Padraig Reidy: threats against staff at Index-award winning newspaper, Sri Lanka’s Sunday Leader, must stop
Sri Lanka: Sunday Leader editors threatened
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Padraig Reidy
Padraig Reidy
Padraig Reidy is the editor of Little Atoms and a columnist for Index on Censorship. He has also written for The Observer, The Guardian, and The Irish Times.
Banish the libel chill
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Padraig Reidy sums up the Carter-Ruck injunction on the Guardian
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Padraig Reidy: this injunction on reporting a parliamentary question is a threat to democracy itself
BNP on the BBC
Padraig Reidy: “Isn’t it better to challenge the far right in public?”
The Forsyth saga
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The respect agenda
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A threat too far for Marr
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Questioning the BNP
Padraig Reidy: The argument about whether the BNP should appear on Question Time is moot. The issue now is arguing with the BNP on Question Time.