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
Rudolf Ungváry is a writer and senior research associate of the Hungarian National Library. He has published novels, biographical essays and political analyses; in his other field he is the author of several works on knowledge organisation, concept theory and information retrieval. His current book, Invisible Reality. The Fascistoid Mutation in Contemporary Hungary (Kalligram, Bratislava, 2014) analyses the present political situation in Hungary.
After 1989, within two decades, the hitherto ‘dormant’ authoritarian, leader-worshipping, order-obsessed right-wing...