Toby Young

Hidden dangers in the proposed free speech law | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to planned legislation that will allow students, academics or visiting speakers to sue English universities
Letters
19, Feb, 2021 @4:46 PM

The information warriors fighting 'robot zombie army' of coronavirus sceptics
The Anti-Virus website takes on figures like Toby Young and Allison Pearson - and its creators think it has them on the run
Archie Bland
25, Jan, 2021 @7:00 AM

Media’s libertarian Covid sceptics under fire from senior Tory
Journalists who downplay virus ‘have a hell of a lot to answer for’, says party vice-chair Neil O’Brien
Toby Helm Political Editor
17, Jan, 2021 @10:30 AM

Daily Telegraph rebuked over Toby Young's Covid column
Press watchdog says claims were ‘significantly misleading’ as newspaper told to publish correction
Archie Bland
15, Jan, 2021 @4:18 PM

How many waves will it take for Britain's lockdown sceptics to finally call it a day? | Marina Hyde
You’d have thought the crisis would give them pause. But then, like the government, they have a hard time learning from their mistakes, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Marina Hyde
15, Jan, 2021 @4:13 PM

Students quit free speech campaign over role of Toby Young-founded group
Recruits say they were misled about the involvement of controversial pressure group the Free Speech Union
Archie Bland
09, Jan, 2021 @7:00 AM

Toby Young's dating site wins hearts of social-distancing sceptics
Others have termed the anti-lockdown journalist’s romantic venture ‘OKStupid’
Aamna Mohdin
10, Aug, 2020 @1:04 PM

The 'lockdown sceptics' want a culture war, with experts as the enemy | Peter Geoghegan & Mary Fitzgerald
It’s Brexit all over again for the high-profile contrarians, say Peter Geoghegan and Mary Fitzgerald of openDemocracy
Peter Geoghegan and Mary Fitzgerald
18, May, 2020 @1:53 PM

Coronavirus is the ultimate demonstration of the real-world impact of racism | Alana Lentin
The BAME experience in this pandemic tells us that race is not about individual morality, says the Australian academic Alana Lentin
Alana Lentin
12, May, 2020 @1:01 PM

A growing clamour of voices treats the pandemic as if it's just health and safety gone mad | Catherine Bennett
Far too many are making a ‘commonsense’ case for relaxing restrictions
Catherine Bennett
25, Apr, 2020 @6:00 PM

We're making a right mess of our right to free expression
The row between Oxford University and the students who ‘disinvited’ Amber Rudd highlights the illiberalism on both sides of the argument
Kenan Malik
29, Mar, 2020 @5:30 AM

Islamophobia, Trevor Phillips, and free speech | Letters
Letters: Words have power – you need to choose them carefully, writes Colin Montgomery. Plus letters from David Robjant, Jonathan Longstaff, and Pete Wearden
Letters
11, Mar, 2020 @5:54 PM
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