The Latest Breaking News from Toby Young

Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights

The Guardian - US · Sep 30

Revealed: Toby Young free speech group crowdfunded over £60,000 for legal case fought by pro-bono lawyer

Staff members said Free Speech Union would ‘need to explain’ how it spent money donated by its supporters

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18

Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young

Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17

Former Met chief calls for ministers to scrap non-crime hate incidents

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe and Lord Toby Young launch effort to change the Crime and Policing Bill that would stop requiring police to record NCHIs

Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2025

OPINION - The real, sinister reason academics keep cancelling each other

Scarcely a week goes by without lecturers being cancelled, says Toby Young. Why?

Evening Standard · Oct 11, 2025

Burning Koran upsetting but not a crime, says judge in ‘victory for free speech’

Turkey-born Mr Coskun, who is half-Kurdish and half-Armenian, lives in England.

Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2025

Humiliation upon humiliation for the Melster in front of half-full Tory crowd

At conference where the stench of decay is overpowering, the shadow chancellor’s speech was an act of desperation

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2025

​​Police apologise for arresting former special constable over Palestine march social media post

Kent Police said they have expunged the 71-year-old’s record following the incident

The Independent UK · May 12, 2025

Starmer warned children will be at risk if he agrees to US demands to get trade deal

Claims that vice-president JD Vance is still pushing for online safety and hate speech laws to be repealed have alarmed campaigners

The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2025

Funny feuds and sky-high budgets – Vanity Fair in the Nineties makes today’s journalism seem particularly bleak

THE READING LIST: In his new memoir, illustrious New York-based editor Graydon Carter travels back in time to the ‘golden era’ of print magazines, painting a picture of six-figure salaries, petty fights with stars, and carte blanche with the company credit card. Annabel Nugent mourns a bygone era

The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2025