John Laughland

John Laughland (born 6 September 1963) is a British eurosceptic conservative author who writes on international affairs and political philosophy.

From 2008 to 2018, he was Director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, which is headed by Natalia Narochnitskaya, a Russian historian and former State Duma deputy.

Laughland also works as the director of the international department of Dutch political party Forum voor Democratie under Thierry Baudet.

He criticises it as a political tribunal and claimed double standards for refusing to open an investigation into whether NATO committed war crimes in Yugoslavia in 1999.

[6][7] Laughland has claimed that Ukraine's presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko's coalition was linked with "neo-Nazis" in an article for The Guardian in 2004,[8] that his ultimately successful attempts to seize power were backed on the streets by "druggy skinheads from Lviv" in The Spectator;[9] that reports of mass graves in Iraq were being exaggerated for political purposes;[10] and that concern for the massacres in the Sudanese Civil War was driven by oil.