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
David Marquand is former principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. Among his many books are The Unprincipled Society (1988) and The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, (2011) Princeton University Press.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEngland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales - time for all to jump in to the debatePretending we can re-enact the Referendum tragedy with a different final act is monumental self-deception – instead...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK"Second star to the right and straight on till morning": leaving Europe for the imperial Never-Never LandThe Brexiteers believe in a myth of British exceptionalism. It's time they stopped telling themselves fairy tales.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReturning nativeReturning to Wales, David Marquand finds that devolution has created a political community interestingly open to new...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe British syndrome: an abdication of responsibilityThere are glaring absences at the heart of the UK elections contest. The new preface to his ‘Essay on Britain, now’...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain is in crisis - Miliband’s One Nation may signal a way outBritain needs a national conversation on its imperilled political and moral culture. Has the Labour leader had the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe EU approaches a constitutional moment
A retreat from the present unsatisfactory half-way house to a Gaullist ‘Europe des Patries’ would be an act of...