While the government made a number of concessions to strengthen privacy protections, Scottish PEN does not believe these reforms go far enough to fully protect free expression and privacy.

While any move to strengthen freedom of expression protections is to be welcomed, it should not come at the expense of other rights including the right to privacy.

To defend Ahmed Naji’s freedom of expression, we will be discussing his writing in the most public way possible: online.

The SNP’s amendment to ensure that meaningful judicial oversight extends to Scotland, instead of the ministerial mechanism currently in place, is a vital amendment that Scottish organisations, commentators and policy-makers should get behind.

As an organisation charged with representing writers to ensure the fundamental freedoms to write, read and share thoughts, there are a number of aspects of the Investigatory Powers Bill that could threaten these freedoms were they to be made into law.

The university, like the publishing industry, should widen the kinds of writers that they read to include those who are studying them.

Dangerous Women: Podcast Series

Numerous Scottish PEN writers will be taking part in Glasgow’s annual book festival.