More than four years after the invasion of Iraq, the full truth of the infamous September 2002 dossier is yet to come out. This was the dossier central to Tony Blair’s case for war, claiming that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction that could be...
One of the most pernicious means by which restrictions on free speech have grown tighter in recent years has been through the use of incitement laws, both incitement to hatred and incitement to violence and murder. In some cases, as in the...
Freedom of expression in the United Kingdom is still defined negatively. The freedom not to be offended, abused, plagiarised or blasphemed against outweighs in most legislative terms the freedom to engage in any of these potentially enjoyable and...
Trying to remember when all this started, I rooted out from my shelves the other day a copy of a book I wrote as a young reporter on the Guardian. Its front cover is cracking and a bit faded with the passage of 27 years, but the cartoon by John...
For four months at the end of 2005, I was given access to an extraordinary series of Foreign Office documents concerning the government’s strategy to tackle the threat of radical Islam at home and abroad. Literally dozens of emails, position papers...
On 4 November 2005, more than 3,000 activists of nationalist organisations, making Nazi salutes and with stylised swastikas on their banners, marched through the centre of Moscow to Slavianskaia Square between the Kremlin and the headquarters of...
Even though there are no cars passing through, the little mining town of Kamituga, on the fringes of Southern Kivu and Maniema provinces, is full of noise as soon as the sun is up. The hubbub comes from the market, where people hurry to buy cheap...