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Jonathan Kay talks to colleague Toby Young about the fine line between journalism and activism, the politics of censorship, and his start-up year at the Free Speech Union.
Johnathan Kay interviews Toby Young, Quillette Podcast, 24th December 2020.
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[T]he publisher has now agreed to pay Ms Burchill her advance in full and has returned all the rights to the tome to her after an intervention by the Free Speech Union. MailOnline understands that five new publishers have now offered to take on the book and Ms Burchill told this publication she will decide on which to go with in the New Year.
Harry Howard and Jack Wright, MailOnline, 23rd December 2020.
Cancel Culture continues to permeate western society and ruin lives. Toby Young is a British writer and commentator. He is also the Founder & Director of The Free Speech Union. FSU is an organization dedicate to upholding free speech and protecting those who are unjustly attacked by the mob.
Angelo Isidorou interviews Toby Young, Cancel This, 21st December 2020.
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Toby Young, for the Free Speech Union, added that he “hope[s] this judgment sends a message to Chief Constables. They’ve been getting their officers to spend far too much time sifting through people’s social media accounts, like little offence archaeologists. They should be policing our streets, not our tweets.”
Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, 18th December 2020.
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Bryn Harris, chief legal counsel of the Free Speech Union said the judgment was “a welcome reminder of when the law will step in to protect free speech.” He added: “We view this as a positive sign that the senior judiciary will exercise their jurisdiction forcefully, and control wayward judges in lower courts who can’t seem to remember their ever-present obligation to protect freedom of expression. The judges in this case rightly recalled that the freedom to offend is not constrained by the facile ‘obligation to be kind’ mooted by the magistrate below.”
Camilla Tominey, The Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2020.
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The Free Speech Union, which represents Burchill, said it will be taking up her case. It called the cancellation of her book “a new low”, adding: “Appeasement is like feeding a crocodile in the hope he will eat you last.”
Jack Wright, MailOnline, 16th December 2020.
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The Free Speech Union which has been vocal in its support for Mr Knowland, said he intended to refer Eton’s trustees to the Charity Commission and the Attorney General. His complaint will accuse school bosses of “failing to discharge their duty to protect Eton’s reputation and to ensure it is pursuing its charitable object, which is to advance education for the benefit of its students”.
Andrew Young and Rory Tingle, MailOnline, 15th December 2020.
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In a statement, the union said: “The Free Speech Union is disappointed to learn that Eton’s governing body has decided to uphold the decision to sack our member Will Knowland. [… We] will be referring Eton’s trustees to the Charity Commission and the Attorney General for failing to discharge their duty to protect Eton’s reputation and to ensure it is pursuing its charitable object, which is to advance education for the benefit of its students.”
James Robinson, MailOnline, 14th December 2020.
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There are important lessons here. One is the powerfully disparate nature of the victorious coalition. Its eloquent moving spirit, Dr Arif Ahmed, is a libertarian atheist philosopher, but his cause gathered support from feminists persecuted by transgender activists, Christians, conservatives and many scientists angry that their rigorous search for truth might fall foul of identity politics. The role of the Free Speech Union was also significant.
Charles Moore, The Daily Telegraph, 15th December 2020.
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The pandemic was just beginning to rumble when I agreed to be on the advisory board of the Free Speech Union, run by Toby Young. It had become increasingly clear to anyone with half a brain that freedom of speech – including perfectly reasonable as well as horrible exercises of it – was badly imperilled.
Zoe Strimpel, The Sunday Telegraph, 13th December 2020.
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