When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

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Heather Brooke was American american journalist. Heather Rose Brooke is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin, dozens of MPs standing down in the 2010 general election and multiple MPs being jailed. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life
  • Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power

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