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OPINION - If people aren’t allowed to speak their minds, how can we hope to change them?

When the vice-president of the United States took Sir Keir Starmer to task earlier this year for failing to uphold free speech, the Prime Minister was quick to hit back. “In relation to free speech in the UK, I’m very proud of our history there,” he said. “We’ve had free…

Evening Standard

Man who burned Koran was attacked and spat at, court told

Hamit Coskun is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court after burning the Islamic text on February 13.

Evening Standard

Criminalising Koran burning would be reintroducing blasphemy law, court told

Hamit Coskun is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

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Burning of Koran outside Turkish consulate in Knightsbridge ‘posed a threat to public order’, trial hears

Hamit Coskun, 50, allegedly shouted ‘f*** Islam’, ‘Islam is religion of terrorism’ and ‘Koran is burning’ as he held the flaming Islamic text aloft

Evening Standard

Burning of Koran ‘posed a threat to public order’, prosecutors say

Hamit Coskun, 50, is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

The Independent UK

What are ‘non-crime hate incidents’ which have become so hated in the UK?

Children in England and Wales have been investigated by police for calling each other names, a study has found.

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Six new Tory peers are ‘brave, true radicals’, Kemi Badenoch claims

Toby Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, is among those who have been nominated as a Conservative life peer by the Tory leader.

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Who is Toby Young? The new peer who considers devolved nations 'ungrateful'

TOBY Young, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union and an associate editor of The Spectator has been made a life peer soon to…

The National (Scotland)

A trade union for free speech? Battle lines drawn over groups that claim representative status

The Free Speech Union says its members can claim fees as a tax deduction, but ACTU argues unregistered unions cannot provide effective representation

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