The Conservative Party yesterday banned the Daily Mirror from travelling on the party’s battle bus.
Tories ban the Mirror from Boris Johnson’s general election battle bus (The Mirror)
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Trans women aren’t women, Maya Forstater tells employment tribunal (The Times)
A tax avoidance researcher who claims that she lost a job at a think tank for tweeting her views on trans people told an employment tribunal yesterday that “there is one sex or the other”.
Researcher defends tweets on trans rights at employment tribunal (The Guardian)
A researcher who lost her job at a charity after tweeting that transgender women cannot change their biological sex has said at an employment tribunal that she “does not harbour any ill-feeling” towards trans people.
Tax expert who lost her job for ‘transphobic’ tweet takes case to employment tribunal (The Telegraph)
A tax expert who lost her job for tweeting that transgender women are not women yesterday took her case to an employment tribunal arguing that her dismissal amounted to discrimination against her beliefs
UK arms fair organisers barred journalist over fears of negative coverage, emails reveal (Press Gazette)
A journalist was barred from a major UK arms fair because organisers believed he would “not write anything positive” about the event, according to emails he uncovered through a subject access request.
Index deputy editor to stand for election as MP
Index on Censorship's deputy editor Sally Gimson is making headlines of her own after being selected as a Labour candidate in the General Election on December 12. Sally will be standing as a candidate to become MP of Bassetlaw, in Nottinghamshire,...
Trouble at the border
Index on Censorship magazine editors Jemimah Steinfeld and Rachael Jolley have been discussing the latest issue, which looks at border surveillance and its implications for free expression, in an interview with Resonance Radio. They talk about how...
Australia denies Cameroonian journalist visa for press freedom conference (The Guardian)
A Berlin-based journalist who was due to speak at a press freedom conference in Brisbane has said she was denied a visa by the Australian government because they believed she might try to stay.
Rap for rapper
London drill rapper Rico Racks has been jailed for three years for drug offences and banned from using certain words in his rap songs. This is not the first time rappers have been told by the courts to exclude certain words from their music,...
Index magazine on Resonance FM
Index on Censorship magazine editors Jemimah Steinfeld and Rachael Jolley discuss the latest issues on freedom of expression at the border
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