Written by : Rachael Jolley
How Shakespeare’s plays smuggle in protest
Protest, dissent and controversy are all found within the pages of Shakespeare's plays. Index on Censorship editor Rachael Jolley introduces a Shakespeare special issue as the 400th anniversary of his death approaches Editorial: Talk does not cost lives, silence does
Societies often endanger lives by creating taboos, rather than letting citizens openly discuss stigmas and beliefs Autumn magazine 2015: Spies, secrets and lies
The autumn issue of Index on Censorship magazine is filled to the brim with stories and analysis from across the globe has a special report on the censors of old and new Editorial: Spies in the new machines
These days spies are just as likely to be inside your machine as outside your home, says Rachael Jolley Shades of McCarthyism as global academic freedom challenged
Editor Rachael Jolley explains why the latest Index on Censorship magazine is focusing on academic freedom, with a look at current threats from around the worldwide, from Ukraine to the US Rafael Marques de Morais: “They can lock me up, but they don’t get to silence me”
When you go up against the big guns of any state, you know they will throw everything at you. Investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais has learned this hard lesson in the last few days Wired up: why refugees in exile remain silenced
People who have fled dangerous regimes now use free apps and digital connections to stay in touch with their former home, but they often worry that those networks can also be used against them, says Rachael Jolley 
Painting over the Clacton Banksy? Does nobody understand satire any more?
All it seems to take is for one person to think that something’s ‘racist’ …Will the future of journalism make us better informed?
When the subject of the future of journalism is discussed it often turns to whizzy gadgets but the debate about whether the public ends up being better informed happens less often, says editor Rachael Jolley as she introduces the latest Index on Censorship magazine 
