Police officers were lectured about Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick and other Reform UK figures during a publicly funded Islamophobia training session — the latest sign of a de facto blasphemy law taking hold in Britain.
New polling from More in Common, commissioned by Liberty, finds a majority of Britons believe the Government only protects free speech it agrees with — and that this could cost Labour votes at the next election.
Stella Creasy MP told a Labour Conference fringe event that free speech must be limited to stop people being "heard at all" — the FSU explains why controlled speech is not free speech.
Max Thompson argues in The Critic that Ofcom's expanding powers, from the Online Safety Act to the new 'Watch This Space' proposals, are straining UK-US relations, echoing Canada's costly stand-off with Washington over its own internet rules.
Speakers at a Belfast event co-hosted by the Free Speech Union and Genspect warned that Northern Ireland's Conversion Practices Bill would criminalise ordinary conversations between parents, children and clinicians without closing any genuine gap in the law.
Spelthorne Borough Council's inclusive language guide tells staff that "he" and "she" are not inclusive terms and urges the use of "they/them" instead — the latest in a growing list of public bodies policing everyday speech.
In a speech delivered in Dubrovnik, FSU General Secretary Lord Young sets out the data behind Britain's free speech crisis: tens of thousands of arrests for online speech, rising Non-Crime Hate Incidents, and the chilling effect of the Online Safety Act.
Andy Burnham looks set to scrap David Lammy's plan for judge-only trials in less serious cases, but ministers are still pushing ahead with abolishing the right to elect for a jury trial — a right that matters enormously for those accused of speech offences.
An activist group tried to have John Cleese's Birmingham show cancelled over his criticism of Islamism — but the show went ahead as planned, amid warnings that similar demands could follow him around the country.
Rupert Lowe MP has been reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over his comments on Islam, Muslims and the grooming gangs scandal — the latest sign that the Government's "anti-Muslim hostility" definition is being used to silence legitimate debate.
MHCLG has launched an internal review after admitting it deleted all consultation responses used to draft the Government's Islamophobia definition, following FOI requests by Nick Timothy MP and FSU research into the Working Group's Islamist links.
Meta has filed a fresh legal challenge against Ofcom over its Online Safety Act duties, as tensions mount between Washington and Whitehall over Britain's censorious online regime.
