The FSU hosts a comedy special in association with @UnleashedComedy at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green on 29 June, starting at 7.30pm.
FSU favourite Dominic Frisby will be joined by comedy crooner Frank Sanazi and his friends, Dean Stalin, Spliff Richard and Tom Mones.
Here's a clip of @DominicFrisby reminding the audience what his preferred pronouns are during a Comedy Club performance from 2021.
Frank Sanazi, meanwhile, will be fresh from quelling Glastonbury Festival and gearing up for an attack on the Edinburgh Fringe when he annexes the Comedy Club on the evening of the 29th June.
You can find out more about his World of Extreme Cabaret here: franksanazi.com
Come and celebrate our first post-lockdown summer of freedom with a fabulous night of comedy, music, prizes and more. All in support of #FreeSpeech.
🚨VICTORY! "The FSU stood shoulder to shoulder with Christian Concern throughout this dispute."
Toby Young in the @Telegraph today, as an Oxford college admits it "misled" students after capitulating to an activist mob and cancelling a Christian event.
Earlier this year, an independent inquiry found no evidence to justify Worcester College apologising to its students for holding a Christian youth conference and then cancelling the booking for the same event the year after.
Following the report, the FSU's General Secretary, Toby Young, wrote to the Provost of Worcester College, David Isaac, calling on him to apologise and reinstate @CConcern's booking for the Wilberforce Academy conference in 2022.
"There are occasions when universities have misapplied the Equality Act and wrongly shut down lawful #freespeech. We saw a case last week where Essex Uni had to amend its policies following welcome pressure from the Free Speech Union."
The Minister for Higher and Further Education was introducing amendments to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill that would change the definition of harassment in the Equality Act 2010 and under the Bill.
You can read more about the FSU's victory in its long-running legal dispute with Essex University regarding its understanding of the Equality Act and subsequent free speech obligations in our monthly newsletter for May.
As @Tom_Slater_ pointed out for the @spectator, however, the fact that Cooke felt he had to make that intervention reminds us just how bad things have become in English #policing in recent years.
"The case that sums up the police’s warped priorities".
The FSU's recent casework for one of our members, Kevin Mills, gets a mention in @Tom_Slater_'s excellent piece for the @spectator on non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs). 👇👇👇
Two years ago, Kevin Mills was handed a NCHI by the police after he refused to work with a customer who he feared wouldn't pay the bill. The FSU intervened and Kent Police have now deleted his record. The @Telegraph had the story 👇👇👇
According to College of Policing guidelines drawn up in 2014, NCHIs were any non-criminal action that was perceived to be motivated by hatred.
We welcome the Higher Education Bill, which will go some way to address the free speech crisis in England's universities. However, there are four ways in which it could be even better: