News Round-Up
27 April 2025
by Will Jones
Vancouver Crash: Several Dead After Car Drives Into Crowd
27 April 2025
by Toby Young
Is the end of 'non-crime hate incidents' in sight? The Opposition is tabling an amendment to scrap them. This is something we all need to get behind – so please use the FSU's template to tell your MP to vote for it.
When Prof Michael Rainsborough was cancelled over a lecture series on free speech it came, as befits the hushed corridors of academia, like a velvet cosh to the back of the head. Read what he learned in his Stasi file.
In a landmark victory for academic freedom, the University of Louisville will pay nearly $1.6m to a respected psychiatrist fired for questioning the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on children.
Two members of the Royal Society resigned and thousands of Fellows protested over Elon Musk's membership. But not a whisper was heard when Covid-cover-up king Anthony Fauci was made a Fellow, says James Alexander.
The founder of Mumsnet has revealed she was blacklisted by Barclays and Ocado and branded a "bigot" for standing up for women's rights to access single-sex spaces, as she welcomes the Supreme Court's trans ruling.
French philosopher Renaud Camus, who is opposed to mass immigration, has been banned from entering Britain after the Home Office told him his presence would go against "the public good".
People are entitled to hold private conversations in pubs, provided they don't offend staff and make them feel "unsafe", Government Minister Lilian Greenwood has said, as she defended Labour's 'banter ban'.
Peers in the House of Lords will attempt to block the 'banter ban' in Labour’s workers' rights bill when it returns to Parliament later this month to safeguard freedom of speech and the British way of life.
Freedom of speech is being replaced by its antithesis, the 'right to participate', says Dr David McGrogan. This is where the battle lines are drawn as conservatives push back against the authoritarian tide.
The new AI-generated Hot Air database of 'climate deniers' includes Eric Holthaus, who ranks among the world's top tier of extreme alarmists. Such utterly useless AI bodes ill for the future of free speech, says Ben Pile.
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