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Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, hit out, saying, “Harry Potter books teach children the importance of resilience. A trigger warning sends the opposite message.”
Sarah Ridley, The Scottish Sun, 27th January 2022.
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It was only with the help of The Mail on Sunday, The Free Speech Union and the common sense of the British people that I could eventually face down the mob and start picking up the pieces of my life.
Nick Buckley MBE, The Mail on Sunday, 13th January 2022.
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The Free Speech Union, which advocates freedom of speech, added: “Classic works of children’s literature should not be rewritten to make them more politically correct. They are of their time and teaching children that previous generations thought differently to them is a more valuable lesson than shoehorning in woke platitudes about gender equality. What’s next? Is Jacqueline Wilson going to rewrite Lord of the Flies and change Piggy’s name to Percy to avoid fat-shaming?”
James Gant, MailOnline, 12th January 2022.
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Toby Young, director-general of the Free Speech Union, suggested that anybody who has lost their job because they had a “hate incident” recorded against their name could now sue the police following the ruling.
David Barrett, The Daily Mail, 22nd December 2021.
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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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