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martinshaw.bsky.social
Author, What is Genocide?, War and Genocide, etc. Latest book: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Also: Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath (open access). Sociology/global politics. IR professor, IBEI Barcelona & University of Sussex (emeritus).
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The UK Crown Prosecution Service must launch an urgent investigation into the allegations against ministers by @franceskalbs.bsky.social in this @declassifieduk.bsky.social interview. Attorney General Richard Hermer must explain his advice to ministers on the issues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fsE...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Important new analysis from @hopenothate but misses connection between July 2024 racist riots and Farage’s election campaign just weeks before - also omits violence of the Brexit referendum from list of C21 far-right violence. Lesson: far-right electoralism stimulates violence.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

The dependence of UK nukes on the USA probably explains why Starmer isn’t echoing Macron’s (flawed) nuclear umbrella’ boasts. And if he needs to find some funds for meaningful defence, Trident would be a much better target than international aid or social spending.

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Influenced by @CNDuk.bsky.social, Labour’s 1964 manifesto said of the UK’s proposed nuclear submarine system: “It will not be independent, it will not be British and it will not deter’. 60 years later, the chickens are coming home to roost, as this explains. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Reform MPs: one down, four to go.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Reform UK is beginning to look like late stage UKIP.

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A lot of people are failing to recognise that nuclear weapons do not prevent conventional military threats. How did the ‘US nuclear umbrella’ work out in February 2022?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I’m quoted in this excellent case for a careful appraisal of UK defence spending. So much spent on expensive systems that cannot address the new situation - any required new spending can almost certainly be found by cutting these, rather than international aid. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Steve Bannon, fan of Farage & T Robinson, names ‘Blue Labour’ founder Maurice Glasman, who sponsored the recent far-right conference in London, as his favourite ‘European politician of the left’. Says something that Glasman still taken seriously in Labour.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The genocide international: leader of entity established through genocide backs Putin, Trump, attacks Zelenskyy.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

‘Trump and MAGA want violence’: authoritarians seize on any violence by their opponents, and create false-flag incidents, to enable state violence and repression. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Fantastic seminar today w prof @martinshaw.bsky.social on #genocide in #Gaza. Especially his analysis of the Israeli genocide as part of a deliberate structural project of violence & #displacement, ongoing for over 60 years. Thanks to @ibei.org for organising & Lesley Ann Daniels for chairing!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

My new piece challenging the unthinking consensus in favour of increased defence spending: bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

In this post, I discuss how official Holocaust commemoration has become more ‘ever again’ than never again, in the light of yesterday. open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Finally a rational explanation of why Labour has for housing so wrong. You could add, of course, that allowing the major developers to rip will undermine its climate policy.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Splits within Trump world over foreign policy and the threat of war against Iran: an important read. www.dropsitenews.com/p/elbridge-c...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Not so much the Musk tail as the Farage/Badenoch/Jenrick tail - you don’t need foreign billionaires to explain the far-right influence in the British media, at least a decade old now. Read any study of the press in the Brexit referendum.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

This is a truly fantastic takedown of the charlatan Goodwin. Really worth ten minutes of your time to watch his pretentious self-serving video so comprehensively and authoritatively eviscerated. Go Zoe!

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Incredible 1962 archive audio from the Voice of Nuclear Disarmament, the UK’s first pirate radio station (featured in my book on CND). Bertrand Russell warns ‘we’ll be lucky to be here in a year’s time’; in 6 months, the Cuban missile crisis brought world to the brink. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

As nuclear weapons rise up the agenda, time to revisit the history of the movement against them: an event on my new book, with Mary Kaldor and Luke Cooper, at LSE on Wednesday 22nd. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-campai...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

So Stephen Bush takes at face value Farage’s rejection of ‘violent and thuggish behaviour’ a la Yaxley-Lennon. Yet NF’s campaigns - LeaveEU, this year’s GE - have repeatedly been followed by violence. We need to take this conjunction of Faragism and violence much more seriously.

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

I’m afraid this kind of fact-checking is really beside the point. Surely we know by now that the Tories and Reform are both utterly deceitful and opportunistic - that’s their modus operandi and their supporters aren’t bothered by it.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

At the moment, I’m still posting on Twitter - I’m not prepared to give up the space to Musk and Trump unless we’re forced to. But I appreciate the new beginnings here.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments