Monthly Archives: September 2009

A threat too far for Marr

Padraig Reidy: Distasteful questions about Gordon Brown’s health should not be used as a brickbat to beat the BBC

Questioning the BNP

Padraig Reidy: The argument about whether the BNP should appear on Question Time is moot. The issue now is arguing with the BNP on Question Time.

An audience with the Iron Lady of Minsk

Rohan Jayasekera encounters the imperious and elegant first deputy head of the Belarus presidential administration, Natalia Petkevich, Minsk’s Iron Lady of censorship.

Ahmadinejad questioned about Maziar Bahari

Newsweek quizzes Iranian President Ahmadinejad about Tehran’s imprisonment of Maziar Bahari

Does free speech apply to the far right?

John Kampfner talks about free expression and the far right.

Lies, damned lies and adverts?

Padraig Reidy asks if there’s a limit to what campaigners and admen can say

Trading freedom for prosperity

John Kampfner on how people everywhere have been too willing to trade freedom for prosperity or security

Silent and Unmoving

Candice Holdsworth on Havel, Beckett and resistance to tyranny 20 years after 1989

Russia and the West

John Kampfner on the Kremlin, the BBC and us

Consultation on Internet libel launched

Ministry of Justice to review multiple publication rule