The message and tone of the “trigger warning” suggests a sad lack of faith in the power of art, and, by extension, humanity. We’re capable of better, writes Padraig Reidy
There is absolutely no one engaged in modern public life at any level at all who has not complained that they’ve been silenced, denied a platform, bullied into submission by a cruel cabal of agents of reaction or “the liberal agenda”, take your pick.
Autocrats try to use international competitions to control the world’s view of them. We should beat them at their own games, writes Padraig Reidy
We should enjoy the football and praise the players, but we owe it to brave Azerbaijanis to ask some tough questions about Atlético’s relationship with Ilham Aliyev’s repressive regime, Padraig Reidy writes
Padraig Reidy on why we must combat taboos about discussing events of the past
The description of Twitter as a game has one problem: Twitter can have real-life consequences, Padraig Reidy writes
A recent study of Vladimir Putin’s gangster tendencies has been suppressed: not by the Kremlin, but by a UK academic publisher living in fear of England’s libel laws, writes Padraig Reidy
Padraig Reidy argues that there is a downside to the justified urge to uphold the immaculate status of the child; it comes in the form of the ever-returning moral panic.
Six people, including a member of Greece's Secret Services, have been indicted for an alleged assassination attempt on HotDoc editor Kostas Vaxevanis, according to reports. Vaxevanis, who won a Guardian/Index on Censorship Free Expression Award in...
New twist in tale of controversial film, writes Padraig Reidy
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Sometimes it’s more comforting to believe the conspiracy theory than face the fact that the world keeps turning whether you’re on it or not, says Padraig Reidy