Case Director @SpeechUnion | Agent @MWHamilton Author of 'Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis' | Out now! 👇
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Unbelievably reckless and irresponsible of police to name the man arrested for burning a Koran in Manchester.
He will be in the most serious danger for the rest of his life.
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This isn't a victim statement. There is no 'victim'.
This is somebody enforcing his religious beliefs on the rest of society, whether we share them or not.
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The police have also published his street address. @gmpolice have just ruined this man's life - having arrested him for something that is NOT a crime - he will now likely never be able to return home.
Unbelievably reckless and irresponsible of police to name the man arrested for burning a Koran in Manchester.
He will be in the most serious danger for the rest of his life.
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If you have a standard X account in the UK - presumably the vast majority of British users - you cannot see any protest footage that contains any violence tonight. Because of the Online Safety Act.
A relative in America sent me this screenshot of one blocked post
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It gets worse.
With this guilty plea the British state has succeeded in instituting de facto blasphemy laws protecting Islam and the Koran.
Disastrous. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…
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Burning a Koran is NOT a crime.
@SpeechUnion will remind the police of this as many times as it takes to get the message across.
Islam must have no special protection in British law.
🚨 Victory for free speech! A man arrested for burning a Koran in Bradford will face no charges—the FSU intervened, instructing a solicitor and covering our member’s legal fees. Blasphemy laws were abolished in 2008. He should never have been arrested.
conservativewoman.co.uk/no-c…
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Men who have burnt Korans in recent months have been variously held in police custody, been named by police, and even had their address published by police.
Suspected of forming a Hezbollah cell and you get released on bail.
🚨NEW: London's Counter Terrorism Command has arrested 2 men suspected of forming a Hezbollah cell
One of them is 39-y-old man from North London suspected of “preparing acts of terrorism” and funding terrorism
Both have been released on bail
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If made law by @AngelaRayner, Labour’s definition of Islamophobia would criminalise:
- anyone who expresses any view that criticises “expressions of Muslimness”
- ex-Muslims who have escaped Islam and want to talk about why
- women who criticise the face veil or headscarf
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In the first 48 hours of enforcement, the Online Safety Act has resulted in the censorship of posts:
- calling for single-sex spaces
- about the life of Richard the Lionheart
- showing an arrest at a protest in Leeds
- a speech by a Tory MP about grooming gangs
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Footage of the protests taking place this evening against illegal immigration is being censored under the Online Safety Act
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"A significant proportion" of live investigations into child sex abuse involve suspects "claiming asylum in the UK", according to Casey's official audit.
In other words, the British state is directly culpable for girls being raped because it has failed to protect our borders.
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I am currently relying on a relative in America to tell me about what is going on in an English city that is 200 miles away from me
If you have a standard X account in the UK - presumably the vast majority of British users - you cannot see any protest footage that contains any violence tonight. Because of the Online Safety Act.
A relative in America sent me this screenshot of one blocked post
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One 19-year-old ex-Muslim I spoke to was abused by her parents because she was a lesbian. Her devices were seized and her lifelines to the outside world cut off. secularism.org.uk/opinion/20…
She finally managed to escape to a women's refuge. And she wanted to speak out. But she was worried: "I feel like if I speak up about this then the Muslim community will attack me."
"You should just consider not speaking about it at all," the police officer with her said. This one story encapsulates so much of what the British state gets wrong about free speech, multiculturalism, and two-tier policing.
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Brilliant news that @SpeechUnion has now been able to contact and offer our assistance to Martin.
There must be no precedent for a blasphemy law protecting Islam and the Koran in Britain.
🙏 A huge thank you to all our members and supporters who helped us establish contact with Martin. After several appeals on X, people came forward and put us in touch — proving once again that solidarity matters.
Martin was publicly named by Greater Manchester Police after burning pages of the Quran in a social media livestream. Given the well-documented risks associated with such cases, this decision put his safety in jeopardy.
Our case and legal teams are now providing Martin with the support and assistance he needs.
Free speech shouldn’t come with a target on your back. We’ll do everything we can to help.
