“Human rights are not an impediment to effective policing”

February 4th, 2013

Index on Censorship’s Kirsty Hughes talks to Sir Hugh Orde, one of the UK’s most senior police officers, about protest, public order and politics
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The Leveson Inquiry: Do we need a free press?

September 17th, 2012

The UK has a press-controlled state rather than a state-controlled press. Phone hacking lawyer Mark Lewis reports on lessons from Leveson

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Index on Censorship letter to Metropolitan Police Commissioner

September 17th, 2011

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INDEX ON CENSORSHIP LETTER TO METROPOLITAN POLICE COMMISSIONER

Phone hacking: Questions to answer

December 16th, 2010

Latest revelations on the News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal puts the police under the spotlight, says Brian Cathcart. The Met should be taken off the case and the investigation reopened
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