Jo Glanville on how production orders are being used to intimidate the press
In defence of Suzanne Breen
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Jo Glanville
Jo Glanville
Jo Glanville is editor of Looking for an enemy: eight essays on antisemitism (Short Books) and Qissat: short stories by Palestinian women (Telegram/Saqi Books). She is a former editor of Index on Censorship.
Lord Justice Jackson, Jack Straw and the law
Jo Glanville is worried the Justice Secretary will fudge the libel issue
Binyam Mohamed: government delays again
Jo Glanville on a new twist for Binyam Mohamed
Binyam Mohamed: secrets and obfuscation
Index on Censorship joined the US and UK media today in an application to the High Court in London, seeking the disclosure of evidence in the case...
Enemies of free speech online are everywhere
This article was originally published on Comment is Free No surprises in the line up of enemies of free expression online in a new report from...
Who’s protecting whom?
Five per cent of UK broadband connections have not signed up to the Internet Watch Foundation’s (IWF) system for blocking images of child...
Queen of the Jungle no more
Did Carol Thatcher know that the BBC's taste and decency guidelines apply off air as well as on air? And that any ill-judged, politically incorrect...
The BBC's Gaza conflict
Impartiality can be a form of censorship, says Jo Glanville Like all good censorship rows, the fallout from the BBC’s decision not to transmit the...
Editor’s pick 2008: Matthew Bown
A return to law and order, national pride and upright morals is colliding with Russia’s exuberant and scandal-seeking art world, writes Matthew Bown...
Editor’s pick 2008: Aryeh Neier on Skokie
In this exclusive article for Index on Censorship magazine, Aryeh Neier (right) recalls the controversial Skokie First Amendment case –-- still a...
Editor’s pick 2008: Kenan Malik
The twentieth anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence on Salman Rushdie (right) takes place in February 2009. In this article for Index...
Editor’s pick 2008: Ai Weiwei
China’s greatest artist, Ai Weiwei, caused controversy in the summer when he announced he would stay away from the Olympic Games, despite being the creative mind behind Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium.
In an exclusive interview for Index on Censorship‘s ‘Made in China issue’, he told Simon Kirby about challenging state censorship and the status quo.
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