At the United Nations General Assembly, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham placed a name and a moral verdict on something democracies have long struggled to articulate: that elections can be lost not at the ballot box, but in the information space long before voters arrive there. Accusing Russia of orchestrating a coordinated disinformation campaign against Britain's 2019 election, Burnham announced the creation of a National Centre for Information Defence — an institutional acknowledgment that the modern threat to democracy is as much cognitive as it is procedural. The moment marks a broader