From curbing jury trials to banning under-16s from social media, Labour's first year in power has brought more state control over what we can say and do — not less, despite its promises.
The Government says its draft Conversion Practices Bill protects parents, faith leaders and therapists — but the Bill itself contains no such protection, and could criminalise ordinary parenting, pastoral teaching and therapeutic conversations.
A teacher sacked for refusing to use a pupil's preferred pronouns says a college policy 'coerced' him to act against his gender-critical beliefs, an appeal tribunal has heard.
Scope has apologised to choir founder Janet Murray and the Singing Striders after dropping them from the London Marathon over her lawful gender-critical beliefs, following legal action supported by the Free Speech Union.
A Mail on Sunday investigation has found that BBC Bitesize, used by millions of schoolchildren, promotes highly contentious left-wing positions on immigration, Net Zero and inequality — prompting senior Conservatives and a former BBC controller to call for an urgent inquiry.
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.
