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
John Keane is Director of the newly-founded Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) at the University of Sydney and Professor of Politics at the WZB in Berlin. He is the author of Democracy and Media Decadence (2013) and his The Life and Death of Democracy (2009) has just appeared in Japanese translation.
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Published in: HomeA short history of banks and democracyThe extraordinary bounce-back of the banks reveals the most disturbing, but least obvious, largely invisible,...