British blog Harry's Place is facing legal action from Mohammed Sawalha, the President of the British Muslim Initiative, after a post on the site claimed that an Al Jazeera article quoted him referring to 'the evil Jew' in Britain. Harry's Place,...
Journalist Shiv Malik was today ordered to must give police all tapes of conversations with alleged jihadist Hassan Butt, with whom he had been writing a book. Justice Dyson also ruled that Malik must hand over copies of his notebooks within seven...
Today's ruling may help to fend off 'fishing expeditions', writes Padraig Reidy A London court today ruled that the production order served on journalist Shiv Malik was ‘too wide’ in its scope. Malik, who was written extensively on UK jihadists and...
The government’s latest legislation on ‘extreme pornography’ is based on ill-informed notions, writes Julian Petley Question: what do Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Inside Linda Lovelace have in common? Answer: they were all...
Hicham Yezza, the University of Nottingham employee who came to prominence after helping a research student download a so-called 'terror manual', has had his deportation date cancelled, as his solicitors seek a judicial review of his case. Mr Yezza...
Mary Whitehouse was a shrill provocateur on a relentless crusade to stifle, oppress and scare, writes Padraig Reidy Mary Whitehouse has always been a peripheral idea in my life --- one of those puppets on Spitting Image I never really recognised as...
Two men, a student and an academic administrator, were held for six days by Nottinghamshire police last week under the Terrorism Act. Hicham Yezza and Rizwaan Sabir of Nottingham University were detained after Mr Sabir downloaded a 'terror manual'...
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,...
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,...