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Mandelson’s Digital Bill: unfettered powers to censor and disconnect
03Mar10 – 5:09 pm
Jim Killock: The UK’s Digital Media Bill is a huge threat to web freedom
Binyam Mohamed revelations a victory for free speech
10Feb10 – 5:26 pm
Padraig Reidy: Binyam Mohamed revelations a victory for free speech
Power from the people
20Jun09 – 11:24 am
John Kampfner on two new books that put expenses, parliament and democracy into perspective
Michael Savage v Jacqui Smith: the stars align
01Jun09 – 12:02 pm
Padraig Reidy on shock jock Michael Savage’s lawsuit against the Home Secretary
‘Libel laws distort publishing’
09Apr09 – 4:15 pm
As you may know by now, Index on Censorship and English PEN are running an inquiry into English libel. Jonathan Heawood of English PEN spoke to the Bookseller about the disastrously lop-sided defamation laws, and particularly the effect they have on book publishers: ‘We’ve been startled by the extent of this problem. Stories and books, [...]
Press Gazette to close
08Apr09 – 11:59 am
This is regrettable We are sorry to announce the closure of Press Gazette magazine. For 43 years Press Gazette has been the leading magazine for the UK journalism profession. Wilmington Group plc bought Press Gazette out of administration in 2006, since when we have invested significant sums each year to try to develop the magazine [...]
Ian Tomlinson and policing protest
08Apr09 – 11:14 am
While Ian Tomlinson, who died of a heart attack last week during London’s G20 protests, was not actually involved in the protests, this video still raises questions about how the police handle demonstrations.
Dyab Abou Jahjah
08Apr09 – 8:45 am
Dyab Abou Jahjah is the Lebanese-born founder of the Arab European League, an Antwerp-based organisation which claims to speak for Europe’s Muslims. The Arab European League gained a certain notoriety when it weighed into the Motoons debate by publishing a series of anti-Semitic cartoons, ‘testing the limits’ of free expression in Europe. Abou Jahjah is [...]
The libel bind: Afua Hirsch
07Apr09 – 10:08 am
In the latest article in the libel bind series, a collaboration between Index on Censorship, English PEN and the Guardian, Afua Hirsch, Guardian legal affairs correspondent, examines some unsavoury legal aspects of the UK defamation industry: ‘But there are aspects of the modern libel industry –– and it is an industry –– that capture some [...]