Dr Adam R. North

1/5. I’m excited to share that 'Race, Protest, and the Power of the Body in Sport: Taking a Knee' is being published by Routledge on October 30th.

When the bubble bursts the systemic impact is going to be vast. Governments needs to ensure that the public aren’t accountable for the reckless actions of tech executives.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

What difference would a Wealth Tax make? Well, according to the latest modelling from @ippr.org it could fun... 👨‍⚕️130,000 more care workers 🏡 Build 90,000 new council houses + 21,000 specialist supported homes for older or disabled people Oh, and... 1/2 🧵 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Elon Musk Just what an incredible fall from grace… From innovative, eco-conscious, cool nerd… 
To depraved, entitled, evil, war-mongering, self-radicalised fuckwit.

End the tax breaks for big tech. Use the money to fund warmer homes!

The new Code of Practice on trade union workplace access rights comes into force a week today The Code provides guidance to employers, unions, workers etc on how to implement unions' new legal right to access workplaces for organising. Massive development for unions, & they'll be rushing to use it.

OpenAI is washed

In Salford, over 45 homes have been targets of racist vandalism. Former deputy leader of the far right Britain First, Ashlea Simon, has ran a campaign of identifying and filming supposed HMOs on social media. Simon now runs her own group, All for England. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/22/a...

wasn't the titanic famously NOT turned around?

My video essay on comedic populism and how the jokes became the vehicle of transmission to disengaged voters.

O'Brien is spot on here. The idea of the 'self-made' millionaire or billionaire is a fantasy. Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. Wealth is created collectively. When those who've gained the most stop paying back in, the foundations that made their success possible start to crumble.

Best for Britain: "Reform UK has announced it will deliver its new print publication, The Reformer, to 15 million households" That's half the country Also: "Reform are using their huge war chest [largely from] crypto billionaires to set up a media operation" They're not finished yet by any stretch

🔴 The Media ‘Manufactured’ Millionaire Exodus From UK, Campaigners Tell IPSO in Open Letter Eleven campaign groups write to the official regulator demanding an investigation, saying eight newspapers misrepresented a discredited study in their reporting bylinetimes.com/2026/10/20/t...

@lewisgoodall.com fair play on the interview with Goodwin! Enjoyed watching him squirm like the rat he is.

Massive #explodey Ukrainian drone attack on St Petersburg overnight. Targets: * Petersburg Oil Terminal, the main fuel export hub on the Baltic, now on fire * Ruchyi fuel depot, gasoline and diesel storage facility, ablaze

Target pensions or welfare, don't tax banks, neoliberal IMF tells UK Chancellor. Silence on corporate welfare, bank subsidies and profiteering; poverty, equitable distribution of income and wealth. Sacrificing the old, poor, sick to the gods of fiscal rules, so that banks are not inconvenienced.

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ITV drip feeding Reform to death is brilliant. Catching Sarah Pochin openly saying that she lies about saying Reform don’t have a women problem.

@lewisgoodall.com wtf is going on at The News Agents! Almost no push back against Tim Montgomerie’s absolute tosh and repeated attempts to sane wash Kemi Badenoch! I think John and Emily are past it and it’s time for you to get some better partners in.

The season of smiles is just beginning

I want to be explicit that Mark Zuckerberg, on the softest of softball podcasts, admitted he invested all this capex without really knowing whether any of it would work, shortly after his tech guy said that he had been repeatedly told “hey this better fucking work” by the CFO at an offsite

Incredibly big and clear drop in online support for Reform, after Russian data centres destroyed. Only one conclusion, Reform have support from Russia whether they know it or not.

This summer: Thousands of deaths from extreme weather. This weekend in the media: What's the point of the Green Party? This morning from the Labour party 👇

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Seeing the media describing @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s +22% increase in vote share as a failure is absurd. Not winning must be a shame but in reality it shows growing momentum. The Greens need to be ready to take maximum advantage if/when the Burnham bounce fades.

Here’s a new idea - people get stripped of honours for doing dishonourable things - let’s add tax dodging to the list. buff.ly/6zFAOmn

New YouGov. Trump unpopularity in Europe: Denmark: -91% Germany: -78% Italy: -76% UK: -75% Spain: -74% France: -67% And it’s getting worse.

Going to say it now, the government that takes the UK back into the EU will be the most popular government in living memory. The immediate economic boost would be enormous. Of course the EU has issues but rejoining our biggest trading block will remove friction which is costing billions per year.

Dame Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Environment Secretary, on Kemi Badenoch claiming water privatisation has been a "success": "Kemi Badenoch is living in an alternate reality. How anybody can look at the Tory record on water and call it a success is baffling."

Useful things are happening recently on the right, with prominent figures drawing a line under the racism: Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadhim Zahawi, now James Cleverly. Tentative sense of a social and moral norm being re-established.

Israel banning @zackpolanski.bsky.social has to be a central part of upcoming political ads! It’s a badge of honour to be hated by a genocidal regime.

New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer

UK PM Andy Burnham is now looking for a Brit company that can take over from Palantir.

Burnham needs to stop teasing us with BrEntry. I’ve become to cynical to believe we could have good things in politics.

Kimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get"

Andy Burnham will set out process to identify a replacement for the First Past the Post voting system as part of his platform for fixing politics, according to the Guardian Earlier this month almost 200 MPs supported an elections bill amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform