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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.

Good on Toby Young for defending people’s right to blaspheme against PC orthodoxy.

Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, 26th Feb 2020.

The line between freedom of speech and the freedom to incite violence is one of the hardest distinctions to put into practice. Toby Young, however, who has recently created the Free Speech Union, may have a better idea than most.

Nico Johnson, The Post Millennial, 29th Feb 2020.

Listen to Toby Young of the FSU and Trevor Phillips of Index on Censorship, who joined Justin Webb on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme to discuss the launching of the FSU and the state of free speech in Britain today.

Justin Webb interviews Toby Young and Trevor Phillips, BBC Radio 4 Today, 24th Feb 2020.

The threats to free speech are not imaginary. One is the confusion of reasoned criticism with hatred, so that any principled dissent from fashionable dogma is immediately slapped down as “phobic”.

Prof Nigel Biggar, The Times, 24th Feb 2020.

Scarcely a week passes without yet another attempt to silence those whose views are different or in some way inconvenient.

Toby Young, The Mail on Sunday, 22nd Feb 2020.

We have a problem with free speech in this country. The Free Speech Union is the beginning of a solution.

Prof Nigel Biggar, The Sunday Telegraph, 16th Feb 2020.

Free speech keeps the world healthy and moving forward. Without it, our horizons contract, our thoughts narrow and our ability to test the utility or harm of ideas vanishes. Nonsense and evil go unchallenged.

Ollie Wright, The Conservative Woman, 10th Feb 2020.

Intolerance of dissent on campus is putting conservative students at risk.

Toby Young, The Critic, February 2020.

Let’s make 2020 the year cancel culture gets canceled.

Toby Young, Spectator USA, 24th Jan 2020.