Find out more about this case here.
freespeechunion.org/manchest…
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This is the same police force that:
(1) Recorded a Non-Crime Hate Incident against a schoolboy for accidentally damaging a Koran
(2) Attended a de facto blasphemy trial at a local mosque
(3) Arrested an ex-Muslim convert to Christianity for burning a Koran
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You can’t distress a set of ideas, harass a book, or cause alarm to an ideology.
Yet the Crown Prosecution Service is claiming this to prosecute people who’ve burnt the Koran.
There must be no blasphemy law for Islam introduced by stealth in this country.
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Islam must have no special status in Britain whatsoever.
But that’s how police behave, not just punishing demonstrators for burning the Koran, but even boys for “lightly damaging” it.
If your ‘community’ can threaten unrest, you’ll get special treatment.
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Labour support a definition of Islamophobia which - if made law - would criminalise claims that Islam was ever spread by the sword.
Mainstream history would be deemed ‘Islamophobic’.
There should be NO special rules around Islam and free speech whatsoever.
I am struggling to think of anything worse than the Labour Party, under Angela Rayner, creating a new council to define “Islamophobia” and putting Dominic Grieve in charge of it.
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See my replies. It’s blocked for a lot of people. There are apparent workarounds (VPN, and changing location on X). But it looks like huge numbers of people cannot see this because of the Online Safety Act without taking extra technical steps
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Some extremist Muslims might say the same about a woman who posted a picture of herself with her hair uncovered online.
So maybe we shouldn’t go down the route of indulging fanatics?
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“40 videos of child pornography, graded at the highest category A, and four images at category B, all showing children between the ages of seven and 13” leading to an 18 month sentence for sexual offences.
Less than Lucy Connolly got for her tweet. thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…
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One way to measure how severe the free speech crisis is in Britain is the number of new requests for help @SpeechUnion gets in a week.
This week has been our busiest, ever.
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The Government has launched a new initiative to record incidents of "anti-Muslim hate".
It will capture "online and offline incidents of anti-Muslim hatred, including those unreported to police".
In other words, it sounds like a lot of entirely legal Facebook posts are going to be logged as "hate", as if they were violent assaults.
They will then - inevitably - be used to bolster claims of a "rise in anti-Muslim hatred across England" and then calls for tougher action on 'Islamophobia'.
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After George Floyd’s murder many (if not nearly all) UK universities posted statements consoling students distressed by the footage. Students and academics were inundated with such messages.
I’ve not yet seen any about the Hamas attack on Israel and the murder of 1200 Jews. Why?
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Research by @SpeechUnion found that 78% of police forces provide no proper training to officers on freedom of speech or Article 10 speech rights.
All of the emphasis is on hate crime and EDI. This is the result 👇
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The default setting is now that free speech online is turned off.
All of the incentives created by the Online Safety Act are for more widespread censorship 👇
For years, politicians promised the Online Safety Act would target only illegal content — protecting kids from porn, exploitation and suicide forums — without touching free speech. But from the moment age verification checks took effect on 25 July, that reassurance began to unravel.
Full details here:
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College of Policing guidance is clear: police can withhold the name of the accused in rare cases where there is an "exceptional and legitimate" reason to do so.
This man should never have been named by @gmpolice. They have put him in serious danger. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02…
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Damon was sacked after condemning Hamas and the 7th October massacre.
This is one of the most egregious cases of cancel culture we’ve seen at @SpeechUnion.
Fortunately he’s now found work elsewhere. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03…
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They should not have arrested him. They should not have charged him. They should not have named him.
Burning a Koran is NOT a crime in England.
What is @gmpolice playing at?
Manchester Police branded 'two-tier' after man who burnt Koran forced to seek personal safety: 'It is NOT a crime!'
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Jamie Michael, a former Royal Marine, had to wish his daughter a happy 9th birthday from jail.
His alleged ‘crime’? Criticising mass immigration in a video posted to Facebook.
The video was reported by a Labour staffer and he spent 17 days locked up. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02…
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Lots of people saying to change your region to the USA. That isn’t the point.
The UK has introduced a law that incentivises a very low threshold for censorship.
