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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, told the Sunday Telegraph “too many libraries have been captured by woke activists behaving like bespectacled zealots in the culture war”.
James Tozer, Daily Mail, 29th October 2023.
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Indeed, Free Speech Union General Secretary Toby Young highlighted that the Shakespeare inference doesn’t even work. He told The European Conservative:
“Steve Bell says it was a reference to a famous cartoon of LBJ pointing to a Vietnam-shaped scar on his stomach, and Bell made that explicit by writing “After David Levine” on the cartoon. I think we should accept that explanation. To claim it was a reference to Shylock doesn’t make sense because Shylock at no point tries to remove, or threatens to remove, a pound of flesh from his own body. It’s a forfeit he wants his debtor to pay. In addition, the flesh Netanyahu is about to remove in the cartoon weighs considerably more than a pound.”
Michael Curzon, The European Conservative, 18th October 2023.
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Toby Young of the Free Speech Union said: “It beggars belief that universities are spending money on this nonsense when they’re charging £9,250 a year for tuition and clamouring to put fees up.”
Connor Stringer, Daily Mail, 9th October 2023.
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In a ground-breaking judgment against workplace cancel culture and for lawful freedom of expression, the Employment Tribunal has ruled that ACAS employee and Free Speech Union member Sean Corby was expressing a legitimate philosophical belief when he challenged Critical Race Theory in his workplace. As such, his belief amounts to a characteristic that will now be afforded protection by Section 10 of the Equality Act 2010.
Freddie Attenborough, The Critic, 4th October 2023.
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He [Sean Corby] refused to comply and took his case to the tribunal with the support of the Free Speech Union.
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, Spiked, 3rd October 2023.
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A spokesman for Free Speech Union, which assisted Col Dr Wright, said the matter “should never have been taken seriously”.
The Christian Institute, 29th September 2023.
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The Free Speech Union can congratulate themselves on “at least an improvement on earlier versions” of the Bill thanks to their sedulous lobbying. We have to thank them that the legislation won’t now criminalise someone for saying something, whether online or off.
Kathy Gyngell, TCW, 25th September 2023.
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Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, warned that the guidance was “unavoidably imprecise” and open to interpretation.
He questioned the use of the word “gratuitous” and said it was not clear when a “robust response” to a point of view one disagrees with would turn into “harassment”.
He said: “This guidance represents a good-faith effort to balance barristers’ right to freedom of expression with the need to protect the reputation of the profession, but the problem is the language used by the BSB when describing what it has a ‘regulatory interest’ in is unavoidably imprecise and open to interpretation. For instance, what is an acceptable criticism of the justice system and what is ‘gratuitous’? At what point does a robust response to someone with whom you disagree cross the line and become ‘harassment’?”
Will Bolton, The Telegraph, 24th September 2023.
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Dr Ben Jones, of the Free Speech Union, which backed him, said: the complaint “should never have been taken seriously”.
Chris Pollard, The Mail on Sunday, 24th September 2023.
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The anti-racism training provoked a protest from Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union. “Why is [the garden] wasting money on this nonsense?” he asked. “It might as well advertise for a witch-finder general to search for witches hiding in the botanic garden.”
David Leask, The Times, 17th September 2023.
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