Kemi Badenoch: My appointments to the Lords are true radicals, the smart, and the very brave

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Toby Young is at the frontline of defending free speech and free expression in the UK. Following his own personal experience of cancel culture. He has painstakingly built up the Free Speech Union into an advocacy and advisory organisation which has fought 3,000 cases and attracted 24,000 members. His organisation has been a crucial source of support for those whose lives have been disrupted or destroyed for unfashionable but completely lawful views.

Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Home, 20th December 2024.

Free speech champion Toby Young awarded peerage

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Toby Young has been awarded a peerage, Downing Street has announced. The founder and director of the Free Speech Union will take his place in the House of Lords next year. He is also a prominent proponent of free schools and set one up in west London.

A peerage has also been awarded to Nigel Biggar, a regius professor of moral and pastoral theology at the University of Oxford.  Prof Biggar, who is also the chairman of Free Speech Union, has become famous in recent years for speaking out against criticisms of the British Empire.

Daniel Martin, The Telegraph, 20th December 2024.

Senior UK Police Chief Criticises Investigation of ‘Hate Incidents’

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To date, Keir Starmer’s team looks set only to expand the recording of NCHIs, prompting the Free Speech Union to threaten legal action.

Michael Curzon, The European Conservative, 16th December 2024.

IPSO transgender ruling: Gay campaigner and free speech advocate adds voice to criticism – saying it could stifle debate on upcoming bill

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“As a member of the Free Speech Union’s NI Advisory Council, I am especially concerned at the privileging of one side in the gender dispute to the point where legitimate debate is stifled. If newspapers are forced at considerable expense to fight plainly trivial cases involving hurty words in front of IPSO, the very existence of a free press is now called into question.”

Adam Kula, The Belfast News Letter, 15th December 2024.

A ‘chilling’ attack on free speech by media regulator IPSO

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Toby Young, Director of the Free Speech Union, said IPSO “has censured The Spectator for publishing an article that is in no way inaccurate or intrusive but which it disapproves of for political reasons. If a press regulator penalises a newspaper or magazine just because it doesn’t like its politics, it is no longer fit for purpose.”

The Christian Institute, 13th December 2024.

Education Secretary pledges to uphold free speech on campus despite axing law

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The Free Speech Union has a judicial review hearing set for next month on the Act’s shelving, after a High Court judge agreed it was in the “public interest” to resolve this promptly.

The Christian Institute, 13th December 2024.

FA faces legal action over Stonewall-backed ‘LGBT laces’ campaign

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Smith has been banned by the club she supports, Newcastle United, for stating that men cannot change sex. Backed by the Free Speech Union, she is challenging its decision to revoke her membership and impose a two-season match ban over her public statements defending biological reality.

The Christian Institute, 12th December 2024.

Free speech laws ‘toothless’ without compensation for victims, warn academics

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Ms Phillipson now faces potential legal action over her decision to shelve the Act, after the Free Speech Union was granted permission to appeal the move. A judicial review hearing is set to take place in the High Court on Jan 23.

Poppy Wood, The Telegraph, 11th December 2024.

GIVE US A BREAK! Woke university bosses ban staff from saying ‘Christmas break’ over fears it will offend snowflake students

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Toby Young of the Free Speech Union says the university needs to be reminded ‘Britain is still a Christian country’.

Sarah Ridley, The Sun, 11th December 2024.

Press watchdog accused of chilling effect on free speech over trans writer ruling

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Toby Young, the director of the Free Speech Union, told The Telegraph that it was not the press regulator’s role to “enforce gender identity ideology”. He said: “Ipso is supposed to make sure newspaper and magazine articles are fair and accurate. It shouldn’t be in the business of trying to enforce gender identity ideology. Punishing the Spectator for publishing something factually accurate about a trans woman risks turning it into a laughing stock.”

Janet Eastham, The Telegraph, 10th December 2024.