The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Springer 2020)

This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working from Churchill’s truism…

Media Hype, Imaginary Hobgoblins: Malcolm And Peter’s Politics Of Moral Panic

Originally published at New Matilda, though they seem to have joined so much of the rest of the nominal left.…

Working paper: The Terror Scare: War on Terror Mythology and Moral Panic

https://www.academia.edu/28916965/The_Terror_Scare_War_on_Terror_Mythology_and_Moral_Panic ‘Moral judgment about the historical events with which War on Terror narratives have become associated has become implicit in…

Modern Newspeak Dictionary

With the amount of information good and bad flying around across the internet it can be nigh well on impossible…

Panic Hiding in Plain Sight: The Terror Scare

The use of the term ‘War on Terror’ to describe the West’s campaign of military aggression in and around Iraq…