Sonia Sodha on disagreeing with her younger self about student funding
Release Date: 10/21/2019
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info_outlineChief Leader writer at The Observer and The Guardian, Sonia Sodha was very active in the campaign to make higher education free. Fifteen years on, she has changed her mind. We talk about why, what her 20 year old self would make of it and the role of the media in polarization.