Scholarship and commentary on global politics, war and genocide
My latest for Byline Times Boris Johnson and Priti Patel’s scheme to deport asylum seekers is so outrageous that critics are struggling to take it at face value. They doubt that deportees will ever reach Rwanda and see it as a ‘dead cat’ to distract from the Prime Minister’s unprecedented penalty notices. Or they are… Continue reading The Rwanda Scheme: Electoral Racism to Policy Racism
'Ukrainian family', by Marc Chagall, painted 1941-43
A slightly modified version of the article which has just appeared on Byline Times President Zelinskiy has accused Russia of genocide against the Ukrainian people following the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol. Vladimir Putin earlier used the accusation that Ukraine was committing genocide against Russian-speakers to justify his aggression. Genocide is therefore important… Continue reading ‘Genocide’ and Putin’s war of destruction against Ukrainian society
The International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) has let me know that it will present me with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 conference in Mexico City. I'm deeply honoured and proud to accept, although unfortunately I won't be present in person (they'll record an interview with me which will be shown at the… Continue reading Lifetime Achievement Award
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We've changed the cover for Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath, due out at the end of March.
As Britain’s supply, cost of living and health crises deepen, Boris Johnson’s pivot to a “high wage economy” in his conference speech has set the cat among the pigeons. While his address was in many ways as empty, verbose and economically illiterate as many have pointed out, it was not entirely devoid of meaning. Rather,… Continue reading As the new Brexit crisis deepens, Johnson pulls the immigration lever
"Brexit is a phenomenon of organized racism, which remains a guiding thread of the regime to which it led." Exciting news: my study, Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath, will be out at the end of March. The book develops an innovative general argument about the role of organized hostility in today's racism and the… Continue reading NEW BOOK: Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath, out in March 2022
Read my latest now in Byline Times.
Many of Britain's leading antiracists have devoted themselves, over the last week, to refuting - and sometimes ridiculing - the racism denial of a new official report on 'racial and ethnic disparities'. This document is now notorious for the attempt of its chair, Tony Sewell (right), to put a positive gloss on the 'slave period'… Continue reading Sewell’s denialism is a problem of strategic, as well as structural, racism
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