The multi-award winning novelist, essayist, poet and activist wrote in the 50th anniversary issue of Index on Censorship magazine
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Plays, protests and the censor’s pencil
Shakespeare was no stranger to censorship from the Elizabethan and Jacobean police states. Here we chart how the Bard’s plays amused monarchs and dictators but also prompted their anger
Mother-tongue abusers
The writer Zinovy Zinik on the moment his granddaughter learnt about Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, and how it devastated her fairytale view of the country
Ukrainian news reporter detained by Russia’s FSB
The whereabouts of Victoria Roschina, who works for independent news channel hromadske, is unknown after her detention
1972: Nixon went to China, BBC banned McCartney and Index was published
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] You may have heard that the 70s were different. In 1972, when the first issue of Index magazine was launched, no one knew that 20 years later there would be an influential economic bloc called the European Union....
Fight… and overcome
As the war in Ukraine intensifies, we publish exclusive new translations of two Ukrainian poems that highlight the country’s struggle against invasion and occupation
Hong Kong’s National Security Law reaches the UK
High-profile activist Benedict Rogers, who lives in London, is being targeted using the draconian law in what is believed to be its first use outside Chinese territory
How an independent broadcaster in Ukraine is defying the invasion
The TV and YouTube channel hromadske has been forced to abandon its studios but keeps the news flowing
Does Russia’s war have popular support? Navalny says not
Some 14,000 people, including children, have been detained for protesting the war. Putin’s pollsters say Russians support it
Lament for Hong Kong
Watching the crushing of Hong Kong’s media is heartbreaking and confirms the dictum that censorship inevitably degenerates into absurdity and corruption, writes David McNeill