Articles in Media

‘Understanding Power Dynamics and Moving Beyond Divisions: Covid–19 through to Ukraine and Israel/Palestine’, co-authored with Vanessa Beeley, UKColumn, January 2024. 

‘The Continuing Deception Over the Douma Alleged Chemical Weapons Attack’, Substack/Piers Robinson, October 2023.

‘”Cock-up or Conspiracy” Understanding COVID-19 as a “structural Deep Event”‘ Panda Papers, Updated July 2023 (first version published April 2022). 

‘Five Years On: The OPCW-Douma Deception Continues’ Propaganda in Focus, UKColumn, OffGuardian, April 2023.

‘Threats to freedom of expression: Covid-19, the ‘Fact checking counter-disinformation industry’, and online harm legislation’ PANDA and Propaganda in Focus, November 2022.

‘Deafening Silences and 21st Century Democracy: “If I don’t like or agree with what you say and do, I will censor you, destroy your reputation, terminate your employment and, if necessary, throw you in jail”‘ PANDA Uncut, November 2022.

Deafening Silences: propaganda through censorship, smearing and coercion, PANDA, Propaganda in Focus, OffGuardian and UK Column, September 2022.

‘”Never Let a Good Crisis go to Waste”‘: Understanding Propaganda and COVID’, Propaganda in Focus, 24 May 2022.

‘”Cock-up or Conspiracy” Understanding COVID-19 as a “structural Deep Event”‘ Panda Papers, April 2022. Republished by Children’s Health Defence: Europe, Klartext (German) and OffGuardian

‘From COVID-19 to Ukraine: Bouncing from one crisis to the next and the importance of staying focused’ Panda Papers, March 2022. Republished by OffGuardian and Klartext (German)

Democracy Lost: Propaganda, Character Assassination and the Campaign Against Professor David Miller, ‘Think Piece’, UKColumn, October 2021. Also published in OffGuardian.

‘The Douma Controversy: Now is the Time for Transparency and Accountability at the OPCW’ Press TV, April 2021.

‘Good Science vs Bad Science and Propaganda: A Review of Seven’ OffGuardian, January 2021.

‘The War on Truth, Dissent and Free Speech’ OffGuardian, October 2020  also published in the Hague Times and Multipolar

“Is Public Opinion on COVID-19 Being Shaped by the Facts – or ‘Terrorised’ by Propaganda” Op ed for RT, May 2020. 

‘The Propaganda of Terror and Fear: A lesson from recent history’, OffGuardian, March 2020.

‘9/11 Unmasked: A Review’ Off Guardian, September 2018.

‘Helping Syria: It’s time for an end to regime change wars’ Open Democracy June 2017

‘After the London Bridge Attack: the war on terror was always about initiating aggressive wars’ Open Democracy June 2017

‘Propaganda Here and Now, Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM), February 2017.

‘Fake News, Propaganda and Threats to Journalism’ Spinwatch, January 2017.

‘Russian News Media Maybe Biased-But is is much western media’ The Guardian August 2016

‘The Chilcot Report: an initial assessment’, Spinwatch, July 2016.

‘The Chilcot Report: an end to smoke and mirrors? Manchester Policy Blogs (University of Manchester), June 2016.

‘The importance of the Chilcot Report for International Relations Scholars’ E-International Relations August 2016

‘The British government has already forgotten the great dangers of propaganda’ The Guardian May 2016

‘Media as a Driving Force in International Politics: The CNN Effect and Related Debates’ E-International Relations June 2013