Stuart Waiton

Stuart Waiton is a senior sociology and criminology lecturer at Abertay University. He teaches on matters relating to anti-social behaviour, moral panics, hate crimes, and politics.[1] Waiton was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, initially getting involved in anti-racist politics and supporting Workers Against Racism (WAR). In 2019 he joined the Brexit Party, he was chosen by the Brexit Party as a candidate to be an MEP in Scotland, standing on a pro-immigration and pro-democracy platform. [2] (he was unsuccessful and lost his deposit after getting less than 5% of votes overall[3]) and later as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Dundee West.[4]

Waiton has been a columnist for the Times Educational Supplement (Scotland)[5] and has written for the Times,[6] the Independent,[7] Living Marxism[8] and its successor Spiked,[9] and currently is a columnist for the Glasgow Herald and a contributor to a number of mainstream radio and television discussion programmes.[10] He has appeared on Sky News[11] and has been a contributor the Richie Allen Show.[12]

He has been involved in campaigns against the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.[10] He has criticised academics as stifling the debate around transgender topics, and has in turn been criticised for describing the transgender rights movement as asking for something that is biologically impossible.[13] He has also questioned the state support for gender-neutral toilets and school uniforms and described the dynamic of equality campaigners as potentially authoritarian.[13]

Bibliography
  • Scared of the kids?: Curfews, crime and the regulation of young people. Sheffield Hallam University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0863399299.
  • The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour Amoral Panics. Routledge Advances in Criminology. 2007. ISBN 978-0415872720.
  • Snobs' law: criminalising football fans in an age of intolerance (Take A Liberty ed.). Scotland. 2012. ISBN 978-0957155909.
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gollark: Nobody actually reads them, and by the time they are ratified it will be *too late*.
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References
  1. "Dr Stuart Waiton". Abertay. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  2. Malik, Paul (6 August 2019). "Abertay lecturer Stuart Waiton picked to stand for the Brexit Party". The Courier. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  3. "The UK's European elections 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  4. "Who are the MEP candidates in Scotland?". BBC News. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  5. Squires, Peter (2008). ASBO Nation: The Criminalisation of Nuisance. Policy Press. ISBN 978-1-84742-028-2. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  6. Waiton, Stuart (12 March 2019). "Politicians are wildly out of touch on smacking ban". The Times. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  7. Waiton, Stuart (22 August 2000). "Parental paranoia is ruining children's lives". The Independent. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  8. Waiton, Stuart. "LM128: Lessons in life". Living Marxism. Archived from the original on 16 May 2000. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  9. "AstroTurfers of Britain Part Two: Who is Behind Brexit Party Recruitment and its PR Makeover?". Byline Times. 13 May 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  10. "Dr Stuart Waiton". Battle of Ideas Festival. 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  11. "Should smacking be made illegal in England? – Sky News". newsvideo.su.
  12. Savage, Michael (18 August 2019). "Brexit party MEPs' links to alt-right media agenda exposed". The Observer. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  13. McLaughlin, Mark (27 November 2018). "Academics closing down trans debate, claims Stuart Waiton". The Times. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
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