Caspar Melville of New Humanist has an update on the cancellation of a poetry reading in Cardiff after threats of disruption by Stephen Green of...
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'Put simply, Christians won't tolerate insults to Jesus Christ'
Stephen Green of Christian Voice managed to get a poetry reading shut down this week. Waterstones of Cardiff cancelled the launch of Patrick Jones's...
Plane Stupid: doors and perception
It didn't take District Judge Nicholas Evans long to come up with a verdict in the case of the five Plane Stupid protesters charged under SOCPA this...
Plane Stupid on trial
As the UK government tries to quell a Labour rebellion against plans for a third runway at Heathrow, five young climate change protesters went on...
The BBC in Russia – 2
The dispute over the BBC's restructuring of its Russian service continues. After Thursday's letter in the Times, signed by Index on Censorship and...
Paul Dacre and privacy
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is not happy. In his speech to the Society of Editors last night, he railed against the dangers of the creeping...
The BBC in Russia
Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville and Chief Executive John Kampfner have put their names to a letter in the Times today condemning the BBC's...
An end to culture wars?
This is a guest post by Anthony Dworkin Among the many things to celebrate in Obama’s convincing victory is American voters’ rejection of the...
Give Obama time to reinvigorate liberties
This is a guest post by Stryker McGuire, contributing editor for Newsweek Barack Obama rides into the White House on the back of such high...
Index on Al Jazeera
Index on Censorship’s Padraig Reidy appeared on Listening Post, Al Jazeera’s media programme, last Friday, discussing Hezbollah and its use of the...