In a landmark ruling, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has found that the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Metropolitan Police acted illegally in surveilling two investigative journalists.

The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act (HEFSA) risks becoming ineffectual if the government follows through with plans to dilute its provisions, campaigners have warned.

An FSU member has successfully navigated the ordeal of a workplace disciplinary process with our support and guidance. Her alleged 'crime'? Expressing concern about the use of women’s toilets by trans-identifying colleagues.

FSU member Martin Speake is a distinguished composer, saxophonist, and educator. His career took a devastating turn in March 2024, when he questioned workplace anti-racism policies introduced by his ex-employer, Trinity Laban. But with our support, he's fighting back.

In a landmark legal battle, ousted Victorian MP Moira Deeming has won a defamation lawsuit against Liberal leader John Pesutto, securing $300,000 (approximately £156,000) in damages after the court found he falsely portrayed her as aligned with neo-Nazi ideologies.

A former parliamentary candidate has taken legal action against the Liberal Democrats, seeking £90,000 in damages after alleging that she was branded a “bigot” for wearing a T-shirt with a gender-critical slogan.

Angela Rayner’s department has quietly shelved plans to give residents a veto over whether the name of their road can be changed, effectively giving the green light for “activist” councils to memory-hole street names with links to slavery and the Empire.

The Chairman of the College of Policing has said that recording trivial incidents is distracting officers and undermining public confidence, making him the most senior policing figure so far to criticise how non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) are logged.

A Winter Pride event was called off by organisers at the weekend after they claimed that the Free Speech Union had threatened legal action against the organisers if they banned a woman with gender critical beliefs from attending.

The government has announced that puberty blockers are to be banned indefinitely in the UK for under-18s after an expert review by the Commission on Human Medicines warned that they posed an “unacceptable safety risk”.

Bromley Borough Council has incorporated free speech protections for councillors into its constitution. That’s great news – but it didn’t come about by accident. The FSU has been working for months with the Council to draft these protections.

The Free University of Berlin (FU) has decided that a British-led travelling exhibition about anti-Jewish pogroms cannot be held at the university, amid fears of an “emotional reaction” from students.

According to a recent report, Jewish students in Britain “are withdrawing from all aspects of university life, including lecture theatres, online learning spaces, seminar rooms, social activities and entire areas of campus” in the face of growing anti-Semitism amid the Hamas-Israel conflict.

A renowned professor has cancelled a lecture at the National Library of New Zealand after staff demanded he remove a historical source that they feared could be seen to endorse British colonialism.