Hannah Graham
@drhannahgraham.bsky.social
Criminologist and academic | Associate Director @thesccjr.bsky.social | Commissioner, Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission | Scottish politics #ScotPol | Personal account/views.
📍 Scotland 🏴
📍 Scotland 🏴
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John Swinney suggests Donald Trump has broken international law over Venezuela regime change.
"Having listened carefully to what has been said by the US administration in recent days, I cannot see how international law has been respected here"
"Having listened carefully to what has been said by the US administration in recent days, I cannot see how international law has been respected here"
January 5, 2026 at 10:17 AM
John Swinney suggests Donald Trump has broken international law over Venezuela regime change.
"Having listened carefully to what has been said by the US administration in recent days, I cannot see how international law has been respected here"
"Having listened carefully to what has been said by the US administration in recent days, I cannot see how international law has been respected here"
Nordic solidarity getting louder tonight, with President of Finland Alex Stubb and Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson re-iterating support for Greenland and Denmark, after Danish PM Mette Frederiksen's comments to Trump.
'No one decides for Greenland and Denmark but Greenland and Denmark themselves.'
'No one decides for Greenland and Denmark but Greenland and Denmark themselves.'
January 4, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Nordic solidarity getting louder tonight, with President of Finland Alex Stubb and Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson re-iterating support for Greenland and Denmark, after Danish PM Mette Frederiksen's comments to Trump.
'No one decides for Greenland and Denmark but Greenland and Denmark themselves.'
'No one decides for Greenland and Denmark but Greenland and Denmark themselves.'
Ahead of #Holyrood2026 election, times like these are a reminder of the value of electing MSPs (and MPs) who are known for their integrity and intellect on geopolitics, foreign policy, international relations, war & humanitarian crises. Scotland needs our own wise, principled voices on these issues.
January 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Ahead of #Holyrood2026 election, times like these are a reminder of the value of electing MSPs (and MPs) who are known for their integrity and intellect on geopolitics, foreign policy, international relations, war & humanitarian crises. Scotland needs our own wise, principled voices on these issues.
The retired police detective is *immediately* obvious that she's police, before she's said anything. She's not going to be able to hide it. #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK
January 1, 2026 at 8:25 PM
The retired police detective is *immediately* obvious that she's police, before she's said anything. She's not going to be able to hide it. #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK
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With Holyrood elections on the horizon, I've updated my ScotPol starter pack to include a broader range of analysts in addition to think-tankers and academics.
If you (or a colleague) should be in this starter pack but aren't, please let me know!
If you (or a colleague) should be in this starter pack but aren't, please let me know!
December 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
With Holyrood elections on the horizon, I've updated my ScotPol starter pack to include a broader range of analysts in addition to think-tankers and academics.
If you (or a colleague) should be in this starter pack but aren't, please let me know!
If you (or a colleague) should be in this starter pack but aren't, please let me know!
Happy new release of declassified Cabinet papers Eve, to all who celebrate 🔎📃🥳 #1stJan #NewYear #AnoraksHogmanay
a black and white photo of a filing cabinet with the letter d on the drawer
ALT: a black and white photo of a filing cabinet with the letter d on the drawer
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December 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Happy new release of declassified Cabinet papers Eve, to all who celebrate 🔎📃🥳 #1stJan #NewYear #AnoraksHogmanay
A milestone in Scottish legal history as the abolition of the not proven verdict comes into force on 1 January 2026. On the same day, the jury majority required for a conviction will move from the current simple majority to at least two-thirds of the 15 jurors.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2572945...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2572945...
Not proven verdict to be abolished as justice reforms come into force
The unique not proven verdict in Scotland’s justice system will be scrapped from New Year’s Day as major reforms come into force.
www.heraldscotland.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A milestone in Scottish legal history as the abolition of the not proven verdict comes into force on 1 January 2026. On the same day, the jury majority required for a conviction will move from the current simple majority to at least two-thirds of the 15 jurors.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2572945...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2572945...
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One of the strongest justifications for the ECHR and the Human Rights Act is that they provide (some) protection when a government wants to take punitive action against people it decides it doesn’t like - including for politically expedient, even irrational, capricious or ephemeral reasons
December 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
One of the strongest justifications for the ECHR and the Human Rights Act is that they provide (some) protection when a government wants to take punitive action against people it decides it doesn’t like - including for politically expedient, even irrational, capricious or ephemeral reasons
📍 Braemar, Aberdeenshire 🏴
A beautiful place I've wanted to visit for some time. It was fascinating to observe the social dynamics there, with normal folk going about their day, and the ultra wealthy telling their staff/fixers what they wanted next.
