issue: free speech
Wednesday 27 August 2008
The shame of Salman Rushdie’s
secular fatwa
In using England’s archaic libel laws to have books pulped, the former free speech martyr puts himself in the same camp as censorious mullahs.
Thursday 26 June 2008
No defender of liberty should use the libel laws
England’s law of defamation is the enemy of free speech. So why did the head of Liberty threaten a minister with a writ?
Tuesday 8 August 2006
A hairy moment for free speech
Tommy Sheridan’s libel win over the News of the World was no ‘victory’ for the working class. It was a victory for an archaic law over open debate.
Monday 25 July 2005
Why Roman picked London for his libel trial
How does a film director based in France who is a fugitive from the USA sue a US publisher and win? By taking his case to ‘a town called Sue’.
Friday 3 December 2004
Galloway 1, free speech 0
Ex-Labour MP George Galloway was defamed, but his victory under English libel law is nothing to celebrate.