Every major UK government department, including the Home Office and Treasury, has pulled out of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions Programme, amid concerns over how the programme’s influence on government policies may limit free speech around gender ideology.

The Office for Students (OfS) is facing renewed calls to demonstrate its commitment to free speech by concluding its protracted investigation into Kathleen Stock’s resignation from the University of Sussex, following a sustained campaign against her over her gender-critical beliefs.

Angela Rayner is facing calls to apologise after accusing Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party, of spreading “fake news” in the wake of the Southport attacks.

Fears about cancel culture on campus will be investigated by the government following the suicide of a student last year.

The NHS is attempting to ban a nurse from referring to a transgender doctor as a man, even though the legal battle between them hinges on her belief that the doctor is one.

Police were called to disperse a group of 30 masked protesters who forced their way into a screening of the Bollywood film Emergency in west London, shouting “down with India.”

Among the many executive orders signed by Donald Trump within hours of his inauguration as US President on Monday was one headed “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship”. As you might expect, the order doesn’t mince its words.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced an independent public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the murders of three young girls in Southport last July, amid growing concerns over the handling of the case and why key information was withheld from the public.

Hong Kong police have offered financial rewards for information leading to the arrests of six pro-democracy activists living in the UK and Canada, with a bounty of HK$1m (£103,000) on each of them — sparking renewed concerns about transnational repression under Beijing’s draconian National Security Law.

A Tory member of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) has raised concerns about “censorship” after the Llywydd (Presiding Officer) Elin Jones stepped in during a question on grooming gangs.

PayPal has, for the first time, admitted that a prominent UK-based children’s rights campaigner was ‘debanked’ during the pandemic for speaking out against school closures and mandatory vaccines – a shocking confession of politically motivated financial censorship that wouldn’t look out of place in China’s social credit system. The US...

Scotland’s exams authority has replaced terms like ‘slavery’ with ‘enslavement of people’ as part of a drive to promote ‘anti-racist’ content and ‘decolonise’ the curriculum, prompting criticism that these CRT-inspired changes risk treating contested theory as fact and stifling debate in schools.

King’s College London is under fire for organizing critical race theory-inspired “race-segregated” classes funded by the NHS, which critics warn risk creating exclusionary environments, stifling dialogue, and undermining the principles of equal participation and free speech.

Bridget Phillipson is under pressure to revive university free speech protections by September after the FSU’s legal challenge prompted action.