Caspar Melville of New Humanist has an update on the cancellation of a poetry reading in Cardiff after threats of disruption by Stephen Green of Christian Voice. Gerry Johnson, Managing Director of Waterstone's, has been in touch to explain the...
Stephen Green of Christian Voice managed to get a poetry reading shut down this week. Waterstones of Cardiff cancelled the launch of Patrick Jones's Darkness is Where the Stars Are after threats of disruption from the fundamentalist Christian....
It didn't take District Judge Nicholas Evans long to come up with a verdict in the case of the five Plane Stupid protesters charged under SOCPA this morning. All were found guilty and four ordered to pay a fine and costs totalling £365. The...
As the UK government tries to quell a Labour rebellion against plans for a third runway at Heathrow, five young climate change protesters went on trial today at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Leo Murray, Olivia Chessell, Alexander George,...
The dispute over the BBC's restructuring of its Russian service continues. After Thursday's letter in the Times, signed by Index on Censorship and others, the World Service director Nigel Chapman went to great length to contact various signatories...
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is not happy. In his speech to the Society of Editors last night, he railed against the dangers of the creeping introduction of the notion of privacy in UK law. Specifically, he singled out Mr Justice Eady, whose...
Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville and Chief Executive John Kampfner have put their names to a letter in the Times today condemning the BBC's decision to make cutbacks in the BBC Russian service. The BBC claims to have legitimate reasons for...
This is a guest post by Anthony Dworkin Among the many things to celebrate in Obama’s convincing victory is American voters’ rejection of the ‘culture war’ agenda that Sarah Palin brought to the Republican ticket. Opinion polls showed clearly that,...
This is a guest post by Stryker McGuire, contributing editor for Newsweek Barack Obama rides into the White House on the back of such high expectations that he cannot help but disappoint. And among those he will disappoint will be advocates of...
Index on Censorship’s Padraig Reidy appeared on Listening Post, Al Jazeera’s media programme, last Friday, discussing Hezbollah and its use of the media.