The Free Speech Union launched in February this year and boy, oh boy, I think it’s safe to say that even back then it’s hard to imagine just how necessary the Union would become in the fightback against a daily deluge of censorship, police intervention and general madness.
Darren Grimes interviews Toby Young, Reasoned, 11th November 2020.
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We must be able to trust those who claim to be on the side of free speech. When your alleged allies fall foul of the egregious values of the cancel culture mob it is easy to lose hope. That is why the best thing anyone can do is join the Free Speech Union. No matter how “small” your case is, people need to be held to account.
Sam Bayliss, The Critic, 10th November 2020.
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Mr Grimes, 27, said yesterday that his solicitor and the Free Speech Union will look into “judicially reviewing this decision by the police and hopefully force a rethink.”
Kumail Jaffer, The Daily Mail, 6th November 2020.
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Head of the UK’s Free Speech Union, Toby Young, had warned in the wake of Mr Yousaf’s plans that the English and Welsh commission was indeed “proposing to change the law so exactly the same thing applies here”.
Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, 4th November 2020.
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Journalists including Douglas Murray, associate editor of The Spectator magazine, and Toby Young of the Free Speech Union also lined up to blast the ‘absurd’ probe.
Isabella Nikolic, MailOnline, 4th November 2020.
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Head of the Free Speech Union Toby Young warned that this type of censorship might occur south of the border, saying on Wednesday in response the to the report: “The Law Commission of England and Wales is proposing to change the law so exactly the same thing applies here.”
Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, 29th October 2020.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said the use of the Public Order Act to “regulate speech and debate” had a “chilling effect on free speech”. He said “it is not the police’s job to investigate thought crimes,” adding: “The Metropolitan Police made a serious mistake in deciding to investigate Dr David Starkey and Darren Grimes and should apologise.”
Jack Wright, MailOnline, 26th October 2020.
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Toby Young [talks] about his personal experience of being cancelled in 2018, why he set up the Free Speech Union to help others who have been through similar experiences, falling foul of a Twitchfork mob, “offence archaeology” and why he thinks it might be an uphill task trying to foster civil debate and polite disagreement in the digital sphere.
Tanya Goodin interviews Toby Young, It’s Complicated, 26th October 2020.
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Following a backlash, Scotland Yard has decided it is not “proportionate” to pursue the investigation. And rightly so. As Toby Young of the Free Speech Union, which was backing Grimes and Starkey, observed, “The only hatred David Starkey stirred up was against himself”.
Spiked, 21st October 2020.
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Scotland Yard has decided it is not ‘proportionate’ after a backlash over freedom of speech.
Hayley Dixon, The Daily Telegraph, 21st October 2020.
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