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Robert Reiner
@waylon18.bsky.social
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Retired criminology professor. Democratic Socialist.Written on political economy of crime, criminal justice and policing 1970s until severe COVID 2021. Last book Social Democratic Criminology. Love old mysteries, Westerns, country music, music 1930-70
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · Feb 19
www.routledge.com/Social-Democ...
Social Democratic Criminology
This book argues that ‘social democratic criminology’ is an important critical perspective which is essential for the analysis of crime and criminal justice and crucial for humane and effective policy...
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 1h
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A brilliant balanced scholarly analysis of Israel/Palestine and its origins over the last century.
A state of denial
Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 4h
Badenoch wants to stop ‘rip off’ degrees. Those that might expose the rip off by the rich at the expense of the many
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks, New Yorker
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 5h
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
The police have never been primarily about law enforcement. They deploy the state’s monopoly of legitimate force, maintaining routine order and propping up hierarchical oppression. When political and moral economy tensions rise class control is foregrounded
Progress towards a police state
As the FT notes this morning: Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy troops to American cities, intensifying a stand-off with Democratic-led states resisting his ...
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 1d
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The anonymous aspirationist Labour ministers overlook uncomfortable yet vital truths. The wealth of the small affluent elite has grown beyond their wildest aspirations. The majority face economic stagnation and insecurity. Trickledown economics is a con
PM warned ‘anti-aspiration’ policies have ‘crossed a line’
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 2d
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Unless Labour really does change it’s adherence to Treasury orthodoxy and adopts a fairer model not pandering to the billionaires its survival chances and the British people’s prospects are bleak
Voice, agency and investment
How alternative economic models can spread wealth and power more equitably
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 2d
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Important discussion of alternative fairer economic models
Voice, agency and investment
How alternative economic models can spread wealth and power more equitably
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 2d
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Cry for the old beloved Britain and USA that once stood against tyranny and oppression. Bring back the British Antifa courage of 1940 and 6 June 1944
Labour is making alarming noises about human rights
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 2d
Perhaps they could catch a dose of blu flu.
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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d
All of these cops could call in sick to make a point. But they don't.
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 3d
British police now arresting dogs who are against genocide and support Palestine Action.
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 2d
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Government using force against peaceful protestors including many elderly and disabled people. The best if the best who deserve medals not arrest. The government of erstwhile civil liberties and human rights activists creating fear and indeed terror
In the UK, you can be arrested for "terrorism" saying you disagree with a government decision
At an anti-genocide protest, a woman was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for holding up a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d
One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 6d
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 2d
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The purveyor in chief of fake news is now getting high on his own supply. Even worse is the coterie around him feeding his habit. All strength to the Resistance
How Trump gets and processes information
How Trump is making potentially lethal decisions
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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 5d
As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.
UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d
Well, I for one, feel a lot safer now she’s off our streets!
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 3d
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The ‘cumulative impact’ of repressive law making and enforcement is tyranny. Starmer Labour addicted to the wrong road.
Police to get more anti-protest powers as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation’
Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact’ of repeated demonstrations to restrict protests
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 3d
Great British values.
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 3d
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Urgent reminder that liberty equality and community are interdependent as ideals and as pragmatic politics. The core values of liberalism and of social democracy. Hang together or hang separately. Wake up Starmtroopers from your Faragist follies
Liberalism has betrayed the working class, but illiberali...
If we fail to uphold equality and democracy, where will our society be?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 4d
The greatest crime of this Labour government (and you can say the same of most of European social democracy) is that it removes any rational hope of achieving a just society by democratic means. That conclusion leads either to cynicism and apathy or to ultimately self-defeating violence.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6d
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