Sadiq Khan slammed amid Guy’s Hospital statue row “You can’t change history!”

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Emma Webb from the Free Speech Union has entered the debate around Guy’s Hospital’s attempt to remove a statue of founder Thomas Guy. Ms Webb attacked the foundation of Guy’s and St Thomas’ for decision and echoes the Culture Secretary Olive Dowden’s remarks that the institution was “pandering to wokery.” She went on to point the figure of blame at London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

Tim McNulty, Daily Express, 5th September 2021.

Court threat to university over “cancellation” of Catholic chaplain

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The Free Speech Union (FSU) said it will take the University of Nottingham to court unless it reversed its decision not to recognise Fr David Palmer as Catholic chaplain. “The fact that Fr David’s appointment has been obstructed in this way, but not the appointment of the university’s Jewish chaplain, three Muslim chaplains or the eight other Christians chaplains, suggests he is a victim of unlawful discrimination,” wrote Mr Young.

Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald, 3rd September 2021.

British government will not protect UK from Russia, China’s “disinformation” by making its internet more like theirs

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Instead, as our recent paper at the Free Speech Union described, the Bill will restrict the expression of perfectly legal but controversial opinion online in a way that is unprecedented in the history of Britain’s democracy.

Radomir Tylecote, Sunday Guardian Live, 28th August 2021.

Lockdown Forever: Scotland’s Leftist Govt Want to Make Emergency Coronavirus Laws “Permanent”

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While the Free Speech Union’s Toby Young called the plans “sinister”.

Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, 26th August 2021.

Christian Street Preacher will sue London Met Police she says was “determined” to prosecute her

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Toby Young’s Free Speech Union remarked of the result on Tuesday: “Street preachers like Hazel Lewis are standing up for the speech rights of all of us. Even after a recording proved she hadn’t said what a malicious passer-by accused her of, the police still prosecuted her. She’s now been cleared.”

Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, 10th August 2021.

Cancel Curry? Dish name rooted in “White Christian Supremacy”, British Colonialism

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Free Speech Union Deputy Research Director Emma Webb added: “If Californian food bloggers want to take on Essex blokes over curry, good luck to them.”

Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, 9th August 2021.

LSE students demand university bans all private school students, eradicates free market economist Friedrich Hayek from the curriculum, no platforms speakers and introduces minority quotas for staff

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Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, told MailOnline: “The statements of LSE Class War read like the work of a satirist. Do a group of upper-middle class students at one of Britain’s most exclusive universities really want to wage war against posh people? Or is this a prank designed to take the Mickey out of privately-educated student activists? Unfortunately, we know from experience that student demands that should be treated as a joke are taken deadly seriously by those in authority, so the Free Speech Union stands ready to defend the Hayek Society if there’s any move to ban it. Universities should be places where students are exposed to a broad range of different ideas, not a woke echo chamber.”

James Gant, MailOnline, 27th July 2021.

Gavin Williamson warns university “cancel culture” threatens UK’s free speech reputation and praises those who “defy the intolerant minority” on campuses

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The plan prompted a storm of protest from unions when it was unveiled in May, with the UCU accusing the Government of “embarking on a pseudo freedom of speech crusade on campuses”. But campaign group, the Free Speech Union, welcomed the plan.

David Wilcock, MailOnline, 12th July 2021.

“Could white privilege play a part in your life?” Cambridge asks students in quiz

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Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, said: “The idea that white students at Cambridge enjoy privileges that black, Asian and minority ethnic students don’t is nonsense. Fewer than three per cent of students enrolled at Cambridge are white and poor (as of 2019). The students should be taking a class privilege test, not a white privilege test.”

Ewan Somerville, The Telegraph, 3rd July 2021.

Charity Commission faces calls to probe boarding school that reported its chaplain to anti-terror unit Prevent after he told pupils they can disagree with LGBT teaching

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Free speech campaigner Toby Young urged the regulator to hold an inquiry into Trent College’s dismissal of Reverend Dr Bernard Randall, in a letter seen by The Mail on Sunday. In his letter to the charity Commission Mr Young, said: “Invoking the Prevent duty is a serious decision which is not to be taken lightly or unthinkingly. It threatens the involvement of the state’s security powers and real and serious interference with freedom of expression.”

Mark Hookham, The Mail on Sunday, 27th June 2021.

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Articles That Mention the Free Speech Union

Sadiq Khan slammed amid Guy’s Hospital statue row “You can’t change history!”

Court threat to university over “cancellation” of Catholic chaplain

British government will not protect UK from Russia, China’s “disinformation” by making its internet more like theirs

Lockdown Forever: Scotland’s Leftist Govt Want to Make Emergency Coronavirus Laws “Permanent”

Christian Street Preacher will sue London Met Police she says was “determined” to prosecute her

Cancel Curry? Dish name rooted in “White Christian Supremacy”, British Colonialism

LSE students demand university bans all private school students, eradicates free market economist Friedrich Hayek from the curriculum, no platforms speakers and introduces minority quotas for staff

Gavin Williamson warns university “cancel culture” threatens UK’s free speech reputation and praises those who “defy the intolerant minority” on campuses

“Could white privilege play a part in your life?” Cambridge asks students in quiz

Charity Commission faces calls to probe boarding school that reported its chaplain to anti-terror unit Prevent after he told pupils they can disagree with LGBT teaching

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