The point isn’t whether some users can get around it (they can). It’s exposing the scope and scale of the censorship.
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If you burn a Koran, the police will publish your name, street address and date of birth.
Meanwhile they’re trying to cover-up that the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl was by two Afghan asylum seekers.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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“They were fighting against British forces and killed lots of Brits, but now are being fed by Brits in London. They have British blood on their hands.”
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Lucy is the victim of a callous 'justice' system and an inept state trying desperately to keep the lid on explosive resentments after years of mismanaged multiculturalism and unwanted mass immigration.
A harrowing and essential read from @AllisonPearson telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04…
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Great to speak to @Nigel_Farage this evening about the steps @SpeechUnion is taking to protect the man who burnt a Koran in Manchester, and to resist this atrocious precedent.
We must not compromise our liberties and values on this. That would only encourage more fanaticism.
'You can abuse Christianity and set fire to the bible, but if you set fire to the Quran you will find yourself in very deep trouble with the law.'
@Nigel_Farage meets Dr Ben Jones after the police have been accused of risking the safety of the man who burnt the Quran.
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You could hardly imagine a more impressive career of public service: an Army doctor twice deployed to Afghanistan & an NHS intensive care consultant.
Yet the army placed him under investigation for a post saying “men cannot be women”.
We’ve been helping defend him since then.
🚨 BREAKING: The FSU has appointed an employment barrister to defend Dr Kelvin Wright, an army Colonel with 14 years' unblemished service, who was forced to resign after being hit with a transphobia complaint for stating that "men cannot be women".
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It seems a lot of good would be done in this country by deporting every member of the Parole Board.
Every time it appears in print it is in connection with some atrocious, naïve, negligent and unjust decision.
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I spoke to @JuliaHB1 this morning about the latest imposition of Islamic blasphemy laws in the UK. You can bet it won't be the last such case, as the British state continues its short-termist, doomed attempt to appease 'community leaders' and their increasingly intolerant demands
Four pupils have been suspended from a Yorkshire school and were spoken to by the police after a copy of the Quran was damaged.
Free Speech Union’s Ben Jones: “If you described this 20 years ago you’d have been called a fantasist and an Islamophobic bigot!”
@JuliaHB1
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People are terrified about what they can and can't say. Nobody knows what the rules are.
In large part because of grossly disproportionate sentences like the one upheld today against Lucy Connolly.
The chilling effect is nearing absolute zero. @SpeechUnion
'This is a terrible situation for any country to be in.'
Ben Jones says thousands of people are 'terrified' about what they can and cannot say following the arrest of Lucy Connolly, who has been jailed for an online rant about migrants.
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I'm booked to speak to @Nigel_Farage on @GBNEWS tonight about the shocking conduct of @gmpolice - who have put this man in serious danger.
They should never even have arrested him, much less charged him, much less published his name, date of birth, and street address.
Unbelievably reckless and irresponsible of police to name the man arrested for burning a Koran in Manchester.
He will be in the most serious danger for the rest of his life.
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The Free Speech Union has been trying to contact the man to offer our assistance. We have not yet been able to reach him. @SpeechUnion
The Police must not be allowed to more firmly establish this wretched precedent that burning a Koran is a crime. It is not.
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In jail for 17 days after being arrested for a Facebook post.
Acquitted by the jury in 17 minutes.
spiked-online.com/2025/02/05…
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‘Thank you for your service… but if you criticise immigration on Facebook we’ll send you to prison’
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02…
Secure at home, strong abroad.
To the @RoyalMarines here in Rotterdam and all those who protect us around the world – thank you for your service.
ALT Keir Starmer meets British and Dutch Marines taking part in a joint military training exercise in Rotterdam.
ALT Keir Starmer meets British and Dutch Marines taking part in a joint military training exercise in Rotterdam.
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Expressing concern about mass immigration and the failure of “certain ethnic and cultural groups” to integrate is a “terrorist ideology” and an “extreme right wing” belief…
…according to the Government’s Prevent training taken by countless thousands of public sector workers, that @SpeechUnion has exposed.
🚨 BREAKING: We’re on The Telegraph’s homepage tonight—and we’re front-page news in tomorrow’s print edition!
