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For roughly half a year, I’ve been running a series of interviews here on TK called “Meet The Censored,” with the aim of highlighting the scope of a growing Internet censorship issue. From now on, “Meet the Censored” articles will be released in pairs. The speech debate has become so partisan that people now often cheer news that this or that person has been kicked off the Internet — this is an increasingly common reaction. When I profiled World Socialist Web Site writer Andre Dam...

The origins of the Black Britain: Writing Black series began a year ago, in the wake of Evaristo’s Booker Prize win. “We got together to talk about how we could harness the energy and excitement of that moment to make further change happen,” said Prosser. The covers of the books have been redesigned by Black British artists and the audiobooks will be voiced by Black actors. Evaristo told Penguin.co.uk that “these books will take the reader from 18th-century London to 1920s Trinidad; fro...

Tips on how to fill the BPS cash gap on your farm >More in © Tim Scrivener On most farms, there are opportunities to make up for some of the coming Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) cuts, even if none is obvious at first, say advisers.    Changing farm rent levels to the new post-BPS reality will be like turning around a supertanker, but for many farms a reduction is part of the solution to the BPS deficit, says Robin Hobson, chairman of con...