Reposted by Adam WoodElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120153572
Reposted by Adam WoodRaf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Shame on you Ollie Pope, Luke Wood, Moeen Ali, Reece Topley, James Vince, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Laurie Evans for caring more about the money in your own pockets than the human rights of women and girls. This was a personal choice by you, and you chose wrong.bbc.co.ukEngland players told to think of 'daughters, sisters or mothers' before committing to Afghanistan Premier League T20 tournamentEnglish cricketers aiming to play in a men's T20 franchise tournament organised by the Afghanistan Cricket Board have been urged to think about their "daughters, sisters or mothers". 67833
Reposted by Adam WoodBristol24/7 @bristol247.bsky.social · 11/06/2026A new biography by the acclaimed author Stephen Chalke tells the story of Gloucestershire Cricket’s most decorated captainbristol247.comShire’s most decorated captain tells his story in new biographyMark Alleyne brought seven trophies in six years during his tenure as captain of Glos 153
Reposted by Adam WoodMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 07/06/2026We’re only days away from the first ball being bowled at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. This afternoon, Waterloo Bridge was transformed into a cricket pitch to celebrate. It’s another great summer for women’s sport in London as we host the semi-finals at The Oval and the final at Lord’s. 🏆 07711
Reposted by Adam WoodDread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 18/05/2026If Labour had promised to spend £2.5 billion on public and active transport - which would disproportionately support poor and disabled people, and would be a long term investment rather than a short term sop - everyone would be demanding to know where the £2.5 billion is going to come from. 212650
Adam Wood @adamwoodclan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This is very insightful analysis of UK finances vs shallow news headlines. 010
Adam Wood @adamwoodclan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Another excellent analysis by Rob Reed here. Some fascinating effects at play across the state and indy cohorts. Underlines importance of understanding the evidence as we consider mitigations. 011
Reposted by Adam WoodUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 18/04/2026It began with coal and steel. But from the very start, our Union was always meant to be much more. 75 years ago, in Paris, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Europe chose a different path. One of unity over division, of peace over war. 21676144
Reposted by Adam WoodHypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Watching this Canadian documentary report, the main thought is, how rare this sort of coverage of cricket is in more 'traditional' cricketing nations. So much coverage of the game now is produced in house, or by those with a vested interest in not lifting the lid on a sewer of corruption. 285
Reposted by Adam WoodBeing Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Viktor Orbán has lost these elections. Péter Magyar is on track to restore Hungary’s constitutional order. This is more than a political shift; it is a democratic reset. And let’s be clear: Trump and Putin are losing a puppet inside the European Union. Europe stands stronger when democracy prevails. 430590
Adam Wood @adamwoodclan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026@rafnicholson.bsky.social @crickether.com @hypocaust.bsky.social What chance The PCA leading negotiations like this? www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m....theguardian.comThe WNBA’s historic deal teaches girls everywhere to advocate for themselves | Etan ThomasA landmark new CBA should be a moment of progress. Instead, the discourse around the negotiations revealed the same old attitudes – and my kids recognized them instantly 130
Reposted by Adam WoodHypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · 19/02/2026IPL-linked teams in The Hundred 'not considering Pakistan players' #TheHundred www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...bbc.co.ukThe Hundred: IPL-linked teams 'not considering Pakistan players'Four sides in The Hundred with links to the IPL are not expected to sign players from Pakistan in next month's auction. 394
Adam Wood @adamwoodclan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026This is a great article about this issue and wider impact of Hindu nationalism eating cricket. 000
Reposted by Adam WoodUkraine Cricket @ukrainecricket.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Has England's #Ashes 🏏 performance been more or less embarrassing than us getting bowled out for 20 by @icelandcricket.bsky.social last year? More embarrassing: Repost 🔁 Less embarrassing: 'Like' ❤️ jonathancampion.com/2025/08/06/2...jonathancampion.com20 All Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team’s Euro Cup AdventureImage: annarosafotografia.pl It’s Thursday lunchtime in Warsaw, and I’m standing in a field outside the city, in the rain. I’m trying, and failing, to hit a Polish off-spinner. Chasing 206, we’re 2… 22714
Adam Wood @adamwoodclan.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Should the ECB ask Heather Knight to head up a campaign for 5 day Test cricket for men? @crickether.com @hypocaust.bsky.social @womenscricblog.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Adam WoodHypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Strange. Not seeing anyone, particularly those who were very vocal about such things earlier in the year, using this car crash series to suggest men shouldn't be paid to play cricket. 4246
Adam Wood @adamwoodclan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025@rafnicholson.bsky.social in that conversation about T20 WC in England next summer and with reference made to Kirstie G’s dual nation eligibility status I was dying for you to ask her about playing for Scotland. Please tell me you at least asked off air? @crickether.com 030
Reposted by Adam WoodRosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2025It didn't collapse overnight! Some defects were introduced, which will probably result in peak broadening in the PXRD. Also a passivation surface layer has been added and surface absorbed atoms 3112
Reposted by Adam WoodBBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 07/10/2025“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.” Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth. #Newsnight 2226595
