Police threatened Wings Over Scotland editor Stuart Campbell with a 2am arrest over a harassment complaint from a trans activist. The Free Speech Union secured him a solicitor, who negotiated a voluntary interview instead.
A round-up of the Ian Mactaggart Programme's 2025–26 academic year, in which FSU grants supported more than sixteen university societies and individual students across debating, free speech advocacy, journalism, podcasts and one-off events.
Cllr Kelvin Wright argues that complaints procedures in local government are increasingly being used as a political weapon against outspoken councillors, with the process itself becoming a deterrent to free debate.
Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson has received a public apology and a reported five-figure payout from Essex's Police and Crime Commissioner, Roger Hirst, after the High Court found his comments about her could be seen as defamatory.
Andy Burnham has signalled he may abandon David Lammy's plans to strip defendants of the right to a jury trial, after FSU research showed juries are far more likely to acquit those accused of speech offences.
Max Thompson argues that Andy Burnham's premiership, and a cabinet stacked with press-sceptical ministers, marks a dangerous new chapter for free speech in Britain.
Nick Buckley MBE faced losing his honour after a Whitehall committee accused him of bringing the honours system into disrepute over his social media posts. With the FSU's help, he has kept his MBE.
A new Government-commissioned report brands scepticism of gender ideology as 'misinformation' worthy of state suppression, while barely mentioning the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that have fuelled real hatred since 7 October — prompting warnings from the FSU's Lord Young that Britain risks turning Orwell's fiction into policy.
Professor Michael Rainsborough, former Head of War Studies at King's College London, explains how the FSU helped him expose the university's neglect of academic freedom.
German citizens are being fined and threatened with prison for memes, nicknames and mockery of politicians, as speech laws meant to guard democracy are turned against ordinary political comment.
As Andy Burnham replaces Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street, the Free Speech Union looks at who is in, out, demoted and promoted in the new Cabinet — and examines each minister's record on free speech.
Lord Young of Acton and David Rose joined MPs, peers and policing experts at a Parliamentary roundtable on policing and free speech following the murder of Henry Nowak, warning that anti-racism initiatives have tipped into discrimination against white working-class men.
