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Toby Young, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, wrote: “The Telegraph has got hold of a cache of WhatsApp messages between Matt Hancock and the main decision-makers during the pandemic. It confirms our worst suspicions. They weren’t ‘following the science’. It was a clown show.”
Telegraph Reporters, The Telegraph, 1st March 2023.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, has written to Kemi Badenoch, the equalities minister, to urge her to change course.
He said: “The Equality Act has poisoned the atmosphere in workplaces up and down the country. Why on earth is a Conservative Government extending the scope of the Equality Act, so when we’re in pubs, bars, restaurants, nightclubs and sports grounds we’ll have to constantly be looking over our shoulders to make sure we’re not being overheard by the banter police? This is the opposite of the ‘war on woke’. It’s extending the writ of the woke thought police to every nook and cranny of British society.”
Camilla Turner, The Telegraph, 26th February 2023.
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Speaking to Breitbart London, the General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young, responded: “I think this is a step forward, but Puffin needs to go further and stick a banner on the woke versions of the book that says ‘CENSORED’ in massive letters. That way, people will know what they’re buying.”
Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, 25th February 2023.
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Later this month, Toby Young, the founder of the Free Speech Union (FSU), will give the National Conference of University Professors’ (NCUP) annual lecture.
Roger Watson, Times Higher Education, 24th February 2023.
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Toby Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, said: “The problem with demanding that all staff and students declare their pronouns and, presumably, use each other’s preferred pronouns, is that it requires some of them – gender critical feminists, orthodox Christians – to affirm something they don’t believe to be true, i.e., that it’s possible for a person to change sex.”
Oliver Price, Daily Mail, 23rd February 2023.
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Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, said the advice illustrated that the “woke movement” was trying to cleanse the English language of terms it deemed offensive.
He said the phenomenon had been imported from American colleges.
He said: “You might even say we’ve been colonised . . . policing language is a hallmark of every totalitarian society.”
Stephen Moyes, The Sun, 15th February 2023.
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Benjamin Jones, a spokesperson for the Free Speech Union told Express.co.uk Henley’s comments on BBC were part of a long-term “campaign” to “smear” and “bully” people who do not agree with what he calls the “trans ideology”.
Talking about the recent incident, Mr Jones said: “It’s a completely baseless accusation and it’s part of a long-running pattern we see at the Free Speech Union where people are smeared or bullied if they don’t agree with trans ideology.
“JK Rowling has shown tremendous moral courage in speaking out about these issues. But for people who don’t have wealth the consequences can be devastating: you can lose your job and find you can’t pay the mortgage, just because you don’t agree with the beliefs of trans rights activists.”
Luke Whelan, Express.co.uk, 6th February 2023.
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Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, said hospitality venues were struggling to survive rising energy costs, inflation and train strikes so “more red tape is the last thing they need”.
He said: “It’s up to Kemi to call time on this new anti-free speech measure.”
Natasha Clark, The Sun, 6th February 2023.
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This prompted Toby Young, the founder of the Free Speech Union, to warn that “the gradual erasure of feminist societies in Britain’s universities is a national scandal”.
Ewan Somerville, The Telegraph, 4th February 2023.
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Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, said: “Huge credit should go to Claire Coutinho. She made a good faith effort to strike a compromise with the Lords opposed to the tort … but instead they decided to reject the tort altogether.”
“I know that dozens of academics who’ve been at the sharp end of cancel culture in British universities have contacted the minister to tell her why they think the tort is essential if they’re going to protect their academic freedom.”
“She has clearly listened to them and not the sector’s lobbyists in the House of Lords telling her the free speech crisis in higher education is an invention of Right-wing culture warriors.”
Louisa Clarence-Smith, The Telegraph, 2nd February 2023.
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