Reposted by Adam WoodElizabeth! @kikutowne.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Gonna put this on a sandwich board and wear it on the street while ringing a bell like a town crier: “AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations,” he continued.” 16637
Reposted by Adam WoodOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The Benson hub would be by the marina bus stops, and the Carterton one at the main crossroads towards Brize Norton. Construction would start in spring 2026 for a summer opening. Carterton: letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/mobility-hub... Benson: letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/mobility-hub... 051
Reposted by Adam WoodMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 23/09/2025I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐 19042561001
Reposted by Adam WoodFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Ed Davey, "We're proud of our country unlike Nigel Farage who goes to America and says that we're like North Korea" 6545127
Reposted by Adam WoodAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Personally I can't think of anything that celebrates England more than the idea that people who aren't English want to live here 1718
Reposted by Adam WoodOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Residents of Dean have erected placards protesting against the arrival of American vice-president J.D. Vance in the tiny West Oxfordshire village. They say that they are “extremely angry”, but that the police presence which has sealed off the village has made a “proper protest” impossible. 819285
Adam Wood @adamwoodclan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025An excellent examination of the details behind this decades old debate. Leakage % has barely changed since I worked at TW 30 years ago. 000
Adam Wood @adamwoodclan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Olivia Rodrigo brings out Robert Smith! Wow. Did NOT see that cross over. Fabulous Glasto. #glastonbury 020
Adam Wood @adamwoodclan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Great eighties memories! Love you Syd, El Presidente. 000
Reposted by Adam WoodWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I've found myself using the f-word a lot lately. Fascism. There's a lot of it about. People don't like to say it because it makes them uncomfortable. It seems extreme. Well, fascism is extreme and you can't ignore it. Get used to it. Start using the f-word. 930364
Reposted by Adam WoodKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 19/05/2025"Quite why their minds went in this direction is for psychiatrists to explain, though it is of course possible they’ve misread the coverage, and believe the government has negotiated away Britain’s fisting rights." Wahey! 2509
Reposted by Adam WoodTanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 08/05/2025As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵 318114503003
Reposted by Adam WoodLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank 22505583720030
Reposted by Adam WoodJarrod Kimber @jarrodkimber.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Cricket's marketing problem. 34212
Reposted by Adam WoodSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025In the last interview of his life (1996), astronomer Carl Sagan gave an eerily prescient warning of the dangers that come when you cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority. Watch and ask yourself: was he right? 25863358
Reposted by Adam WoodBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025In case you missed it ... This is the electoral truth about Brexit that for some reason Labour continues to ignore. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺 11308160
Reposted by Adam Wooddamniel spookradski @self.agency · 22/03/2025i am once again posting this for no particular reasonbesacenter.orgIBM and the HolocaustTwenty years ago this week, my book, IBM and the Holocaust, exposed—backed up by a tower of documentation— that IBM knowingly organized all six phases of the Holocaust: identification, exclusion, 36533
Reposted by Adam WoodJames Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 26/03/2025There are so many unfounded rumours about which is the oldest pub in the country. However after extensive research, and on present evidence, the oldest purpose-built pub seems to be the George Inn at Norton St Philip, Somerset. Here's a thread on how it was dated... 🧵 818564
Reposted by Adam WoodPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Tesla showroom From the new Private Eye, out now. 141181322
Reposted by Adam WoodPolly Starkie @pollystarkie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Jon Lewis is no longer England coach… His legacy will live on forever 🙏🇦🇺 3202
Reposted by Adam WoodBrooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-... 20179913143
Reposted by Adam WoodSimon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Congratulations to BRIT winners Charli XCX (Bishop's Stortford College, £38,319 per year), AG Cook (King Alfred School, £27,747) and The Last Dinner Party (Bedales, £52,075) for showing that people from ordinary backgrounds can reach the top in pop music, that most egalitarian of art forms. 481281423
Reposted by Adam WoodBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/03/2025Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve: 632436883
Reposted by Adam WoodAndrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Just in case anyone is interested, here is a picture of Winston Churchill in 1943, wearing his wartime 'siren suit' on his way to meet President Roosevelt. He wore the same suit when he went to ask for more money under Lend-Lease the year before. 011842
Reposted by Adam WoodSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 28/02/2025It is kind of wild that the only reason anyone is scared of Russia - after they got stuck in a years-long war of attrition with their smaller neighbour, achieving nothing of consequence - is that they somehow tricked the USA into being their ally. 35512
Reposted by Adam WoodUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/02/2025Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace. 16107339214668
Reposted by Adam WoodThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 28/02/2025For two men who have professed such hostility towards taking the knee, they are surprisingly happy to do it for Putin, in the Oval Office, in full view of the world’s media. 352232426
Reposted by Adam WoodGareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 27/02/2025Never forget that water was privatised by the Thatcher government based on nothing more than vibes... 716139
