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
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Lifetime Achievement Award
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
Political Racism available in 10 days’ time – 25% off
Going out from the warehouse in week beginning 22 March: order direct using the promotion code AGENDA25 for a 25% discount – saving £5 on the paperback (but you do have to pay postage).
New cover for ‘Political Racism’
We've changed the cover for Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath, due out at the end of March.
As the new Brexit crisis deepens, Johnson pulls the immigration lever
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
NEW BOOK: Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath, out in March 2022
"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
THE PRIME MONGER: Johnson’s ‘Culture War’ is a Core Part of his Strategic Racism
Read my latest now in Byline Times.
Sewell’s denialism is a problem of strategic, as well as structural, racism
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
As many younger people die, why did the Government minimise the under-70s’ vulnerability to Covid-19?
Dr David Hepburn tells C4 News (3 April) ‘all our ICU patients are in their 50s or younger’ A central feature of the Government’s public health advice has been the idea that the over-70s, along with people with serious health conditions, are the ‘vulnerable’, ‘at risk’ group in the epidemic. Most younger people therefore believed… Continue reading As many younger people die, why did the Government minimise the under-70s’ vulnerability to Covid-19?
Jamaica flight: Johnson/Cummings believe that symbolic racist cruelty will send the ‘red wall’ voters the message that the Government is on their side
After a court judgment forced the government to remove more than half the people from the recent deportation flight to Jamaica, the prime minister’s press secretary said that the reaction to the case showed that 'certain parts of Westminster still haven’t learned the lessons of the 2019 election'. What this tells us is that for Johnson and… Continue reading Jamaica flight: Johnson/Cummings believe that symbolic racist cruelty will send the ‘red wall’ voters the message that the Government is on their side
Martin Shaw 