That's enough Bluesky for the next few months

The European Sociey of Criminology is struggling to sell conference tickets following its concerted efforts to block its members voting to condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza and its insistence on hosting scholars from Israeli institutions in violation of international law

Criminologists for Palestine is calling on @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social members to vote on the questions recently posed by the ESC Board. There are also calls for a boycott of the organisation for the reasons set out here criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com

British Transport Police have conducted a dawn raid on a man suspected of "over £250,000 in criminal damage to the London Underground". Footage postage on social media shows around 20 officers smashing their way through a door wearing riot gear. www.instagram.com/p/DTdUR-ciYSP/

thewire.in/books/the-en... - Mass mobilisation has historically compelled even stubborn policies to bend. In 2026, reviving counter-hegemonic traditions across divides remains empire's most potent check, fuelled by Gramsci’s never-give-up maxim: “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

💥open access to : - various full scale articles -short articles on Gaza (AI, ecocide and ICJ) -opinion pieces on gender disorder in Iran and Refugees in Turkey -interviews with Ruth Jamieson and Maryna Shevstova -in memoriam of Vincenzo Ruggiero -Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre

New deep dive on Jeffrey Epstein's early years from the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

Al Jazeera Mubasher reports Israel is using drones & aid routes to smuggle narcotics into Gaza, w/ drugs found hidden in flour bags & aid trucks. Palestinian leaders say it’s a deliberate effort to fracture society while food & medicine remain blocked Vid: Translating Falasteen, X (@translatingpal)

Open letter to the board of @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social by Jane Ngan. Full text available here: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Open letter to the board of @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social by Jane Ngan. Full text available here: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Good to see the Board of the @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social have found time for a city break between obstructing and delaying the vote promised to members on the Society's complicity in Israeli atrocity crimes

The Epstein Network and Attempts to Discredit Israel Lobby Study Follow an Elite Playbook to Silence Dissent thewire.in/world/the-ep... by @usempire.bsky.social

This isn't a public utility it's a protection racket.

Photo of tags on the Bakerloo line used to illustrate this racist diatribe by Tucker Carlson, which singles out graffiti for opprobrium 🎻❄️ archive.is/up9bi

Currently working with a PhD researcher who is studying and researching graffiti writing. Do any colleagues have recommendations for forthcoming conferences in UK / Europe that might be well suited for them to present at? Crim / psyhc / autoethnography / edgework / "addiction"

Presenting new research at @histmat.bsky.social conference next week in London

We are delighted to share two additions to our A-Z Secrecy and Ignorance series from the brilliant @kindynis.bsky.social 🕵️D is for Deep Politics: bit.ly/42Ua8AI 🕵️P is for Parapolitics: bit.ly/43AGOiR #SPINBlog #DeepPolitics #Parapolitics #Secrecy

Two new contributions from me defining "deep politics" and "parapolitics" as part of @researchspin.bsky.social's A-Z of Secrecy and Ignorance series. Links below 👇

Online first: Here is the new opinion piece of Lambros Fatsis in Criminological Encounters. www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr... @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social

Trump authorises CIA operations in Venezuela www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

'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...