A campaign to remove hateful works from retailers like Waterstones and Foyles has kicked off a censorship row. Read the full article

Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg’s comment to the New Statesman:

Stopping the spread of ideas we find abhorrent is an old tendency rather than a “new trend”, and not solved by making information inaccessible, argues the Index on Censorship’s chief executive Jodie Ginsberg. “Encouraging bookshops not to stock certain content because it’s considered hateful I think is problematic,” she says.

“When you’re suggesting [the removal of books from] some of the largest bookshops in the country, which are the ones most people can access, then you are limiting people’s access to information… Anything that limits people’s inability to find out information is a threat to freedom of expression.”