There is a difference between religious persecution and religious criticism, writes Jemimah Steinfeld. To conflate the two is ...

Dozens of high profile writers including Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro and Dame Marina Warner have all criticised its ...

During a week of funerals, supporters and loved ones reflect on the former President’s legacy. “He understood that the arc of ...

Daljit Nagra and Molly Rosenberg stepped down from the 205-year-old charity after a rows over freedom of speech and ...

Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders in France see no doctrinal opposition to caricatures of God and religion in public spaces, though political views vary globally and within religions.

The Royal Society of Literature’s leaders are set to step down following a civil war between writers over diversity and free ...

Her new novella, “Rosarita,” takes place in Mexico, a country she finds so like her native India that, she says, “I feel ...

Here and now, the urgency requires that we deal with the arrest and custody of the French Algerian writer Boualem Sansal.

I overcame the thought it was inauspicious to write about a death as Nan’s first column for the New Year. But it is a tribute ...

Islamism is still one of our greatest menaces in the world. We shouldn’t be lulled into complacency or bullied into ignoring ...

Some commentators who have long been concerned about immigration think that a corner has been turned on the topic.

IMSD does draw the line between Free Speech, which it fully supports, and Hate Speech, which it staunchly opposes. While, the Constitution of India guarantees the right to freedom of speech, the law ...