A former Labour health minister has warned that the Government's draft Conversion Practices Bill could see parents prosecuted for cautious, loving conversations with gender-questioning children — a concern now echoed across party lines.
Andy Burnham branded opposition politicians' language on Islam 'unacceptable' as Angela Rayner prepares to appoint an 'anti-Muslim hostility' tsar — the latest step in a process the FSU has shown was shaped by advisers with Islamist links.
A veteran was reportedly refused entry to a Gosport Wetherspoon for wearing a poppy, which a doorman called "political" — Wetherspoon denies any such policy and blames security measures linked to nearby protests.
GB News has accused Ofcom of suppressing survey data showing it is the most trusted broadcaster among its viewers, and has demanded the regulator hand over its correspondence with the Culture Secretary.
As the Courts and Tribunals Bill reaches the House of Lords, peers are preparing to rebel against plans to curb jury trials — reforms the Free Speech Union has campaigned against since they were announced.
From curbing jury trials to banning under-16s from social media, Labour's first year in power has brought more state control over what we can say and do — not less, despite its promises.
The Government says its draft Conversion Practices Bill protects parents, faith leaders and therapists — but the Bill itself contains no such protection, and could criminalise ordinary parenting, pastoral teaching and therapeutic conversations.
A teacher sacked for refusing to use a pupil's preferred pronouns says a college policy 'coerced' him to act against his gender-critical beliefs, an appeal tribunal has heard.
Scope has apologised to choir founder Janet Murray and the Singing Striders after dropping them from the London Marathon over her lawful gender-critical beliefs, following legal action supported by the Free Speech Union.
A Mail on Sunday investigation has found that BBC Bitesize, used by millions of schoolchildren, promotes highly contentious left-wing positions on immigration, Net Zero and inequality — prompting senior Conservatives and a former BBC controller to call for an urgent inquiry.
The Free Speech Union delivered its petition to save jury trials to 10 Downing Street this week, warning that government plans to curb the right to trial by jury would see more people wrongly convicted.
The Free Speech Union has signed up its 50,000th member, making it bigger than most of Britain's trade unions — a milestone that underscores the scale of the UK's free speech crisis.
