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As Free Speech Union founder Toby Young has argued in these pages, the simple answer is through changes to the law.
Laurie Wastell, The Spectator, 19th November 2024.
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The teenage girl banned from football after asking a “bearded” transgender opponent “Are you a man?” is to appeal her punishment with the help of a free-speech group that is also assisting Allison Pearson. The Free Speech Union (FSU) has appointed leading barrister John Jolliffe to fight a guilty verdict imposed by a national serious case panel that has provoked growing outrage and a protest outside Wembley ahead of England’s Nations League victory against Republic of Ireland on Sunday.
Ben Rumsby, The Telegraph, 18th November 2024.
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Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, a public interest group, said, “If it’s not a criminal offense for pro-Palestinian protestors to call for a global intifada, I don’t see how a Jew calling another Jew a ‘kapo‘ can possibly be against the law.”
JNS, 17th November 2024.
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I wasn’t surprised to read The Times’s story about schoolchildren being investigated for possible ‘hate crimes’. These included a nine-year-old who’d called a classmate a ‘retard’ and two girls at a secondary school who’d told another pupil she smelt ‘like fish’. The police, having decided that these episodes did not meet the threshold for criminal prosecution, dutifully recorded them as ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs).
Toby Young, Spiked, 15th November 2024.
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Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, said: “This isn’t East Germany. Criticising the police isn’t a criminal offence.”
Gordon Rayner and Charles Hymas, The Telegraph, 15th November 2024.
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The Free Speech Union has branded non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) as ‘thought policing’ as it was revealed they have been used to investigate children as young as nine.
Kumail Jaffer, Daily Mail, 15th November 2024.
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Anti-censorship campaigner Toby Young said that if the government does push ahead with its plans to force police officers to record yet more NCHIs, his Free Speech Union will take legal action.
Michael Curzon, The European Conservative, 15th November 2024.
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I think I can guess the sort of person or group who might be responsible for this sort of charge; I think we all can. But it’s the sinister effect that the charge seems intended to have which should worry us. It is designed to intimidate; to make people like Allison Pearson think twice before they sound off about matters to do with race or religion. It is meant to have a chilling effect on free speech, which is why the Free Speech Union has provided her with a solicitor to accompany her to her voluntary police interview.
Melanie McDonagh, The Standard, 15th November 2024.
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Critics have slammed the use of police resources for such incidents – with some calling for the protection of free speech. The Free Speech Union has said it amounts to “thought policing”.
Ellie Doughty, The Sun, 14th November 2024.
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Critics have slammed the use of police resources for such incidents – with some calling for the protection of free speech. The Free Speech Union has said it amounts to “thought policing”.
Jason Groves, Daily Mail, 14th November 2024.
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