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Free Speech Union boss Toby Young said it was ‘absurd’, adding that offensive words and phrases ‘naturally fall out of use’ over time as the English language changes. He added there is ‘no need for language cops to police its usage’.
Megan Howe, Daily Mail, 14th October 2024.
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Free Speech Union boss Toby Young called it “absurd”. He said: “The English language changes organically over time, with offensive words and phrases naturally falling out of use, without any need for language cops to police its usage.”
Thomas Godfrey, The Sun, 14th October 2024.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said it amounts to a ‘snowflakes’ charter’ and fears businesses will have to make staff eavesdrop on conversations to bar offensive customers.
Emily Jane Davies, Daily Mail, 13th October 2024.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said the proposed extension to harassment laws amounted to a “snowflakes’ charter”.
Camilla Turner, The Telegraph, 12th October 2024.
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And Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, could also lose some level of independence. Ofcom will issue regulatory codes to manage the OSA’s regulation. These codes are secondary legislation and therefore received very little parliamentary scrutiny. Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, warns it’s a safe bet Starmer will give the Secretary of State the power to revise these codes, giving the any Government huge influence on online regulation of speech for individual users.
Oscar Gill-Lewis, The Express, 11th October 2024.
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Toby Young, head of the Free Speech Union, told the Mail: “This is precisely the kind of thing the Act was designed to prevent. It would have imposed a duty on universities to pay for any additional security costs if a student activists threatened to disrupt an event. We need to cancel cancel culture.”
Sabrina Miller, The Daily Mail, 11th October 2024.
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In a letter to Durham University’s vice-chancellor, Professor Karen O’Brien, the Free Speech Union alleged Durham Union Society had been barred from the event because ‘it isn’t Left-wing enough.’ In a letter seen by MailOnline, the founder of the group, Toby Young claimed the university had a responsibility to protect free speech for all students, staff and visiting guests.
Shannon McGuigan, The Daily Mail, 3rd October 2024.
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The widespread recognition of the importance of this case has been demonstrated by the number of high-profile organisations that have been given permission to intervene in the hearing. The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has intervened, arguing that there is now “a phenomenon” of employers being pressured by third parties to punish employees for exercising free speech that has “become more common.” The Free Speech Union has also been given permission to intervene in the case, as have the Association of Christian Teachers, Sex Matters, and the Church of England Archbishops’ Council.
Tim Dieppe, The Critic, 3rd October 2024.
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The Court has also given permission for the intervention of the Association of Christian Teachers, Free Speech Union, Sex Matters and the Church of England Archbishops’ Council.
Christian Concern, 29th September 2024.
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Responding to the incident, The Free Speech Union (FSU) said it is “threatening legal action after one of our sister groups was kicked out of a Brighton pub for arguing that children should not be taught gender ideology as fact in schools”. FSU Founder and Director Toby Young commented that the pub landlord had no right to evict customers “just because he disapproves of their perfectly lawful beliefs, particularly if those beliefs are protected by the Equality Act”.
The Christian Institute, 28th September 2024.
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