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We have three very different but equally fantastic plays exclusive to our current magazine, all looking at Covid-19 from different angles. Have a read: indexoncensorship.org/2020/06/privat…

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A big shout out to @londoninsider who is leaving Index today after seven years editing the magazine. Thanks for all of her hard work producing great journalism and for constantly fighting the good fight. Here's one of her award-winning issues: indexoncensorship.org/2016/05/danger…

@Index_Magazine @kayagenc @battgirl74 @irenecaselli @KarolineCQKan @jpmarthoz @tinysunbird @JulianBaggini @BJennings90 @MartinRowson @tracey_bagshaw @lucienbourjeily @Beathhigh @LisaAppignanesi @matthasteley ..well. The journalism and the strong stories, and the smuggling words out of prison is sadly just as needed as it was in 1972, don't forget to take out your subscription @Index_Magazine needs to be read cover to cover. It does. We are just going to press on the next one.

It's my last day of 7 amazing years at Index, being editor-in-chief of the amazing @Index_Magazine has been a brilliant challenge, with incredible rewards, getting to work with people like...

@londoninsider the brave and determined, the creative and original, big, big shout outs to @kayagenc @battgirl74 @KarolineCQKan @irenecaselli and all the contributing editors plus all the brilliant ...

Awful things in #Belarus, let's keep putting on the pressure and staying hopeful things will change

This woman had to wait days outside a #Belarus prison, listening to sounds of screams, before finding out her husband was detained there. Her first thought was at least he isn't dead. All of this for just partaking in a protest. indexoncensorship.org/2020/08/have-y…

#Belarus. Happening right now in #Minsk. Activists, musicians, singers gathered in front of Kupala's theatre. Yesterday, the theatre was blocked,its director Pavel Latushka was fired for his support of the protests. He joined the coordination council of the opposition.

As activists are arrested in Thailand, some good background on the harsh lèse-majesté laws that punish critics of the country's monarchy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Privacy - is it being eroded to fight the pandemic? indexoncensorship.org/2020/06/privat…

The work that @SusanLiebell and @gorenlj are doing with @NewBooksNetwork is well worth a follow. Wide-ranging and smart conversations.

The #ALevelsResults scandal is exposing how bias algorithms can be. Here we present original research on how algorithms can be prejudiced against LGBTQ positive stories. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Belarus Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich asks for Lukashenko's resignation.“Leave before it’s too late, before you have plunged the people into the abyss of civil war,” she said. “Nobody wants blood. Only you want power.” theguardian.com/world/2020/aug… @Index_Magazine @pen_int

Tomorrow, 2pm UK time, our deputy editor @JFSteinfeld and leading journalists on China will be discussing what is happening to freedoms in the country as a result of the pandemic. Organised by @SolidarityHR. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The IT Crowd makes me laugh (a lot), so I was extremely pleased to interview Katherine Parkinson for the last @Index_Magazine about an exclusive short play for us, READ here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The swan song of @MartinRowson - and what an epic illustration to end on: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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