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
Joseph McQuade is a Gates Scholar at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, whose doctoral research examines the global scope of imperial networks of surveillance and Indian radical politics during the first half of the twentieth century. Research follows the transformation of laws of sedition into laws of 'terror' in both international and British imperial law from the beginning of the First World War until the end of the 1930s, with the intention of exploring the origins of terrorism as a legal category and global idea.
The goal, in the words of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, is to make a "strong symbolic act against those who...