@freepress.bsky.social joined @wgawest.bsky.social today to protest ABC/Disney’s capitulation to the Trump administration’s calls to censor Jimmy Kimmel.

“See you in Valhalla”. Where have we heard that before? theconversation.com/far-right-ex...

The AI impersonation plot thickens... Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The arrest of Graham Linehan over a series of posts on X has been a stark example of overpolicing what we say online in the UK. Index's @martinbright.bsky.social writes about the episode: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/09/the-...

Could you get in touch please? @gregwilliams718.bsky.social

Join us this Tuesday for Land of the Free? A magazine launch and panel on #Trump's assault on free expression. With @ericawagner.bsky.social, @anveebhutani.bsky.social, and @charlieholt.bsky.social. 📅 Tuesday 5 August 📍 St John's Waterloo Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/land-of-th...

Can we now talk about the American Dissident? A conversation with @benjaminnathans.bsky.social for @indexoncensorship.org www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/has-...

The term "dissident" emerged during the Cold War. Index was created at this time & worked with dissidents from the USSR. So what can US political activists now learn from the original dissidents? Index's editor-at-large @martinbright.bsky.social explores: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/has-...

At risk of sounding like an old git, Glastonbury seems to be just a series of bland acts playing songs using the same intervals with that pop-country-Swedish vibe. It’s as predictable and predigested as the politics.

As Health Secretary Wes Streeting announces a national inquiry into maternity care, revisit the ground-breaking investigation by Index's @martinbright.bsky.social on the culture of secrecy shrouding maternity services and women’s healthcare in #England: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/04/whis...

I was delighted to hear about the release of political prisoners from Belarus, but the campaign must continue for others still detained. bjr.org.uk/handing-the-...

I keep hearing that we’ve seen this film before… www.officialsecretsfilm.co.uk/home/

Who has what of ours - and why? observer.co.uk/culture/art/...

The floral soul of the man who created unforgettable costumes for Audrey Hepburn and Margot Fonteyn: observer.co.uk/style/fashio...

Pedro Pascal urges people to fight back against a scary US regime by not being fearful and so not “letting them win” #Eddington @cannesfilmfestival.bsky.social

Harris Dickinson @cannesfilmfestival.bsky.social -ahead of acclaim today for his directorial debut #Urchin - explains his work with East London rough sleepers and addicts

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Support local journalism! Great independent initiative in Leicester...

The same administration that issues executive orders about "restoring truth to American history" is eliminating archives of historical newspapers. It's almost like they don't mean what their performative EOs say.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

The terrible story of the appalling French rock star and killer Bertrand Cantat. Brilliantly told and all kudos to journalist Anne-Sophie Jahn who revealed the full scale of the horror. www.netflix.com/gb/title/815...

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I’ve done an investigation into this list and it’s mainly star presenters and big name editors - very few actual investigative journalists.

'The ability to deport a drug dealer must not depend on the quality of chicken nuggets in Albania' writes Lord Glasman (why UK must leave ECHR) That sentence should annoy/embarrass anybody who thinks serious 'blue Labour' things should be said about rebalancing lib/cons traditions in soc democracy

It’ll get less traction than Glasman saying something mad (again) but this @siennarodgers.bsky.social piece on Jonathan Rutherford is a better guide to where& how Blue Labour is influencing govt www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.

I'll be moderating a discussion on Friday with First Amendment lawyers Floyd Abrams, David Bralow of @theintercept.com and @kendraserra.bsky.social about what the administration's attacks on law firms and nonprofits mean for press freedom. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

US historian Stephen Hahn tells Matt Frei that Donald Trump is "hoping to have a real confrontation which might allow him to declare a national emergency and then rule truly as an autocrat." Read and watch:

In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, his appointees and allies in Congress have joined his campaign against the press, and are endeavoring to defund, defang and silence independent and critical reporting:

Important thread

This is grim. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Russian journalist on the run after escaping house arrest

For our latest magazine issue, The forgotten patients, Index's @martinbright.bsky.social conducted an investigation into the culture of secrecy shrouding maternity services and women’s healthcare in England. This is what he found ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/04/whis... #NHS

I took a look at the NHS maternity scandals of recent decades and what I found was horrifying: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I had a look at the NHS maternity scandals of the past few years and this is what I found… journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

My @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.

I thought I'd seen it all from the Home Office. But denying asylum to women who stand up for their rights from Afghanistan! 'It is considered you do not face a real risk of harm,' officials wrote. Have they seen what the Taliban does to women who resist?? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Oh no! We removed all the barriers to creating fake news websites, in a context where we have limited protections for news integrity and now bad faith actors are using flooding 2.0 with news slop. Who could of predicted this 😱 www.logicallyfacts.com/en/analysis/...

America has never been subject to this level of authoritarianism, and quite frankly, sheer incompetence. Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.

I’m impressed and moved by Maybe I’m Amazed by @johnharris1969.bsky.social. First part on Book of the Week on Radio 4. So often authors should be advised not to read their own books but in this case it really works.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.

Love this piece. Classic Hattenstone www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Aren’t the American intelligence community and military starting to freak out yet about the traitor in the White House?