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Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson faces investigation over reported ‘non-crime hate incident’

Free speech in the first world is, at times, a bizarrely dystopian experience. The original FSU in the UK, to whom FSU SA is affiliated on the International ...

Be careful when censoring speech

‘To tamper with the author’s words because of the sensibilities of present-day readers is unacceptable.  The minute you do this Huckleberry Finn stops being ...

The return of free speech

Simon Lincoln Reader welcomes Donald Trump's executive order to restore free speech which protects people with objectionable or pathetic views. And says that ...

A bizarre and chilling example of what cancel culture can wreak

War hero Dr Kelvin Wright cleared of wrongdoing by British Army for holding ‘gender critical’ views! Free Speech Union member Dr Kelvin Wright, a colonel, was ...

The revolutionary power of heresy

Brendon O'Neill, Chief Political Writer of sp¡ked has written a new book called "A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable". We provide a link to his ...

How woke language distorts the world

Peter Boghossian writes on how the woke use ordinary words and fills them with new ideological context. So words with a set meaning come to mean something else ...

New research reveals who really benefits from free speech

Jonathan Ayling, CE of our sister union in New Zealand, writes about research to be released in August 2023 which refutes the allegation that free speech ...

Irish Teacher Imprisoned for Continuing to Teach after Refusing to Use ‘Gender-Neutral’ Pronouns

Teacher Enoch Burke refused to call a transgender child "they" for reasons of his faith as an evangelical Christian. After the school obtained two ...

When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education. Although this is an American occurrence, ...