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On Monday 1 September 2025, comedy writer Graham Linehan, was arrested by five armed police officers at Heathrow Airport where he was returning to from the US. The grounds for the arrest were that Mr Linehan was reasonably suspected of having committed an offence of inciting violence against a protected group by posts on the X (formerly Twitter) platform in April 2025. Continue reading
On 17 August 2023 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) put the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on broad notice about the devastating failure of data protection that is now generally known as the Afghan data breach (although sadly there have been many others). Continue reading
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. Continue reading
Thomas Partey, formerly of Arsenal, now (controversially) a Villarreal player, is the latest high-profile football star to face serious criminal allegations, drawing his club into questions about its values and reputation. Continue reading
Earlier this month the US State Department released its annual report on Human Rights in over 190 countries. As usual, there was a country report on Canada. What was less usual was the report’s negative focus criticizing the state of press freedoms in Canada. It seems that as press freedom has declined in the US under Trump 2.0, the MAGA interpretation of how other countries should conduct themselves has ramped up. If there was ever a case of “the pot calling the kettle black”, this is it. Continue reading
In Sledziewski & Anor v Persons Unknown & Anor [2024] EWHC 1955 (KB), Aidan Eardley KC, sitting as a deputy High Court Judge, handed down an excoriating judgment refusing an application for an interim injunction in harassment. Continue reading
What began with accusations of misconduct has escalated into a reputational crisis, ending with the dismissal of MasterChef presenters Gregg Wallace and John Torode. Beyond the headlines, this case puts how organisations and public figures respond to allegations of misconduct into the spotlight – offering key lessons from an employment and crisis management perspective. Continue reading
What the matters discussed in Part One of this post demonstrate above all is the complexity and difficulty of critiquing the OSA as a threat to perfectly legitimate forms of expression when such significant parts of the mainstream media, namely the Telegraph, Times, Sun, Express, Mail and GB News, along with pressure groups such as the Free Speech Union and powerful right-wing ‘think tanks’ (in actual fact, ‘free market’ lobbyists) such as the Adam Smith Institute and Policy Exchange have, in pursuit of their own political and ideological ends, repeatedly set it up as a straw man and attacked it from the perspective of what has come to be known as free speech fundamentalism. Continue reading
Judgment was, today, handed down in the libel case of Noel Clarke v Guardian News and Media [2025] EWHC 2193 (KB). In a 224 page, 1023 paragraph judgment, Mrs Justice Steyn dismissed all Mr Clarke’s claims. She found that Mr Clarke was not a “credible or reliable witness” [128] and the defences of truth and public interest were successful. Continue reading
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