Tag: Free Speech Union
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Sean Plunket interviews Nigel Biggar from The Free Speech Union UK
05 November 2024. “Sean Plunket interviews Nigel Biggar from the Free Speech Union UK about the free speech movement, cancel culture in New Zealand, critical race theory, colonialism, media bias, and much more.” “Sean Plunket is the founding editor of The Platform and an award-winning veteran broadcaster and television presenter.“
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How Bloomsbury dropped books on gender ideology and British colonialism
1 June 2024. By Frederick Attenborough for the Free Speech Union. One of Britain’s biggest publishers dropped a book about malpractice at the Tavistock gender identity clinic, cancelled another contracted manuscript on the complex legacy of British Empire, and later sacked the editor who had supported both projects, reports the Times in an article that is now…
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Resisting the Thought Police
The creation of the non-partisan Free Speech Union, which was launched by Toby Young at the end of February, was inspired by the May 2019 McDonald Centre annual conference, ‘Academic Freedom under Threat: What’s to be Done?‘. Chairman of the FSU’s board of directors (here), Nigel Biggar, has argued in a recent Times article (24 February 2020) that the FSU is…