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But Foulkes, who has suffered emotional damage because of the incident, is now suing the force with the help of the Free Speech Union.
Michael Curzon, The European Conservative, 12th May 2025.
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On Sunday, Mr Foulkes accepted an offer from the Free Speech Union (FSU) to fund a legal challenge against the force for wrongful arrest and detention.
“The FSU and Lord Young have generously agreed to fully fund a lawsuit against Kent Police,” he said. “I’m extremely grateful for such excellent support and would urge anyone concerned about the sustained attack on free speech to please join the FSU. They’re fighting hard every day for all of us.”
Janet Eastham, The Telegraph, 11th May 2025.
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On Sunday, Foulkes accepted an offer from the Free Speech Union (FSU) to fund a legal challenge against the force for wrongful arrest and detention.
“The FSU and Lord [Toby] Young have generously agreed to fully fund a lawsuit against Kent Police,” he said. “I’m extremely grateful for such excellent support and would urge anyone concerned about the sustained attack on free speech to please join the FSU. They’re fighting hard every day for all of us.”
Peter Stubley, The Times, 11th May 2025.
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The Free Speech Union (FSU), representing Toomer, has written to the rail operator about the incident.
The FSU warned WMR that punishing Toomer “unjustifiably restricts his freedom of expression, and that it is contrary to WMR’s stated values of diversity, equality and inclusion”.
Lewis Henderson, GB News, 2nd May 2025.
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Lord Young, the founder of the Free Speech Union, says: “Ipso has certainly made some eccentric decisions recently. It’s as though Ipso now regards freedom of expression as being less important than protecting minority groups from being offended, and that is a significant shift that has taken place over the past 10 years.”
Gordon Raynor, The Telegraph, 2nd May 2025.
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In its news report on the cancellation, Free Speech Union noted the decision to pull the show has revived longstanding concerns among artists and free speech campaigners about the increasing reluctance of public-facing institutions to tolerate satire that risks discomforting viewers, regardless of political alignment.
Tilly O’Brien, Kingston Nub News, 2nd May 2025.
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Writing in a new paper for Britain’s Free Speech Union, Kavanagh pointed to the 2011 ‘Operation Elveden,’ which was launched by Starmer and saw about two dozen journalists charged with “conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.”
Michael Curzon, The European Conservative, 30th April 2025.
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One of the great problems with the practice is that what passes for a “hate crime” is extremely subjective. The Free Speech Union, which has been campaigning against NCHIs for five years, gave the example of a man in Bedfordshire who was given an NCHI after his neighbour accused him of whistling “Bob the Builder” every time he saw him.
Christian Today, 30th April 2025.
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In an essay written for the Free Speech Union and presented on Monday, Mr Kavanagh suggested the prosecutions amounted to a “purge of innocent journalists” after the Sun announced it was pulling the plug on its support for Gordon Brown’s Labour government in 2009.
Martin Evans, The Telegraph, 28th April 2025.
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The Free Speech Union (FSU) campaign group has written to Lisa Nandy to warn it is considering a judicial review of her decision not to enforce laws against foreign state ownership of newspapers.
Christopher Williams and Dominic Penna, The Telegraph, 25th April 2025.
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