Louis Blom-Cooper, who has died at the age of 92, was an outspoken barrister, journalist, campaigner and public servant with a powerful intellect,...
Louis Blom-Cooper, barrister and writer, 1926-2018 (Financial Times, 27 September 2018)
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CATEGORY: Index in the Press
Turkish prosecutors label Guardian and Foreign Policy articles terrorist propaganda (Ahval, 5 September 2018)
Turkish prosecutors listed articles from websites such as The Guardian newspaper and Foreign Policy magazine as evidence of what they said was...
Why Banned Books Week is more important than ever in 2018 (The Bookseller, 24 September 2018)
Today marks the launch of Banned Books Week: a nationwide campaign celebrating the freedom to read and challenging censorship. Read the full article
50 years since the end of theatre censorship: how the Lord Chamberlain was given the boot (The Stage, 18 September 2018)
Half a century on from the end of official British theatre censorship, Nick Smurthwaite looks at writers and critics who campaigned for freedom of...
Govt rejects national ‘buffer zones’ around abortion centres (Christian Institute, 14 September 2018)
Nationwide ‘buffer zones’ will not be introduced around abortion centres by the Government, in a move welcomed by advocates for the unborn. Read the...
Mothers welcome home office abortion ‘buffer zone’ decision (The Catholic Universe, 13 September 2018)
A group of mothers who were offered help outside abortion clinics by pro-life vigils have welcomed the Home Secretary decision to reject pressure...
Government rejects calls for ‘buffer zones’ outside abortion clinics (The Tablet, 13 September 2018)
The Home Secretary has rejected calls for "buffer zones" to be introduced around abortion clinics nationwide. Sajid Javid made his decision based on...
It’s an outrage that Turkey is ditching Darwin from science textbooks (New Statesman, 12 September 2018)
Evolution is being dropped from school biology texts in Turkey. In Hungary, academic freedoms are increasingly threatened. Time to worry, says...
Bookmarks attackers sent books to help ‘broaden their minds’ (Bookseller, 10 August 2018)
Index on Censorship is sending political party UKIP a bundle of books, including The Handmaid's Tale and a copy of the Quran, in the hope it will...
Authors demand Bahraini king to ensure ‘rights’ for prisoner (Al Jazeera, 6 September 2018)
Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak and Ali Smith are just two among a group of leading writers piling pressure on the Bahraini king to intervene in the...
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