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Something to listen to tomorrow, or at a future date: our own @academicdiary.bsky.social and Imogen Tyler on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tuesday 24th February, at 3.30pm, UK time.
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"Epstein’s victims did not vanish into detention centers or public raids. They disappeared into private aircraft, gated estates, citadels of private wealth, and transnational circuits of wealth and influence."
Given the nature of that game it should probably be two
@itsmotherswork.bsky.social Guinness for me please
Well deserved. Congratulations Les @academicdiary.bsky.social
Does anyone actually believe that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Peter Mandelson are innocent?
Would loved to have been at this.
The Report of the Independent Review of Fatal Accident Inquiries relating to deaths in prison and police custody, conducted by Sheriff Principal Ian Abercrombie KC, now published.
It covers some substantial issues of #humanrights and issues affecting bereaved families.
www.gov.scot/publications...
Come and do a fully-funded 4-year PhD with me in Glasgow (and @thesccjr.bsky.social ) and Thomas Ugelvik as part of the Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe project. 😊. www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc....
Three at the back? He must want the sack.
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Annual "Phil Scraton is a legend" post
"The Perineum: the thin membrane of time between the twin peaks of Christmas and New Year."
- Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
broligarchy.substack.com/p/on-power
truthout.org/articles/put...
Heading down a Peter McLaren rabbit hole
"And you might ask yourself....My God, what have I done?"
Sure is
Thank you.
Chris Bauer and James Ransone were outstanding. Pathos and beauty against a desolate water front. Electric. Like a Shane Macgowan lyric.
I'm from Lanarkshire, Scotland Ravenscraig was our Beth Steel. Frank Sobotka was every flawed, but well intentioned man I served in our Clement Street Cafe. Consumed by injustice and choked woth rage. I saw him daily and I understood him. You gave him an eloquance and a platform. 1/2
In memory of James Ransone I'm undertaking a rapid rewatch of The Wire season two. It reminds me of the impact that de-industrialisation had on my local community. The sense of anger and powerlesness is beautifully captured by the brilliant David Simon.
