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CATEGORY: United Kingdom
Media alerts in lead up to G20 demonstrations
As UK citizens prepare to exercise their freedom of expression at demonstrations during the upcoming week of the G20 summit, the media continues to...
This is legal blackmail
Britain's libel laws are a malign force far beyond just celebrity journalism. Radical reform is overdue, writes Jo Glanville This article originally...
UK plans to monitor Facebook
The UK government has said that communications over social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace could be monitored in an effort to tackle...
Event: Twenty years of free speech wars
In February 1989, five months after the publication of The Satanic Verses, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against its author Salman Rushdie. It...
Review: The Assault on Liberty
A new book attempts to cast the crisis in civil liberties as a left/right issue. But ultimately it is the timid, compliant climate of UK politics...
Sky joins BBC in refusing Gaza appeal
Sky News has informed the Disasters Emergency Committee that it will not be broadcasting an appeal for humanitarian aid for Gaza. John Ryley, the...
Sir John Mortimer, 1923 – 2009
Author and barrister Sir John Mortimer died this morning at the age of 85. Sir John was a great champion of free expression, defending many writers...
Watching Me, Watching You
Government data retention plans will make life difficult for Britain's investigative journalists, says Bill Thompson The UK government’s decision to...
MPs to call for an end to libel tourism
Senior MPs from all the major parties will tomorrow ask the government to end the practice of wealthy foreign people using British libel law and...
The politics of intimidation
The Damian Green arrest confirms fears about a vengeful government and a supine media, says John Kampfner A few years back, when I was a full-time...
UK: Shadow Immigration Minister Arrested
The shadow immigration minister, Damian Green, was arrested last night over his alleged involvement in a series of leaks from the Home Office. While...
