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📣🚨 FSU Victory!!
The Free Speech Union has just heard from South Wales Police that it has withdrawn its guidance on “anti-Muslim hostility”.
The force had effectively adopted its own Islamic blasphemy law, instructing officers to record any conversation that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam.
Under this guidance, criticism of Islam could have been recorded as an anti-social behaviour incident and potentially appeared on DBS checks, affecting someone’s ability to work as a teacher, carer, or in other regulated professions.
South Wales Police has backed down because the Free Speech Union threatened them with a judicial review if it chose to press ahead with the policy.
The force has described this move as a “pause” to the guidance — but we think it is highly unlikely to return.
We must also thank Shadow Equalities Minister @ClaireCoutinho for referring South Wales Police to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after we brought this issue to her attention.
Blasphemy laws were abolished by Parliament 18 years ago. We must not allow them to return through the back door.
Let this be a warning to any other public body — particularly police forces — considering the adoption of its own blasphemy laws.
Watch Lord Young below 👇
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"Freedom of speech in Britain is under attack. People have shown immense tolerance - but we will not accept the destruction of our liberty in the name of multiculturalism."
✍️ My essay in yesterday's @DailyMail, based on my book 'ISLAND OF STRANGERS' (link below)
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Dr Michael Foran, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, has been forced to cancel his four-part lecture series halfway through following sustained abuse from trans activists.
The lectures explored themes from his new book, examining how sex and gender have shaped the law in debates over single-sex spaces, freedom of expression, privacy, sport and sexual intimacy.
As Foran prepared to begin his first lecture on 29 May, two protesters marched to the front of the hall and addressed the audience from the lectern. They returned to disrupt the second lecture on 5 June.
One protester claimed that Foran “masks his transphobia behind a thin veneer of academia”. He went on to say: “If you are here in a critical capacity to challenge his ideas… that is not the same as refusing to platform him. He will not be convinced by your arguments. Please join me in walking out and refusing to platform this bigot.”
This episode is a damning indictment of universities’ inability — or unwillingness — to uphold free speech and academic freedom, and to discharge the responsibilities placed upon them by law.
Read more below 👇
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The Online Safety Act has created a minefield for individuals and businesses trying to navigate life online.
The consequences of getting any of the Ofcom guidance wrong can be financially ruinous.
So, we at the FSU want to help!
Do you run a small to medium website that Ofcom is looking into? Are you likely to fall into the ‘small but risky’ category of providers?
Have Ofcom approached you and your business about OSA compliance?
If this answer is yes, please contact us at legal@freespeechunion.org
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Join over 50,000 people in signing the FSU’s petition to SAVE JURY TRIALS.
David Lammy is ploughing ahead with plans to restrict our ancient right to trial by jury. He claims it is the only way to tackle the backlog of 80,000 cases in the Crown Court. He is wrong.
The Institute for Government has said his plan would save only 2 per cent of Crown Court time, not the 20 per cent promised by ministers.
Judges, lawyers, MPs and victims of crime have all warned against the Government’s proposals, saying they would undermine public trust in the criminal justice system.
FSU research has shown that those charged with speech-related offences are almost twice as likely to be found not guilty in a Crown Court trial before a jury than in a magistrates’ court without one.
If David Lammy gets his way, more people will be punished simply for exercising their right to free speech.
Sign below 👇
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“Freedom of speech in Britain is under attack. People have shown immense tolerance, but we will not accept the destruction of our liberty in the name of multiculturalism,” writes FSU Director of Case Management @BenBarryJones.
According to a 2021 YouGov poll, nearly half the population believes freedom of speech is under threat, while 57 per cent of Britons say they feel compelled to censor what they say — and even what they think.
We have a Government that openly shows disdain for the right to free expression, and a Prime Minister who appears uncomfortable with the truth.
Read more below 👇
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“It’s going to cause unnecessary conflict if the police enforce the law.”
Rick Prior was sacked as elected chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation after saying on GB News that the officers he represented were concerned about vexatious racism complaints for simply doing their jobs.
In an effort to avoid appearing “institutionally racist”, police forces have swung so far in the opposite direction that they now discriminate against white people — particularly white working-class men.
With the support of the Free Speech Union, the High Court later found that Mr Prior had been unlawfully treated by the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW).
The Metropolitan Police subsequently asked him to draft new DEI guidelines — only to ignore them.
Rick has also written the foreword to the FSU’s new briefing, Fear and Favour: Britain’s Policing Emergency.
Policing in Britain has gone woke — and the consequences are proving fatal.
Watch the FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK and Rick Prior on the FSU Podcast below and read our new briefing 👇
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In today’s @DailyMail an essay from my new book, ‘ISLAND OF STRANGERS: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis’.
We must not destroy freedom of speech in the name of multiculturalism 👇
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The Orwellian Online Safety Act is about to become even more censorious.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has announced that next week she will lay an update to the Online Safety Act in Parliament requiring services to take “quicker action” to remove content during “times of crisis”.
The Free Speech Union will be keeping a very close eye on it.
Who will decide what constitutes a “time of crisis”?
Could that include a climate crisis, meaning providers would be pressured to remove criticism of Ed Miliband’s Net Zero policies?
Given how damaging the Online Safety Act has already been to free speech, we have little faith that either this Government or Ofcom will exercise any new powers impartially.
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Britain is facing a surge in people taking their employers to court, with claims up 55% year on year, following Angela Rayner’s sweeping workers' rights reforms. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/12/…
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Now on over 200 signatures.
Full letter in support of Michael Foran here. Academics who would like to add their names can do so (Orcid ID required).
tinyurl.com/yc2rh32u
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Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former Conservative Party leader Lord Hague says that Oxford gender lectures should go ahead despite trans protests.
Dr Michael Foran, an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, announced last Sunday that he had cancelled the remaining two lectures in his four-part series following abuse from trans protesters.
Trans activists disrupted two separate events at which the gender law expert had been addressing the themes of his new book, Sex, Gender and the Law.
The protesters called him transphobic and a “bigot”, as well as calling on audience members to join them in leaving the event.
Lord Hague has said that the lectures must go ahead for the sake of “freedom of speech”.
He said: “The rest of Michael Foran’s talks should go ahead”.
He added: “Freedom of speech is a fundamental academic freedom and it must be upheld.
“Equally, legitimate and lawful protest has an important place in university life. The task is to maintain both.
“Especially at events open to the public like this, it is an important Oxford tradition that any disagreement is expressed in a civil and respectful way.”
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Hague: Oxford gender lectures should go ahead despite trans protests telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
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What a great evening at the launch of FSU Director of Case Management @BenBarryJones’s new book, Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis.
Drawing on more than five years of experience at @SpeechUnion, Ben explores Britain’s free speech crisis, the erosion of national identity, the transformation of British society, and the rise of Islam.
Get your copy below 👇
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