FSU General Secretary Lord Young has written to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, raising serious concerns about how the Prevent programme is now treating mainstream conservative views as signs of potential extremism. Yes, you read that correctly.
In training materials completed by thousands of public sector workers, the Home Office lists “cultural nationalism” as a form of terrorist ideology. That label now applies to anyone who believes mass immigration is threatening British values or social cohesion.
Once flagged, individuals—often just teenagers—can have their names and political views logged in police and safeguarding databases for decades, with devastating consequences for jobs, university places, and future prospects.
In his letter, Lord Young calls on Ms Cooper to suspend the use of “cultural nationalism” in Prevent guidance, conduct an urgent audit of the programme, and establish a way for wrongly flagged individuals to discover and delete their data.
If you’ve got “very Brexity” Douglas Murray books in your house, a strong interest in national policy, and believe immigration is changing this country, the Home Office now says you’re an extremist.
This has got to stop. If you’re worried about being flagged and left with a record you can’t erase, join the FSU—our expert casework and legal teams are here to protect your rights.
👉 Click the link. Join the resistance.
freespeechunion.org/join/
📰 Read the full story:
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The man who burnt a Koran on Thursday is still in police custody.
The knife-wielding assailant who attacked him has been released on bail.
The clearest possible example of our two-tier justice system. itv.com/news/london/2025-02-…
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Whatever danger @AllisonPearson is trying to draw attention to I can’t see: her post is restricted under the Online Safety Act
British women and girls are at risk from this barbarian and thousands like him. 👇
No sense of conduct in a public place, no respect for our society.
Grateful to the British lads who made him pull his trousers up.
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The same police force that published the name, date of birth and street address of a man arrested for burning a Koran.
Now knocking on a grandmother’s door because she criticised a Labour politician.
What is going on at @gmpolice? dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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This Government is so weak - so brittle - that women and girls sat on a road outside a hotel singing and waving placards has been banned.
An utterly unjustifiable restriction on free speech and the right to peacefully protest.
🚨NEW: Anyone protesting outside the luxury Canary Wharf hotel over the next 28 days will be arrested
This comes after the police today introduced a section 42 order
Community note
This is incorrect. The Met Police issued a Section 42 order to a specific group of protesters who attempted to breach the hotel’s perimeter fencing.
Others not part of that group are still allowed to protest outside the hotel.
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If university bosses are worried about unis being sued for suppressing free speech, they should stop suppressing free speech.
I spoke to @drdavidbull on @TalkTV about the Government’s extremely disappointing retreat on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill 👇
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The chilling effect from cases like this can't be overstated. @SpeechUnion gets emails every day from people who are absolutely terrified of what will happen to them for expressing their perfectly ordinary views.
Nobody knows what the rules are anymore. freespeechunion.org/julian-f…
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I find this extremely offensive but I’m going to manage to not attempt to murder this gentleman for hurting my feelings or burning our flag.
It isn’t hard or complicated.
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Think the recording of ‘non-crime hate’ is bad enough already?
The Home Secretary suggested expanding the non-crime regime to make it easier to record ‘Islamophobia’, with an incredibly vague definition.
That’s why we’re so concerned @SpeechUnion as I said to @petercardwell 👇
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We're looking for a new Case Officer to join our growing team @SpeechUnion. We have 27,500 members and counting - with huge demand for our help since the election.
You'd be on the front line resisting cancel culture and defending the rights of the public freespeechunion.org/the-free…
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Today I'll be helping @SpeechUnion members from a huge range of walks of life - academics, public sector workers, NHS staff, artists - all punished for using their right to free speech. We work hard every day, weekends & evenings, helping people in extremely stressful situations.
Doesn't matter whether you're flogging counterfeit goods or counterfeit journalism, PayPal obviously has the right to shut you down.
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I can't see anything about the Government dropping the grooming gangs inquiries on BBC News. Not on the home page, not even on the Politics page.
It looks like a cover-up of the cover-up.
