104 results for Free speech

11 February 2016

To defenders of free speech in Japan there was something ominous in internal affairs and communications minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent comment that the government could rein in broadcasters whose content wasn’t “politi…

30 November 2021

Charles Hecker and Tessa Szyszkowitz on Austria’s plans to fine the unvaccinated, the next frontier for MI6, and the UK and EU’s failure on refugee policy. Plus: the limits of free speech, with former Trump adviser Jason…

27 November 2014

We discuss race relations in America, geopolitics in South Asia, and free speech in South Korea; analyse the week's top media and business news; and get a lesson in capoeira as the Brazilian martial art and dance gains UN…

16 January 2023

As Davos returns, we ask in what practical ways it will help to address the world’s problems. James Rodgers and Allison Kaplan Sommer discuss Russia and Belarus’s joint air-force drills, the threat to Israel’s independent…

21 February 2017

We ask if Nato members spend enough on defence and discuss whether there is such a thing as absolute free speech. We also ask if China can do more to curb the excesses of North Korea and whether other countries will benefit…

28 April 2015

With Australia considering the extraordinary step of recalling its ambassador to Indonesia over the executions of two convicted drug smugglers, we discuss the growing diplomatic outrage. Plus a leading voice of Syria's…

7 January 2013

We speak to the daughter of jailed human rights protester Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Jane Kinninmont of Chatham House about the prospects for stability in Bahrain, assess free speech in China as the journalists of the Sout…

8 May 2018

We head to Yerevan to ask if Armenia is about to break its political deadlock and examine free speech, or its absence, in Cambodia, as its last independent newspaper is sold. Plus, we punch our ticket to find out which city…

15 September 2017

Analysis of the day's top news with Andrew Mueller, Daniel Giacopelli, Fernando Augusto Pacheco and Henry Rees-Sheridan. HEar about North Korean missile fatigue and the limits of free speech in the US, as well as a contr…

16 May 2024

Vladimir Putin touches down in China for a two-day state visit and meeting with Xi Jinping. Meanwhile, Gaza is at the top of the agenda as the Arab League Summit begins in Bahrain. Plus: Dutch coalition talks, free speech…

3 May 2016

Relations between Turkey and Germany have seen far better days. Just weeks after comedian Jan Böhmermann raised hackles in Ankara with a borderline-racist poem about president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, another German satirist…

7 June 2024

Volodymyr Zelensky has been branded a “hero” by one D-Day veteran as France announces that it will provide Ukraine with fighter jets and training. Authorities in Hong Kong further crack down on free speech as two British…