January 21st, 2013
DJ Taylor is the author of Orwell: The Life, an award-winning biography of journalist and novelist George Orwell. he speaks to Nigel Warburton about Orwell’s nuanced attitude to free speech and his encounters with censorship
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Tags: Tags: DJ Taylor, free speech, George Orwell, Nigel Warburton, politics & society,
April 10th, 2012
In 2005 Flemming Rose commissioned the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that sparked protests and riots across the world.
In an exclusive book extract, Rose explains why bans on hate speech across Europe are based on a false understanding of its role in the Holocaust
Tags: Tags: anti-Semitism, censorship, Flemming Rose, George Orwell, Germany, hate speech, holocaust, Islam, nazi, Nuremberg, racial discrimination, self-censorship,
April 3rd, 2012
Robert McCrum considers Index’s role in the history of the fight for free speech, from the oppression of the Cold War to censorship onlineTags: Tags: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov, Andrei Sinyavsky, Anna Politkovskaya, Bertrand Russell, Brazil, Cecil Day-Lewis, Charter 77, Cold War, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Dostoevsky, George Orwell, George Theiner, Graham Greene, Greece, Henry Moore, Igor Stravinsky, Isaac Babel, JB Priestley, John Milton, John Twyn, Lord Byron, Michael Scammell, Nadine Gordimer, Osip Mandelstam, Pavel Litvinov, Portugal, Roa Bastos, Robert McCrum, Russia, samizdat, Samuel Beckett, South Africa, Spain, Stephen Spender, Tom Paine, United Kingdom, USSR, Vaclav Havel, WH Auden, Writers and Scholars International, Yehudi Menuhin, Yuli Daniel,
