In the UK, the political right also claims regularly that free speech is under threat from an overbearing state, policing ...

Anshuman Mondal is a professor of modern literature at the University of East Anglia. His new book Racism and ‘Free Speech’ ...

The musician and activist writes about the freedom fighters, writers, poets and musicians who have inspired her ...

The musician and activist writes about the freedom fighters, writers, poets and musicians who have inspired her ...

They invited the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah to appear at the festival. Abdel-Fattah is a novelist, ...

A Tanzanian poet reflects on her country's president winning our annual poll of despots against fierce competition ...

As the Iranian government cracks down violently on protest, we go on the trail of a spray-painting grandmother who secretly ...

New employment rules spell victory for Zelda Perkins, former assistant to the disgraced film producer and who was awarded a ...

As the Iranian government cracks down violently on protest, we go on the trail of a spray-painting grandmother who secretly keeps the words of the protests alive ...

It should now be clear to everyone that the year 2026 will be marked by the march of the far right further into the ...

The weather was pleasantly cool in the Degari area outside Quetta when I visited along with a local guide at the end of September. There is silence because the population is scattered. But the ...