As if there weren’t already enough BBC-haters in the world, the Corporation’s refusal to screen the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal for...
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The BBC's Gaza conflict
Impartiality can be a form of censorship, says Jo Glanville Like all good censorship rows, the fallout from the BBC’s decision not to transmit the...
I don't understand this
I really don't understand this. At all.
On Lèse majesté
Our friend Roby Alampay of the South East Asian Press Alliance has an interesting post on Comment is Free on the iniquities of Thailand's lèse...
Twitter ye not…
Or maybe do. For those of you who Twitter, you can now find Index on Censorship at http://twitter.com/Indoncensorship. For those of you who don't...
Atheist buses blasphemous but not illegal
The Advertising Standards Authority has (sensibly, it should be said) decided not to get involved in an argument over whether God is likely to exist...
Expenses not spared
Gordon Brown has backed down from an attempt to make MPs' expenses exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, after Lib Dem and Conservative MPs...
We are not afraid
This article by Yelena Milashina was originally published in Novaya Gazeta The killers have no fear because they know they will not be punished. But...
Russia: double murder another blow for human rights
Index on Censorship, Article 19 and English PEN have issued a joint statement on the shocking murder of Anastasiya Barburova and Stanislav Markelov...
President Obama
Watch history made here Update: Full text here Among other things, I liked this bit: 'To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and...