Stuart, have you ever calculated how many words you write (not type, actually write, as all that goes into the blog is writing) per year? Amazing

Liberalism, after all, is the political philosophy of capitalism (M Neocleous), with security being its foundational core. Behind those labels, you see different shapes of right wing (in fact, in criminology those who want to distinguish themselves to the left often self-label as Marxist). 3/3

This is a field in which the continuity between the right and the liberals is almost absolute overall (since at least Johnson, see E Hinton). In crime control, and many other fields (not all, of course), there is no fundamental political cleavage between the right and liberals. 2/3

Ok, I've found something worth a controversy - pretty sure you like a good controversy. Using the conservative/liberal dichotomy to position scholars in this field politically is completely inadequate, in my view. And it's not just a limit of using a survey. 1/3

That problem was not culture in the abstract. It was power—specifically, why power proved so difficult to seize in the advanced capitalist societies of Western Europe. That is where his theory properly begins." 2/2

... The great betrayal of the intellectuals who became so complicitous with neoliberal politics from the 1980s onwards has first to be reversed before meaningful alliances can be constructed with the deprived and the dispossessed" (David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital)

... These conditions cannot change without the professional intellectuals first getting their own house in order. ...

... politics into nothing more than competing big lies, discourses into special pleading and vehicles for peddling prejudices and hate, and social institutions that should protect the people into cesspools of corruption. ...

I wrote a piece on planning past and futures, reflecting on the experience of editing an issue with Patsy Healey, and participated in a lively discussion on the present and future of the journal. So happy to have been part of this!

And here a post by Stuart Elden that nicely adds up (focus on Limits to Capital and Paris, Capital of Modernity
progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d...