My colleague Neil Denny and I will be interviewing Kenan Malik on the Little Atoms radio show tonight. You can hear it live on Resonance FM at 7pm, or download next week from the Little Atoms site. We're hoping to discuss Kenan's last book, Strange...
This is a guest post by FCO whistleblower Derek Pasquill Like everyone else I was astonished by the arrest of Damian Green. I too was interrogated for the same number of hours in the same central London police station by the same type of special...
The new issue of Index on Censorship hits the shops this week, focusing on the legacy of George Bush's administration. You can find out more about it here. There's also a few perspectives on The Satanic Verses, or, more precisely, the fallout from...
Al Dostour editor Ibrahim Eissa has won the Gerbran Tueni award, a prize given by the World Association of Newspapers that honours an editor or publisher in the Arab region. Eissa spent much of the last year locked in legal battles after he was...
It’s not often that a cause that unites Jeremy Corbyn on the hard left of the Labour Party and David Davis on the libertarian right of the Conservative Party (although the government’s attempts to push through 42 days detention without charge...
Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville was a 'witness' on Radio 4's the Moral Maze last night, discussing the BNP list leak, and whether attitudes towards BNP members working in social services etc showed we had 'lost our nerve over freedom of...
The Burmese people are still experiencing the backlash from the Saffron Revolution, with more and more writers, satirists and dissidents being locked up. Read Index on Censorship and Article 19's joint statement on the situation here (pdf).
Conservative Shadow Chancellor George Osborne very nearly lost his job recently after he was accused of 'talking down' the pound. He's managed to ride the storm, but it was a close-run thing. Osborne should of course be able to say what he likes,...
Yesterday I had the privilege of taking part in a discussion at the Foreign Press Association with Egyptian writer Ali Salem. He was in London to accept the Civil Courage Prize, an award set up by US businessman (and co-founder of the Paris Review)...
Over at Comment is Free, Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville is talking about the privatisation of censorship on the Internet. "[The Internet] is a revolution not just in terms of technology, but in terms of who does the censoring. It's no...