The music videos often feature gangs, weapons, violence and threats of revenge attacks — and now the artists have been banned from even making them....
Drill music videos to be banned to stop rising crime (News, 19 June 2018)
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Courts And Police Accused Of ‘Censorship’ As Drill Music Group Faces Ban (Huffington Post, 18 June 2018)
A human rights group has criticised a landmark court decision banning a drill group from making music with violent lyrics, claiming the focus on the...
UK drill group 1011 banned from creating music (Crack, 18 June 2018)
A court order has been issued banning drill group 1011 from making music without police permission. On 7 June, The Independent reported that five UK...
London drill rap group banned from making music due to threat of violence (The Guardian, 15 June 2018)
A drill rap group in London has been issued with a court order that bans them from making music without police permission. In what is being...
David Aaronovitch: Assaults on free speech are led by the left (The Times, 12 June 2018)
Let’s start small and then go big. This week the writer Lionel Shriver was turfed off the judging panel of a women’s short-story competition. The...
A Date To Forget: Doubling down on the Tiananmen taboo (China Channel, LARB, 8 June 2018)
Louisa Lim: To write my book The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, I spent a lot of time in fast-food restaurants. Not because I...
Caruana Galizia’s Son: ‘We Are At War With The Government Over My Mother’s Murder’ (Lovin Malta, 29 May 2018)
One of the sons of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia said it feels like his family is at war with the Maltese government over their...
Abortion clinic buffer zones set ‘dangerous precedent’ for freedom of speech, campaigners say (The Telegraph, 28 May 2018)
Abortion clinic buffer zones set a “dangerous precedent” for freedom of speech, campaigners have warned as they bid to overturn them. Civil...
Caruana Galizia family ‘at war with Malta’ after journalist’s murder (The Guardian, 28 May 2018)
The family of the murdered Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia have had little chance to mourn her death because of continuing...
Survey warns of endemic financial and political pressure across European newsrooms (Journalism.co.uk, 24 May 2018)
The years of 2016 and 2017 have taught us, if nothing else, that the news we write, as much as the news we withhold, can distort the way readers...
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