We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.
The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ...
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
Click here to read the article
Prof Selina Todd helped organise the event, only to find herself uninvited. […] Now Exeter College has launched an investigation into the “no platforming” of Prof Todd, after a formal complaint was submitted by the journalist Toby Young on behalf of the Free Speech Union.
Camilla Turner, The Daily Telegraph, 3rd March 2020. [Read our Letter of Complaint to Exeter College.]
Click here to read the article
The idea for a free speech trade union was born at a conference for ‘cancelled’ academics in Oxford last year. It was organised by Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of moral and pastoral philosophy at Oxford, who was targeted by an outrage mob in 2017 after writing an article for the Times entitled ‘Don’t feel guilty about our colonial past’.
Toby Young, Conservative Woman, 3rd March 2020.
Click here to read the article
Free speech campaigners have complained after an academic was forced out of a conference she had helped to organise at Oxford University following pressure from trans activists.
Nicola Woolcock, The Times, 3rd March 2020. [Read our Letter of Complaint to Exeter College.]
Click here to read the article
We need a mature and resilient society as well as a tolerant one in order to withstand the harshness of free speech and protect it.
John Humphrys, The Daily Mail, 29th Feb 2020.
Click here to read the article
The FSU should resonate across the Anglosphere, where a particular strain of Protestant puritanism seems to encourage a modern-day mob of secular puritans to sack dissenters, or at the very least cancel them, rather than debate them.
Janet Albrechtsen, The Australian, 29th Feb 2020.
Click here to read the article
The most nauseating phrase in the English language is “I’m not against free speech but…”
James Delingpole, Breitbart, 29th Feb 2020.
Click here to read the article
Free speech in the UK is in crisis. Police investigate and arrest people for making offensive comments online, ‘problematic’ speakers are shut down on campus, and outraged Twittermobs agitate to have people sacked from their jobs.
Toby Young, Spiked, 28th Feb 2020.
Click here to watch the podcast
In this special edition of the spiked podcast, Toby Young joins spiked’s Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the launch of his Free Speech Union, the new threats to free speech, and what we can all do to face down censorship.
Tom Slater and Fraser Myers interview Toby Young, Spiked Podcast, 28th Feb 2020.
Click here to read the article
Many people now believe that hate speech includes: training your dog to do a Nazi salute, sharing rude limericks about trans people, reading the Daily Mail, debating differences between genetic populations, suggesting immigration may affect wages, quoting Shakespeare or saying that women are those born with two X chromosomes.
Juliet Samuel, The Telegraph, 29th Feb 2020.
Click here to read the article
Writer and education pioneer Toby Young this week set up a Free Speech Union because, astonishingly, in 2020 free speech is under threat.
Katharine Birbalsingh, The Sun, 26th Feb 2020.
© Limited
Notifications
