Jon Shute
@jonshute.bsky.social
Bone-weary social media refugee. Also, criminologist, Uni. Manchester. Atrocity crime; death & memory; denial & acknowledgement; compliance in the lifecourse; evaluation research. Specialist in grim lists. GSOH.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5624-3787
ORCID: 0000-0002-5624-3787
Saw Peter Mullan as Bill Shankly in a stage adaptation of David Peace’s ‘Red or Dead’ yesterday in Liverpool. Comprehensively marvellous. Charisma and pathos in equal measure, plus an hilarious Kevin Keegan hairstyle from 1973. With my tribe!
April 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Saw Peter Mullan as Bill Shankly in a stage adaptation of David Peace’s ‘Red or Dead’ yesterday in Liverpool. Comprehensively marvellous. Charisma and pathos in equal measure, plus an hilarious Kevin Keegan hairstyle from 1973. With my tribe!
I also want to belatedly record my joy at observing the parade of planets last week. I only saw 5 as Mercury and Saturn were too low on the horizon. Mars not in this view but that was also a clear, red treat.
March 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I also want to belatedly record my joy at observing the parade of planets last week. I only saw 5 as Mercury and Saturn were too low on the horizon. Mars not in this view but that was also a clear, red treat.
Been supporting them for 44 years and this is one of the very best away performances; Allison 11/10.
March 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Been supporting them for 44 years and this is one of the very best away performances; Allison 11/10.
I hardly ever do social media these days but have to say engaging tonight with many decent, funny and insightful US folks in my thread has cheered me right up. There is always hope.
March 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I hardly ever do social media these days but have to say engaging tonight with many decent, funny and insightful US folks in my thread has cheered me right up. There is always hope.
Book #6. Good ‘un. Volcanoes, storms, Peru, foment, stifled revolution, Andean natural history, polar ice, battles, deus ex machina rescue.
March 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Book #6. Good ‘un. Volcanoes, storms, Peru, foment, stifled revolution, Andean natural history, polar ice, battles, deus ex machina rescue.
Book #5. Commuter read. V light but fun. Written for TV, adapted v well.
March 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Book #5. Commuter read. V light but fun. Written for TV, adapted v well.
Playing around with an older laptop today, I was really happy with how google chrome ‘synced’ my bookmarks: turns out this means ‘overwrite & destroy dozens and dozens semi-randomly & in a way that is unrecoverable’. Really useful feature.
February 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Playing around with an older laptop today, I was really happy with how google chrome ‘synced’ my bookmarks: turns out this means ‘overwrite & destroy dozens and dozens semi-randomly & in a way that is unrecoverable’. Really useful feature.
I teach atrocity crime to criminologists & have been using Project 25/campaign speeches to predict Trump’s engagement with ongoing conflicts. My grimmest predictions couldnt capture something as unhinged as ethnic cleansing for resort development. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb...
Trump’s Gaza plan could amount to war crime, say experts
Academics fear US president’s lack of reference to international law could lead to global breakdown of peace and security
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I teach atrocity crime to criminologists & have been using Project 25/campaign speeches to predict Trump’s engagement with ongoing conflicts. My grimmest predictions couldnt capture something as unhinged as ethnic cleansing for resort development. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb...
Dry Jan done. No fuss. Wine tasted super strong. Enjoyed greatly with game stew and cheese.
February 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Dry Jan done. No fuss. Wine tasted super strong. Enjoyed greatly with game stew and cheese.
We’re gonna fly, baby fly. As degrowth/MMT & other positions make clear, growth at any cost is immoral, deadly & doomed. Staggeringly reckless. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What would Heathrow third runway mean for pollution, emissions and noise?
As UK chancellor backs expansion at London’s biggest airport, we assess the possible environmental impacts
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We’re gonna fly, baby fly. As degrowth/MMT & other positions make clear, growth at any cost is immoral, deadly & doomed. Staggeringly reckless. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Book #2. 16/21! Those who know, know.
January 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Book #2. 16/21! Those who know, know.
I think this may be the best thing I’ve ever seen on a website. shop.savethechimps.org/product-cate...
Bryan Adams Collection
The Bryan Adams Collection features 36 paintings, each a collaboration between rock icon Bryan Adams, who painted the base coats, and ape artists from Save the Chimps, who added the brushstrokes.
shop.savethechimps.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I think this may be the best thing I’ve ever seen on a website. shop.savethechimps.org/product-cate...
New piano book. Can play the Beethoven; learning the Jazz etudiette.
January 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New piano book. Can play the Beethoven; learning the Jazz etudiette.
Morning walk best-of from the last couple of gelid days.
January 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Morning walk best-of from the last couple of gelid days.
The Labour tragedy: stunned/surprised at being in power, with no vision, pointless self-imposed limitations & essentially the same failed macro-economic model of the last 15 years, they resemble a miserabilist, bureaucratic wing of the Tory party. Failure opens space for deep(-er) Faragism.
Reeves mulls deeper cuts to public services as borrowing costs soar
Chancellor could slash departmental spending in spring after ruling out tax increase, officials reveal
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The Labour tragedy: stunned/surprised at being in power, with no vision, pointless self-imposed limitations & essentially the same failed macro-economic model of the last 15 years, they resemble a miserabilist, bureaucratic wing of the Tory party. Failure opens space for deep(-er) Faragism.
This looks great, and there are a number of open access articles.
January 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This looks great, and there are a number of open access articles.
Gott in Himmel, is nothing I value safe from this man?! I’m not migrating to Everton (‘bluecry’?)!
January 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Gott in Himmel, is nothing I value safe from this man?! I’m not migrating to Everton (‘bluecry’?)!
Glorious, then bleak midwinter.
January 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Glorious, then bleak midwinter.
Trying to relax over the holidays, I keep encountering extreme violence: yesterday, a Richard III doc showing death by multiple head & body wounds; today reading Alfred Russell Wallace describe hunting/wounding/killing/skinning 16 orang-utans in grotesque detail. What a dismal species we are!
December 29, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Trying to relax over the holidays, I keep encountering extreme violence: yesterday, a Richard III doc showing death by multiple head & body wounds; today reading Alfred Russell Wallace describe hunting/wounding/killing/skinning 16 orang-utans in grotesque detail. What a dismal species we are!