PAST EVENT: 8 July: Ways With Words at Dartington

Reduced ticket offer for Index on Censorship:

FREE SPEECH – The Great Middle East Revolution FRIDAY 8 JULY at 5.30pm, at The Telegraph Ways With Words festival at Dartington Hall, Devon

  • Susan Pointer, Google Policy Director, South East Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • John Kampfner, Chief Executive, Index on Censorship
  • Hisham Matar, Libyan novelist
  • Sami Ben Gharbia, Tunisian blogger and activist

The above panel will examine what free speech means today. Has the internet revolutionised how the oppressed voice their dissent?

Tickets £5 (normally £9)

This event is part of a 10 day festival (8-18 July) with over 160 events at the medieval Dartington Hall, amongst lovely Devon hills.  Speakers appearing include: Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Alan Hollinghurst, Jon Ronson, Matthew Parris, Lionel Blue, Mary Warnock, Ben Okri, Xinran, Roy Strong.

To receive the full programme and take advantage of the two for one offer: call 01803 867373 or on line at www.wayswithwords.co.uk quoting ‘Index on Censorship ticket offer’

Metaphors matter in "cyber war" debate

Americans generally don’t like to use the word “war” when the country is actually in one (see: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and, increasingly, Pakistan and Yemen). Rhetorical wars, though, politicians and policy-makers love, whether it’s the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, or the amorphous War on Terror. (more…)

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