News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
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Once the golden boy of UK primary education, Mike Fairclough was the only headteacher to question the vaccinating and masking of children – and found himself being investigated by counter-terrorism agencies.
The U.K.’s Bar Standards Board has issued guidelines cautioning barristers against making “gratuitous attacks” on social media against judges and the justice system, amid concerns that the rules are too vague.
The Free Speech Union has just published a report on carbon literacy training, a new threat to free speech. The careers of employees forced to undergo this may suffer if they challenge the activist agenda behind it.
The Free Speech Union has shared exclusive case studies with GB News showing that equity, diversity and inclusion policies are being invoked to punish employees for exercising their right to lawful free speech.
Parents' group UsForThem is urging the FCA to hold PayPal accountable for shutting down accounts last year for political reasons, including that of the Daily Sceptic, and undermining free speech.
The Free Speech Union is on alert after a hospital trust issues a 'woke handbook', banning sympathy for female workers uneasy about sharing toilets with biological males.
Banks are to be told by the Treasury that they must protect free speech amid an escalating scandal involving the blacklisting of customers who hold views that are deemed verboten among corporate elites.
The General Secretary of the Free Speech Union will be interviewed live on stage by ex-BBC journalist Jane Robbins in Cambridge on June 15th. Tickets are only £10 – and they're FREE for FSU members.
In this week’s episode of the Free Speech Union podcast 'That's Debatable!', Ben Jones and Tom Harris explore hot topics including the problems with police training and eBooks being censored after you've bought them.
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