UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly under pressure to repeal hate speech laws in order to secure a favourable ...

It is deeply troubling that the USA’s new health secretary believes in conspiracy theories and is hostile towards modern ...

Index interviews “the bookseller of Jerusalem” about the recent raids on his bookshop and the ongoing crackdown on literary ...

Mark Honigsbaum is a medical historian and journalist specialising in the history and science of infectious disease, and a ...

An Index investigation into the culture of secrecy shrouding NHS maternity services and women’s healthcare in England ...

The day after Badiucao published his statement, Hong Kong’s new chief of police warned that, despite Hong Kong’s return to ...

Who’s made the most effort to throw legal threats at the little guys? A tongue-in-cheek round-up of the European SLAPP ...

At its heart, it’s about control – of the message, the momentum and the mood. “Saving face” isn’t just cultural etiquette in China, it’s political strategy. Curiously, this is not only a top-down game ...

Under Soviet rule, Roma women were subjected to forced sterilisation. Today, they are still facing discrimination in their reproductive care ...