The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, empowers parents to ask for a Gaelic school to be established in their area and aims to ensure that more qualifications are available in Gaelic. We explored what it means #StAndrewsDay bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...

Today, the Scottish 'justice' system' is facing a number of challenges. One that a lot of people aren't aware of is our informal plea-bargaining system. Our new blog draws on the post office scandal to highlight the dangers of this murky world of grubby deals. erasmusresearch.com/the-hidden-c...

Watch this inspiring podcast featuring Dr Karen Corteen, exploring how the Choose Life Project uses lived experience, storytelling, and research-based education to change how young people understand addiction. erasmusresearch.com/changing-min...

MP's will debate Hillsborough Law for the first time on Monday. The Bill is a critical opportunity to right past wrongs and end cover-up culture. It must be implemented in full. We've teamed up with JUSTICE and Hillsborough Law Now to brief MP's ahead of the debate. Read the briefing:

www.met.police.uk/police-force... We have noted that training doesn't improve officers' conduct. We have known for many years that this has always been the case. What tools do the #Met use for "precision" stop and searches? #WeCopWatch

erasmusresearch.com/historical-w... Official apologies come easy. Accountability doesn’t. Read Professor Margaret Malloch on the long road to justice after Hillsborough and Allan Marshall.

PODCAST - Professor Margaret Malloch discusses her research looking at the contemporary movements memorialising the Scottish Witch Hunts. So many parallels between historical and contemporary forms of scapegoating... watch the podcast below 👇👇👇 erasmusresearch.com/remembering-...

How can it be possible to invest over £2m in public funding for an organisation and then have no expectations of cultural or economic return? How can it be possible that CS funds an organisation to this scale that employs virtually no one from Scotland? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/07/24/e...

PODCAST - Professor Margaret Malloch discusses her research looking at the contemporary movements memorialising the Scottish Witch Hunts. So many parallels between historical and contemporary forms of scapegoating... watch the podcast below 👇👇👇 erasmusresearch.com/remembering-...

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Five more people were arrested yesterday for allegedly breaking into the Elbit Systems site near Bristol in August 2024, on suspicion of "the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fear isn’t a by-product of authoritarianism. It is the strategy. From war-footing propaganda to hostile welfare cuts, the UK is waging psychological warfare on its own people. Read why fear is the system — and how we resist it: erasmusresearch.com/the-politica... #politics

Greater Manchester Police genuinely put out this creepy press release yesterday

Screening of Holloway this Sunday at the Cameo in Edinburgh, followed with a Q&A with co-director Sophie Compton. Looks like an important film! 'Women are powerful, when they find their voice.' Hope to see you there! withhttps://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00016374/holloway-q-a?filter=

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📚 Here, With You — a gentle, powerful story written by our CEO to help parents talk about tough pasts with their children. Profits support families & our work at Next Chapter Scotland. More: herewithyoubook.co.uk #HereWithYou #SupportNotStigma #NextChapterScotland

Why we stand with Kneecap - a short blog on being on the right side of history... erasmusresearch.com/being-on-the...

Many thanks to @joesmithcreative.bsky.social for an excellent write up of our session at the Paisley Book Festival last month paisleybookfestival.com/blog-buildin...

"Kirstin Anderson opened by pulling no punches". I have zero trouble believing that! As always, here's @kir-anderson.bsky.social taking hard questions head on and leading exactly the kind of conversation we should be having about prisons: about social harms, academic pavidity, and lessons unlearned.

chuffed.org/project/128548-surveillance-i... Our campaign for the film on Think Family Education is live on Chuffed! Excited to collaborate with RootCause films and Bashart Malik! #IAmJudah #WeCopWatch 🎥✨ @StopWatch @NPMP @Netpol

OK, I'm a bit biased but the new @inquest-org.bsky.social digital archive is an absolutely amazing resource history.inquest.org.uk @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @statewatch.bsky.social

Tickets are being snapped up quickly for Kate Wilson's book launch on Tuesday June 3rd in central London. Make sure you've reserved your place to hear from Kate about her fight for justice against the #spycops. More info here: policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/kate-wilsons...

Very excited to announce a book that’s been a long time in the making, ‘The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Innovation and Punishment’ @watersidepress.bsky.social www.watersidepress.co.uk/books/barlin...

Scotland as Beggar Nation bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/05/07/s...

📞 Helpline Update – New Hours from Monday From Monday, our phone helpline will be open 10am to 2pm, Monday to Friday. 💬 WhatsApp: 07591 339 618 📧 Email: [email protected] Phone hours may be changing, but we’re still here for you. 💙 #NextChapterScotland #SupportNotStigma

💥📣 NEW #spycops leaflets.

Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.

Andy Coles was one of the #spycops. He wrote reports about women’s “good looks”. He deceived 19 yr old @jessica_me2 into a sexual relationship. Now he is trying to be elected as a Conservative Party councillor for #Barnack. If you live there, just say NO. #LocalElections

What if punishment isn't about justice—but about power, control, and unconscious desire? Judges as moral actors… or as performers of dominance? New blog: The Pleasure of Punishment 👇 erasmusresearch.com/the-pleasure...

The Mighty Benjamin Zephaniah was a patron of @inquest-org.bsky.social Today would have been his 67th birthday and his inspiration to stand up to racism and state violence remains with us @bungatuffie.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

What if punishment isn't about justice—but about power, control, and unconscious desire? Judges as moral actors… or as performers of dominance? New blog: The Pleasure of Punishment 👇 erasmusresearch.com/the-pleasure...

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''You've got some OLRs that have the tiniest punishment part, you're talking months, up to a few years. So, by the time they access any kind of intervention they are already post tariff...” (Forensic psychologist) #NOLR #JustcieReform

The OLR no's increase and we don’t have the capacity to manage them effectively. Then it impacts on the life population … it was just assumed that we dealt with what was given to us, but the practical application of it was not realised and then it got worse and worse and worse (Prison manager)

'I think one of the biggest flaws for me is that it's under-resourced, and there isn't enough case managers, there is not enough specialist services' (Policy professional, RMA) #JusticeScot #NOLR

When you are on an OLR, the system is so rigid and it is so bureaucratic, it’s not like any other long sentence because it has so many extra layers of bureaucracy, so it is easier being a life sentenced prisoner (Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist) #NOLR

'I think an awful lot of this is about the containment of anxiety and I think it makes us feel an awful lot better to have spent thousands of pounds on a snazzy report, it makes us feel better' (Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist) #NOLR #JusticeSystem

279 OLRs have been imposed since 2006, but only 24 people have been released, with 8 recalled to prison. Source: www.rma.scot/olr/about-the-olr/ #NOLR #PrisonReform

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Want to help? Go to nolr.org/how-you-can-..., where you can find a template letter to your MSP, make a donation or contact us and join us as a member.

It's disappointing the Guardian didn't speak to anyone at all who might have said, "hang on a minute..."

Almost unbelievable but terrifyingly accurate! #nolr

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‘P’ has been in prison for 18 yrs with a punishment tariff of 18 months. Despite a diagnosis of autism 6 yrs ago, he has not had his risk assessment updated, even though the Parole Board agree this should have been done. He feels he is being warehoused and has lost hope #NOLR #MentalHealth

Today we are highlighting how OLRs go against the principles of proportionality, fairness and breach Human Rights.