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It may be true, as the Government tells its MPs, that the worst aspects of the bill are being watered down – not least due to arguments made by a small army of free speech advocates (including the Free Speech Union, whose advisory board I serve on).
Juliet Samuel, The Telegraph, 5th March 2022.
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Toby Young, General Secretary of The Free Speech Union, said: “Cardiff University has completely failed to intervene while militant trans activists have created a culture of abject fear, with anyone who opposes their ideology afraid to speak out.”
The Christian Institute, 3rd March 2022.
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Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “The people who deny there’s a free speech crisis in British universities often point to the fact that only a handful of academics are no-platformed each year. But that’s the tip of the iceberg. As George Orwell pointed out in the introduction to Animal Farm, the most ubiquitous form of censorship is self-censorship and we know from surveys and polls that a huge number of academics are self-censoring.”
James Gant, MailOnline, 23rd February 2022.
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Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, also said today: “Teaching unions should confine themselves to fighting for better pay and conditions and stop promoting woke gobbledegook. Asking their members to tell children not to call them ‘Sir’ or ‘Miss’ is inappropriate and will make teachers’ lives harder, not easier.”
Stewart Carr and Jamie Phillips, MailOnline, 15th February 2022.
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Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, hit out, saying, “Harry Potter books teach children the importance of resilience. A trigger warning sends the opposite message.”
Sarah Ridley, The Scottish Sun, 27th January 2022.
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It was only with the help of The Mail on Sunday, The Free Speech Union and the common sense of the British people that I could eventually face down the mob and start picking up the pieces of my life.
Nick Buckley MBE, The Mail on Sunday, 13th January 2022.
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The Free Speech Union, which advocates freedom of speech, added: “Classic works of children’s literature should not be rewritten to make them more politically correct. They are of their time and teaching children that previous generations thought differently to them is a more valuable lesson than shoehorning in woke platitudes about gender equality. What’s next? Is Jacqueline Wilson going to rewrite Lord of the Flies and change Piggy’s name to Percy to avoid fat-shaming?”
James Gant, MailOnline, 12th January 2022.
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Toby Young, director-general of the Free Speech Union, suggested that anybody who has lost their job because they had a “hate incident” recorded against their name could now sue the police following the ruling.
David Barrett, The Daily Mail, 22nd December 2021.
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Conservative commentator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union Toby Young, 58, celebrated the Court of Appeal’s judgment on social media. He said: “Harry Miller has just won a huge victory in the Court of Appeal. Court has ruled that the recording of non-crime hate incidents is an unlawful interference in freedom of expression.”
Jack Walters, The Express, 22nd December 2021.
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Toby Young, director-general of the Free Speech Union, today suggested that anybody who has lost their job because they had a “hate incident” recorded against their name could now sue the police following yesterday’s ruling.
Jack Wright, MailOnline, 21st December 2021.
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