FSU Archive
2025
- Facebook dumps fact-checkers in attempt to “restore” free speech
- “Two-tier justice” claim after grandmother jailed over Southport riots post denied parole
- Government pauses higher education free speech act, sparking concerns among campaigners
- Keir Starmer urged to scrap controversial Islamophobia definition in wake of grooming gangs scandal
- Council ‘engagement officers’ issue more Asbo-style bans than police forces
- Universities say courses too focused on ‘undertakings of white people’
- Jon Sopel book title at centre of non-crime race-hate row
- Civil death in the West? The rise of de-banking
- Epic nonsense: trigger warnings for Greek classics
- Italy demands release of journalist held in solitary confinement in Iran
2024
- Richard Dawkins quits atheism foundation for backing transgender ‘religion’
- Tougher Irish laws on hate crime come into force
- Don’t say “blacklist” or “blackout”, pharmacists told
- Italian journalist arrested and held in solitary confinement in Iran
- Police log parking and Snapchat rows as “non-crime hate incidents”
- Phillipson tried to pull plug on new free speech law days after election
- Concerns raised over aggressive heckling of female Councillor during debate on violence against women
- Freedom of Speech Act “toothless” without right to sue universities, campaigners say
- FSU case success over single-sex toilets comment
- Landmark case for press freedom, as tribunal rules police unlawfully spied on journalists
- FSU member fighting for free speech in the arts – show your support!
- Lib Dems barred domestic abuse survivor from standing as MP over gender-critical views
- Moira Deeming triumphs in gender-critical defamation case against Liberal leader
- Labour government gives green light for woke councils to rename streets with links to Empire
- Police chief demands complete rethink on non-crime hate incidents
- Winter Pride event called off after FSU writes to Welsh Pride event
- Baroness facing suspension for calling fellow peer “Lord Poppadom”
- Bromley Council adopts free speech protections for councillors
- German university refuses to host an exhibition on anti-Jewish pogroms for fear of protests
- Government announces ban on puberty blockers for under-18s
- Huge increase in anti-Semitism on British campuses
- Professor censored over concerns that citing Victorian historian during public talk suggests pro-colonial viewpoint
- In defence of Connie Shaw
- Christianity has become the ultimate offence – and now a sackable one
- Spectator rebuked for calling trans author “man who claims to be a woman”
- As Town Hall chiefs get permission to hike council taxes, now 'cash-strapped' SNP local authority shells out on 'woke' staff training
- Student barred from university radio over gender critical views will “keep fighting for free speech”
- Israeli author “subjected to anti-Semitic abuse by security” at Luton Airport
- “Your book is too Jewish”: How the British publishing industry began an ‘anti-Semitic silent boycott’
- Gender-critical student suspended from university radio after posting interview with detransitioner
- LNER accuses passenger of ‘transphobia’ for asking questions about its ‘Pride train’
- Michael Gove condemns NCHIs as ‘waste of police time’
- Senior academics rally to the defence of Buckingham university’s suspended vice-chancellor
- Pro-Brexit views are not protected philosophical beliefs, tribunal rules
- Why we should worry about Google’s stopping serving political advertising in EU
- Cathay Pacific apologises over inflight Family Guy episode with Tiananmen Square scene
- Church of England spending “excessively” on HR and diversity officers, report warns
- JK Rowling accuses New York Times of ‘rewriting history’ by downplaying abuse from trans activists
- Oxford Union accused of breaking the law during Israel debate
- Police officer dismissed for gross misconduct
