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

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

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

Since Meta changed its rules, the Purple Slut cabaret has had its accounts repeatedly taken down because of community ...

China’s economy still has extraordinary bright spots, particularly in tech. Its supply chains of rare earth minerals, ...

Index talks to the people behind a new monument honouring UK-based newsgatherers who lost their lives whilst reporting around the globe ...

The Winter 2023 issue of Index looks at how comedy is being censored around the world. Comedy has always been a powerful tool of dissent, but many comedians are being threatened, imprisoned or even ...

In a secondary academy in England, a librarian is putting books into a box. Just moments before, they were proudly on the shelves, rainbow flags waving across their covers and words such as “queer” ...

The undersigned organisations express their serious concern at the legal proceedings that are being brought against journalist and author Catherine Belton and her publisher HarperCollins. The two ...

In a perceptive video essay titled Irani Bag, made in 2020, Maryam Tafakory illustrates how Iranian filmmakers get around the Islamic taboo on touch. Interweaving her commentary with film clips from ...

The message of one of our founders, Stephen Spender, was that Index wouldn’t be doing a good job if it didn’t keep an eye on attacks to free expression that happen on home soil. With this in mind and ...