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In an essay written for the Free Speech Union and presented on Monday, Mr Kavanagh suggested the prosecutions amounted to a “purge of innocent journalists” after the Sun announced it was pulling the plug on its support for Gordon Brown’s Labour government in 2009.
Martin Evans, The Telegraph, 28th April 2025.
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The Free Speech Union (FSU) campaign group has written to Lisa Nandy to warn it is considering a judicial review of her decision not to enforce laws against foreign state ownership of newspapers.
Christopher Williams and Dominic Penna, The Telegraph, 25th April 2025.
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The move has been welcomed by the Free Speech Union (FSU), which has long criticised the recording of NCHIs. These incidents, which do not involve criminal activity but are perceived to be motivated by hostility, were introduced by police forces in the early 2000s following the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.
Conservative Post, 25th April 2025.
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Speaking to the People’s Channel, he said: “I had to crowdfund with the Free Speech Union and they’ve gone after me for speaking about my campaign to fight the suspension.
“I’ve had loads and loads of support and I won’t stop.”
Charlie Peters, GB News, 24th April 2025.
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Could the end of non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) be in sight? As the head of the Free Speech Union, I’ve been campaigning for their abolition for five years and there was a breakthrough this week with the Conservatives unveiling a plan to scrap them.
Toby Young, The Spectator, 24th April 2025.
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The Free Speech Union estimates that police are recording as many as 65 per day.
Hugo Timms, Spiked, 23rd April 2025.
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And Clause 20 doesn’t just apply to shops and hospitality. The implications for academia are especially alarming. Under the Equality Act as it stands, visiting speakers are treated as third parties, and universities are under no legal duty to protect its staff from being “harassed” by them. This legal “gap” has proved crucial, allowing groups like the Free Speech Union to mount successful challenges when institutions over-apply the Act and attempt to no-platform speakers, whether invited guests or other staff members, whose views may be controversial but are entirely lawful.
Freddie Attenborough, The Critic, 20th April 2025.
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The Telegraph understands Mr Camus is planning to appeal against the ban with the help of the Free Speech Union, led by Lord Young, a Tory peer.
Amy Gibbons, The Telegraph, 19th April 2025.
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The group of academics, which also includes Lord Young, the head of the Free Speech Union, and Lord Biggar, a philosophy professor at the University of Oxford, urged UK institutions to instead adopt the principle that “the university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic”.
Poppy Wood, The Telegraph, 18th April 2025.
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Five years ago, when I set up an organisation to fight for free speech, I never imagined that my closest political allies would be a group of radical feminists. But on Wednesday evening I found myself co-hosting a party at the Hippodrome for Sex Matters, the LGB Alliance and For Women Scotland, the campaigning groups who have just won a tremendous victory in the Supreme Court.
Toby Young, The Sun, 18th April 2025.
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