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
Stuart Hodkinson is Associate Professor of Critical Urban Geography at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on the social harms of housing privatisation and the wider deregulation of the built environment under neoliberalism. His most recent book is Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell (Manchester University Press, 2019).
The media reporting of the Grenfell Inquiry’s Phase 1 findings shows the battle that lies ahead.