Journalist Shiv Malik's attempt to have a production order served on him by police resumes at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning. Malik, 27, was ordered to hand over notes, tapes and other materials relating to his book Leaving Al Qaeda,...
Journalist Agil Khalil of the opposition newspaper Azadlig had an attempt made on his life on 7 May, when someone tried to push him under an underground train. Later that day, two men grabbed him near the newspaper’s office. Khalil believes it was...
Visual artists and even pop stars could face prosecution under new British legislation, writes John Ozimek Collectors looking to make a fast buck by investing in erotica had a nervous awakening this morning. And fans of Madonna were left wondering...
Academic Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom was last week stripped of his honorary post at University College London, after his controversial views on the Holocaust and 9/11 were uncovered by bloggers. Was the university right to disassociate itself from him,...
Journalist Shiv Malik has been granted leave to appeal against a production order served on him by police. Malik, who specialises in writing on Islamist extremism and terrorism, was ordered by Greater Manchester Police Counter Terrorism Unit to...
London local paper the Hackney Gazette has decided not to allow the British National Party to advertise in its pages. The paper was the focus of much scrutiny after the Hampstead and Highgate Express, which is owned by the same group, Archant, had...
Should publications only run ads that match their principles, asks Peter Wilby Many readers and some journalists believe editors should apply the same principles to advertising as they do to editorial copy. If an ad is violently at variance with...
Arms trade campaigners are celebrating today, after a London judge decided that the director of the Serious Fraud Office should not have dropped an investigation into a multi-billion dollar arms deal. Padraig Reidy reports A court ruled today that...
Motor racing supremo Max Mosley has failed in his attempt to stop the News of the World from publishing an extract from a video of him with several prostitutes on its website. The newspaper claims that Mosley, son of British fascist leader Oswald,...
Mark Thomas led an inspired campaign against the UK government's restrictions on the right to protest. He says good riddance …And so farewell then to the anti-protest laws, repealed with a musty splutter from Jack Straw in Parliament last week....