It is one of the most common refrains of the lawyers who run modern Britain under the cloak of New Labour: the effect of the Human Rights Act is...
The prince and the paper
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Padraig Reidy
Padraig Reidy
Padraig Reidy is the editor of Little Atoms and a columnist for Index on Censorship. He has also written for The Observer, The Guardian, and The Irish Times.
Drawing it on yourself
It ended, as fusses often do, with an almost inaudible whimper. After articles in the red-tops, columns in the Sundays, fury on blogs, and the ever...
Taking liberties
The right to tell your government what you think of them is supposed to be a fundamental cornerstone of the British democracy. We are a nation of...
Faces of the dead
Lords must defend Freedom of Information
The Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill introduced into the House of Commons as a private members bill by Conservative MP David Maclean, would,...
Zimbabwe: Index on Censorship Award winner hospitalised by police
Zimbabwean security officers used brutal methods to disperse a peaceful march by approximately 100 members of the Law Society, including it’s...
Russia: Freedom report hits raw nerve
Freedom House’s annual report Freedom of the Press, released last month, caused an outcry over the state of local media in Russia. Freedom House, a...
Vive la Différence
These days no freedom of expression group operates on its own in the way that Nick Fillmore alleges (Have the world’s free press campaigners got...
World Press Freedom Day
On almost any day of the year, the headlines concerning attacks on free media around the globe are shocking. Consider the main headlines from a day...
World Press Fredom Day 2007
BBC reporter Alan Johnston was kidnapped in March, and suddenly press freedom, in the most literal sense, has become a talking point. Websites and...
Iran plans to monitor phone messages
As part of a renewed crackdown on personal freedoms in Iran, the latest government-sanctioned curb is on mobile messaging. Iran’s Ministry of...
What has the BBC got to hide?
The BBC have fought me from ditch to ditch using a top class legal team and every litigation tactic available. This is an organisation of enormous...