The Kremlin is playing the same games now as it did in its darkest days. Democrats should be ready to fight back.
Padraig Reidy: The Soviet Union may be dead, but Soviet disinformation tactics remain
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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.
Padraig Reidy: Courageous journalism should not come with a price
As the International Day to End Impunity approaches, we must remember not to become enamoured with the idea that a good journalist should die for the cause
Padraig Reidy: Sympathy for the devil
The very personification of evil is invoked more often than not by those who wish to see his hand in simple things they do not like or do not understand
Padraig Reidy: Collective outrage and imagined slights
Padraig Reidy explores when writers are attacked for using their imaginations.
Padraig Reidy: We all seem to be grieving for newspapers
Put two British journalists in a room and talk will likely turn to the managed decline of the newspaper industry in western Europe and the US. Padraig Reidy will miss the news agents most.
Padraig Reidy: Our public conversation is in danger of becoming a public whinge
If arguments that counter our own prove more popular, it’s not because ours may need rethinking — no, it is because the world is biased against us
Padraig Reidy: Creeps with cameras and the first amendment
More often than not, the United States’ first amendment forces some real thought and analysis to take place in public life, writes Padraig Reidy.
Padraig Reidy: The ugliness under Azerbaijan’s alternate reality
Post-Soviet Azerbaijan is a country built of facades; facades of modernity and wealth and progress and “democracy”. Facades that hide an underlying ugliness.
Padraig Reidy: Belarus’ dictator cannot bear the egalitarianism of the ice bucket challenge
Funny doesn’t work for dictatorships because funny usually involves humanity and vulnerability. This is the appeal of the viral video challenge.
Padraig Reidy: Dismiss Lady Apostle’s ludicrous lawsuit
The English High Court should dismiss a ludicrous lawsuit against the British Humanist Association.
Padraig Reidy: Censors demand we take them seriously — here’s why we shouldn’t
Let’s not block out calls for censorship. But perhaps we can turn the tables on the cries of the censors, smile politely and continue about our grown-up business
Padraig Reidy: When everyone is a journalist, is anyone?
With smartphones, cheap recording equipment, and free access to social media and blogging platforms, journalism has fallen into the hands of the many. This is a good thing. But one question does arise: if we are all journalists now, what happens to the privileges journalists used to claim?