Conservative MP Damian Green and civil servant Christopher Galley will not face charges relating to leaks of government documents after Director of...
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Freedom of information when it suits
Why is British government trying to censor documents relating to the Iraq war it has already published, asks Chris Ames A new twist in the tale of...
BBC fined £150,000 for ‘Sachsgate’
Ofcom has fined the BBC £150,000 for breaches of the broadcasting code on Russell Brand's Radio 2 show in October. An Ofcom statement said: 'The...
Seditious libel law is a travesty of justice
The UK government’s retention of this archaic legislation only serves to justify oppression in other countries, writes Evan Harris In 1763,...
Lebedev to sue Forbes
Evening Standard and Novaya Gazeta owner Alexander Lebedev is to sue Forbes magazine for libel after it claimed he had lost $2.5 billlion in the...
Media alerts in lead up to G20 demonstrations
As UK citizens prepare to exercise their freedom of expression at demonstrations during the upcoming week of the G20 summit, the media continues to...
This is legal blackmail
Britain's libel laws are a malign force far beyond just celebrity journalism. Radical reform is overdue, writes Jo Glanville This article originally...
UK plans to monitor Facebook
The UK government has said that communications over social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace could be monitored in an effort to tackle...
Event: Twenty years of free speech wars
In February 1989, five months after the publication of The Satanic Verses, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against its author Salman Rushdie. It...
Review: The Assault on Liberty
A new book attempts to cast the crisis in civil liberties as a left/right issue. But ultimately it is the timid, compliant climate of UK politics...