Press freedom
Revealed: the press regulator’s leaked guidelines on Islamophobia
If truthful reporting risks increasing tension between communities, should it still be published? Do journalists have a social duty to…
The press regulator must not turn into a religious thought police
Next year I will begin my fifth decade as a working journalist. As a writer, as an executive — and…
The new tycoons
The giants of the internet have long said that they are not publishers but mere platforms — or couriers —…
Sex, lies and tax returns
The confected scandal around the Panama papers is part of a concerted and sinister attempt to change what counts as private
France’s new reactionaries
The nation’s intellectuals are being roiled by issues of immigration, sovereignty and freedom of expression
Caught on the net
Going online does not make you invisible – as the adulterers who used the hacked site Ashley Madison are discovering
This is Leveson’s legacy: a great new way for bullies to muzzle the press
One of the fundamental principles of English common law is that you are innocent until proven guilty. And rightly so,…
Len the loser
Unite’s leader splashes out on legal threats because he knows his cause is in trouble
An attack on freedom
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo lambasts, attacks and lampoons absolutely everybody. Its targets include all religions, all identity groups,…
Licence to snoop
Police are using an anti-terror law to run wild in the public’s mobile phone records
Our suicidal media
Civil war within the British press threatens a free society
Letters
Beyond the law Sir: In your leading article of 28 June you make the point that the hacking trial demonstrates…
Letters
Why we need a free press Sir: As bereaved parents and (to borrow from some signatories of last week’s advertisement)…
Snowden is no leftie
So why are British conservatives determined to ignore his revelations?
How we invented freedom
It’s time to rediscover the original Bill of Rights
Hugh Grant’s censorious friends may be about to win the day
It is a peculiar alliance, when you think of it, which wishes to bring to an end 300 years of…
