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Dr Adam R. North

@northy1.bsky.social
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Doctor of Philosophy: Manchester (UK) PhD in Religion and Theology Orcid: orcid.org/0000-0001-6407-2132 Academia: manchester.academia.edu/AdamNorth Journalism: substack.com/@thenorthernrose?r=2bk…

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New YouGov. Trump unpopularity in Europe: Denmark: -91% Germany: -78% Italy: -76% UK: -75% Spain: -74% France: -67% And it’s getting worse.
Chart showing Trump unpopularity in Europe.
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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."
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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.
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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.
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How can they lose so much when hate is so profitable nowadays? Clearly geniuses in charade.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also a Brit company that can take over from Meta and Google and Netflix would be nice!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK PM Andy Burnham is now looking for a Brit company that can take over from Palantir.
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham needs to stop teasing us with BrEntry. I’ve become to cynical to believe we could have good things in politics.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Kimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get"
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hearing Trump tell Americans that they’re twice as rich as they were because of him is funny. The lies are so absurd that they are pure satire.
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The treatment of @rachelmillward.bsky.social — and I’m sure many other councillors — by the far-right is absolutely horrendous and could dissuade anyone wanting to work in local government. If the government doesn’t step in to stop social media companies pushing content then it’ll only get worse.
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Inside Britain’s Far-Right | England 'Til I Die
YouTube video by Channel 4 Documentaries
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hard to know what she believe beyond cutting welfare = ultimate good
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg desperate for Burnham to commit to spending cuts and further austerity. Absolute joke.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The MAGA US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle has blurted out how America interferes in European politics. At a private dinner in Athens in March 2026, Guilfoyle said of the collapse of the Romanian government: “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here”, the WSJ reports.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held “off-site meetings” with the billionaire media mogul in August bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Channel 4 has been smashing it out the park recently. They’ve become what the BBC could’ve been. Not too late for the BBC to pivot and start putting out high quality investigative journalism again.
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The smoking gun. Reform caught breaking electoral rules and flagrantly showing disregard for the electoral commission. Farage’s whataboutery on LBC is on another level. They’re done.
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Going undercover to expose Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reform turning critical journalists away from their conference basically sums them up. It’s so stupid and does them no favours. I suppose they’re relying on lots of voters simply not seeing what their policy platform actually is.
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Burnham getting a chuckle out of MPs at PMQs and his style is a breath of fresh air. Parliament is set up for confrontation but it’d be nice if it could become a bit friendlier and more capable of cooperation. If our politicians act better then it might just trickle down.
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Burnham needs to be brave. He’s been given one shot at this. I don’t like the Silicon Valley cliche but he does need to move fast and break things. The moment demands it.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has warned Andy Burnham “you can’t fix the country without fixing our broken politics”. He calls for a new Commission to "restore British democracy, which tackles systems of cronyism and corruption...gets big money out of politics & breaks the power of social media giants".
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Japan's 30-Year Yield just crashed above 4.18%, the highest level in history.
Chart showing soaring yield. Source: Barchart
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looks like Scotty Bessent had no idea what he was doing after all… would’ve have thought it.
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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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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I wonder if he’ll sing his Hitler song?
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bin Day cometh.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Okay Clacton. Let’s go.
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Zia Yusuf is a massive baby, he just needs someone to call him that regularly.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/08/2026
Show everyone you are smart despite your current salary. store.theonion.com/products/i-can-r…
'I Can Read' Vintage T-Shirt
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Those numbers will grow when there’s no choice but to ban X when Musk explicitly calls for civil war.
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There’s a bold vision this government could adopt in turning the UK into the Green technology powerhouse of the world. Create high skilled jobs, work to combat the climate emergency, and fix our energy dependence. Will they do it? Probably not. That’s why the @greenparty.org.uk need to keep winning
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/08/2026
It's now been confirmed that this summer will be the hottest on record. For those opposing bold action on the climate crisis - you're not just putting lives and the planet at risk today, but dooming future generations.
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The logic of ‘we want to profit off hate but don’t actually like it when it comes to fruition.’
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Weird watching the right-wing columnist cohort try to collectively pull the handbrake on ethnonationalism. Like the world's biggest hotdog man convention.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/08/2026
Oh they’re never IPOing huh www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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OpenAl Buys Back $7 Billion of Employee Shares in Tender Offer
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OpenAl signage displayed outside the venue for their news conference in Seoul. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m so grateful to have received kind messages from the next generation of humans over the last few weeks. This is from Edward, aged 10. Thank you!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We are sold out of gay frug plushies. I repeat, we are sold out of gay frog plushies.
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The Onion’s InfoWars Site Is Selling Plushies That Are Turning the Frickin’ Frogs Gay
None of these words are in the Bible.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A vitally important announcement.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Everyone has struggled to understand why Nigel Farage called the Clacton by-election and now it seems like it was all just a big mistake By @willem-moore.bsky.social
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Farage reportedly called by-election on false information
Everyone has struggled to understand why Nigel Farage called the Clacton by-election and now it seems like it was all just a big mistake
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You are being squeezed out
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Jared Leto is a super predator. He should not be allowed to perform in Manchester. Let’s show that he’s not welcome here.
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The Northern Rose on Instagram: "We are calling on Manchester’s Co-op Live to cancel Jared Leto’s April show, after the BBC documentary “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret” saw four women accuse the ...
15 likes, 0 comments - thenorthernrose_news on August 6, 2026: "We are calling on Manchester’s Co-op Live to cancel Jared Leto’s April show, after the BBC documentary “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Sec...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
no they don't
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Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Another paragraph to add to glorious leader’s eventual biography.
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