Dr Andy Wilson
@a8drewson.bsky.social
Retired criminology lecturer. Northern soul, amphetamines, swfc, adhd, former member of APoSM (Welsh govt)
https://mmu.academia.edu/AndyWilson
https://mmu.academia.edu/AndyWilson
Binance Still Processed $144 Million in Suspicious Crypto Payments After Plea Deal: Report
Undermines Blockchain's claim to be keeping crypto clean
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Undermines Blockchain's claim to be keeping crypto clean
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Binance Still Processed $144 Million in Suspicious Crypto Payments After Plea Deal: Report
The crypto exchange has been under scrutiny for its links to terrorist group payments.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Binance Still Processed $144 Million in Suspicious Crypto Payments After Plea Deal: Report
Undermines Blockchain's claim to be keeping crypto clean
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Undermines Blockchain's claim to be keeping crypto clean
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Astounding. We eagerly await news of the new Trump Stalin Center in Moscow
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Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says
The board of the performing arts centre, which was appointed by Trump, voted to rename it to honour him, the White House press secretary says.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Astounding. We eagerly await news of the new Trump Stalin Center in Moscow
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Why the campaign against Keir Starmer reveals less about his failures than about a political culture increasingly driven by sentiment, suspicion, and the slow erosion of democratic judgement. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Starmer and the Politics of Attrition
How suspicion, sentiment, and media incentives hollow out democratic judgement
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December 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Why the campaign against Keir Starmer reveals less about his failures than about a political culture increasingly driven by sentiment, suspicion, and the slow erosion of democratic judgement. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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I started writing a Substack in response to you @mrjamesob.bsky.social being so taken with the dopamine as causal argument when I realised I was repeating a lot of what I said here - I'll continue with the critique of dopamine
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ADHD: a personal account of an undiagnosed pathway to crime
Reflections on the failure of criminology to consider the criminal justice implications
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December 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I started writing a Substack in response to you @mrjamesob.bsky.social being so taken with the dopamine as causal argument when I realised I was repeating a lot of what I said here - I'll continue with the critique of dopamine
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social I’ve retitled this piece after some reflection: not to soften the argument, but to sharpen it.
It’s less about Farage alone than about how appeals to “the past” are used to excuse intolerance, then and now.
The skinhead story helps explain why
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It’s less about Farage alone than about how appeals to “the past” are used to excuse intolerance, then and now.
The skinhead story helps explain why
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From skinhead to stigma
How a multicultural youth culture acquired a racist legacy - and why appeals to the past still excuse intolerance
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December 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social I’ve retitled this piece after some reflection: not to soften the argument, but to sharpen it.
It’s less about Farage alone than about how appeals to “the past” are used to excuse intolerance, then and now.
The skinhead story helps explain why
open.substack.com/pub/a8drewso...
It’s less about Farage alone than about how appeals to “the past” are used to excuse intolerance, then and now.
The skinhead story helps explain why
open.substack.com/pub/a8drewso...
Very simply @mrjamesob.bsky.social If dopamine were the driver of crime in any simple sense, then methylphenidate (Ritalin) should increase criminality in people with ADHD. It doesn’t. In fact, we see the opposite.
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Very simply @mrjamesob.bsky.social If dopamine were the driver of crime in any simple sense, then methylphenidate (Ritalin) should increase criminality in people with ADHD. It doesn’t. In fact, we see the opposite.
Oh my God James - stop listening to amateur psychologists! @mrjamesob.bsky.social
You should know better. You are explaining socially meaningful action using molecular mechanisms without showing the causal bridge.
You should know better. You are explaining socially meaningful action using molecular mechanisms without showing the causal bridge.
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Oh my God James - stop listening to amateur psychologists! @mrjamesob.bsky.social
You should know better. You are explaining socially meaningful action using molecular mechanisms without showing the causal bridge.
You should know better. You are explaining socially meaningful action using molecular mechanisms without showing the causal bridge.
Now you're talking about oppositional "disorder" @mrjamesob.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Now you're talking about oppositional "disorder" @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Most important @mrjamesob.bsky.social scitechdaily.com/adhd-isnt-ju...
ADHD Isn’t Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths
Adults with ADHD who understand and apply their personal strengths experience better well-being and fewer mental health difficulties.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Most important @mrjamesob.bsky.social scitechdaily.com/adhd-isnt-ju...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social impulse control... it is ignored the key factor. ADHD effect on emotion - that's where the good research is. Hot headed, anger management, loss of speech/words when blinded by anger = lashing out.
December 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social impulse control... it is ignored the key factor. ADHD effect on emotion - that's where the good research is. Hot headed, anger management, loss of speech/words when blinded by anger = lashing out.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social look, I speak as someone who was a prolific offender with undiagnosed ADHD. One thing for sure, it was not dopamine driven. Dopamine is not a “pleasure chemical” and it does not directly cause decisions.
December 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social look, I speak as someone who was a prolific offender with undiagnosed ADHD. One thing for sure, it was not dopamine driven. Dopamine is not a “pleasure chemical” and it does not directly cause decisions.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social sounds like you have just been impressed by someone, essentially arguing that medication for ADHD causes crime... by increasing dopamine. A lot of tosh in that call - the dopamine factor is easy to grab harder to factor in to decision making
December 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social sounds like you have just been impressed by someone, essentially arguing that medication for ADHD causes crime... by increasing dopamine. A lot of tosh in that call - the dopamine factor is easy to grab harder to factor in to decision making
James, the title is jarring... but accurate. The essay does (I hope) hit the target (Farage). Even if my route is a little convoluted... @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Skinheads: what “Paki-Bashing” in 1970 says about Nigel Farage
The racist legacy of a multicultural subculture leaves no hiding place for those trying to justify their intolerance with an appeal to the past
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December 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
James, the title is jarring... but accurate. The essay does (I hope) hit the target (Farage). Even if my route is a little convoluted... @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Denmark’s defence intelligence service (DDIS) has, for the first time, named the US itself as a potential security concern for Denmark.