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I spoke to @andrewdoyle_com at the Battle of Ideas about @SpeechUnion and our work: we’ve been involved in 2,250 cases helping people who have been punished for something they’ve said, in just 3 years. 🤐
A great weekend at #BattleFest @acadofideas!
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John was reported to police and subjected to complaints for asking if locals would get the same services as 320 Afghans being relocated to Bracknell.
Censorship of this issue is occurring at every level.
We've been helping him @SpeechUnion. dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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I spoke to @JuliaHB1 earlier about the bonkers decision to sack an employee for a well-meaning question he asked in race training.
His damages are likely to exceed £800,000 - the biggest ever win for @SpeechUnion, and just one of the thousands of cases we've fought since 2020.
Free Speech Union’s Ben Jones defends a bank manager who received an £800,000 payout after being unfairly dismissed for using the N-word in diversity training.
“Carl isn’t racist, he’s the absolute opposite.”
@JuliaHB1
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I interviewed ex-Muslims who told me their families moved to Britain from Pakistan and became *more* religiously conservative and radical here
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I’m in the @Daily_Express today on why the police should just say ‘no’ to the perpetually offended, and stop recording NCHIs.
Plus how @SpeechUnion can help if a ‘non-crime’ is recorded against you 👇
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"Encountering such treatment in a country like England, which I truly believed to be a place where freedom prevailed, was a real shock to me".
- Hamit Coskun, on trial today for burning a Koran. @SpeechUnion and @NatSecSoc are paying his legal fees.
Watch our General Secretary interview a Turkish asylum seeker being prosecuted for burning a copy of the Quran.
Don't let Sir Keir Starmer bring in a blasphemy law by the back door.
If you're worried about being arrested for 'Islamophobia', join now – freespeechunion.org/join/
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I'm speaking at this event about my research on ex-Muslims in Britain.
One interviewee told me that looking for other apostates is "like 1984 when Winston observes other characters looking for signs of 'unorthodoxy'".
Getting it wrong could be disastrous.
📢 EVENT: Why Free Speech is Essential for Apostates. Those who leave high control religions face real threats to their freedom. Are hate speech laws & attacks on anonymity making things worse? Join us for this timely discussion. Wed 19 March Tickets here.
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4. My thread collecting posts that have been censored under the Online Safety Act has been… censored by the Online Safety Act.
Thanks for the tip-off @censoredanonz
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This post calling for single-sex spaces is being censored because of the Online Safety Act.
(H/t @coccinellanovem)
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Great to speak to @Gillian_Philip about her case, the silencing of gender critical women and men, how 'no debate' backfired, and the state of free expression in publishing.
Well worth a listen. An inspiring story of refusing to be bullied by the mob 👇open.spotify.com/episode/17y…
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The @SpeechUnion had a case in 2021 of a trainee teacher almost kicked off his course after saying the teaching profession should have shown solidarity with the Batley grammar school teacher telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05…
“We are very close to saying that support for free speech is itself impermissible speech” — @seatradelaw on the case of the man who was sacked for defending Lucy Connolly thecritic.co.uk/freedom-take…
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I wish people like this could see my inbox or that of colleagues at @SpeechUnion. 500+ cases involving students, academics or guest speakers at universities in the last 4 years (and counting)
Not the case Bill. The proposed law was heavy-handed and fitted the culture war/cancel culture agenda of the last gov - which, in actuality, is very rarely apparent at unis. It put too high a burden on institutions, and could have the adverse effect of opening up hate speak. 1/2
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Children exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham were sexually abused by serving police officers.
Another lit match thrown at a box of gunpowder.
It's hard to imagine how the crisis of state legitimacy can keep getting worse, yet every day it does.
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Britain’s international reputation and very membership in the free world is being destroyed in the name of the police’s operational independence.
NEW: Asked about the Graham Linehan arrest, No10 stops short of directly weighing in but suggests policing social media should not be a priority for officers.
Starmer's spokesman says: "On the specifics, that's obviously an operational matter for the police, but the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary have been clear about where their priorities for crime and policing are.
"That's tackling anti-social behaviour, shoplifting, street crime, as well as reducing serious violent crime, like knife crime and violence against women."
