My new article explains what Burnham and Miliband should really be doing about Israel—breaking the UK’s alliance with the genocidal state, not pleading with it to change course; sanctioning the state, not just the settlers and individual ministers. After nearly three years of complicity, ‘The UK must belatedly fulfil its duty to prevent genocide and… Continue reading What Burnham should really be doing about Israel
Category: Britain
I wrote about Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel
Gaza is the sharpest edge of Starmer’s domestic as well as international legacy — Read on bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/why-andy-burnham-must-break-with-israel/
Ten Years After Brexit, the Racism and Violence it Unleashed Threaten Britain
Video of British complicity debate at SOAS, with Peter Oborne and me
youtube.com/watch My speech is from 37 minutes to 1.05.
Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza, at SOAS on 3 Feb
I'm talking in this event at SOAS on 3 February - you can register now. The Centre for Palestine Studies is honoured to host a discussion of British complicity in mass atrocities in Gaza with two prominent authors: Peter Oborne, author of Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza (2025); and Professor Martin Shaw, author of… Continue reading Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza, at SOAS on 3 Feb
Complicity – or conspiracy? Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide
My review of Peter Oborne’s Complicit for Declassified UK: https://www.declassifieduk.org/complicity-or-conspiracy-britains-role-in-israels-genocide/
New book project: The Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons in Britain
I'm fairly well advanced with this exciting new project. The book is a short history of the movement from the early 1950s to date, and should appear from Agenda Publishing in the second half of 2024. Introduction 1 Ban the Bomb (1957-63) 2 The Campaign and the New Movements (1964-79) 3 Against the Euromissiles (1979-87) 4… Continue reading New book project: The Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons in Britain
5 years on, racism still shapes the legacy of Brexit and the Tory nationalist regime
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Brexit referendum. I remember it as the day I was aggressively told I was 'not English' by a Leave-supporting woman, as I stood outside a polling station in a sleepy Devon town - the first time in a lengthy life (as a white person in England) that I… Continue reading 5 years on, racism still shapes the legacy of Brexit and the Tory nationalist regime
Racial self-interest, Max Weber and the production of racism: the strategy and propaganda of Vote Leave during the Brexit referendum
This paper is finally out in Patterns of Prejudice, HERE. Here's the abstract: 'Shaw’s paper examines Eric Kaufmann’s idea of ‘racial self-interest’—which references Max Weber’s types of rationality in order to support ‘cordoning off’ racism from broader anti-immigration attitudes—through an analysis of Brexit, Kaufmann’s principal case. It discusses how Weber’s ideas might help us identify… Continue reading Racial self-interest, Max Weber and the production of racism: the strategy and propaganda of Vote Leave during the Brexit referendum
Political racism and the making of ‘Brexitland’ – review article
My latest on openDemocracy: review article on Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford, Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2020. Political racism is key to Johnson's rise, but 'racism' is absent from Brexitland's conceptual framework British politics has been profoundly restructured since the 2016 referendum, Sobolewska and Ford argue in… Continue reading Political racism and the making of ‘Brexitland’ – review article
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