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UK home secretary Priti Patel’s recently announced intention to reform so-called hate-speech laws is most welcome. At the Free Speech Union, we have been calling for this for a while – especially because demands for even greater speech control have increased over the past year.
Radomir Tylecote, Spiked, 1st February 2021.
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Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union said: “If free speech is going to endure, it’s essential that young people understand why it… needs to be defended.”
Amy Oliver, The Mail on Sunday, 31st January 2021.
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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.
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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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Mr Young, who co-founded the Free Speech Union in February 2020, added: “As a member of the Royal Family, Harry should be standing up for fundamental British values, such as the right to free speech, not aligning himself with people who want to take that right away from people they disagree with.”
Alice Scarsi, The Daily Express, 15th January 2021.
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Toby Young, [secretary]-general of the Free Speech Union, called Google’s move “an assault on the freedom of the press”.
Jack Wright and Henry Martin, MailOnline, 6th January 2021.
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In this episode Toby Young joins me to discuss his organization, The Free Speech Union, the process of being canceled by an outrage mob on Twitter, and why the value of free speech for all must be protected and defended.
Sasha White interviews Toby Young, Plebity, 27th December 2020.
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To look on the positive side of 2020, we can see that a lot which needs to be done is already in motion. This year, projects like the Free Speech Union, Don’t Divide Us and the Equiano Project were set up. There have recently been some important victories for free speech in universities. And this month, the government decided to drop ‘unconscious bias training’ from the civil service. All of this shows that resistance is beginning to stir.
Inaya Folarin Iman, Spiked, 27th December 2020.
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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.
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