Nik Sunil Williams

@nikwilliams.bsky.social

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Policy wonk at Index on Censorship and co-chair of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition. Works on FoEx, Anti-SLAPP and digital rights. Loves Joan Didion, Dinosaurs 🦕 & My Bloody Valentine. Lives in Glasgow. He/Him @indexoncensorship.org

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In his email to Gill, Fane-Saunders made clear that the eventual success of any lawsuit was much less important than the message it would be sending. “We have to be seen to be taking strong legal action right now, even if, eventually, in the long term, we decide to drop it. It’s less about whether we are likely to win, as the impression it creates when we show that we really will take strong legal action…” Fane-Saunders wrote according to the court filings. Three hours later, Gill replied with an email that would come back to haunt her. “I agree it seems we need to take action against Mr Bjercke, or another suitable target to send a clear message which can be used for PR purposes.”
In 2017, the net was closing in on OneCoin. So Carter-Ruck, with the encouragement of the boutique PR firm Chelgate, duly stepped up its “assault” on the scheme’s critics. In an email to Gill dated 12 April 2017, Chelgate founder Terence Fane-Saunders said the police probe could be defaming a company that had not been charged or convicted of anything. He asked whether the police “enjoy immunity in terms of Defamation law if they say these things within the context of an investigation? If not, then perhaps we could initiate an action? Essentially, it would be saying ‘put up, or shut up’. I think it would also cause great discomfort within the [City of London police] hierarchy.”
Tweet from Congressman Brandon Gill being insanely racist about Zohran Momdani stating that "civilised people in America don't eat like this" to a photo of Zohran eating with his hands
A screenshot of a tweet from Representative Andy Ogles that reads: Zohran "little muhammad" Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York. He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings. Attached is my letter to @AGPamBondi Below is the letter he send to the AG
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A poster featuring a picture of Toomaj Salehi as a record sleeve advertising a listening party DATE: Thursday 29 May 2025 TIME: 18:00 - 19:30 LOCATION: Some Great Reward, Unit 2, The Cooperage, 674 Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow, G41 2QE
The Otherworld Times (tOT) started on the simplest of conceits – if films invent worlds what are the investigative journalists in those worlds writing? The hope is that this will open up films we know well to a new way of looking – what does Jurassic Park say about unchecked corporate power? Did the militarised FBI’s desire for fireworks and a disregard for collateral damage at Nakatomi Plaza actually aid the attempted heist of the century? What did The Rat’s leak mean for state secrecy and accountability after they restarted the rotation of the earth’s core? This is not journalism. I want to be clear about this. tOT is not investigative journalism – it uses the format and conventions of it as a storytelling device. That is it. When a journalist doesn’t have a source, they may not have a story – or at least they may need to approach it from another direction. When I don’t have a source, I can invent one for the purpose of the piece. I can write in someone, I can write out someone else. Invention is my friend, it is not a damning indictment of my journalist ethics.
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Panel of speakers from the 2024 Europe Press Freedom Report launch.
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