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Police forced to issue apology after claiming “being offensive” is a crime

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Criticising the message, Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union said: “It’s deeply alarming that Merseyside Police have such a poor grasp of the law. As Lord Justice Sedley said in a landmark case in 1999, ‘free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having’.”

Ewan Somerville, The Daily Telegraph, 22nd February 2021.

Woke Britain sees record number of free speech complaints

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Mr Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “The Government has rightly recognised that there is a serious problem around free speech on campus, but the silencing of those with dissenting points of view goes far beyond that. In our first year, we have been contacted by hundreds of ordinary people. They have fallen foul of a censorious minority – often with the backing of HR departments – that will stop at nothing to silence those whose opinions they disapprove of. We have seen people targeted who hold mainstream views, such as supporters of Brexit and traditional marriage. But it’s not just those with conservative opinions. We’ve defended dozens of left-wing feminists who’ve challenged the trans lobby over issues like whether transwomen should be allowed into women’s changing rooms or to compete in women’s sports.”

David Maddox, The Sunday Express, 20th February 2021.

Fans MUST be allowed to boo players who take the knee in support of Black Lives Matter, claims Free Speech Union as they lobby FA to stop supporters from being banned by clubs

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In a letter to the Football Association, the Free Speech Union insist that if players are free to make the gesture, then fans must be free to disagree with them. The FSU argued in the letter to the FA’s interim chairman Peter McCormick that the “simplest solution” to an issue which continues to split football and other sports, would be to stop players taking the knee at all on the grounds that it shows support for a political cause and not a moral one, something banned in football law.

Malcolm Brown, The Mail on Sunday, 20th February 2021.

“Free speech” group claims victory over Oxford college

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Somerville College had initially given students until Friday to complete the exercise, which one student said took 15 minutes, but changed its policy after the Free Speech Union wrote to its management. The campaign group, which is led by the former journalist and free schools advocate Toby Young, said one of its members was a student at the college. The student complained about being required to take the course, which is designed to help people recognise prejudices or biases they may hold against minority groups, and said it was a breach of their freedom of expression.

Emma Yeomans, The Times, 16th February 2021.

Why NO ONE is safe from the woke warriors trying to stamp out free speech: SUE REID reveals the pensioner publicly shamed by a drinks giant and an Asda worker who lost his job sharing a Billy Connolly skit. So are you next?

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As Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, which has helped hundreds of people caught out by the new woke world order, points out: “They are punished for casual remarks they have made in the pub or on social media. We have one member who lost his job because of a WhatsApp message to his now ex-lover. The Big Brother that George Orwell warned about in 1984 is a reality. It is not the state watching everything you say, it’s a troll-army of activists. This madness, which once only infected university campuses, is seeping into the human resources departments . . .”

Sue Reid, The Daily Mail, 12th February 2021.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle accused of posing “significant threat” to free speech

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[Emma Webb, Deputy Research Director at the FSU,] said: “For all of these large corporations and a Prince and his wife to be using their position to censor people they disagree with on the basis of an ideology which is disputed and should not be accepted as if it is somehow politically neutral. That goes beyond winding up normal people. I think that this is a serious crisis of free speech and it poses a significant threat.”

Svar Nanan-Sen, The Daily Express, 27th January 2021.

Now The Royle Family is given a “woke” discriminatory language warning by the BBC

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Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “The BBC has been been taken over by the ‘woke’ cult. Its managers are like 17th Century Witchfinder Generals, constantly on the look out for heretics. Any programmes that depart from their narrow ideological dogma are immediately slapped with a moral health warning. Someone needs to remind them that Britain is the birthplace of Parliamentary democracy and the licence-payers who pay their wages believe in free speech.”

Sarah Ridley, The Sun, 14th January 2021.

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