“PayPal needs to embrace free speech if it wants to operate in UK”

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Toby Young, from the Free Speech Union, said: “If PayPal’s licence to operate in the UK is renewed I think at the very least they should agree to abide by the same rules as other payment services providers operating under licence in the UK and not debank customers because they disapprove of their political views provided they’re perfectly lawful.”

Louisa Clarence-Smith and Neil Johnston, The Telegraph, 4th August 2023.

NHS managers are told not to offer sympathy to female colleagues worried about sharing toilets with biological men in woke handbook

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In a letter to bosses at the Trust, Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, said: ‘We are writing to request that this policy be immediately withdrawn and an urgent review undertaken. We are especially concerned by its insistence that female staff cannot refuse to use the same bathroom facilities as biological males and cannot express any concerns about having to do so. The Trust must strike a balance between protecting trans individuals from harassment and discrimination and protecting the rights of gender-critical employees.”

Connor Stringer, Jack Hardy and Shaun Wooller, Mail Online, 3rd August 2023.

Author Gillian Philip who was dumped by agent over her support for JK Rowling says women are “terrified” of speaking out on trans debate because of fears they’ll lose their jobs if they are targeted by cancel culture mob

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Speaking of cancel culture, Ms Philip said in the new podcast episode: ‘It is entirely a mob mentality. It is madness of crowds, it is whipped up like witch hunts. The ultimate insult is that they turn around and say, “well cancel culture isn’t real, this didn’t happen”.’

Harry Howard, Mail Online, 2nd August 2023.

Kemi Badenoch: Diversity obsession has led to Kafkaesque madness

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Over the past three years, the Free Speech Union has supported more than 2,000 cases of people across the UK who’ve lost their jobs or been disciplined at work for lawful free speech.

Kemi Badenoch, The Times, 30th July 2023.

Let’s protect free speech for all not just the Left, says Toby Young

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I’ve spent the past couple of weeks trying to whip up support for Nigel Farage in his battle against woke British banks.
Closing people’s accounts for expressing the “wrong” views is a brutally effective type of censorship that originated in Communist China and has no place in a supposedly free country like ours.
My first thought was to create a meme based on the old advert for the National Lottery. A giant hand holding a pair of rainbow-coloured scissors would emerge from a high street bank. Then it would cut up the credit card of an unsuspecting member of the public, with the caption: “It could be you!”

Toby Young, Sunday Express, 30th July 2023.

Not even Reverends like me are safe from the banks’ woke purge

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I talked to my friends at the Free Speech Union and they put me in touch with an excellent journalist who wrote up my story accurately, and off we went. It has struck a chord with the public.

Richard Fothergill, The Telegraph, 25th July 2023.

Closing Nigel Farage’s bank accounts is an attack on free speech itself

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With deep irony, it was the Free Speech Union and its founder, Toby Young, who were “patient zero” of this particular epidemic. They came to me at the start of this year after PayPal suspended their accounts.

Andrew Griffith, The Telegraph, 23rd July 2023.

Editor who said that the idea that someone with “heavy five o’clock shadow” could be a woman “blows my mind” crowdfunds legal action after being dropped by writing firm

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Assisted by the Free Speech Union, Ms Ruth has raised more than £10,000 towards legal fees so far, but hopes to raise a total of £48,000.

Rhiannon James, Mail Online, 22nd July 2023.

Gender-critical literacy row sees editor cancelled over “five o’clock shadow” tweet

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The writer says she believes “sex is immutable and determined from conception”. Her case is being supported by the Free Speech Union.

Matt Jackson, Daily Express, 22nd July 2023.

Gender-critical editor dropped by agency over “five o’clock shadow” tweet

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The 63-year-old will be assisted by the Free Speech Union and is raising funds for her legal fees.

Craig Simpson, The Telegraph, 21st July 2023.

In the Media

Articles That Mention the Free Speech Union

“PayPal needs to embrace free speech if it wants to operate in UK”

NHS managers are told not to offer sympathy to female colleagues worried about sharing toilets with biological men in woke handbook

Author Gillian Philip who was dumped by agent over her support for JK Rowling says women are “terrified” of speaking out on trans debate because of fears they’ll lose their jobs if they are targeted by cancel culture mob

Kemi Badenoch: Diversity obsession has led to Kafkaesque madness

Let’s protect free speech for all not just the Left, says Toby Young

Not even Reverends like me are safe from the banks’ woke purge

Closing Nigel Farage’s bank accounts is an attack on free speech itself

Editor who said that the idea that someone with “heavy five o’clock shadow” could be a woman “blows my mind” crowdfunds legal action after being dropped by writing firm

Gender-critical literacy row sees editor cancelled over “five o’clock shadow” tweet

Gender-critical editor dropped by agency over “five o’clock shadow” tweet

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