Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla... #OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

🔹 Prison education & ethics 🔹 Public perceptions of police appearance 🔹 Epistemic injustice & victimisation 🔹 Death penalty support in the Americas 🔹 Judicial decision-making in Hong Kong 🔹 Environmental & space-focused green criminology 📖 Read the full issue: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/25/4

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Det här är kanske den största enskilda skandalen i svensk statsförvaltning i modern tid?! omni.se/a/935RmW

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era: the Committee for the First Amendment www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

I am Excited to be Editing a Special Journal Issue Titled Terrorism, Radicalisation and Social Order: Perspectives on Emerging Threats and Responses. If You Have Something to Say about the Future of Terrorism/Extremism Research Check Out The CFP 👇https://www.nature.com/collections/ejdcaehbha

Nasjonalbiblioteket har utrolig mange gamle flyfoto. Nå ber de om hjelp fra deg og meg til å plassere de på kartet. Ta en liten sjau for ditt hjemsted. www.nb.no/flyfoto/

I was today years old when I learned there is an organization (run by a group of ex-DOJ people) dedicated to supporting "current and recent DOJ employees facing attacks by this administration." www.thejusticeconnection.org/resources/

Great feature with some thoughts from me; "The undermining of democratic institutions on display in these groups echoed fascist methods used throughout history..they are trying to undermine institutions of truth, facts & education because that is what’s standing in their way–an informed citizenry"

SVT avslöjar nazistiskt terrornätverk som planerat attentat i Sverige och Europa i oktober ifjol. Ledaren är en 35-årig amerikan som just dömts i Brasilien. Genom en sluten chattgrupp på Signal har han instruerat 149 följare om bombtillverkning och måltavlor www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

“It’s just same old, same old. I wish the media would stop talking about this as an unprecedented movement. There’s nothing unprecedented about it. Anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of 20th-century history should know that.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Vi har en tøff reise foran oss, men hvis ikke journalister justerer seg med én gang til den demagogiske tiden vi lever i, blir det enda tøffere. evanramseymclaren.substack.com/p/journalist...

Do I have a follower here who is a criminal lawyer in the UK? or teaches British criminal law? Thanks!

This is important reporting.

I dag har jeg skrevet om innestemmens paradoks, om hvordan media mangler evnen til å gjenkjenne autoritære og ekstreme strømninger når den er kledd i dress og opptrer «dannet». Om hvordan verdiene våre brukes mot oss.

@hernandesraph.bsky.social , @porcelinad.bsky.social and I spent the better part of a year watching and analysing how far right ideology is shared in open Facebook groups: here is what we found: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... with immense help from Pablo Gutiérrez, Garry Blight, Lydia McMullan

Safety fears as external power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant still out after three days www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I don't think the general US public really understands that the US fascist state will have 10,000 times more info on you than the German state police ever did.

I’m still looking for someone to do an evidence assessment on violence prevention initiatives for @EvidenceBaseJnl Would love something on the evidence base for violence interrupters, among others.

In grad school, one of my professors told me that, with ethnography, "If no one is mad at you by the time you're done your fieldwork, you probably haven't done enough to interrogate systems of power."

Latvia says Denmark has confirmed state actors, Denmark has not done so publicly yet - there’s a press meeting with Danish security services scheduled for in about an hour.

Eg blir så oppgitt over denne kommunen. www.aftenposten.no/oslo/i/73bmv...

Vi trenger et nytt byråd kjapt. Men ellers: "Kirkeristen" er et av Oslos morsomste stedsnavn. Fra en ferist som eksisterte i max 35 år på tidlig 1700-tall!

Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance has never been more relevant than what it is today: if a society extends unlimited tolerance to intolerant people and groups, tolerance itself will eventually be destroyed.

De har også oppretta flere nye tidsskrifter som etter min vurdering virker som reine money grabs. Har fått flere e-poster om «inaugural issues» i flere medisinske spesialiteter. De lager også AI-slop podcaster. Tror man bør forlate denne plattformen helt ass.

Ikke gå glipp av dette! Påmeldingsfrist 22 september! www.politihogskolen.no/arrangemente...

Aktivklubb opererar i skuggorna och gömmer sig bakom de blågula rånarluvorna. Deras identiteter har varit en välbevarad hemlighet. Tills nu. Vi avslöjar ledarna för den växande nazistgruppen och har identifierat 43 medlemmar. Läs här: www.etc.se/story/unik-k...

Idag dömdes två nazister till fängelse. Det är den första våldsdomen mot Aktivklubb, organisationen som Forssells son gick med i. Dagens ETC kan i en unik kartläggning exponera den nya högerextremismen i funktionskläder. Här är 43 svenskar som laddar för raskriget. www.etc.se/story/unik-k...

Her kolliderer eit stivbeint regelverk med noko av eigenarten til desse stillingane i akademia. Berre ein ting å gjera: Få justisminister Astri Aas-Hansen og forskings- og høgare utdanningsminister Sigrun Aasland til å setja seg ned og rydda opp. Fort. www.khrono.no/har-jobba-i-...

Read every word of this thread. Far too many people are not taking seriously the violence that Musk is encouraging.

What I saw at Saturday’s rally was racism, pure and simple. Labour won’t tackle it until we can call it what it is | Diane Abbott

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Still waiting for *any* official #UK reaction to #ElonMusk calling for the overthrow of the British government at a far-right rally... PM #Starmer is still tweeting (or whatever it is you call now on X) about other things...

Every administrator involved in this should be fired and barred from academia for life. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

Ett er nødvendig, Hans Børli:

“Israeli Army Threatened to Destroy Gaza Building Housing Thousands of Archaeological Artifacts”: www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Mycket stark granskning av nederländska Volkskrant. 114 fall där barn under 15 år i Gaza skjutits i huvudet eller bröstet av IDF, enligt sammanställning med hjälp av 15 internationella läkare som jobbat där. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

For people who, rightly so, don’t want to go too deep in the part of the internet and ideology where Groypers reside, here is a quick summary: They are Nazis. Full on anti-semitic Nazis. They are meme brained. They hate everyone who isn’t them, and they think it’s funny to hurt people.

I'd add if you want to know more about *looks with wide eyes and takes a deep breath* these kinds of people including Fuentes you can listen to the I Don't Speak German podcast from @timescarcass.bsky.social and @danielharper.bsky.social idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/size/5/?sear...

If you listen closely you can hear hints of the original German accent

We are not amused, England! Police say 110,000 attending ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in London, with some in crowd attacking officers – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Det amerikanske justisdepartementet har fjernet en studie som viser at høyreekstreme dominerer politisk vold. Jeg skriver om denne og fire andre gjennomganger på min substack. snoen.substack.com/p/trussel-fr...

The Groyper Wars

Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war

this seems to capture the moment extremely well. also, I think people should read 'black pilled' by Elle Reeve, amazing story about how she gained the trust of many in this 'extremely online' society. (gift link for the atlantic article:) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“The Next Terrorist Attack,” which I published in April. Please have a look. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...