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
Anna Hartnell is senior lecturer in contemporary literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of Rewriting Exodus: American Futures from Du Bois to Obama (2011) and After Katrina: Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century (2017).
Where Hurricane Katrina took place in New Orleans – exoticised, deprived – Texas stands at the centre of national...