'Epstein wasn’t a rogue actor. He moved easily through worlds of finance, science, politics, and media. His connections to both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump reveal a social world where money, sex, and influence flow freely -protected by the powerful and ignored by regulators.'

MI5 'illegally obtained data' from BBC journalist's phone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Online first: Here is the new article of Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič in Criminological Encounters. www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr... @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social

Leaked emails show Jeffrey Epstein helped broker security agreement between Israel and Mongolia @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

In Stockholm to talk graffiti

Funny how "experimental crimniologists" love to rag on theoretical work they don't understand but utter drivel like "fish oil reduces crime" passes without comment penntoday.upenn.edu/news/time-ha...

My article, 'Criminology, Conspiracy Theories and Theorizing Conspiracy' is in print in latest issue of British Journal of Criminology! We should take conspiracy theories seriously and investigate conspiracies by political & corporate elites. Free access below 👇

MOD signs new "strategic partnership" with Palantir www.gov.uk/government/n...

Online first: Here is the new article of Brunilda Pali and Polly Pallister-Wilkins in Criminological Encounters. www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr... @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social

Good riddance. Her legacy is one of institutional vandalism

MI5 concedes it ‘unlawfully’ obtained data from former BBC journalist

New paper tries to "experimentally falsify" ghost criminology by misrepresenting it — claims we argue places 'emit a detectable 'spectral residue' that unsettles people independent of what they know'. We’ve never said that www.crimrxiv.com/pub/bxsjoeth...

New paper tries to "experimentally falsify" ghost criminology by misrepresenting it — claims we argue places 'emit a detectable 'spectral residue' that unsettles people independent of what they know'. We’ve never said that www.crimrxiv.com/pub/bxsjoeth...

University of California, Berkeley has provided information on 160 faculty members and students to President Donald Trump's administration as part of a federal investigation into "alleged incidents of antisemitism" www.reuters.com/world/us/uc-...

"But, wherever he is in the world, he remains my best pal... leaving you with some 'interesting' friends to entertain". A new letter from Peter Mandelson to Jeffrey Epstein has been released, in which Britain's ambassador to the US describes Epstein as his "best pal".

This video shows how much support there was for the motion - almost unanimous!

Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:

Statement by criminologists within Aotearoa New Zealand & Australia on the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, & the ongoing apartheid, land dispossession & other human rights abuses in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, & within Israel ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/article/...

Former official told the Gaza tribunal it is “fully understood" in the Foreign Office that discussions on UK relations with Israel should take place “in person and not in writing”. Because "we didn’t want those conversations to be requested by a court”. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:

How the British state and its media outriders smeared Palestine Action www.declassifieduk.org/how-governme...

David Lammy is facing possible legal action over a plan to invite staff from the oil firm Shell and the defence firm BAE Systems to work inside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📸 Jeffrey Epstein, seen on his private jet in 2019 wearing an IDF sweatshirt, in a newly released photo published by The Telegraph. Epstein “loved life too much” to kill himself and was confident he’d secure bail before he died, his butler of 18 years reportedly told the paper.

New paper by Thomas Volscho on Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

MPs are currently debating the proscription of Palestine Action www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...

The Home Office has sandwiched @palaction.bsky.social between a Russian paramilitary group and hyper-obscure online neo-Nazi groupuscule "Manics Murder Cult" in a draft proscription order to be debated in parliament this week www.gov.uk/government/n...

Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with justice secretary www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Incoming MI6 head’s grandfather was Nazi spy chief who participated in the murder of Jews and Ukrainian partisans archive.is/1BWsz

Obscene. Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly offered three OpenAI researchers $100 million signing bonuses to join a team at Meta focused on building AI "superintelligence" archive.is/mDNUP

UK police blocking information about contracts with Palantir democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uncovered-...

We are hiring a Lecturer in Criminology and Digital Crime. Come and work with us! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNQ765/l...

🚨Keir Starmer's government is allowing the US air force to move military aircraft through Britain as Donald Trump seems poised to attack Iran. We've tracked the most recent movements in this graphic👇

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Political think tanks, and a new ecosystem of political influencers, special advisors, now exert more influence than academic research in policy formation - with less transparency and accountability. New work by Lucia Zedner in Theoretical Criminology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

👉NEW -- Wes Streeting mixes with tech billionaires at Bilderberg summit by Hannah Borno Britain’s health secretary, who wants to shake up the NHS, was tight lipped about his encounter with AI moguls at elite conference. www.declassifieduk.org/wes-streetin...

We are recruiting a Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice - come and work with us! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

SPIN Panel: Conspiracy Theories 🕵️‍♂️ Join us on March 19, 2025 (15:00 GMT) on Zoom for a discussion with Prof. Clare Birchall & @kindynis.bsky.social. 🔗 Panel Details: buff.ly/4k5aQSC 📩 Email [email protected] for the invite #SPINNetwork #AcademicEvents

👉NEW VIDEO -- Trump, Starmer and the Epstein connection Veteran investigative journalist Solomon Hughes exposes Peter Mandelson, Keir Starmer's choice for UK ambassador to the US. youtu.be/XAzcwbZfYhY

New article in the British Journal of Criminology about the criminalisation of conspiracy theories and conspiracy denial in the social sciences. We should take conspiracy theories seriously and investigate conspiracies by political and corporate elites doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...