Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Chris Myant started as a journalist in 1968 working for the Morning Star and then 7Days. He later worked for the Commission for Racial Equality and Equality and Human Rights Commission. For the last decade he has lived in Paris where he is active in the National Union of Journalists.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France’s justice minister caught in a conflict of interestFacing action over corruption allegations, President Macron’s ministers are out to neuter the messenger
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe Sarkozy ruling is just the latest in France’s long history of corruptionThe corruption is more than enough to explain the crisis of confidence in French established politics
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhat has killed more people in France since 2000? Islamic terrorism or ‘la chasse’?Playing to the gallery of anti-Muslim prejudice is something that successive French presidents have engaged in since...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘One of the problems in France is distrust’, Macron warns. Why might that be?When it comes to selling things that kill, France is the rising star, when it comes to those that save lives, such...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From keystroke to brushstroke: where’s the art in modern work?Does the internet rob us of the pleasure of being together, acting together, making the future together?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why has Macron rejected the joint enterprise that defeats COVID-19?In the France of today, it would mean democratising the response to the virus, not imprisoning it in the closed...