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The Free Speech Union has branded non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) as ‘thought policing’ as it was revealed they have been used to investigate children as young as nine.
Kumail Jaffer, Daily Mail, 15th November 2024.
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Anti-censorship campaigner Toby Young said that if the government does push ahead with its plans to force police officers to record yet more NCHIs, his Free Speech Union will take legal action.
Michael Curzon, The European Conservative, 15th November 2024.
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I think I can guess the sort of person or group who might be responsible for this sort of charge; I think we all can. But it’s the sinister effect that the charge seems intended to have which should worry us. It is designed to intimidate; to make people like Allison Pearson think twice before they sound off about matters to do with race or religion. It is meant to have a chilling effect on free speech, which is why the Free Speech Union has provided her with a solicitor to accompany her to her voluntary police interview.
Melanie McDonagh, The Standard, 15th November 2024.
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Critics have slammed the use of police resources for such incidents – with some calling for the protection of free speech. The Free Speech Union has said it amounts to “thought policing”.
Ellie Doughty, The Sun, 14th November 2024.
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Critics have slammed the use of police resources for such incidents – with some calling for the protection of free speech. The Free Speech Union has said it amounts to “thought policing”.
Jason Groves, Daily Mail, 14th November 2024.
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Free Speech Union director Toby Young added: “It’s little wonder that 93 per cent of car-related crimes went unsolved in Essex last year. The local officers are too busy policing journalists’ tweets to police their streets. I’m sure they’d prefer to be investigating actual crimes rather than ‘non-crimes’, but their politically correct bosses are more concerned with punishing wrongthink.”
Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, 14th November 2024.
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She said: “I am probably going to go in for an interview. The Free Speech Union, which is a brilliant organisation, is helping me. They are giving me a solicitor, so if I have to go into the police station and have a voluntary interview I will go in, and maybe then we will find out what I am accused of, and then we will see how it progresses.”
Charles Hymas, The Telegraph, 13th November 2024.
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Instead, the year ending this June saw 11,690 NCHIs issued across 30 forces, an almost identical figure to the year before, according to an FOI request from the Free Speech Union. A number of forces recorded double digit increases year-on-year.
Ben Butcher, The Telegraph, 13th November 2024.
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A more clearly successful move into the public square has been Toby Young’s Free Speech Union (FSU), of which Biggar is the chairman. Its genesis owes much to the good offices of the think tank Legatum and key personnel there such as David Stroud. A meeting of 20 or so asked the question, what is to be done? The answer, as Biggar knew from his own shunned experience at Oxford, was: “End the isolation. Solidarity is good. I hadn’t known what had hit me.”
CD Montgomery and Graham Stewart, The Critic, 13th November 2024.
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The Free Speech Union has been granted a judicial review hearing in January to appeal the controversial move, with a High Court judge agreeing that it is in the “public interest” to resolve this promptly.
The Christian Institute, 9th November 2024.
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