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Rod Earle
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Reluctant criminologist, The Open University, convictions my own and others

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 6d
O’Toole calls the dynamic duo of BritPol “walking embodiments of political putrefaction”. Usual neat understatement. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Fintan O'Toole: Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson will go down in history as crawlers and creeps
If we want to understand why democracy is in such trouble, we can learn plenty from the careers of two men who were once stellar figures in democratic politics
www.irishtimes.com

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 6d
Hey #Criminology & #CJS,
If you're interested in #prison & #SensoryCriminology then check out this week's #ThinkingAloud on BBC #Radio4

@kateherrity.bsky.social will be discussing her book Sound, Order and Survival in Prisons: The Rythms and Routines of HMP Midtown
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Prison violence, sound and survival
A prize-winning study of the sounds of prison life, and an exploration of victimisation.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 9d
Roger Ebert. 🤣😂🤣😂
THE REVIEWS ARE IN! A NEW FILM MELANIA EXCLUSIVELY IN THEATERS JANUARY 30 "If syphilis were a movie!" - Indiewire "I can't understand a f*cking thing she says!" - Variety "Should be considered a war crime!" - Hollywood Reporter "Like being taken hostage by the Taliban!" -NY Times "Watching Melania's journey from Slovenian prostitute to First Lady is like walking barefoot in a field of Lego while you have explosive diarrhea!" - RogerEbert.com "If Epstein really did kill himself, watching this film may have been why!" - Screen

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 9d
Hope it went well. I so wanted to be there but it clashed with a previously arranged local meeting. The book (and the event) look fantastic.

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 9d
www.equator.org/about this new journal is well worth a look. Great writing, great ideas.
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
www.equator.org

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 13d
This is behind a paywall but well worth a read, a good introduction to some of the ways whiteness is avoided, misunderstood and underestimated. Dm for a copy

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 13d
www.lse.ac.uk/events/book-...
With all this talk of Reform it is good to see the other ‘R’ word in the launch for this book: “We argue for the need for a revolution in violence reduction - to build a new movement for change that connects the dots between policy and the street.” Amen to that! Avanti!
Mannheim Centre for Criminology | Book launch event
In this event we are bringing together some of the leading voices in violence reduction policy and practice, to prompt honest discussion about the future of violence reduction in the UK
www.lse.ac.uk

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Ivan Kalmar @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social · 14d
Very grateful to Louis Howard Porter for a gracious review of my book White But Not Quite and its contribution to understand how racialization functions in postcommunist Europe.
doi.org/10.1017/slr....
Three Challenges to Racial Innocence - Ed. Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre, and James Mark. Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race. Manchester: Manchester Un...
Three Challenges to Racial Innocence - Ed. Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre, and James Mark. Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race. Manchester: Manchester Un...
doi.org

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 16d
Ugly as his comments about NATO troops were, his venomous comments about Somalis that were so explicitly white supremacist, have barely been mentioned.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Nov 2
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Oct 27
Hope the talk goes well. Where’s it at? I won’t be able to get there but wish I could

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Oct 27
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Possibly paywalled but well worth a read if you can
Opinion | Could This Unserious, Mischievous, Frightening Man Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister?
www.nytimes.com

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Oct 14
Aime Cesaire: “that colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest, which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it…”

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Oct 13
Hope things pick up. Anouar Brahem is often my ‘go to’ when soothing needed.

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Aoife Nolan @aoifenolan.bsky.social · Oct 12
Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · Oct 10
I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Oct 10
Each of the six books listed on this page offer compelling analysis of struggles that will define the 21st century.

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Oct 10
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... My review essay on a new book about convict criminology. It’s open access and free to read
Convict Criminology on Trial and ‘Writing From the Flesh’: A Review Essay Prompted by Introduction to Convict Criminology by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Bristol University Press
This article is an extended review of Jeffrey Ian Ross's student textbook, ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’. The review tackles critical issues emerging in convict criminology and the wider live...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Oct 10
We highly recommend this: www.versobooks.com/products/341...

Free Palestine!
Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
www.versobooks.com

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Oct 8
Francesca Albanese on the genocide in Gaza, 'A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness', free to download
@pscupdates.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social

www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press
A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine
www.plutobooks.com

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British Society of Criminology @britishcriminology.bsky.social · Oct 1
Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Sep 30
Forever Young melts me everytime. Lucky students having you back in the room.

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Sep 30
You’d expect eloquence from a lawyer, but listening to him he was beyond eloquent.
warrcrim.bsky.social Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Sep 29
There are two overlapping forms of #Racism occurring in this account which plagues so many racialised people in #CriminalJustice settings:
1. The construction of #CJS institutions as white spaces (see E Anderson).
2. The old imposed colonial myths of Black criminality (see P Gilroy)
#criminology
jazzreads.bsky.social JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · Sep 28
So exhausting..

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Sep 29
There are two overlapping forms of #Racism occurring in this account which plagues so many racialised people in #CriminalJustice settings:
1. The construction of #CJS institutions as white spaces (see E Anderson).
2. The old imposed colonial myths of Black criminality (see P Gilroy)
#criminology
jazzreads.bsky.social JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · Sep 28
So exhausting..

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Sep 27
“my research suggests that borders are more complex, mobile, and attach to different bodies in diverse ways. Their function isn't as simple or legitimate as commonly believed.” www.ias.edu/ideas/challe...
Challenging Conceptions of “Borders” and “Race”: Q&A with E. Tendayi Achiume
E. Tendayi Achiume, Ashvin B. Chhabra and Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra Member in the School of Social Science, comes to the Institute from Stanford Law School. Her research focuses on the international le...
www.ias.edu

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Sep 22
Worth a look

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Sep 22
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Ingrid Schubert: Letters from Prison 1970–1977
As a member of the Red Army Faction, Ingrid’s letters reveal the daily struggle of a political prisoner resisting repression.
pmpress.org.uk

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Sep 22
This, on late British imperial administrators in Iran & Iraq, looks excellent. Focuses on the intertwining of the personal and the political.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Love, Class and Empire
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century British History - Love, Class and Empire
www.cambridge.org

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Sep 21
UK politics has been restructured over the last few years around anti-trans and anti-immigrant ideas. Not because they’re objectively the most important issues, but because extremist US propagandists have pushed them centre stage. Next on their agenda, religious fundamentalism:

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Centre for Open Thanatology @openthanatology.bsky.social · Sep 17
Watching Morning Live on BBC One this morning? You'll see our Dr Sam Murphy on there talking about palliative care and music playlists. If you can't watch it live, if you live in the UK you'll be able to catch it on iPlayer from later today. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Morning Live
Join Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton, Michelle Ackerley and the team for conversation, advice and tips to make your day that little bit easier.
www.bbc.co.uk