Padraig Reidy: Leveson – what the papers say
Leveson – what the papers say
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Leveson: What's on the line?
Marta Cooper on the Leveson Inquiry
International Day to End Impunity: Zainab Alkhawaja
International Day to End Impunity is on 23 November, and since the start of the month, the campaign has highlighted activists, journalists, and dissidents who have suffered from impunity. Today the campaign highlights Bahraini activist Zainab...
Anish Kapoor, artists and Index go Gangnam style for Ai Weiwei
Padraig Reidy: Anish Kapoor, artists and Index go Gangnam for Ai Weiwei
Has Lord McAlpine been the victim of a crime?
Padraig Reidy: Has Lord McAlpine been the victim of a crime?
Standing up for arts education
Index has signed a petition opposing the British government’s move to replace GCSEs with the English Baccalaureate, excluding creative subjects from the core qualification at 16. Many leading figures in the arts have voiced their dismay at this...
Statutory regulation of the press will hurt free speech
This article was originally published in The New Statesman Between the Leveson Inquiry and the crisis at the BBC, it seems journalism is all we ever read or hear about these days. These crises are heightened because journalists are, essentially,...
Ask your police commissioner candidates about social media arrests
Padraig Reidy: Ask your police commissioner candidates about social media arrests
BBC stumbles, but will it fall?
You couldn't make it up – and any 21st century Evelyn Waugh's hoping to match his tales of journalistic folly must be wondering how art or the comic novelist can outdo reality. As George Entwistle becomes the second BBC Director General to resign...
Belarus: Lukashenko launches attack on last intellectual outpost
Arche, Belarus's only monthly magazine published in Belarusian faces closure after the state authorities froze its bank accounts and launched criminal proceedings against its editor. Arche editor Valery Bulhaku was detained on 14 September while...