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Bryn Harris, chief legal counsel at the Free Speech Union, which supported Wilkins, said: “They’re meant to be fighting world wars not culture wars.”
Fiona Hamilton, The Times, 21st March 2025.
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He has enrolled the Free Speech Union to help with the legal complaint and he heaped praise on its founder, Toby Young. “The Free Speech Union has been fantastic to me”, he said.
Since his suspension, a fundraiser has been set up to support Prior and his “right to speak up”.
Holly Bishop, GB News, 19th March 2025.
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The Free Speech Union is now supporting Ben’s fight for justice. Elliot Hammer, head of employment law at Branch Austin McCormick, is representing him.
Conservative Post, 17th March 2025.
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With the backing of the Free Speech Union campaign group, Mr Prior is crowdsourcing to fund legal action against the federation and is seeking a judicial review of the legality of his suspension.
Martin Evans, The Telegraph, 17th March 2025.
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According to the page set up to help fund Woods’s legal fees, he will face a disciplinary hearing later this month. The Free Speech Union, which is defending Woods, says he is one of more than 250 employees it is representing in similar circumstances across the country. Bosses increasingly feel emboldened to police their employees’ speech, and this can only get worse under Labour – which appears hell-bent on tightening Britain’s already-suffocating speech laws.
Hugo Timms, Spiked, 17th March 2025.
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On Monday, Lord Young, the director of the Free Speech Union and co-founder of the West London Free School, said he agreed with Ms Birbalsingh’s comments.
He wrote on X: “If people are worried that [Sir Hamid] will encourage secular school leaders to visit Tauheedul Islam Boys’ School and Tauheedul Islam Girls’ School to learn from their success, they shouldn’t be. All school leaders can learn valuable lessons from the success of those schools, as I did. They are successful … because they combine the discipline and high expectations of the best grammar schools with the inclusive, welcoming atmosphere of the best comprehensives.”
Natasha Leake, The Telegraph, 17th March 2025.
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Have we developed a vaccine to the woke mind virus? I thought this ideological pandemic had peaked in 2020 when I set up the Free Speech Union (FSU), a non-partisan organisation that stands up for the speech rights of its members and campaigns for free speech more widely.
Toby Young, The Standard, 14th March 2025.
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When the plans first emerged last October, the Free Speech Union campaign group branded it a “snowflakes’ charter”. General Secretary Lord Toby Young blasted: “Expect every pub in England and Wales to employ ‘banter cops’ who’ll be tasked with eavesdropping on customers’ conversations and barring anyone who tells an ‘inappropriate’ joke.”
Christian Calgie, Daily Express, 12th March 2025.
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A clause in the new Employment Rights Bill will make people fearful about what they say when getting a drink.
Toby Young, The Telegraph, 11th March 2025.
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Free Speech Union founder Toby Young said: ‘George and Mildred? Really? What’s next?
Olivia Allhusen, Daily Mail, 10th March 2025.
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