Steve Tombs
@stevetombs.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof (criminology) @open-university.bsky.social, trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social, love @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social Justice after Grenfell? Marx, Spurs, Reggae, Gramsci, The Clash, Social Harm, Luxemburg (Rosa)- not necessarily in that order
"Our dreams of a better tomorrow may
be similar to yours. We hope you will
see us not as strangers, but as new
neighbours who want to live in peace
and grow together with you."
@refugeeaction.bsky.social
be similar to yours. We hope you will
see us not as strangers, but as new
neighbours who want to live in peace
and grow together with you."
@refugeeaction.bsky.social
Oops, thanks Janet!
Go to link below and the text can be downloaded about halfway down the page:
gmiau.org/greater-manc...
Go to link below and the text can be downloaded about halfway down the page:
gmiau.org/greater-manc...
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"Our dreams of a better tomorrow may
be similar to yours. We hope you will
see us not as strangers, but as new
neighbours who want to live in peace
and grow together with you."
@refugeeaction.bsky.social
be similar to yours. We hope you will
see us not as strangers, but as new
neighbours who want to live in peace
and grow together with you."
@refugeeaction.bsky.social
Oops, thanks Janet!
Go to link below and the text can be downloaded about halfway down the page:
gmiau.org/greater-manc...
Go to link below and the text can be downloaded about halfway down the page:
gmiau.org/greater-manc...
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Oops, thanks Janet!
Go to link below and the text can be downloaded about halfway down the page:
gmiau.org/greater-manc...
Go to link below and the text can be downloaded about halfway down the page:
gmiau.org/greater-manc...
This dignified, insightful &
moving statement from the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group should be read by politicians at all levels, widely published across various media, and on the national curriculum
gmiau.org/bbd68663-65c...
moving statement from the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group should be read by politicians at all levels, widely published across various media, and on the national curriculum
gmiau.org/bbd68663-65c...
gmiau.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This dignified, insightful &
moving statement from the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group should be read by politicians at all levels, widely published across various media, and on the national curriculum
gmiau.org/bbd68663-65c...
moving statement from the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group should be read by politicians at all levels, widely published across various media, and on the national curriculum
gmiau.org/bbd68663-65c...
Please circulate amongst your networks ...
@europeangroup.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social @david-whyte.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @inquest-org.bsky.social @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social
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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
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November 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Please circulate amongst your networks ...
Reposted by Steve Tombs
@europeangroup.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social @david-whyte.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @inquest-org.bsky.social @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social
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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A
Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
@europeangroup.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social @david-whyte.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @inquest-org.bsky.social @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social
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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
www.eventbrite.com/e/ccse-film-...
@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A
Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
@critcrim.bsky.social @greencrim.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social
@critcrim.bsky.social @greencrim.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social
DRC's mangroves park damaged by logging, smuggling and violence
Kim Rebholz tried to end illegal logging, smuggling and pollution in DRC's mangroves park, one of the world's most important forests
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Prison deaths hit highest 12-month total this century: 411 in E&W in the year to Sept.
Jess Pandian @inquest-org.bsky.social said "These figures demonstrate the inherently destructive nature of prisons ... We must break this vicious cycle of violence."
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jess Pandian @inquest-org.bsky.social said "These figures demonstrate the inherently destructive nature of prisons ... We must break this vicious cycle of violence."
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Prison deaths hit highest 12-month total this century, figures show
There were 411 deaths recorded in the year to September, the highest in a 12-month period since 2000.
www.independent.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Prison deaths hit highest 12-month total this century: 411 in E&W in the year to Sept.
Jess Pandian @inquest-org.bsky.social said "These figures demonstrate the inherently destructive nature of prisons ... We must break this vicious cycle of violence."
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jess Pandian @inquest-org.bsky.social said "These figures demonstrate the inherently destructive nature of prisons ... We must break this vicious cycle of violence."
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Please repost
@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
www.eventbrite.com/e/ccse-film-...
@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
www.eventbrite.com/e/ccse-film-...
CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A
Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state
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November 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Please repost
@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
www.eventbrite.com/e/ccse-film-...
@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
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Please repost @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An @inquest-org.bsky.social Documentary and Q&A, 80-98 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool, 26 Nov., 5-8pm (event starts at 5.30). Free to enter but registration required @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social
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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A
Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state
www.eventbrite.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Please repost @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An @inquest-org.bsky.social Documentary and Q&A, 80-98 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool, 26 Nov., 5-8pm (event starts at 5.30). Free to enter but registration required @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social
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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A
Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state
www.eventbrite.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Please repost @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An @inquest-org.bsky.social Documentary and Q&A, 80-98 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool, 26 Nov., 5-8pm (event starts at 5.30). Free to enter but registration required @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social
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Bereaved families lead Annual Memorial Remembrance Procession to Downing Street demanding justice for loved ones who have died in state custody - Sat 25 Oct, 2025, 12pm, Trafalgar Square @inquest-org.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social
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Bereaved families to lead Annual Memorial Remembrance Procession to Downing Street demanding justice for loved ones killed in state custody
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October 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Bereaved families lead Annual Memorial Remembrance Procession to Downing Street demanding justice for loved ones who have died in state custody - Sat 25 Oct, 2025, 12pm, Trafalgar Square @inquest-org.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social
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@dmachover.bsky.social "It appears that the only voices that count are those of police officers who seem unable to accept the need to be held fully accountable for their use of force.”
