The Free Speech Union Limited
British organisation that advocates against cancel culturewww.freespeechunion.org
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Oct 9, 2026
Dan WoottonHOST
So, Dave, I'm liking this whole approach, right? We all just have to sing this from the rooftops.
Dan WoottonHOST
And I guess the view yesterday from the likes of the Free Speech Union is, well, you can't arrest us all.
Dan WoottonHOST
You can't report us all for spitting facts.
David AthertonGUEST
Indeed.
Dan WoottonHOST
The time that should be focused on stopping Muslim terrorists, okay? That's who needs to be stopped, not Robert Jenrick pointing out the obvious.
Dan WoottonHOST
The Free Speech Union has jumped to Jenrick's defense.
Dan WoottonHOST
They say people need to wake up to what is happening.
Dan WoottonHOST
John Cleese has been reported to Prevent over comments criticizing Islam, while Rupert Lowe has been reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over his comments.
Dan WoottonHOST
We must not let a de facto Islamic blasphemy law take root, nor must we allow activists to weaponize Prevent to shut down criticism of Islam.
Dan WoottonHOST
Doing so would undermine the integrity of our counter-terrorism efforts.
Dan WoottonHOST
The Free Speech Union stands with Robert Jenrick and his right to speak freely, both as a private citizen and as an elected politician.
Dan WoottonHOST
Now, there are a lot of people coming to Jenrick's defense today.
Andy BurnhamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
To support and defend our democracy.
Toby YoungHOST
The Free Speech Union's policy and research director, David Rose, has taken a look at the research used to justify this new censorship regime, and it's threadbare to say the least.
David RoseGUEST
They completely, absolutely 100% ignored a vast body of academic literature which goes in entirely the opposite direction.
Toby YoungHOST
They are putting Britain squarely in line with the world's most authoritarian states.
Toby YoungHOST
I'm Lord Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, and this is the Free Speech Union podcast.
Toby YoungHOST
Welcome, David.
Toby YoungHOST
Um, uh, you've written this fantastic report, uh, misinformation about misinformation about the government-commissioned research that's being cited to justify this new censorship regime, this crackdown on free speech.
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Toby YoungHOST
Yeah, pretty shocking.
David LeisHOST
Yeah.
Nigel BiggarGUEST
And so, um, for example, uh, in Britain, uh, uh, and recently in Canada, um, an organization called the Free Speech Union was founded- Six years ago in Britain, uh, uh, a, a year and a half ago in Canada.
Nigel BiggarGUEST
It now has 46,000 subscribing members in Britain and has enough-
David LeisHOST
Oh, that's heck
Nigel BiggarGUEST
So, um, you know, uh, it's important for, for individual citizens to, to get together and, you know, uh, maybe if enough of you get together in a locality, you can find ways to begin to challenge what's going on in your schools.
David LeisHOST
Mm-hmm.
Nigel BiggarGUEST
Um, and, and maybe, uh, um, a- ask the Free Speech Union or some other organization whether they can help support a legal case.
David LeisHOST
Mm-hmm.
Michael BrownHOST
Stephen Gray, the retired cop, had a neighbor.
Michael BrownHOST
According to the Free Speech Union, the British civil liberties group now paying for his appeal, the two of them had been fighting over access to a sewage pipe.
Michael BrownHOST
A sewage pipe.
Michael BrownHOST
That neighbor reported the Facebook post to the cops.
Kathryn RyanHOST
We'll get you reinstated, uh, your, uh, introductions reinstated for next time.
Kathryn RyanHOST
Free Speech Union guy, someone just said to me [laughs] here.
Kathryn RyanHOST
Okay, let's begin with ...
Kathryn RyanHOST
I am going to start with the polls.
Maeve HalliganGUEST
Our bodies come in two types, whether you like it or not, male and female, and modern LGBTQ+ activism has spent the better part of a decade now, let's be honest, trying to erase that fact because if sex is real and is immutable, a whole lot of what they've been doing falls apart.
Connie ShawHOST
Welcome back to the Free Speech Union Podcast.
Connie ShawHOST
I'm Connie Shaw, and today I'm joined by Maeve Halligan, who many of you will have come across as a result of her blazing speech at the Cambridge Union, uh, talking about trans activism.
Connie ShawHOST
She is also a recent graduate of the University of Cambridge, and she's the founding president of the Cambridge University Society of Women, and she's now the spokesman at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and she is also one of my very good friends, so I'm very proud and happy to have her on the Free Speech Union Podcast.
Connie ShawHOST
So Maeve, I first met you at the Living Freedom Festival in 2024, which is a free speech festival for young people organized by the Academy of Ideas, and you were one of the first young other gender critical women that I'd ever met.
Connie ShawHOST
And I went to that festival as a result of beginning to speak to people who were gender critical, and I was advised that I should go.
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Maeve HalliganGUEST
Real advocacy protects the people it claims to represent, even when that's inconvenient.
Maeve HalliganGUEST
Real activism doesn't silence lesbians, medicalize children, or tell a little boy who plays with dolls that actually he's a girl.
Rowan DeanHOST
Uh, Lucy, so you've got, uh, the E-Karen there.
Rowan DeanHOST
She's, uh, b- had a disastrous, uh, term in office, where every time she's tried to censor someone, not every time, but many of the times, there's been a reaction from, like, the Free Speech Union-
Rita PanahiHOST
Mm-hmm
Rowan DeanHOST
... uh, which does an amazing job helping people.
Nigel BiggarGUEST
So, uh, um, the ... there's lots of people who are sensible out there, and there's evidence for it.
Nigel BiggarGUEST
Um, and I mentioned to you earlier, um, uh, Eric, that I, I'm chairman of the Free Speech Union in this country, founded six years ago.
Nigel BiggarGUEST
Um, we now have 40,000 subscribing members.
Nigel BiggarGUEST
We've enough, enough resources to take the UK government to court, and we're, we're, we're holding all sorts of institutions to account if they fail to obey the law that preserves free speech.
Lynda McLaughlinHOST
I was reading today an article, um, and it's from a paper in England called The Metro.
Lynda McLaughlinHOST
And it was posted on an account called the Free Speech Union, and it explains that social media posts criticizing government policy are being monitored and they're being logged by the officials.
Lynda McLaughlinHOST
This paper Metro has obtained a list of seventy-seven critical posts recorded by the Standards and Compliance Unit, the STACU, which oversees the government's Prevent program.
Lynda McLaughlinHOST
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