Piers Robinson

Professor Piers Robinson is Chair in Politics, Society and Political Journalism at the Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield. His latest academic paper is ‘Learning from the Chilcot Report: Propaganda, deception and the ‘War on Terror’.

Helping Syria: it's time for an end to regime change wars

15 years of regime change wars, spurious claims regarding weapons of mass destruction and a propagandised information environment: we should be alert to our governments deceiving us in order to launch war.

By Piers Robinson

/ 18 Jul 2017

After the London Bridge attack: the war on terror was always about initiating aggressive wars

Ritual condemnations will not help to address how interwoven terror has become with western foreign policy objectives. It is time to reflect more deeply on the roots of terrorism.

By Piers Robinson

/ 7 Jun 2017