
news.sky.com/story/everyo...
Everyone in UK 'must step up' to deter Russian threat of wider war, armed forces chief to warn
Separately, the new head if MI6 will warn the "frontline is everywhere" as the UK faces a "new age of uncertainty".
news.sky.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The whole of the UK - not just its armed forces - needs to step up to deter the threat posed by Russia of a wider war in Europe, Britain's military chief will say
news.sky.com/story/everyo...
news.sky.com/story/everyo...
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Rishi Sunak telling lies at the covid inquiry:
"Listen to the health and medical advice on what was likely to happen and then do the best you could at designing economic interventions"
Prof Dame Angela McLean and ProfJohn Edmunds called him "Dr Death the Chancellor"
"Listen to the health and medical advice on what was likely to happen and then do the best you could at designing economic interventions"
Prof Dame Angela McLean and ProfJohn Edmunds called him "Dr Death the Chancellor"
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Rishi Sunak telling lies at the covid inquiry:
"Listen to the health and medical advice on what was likely to happen and then do the best you could at designing economic interventions"
Prof Dame Angela McLean and ProfJohn Edmunds called him "Dr Death the Chancellor"
"Listen to the health and medical advice on what was likely to happen and then do the best you could at designing economic interventions"
Prof Dame Angela McLean and ProfJohn Edmunds called him "Dr Death the Chancellor"
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Bad debts bring £140mn chaos to Tees Valley budget
Houchen’s Teesworks and airport projects owe £520mn to TVCA, missing repayments and forcing £140mn more borrowing this year
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/bad...
Houchen’s Teesworks and airport projects owe £520mn to TVCA, missing repayments and forcing £140mn more borrowing this year
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/bad...
Bad debts bring £140mn chaos to Tees Valley budget
Houchen’s Teesworks and airport projects owe £520mn to TVCA, missing repayments and forcing £140mn more borrowing this year
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Bad debts bring £140mn chaos to Tees Valley budget
Houchen’s Teesworks and airport projects owe £520mn to TVCA, missing repayments and forcing £140mn more borrowing this year
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/bad...
Houchen’s Teesworks and airport projects owe £520mn to TVCA, missing repayments and forcing £140mn more borrowing this year
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/bad...
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Worth adding that if you keep going back and back you realise just how stupid the likes of Connor Tomlinson are. We're all descended from a whole raft of people and eventually you get back to Africa and appreciate that we are all one in the end.
I can only imagine he's never worked it out
I can only imagine he's never worked it out
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Worth adding that if you keep going back and back you realise just how stupid the likes of Connor Tomlinson are. We're all descended from a whole raft of people and eventually you get back to Africa and appreciate that we are all one in the end.
I can only imagine he's never worked it out
I can only imagine he's never worked it out
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Is she thick or what? Can’t she see that the journo hacks are the problem? They lie by omission, spin everything to death about the Labour government, and then stand there baffled when nothing sticks to Teflon Farage.
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Is she thick or what? Can’t she see that the journo hacks are the problem? They lie by omission, spin everything to death about the Labour government, and then stand there baffled when nothing sticks to Teflon Farage.
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Nigel Farage’s Russian Influence Advent Calendar…
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
Nigel Farage's Russian Influence Advent Calendar
Byline Times has compiled a festive offering of the prize moments when the Reform leader has gifted the political agenda to Vladimir Putin and Russia
bylinetimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Nigel Farage’s Russian Influence Advent Calendar…
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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Kamal al-Helbawy, the spokesman for the anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood, appeared on BBC only one time, in 2011.
Nigel Farage, the anti-Semitic head of Reform UK, has appeared on BBC QT 38 times since then, is a nightly feature on the news, and had his own show on GB News
Who is the bigger danger?
Nigel Farage, the anti-Semitic head of Reform UK, has appeared on BBC QT 38 times since then, is a nightly feature on the news, and had his own show on GB News
Who is the bigger danger?
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Kamal al-Helbawy, the spokesman for the anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood, appeared on BBC only one time, in 2011.
Nigel Farage, the anti-Semitic head of Reform UK, has appeared on BBC QT 38 times since then, is a nightly feature on the news, and had his own show on GB News
Who is the bigger danger?
Nigel Farage, the anti-Semitic head of Reform UK, has appeared on BBC QT 38 times since then, is a nightly feature on the news, and had his own show on GB News
Who is the bigger danger?
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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As part of a Dink myself, I can honestly say I have not once worried about the inheritance tax that may need to be paid when my partner and I one day topple off this mortal coil.
Whoever ends up being the beneficiary of our estate is getting money they did not work for, and they should be taxed.
Whoever ends up being the beneficiary of our estate is getting money they did not work for, and they should be taxed.
December 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
As part of a Dink myself, I can honestly say I have not once worried about the inheritance tax that may need to be paid when my partner and I one day topple off this mortal coil.
Whoever ends up being the beneficiary of our estate is getting money they did not work for, and they should be taxed.
Whoever ends up being the beneficiary of our estate is getting money they did not work for, and they should be taxed.
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Every horror we're seeing in Trump's America will take root in the UK if Farage becomes PM. From racist oppression to blatant corruption to anti-vaxxing to Christian nationalism to support for Russia to hostility towards on Europe ... It will all be used by Farage to divide and rule us.
#FarageOut
#FarageOut
December 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Every horror we're seeing in Trump's America will take root in the UK if Farage becomes PM. From racist oppression to blatant corruption to anti-vaxxing to Christian nationalism to support for Russia to hostility towards on Europe ... It will all be used by Farage to divide and rule us.
#FarageOut
#FarageOut
December 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult.
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult.
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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The Bills' last four drives against the Patriots:
7 plays, 42 yards, touchdown
6 plays, 44 yards, touchdown
11 plays, 70 yards, touchdown
13 plays, 91 yards, touchdown
7 plays, 42 yards, touchdown
6 plays, 44 yards, touchdown
11 plays, 70 yards, touchdown
13 plays, 91 yards, touchdown
December 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The Bills' last four drives against the Patriots:
7 plays, 42 yards, touchdown
6 plays, 44 yards, touchdown
11 plays, 70 yards, touchdown
13 plays, 91 yards, touchdown
7 plays, 42 yards, touchdown
6 plays, 44 yards, touchdown
11 plays, 70 yards, touchdown
13 plays, 91 yards, touchdown
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A thin defence given Farage’s standing ovation speech to the Neo Nazi AfD, and his recent comments about ‘Jews’ and the media
Fraser Nelson defends Farage, on the grounds that his conduct at school contrasts with his adult conduct in public life. To claim the evidential picture is mixed on antisemitism at school is quite a stretch but the substantive point is the contrast with adult Farage
open.substack.com/pub/fraserne...
open.substack.com/pub/fraserne...
In defence of Nigel Farage
His schoolboy jokes don't matter; his adult politics do
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A thin defence given Farage’s standing ovation speech to the Neo Nazi AfD, and his recent comments about ‘Jews’ and the media