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5 Oct

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In the past month we've...
🚆 Crowdfunded £22,000 for train-conductor Jeremy Sleath, sacked after 17 years for a Facebook post
🗳️ Given evidence to MPs on the need for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
📕 Helped @FrDavidPalmer take up his post at Nottingham

🚨 Had the Charity Commission uphold our complaint and impose an official warning against a charity that named the Batley teacher
🏛️ Advised an academic concerned about the mono-culture of their department who was facing an investigation (now dropped)

🎓 Given information and advice to student members about ideological "tests" they've been made to sit
🙌 Won 75% of the vote at a student debate on cancel culture
💷 Got a financial settlement for a member sacked for a social media post

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1 Oct

A charity which publicly named the Batley Grammar School teacher - putting him at serious risk - has been formally rebuked by the Charity Commission for “inflaming tensions” and endangering his safety, in response to our complaint to the Commission. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.tele…

The Purpose of Life charity named the teacher in an open letter calling for him to be “permanently removed” after he included a cartoon of Mohammed in an RE class. The teacher and his family were forced into hiding, and still haven’t returned.

In response to our complaint the Commission has found that the charity committed a breach of trust, misconduct and/or mismanagement. The charity has also been warned for partisan political activity and told it may face further action.

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14 Dec 20

The Free Speech Union is disappointed to learn that Eton’s governing body has decided to uphold the decision to sack our member Will Knowland. No teacher should lose his or her job for challenging ideological orthodoxy, least of all a teacher at Eton. 1/11

This is a betrayal of the school’s 580-year history of encouraging its pupils to think critically and independently about difficult questions. 2/11

We will be referring Eton’s trustees to the Charity Commission and the Attorney General for failing to discharge their duty to protect Eton’s reputation and to ensure it is pursuing its charitable object, which is to advance education for the benefit of its students. 3/11

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13 Oct 20

1/10 Toby Young, the General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, has made the following statement about the police's investigation of Dr David Starkey. The FSU is supporting Dr Starkey, who is a member, and has found him a criminal solicitor.

2/10 "The suggestion that Dr David Starkey may be guilty of stirring up racial hatred is absurd. The only person he stirred up hatred against is himself and he has paid a heavy price. He has also unreservedly apologised for his remarks.

3/10 As Lord Justice Sedley said when upholding the right of free speech in Redmond-Bate v Director of Public Prosecutions (1999): 'Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the...

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22 Jun 20

1/ Four authors have resigned from JK Rowling's literary agency, saying, “Freedom of speech can only be upheld if the structural inequalities that hinder equal opportunities for underrepresented groups are challenged and changed.” Two problems with this principle. First, it's a

2/ rationale for trying to silence those who don't share your political ideology. Second, upholding free speech is a necessary condition for increasing opportunities for underrepresented groups. Without the protection of the First Amendment, the leaders of the American civil

3/ rights movement would not have been able to organise, march and protest. Trans activists, like all those fighting for the rights of underrepresented groups, should embrace free speech, not attack it.

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6 Jun 20

1/ An alarming number of people are losing their jobs at the moment – or being suspended from them, pending investigations – because they've criticised some aspect of the Black Lives Matter movement.

2/ Grant Napear was fired by his radio station and resigned as the Sacramento Kings TV play-by-play announcer last week after he was mobbed for tweeting "All Lives Matter" nypost.com/2020/06/02/nba…

3/ Gordon Klein, a professor at UCLA, has been placed on leave after he refused to cancel a final exam following George Floyd's death washingtonexaminer.com/news/ucla-stud…

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