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
Alan Finlayson is Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia. His research is particularly concerned with the theory and practice of democratic politics, the study of political ideologies and also with political rhetoric. He is currently Principal Investigator on the research project Political Ideology, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the 'Alt-Right’, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and a Co-Investigator on the research project Our Subversive Voice? The history and politics of English protest music also supported by the AHRC. As part of a project supported by The Leverhulme Trust he developed the website www.britishpoliticalspeech.org.
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