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Could you really be reported to the Police for calling a member of your own family a “grumpy old git” in your own home? After 1 April in Scotland, you really could be…
📺 I spoke to @GBNEWS about the SNP’s ludicrous Hate Crime Act earlier today 👇
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A student newspaper editor questions whether their paper "should publicise opinions that differ from the university norm".
Incredible.
See below an article that the University of Exeter’s @Exepose has written about me.
When asked for comment, the Exeter LGBTQ society said: “We are disappointed that Exeposé has chosen to platform someone with such hateful and transphobic views in this article.”
The author goes to great lengths to distance the paper from my ‘hateful’ views. Take this as a warning, GC Exeter students!
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The already extremely narrow path to a peaceful, secure Britain in the next 25 years just got a lot narrower.
The state is getting even less responsive to the public, and as multiculturalism becomes ever more chaotic even greater censorship will follow.
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From interviewing ex-Muslims in the UK over the last 3 years for my PhD it’s clear we do indeed have a massive problem with lack of integration, extremism, intolerance, and the failure of multiculturalism.
All of this was obvious before the celebrations of Saturday's attack🧵
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Too many have turned a blind eye to sinister debanking just because they don't like Nigel Farage.
There's every reason to think debanking is even more widespread than it already appears.
That's why @SpeechUnion has been campaigning to ban political discrimination by banks.
“People on the left are completely unconcerned by this which I think is terribly short-sighted”.
Free Speech Union’s Ben Jones says Coutts bank have reached a level of “sanctimonious self-righteousness” for closing Nigel Farage’s bank account.
@Iromg
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5. At least one call for single-sex spaces to be protected has now been censored because of the Online Safety Act
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We're in the fight of our lives defending free speech in Britain @SpeechUnion.
I spoke to @LeeAlanHall about Labour's would-be blasphemy law, the banter police coming to your pub, non-crime and why Britain is now policed and governed like an empire. 👇
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The reactions to this, and the unfounded monstering @holland_tom is getting for it, are an unfortunate example of offence archaeology from the right, and proof that vast numbers of people on this site lack any basic reading comprehension.
The true nightmare of #Rotherham is that the motives of those who turned a blind eye, however monstrous the consequences, were indeed noble.
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A definition of ‘Islamophobia’ that would criminalise historians, silence critics of Islamism, and shut down the last vestiges of open discussion about Islam, integration and multiculturalism.
That and more in this week’s @SpeechUnion podcast 👇
The latest episode of the FSU's weekly podcast is out now! This week's talking points include: the threat posed to Parliamentary democracy by Islamic extremism; the fightback against the influence of LGBT lobby groups in the police; and the APPG definition of 'Islamophobia'.
thatsdebatablepodcast.podbea…
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"Imagine explaining to someone from the 60s that an Englishwoman had to appear in a headscarf, dressed as a penitent and humiliated because her son had mildly scuffed a holy book. They might wonder how hardline breakaway Presbyterians ended up in power" edwest.substack.com/p/britai…
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When did it become the job of the BBC to uncritically repeat claims made by Downing Street spin doctors?
Government became aware of new Southport charges in last few weeks
bbc.in/4foOh8d
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Just spoke to @Iromg on @TalkTV about PayPal being forced into a retreat over its attempt to put the @SpeechUnion out of business.
The backlash against PayPal should be a warning to other monopolies and service providers not to stifle debate - your customers will not like it.
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The Hate Crime Act is a laser-guided missile targeting JK Rowling and people who believe in biological reality.
On @GBNEWS yesterday, speaking to @tomhfh and @CarverEmily about this ludicrous piece of legislation and how @SpeechUnion is opposing it 👇
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The Free @SpeechUnion knows what happens to those who object to this Newspeak gibberish and the endless attack on common sense.
We currently have many legal cases defending people who object to language policing like this.
My quote in @Daily_Express 👇express.co.uk/news/uk/179192…
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I’ll be speaking @SpeechUnion about free speech, apostasy from Islam and some of these case studies from my research tonight 👇
From interviewing ex-Muslims in the UK over the last 3 years for my PhD it’s clear we do indeed have a massive problem with lack of integration, extremism, intolerance, and the failure of multiculturalism.
