Journalists in danger

Peter Preston provides a powerful riposte to Onora O’Neill’s Reith lecture on trust and the media.

“The difficulty is that there is no such complacent a thing as a settled democracy. Dr O’Neill seems to believe that threats stop at Dover, or maybe Felixstowe. Two weeks ago, perhaps, she’d have said Marseilles and Brest. Yet this sliding scale is infernally slippery.”