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: openDemocracyUKAn open letter to Lord Patten: give the people some say over how our affairs are reportedThe BBC has failed to act in the public interest when addressing several of the last decade's most important...
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The political class want the London occupation to make demands of them - but the protestors aren't accepting this...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTalk Amongst Yourselves
As a movement to occupy the centre of financial districts including the City of London spreads, here is a practical...
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