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The Free Speech Union (FSU) and former police officer Harry Miller, chief executive of campaign group Fair Cop, have written to Ms Cooper threatening legal action if there is any loosening of the guidance on NCHIs.
Charles Hymas, The Telegraph, 22nd November 2024.
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With a foreword by Toby Young (director of the Free Speech union and associate editor of The Spectator) and an introduction by Dr Donnelly himself, the various contributors each add to the book’s overarching theme that rather than practicing self-flagellation over our role in Western culture, we should be rightly celebrating it.
Stephen Lacey, The Catholic Weekly, 21st November 2024.
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It’s no wonder Toby Young’s Free Speech Union has seen a huge surge in membership. People are seeking sanctuary and support in an organisation that defends their right to express ideas — ideas that should be the lifeblood of a democratic society.
Richard Thomson, The Express, 21st November 2024.
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Toby Young of the Free Speech Union said:“If Ofcom is to retain any credibility as an impartial regulator, it has to remain above the political fray.”
Jack Elsom, The Sun, 20th November 2024.
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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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