How did trade unions go from defending their members’ right to free speech to encouraging their employers to discipline them for breaching workplace speech codes?

Published July 2025.

When it comes to disregard for free speech, Sir Keir Starmer has form, as this historical essay by Trevor Kavanagh, the former political editor of The Sun, makes clear.

Published April 2025.

The last government passed legislation to reduce the number of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ being recorded by the police. But the Free Speech Union has obtained data showing the number has actually increased since that legislation came into force.

Published September 2024.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion training is now ubiquitous in British offices, but far from making companies more attractive places to work it is sowing division and discontent according to our representative survey.

Published March 2024.

Tim Dieppe argues that any attempt to define ‘Islamophobia’ and punish those guilty of it will have a chilling effect on free speech.

Published March 2024.

Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s Private Members’ bill risks making it a criminal offence for a parent or health professional to advise a gender-confused child to pause and reflect before embarking on an irreversible medical pathway.

Published February 2024.