All of this was obvious before the celebrations of Saturday's attack🧵
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The Online Safety Act bans "terrorism content". Which sounds reasonable.
Until you remember that the Government describes concern about mass migration as a "terrorist ideology" in Prevent training.
As exposed by @SpeechUnion in June
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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Welcome recognition from @UCL that this case is “clearly concerning” and that senior leaders are trying to establish what has happened.
@SpeechUnion has written to the Provost asking for all of the restrictions placed on @MShipworth to be lifted immediately.👇
UCL banned me from teaching 'provocative' course involving China to protect its commercial interests and it made me suicidal, professor says trib.al/B624S6I
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If you think there’s a danger you might get in trouble with your employer or your university for something you’ve said, the best thing you can do is to contact @SpeechUnion early on 👇
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Great to speak to @joshxhowie on Free Speech Nation tonight about the great victory for free speech in the Higgs case - protecting the rights of all of us; the work of @SpeechUnion; plus @JDVance’s era defining speech at Munich.
'This is a great victory but look at the toll this takes on somebody...'
Director of Case Management, Free Speech Union, Dr Ben Jones, reacts as a court backs a teacher who shared posts criticising LGBT+ relationships.
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On average @SpeechUnion is contacted by an NHS worker every month who is under investigation for their heretical views, or trying to draw attention to policies like this. They usually have serious reasons to fear the consequences of speaking out. dailymail.co.uk/health/artic…
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Britain can’t be a pillar of the free world while our government is sending people to prison for social media posts and setting up ‘elite’ police units to monitor dissent.
Labour’s relentless assault on free speech will make us a pariah to America.
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Great to speak with @StephenGBNews and Anne Diamond on @GBNEWS earlier about @elonmusk's takeover of Twitter, his vision for a pro-free speech platform and the importance of a shared public square.
'Elon Musk's takeover is part of the fightback against the idea Big Tech companies in California have the right to determine what you can think or say.'
Deputy Director of the Free Speech Nation Ben Jones reacts to Elon Musk completing his £38bn acquisition of Twitter.
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"The publishing industry should be about freedom of expression and diversity of opinion, but it has caved in to this toxic community, which wants to control how people think."
Coverage in @DailyMailUK of @SpeechUnion podcast with @Gillian_Philip dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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As multiculturalism becomes increasingly extreme, unpopular and chaotic - as with yesterday’s unhinged, anti-democratic Gaza refugees ruling - the pressure of censorship is going to become ever more severe.
The state has created an impossible situation for itself to manage, fuelled by a feckless judiciary that cannot be held to account.
The only way to press on with a policy as toxically unpopular as mass immigration and the management of what results is via increasingly massive repression of dissent: including hard legal limits on speech, belligerent policing, a resulting chilling effect, and cultural norms which ostracise dissenters (enforced via mechanisms like HR policies and corporate ‘values’).
The significant battles won so far for free speech are dress rehearsals for what is coming.
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It is incredible how many employers *still* do not understand that gender critical beliefs are protected in law.
We continue to get new cases at @SpeechUnion (several per week) where employers have totally failed to grasp that this view, held by the majority, is protected.
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After what's happened with the Online Safety Act, we should 100% anticipate opponents of mass immigration being caught up by such a law merely for sharing footage of small boat crossings
Under new laws, it will be a criminal offence to promote small boat crossings on social media.
That includes migrants paid by smuggling gangs to film their journey and encourage others to join them.
Step by step, we will dismantle the business model behind immigration crime.
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Noticing that parts of our capital city have been transformed into ethnic enclaves - with official sanction - does not make you a snowflake.
Nor does fearing what this transformation will mean.
Nor does blaming the politicians who enabled it.
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Academics used ‘Report + Support’, a system designed for handling sexual harassment and bullying, to report Michelle for sending an email defending academic freedom.
How have we reached this point?
📺 Watch the full video here piped.video/m0Is4eRnSqs?si=Trqz…
📢 Join @SpeechUnion today, defend free speech freespeechunion.org/join/
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