Facing what some call an “unbelievably authoritarian country,” a free speech watchdog has set up a Scottish office to deal with numerous claims that new laws and extreme, progressive policies are threatening and weaponising free speech.
The Free Speech Union (FSU), which supports self-styled defenders of free expression in England, has launched a Scottish office after overwhelming demand from its members who are concerned that free speech is in peril.
In the past few years, authorities have convicted a Scottish comedian for telling a bad joke, the University of Edinburgh has renamed a tower commemorating the father of the Scottish Enlightenment and 18th-century philosopher David Hume over his “racist” views, and a famous author has had to retrain as a truck driver because she backed JK Rowling’s views on gender.
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