Maxie Allen

My account for conversation and debate. My professional and politics work, and cricket, are on separate accounts.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Thank you to James O’Brien @mrjamesob for the free advertisement on LBC this morning.

The Free Speech Union was founded by Toby Young in 2020, two years after his own cancellation. In 2018, shortly after he was appointed to the board of the Office for Students on the strength of his work in education, the offence archaeologists launched a campaign against him. He was forced to resign from five posts, losing half his income and much of his reputation. He wished there had been an organisation he could turn to for help.

The FSU now has more than 50,000 members and has taken on more than 7,000 cases in six years. We receive between 40 and 70 new requests for help every week, and we have saved countless people from losing their jobs, their university places or their liberty simply for exercising their lawful right to free speech.

Often, the process is the punishment — we offer mental health support to our members who need it. The prospect of losing your job and livelihood over something you said can be extremely distressing. You can read the first report ever published on the mental health effects of cancellation by Carole Sherwood and Andrew MacLeod with a forward from Lord Young below.

It was in recognition of Toby’s work defending free speech that Kemi Badenoch nominated him for a peerage. That means the FSU can now do more than ever to protect free speech in Britain, at a time when it is under attack from all sides.

More than 60,000 people were arrested for “communications offences” between 2021 and 2025, a @BigBrotherWatch report found.

If the police turn up at your door and haul you into a cell for hours over something you’ve said online — as they did to Maxie Allen (@MaxieAllen) and Rosalind Levine — an FSU membership will be the best money you ever spend. We provided their lawyers, covered their legal fees and secured £20,000 in compensation and an admission of wrongful arrest from Hertfordshire Police.

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[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@ceyxmelanurus @campbellclaret Russian bot claims there are no Russian bots…

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@jasonhellawell @campbellclaret Russia have waged a terrible war for the last four years, which might be why they earn that bogeyman label.

[Cotterzz @cotterzz]

It's an incredible cut, I would never have noticed if it wasn't pointed out.
Here's another example from an ad that is 30 years old now and still blows my mind - keep an eye on the location, the jumps are quite.. spectacular.😂
@SpaceKoala @FilmJournalGuy

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@DPJHodges @bbctms Agnew is far too matey with the players and coaches and always swerves the difficult Qs.

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@RupertLowe10 Maybe these desperately-ill children, travelling 2,000 miles to a foreign land for urgent treatment, deserved to have their parents with them?

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@PaulEmbery Would you the general public to attach anything they like to lamp-posts, without restriction?

[Stuart Broad @StuartBroad8]

Watch that thinking- good pitch

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@JayandJoss Lovely show in Cresswell. Didn’t expect to pitch up on the off-chance and see such a slick, high-end production. Nice one.

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@bigpicdeepdive @piersmorgan @NightShiftMD I still can’t forgive Churchill for standing up to Hitler. The bastard should have surrendered like a good obedient boy.

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@beverleyturner Any evidence for any of this?

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@chrislittlewoo8 @beverleyturner Why would they want to do that?

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@CaribooAgora @mtracey Warmonger? That’s Putin. I didn’t invade anyone.

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@stephen7778 @TwoThousand_17 Thanks, “Stephen”. How many roubles do they pay you, per tweet?

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@CarolNolan1980 Thanks, “Carol”. How’s the weather in Moscow?

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@danny_hellman @CzarNicky1918 All bullshit excuses for Putin’s real motivation.

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@ChuolinerPiece @mtracey The war was caused by Russia invading Ukraine.

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@paintwithalex @Chad_EH Lol.

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@thisgirlisonf12 @stephenemerson2 @jonsopel “Do some research” - classic conspiracy theorist response.

Regardless, I’ve just done some research, and my research has established that Russia invaded Ukraine.

[Maxie Allen @MaxieAllen]

@JimmytPow @mtracey Tell Putin to call it off, then.