Publications and Research
Briefings, letters, research papers, and policy documents from the Free Speech Union.
2026
- Pre-Action Protocol Letter: Anti-Muslim Hostility Definition
- Free speech in Welsh universities: why Wales needs its own Freedom of Speech Act
- Anti-Free Speech Hostility: The Islamist Links of the Government's Working Group on Islamophobia
2025
- Juries More Likely to Acquit in Speech-Related Cases
- Why Labour’s Definition of ‘Islamophobia’ Will Have a Chilling Effect on Free Speech
- Shopped Stewards: Why today’s trade unions police speech instead of protecting workers – and how to fix it
- Journalism in the Dock: Sir Keir Starmer’s Baseless Prosecution of Tabloid Journalists as Director of Public Prosecutions
- Letter to GMP Chief Constable Stephen Watson QPM concerning the handling of the case of Mr Martin Frost
2024
- The Free Speech Union responds to the Bar Standards Board consultation about imposing a duty on barristers to promote equality, diversity and inclusion
- The Free Speech Union responds to the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries’ Consultation on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
- Letter about the Durham Union Society not being allowed a stall at Freshers’ Fair
- Police still wasting time investigating Non-Crime
- Letter to Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, regarding its ‘Trans Inclusion’ training course
- Letter to Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP concerning a post on X made by the Home Office’s official account
- Pre-Action Protocol letter sent by the Free Speech Union to Bridget Phillipson, the Secretary of State for Education, about her decision to torpedo the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act.
- Letter to Ingrid Brown, Head of Legal and Democracy and Monitoring Officer at Thanet District Council
- Letter to The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP concerning the guide to conspiracy theories for MPs and members of the House of Lords that she commissioned
- Penny Mordant
- The EDI Tax: How Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is Hobbling British Businesses
- Banning Islamophobia: Blasphemy Law by the Backdoor
- Why Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s Conversion Therapy Bill is an Assault on Free Speech
- Letter expressing our concern that the RSL is systematically undermining the very principles on which writers’ careers depend
2023
- Letter as a response to the PRA consultation entitled ‘CP18/23 – Diversity and inclusion in PRA-regulated firms’
- Not On Our Shelves: Soft Censorship in Local Authority Libraries
- Letter to Dr James Mannion about Rethinking Education’s decision to no-platform Dr Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert
- Carbon Literacy Training
- Woke, Ltd
- Letter to Professor Sir Malcolm Evans About Regent’s Park College’s Trans Inclusion Statement
- Letter to the CEO of South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust’s Transitioning at Work and Gender Diversity Policy
- Letter to the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police about the arrest of an autistic teenage girl for ‘homophobic hate speech’
- Letter to the Oxford University Proctors about OUSU’s vote to deny the Oxford Union a slot at freshers’ fair in October
- Letter to Sheffield University Student Union about the free speech society
- Letter urging St John’s College to reverse its decision to cancel a film screening over threatened student protests
- Letter to the Oxford University Proctors about OUSU’s vote to deny the Oxford Union a slot at freshers’ fair in October
- Letter to Ofcom Following its Decision to Sanction ITV and London Live
- The Urgent Need to Teach the Police About Free Speech
- Letter to the CEO of the Charity Commission asking her to open an investigation into the mosque at the centre of recent events in Wakefield
- Letter to West Yorkshire Police about children having ‘non-crime hate incidents’ being recorded against their names at Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield
- Briefing Note on the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill
- Letter to CEO of ITV Urging Her Not to Sack Jeremy Clarkson
- The Free Speech Union responds to the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries’ Consultation on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
2022
- How Free Speech Friendly are the Major Payment Processors and Crowdfunding Platforms?
- Letter to the Education Secretary About the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
- The Free Speech Union Complains to Gonville and Caius’s College Council and Cambridge University’s Vice-Chancellor About the Master’s Email Denouncing Dr Helen Joyce.
- Letter to the National Education Union to express concern about a draft document which contains the NEU’s proposal to redefine the word ‘transphobia’
- Letter to YouTube About its Censorship of Russell Brand
- Higher Education Freedom of Speech Bill
- Free Speech and Hate Crime Legislation in Northern Ireland
- The Bill of Rights
- Letter to Leader of Lancaster City Council regarding the no-platforming of Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown
- Letter to the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police about The Lady of Heaven
