‘Foreign disinformation’ has become a convenient excuse for the failures of officialdom.
It isn’t hard to find sticks to beat Russia with. The international, let alone national, charge sheet is long and serious, from invading Ukraine to imprisoning people on trumped-up charges to manipulating its own elections. But to blame Russia for fomenting anti-Muslim violence in Southport in the north-west of England this week is really quite a stretch. It is a claim that says rather more about this country than it does about Russia.
