What was initially billed as a celebration of the importance of religious and cultural tolerance and understanding turned into something a bit...
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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.
Syrian advocate sentenced to five years
The danger of gestures
Last week, Germany, in its capacity as president of the EU, attempted to outlaw Holocaust denial in the EU. In the end, the resolution that emerged...
Minister’s naughty threesome with state, press and free speech
Liberian information minister Laurence Bropleh continues to make a stalwart but surprising defence of his government’s targeting of the Monrovia...
Armenians and the meaning of genocide
Two resolutions, one introduced in the House in January and in the Senate in March, seek to recognise the events of 1915 as genocide, but the...
Clareification: police drop case
The two, the editor and guest editor of the Clare College student magazine, had been questioned by police after an issue of the magazine dedicated...
Censorship Complementing Cover Up
Ever since Peter Brooke as Northern Ireland Secretary of State made his 1990 statement that Britain had no selfish strategic interest for remaining...
Silenced voice
Loreena McKennitt has become well-known in the UK for all the wrong reasons. The Canadian singer has become embroiled in an unseemly fight over...
Russia: Diary of the discontented
We are going to Moscow on Thursday evening. There are a few meetings arranged there. I could have gone at the very beginning of the week but was...
‘Weddings And Beheadings’
‘The abduction of Alan Johnston in Gaza is cruel and terrifying. However, we don’t honour persecuted journalists and writers around the...
Troubled times in Gaza
When Ariel Sharon declared his intention to withdraw Israeli settlers from Gaza in 2004, the Palestinian leadership was quick to declare its...
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) – Literature as encouragement
‘I doubt that literature has ever triumphed over repression. I think of Hitler in his bunker, with a pistol at his temple and with the Red Army only...