Nik Sunil Williams

Press freedom groups have called for better access to European Commission documents for journalists, saying requests are "severely delayed", denied "on questionable grounds" or overly redacted: "public debate is being harmed. Stories which should emerge do not" cpj.org/2026/10/cpj-...

Russian Billionaire Takes Tiny Norwegian News Outlet to Court in London

Vučić and Bolsonaro losing is that handy reminder (and my god we need it) that the slide into authoritarianism is not guaranteed and can be fought against and ultimately defeated.

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries. #Glasgow #Belfast #London

Donald Trump canceled his scheduled Oct. 16 deposition in his lawsuit against the BBC because of "matters of national importance." The BBC alerts the judge that those matters were: a rally in Dalton, Ga. and a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.

Oh yeah that is the problem with the US right now. Not enough moonshine and too few homemade stills blowing up. Take that Rex Banner, you woke snowflake lib

NAZA is earth and soul shattering. A documentary of profound clarity and power that leaves marks on your mind and view of the world

"There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate." This feels as true today as it was 9 years ago when #DaphneCaruanaGalizia was brutally murdered. My love & solidarity to her family, everyone who knew her & to everyone fighting for justice. Justice delayed is justice denied

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

This story sure broke down

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

US justice department investigating TV networks over Trump pool coverage www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Police arrest leader of India’s ‘Cockroach’ movement before mass protest ft.trib.al/5onXqE9

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

For our symposium on "The Forever War and the First Amendment," @knightcolumbia.org and @harpers.bsky.social co-commissioned this essay from @harikunzru.bsky.social about art and censorship after 9/11. It's really good, and I'm hoping Hari will turn it into a book. harpers.org/archive/2026...

No matter how weird you think they are, they are even weirder than that

It’s banned book week and I hope that you support authors of banned books. Creep: Accusations and Confessions was the target of a book ban in Santa Paula, California. I was banned from Long Beach Unified School District property for speaking out against corruption.

The White House is refusing to allow Politico on Air Force One on Monday, which means the news organization cannot fulfill its press corps pool responsibilities. https://cnn.it/3TnDczb

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

So Reform UK are a pro-homemade explosive party?

What a "generous" fellow saying that Jane Doe is not the main villain. Ignoring his bloviating approximation of journalism, let's be clear he doesn't believe her and is trying to undermine her because all he sees is her trying to "self-declare some form of victimisation". A contemptible man

When I studied in Penn State I had to write an essay after I got told off by the RA for drunkenly playing the piano in the common room. That this is the same "punishment" given to 7 men who allegedly drugged & gang raped a Cornell student is utterly shameful www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Séamus Dooley, NUJ assistant general secretary, pays tribute to Martin O'Hagan and explains why the union continues to call for justice 25 years after his murder. NUJ members will gather for a vigil in Writer's Square, Belfast, at 12pm today. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/tri...

The US is the only country in the world that hasn't turned its capital city into the Death Star. Outrageous!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

That far-right goons were able to close down a community run library and language school in Glasgow was bad enough. And now this. Extraordinary that RNLI and their volunteers get so little support from authorities they need to close a life boat station.

📢 Attending #LibDemConference this weekend? Join FPC Executive Director Susan Coughtrie on Saturday for a fringe discussion on Anti-SLAPP Law, alongside Jess Brown-Fuller MP and Edward Lucas. 📅 19 Sept | 2pm 📍 St Paul’s Church, West Street #SLAPPs #MediaFreedom

I've learnt so much from Massimo, a generous, knowledgeable and committed human rights defender and #mediafreedom expert. This decision by the Serbian authorities must be reversed immediately. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/09/mass... @balcanicaucaso.org @ecpmf.bsky.social @indexoncensorship.org

As someone of mixed race heritage and the son of a migrant, this vile, bigoted barely-contained glee cuts deep. While they bask in their cruelty we must demand better.

Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

In a world drowning in bad news, we must hold on to the good. Today, our former @indexoncensorship.org colleague Andrei Aliaksandrau and his wife Irina Zlobina were released from a Belarusian prison after 2073 days. While they never should have been imprisoned we celebrate their release

How states respond to journalism and critical scrutiny defines their principles and what they value. That the Israeli regime calls a documentary an act of treason and threatens to render the filmmakers stateless tells us quite a lot, and none of it good.

Awkward on a number of fronts, especially for terminology in political response and media coverage, but proclaiming not to be a protest movement doesn't actually change police obligations They are based on the rights of freedom of assembly and expression, rather than any definition of protest

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” has decided against broadcasting an interview on Thursday with James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, and will instead post it on YouTube. Kimmel said that the show made the decision because the FCC had “threatened” ABC over “traditional editorial decisions.”

They're now just targeting random groups of dark-skinned people. What's going to have to happen before the government starts taking this seriously? www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

Paramount is using a fake public interest group named "Neighbors For Strong Communities" to create bogus, AI-generated support for the company's $111 billion merger

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

For a party led by a politician who whinged after having a milkshake poured over this head, the sycophant Jenrick should be careful when downplaying a political assault with "boo hoo"

Is this the two-tier policing we have heard so much about? If this was environmentalists they would have been arrested. The clampdowns on all protest are illiberal & not human rights compliant but now we know they are ALSO partially deployed. The worst mixture www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...