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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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Lewis and Paterson both sit on the Scottish advisory council for the Free Speech Union, a group which resists cancel culture and “no-platforming” in politics and academia.
The National, 2nd February 2023.
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Free Speech Union’s Toby Young accused the LSE of being “in thrall to a new religious cult – the church of woke”.
The Christian Institute, 1st February 2023.
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Toby Young, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, told MailOnline that the move was “another example” of a British university being “ashamed of its links to the culture and history of Great Britain”.
Harry Howard, MailOnline, 30th January 2023.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said the university’s decision to strip Christian words from semester names “reflects the fact that the LSE, like most British universities, is in thrall to a new religious cult — the church of woke — that is far more dogmatic than Christianity,” LBC reported.
Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post, 30th January 2023.
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This had led to Free Speech Union starting a petition to have him remain as the host. At the time of writing, the petition has over 35,000 signatures. In a tweet, Free Speech Union said “Please sign and re-tweet this petition urging ITV not to cancel Jeremy Clarkson.”
“If people make mistakes and then apologise for them, we should give them the benefit of the doubt, not seek to destroy their livelihoods and turn them into social pariahs.”
Daniel Mcneil, The Scotsman, 23rd January 2023.
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Now a petition set up by the Free Speech Union appeals to ITV bosses to “please don’t fire Jeremy Clarkson” and claims that some of those who opposed the column in the aftermath of its publication “do not appear to really believe Mr Clarkson’s remarks put anyone at risk.”
The statement claims that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are attempting to “destroy Mr Clarkson’s career” and are therefore “far more harmful to him than anything he said about the Duchess”.
Dan Sales, MailOnline, 23rd January 2023.
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The change.org campaign started by the Free Speech Union says the reaction has been “completely disproportionate” and adds that sacking Clarkson would be “an example of cancel culture at its worst”.
Eleanor Dye, Olivia Jones and Elizabeth Haigh, Mail Online, 22nd January 2023.
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However, this has prompted the Free Speech Union to create a petition for Clarkson to remain on the show. ‘If people make mistakes and then apologise for them, we should give them the benefit of the doubt, not seek to destroy their livelihoods and turn them into social pariahs,” the petition on Change.org said.
Stella Akinwumi, Metro, 22nd January 2023.
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