Posts Tagged ‘new statesman’

Thatcher: Paradoxes of secrecy

April 9th, 2013

In this Index on Censorship magazine article from 1988, investigative reporter Duncan Campbell claimed that former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died this week, was “utterly disdainful of press freedom and open government”
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Paradoxes of secrecy – free speech in the Thatcher years

Wikileaks and New Statesman in Auchi libel row

November 5th, 2008

The New Statesman has removed a post from the blog of political editor Martin Bright after a threat of legal action from Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi. (more…)

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