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
Denis MacShane is a former UK Europe Minister. He wrote the first biography of François Mitterrand and appears regularly on French TV and radio. His latest book is Brexiternity. The Uncertain Fate of Britain (IB Tauris-Bloomsbury).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The spectre of President Le Pen haunts FranceWhen he won in 2017 Macron was hailed as the new European leader who would stop the rise of the populist right. To...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBrexit will give neither Hitchens nor Mason the Europe they desireWe must avoid idealist visions of a post-EU continent.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The left returns to an old love – saying No to EuropeIt is the politics of Europe’s current rulers that must be challenged, not the UK’s membership of the EU.
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Published in: oDRReading Russia is never easyWhile there are Putinversteher to be found everywhere in Europe there seem to be no Europaversteher in Russia. Where...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Where is another Europe now?Europe either hangs together or - as the American revolutionaries liked to point out - the nations of Europe will be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The strange silence over BrexitDespite the historic nature of a Brexit referendum, it has been worryingly absent during this election. Serious...