News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Sick of woke censorship? You ain't seen nothing yet. With Labour coming to power in a landslide, the Free Speech Union is bracing for an all-out assault on our precious freedom of expression.
Just as the corporate world is finally waking up to the catastrophic damage EDI has caused, Labour is about to make it worse than you can possibly imagine, says C.J. Strachan.
Back in March, the Government announced new rules to put an end to 'debanking'. But it seems the Conservatives never got round to actually bringing them into force – and now the election has killed them off.
Laurie Wastell has written an excellent piece in the Spectator about the mobbing of Nathan Cofnas – a Cambridge post-doc who is under investigation because of a controversial blog post he wrote last February.
Former Labour MP Tom Harris has written in the Telegraph today about how the Left needs to get over its animus towards the champions of free speech and remember that it, too, once believed in freedom of expression.
A startling new survey conducted by the Free Speech Union reveals that nearly two-thirds of employees feel compelled to hide their true opinions during diversity training for fear of job jeopardy.
An academic at UCL has been penalised for asking her students why there are so many slaves in modern China. She was told by a superior that UCL has to keep Chinese students happy for 'commercial reasons'.
Tickets are still available for the Free Speech Union’s Cambridge Speakeasy on Thursday in which a panel of speakers including Ross Clark will debate Net Zero.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Carl Borg-Neal's stunning victory against woke tyranny, the Stephen Hawking Jeffrey Epstein revelations and Elon Musk calling Mark Cuban racist.
Thanks to the Free Speech Union's help, Carl Borg-Neal, a Lloyds Bank employee dismissed for gross misconduct for an innocent remark in a diversity training session, has won a huge victory in the Employment Tribunal.
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