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‘Orwell’s Operation Manual’ — UK Hate Speech Laws Used Against Conservative Journalist

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Free Speech Union director Toby Young added: “It’s little wonder that 93 per cent of car-related crimes went unsolved in Essex last year. The local officers are too busy policing journalists’ tweets to police their streets. I’m sure they’d prefer to be investigating actual crimes rather than ‘non-crimes’, but their politically correct bosses are more concerned with punishing wrongthink.”

Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, 14th November 2024.

Police accused of ‘appalling’ attack on free speech with probe into Telegraph journalist

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She said: “I am probably going to go in for an interview. The Free Speech Union, which is a brilliant organisation, is helping me. They are giving me a solicitor, so if I have to go into the police station and have a voluntary interview I will go in, and maybe then we will find out what I am accused of, and then we will see how it progresses.”

Charles Hymas, The Telegraph, 13th November 2024.

Light in the darkness: In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation

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A more clearly successful move into the public square has been Toby Young’s Free Speech Union (FSU), of which Biggar is the chairman. Its genesis owes much to the good offices of the think tank Legatum and key personnel there such as David Stroud. A meeting of 20 or so asked the question, what is to be done? The answer, as Biggar knew from his own shunned experience at Oxford, was: “End the isolation. Solidarity is good. I hadn’t known what had hit me.”

CD Montgomery and Graham Stewart, The Critic, 13th November 2024.

Buckingham vice-chancellor’s allies blame woke backlash for suspension

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Toby Young of the Free Speech Union (FSU) has complained to the Office for Students (OfS) alleging: “The reason Tooley has been humiliated and publicly shamed in this way is because some members of the council disapprove of the various public interventions he has made in defence of free speech and the history and heritage of Great Britain which, in their eyes, are ‘right wing’ points of view and therefore beyond the pale.”

Sean O’Neill and Nicola Woolcock,The Times, 8th November 2024.

Labour’s Education Secretary Faces Legal Battle Over Free Speech Laws Amidst Backlash from Academics

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In a significant legal twist, the Free Speech Union has been granted permission to challenge Ms Phillipson’s decision in the High Court, with a judicial review hearing scheduled for January 23. The group accuses Ms Phillipson of unlawfully removing protections for individuals with certain “protected characteristics” under the law, including those with gender-critical views or minority political perspectives.

Conservative Post, 4th November 2024.

Education Secretary faces court over shelving free speech laws

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The Telegraph has learned that the Free Speech Union has now been granted permission to appeal the move, with a judicial review hearing set to take place in the High Court on Jan 23. The group has accused Ms Phillipson of acting unlawfully by removing protections for “people of certain protected groups”, such as “gender-critical persons or those who espouse minority political views”.

Poppy Wood, The Telegraph, 3rd November 2024.

University reported to watchdog after vice-Chancellor ‘pushed out for holding Right-wing views’

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In a letter to the university regulator, the Free Speech Union (FSU) claims that Prof Tooley’s suspension was prompted by a series of claims made by his wife, from whom he is in the process of divorcing. “These allegations appear to be vexatious in nature and relate to Prof Tooley’s behaviour in the couple’s private life, e.g. that he keeps a toy gun in his bedside drawer,” the letter says. The allegations from Prof Tooley’s ex-wife “have no bearing on his fitness to carry out his public role as vice-Chancellor of Buckingham” and “should have been dismissed as “tittle-tattle”, the FSU say.

Camilla Turner, The Telegraph, 2nd November 2024.

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