As the divide narrows between left and right in Britain, so too does the space for adversarial dialogue and free expression There used to be an inch...
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UK: climbdown on secret inquests
Justice secretary Jack Straw has announced the government will not go ahead with plans for non-jury private inquests to cover cases involving...
Dimbleby: fearful BBC risks losing its way
The BBC Trust’s condemnation of Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen has the potential to cause serious damage to the corporation’s international...
Eady rules against Singh in chiropractic defamation case
The English High Court has ruled that science writer Simon Singh, must show that the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) was deliberately...
This ‘banned list’ has no place in UK law
To stop people entering Britain because of what they may say while here is based on the concept of pre-emptive sanction says Padraig Reidy Dyab Abou...
UK ‘least wanted’ list published
The Home Office has released a list of sixteen people banned from entering the UK for their extremist views. The list includies Islamists, white...
Binyam Mohamed: Foreign Office attempts to file ‘secret evidence’
Index on Censorship has learned that government lawyers are attempting to submit secret evidence on the treatment of former Guantanamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, as the Foreign Office continues to attempt to prevent the release of potentially damning information about his detention.
‘Banned’ poet becomes first female laureate
Carol Ann Duffy, whose poem 'Education for Leisure' was withdrawn from schoolbooks over fears it encouraged violence, has been appointed the UK's...
Cuts demanded for Knightley domestic violence advert
Clearcast, the company that regulates television advertising on behalf of Ofcom, has requested that violent scenes be removed from an anti-domestic...
UK government rules out central database
The British government has said it will not now go ahead with plans to create a cenrtal communications database. Read more here