John Kampfner: British National Party leader Nick Griffin received the oxygen of publicity he craved by winning his spot on Question Time, Britain’s premier TV debate show, but at the end of a nation’s ordeal, democracy emerged intact.
John Kampfner: The only realistic and practical criteria for curbing free speech reside in the law. It is not for governments, less still public service broadcasters, to determine the acceptability of opinion.
John Kampfner: Index on Censorship’s day of action on 21st Century censorship
John Kampfner on how people everywhere have been too willing to trade freedom for prosperity or security
John Kampfner on the Kremlin, the BBC and us
Our civil liberties are in jeopardy and we are to blame. We have reduced democracy to the right to make and spend money, writes
John Kampfner
John Kampfner says that the News of the World hacking scandal won’t do as much damage to journalism as English libel law does.
John Kampfner says the secrecy of the Iraq inquiry is part of a continuing project to protect “brand Blair”
John Kampfner on two new books that put expenses, parliament and democracy into perspective
John Kampfner on the trade off between rights and security
John Kampfner on MPs’ expenses
Meeting Garry Kasparov and President Medvedev on a recent trip, John Kampfner found little cause for optimism The setting said it all. We were sitting in the first floor breakfast room of a hotel beyond Moscow’s outer ringroad waiting for Garry...