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Connie Shaw was suspended from her show when a complaint was made about her ‘conduct’. Now she’s campaigning for open debate on campuses.
Connie Shaw, The Telegraph, 9th December 2024.
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The Telegraph revealed last month that the Free Speech Union had been granted permission to appeal the move, with a judicial review hearing set to take place in the High Court on Jan 23.
Poppy Wood, The Telegraph, 9th December 2024.
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Last night, director of the Free Speech Union in Scotland, Fraser Hudghton said: “Unconscious bias training is the preferred means of the woke Stasi to get us all confessing what terrible beings we are. The problem is it’s a lot of garbage and only increases prejudice where previously there was none.”
Georgia Edkins, Daily Mail, 7th December 2024.
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The Free Speech Union, led by Toby Young, an associate editor of The Spectator, is bringing a judicial review at the end of January to challenge the decision to suspend the act. Under discussion is the removal of the “statutory tort” element that would allow those who felt they had suffered loss from their free speech being impinged to bring civil claims for damages against universities or student unions.
Nicola Woolcock, The Times, 6th December 2024.
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Connie Shaw, a third-year philosophy, ethics and religion student, was barred from her role as head of daytime radio after being accused of breaching the student union’s code of conduct, the Free Speech Union (FSU) said.
Poppy Wood, The Telegraph, 5th December 2024.
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Dr Ben Jones, a doctoral researcher at the University of Warwick and director of case management at the Free Speech Union, spoke at the NSS’s annual gathering about his research into the challenges faced by people who leave Islam. His research, presented ahead of Ex-Muslim Awareness Month in December, was partly funded by the NSS.
National Secular Society, 2nd December 2024.
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Toby Young, the founder of the Free Speech Union, said: “The APPG’s definition of Islamophobia is ridiculously broad. It includes saying the religion of Islam has, at various points since the seventh century, been imposed on populations by force, which is historically incontestable.”
Charles Hymas, The Telegraph, 27th November 2024.
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Toby Young, the director of the Free Speech Union, said the complainant should have been told “to stop wasting police time.
“You would hope that if someone reported their neighbour for playing Bob Marley they would be told to stop wasting police time,” he said. “It’s as if police officers have had their common sense surgically removed by race activists.”
Tom Sigsworth, The Telegraph, 27th November 2024.
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Pearson may be free, but Britain’s thoughtpolice never rest. According to figures compiled in 2017, around nine people in England and Wales are arrested every single day for what they say online. While most ‘problematic’ thoughts don’t meet the criminal threshold, the Free Speech Union estimates that 65 people per day are recorded as having committed a ‘non-crime hate incident’ (NCHI).
Spiked, 26th November 2024.
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The Free Speech Union also insists it is not enough to “raise the threshold” of what constitutes an NCHI, and that “what we need to do is abolish eye-of-the-beholder ‘hate speech’ laws altogether.”
Michael Curzon, The European Conservative, 25th November 2024.
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