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Andreas Whittam Smith

March 2016

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    It's The Independent all right... but not quite as you know it

    Roy Greenslade
  • Peter Preston

    Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
    Rest in peace, calm and gentle Indy – and good luck in the digital world

    Peter Preston

December 2014

  • Britain's shame: Contributions to a food bank in Norfolk.

    The Observer view on poverty

    Observer editorial: Food banks, handouts, joblessness. Depressingly, we have made way too little progress in the past 200 years

January 2014

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    As The Independent's sales fall to a new low, will anyone take it on?

    Roy Greenslade
  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Will i be a better buy than the Independent? Maybe...

    Roy Greenslade

September 2011

  • Founders of the Independent newspapers, from left, Andreas Whittam Smith, Steven Glover and Matthew Symonds

    The Northerner
    Campaigners plead with Whittam Smith to save Cumbrian castle

  • Johann Hari

    The Independent's editor to rule on Johann Hari plagiarism claims

March 2010

  • Radio review
    Lent Talks

    Andreas Whittam Smith had clever – and topical – thoughts on greed and temptation in his Lent lecture, says Elisabeth Mahoney

March 2002

  • Going out with a bang

  • Mark Lawson

    He put the sense into censorship

    Mark Lawson
  • BBFC president steps down

  • Whittam Smith quits film board for church role

December 2000

  • Chief film censor Andreas Whittam Smith: the bishop reveals all

    Chief film censor Andreas Whittam Smith is keen to shed his image as the man from the vicarage. So watching pornographic movies all day must help a bit...

December 1999

  • No: 1539 Andreas Whittam Smith

    Well, Andreas, founder of the Independent, president of the British Board of Film Censors and all round big brain, likes nothing better than pumping iron in his spare time.

April 1999

  • So where is the clampdown?

    Everything was in place for a clampdown on sex and violence. So where is it? Brian Pendreigh on the liberal rule of the film censor Andreas Whittam Smith

February 1999

  • Copy rights

    The Guardian has been involved in a dispute with freelances over the vexed question of who owns their work. Andreas Whittam Smith, a member of an inquiry team looking at the issue, explains how it was resolved