Death plea case rejected by judge
A High Court Judge has ruled that a brain-damaged woman should not be allowed to die, in what is being seen as a landmark case. BBC News, 28 September 2011

Defend a free press - don’t just guard the Guardian
Yes, the police threat to the liberal newspaper was outrageous – but who invited the authorities to crack down on the press in the first place?
Mick Hume, spiked, 27 September 2011

Labour's odd plan to get bad journalists 'struck off'
Ivan Lewis has a proposal to clean up the press. Shame it's unworkable and illiberal.
Helen Lewis Hasteley, New Statesmen, 27 September 2011

‘It is time that we reclaimed liberalism’
Frank Furedi talks to Brendan O’Neill about his new book On Tolerance and why he wants to halt and reverse the warping of the liberal outlook.
Brendan O'Neill, spiked, 23 September 2011

Some real research into alcohol
Activists, neo-prohibitionists and anti-capitalists are much happier blaming the corporations and the institutions, man, than looking at the real factors behind excessive drinking and alcoholism.
Chris Snowden, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist, 21 September 2011

Lib Dems vote overwhelmingly to set up panel to consider decriminalising drugs
Motion also offers show of support for Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, following high profile resignations from body
Paul Owen, Guardian, 18 September 2011

Is the working woman allowed to get rich on screen?
Since the crash films about money-making are required to carry a strong moral health warning., 16 September 2011

Under the Influence
Under the Influence investigates how far parenting style affects those children’s drinking behaviour in later life. It analyses data of several thousand children from two separate data sets and compares how their parents raised them against the child’s drinking habits in adolescence and adulthood.
Jamie Bartlett and Matt Grist, Demos, 16 September 2011

ANC Julius Malema's Shoot the Boer ruled 'hate speech'
South Africa's high court has ruled that the anti-apartheid song Shoot the Boer is hate speech and banned the ruling ANC from singing it.BBC News, 11 September 2011

Ten years on, America is at war with itself
I write this under surveillance, or so it’s safe to assume. We are all suspects now; we all read, write, talk on the phone and travel under surveillance, or the threat of it.
Wendy Kaminer, spiked, 8 September 2011