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Young’s First Law of free speech

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I’ve always been envious of journalists who give their names to ‘laws’, as in O’Sullivan’s First Law: ‘All organisations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.’ So I’m going to take a stab at articulating Young’s First Law and it is this: ‘The more progressive a country is when it comes to sex and gender, the more authoritarian it is when it comes to speech and language.’

Toby Young, The Spectator, 28th June 2023.

Orthodox Christian teachers are on the chopping block

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But according to the General Secretary of the Free Speech Union (FSU), Toby Young, the challenges Christian teachers are already facing could loom considerably larger under Labour.
He told Christian Today: “I think it’s likely Labour will bring forward a Hate Crime and Public Order (England and Wales) Bill, which will be very similar to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act. It will increase the number of protected groups you can be prosecuted for ‘stirring up’ hatred against to include trans-identifying people and that will make it a criminal offence to misgender or deadname trans individuals.”

Julian Mann, Christian Today, 22nd June 2023.

How one woman took on the DWP and won

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The Free Speech Union was able to help Anna. Specialist employment barrister Spencer Keen provided tremendously generous help (with yours truly doing the donkey work), and formidable grounds of claim were submitted to the Employment Tribunal alleging unfair dismissal, automatic unfair dismissal for whistleblowing, victimisation, belief and race discrimination, and harassment.

Bryn Harris, The Critic, 1st June 2023.

Free speech laws threaten to swamp debate

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And the Free Speech Union (for which I’m an unpaid adviser) recently won a record settlement on behalf of a civil servant whistleblower who was fired for criticising politically extreme “diversity” and “gender ideology” training programmes.

Juliet Samuel, The Times, 31st May 2023.

Civil servant who blew the whistle on political activism wins £100,000 settlement

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Ms Thomas began a claim against the Department in 2022, with the support of the Free Speech Union. She claimed she was the victim of unfair dismissal, belief discrimination, victimisation as a whistleblower, and harassment.
After three preliminary hearings, the DWP agreed to settle and pay Ms Thomas £100,000, of which £27,500 was for injury to her feelings. It did not admit any liability.

Louisa Clarence-Smith, The Telegraph, 27th May 2023.

Woke: the new religion?

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For the past three years, in my capacity as general secretary of the Free Speech Union, I’ve been one of the leaders of the Anti-Woke Coalition. That’s my term for the loose collection of writers, journalists, broadcasters, artists, podcasters, YouTubers, Substackers, academics, intellectuals and politicians who are united in their opposition to the new authoritarian ideology that has swept through the English-speaking world over the past ten years. This movement has many names – postmodern neo-Marxism, the successor ideology, critical social justice theory – but the most common is woke, or some variation on it. 

Toby Young, Catholic Herald, 25th May 2023.

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