James Ball is a journalist and the current Global Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He worked with WikiLeaks on the Iraq War documents leak in 2010 and was part of The Guardian team that helped published the Edward Snowden sneaks about the NSA.
Last week I sat down with James in a London heatwave to reflect on Boris Johnson becoming PM, stockpiling for a no-deal Brexit, the way bullshit works in today's politics, the anti-Semitism scandal in the British Labour Party and the plight of Julian Assange.
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James' writing at The New Statesman
James' writing at The Guardian
James' speech Bathing in Bullshit, 2017
ARTICLE: Inside the Strange, Paranoid World of Julian Assange by James Ball
ARTICLE: Chelsea Manning is in jail. Our silence is shameful by James Ball
ARTICLE: Labour says it will would end the welfare freeze (BBC NEWS)
ARTICLE: The Strange Case of Julian Assange by Bernard Keane
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