The Free Speech Union delivered its petition to save jury trials to 10 Downing Street this week, warning that government plans to curb the right to trial by jury would see more people wrongly convicted.
The Free Speech Union has signed up its 50,000th member, making it bigger than most of Britain's trade unions — a milestone that underscores the scale of the UK's free speech crisis.
Prevent, the Government's counter-extremism programme, is being used to investigate lawful criticism of Islam from figures including Robert Jenrick and John Cleese — part of a wider pattern of activists and courts enforcing a de facto blasphemy law.
The police watchdog has ruled that the Met's investigation into Graham Linehan's arrest for gender-critical tweets was inadequate, ordering it to be reopened.
Councillors' codes of conduct, meant to uphold standards in public life, are increasingly being used to punish lawful political speech — with vexatious complaints, long investigations and, soon, tougher sanctions threatening to silence dissenting local voices.
Oxford University has told staff to avoid everyday British idioms like "learn the ropes" in case they confuse international students — the latest example of universities policing language rather than protecting free speech on campus.
Devon County Council disciplined Cllr Michael Fife Cook for raising safeguarding concerns after a sex toy and "chemsex" literature were displayed near a children's area at Exeter Library. The FSU is backing his High Court challenge.
MHCLG has admitted it still holds the consultation responses behind the official Islamophobia definition, after first claiming they had been deleted — but is refusing to disclose them, deepening concerns that extremists shaped the drafting process.
Robert Jenrick has been reported to the police and Prevent over comments criticising Islam, the latest in a growing string of complaints against public figures who question Islamist ideology.
A 15-year-old Reform UK activist was arrested by four West Midlands Police officers after a Conservative councillor complained about Facebook posts mocking him. The FSU has taken up the teenager's case.
Ofcom has opened its first investigation into Meta under the Online Safety Act, days after the tech giant launched a High Court challenge against the regulator's "burdensome" demands.
Lisa Nandy has called the under-16s social media ban merely a "staging post" towards a more interventionist state policing online speech — confirming fears that child safety is being used to justify deeper censorship.
