Padraig Reidy: Distasteful questions about Gordon Brown’s health should not be used as a brickbat to beat the BBC
Monthly Archives: September 2009
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
Consultation on Internet libel launched
Ministry of Justice to review multiple publication rule
