Shohini Chaudhuri is a professor in the Literature, Film and Theatre Studies department at the University of Essex, and ...

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Who could have predicted that Donald Trump would unite George Orwell and Taylor Swift in the form of an Index newsletter? But that’s the strange world in which we’re living. This week I’ve been ...

UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, of which Index is co-chair, launches campaign as Parliament delays establishing anti-SLAPP ...

Everything Afghan women do this week in Tirana, Albania is forbidden to them at home. Arguing. Laughing. Speaking loudly in public. Singing. Wearing brightly coloured clothes. Showing their faces. All ...

Many will likely be excited for the year ahead but perhaps not Hong Kong students. They’re returning to a new lesson: Xi ...

Last week, Israel’s authorities took significant steps on the internal front to narrow political freedom, censor cultural expression and increase the power of police in Israeli society, critics of the ...