Spying on journalists belongs in Soviet-era Germany… Starmer’s words about protecting press freedom now sound so hollow

WINSTON CHURCHILL once declared that “a free Press is the sleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny”. The flame of liberty — like the Olympic torch — should be inspirational and ­therefore burn high in triumph. But today that flame is flickering low at

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Spying on journalists belongs in Soviet-era Germany… Starmer’s words about protecting press freedom now sound so hollow

WINSTON CHURCHILL once declared that “a free Press is the sleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny”. The flame of liberty — like the Olympic torch — should be inspirational and ­therefore burn high in triumph. But today that flame is flickering low at

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