Propaganda and media expert Peter Pomerantsev on tackling disinformation and the power of the digital platforms.
Articles by Vanessa Baird

Women in war zones are the best peace-makers, yet they rarely get a place at negotiation tables dominated by men. Iranian...

Unloved and under threat from several sides, democracy seems to be in peril. Should it be saved – or helped to change? Vanessa...

The storming of Capitol Hill sent shock waves around the world. But democracy-subverting, coup-fomenting US presidents are...

It might reverse the UN’s order of holiness, Vanessa Baird finds.

Let’s enjoy Trump’s defeat, writes Vanessa Baird. But with realism and greater ambition.

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

How did a once hardcore Marxist-Leninist and nationalist guerrilla leader come to develop a politics of participatory democracy...

Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good...