#Braemar #Cairngorms #Aberdeenshire
A beautiful place I've wanted to visit for some time. It was fascinating to observe the social dynamics there, with normal folk going about their day, and the ultra wealthy telling their staff/fixers what they wanted next.
#Braemar #Cairngorms #Aberdeenshire
December 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
📍 Braemar, Aberdeenshire 🏴
A beautiful place I've wanted to visit for some time. It was fascinating to observe the social dynamics there, with normal folk going about their day, and the ultra wealthy telling their staff/fixers what they wanted next.
#Braemar #Cairngorms #Aberdeenshire
A beautiful place I've wanted to visit for some time. It was fascinating to observe the social dynamics there, with normal folk going about their day, and the ultra wealthy telling their staff/fixers what they wanted next.
#Braemar #Cairngorms #Aberdeenshire
December 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
For Christmas, a BBC/Channel 4 collaboration: The Coventry Carol
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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December 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
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By this time tonight I was meant to have made my bread sauce, cranberry sauce and begun the gingerbread stuffing, and yet I find myself, tasks still undone, on my sofa, with drink and cake to hand, happily gazing at my Christmas-Grotto-garden. Rather thrilled with my new light-up deer, I must say.
December 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
By this time tonight I was meant to have made my bread sauce, cranberry sauce and begun the gingerbread stuffing, and yet I find myself, tasks still undone, on my sofa, with drink and cake to hand, happily gazing at my Christmas-Grotto-garden. Rather thrilled with my new light-up deer, I must say.
👇 A friend used to have 'f' themed parties inspired by feminism, instead of birthday parties. Her 'financial literacy' party was superb: women, wine, a qualified financial planner, all the money Q&As we weren't taught.
The money lessons we wish we’d been taught at school www.ft.com/content/06eb...
The money lessons we wish we’d been taught at school www.ft.com/content/06eb...
The money lessons we wish we’d been taught at school
Deborah Meaden, Jill Scott, Carol Vorderman and others join FT columnists to share what they would teach kids today
www.ft.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
👇 A friend used to have 'f' themed parties inspired by feminism, instead of birthday parties. Her 'financial literacy' party was superb: women, wine, a qualified financial planner, all the money Q&As we weren't taught.
The money lessons we wish we’d been taught at school www.ft.com/content/06eb...
The money lessons we wish we’d been taught at school www.ft.com/content/06eb...
Labour admits 60% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown
The scale of the UK Government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admitted, after using incorrect Home Office travel data
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The scale of the UK Government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admitted, after using incorrect Home Office travel data
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Labour admits 60% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown
Exclusive: Scale of government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admitted
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Labour admits 60% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown
The scale of the UK Government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admitted, after using incorrect Home Office travel data
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The scale of the UK Government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admitted, after using incorrect Home Office travel data
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The #Glasgow2026 Commonwealth Games will be paywalled in a few ways. Not only will plenty of Scots not be able to afford to go because of ticket prices, they won't be able to watch it on TV, either.
Disappointing organisers have chosen revenue over reach and access. It may end up being a non-event.
Disappointing organisers have chosen revenue over reach and access. It may end up being a non-event.
December 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The #Glasgow2026 Commonwealth Games will be paywalled in a few ways. Not only will plenty of Scots not be able to afford to go because of ticket prices, they won't be able to watch it on TV, either.
Disappointing organisers have chosen revenue over reach and access. It may end up being a non-event.
Disappointing organisers have chosen revenue over reach and access. It may end up being a non-event.
Minister for Higher Education Ben Macpherson confirms to Holyrood's #Education Committee that Scottish Government will not impose the international student levy (UK Government policy) on Scottish universities. He goes on to welcome how "internationalism creates innovation."
It is welcome good news.
It is welcome good news.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Minister for Higher Education Ben Macpherson confirms to Holyrood's #Education Committee that Scottish Government will not impose the international student levy (UK Government policy) on Scottish universities. He goes on to welcome how "internationalism creates innovation."
It is welcome good news.
It is welcome good news.
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🆕️ research on women's custody units in Dundee and Glasgow published by @thesccjr.bsky.social criminologists, including Margaret Malloch:
Scotland’s Community Custody Units (CCUs) for women praised, but researchers warn reform needed to stop them being ‘mini prisons’
www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/sc...
Scotland’s Community Custody Units (CCUs) for women praised, but researchers warn reform needed to stop them being ‘mini prisons’
www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/sc...
