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The Free Speech Union (FSU) has also written to Cambridge’s vice-chancellor asking him to confirm that future speakers will not be “denounced and defamed by senior leaders”, while a new group called Alumni For Free Speech has alleged breaches of equality legislation.
Ewan Somerville, The Telegraph, 29th October 2022.
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In a letter to the NEU’s Joint General Secretaries, Free Speech Union founder Toby Young warned that the proposal is “excessively broad” and would have “the effect of silencing any challenge to gender critical ideology or the agenda of transrights activists”. He said: “Many people, not just gender critical feminists, reject the idea that sex is a social construct, and, according to the courts, the belief that sex is binary and immutable is a lawful and reasonable point-of-view, deserving of protection under the Equality Act 2010. Such people should not be compelled to make statements or endorse ideology that they do not believe”.
The Christian Institute, 28th October 2022.
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This Wednesday night the Free Speech Union said: “If Warwick University’s English Department believes its students are so fragile they may not be able to cope with novels by Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte, wouldn’t it be better to advise them to stay in their rooms for three years, hiding under their beds?”
Giles Sheldrick, Express, 26th October 2022.
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But Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, labelled the change a “crackpot” idea. “This seems like a parody of political correctness gone mad,” he raged. “It’s the sort of thing you’d see in a Netflix satire of the ideological capture of universities by woke cultists.”
Iwan Stone, Metro, 26th October 2022.
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Toby Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, blasted the move and said: “This seems like a parody of political correctness gone mad, the sort of thing you’d expect to see in a Netflix series satirising the ideological capture of universities by woke cultists.”
Tom Cotterill, MailOnline, 25th October 2022.
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Commenting on the Met’s apology and payout to Tash, Toby Young of the Free Speech Union, which advocated for her at the time, said: “This is a good result, but the question is whether the police are going to mend their ways and stop arresting people for the non-crime of being ’offensive’. I’m not going to hold my breath.”
Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, 22nd October 2022.
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After Tash’s experience, Toby Young, the political commentator and founder of the Free Speech Union, wrote to Cressida Dick, the Met commissioner at the time, asking her “to train your officers to avoid acting in a way that is incompatible with free speech rights”.
Jonathan Ames, The Times, 21st October 2022.
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At around 2pm on 15th September I received an email from PayPal informing me that the company was ‘initiating closure’ of my personal account because I was ‘in violation’ of its ‘Acceptable Use Policy’. I looked up that policy and it covers a multitude of sins, but no clue was offered as to which one I’d committed. ‘If you have money in your PayPal balance, we’ll hold it for up to 180 days,’ it said. That was annoying because I had over $700 in the account, but it wasn’t the end of the world. I mainly use it for receiving payments from European magazines I write for occasionally. Then it got serious.
Toby Young, The Pavlovic Today, 18th October 2022.
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Dan Schulman, the president and CEO of PayPal, gave an interview earlier this year entitled: ‘The thing that separates good companies from great ones: trust.’ He told the audience that companies need to do more than deliver an outstanding product to build trust. In addition, they need to ‘stand up for social issues that are important’ and ‘do the right things to help create a better world’. Ironically, it is precisely because PayPal has been energetically pursuing this agenda that trust in the company is beginning to evaporate.
Toby Young, The Spectator, 15th October 2022
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Toby Young, the founder of the Free Speech Union, said that the NEU trans network was planning to redefine transphobia “in such broad terms that any criticism of gender identity ideology – or the agenda of trans rights activists – would be deemed ‘transphobic’.”
Louisa Clarence-Smith, The Telegraph, 10th October 2022.
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