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All those in fear of expressing an opinion can join the Free Speech Union. I have been a member for two years. Go to https://freespeechunion.org/ and join today. This country is increasingly becoming a place where people are in fear of expressing their opinions.
Kim Rye, TCW, 26th June 2023.
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But according to the General Secretary of the Free Speech Union (FSU), Toby Young, the challenges Christian teachers are already facing could loom considerably larger under Labour.
He told Christian Today: “I think it’s likely Labour will bring forward a Hate Crime and Public Order (England and Wales) Bill, which will be very similar to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act. It will increase the number of protected groups you can be prosecuted for ‘stirring up’ hatred against to include trans-identifying people and that will make it a criminal offence to misgender or deadname trans individuals.”
Julian Mann, Christian Today, 22nd June 2023.
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Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, which advocates for freedom of expression, said: “[Ahmed’s] track record as a defender of free speech and academic freedom is exemplary.
Emma Yeomans, The Times, 1st June 2023.
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Thomas, who first recorded concerns about the civil service in 2020, won the settlement with the help of the Free Speech Union campaign group.
James Beal, The Times, 1st June 2023.
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The Free Speech Union was able to help Anna. Specialist employment barrister Spencer Keen provided tremendously generous help (with yours truly doing the donkey work), and formidable grounds of claim were submitted to the Employment Tribunal alleging unfair dismissal, automatic unfair dismissal for whistleblowing, victimisation, belief and race discrimination, and harassment.
Bryn Harris, The Critic, 1st June 2023.
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And the Free Speech Union (for which I’m an unpaid adviser) recently won a record settlement on behalf of a civil servant whistleblower who was fired for criticising politically extreme “diversity” and “gender ideology” training programmes.
Juliet Samuel, The Times, 31st May 2023.
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Ms Thomas began a claim against the Department in 2022, with the support of the Free Speech Union. She claimed she was the victim of unfair dismissal, belief discrimination, victimisation as a whistleblower, and harassment.
After three preliminary hearings, the DWP agreed to settle and pay Ms Thomas £100,000, of which £27,500 was for injury to her feelings. It did not admit any liability.
Louisa Clarence-Smith, The Telegraph, 27th May 2023.
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For the past three years, in my capacity as general secretary of the Free Speech Union, I’ve been one of the leaders of the Anti-Woke Coalition. That’s my term for the loose collection of writers, journalists, broadcasters, artists, podcasters, YouTubers, Substackers, academics, intellectuals and politicians who are united in their opposition to the new authoritarian ideology that has swept through the English-speaking world over the past ten years. This movement has many names – postmodern neo-Marxism, the successor ideology, critical social justice theory – but the most common is woke, or some variation on it.
Toby Young, Catholic Herald, 25th May 2023.
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Toby Young, Director of the Free Speech Union, said: “The way Ben has been treated is outrageous.”
He added: “Discrimination based on religion or belief breaches the Equality Act.”
The Christian Institute, 25th May 2023.
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Bryn Harris, chief legal counsel for the Free Speech Union – one of the groups that was heavily involved in backing the legislation – confirmed that it was prepared to “assist in bringing a case if a member asks for our help; if the merits are good; and if assisting would further the promotion and defence of free speech”.
He said he felt that the first use of the tort was likely to involve someone taking out an injunction to prevent the cancellation of an event or by a student “who has been expelled from a professionally lucrative course such as medicine”.
Tom Williams, Times Higher Education, 22nd May 2023.
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