Iain Roberts' Blog

Clean Reader  is software which does a search-and-replace on supposedly naughty words in e-books. Upon release, it encountered a well-deserv...

My recent post Nut Meets Sledgehammer looked at the case of Ross Loraine, a resident of Sunderland who was cautioned by police for an offen...

Last month, a 19-year-old resident of Sunderland was cautioned by the police for making an offensive remark on Twitter. How can this possibl...

The staff of Charlie Hebdo  showed courage and integrity, by continuing to publish after their colleagues were murdered last week; as did ma...

Today, the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were attacked by masked gunmen , apparently Islamist radicals. The attack...

I did not intend for my holiday in Istanbul to involve close observation of a battle between protesters and riot police. It just worked out ...