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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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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said the proposals were an infringement of academics’ “right to free speech and almost certainly unlawful”.
The Times, 21st December 2021.
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In a statement following, Free Speech Union general secretary Toby Young praised Mr Miller’s “courage and tenacity”. He said, “The Free Speech Union is proud to have played a part in winning this landmark victory, but the lion’s share of the credit must go to Harry Miller. Thanks to his courage and tenacity, we can all rest a little easier in our beds tonight, knowing the police are not about to knock on our doors because we’ve made an inappropriate joke on Twitter. They should be policing our streets, not our tweets.”
Jamie Phillips, MailOnline, 20th December 2021.
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The Free Speech Union (FSU) has written to UCL’s vice-chancellor, Dr Michael Spence, urging him to remove this stipulation immediately from its guidance. Toby Young, general secretary of the FSU, said: “Insisting that anyone in a grade 8 job at UCL, or applying for one, has to remove ‘dead white able-bodied European men’ from reading lists, ‘check their privilege’ and ‘acknowledge the prejudice baked into their field’ is an infringement of their right to free speech and almost certainly unlawful.”
Camilla Turner, The Telegraph, 19th December 2021.
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Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, said: “The fact senior members of the University are whipping up a mob of censorious student activists against a colleague is shocking.”
Mark Hookham and Michael Powell and Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 11th December 2021.
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The row escalated on Saturday as the Free Speech Union, which is representing Prof Luckhurst, wrote to Durham University’s acting vice-chancellor to remind him of his legal duty to uphold free speech on campus. Toby Young, the general secretary of the FSU, said: “Durham says it believes in upholding academic free speech, but if so why has it placed Professor Luckhurst under investigation for describing the decision of students to walk out of the speech as ‘pathetic’? In expressing that perfectly lawful view, Professor Luckhurst was exercising his right to free speech and penalising him for doing so could well be a breach of the law that requires universities to uphold free speech on campus.”
Camilla Turner, The Telegraph, 11th December 2021.
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SCOTTISH First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been named as one of the greatest foes of freedom of expression by members of the Free Speech Union (FSU). The SNP leader was voted the top “free speech zero” at the organisation’s Christmas review with her government’s backing of a fiercely controversial hate crime law coming under the spotlight.
David Williamson, Sunday Express, 11th December 2021.
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The Free Speech Union said: “The vilification and abuse of Professor Luckhurst for inviting Rod Liddle to give an after-dinner speech is an absolute disgrace. If students cannot cope with hearing opinions they find disagreeable they shouldn’t be at university. Professor Luckhurst is a member of the Free Speech Union and we are supporting him in full.”
James Gant, MailOnline, 8th December 2021.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “The college authorities should be embarrassed. They’ve relinquished their leadership role and the result is that a student mob is now in charge.” He added: “Why would anyone want to go to Wolfson if the college is now run by a group of Maoist thugs in short trousers?”
Ewan Somerville, The Telegraph, 4th December 2021.
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