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  1. A list of 25 quotes have been posted at http://blasphemy.ie to highlight the serious threat to Free Expression posed by Irish Blasphemy law.
  2. Is the snow today an inconvenience or a boring cliché? Let the poet Louis MacNeice remind you of its brilliance. http://tinyurl.com/yd244yp
  3. Saucy drawings by satirist James Gillray have emerged from Home Office vaults after being censored 160 years ago. http://tinyurl.com/y8ftdoo
  4. RT@ Indoncensorship Index on Censorship Christmas party and launch of new magazine. 6.30pm tonight @FreeWordCentre
  5. Do you believe in Free Expression? Sign the petition to have the UK's stifling Libel Laws urgently reformed: http://www.libelreform.org/sign
  6. 'Tell all the truth but tell it slant – Success in circuit lies.’ Emily Dickinson
  7. Wham! Bam! Story Slam! A short story celebration complete with mince pies and some of the finest literary talent in the city - starts 6.30
  8. http://twitpic.com/swvzp - The Free Word Christmas Tree
  9. The staff of English PEN and Index on Censorship are off at Westminster today bringing their Libel campaign to the corridors of power.
  10. Today @Englishpen and @Indoncensorship launched their petition on #libelreform
  11. The Free Word Christmas Party is now in full swing, with our 12 foot Christmas tree fully decorated and food and wine to feed an army.
  12. The winner of the 2009 BBC Short Story Award is Kate Clanchy for her short story 'The Not-Dead and the Saved' http://tinyurl.com/y8lo47r
  13. The winner of the BBC Short Story Award will be announced live from The Free Word Centre on Radio 4’s Front Row programme tonight at 19.15.
  14. This Thursday George Monbiot & James Delingpole "Saying the unsayable: is climate scepticism the new Holocaust denial?" http://tiny.cc/Lrs4n
  15. Try the new game of renaming Shakespeare’s plays with Robert Ludlum style titles. The world champion is Salman Rushdie -http://tiny.cc/6UKwN
  16. RT @indoncensorship Jo Glanville: Libel reform will liberate us all http://bit.ly/7Ry5XB #libelreform
  17. Neil Gaiman won the The Booktrust Teenage Prize this week for his latest novel: The Graveyard Book. http://tiny.cc/0R48N
  18. This year Nick Cave and Philip Roth are set to have a sweaty wrestle over the coveted Guardian Bad Sex Award. http://tinyurl.com/ye6tbey
  19. Natalie Merchant is currently on stage singing songs from her new album. It's beautiful...
  20. Novelist Margaret Atwood and comic book scribe Alan Moore share their birthday today.