It wasn’t only the EU nomenklatura who had their noses put out of joint in June 2016, when the British people rudely reminded the Euro-emperor of...
The Lords and Leveson are as bad as each other (Conservative Woman, 17 Jan 2018)
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Europe tries to fight hate, harassment, and fake news without killing free speech (CJR, 17 Jan 2018)
A TOXIC COMBINATION OF MISINFORMATION, hate speech, and online harassment is pushing several European countries to take action against social...
Meet Yemen’s street artist: ‘We want peace’ (Middle East Eye, 15 January 2018)
Murad Subay sees the devastated streets and bombed buildings in Yemen's war as something more than just ruins: he sees canvases onto which he can...
Legal advocates for the arts support Clay, Pulphus (St. Louis American, 12 Jan 2018)
U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO) and David Pulphus, the young artist whose work he displayed at the U.S. Capitol, are still fighting a legal battle...
Free speech groups praise UK decision to publish tell-all Trump book (Bookseller, 5 Jan 2018)
Free speech groups have praised Little, Brown’s decision to release Michael Wolff’s tell-all book on Donald Trump’s presidency despite the UK’s...
Free speech groups praise UK decision to publish tell-all Trump book (The Bookseller)
Free speech groups have praised Little, Brown’s decision to release Michael Wolff’s tell-all book on Donald Trump’s presidency despite the UK’s...
Singing from the same songbook? How a growing number of Asian countries are enforcing the national anthem (Open Democracy)
‘Banal nationalism’ is taking some Asian countries by storm, as citizens are forced to sing national anthems – enthusiastically, or else. Read the...
Theatres to receive training on staging controversial work (The Stage)
Theatres creating potentially controversial work can now receive training on how to handle sensitive subjects, as part of a new scheme from the...
Impunity for murders of journalists discussed in Vienna and Paris (b92)
Hundreds of experts and many representatives of international organizations took part, including Veran Matic, president of the Serbian Commission...
Caruana Galizia family expresses dismay after minister publishes private letter (Malta Independent)
The Caruana Galizia family has expressed its dismay that what it said was a “private letter” sent to Home Minister Michael Farrugia was made public...
‘Local media are simply disappearing’: how financial pressures are killing independent media (The Guardian)
From Poland and Hungary to parts of Africa and South America, states are using commercial ruses to squeeze out liberal media Read the full article
Vietnamese blogger jailed for reporting devastating chemical spill but CEOs responsible walk free (IBT)
A Vietnamese blogger has been jailed for seven years for reporting on a chemical spill that poisoned around 125 miles of the country's central...
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