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
My new article for Byline Times.
‘Rishi Sunak Continues to Use Johnson’s Brexit-Fuelled Political Racism’ – Byline Times — Read on bylinetimes.com/2023/06/14/rishi-sunak-continues-to-use-johnsons-brexit-fuelled-political-racism/
My latest for Byline Times, in which I harness counter-alliteration and C. Wright Mills to get to the heart of the Goodwin project - and the real problem of powerful elites in Britain today.
I've written an extensive article on this, with the subtitle 'Radicalisation and Social Destruction", just published in the Journal of Genocide Research Ukraine forum. I intend to return to the argument as the war develops and I welcome feedback.
For some time now, influential voices like Jonathan Portes, Sunder Katwala and Robert Ford have urged 'immigration liberals' to recognise the positive shift in attitudes that has occurred since the peak of anti-immigration sentiment in the 2016 referendum. Liberals and the left risk missing the opportunity, they have argued, for embedding a new, more positive… Continue reading The IPPR report and the continuing salience of political racism
My latest for Byline Times. (For all my articles, see here.)
As the UK returns to what passes for normality after ten days in which the royal succession has stultified public life, my latest for Byline Times (written just before the Queen died) asks: Why do far-right-leaning, white Conservative prime ministers appoint so many politicians of colour to senior positions?
Economist Jonathan Portes recently argued that the Government’s post-Brexit immigration system is a ‘rare success’. I take a different view: my latest in Byline Times. You can view all my articles to Byline Times over the last 15 months here.
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