Russian news may be biased – but so is much western media

As tensions continue to rise between the West and Russia, increasing attention is being paid in Western media to what are frequently described as the ‘propaganda’ activities of Russia. Regarding the recent setting up of Sputnik News in Edinburgh,The Sun headlines “Putin’s glamorous propaganda girls who front a new UK-based news agency ‘that aims to […]

What Have We Learned from Chilcot and Why it is Important for Scholars of International Relations? (February 2018)

The Chilcot Report has delivered severe criticisms of the way in which the British government took Britain to war in Iraq in 2003 and generated, at least for a sort time, widespread media criticism of Tony Blair as well as other officials. Chilcot made clear that war was not the last resort, that more […]

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Propaganda Here and Now (Jan 2018)

The current ‘fake news’ crisis has brought to the forefront of debate questions regarding the manipulation of information and the role of deception as a political strategy. One strand of this debate has focused on the use of propaganda and deception by authoritarian and autocratic states outside the West. In particular, there has been substantial […]