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Rogue Nation
Why the Kremlin’s approval of America’s new security strategy should alarm Europe
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December 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Denmark’s defence intelligence service (DDIS) has, for the first time, named the US itself as a potential security concern for Denmark.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social I hadn't read the Simon Marks piece - sounds like we are very much on the same page! But not behind a paywall...
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Rogue Nation
Why the Kremlin’s approval of America’s new security strategy should alarm Europe
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December 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social I hadn't read the Simon Marks piece - sounds like we are very much on the same page! But not behind a paywall...
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When the Kremlin publicly welcomes a US security strategy as aligned with its own vision, coincidence is no longer a serious explanation. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Rogue Nation
Why the Kremlin’s approval of America’s new security strategy should alarm Europe
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December 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
When the Kremlin publicly welcomes a US security strategy as aligned with its own vision, coincidence is no longer a serious explanation. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Debate over restricting jury trials has focused on efficiency, but the real crisis sits elsewhere. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Justice in the Dock: Why the System Rewards Delay and Exhausts the Innocent
When delay becomes strategy, collapse becomes outcome and fairness becomes fiction
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December 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Debate over restricting jury trials has focused on efficiency, but the real crisis sits elsewhere. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Should have been clearer - this is MY account
James, here's a 1970s skinhead view of the Farage saga
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James, here's a 1970s skinhead view of the Farage saga
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Should have been clearer - this is MY account
James, here's a 1970s skinhead view of the Farage saga
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
James, here's a 1970s skinhead view of the Farage saga
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
James, here's a 1970s skinhead view of the Farage saga @mrjamesob.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
James, here's a 1970s skinhead view of the Farage saga @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Crypto - the parasitic currency that depends on the system it quietly undermines:
It is priced in dollars
It depends on dollar liquidity
It uses dollar on/off ramps
It is used as dirty money for sanctions busting, dirty deals. & shadow politics
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It is priced in dollars
It depends on dollar liquidity
It uses dollar on/off ramps
It is used as dirty money for sanctions busting, dirty deals. & shadow politics
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Follow the Money: The Hidden Crimes of Crypto
Greed, Corruption and the New Subversion (Part Two)
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December 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Crypto - the parasitic currency that depends on the system it quietly undermines:
It is priced in dollars
It depends on dollar liquidity
It uses dollar on/off ramps
It is used as dirty money for sanctions busting, dirty deals. & shadow politics
open.substack.com/pub/a8drewso...
It is priced in dollars
It depends on dollar liquidity
It uses dollar on/off ramps
It is used as dirty money for sanctions busting, dirty deals. & shadow politics
open.substack.com/pub/a8drewso...
The most openly corrupt President doesn't come out well... Biden had integrity, that much is clear.
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Follow the Money: The Hidden Crimes of Crypto
Greed, Corruption and the New Subversion (Part Two)
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November 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The most openly corrupt President doesn't come out well... Biden had integrity, that much is clear.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Given Reeves unfortunate tendency to reach for the wrong solution in an attempt to abide by the Manifesto promise - instead of sticking 2p on taxes - I really wouldn't be surprised if a mansion tax is blamed for a housing crash. The anti Midas curse... or my fear
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Given Reeves unfortunate tendency to reach for the wrong solution in an attempt to abide by the Manifesto promise - instead of sticking 2p on taxes - I really wouldn't be surprised if a mansion tax is blamed for a housing crash. The anti Midas curse... or my fear
Done it again... seriously, I started writing after the Covid Inquiry Johnson comments... not your show today @mrjamesob.bsky.social but the excellent @carolecadwalla.bsky.social forced a late edit carolecadwalla.bsky.social
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Greed, Corruption and the New Subversion
When leaders avoid scrutiny, subversion doesn’t need to be engineered - it happens on its own.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Done it again... seriously, I started writing after the Covid Inquiry Johnson comments... not your show today @mrjamesob.bsky.social but the excellent @carolecadwalla.bsky.social forced a late edit carolecadwalla.bsky.social
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@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social
Stuck between Polanski’s moral hypnosis and Reform’s revenge theatrics, Starmer looks weak not because he is, but because the country is poorer, smaller and more fragile than the stories we tell about ourselves.
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Stuck between Polanski’s moral hypnosis and Reform’s revenge theatrics, Starmer looks weak not because he is, but because the country is poorer, smaller and more fragile than the stories we tell about ourselves.
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Britain Isn’t Rich: Why Fantasy Politics Is Winning
We want Danish welfare but the wealth is deceptive and declining
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November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social
Stuck between Polanski’s moral hypnosis and Reform’s revenge theatrics, Starmer looks weak not because he is, but because the country is poorer, smaller and more fragile than the stories we tell about ourselves.
open.substack.com/pub/a8drewso...
Stuck between Polanski’s moral hypnosis and Reform’s revenge theatrics, Starmer looks weak not because he is, but because the country is poorer, smaller and more fragile than the stories we tell about ourselves.
open.substack.com/pub/a8drewso...