Josie Appleton
founding director, Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life

Josie Appleton is founding director of the Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life (formerly the Manifesto Club), that takes on the busybody state in public spaces and private. She oversees the club’s campaigns and publications, and coordinates the supporters’ programme and the club’s relations with grassroots groups and campaigners. She is author of dozens of Manifesto Club reports, including the club’s flagship campaigns against the ‘Busybodies’ Charter‘. She works through parliament and policy bodies to try to get lasting policy changes and has advised on several sets of new guidance, as well as sitting on advisory boards of academic research projects and legal working groups. As a former journalist, she writes on the freedom issues of the day for a number of publications.

Follow Josie on X: @_cafel

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