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
Dan Hind is the author of The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It, Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty and The Return of the Public: Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform. The paperback of The Return of the Public is out now on Verso. He tweets @danhind.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat if they held a constitutional convention and everybody came?Across Britain a variety of people and alliances are seeking to respond to Westminster's strategy of economic...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWelcome to UKOGBANI!As more evidence of royal interventions in the British political system emerge, we should consider how public...
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Published in: ourBeebOurBeeb forum session 2: accountability and the Savile scandal
The second session of OurBeeb’s day-forum at King’s College London asked Gerald Kaufman, Dan Hind and Anthony...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain, become a republic! You can even keep the Queen!Britain has been fooled. Told that 'republicanism' just meant sacking the monarchy, the British have missed its...
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Published in: ourBeebThe BBC: above reproach, or beyond reach?
How well do the BBC's publicly stated methods of accountability stand up? They were recently outlined by the BBC...
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Published in: ourBeebA corporation run by bankers, not journalists: who are the BBC Trust?Private industry is extremely well represented among the Beeb's trustees and directors, from bankers to energy and...