@inquest-org.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social
@statecrime.bsky.social
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@inquest-org.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social
@statecrime.bsky.social
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INQUEST responds to Home Office proposals which further undermine police accountability
mailchi.mp
October 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
@dmachover.bsky.social "It appears that the only voices that count are those of police officers who seem unable to accept the need to be held fully accountable for their use of force.”
@inquest-org.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social
@statecrime.bsky.social
mailchi.mp/inquest/chri...
@inquest-org.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social
@statecrime.bsky.social
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@debcoles13.bsky.social “These new measures undermine the rule of law & the way it applies to police officers, increasing impunity & injustice. All the evidence shows that what is needed is exactly the opposite"
@bschcnetwork.bsky.social @waylon18.bsky.social
mailchi.mp/inquest/chri...
@bschcnetwork.bsky.social @waylon18.bsky.social
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INQUEST responds to Home Office proposals which further undermine police accountability
mailchi.mp
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@debcoles13.bsky.social “These new measures undermine the rule of law & the way it applies to police officers, increasing impunity & injustice. All the evidence shows that what is needed is exactly the opposite"
@bschcnetwork.bsky.social @waylon18.bsky.social
mailchi.mp/inquest/chri...
@bschcnetwork.bsky.social @waylon18.bsky.social
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Reposted by Steve Tombs
Paramilitary backed far-right, white supremacist violence, intimidation and pogroms in East Belfast have impacted thousands with no political attention or strategy to end it. Only silence and the handing down of impunity.
Who does the state protect?
Who does the state protect?
October 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Paramilitary backed far-right, white supremacist violence, intimidation and pogroms in East Belfast have impacted thousands with no political attention or strategy to end it. Only silence and the handing down of impunity.
Who does the state protect?
Who does the state protect?
Reposted by Steve Tombs
The cross-over of climate change lowering water levels, + pollution. If you've already got phosphate, ammonia or other chemical pollution in the water, they become even more concentrated as water levels decrease. Oxygen low, ammonia high is a really desperate situation for fish.
Another similar situation developing on the Long Pond in King’s Lynn Water level so low that🐟are in distress & Phosphate/Ammonia very high
October 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The cross-over of climate change lowering water levels, + pollution. If you've already got phosphate, ammonia or other chemical pollution in the water, they become even more concentrated as water levels decrease. Oxygen low, ammonia high is a really desperate situation for fish.
Reposted by Steve Tombs
'Compelling, thought-provoking and beautifully written, "How Technologies Harm" is a must-read for anyone who, across disciplines, has an interest in the technology-harm nexus.' - Anita Lavorgna, University of Bologna
How Technologies Harm
How Technologies Harm - A Relational Approach; With the increasing influence of digital technologies on society, this timely book examines the ways modern technologies can adversely influence human…
buff.ly
October 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
'Compelling, thought-provoking and beautifully written, "How Technologies Harm" is a must-read for anyone who, across disciplines, has an interest in the technology-harm nexus.' - Anita Lavorgna, University of Bologna
On Wednesday the lawyers representing those targeted by spycops get to speak, starting with Imran Khan KC, on behalf of the Blacklist Support Group, Doreen Lawrence, Suresh Grover and Michael Mansfield KC. Followed by lawyers from more non-state core participants.
Finally, blacklisted union members, the Lawrence family, Sukhdev Reel, women activists spied on by the police, & the undercover police deployed during the late 1990s and early 2000s will all be giving evidence during this tranche of the inquiry @blcklstd.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcg...
Blacklisted
YouTube video by ReelNews
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
On Wednesday the lawyers representing those targeted by spycops get to speak, starting with Imran Khan KC, on behalf of the Blacklist Support Group, Doreen Lawrence, Suresh Grover and Michael Mansfield KC. Followed by lawyers from more non-state core participants.
Finally, blacklisted union members, the Lawrence family, Sukhdev Reel, women activists spied on by the police, & the undercover police deployed during the late 1990s and early 2000s will all be giving evidence during this tranche of the inquiry @blcklstd.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcg...
Blacklisted
YouTube video by ReelNews
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Finally, blacklisted union members, the Lawrence family, Sukhdev Reel, women activists spied on by the police, & the undercover police deployed during the late 1990s and early 2000s will all be giving evidence during this tranche of the inquiry @blcklstd.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcg...
Reposted by Steve Tombs
🔴Los manifestantes propalestina obligan a retirarse a la Policía Nacional de la madrileña plaza de Neptuno.
Por Mar Sala.
Por Mar Sala.
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🔴Los manifestantes propalestina obligan a retirarse a la Policía Nacional de la madrileña plaza de Neptuno.
Por Mar Sala.
Por Mar Sala.
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
October 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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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@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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Reposted by Steve Tombs
❝ The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation ❞
Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation
The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why ...
mondoweiss.net
September 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
❝ The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation ❞
"Thousands of people have won cases against their employers and not been paid what they are owed – even after asking the government to help them get it"
@tbij.bsky.social @ieruk.bsky.social @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
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@tbij.bsky.social @ieruk.bsky.social @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
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Thousands of rogue bosses have failed to pay tribunal awards - TBIJ report
mailchi.mp
October 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Thousands of people have won cases against their employers and not been paid what they are owed – even after asking the government to help them get it"
@tbij.bsky.social @ieruk.bsky.social @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
mailchi.mp/eb31110dcedc...
@tbij.bsky.social @ieruk.bsky.social @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
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