Police Scotland falsely dismissed Tory MSP and FSU member Murdo Fraser's complaints about the force logging a non-crime hate incident against him after he compared non-binary people with those who identify as cats.

A multimillionaire businessman and prominent supporter of Reform UK has joined the Free Speech Union (FSU) after facing an attempt to strip him of his OBE over a social media post about the Mayor of London.

Police threatened a retired college lecturer with arrest if he continued to protest to his local town councillor about her opposition to a fundraising event open only to biological women.

Academics behind a gender-critical documentary have launched a discrimination claim against their own union after officials branded the film "transphobic" and tried to block screenings at Edinburgh University.

A toddler has been suspended from nursery after being accused of transphobia or homophobia, according to new Department of Education data — one of 13 children under seven suspended or excluded for the same reason.

The University of Sussex is fighting back after being fined £585,000 for failing to protect Professor Kathleen Stock’s academic freedom. The OfS said its trans equality policy created a “chilling effect” on speech. Now Sussex is taking legal action to overturn the ruling.

The London Museum has urged staff to “challenge embedded whiteness” as part of a culture-change initiative rooted in critical race theory. It reflects a broader trend: British institutions are increasingly reorienting around contested ideological frameworks that all too often suppress dissent.

A couple were detained in front of their nine year-old daughter and kept in a cell for eight hours over “disparaging” messages in a school WhatsApp and follow-up emails raising concerns with school leadership.

Kathleen Stock has criticised “dim-witted, claustrophobic” transgender policies still in place at universities across Britain as she renounced her academic title in “disgust” at her former profession.

Labour’s crackdown on banter is a threat to free speech that will allow people to “sue for hurt feelings”, ministers have been warned.

The Reform UK leader has agreed to end his dispute with the high street banking giant nearly two years after the closure of his Coutts accounts led to the ousting of its former CEO.

The Office for Students (OfS) said the university's trans and non-binary equality policy statement had "a chilling effect" on students and staff. But the university has called the investigation "Kafkaesque" and does not believe the ruling is lawful.

The law around free speech is complex, but Sussex just seems to have got it wrong and has paid a hefty price.

Laurence Fox has been charged with a sexual offence under the 2003 Sexual Offences Act after allegedly sharing an “upskirting” photo of TV presenter Narinder Kaur on social media. He is due to appear in court on 24 April.