Scotland's Community Custody Units for Women Praised but Researchers Warn Reform Needed to Stop Them Being 'Mini Prisons' - SCCJR
A new report into Community Custody Units has painted a mixed picture with positive feedback from women about their accommodation […]
www.sccjr.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🆕️ research on women's custody units in Dundee and Glasgow published by @thesccjr.bsky.social criminologists, including Margaret Malloch:
Scotland’s Community Custody Units (CCUs) for women praised, but researchers warn reform needed to stop them being ‘mini prisons’
www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/sc...
Scotland’s Community Custody Units (CCUs) for women praised, but researchers warn reform needed to stop them being ‘mini prisons’
www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/sc...
Here's really hoping that this is true and done well. It is a joy having European students join us for their studies abroad, and likewise, our students enjoy their time studying abroad.
#Erasmus #StillEuropean
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#Erasmus #StillEuropean
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Here's really hoping that this is true and done well. It is a joy having European students join us for their studies abroad, and likewise, our students enjoy their time studying abroad.
#Erasmus #StillEuropean
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#Erasmus #StillEuropean
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
The mass shooting terrorist attack at Bondi beach is horrific 💔 Targeting a Jewish celebration of Hanukkah is utterly reprehensible. People across Sydney and Australia will be in shock at the injuries, trauma, and loss of life.
Hate and violence cannot win.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Hate and violence cannot win.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Live: 'Horrifying' attack on Jewish community in Bondi leaves 12 dead, dozens injured
Police say there are multiple fatalities following a shooting near a Jewish gathering at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Follow live.
www.abc.net.au
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The mass shooting terrorist attack at Bondi beach is horrific 💔 Targeting a Jewish celebration of Hanukkah is utterly reprehensible. People across Sydney and Australia will be in shock at the injuries, trauma, and loss of life.
Hate and violence cannot win.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Hate and violence cannot win.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Public Appointments Scotland are seeking three new Board Members to join the #RMAScot Board help set the strategic direction & Make Scotland Safer
Deadline to apply is 2 Jan - see below for more information and the Application Pack 👇
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Deadline to apply is 2 Jan - see below for more information and the Application Pack 👇
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Appointment of Members to the Risk Management Authority Board
The Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs is seeking to appoint 3 Members to the Risk Management Authority.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Public Appointments Scotland are seeking three new Board Members to join the #RMAScot Board help set the strategic direction & Make Scotland Safer
Deadline to apply is 2 Jan - see below for more information and the Application Pack 👇
fa-evxn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Deadline to apply is 2 Jan - see below for more information and the Application Pack 👇
fa-evxn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
JOBS (×2): Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of the West of Scotland (UWS).
Two full-time, permanent posts with a salary of £50k – £65k.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
Two full-time, permanent posts with a salary of £50k – £65k.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
University of the West Scotland hiring Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice Job in Paisley, Scotland | Glassdoor
Salary
AC3 £50,253- 65,535 per annum
Contractual hours
35
Basis
Full Time
Job category/type
Academic
Date posted
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December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
JOBS (×2): Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of the West of Scotland (UWS).
Two full-time, permanent posts with a salary of £50k – £65k.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
Two full-time, permanent posts with a salary of £50k – £65k.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
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Today we are launching the Scottish Public Spending Dashboard, a collaboration between the FAI and JRF. This is a new tool allowing detailed government spending figures to be accessed and analysed by a broader set of people.
Learn more below:
Learn more below:
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December 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today we are launching the Scottish Public Spending Dashboard, a collaboration between the FAI and JRF. This is a new tool allowing detailed government spending figures to be accessed and analysed by a broader set of people.
Learn more below:
Learn more below:
After years of having policy anorak tendencies, Google has figured out that I like to spot an SSI... and has started sending me a push notification when there's a new one it thinks I might be interested in? 😂 🤓 (It's already a bookmarked tab on my 💻 browser). #Niche #OhDear #Holyrood #PolicyAnalysis
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
After years of having policy anorak tendencies, Google has figured out that I like to spot an SSI... and has started sending me a push notification when there's a new one it thinks I might be interested in? 😂 🤓 (It's already a bookmarked tab on my 💻 browser). #Niche #OhDear #Holyrood #PolicyAnalysis
HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) published a new report on remand (pre-trial detention) today.
It contains substantial human rights concerns for remand prisoners in Scottish prisons, violating international rules
#Criminology #Prison
prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk/publications...
It contains substantial human rights concerns for remand prisoners in Scottish prisons, violating international rules
#Criminology #Prison
prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk/publications...
December 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) published a new report on remand (pre-trial detention) today.
It contains substantial human rights concerns for remand prisoners in Scottish prisons, violating international rules
#Criminology #Prison
prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk/publications...
It contains substantial human rights concerns for remand prisoners in Scottish prisons, violating international rules
#Criminology #Prison
prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk/publications...