Opinion ‘Free speech tsar’ is the government’s latest attack on universities The Conservative Party has all but outlawed public protest. Now it wants to root it out of campuses, too By Adam Ramsay / 2 Jun 2023
News Even police doubted my arrest was legal, claims anti-royal protester The Edinburgh student charged with ‘breaching the peace’ says officers feared they would be a ‘laughing stock’ By Adam Bychawski / 13 Sep 2022
Opinion Culture wars: It’s the Right that is trying to cancel free speech While the powerful try to silence those who speak back to them, working-class cultures all over the world are quietly being erased. Last in a series of four on the culture wars By Adam Ramsay / 18 Dec 2021
Feature How did a journalist who knew she would be killed live? Regina Martínez suffered threats and censorship. She revealed Mexico’s corruption, organised crime and human rights abuses until she was murdered By Amigzaday López Beltrán / 15 Dec 2021
News UK government cites US anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ in free speech proposals ADF International, an anti-abortion, ‘dark money’-funded think tank, provided ‘evidence’ for decline in free speech and academic freedom By Adam Bychawski / 19 Feb 2021
Home Is Lebanon becoming a police state? A year after protests swept the country, two and a half months after the Beirut port explosion, the Lebanese elite is cracking down on dissent. By Walid el Houri / 16 Oct 2020
Opinion The rich and powerful are trying to silence journalists across Europe The EU needs to fight back By Nik Williams and Flutura Kusari / 14 Jul 2020
Home In Lebanon: new waves of hatred with little solidarity The needed solidarity with Mashrou’ Leila has unintentionally overshadowed the thousands of Palestinian voices demanding justice and a decent life. By Walid el Houri / 23 Jul 2019
