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Lord Young of Acton, who co-founded the Free Speech Union, said: “How will publicans be expected to protect their employees from overhearing conversations in pubs by customers that they may find offensive or upsetting?
Lucy Burton and Tony Diver, The Telegraph, 28th March 2025.
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Free Speech Union director Toby Young, now Lord Young of Acton, told the House of Lords that a “harassment clause” in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill could add to a growing list of pressures facing publicans up and down the country. The clause would force employers to take “all reasonable steps” to prevent third parties, including customers, harassing their staff.
Georgina Cutler, GB News, 27th March 2025.
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Toby Young of the Free Speech Union on the other hand hailed the ruling, telling Guido:
“This is fantastic news. It shows that Arif Ahmed, the Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom at the Office for Students, is willing to give universities more than a wrist slap if they fail to uphold free speech on campus. I imagine that many universities will be reviewing their equity, diversity and inclusion policies this morning to make sure they don’t run afoul of their free speech obligations.”
Guido Fawkes, 26th March 2025.
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Should people be penalised for supposedly harming an institution’s reputation? How, exactly, is that harm to be measured? Does it only count if it brings an institution into disrepute in the eyes of right-thinking people?
Two people this week have run afoul of this standard. One is Charlie Mullins, the founder of Pimlico Plumbers, who got away with a warning. The other, Ben Woods, who ran the wine counter at the Henley branch of Waitrose, was not so lucky. He was fired yesterday after working there for 25 years.
Toby Young, The Telegraph, 25th March 2025.
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The Free Speech Union (FSU) welcomed the announcement as “a major win for workplace free speech”. The new requirements, it said, risked creating “pressure to silence dissenting views, expand ideological training schemes, and punish employees for lawful but unfashionable opinions”.
In its experience of cases involving workplace DEI training, the FSU found that employees “have been penalised for rejecting ideological claims presented as fact”, particularly in the area of identity politics.
The Christian Institute, 23rd March 2025.
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The influencer who was previously legally unrepresented has also secured backing from the Free Speech Union (FSU), who have branded the case ‘deeply alarming’. FSU Legal Counsel Bryn Harris said: ‘No contract, not even one issued by the Boob God himself, should shield powerful professionals from accountability and we are confident the court will agree.’
Ciaran Foreman, Daily Mail, 22nd March 2025.
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Bryn Harris, chief legal counsel at the Free Speech Union, which supported Wilkins, said: “They’re meant to be fighting world wars not culture wars.”
Fiona Hamilton, The Times, 21st March 2025.
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He has enrolled the Free Speech Union to help with the legal complaint and he heaped praise on its founder, Toby Young. “The Free Speech Union has been fantastic to me”, he said.
Since his suspension, a fundraiser has been set up to support Prior and his “right to speak up”.
Holly Bishop, GB News, 19th March 2025.
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The Free Speech Union is now supporting Ben’s fight for justice. Elliot Hammer, head of employment law at Branch Austin McCormick, is representing him.
Conservative Post, 17th March 2025.
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With the backing of the Free Speech Union campaign group, Mr Prior is crowdsourcing to fund legal action against the federation and is seeking a judicial review of the legality of his suspension.
Martin Evans, The Telegraph, 17th March 2025.
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