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Free Speech Union chief Toby Young said: ‘Of course, it would be Wokingham borough council that came up with this. I expect the next step will be to delete the last two syllables of their name so it becomes Woke Borough Council. More inclusive that way because the hard of understanding will get what the council’s all about.’
Noor Qurashi, Daily Mail, 3rd March 2025.
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Lord Young, the founder of the Free Speech Union, told the Mail on Sunday: “Language guides like this are always badged as ‘inclusive’, but in fact they are exclusionary. The Free Speech Union has defended over 3,500 people in the past three years and many of them are older people who have been accused of ‘hate speech’, for not using the correct woke phrase for something or other.”
Telegraph Reporters, The Telegraph, 2nd March 2025.
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Free Speech Union founder Toby Young said: ‘Language guides like this are always badged as “inclusive”, but in fact they are exclusionary. The Free Speech Union has defended over 3,500 people in the past three years and many of them are older people who have been accused of “hate speech”, for not using the correct woke phrase for something or other.’
Sanchez Manning, Daily Mail, 1st March 2025.
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Since 2021, the Government has spent more than £5.3 million on developing the CDDP and other disinformation projects. Toby Young of the Free Speech Union slammed the project:
It’s politically unwise, to put it mildly. To the Trump-Vance administration this will look like another attempt to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’, the self-professed agenda of a pro-censorship lobby group founded by Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.”
Guido Fawkes, 24th February 2025.
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Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, said: “Good luck persuading Greater Manchester police to send two police officers to your house if you’re burgled or your car is stolen.”
Ben Ellery, The Times, 23rd February 2025.
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And Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, said: ‘This is typical of the weird authoritarian atmosphere that has grown up in Britain since Sir Keir Starmer took control. Good luck persuading Greater Manchester Police to send two police officers to your house if you’re burgled or your car is stolen.’
Abul Taher and Mark Hooham, Daily Mail, 23rd February 2025.
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Lord Young of the Free Speech Union said: “To scale up the British arm of the censorship-industrial complex at a time when it’s being dismantled on the other side of the Atlantic is politically unwise, to put it mildly.”
“It’s particularly tin-eared given that the social media platforms that will be targeted by this new robo-censor are all American-owned.”
“To the Trump-Vance administration this will look like another attempt to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’, the self-professed agenda of a pro-censorship lobby group founded by Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.”
Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph, 22nd February 2025.
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Lord Young, who founded the Free Speech Union, said: “She’s certainly said more and done more in office to stand up for free speech than any other conservative politician. You know she’s serious about free speech because she ennobled me and Nigel Bigger. I’m the CEO of the Free Speech union, Nigel’s the chair, so she obviously cares about it and thinks it’s important, and our voices should be in Parliament standing up for it.”
Dominic Penna, The Telegraph, 19th February 2025.
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The Free Speech Union (FSU) intervened in the case and successfully persuaded the Court to adopt several key arguments, reinforcing vital protections for freedom of belief in the workplace.
Dr Frederick Attenborough, TCW, 17th February 2025.
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Lord Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, said: “The number of people who’ve been charged with this offence is deeply concerning. The problem with trying to criminalise ‘disinformation’ is that it empowers the state to decide what is and isn’t true.”
Ciaran McGrath, Daily Express, 16th February 2025.
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