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
Neal Ascherson is a journalist and writer. For many years he was foreign correspondent and then columnist for the (London) Observer. Among his books are The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo (1963; Granta, 1999); The Struggles for Poland (Random House, 1988); Black Sea (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1996); and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland (Granta, 2003)
Neal Ascherson's lecture from 1985 feels more relevant than ever.
The Daily Telegraph's Peter Oborne and Scottish writer Neal Ascherson discuss national identity in light of the...
The stramash over abuse of power and standards at Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp should reinvigorate the idea of...
The Georgia-Russia war of August 2008 refroze a region. The small Black Sea nation of Abkhazia is the key to its...
A London radio broadcast on 18 June 1940 by an unknown French officer altered history’s course. It was also the...
The wave of change across east-central Europe in 1989 was a real revolution - but with one missing feature. Neal...