Martin Shaw is a Professorial Fellow in International Relations and Human Rights at the University of Roehampton and a Research Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals. He is also an Independent County Councillor in Devon.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTruly Project Hate: the third scandal of the official Vote Leave campaign headed by Boris JohnsonLook at the Vote Leave Facebook adverts alongside their more public propaganda, and you see quite how much it promoted racist ideas.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJust as cruel as Trump’s ban: where is the resistance to May’s policy on European residents?As parliament votes for a Brexit plan which doesn't guaruntee the rights of EU nationals living in Britain, where are the anti-Trump protesters?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe need to talk about DevonBy examining the local politics of the nation's second-largest county, we can see just how tight a grip the Conservatives have on power.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK38 Degrees and the 52 per cent: Against the politics of the lowest common denominatorThe inability to reach a consensus is no reason to opt for neutrality on an issue as important as Brexit.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK38 Degrees and the 52 per cent: ‘Neutrality on the EU means 'lexit' by Theresa May’s rules’The campaigning organisation 38 Degrees has adopted a version of 'neutrality' that means kow-towing to a restrictive vision of Brexit. The first part of our debate over what 'neutrality' means in these fractious times.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLabour must fight for our European rights (neither Corbyn nor his opponents have got the response to the crisis right)This is probably the first opportunity since Blair’s disastrous Iraq venture fractured Labour’s support for Labour to reconstruct the alliance of left and centre which Blairites reminisce about.