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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 15d

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-...

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 21d

Hope the talk goes well. Where’s it at? I won’t be able to get there but wish I could

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 21d

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

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…”

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Oct 13

Hope things pick up. Anouar Brahem is often my ‘go to’ when soothing needed.

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

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...

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.

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...

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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...

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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

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

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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press

A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine

www.plutobooks.com

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!

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Sep 30

Forever Young melts me everytime. Lucky students having you back in the room.

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Sep 30

You’d expect eloquence from a lawyer, but listening to him he was beyond eloquent.

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📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · Sep 28

So exhausting..

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📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · Sep 28

So exhausting..

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...

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Sep 22

Worth a look

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Sep 22

pmpress.org.uk/product/ingr...

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

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

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:

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · Sep 19

We need to be very clear about this.

Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.

humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all

Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...

humanists.uk

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

Alice Ievins @aliceievins.bsky.social · Jan 13

Great research co-authored by one of our Liverpool PhD students

Lilly Crellin @lillycrellin.bsky.social · Nov 21

Just published! 📢 Who’s in Prison and What’s the Purpose of Imprisonment?

The Sentencing Academy’s latest report reveals that public understanding of the prison population is limited, with many unsure about who’s in prison or why.

Read it here: www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

www.sentencingacademy.org.uk

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Feb 9

1/7 Why Trump & Musk are More Like Rhodes & Verwoerd Than Hitler & Mussolini:

It’s only natural to cast back into history for extremist figures who prefigured Musk & Trump. Hitler & Mussolini are the obvious ones.

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Feb 11

A fascinating talk from Gary Younge last night at @sussexuni.bsky.social. Exploring Black people’s experiences of Nazi Germany, he spoke brilliantly of the different ‘languages’ of racism in different national & historical contexts. His obligation to clarify that …

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Award-winning author and broadcaster Gary Younge In Conversation at Sussex on 10 February

Gary will be discussing what the experiences of Black Germans in Nazi Germany tell us about systems of racial oppression

www.sussex.ac.uk

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Feb 12

‘The greatest children’s fantasies were worth your time when you were twelve, and they are equally worth it now. They remind us that the imagination is not an optional extra.’

Katherine Rundell on the importance of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?

Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

www.lrb.co.uk

Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Feb 19

Oscar Wilde, still 1 of the best on #prison

"Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done. When the man’s punishment is over ... it abandons him ..."
#Criminology

lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · Jun 9

Join The Mannheim Centre this week to hear @rodearle.bsky.social‬ talk about ‘From the chaotic debris of experience…?’: questions for criminology and criminal justice

📅11 June
🕰️5pm start
Find out more here: buff.ly/wH6BBW2

@jkoehler.bsky.social

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is my mid-week gig! All welcome

lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · Jun 9

Join The Mannheim Centre this week to hear @rodearle.bsky.social‬ talk about ‘From the chaotic debris of experience…?’: questions for criminology and criminal justice

📅11 June
🕰️5pm start
Find out more here: buff.ly/wH6BBW2

@jkoehler.bsky.social