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The plan prompted a storm of protest from unions when it was unveiled in May, with the UCU accusing the Government of “embarking on a pseudo freedom of speech crusade on campuses”. But campaign group, the Free Speech Union, welcomed the plan.
David Wilcock, MailOnline, 12th July 2021.
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Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, said: “The idea that white students at Cambridge enjoy privileges that black, Asian and minority ethnic students don’t is nonsense. Fewer than three per cent of students enrolled at Cambridge are white and poor (as of 2019). The students should be taking a class privilege test, not a white privilege test.”
Ewan Somerville, The Telegraph, 3rd July 2021.
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Free speech campaigner Toby Young urged the regulator to hold an inquiry into Trent College’s dismissal of Reverend Dr Bernard Randall, in a letter seen by The Mail on Sunday. In his letter to the charity Commission Mr Young, said: “Invoking the Prevent duty is a serious decision which is not to be taken lightly or unthinkingly. It threatens the involvement of the state’s security powers and real and serious interference with freedom of expression.”
Mark Hookham, The Mail on Sunday, 27th June 2021.
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Last night, Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, said: “It’s extremely alarming that a group of LGBT activists within the BBC think they can dictate how Stonewall is covered by the Corporation. There is a bust of George Orwell outside the BBC’s headquarters with the quote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” The BBC would do well to remind its Pride Board of those words.”
Sanchez Manning, The Mail on Sunday, 27th June 2021.
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General Secretary of the Free Speech Union Toby Young said Stop Funding Hate (SFH) had “falsely” claimed the new channel was “a platform for toxic, far-Right views”. In an article for the Mail on Sunday, Mr Young branded activist group SFH a “censorious, anti-democratic organisation”.
Melanie Kaidan, Daily Express, 22nd June 2021.
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Toby Young, director-general of the Free Speech Union, told MailOnline: “The Oxford Student Union has no business vetting the work of student journalists and any attempt at censorship might well fall foul of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which extends the legal duty to uphold free speech on campus to students’ unions. Student leaders should be standing up for the speech rights of student journalists, not trying to muzzle them.”
Jack Wright, MailOnline, 21st June 2021.
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Fifteen months ago, when I launched the Free Speech Union in the pages of this newspaper, I said that our right to speak openly and freely was in greater peril than at any time since the Second World War. In its brief life, the organisation has fought many important battles. We came to the defence of Conservative politician Amber Rudd after she was no-platformed by students at Oxford University. We helped Nick Buckley, the founder of a homelessness charity in Manchester, get his job back after he was sacked for criticising the Black Lives Matter organisation. And we helped Lisa Keogh, a law student who was placed under investigation by Abertay University for challenging woke dogma in a class on feminism, gender and the law. We made sure she wasn’t punished. But no battle has been more important than the one we’re currently fighting – against a censorious, anti-democratic organisation called Stop Funding Hate (SFH).
Toby Young, The Mail on Sunday, 20th June 2021.
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Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, said: “I’m concerned that Stop Funding Hate is trying to demonise GB News as a purveyor of ‘hate’ because it disapproves of the channel’s non-woke editorial policy – and some naive companies are taking those smears at face value.”
Paul Revoir and Inderdeep Bains, Daily Mail, 16th June 2021.
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Fortunately the voluble backing of Keogh’s academic freedom of expression by campaign group Free Speech Union ensured the university was itself before the court of public opinion and therefore liable to endure the embarrassing condemnation that Keogh’s critics had hoped for her. Sanity thankfully prevailed.
Brian Monteith, The Scotsman, 14th June 2021.
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General Secretary of the Free Speech Union Toby Young added: “This is a smart move by the Scottish FA, which has recognised that taking the knee has become a divisive, politically charged gesture. When your national team competes in the Euros it’s an opportunity for people to put their differences aside and come together, which is why politics should be kept out of football. For the last five years, the gesture has been a clear expression of support for Black Lives Matter, a political movement imported from the US that wants to dismantle the nuclear family, defund the police and end capitalism.”
James Gant, MailOnline, 10th June 2021.
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