Nicholas O Shaughnessy is Professor of Communication at Queen Mary, University of London. He holds degrees from London, Oxford, Columbia and Cambridge Universities. Nicholas research focus is on political marketing and propaganda, and he is the author and co-author of numerous journal articles and a Senior Editor of the Journal of Political Marketing. Nicholas is the author of two classic texts in the field of political marketing, "The Phenomenon of Political Marketing" and "Propaganda and Politics: Weapons of Mass Seduction." Nicholas is a Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge University,