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Dr Nic Groombridge

@drnicgroombridge.bsky.social
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Retired criminologist. Topics: joyriding, cctv, masculinities, sexuality, sport, media, green crime Dog walker. Dysgwr Cymraeg My book on sport and crime policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk…

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Corporate Welfare Tory tax break for banks cost UK public purse £6bn In 2023 Tory govt cut the bank surcharge from 8% to 3%. Current govt hasn't reversed it. Record profits, exec pay, dividends at banks Reversing the surcharge would raise billions.
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Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC
Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
But billionairre rule fine
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just leaving this here... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#carculture
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More in Common found that more than half of Britons have either installed solar panels on their home or would like to, with little variation between political inclinations. Simon Francis of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition said the Conservative proposals were “a plan for poor housing and high bills”
bylinetimes.com
Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Mattias De Backer @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are hosting the second conference of "Criminological perspectives on Palestine" in Brussels between 31 March and 2 April. Abstract submissions until 31 January!
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
First they came for ….
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reform’s new deputy leader in Wales says that the are “the most united opposition” that Welsh politics “has ever seen”. - Last week one of their MSs defected to Plaid. - Their new leader was elected in a 17-15 vote. - Reform MSs are already briefing against the new leader.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes, they aren’t even vaguely grateful that two successive government bent over backwards to accommodate their crimes against humanity, putting themselves at risk of future arrest and, in Labour’s case, suffering disastrous damage. They are angrier and more insulting than ever.
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Benjamin Netanyahu turned on Israel's traditional allies, accusing them of hypocrisy in their criticism of Israel's actions in the occupied Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Foreign grifters keep polluting our politics Open for dodgy business Farage won’t stop them
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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Theresa May describes crypto as 'currency of choice for criminal gangs', as she welcomes ban on its use for political donations - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/09/2026
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Matias Pourrain, a Miami-based Argentine soccer player, was supposed to be on his way to his league's national semifinals. Then ICE detained him at a facility he describes as inhumane and disgusting. “It was torture,” he said.
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‘It was torture’: A Miami-based Argentine soccer player’s harrowing ICE detainment story
Matias Pourrain was supposed to be on his way to his league's national semifinals. He would go 26 days before seeing his teammates again
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The RNLI isn't subsidised by the taxpayer. Some people seem to be getting them mixed up with Eton, Harrow and Winchester.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026
It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Where are #spycops when you need them? Or did nobody want to sleep with this lot?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nigel Farage’s pile of financing scandals. Unexplained £5m from Thailand. Gifts from convicted fraudster. Willingness to circumvent laws on political donations Threats to judges, civil servants, journalists, parliament, anyone who disagrees. archive.ph/eiR9R
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Nigel Farage’s pile of financing scandals
Undercover report raises new questions over funding of Reform UK
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Ned Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dispatches from Britain. nedboulting.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Or dicks
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the guy who never turns up? says he’ll make others work far harder than him? that guy? he won’t even be there to check
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Re-upping this...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s the motorists who drive the tanks. Just get them off our lawns (lungs etc)
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
jewishvoiceforliberation.org.uk/article/gaza...
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Gaza's Gravediggers - Jewish Voice for Liberation
How international law developed post WW2, to avoid repetition of the atrocities of the first half of C20th, has been subverted
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What is the right-wing vision for a world where immigrants have been deported and public services cut? Care and other services would dry up. The return of living in squalor for those beyond working age? The workhouse? The pauper’s grave?
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FrancesCrook@bsky.social @francescrook.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Israel military committing ecocide as well as genocide www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
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Russell Webster @russellwebster.com · 12/08/2026
Reframing masculinity and the justice system - Sophie King-Hill reviews the evidence on reframing masculinity and the justice system for the @clinks-charity.bsky.social Evidence Library. www.russellwebster.com/reframing-ma...
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Reframing masculinity and the justice system
Sophie King-Hill reviews the evidence on reframing masculinity and the justice system for the Clinks Evidence Library.
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Fifa 4 East Fife 5
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Guardian letters 3/8/26 #sportscriminology
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Climate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"[Byline] revealed that Cottrell entered corporate finance under a false Swiss identity, hired by the same City network that produced Reform UK’s own treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami. "Byline Times has since confirmed that this identity was stolen from a real person – Cottrell’s old school friend."
bylinetimes.com
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Everything I’ve seen about the spycops inquiry suggests that it was always about bullying, molesting and generally fucking with a bunch of greenies and antinuclear protestors, because they are the kind of people the state can fuck over and stomp on with impunity, for fun.
theguardian.com
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#KoolAid
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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
But what about Jackie Robinson's legacy, you ask? As @edgeofsports.bsky.social reminded us all last year, "There is, however, a parallel Dodgers tradition that this visit to the White House snugly fits into." Add this latest 2026 visit to that shameful tradition. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Dodgers Are Planning to Visit the White House. It’s a Disgrace.
To meet with Trump now is to defile the memory of Dodgers great Jackie Robinson and to humiliate many of the team’s own players.
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My phd on the subject d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/81268309/Gro...
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Britain's Juries
Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Find somebody to follow up my Sports Criminology perhaps focussing on current world cup, corruption and state interference
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
‘Created equal’ sounds pretty communist to me
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Incredible mega dump of information on Nigel Farage & George Cottrell. New details that build on the Times story. Recommended reading. thestateofuk.bearblog.dev
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The State of UK - Fiat lux ad corruptionem delendam
The untold story of Reform's George Cottrell: details never shown before about Farage's closest and most important aide, donor Screenshot There are v...
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Hear hear! End cruel immigration policies
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Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Exclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Did they mess with the Reflecting Pool?
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/global/comme... Overwhelming case against the Elbit 4 sentencing. More than a gross miscarriage of justice. The recent extended definitions of terrorism and toughening of process in such cases explodes principles of the rule of law built up over centuries.
theguardian.com
You may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey Robertson
The jurors who found the pro-Palestine activists guilty of criminal damage had no idea their verdict would be treated as a verdict on terrorism, says Geoffrey Robertson KC
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The players and coach actually have a responsibility to say something about this.
DHS post:

Defend the homeland 

Over picture of USMNT
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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
VIDEO OPPOSING GOVERNMENT PLAN TO RESTRICT TRIAL BY JURY HITS A MILLION VIEWS A video posted online by Lawyer & CEO of CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Peter Stefanovic has now racked up 1.3 million views. @peterstefanovic.bsky.social @faithspear.bsky.social thecriminaljusticeblog.com/2026/05/17/v...
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VIDEO OPPOSING GOVERNMENT PLAN TO RESTRICT TRIAL BY JURY HITS A MILLION VIEWS
A video posted online by Lawyer and CEO of CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Peter Stefanovic has now racked up a million views. David Lammy as shadow Justice Secretary “Trial by jury is a cornerstone of…
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Dr Nic Groombridge @drnicgroombridge.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@Lucy_Worsley why sound effect of gavel in trail for your women and criminal justice series. You know never used in Britain #inappropriategavel
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