Toby Young
Free Speech Union, Director
Lord Young of Acton is the Director of the Free Speech Union, a non-partisan, mass membership public interest body that stands up for the speech rights of its members and campaigns for free speech more widely. In 2011, he co-founded the West London Free School, the first free school to sign a funding agreement with the UK government. He is an associate editor of the Spectator, where he’s written a weekly column since 1998, and an associate editor of the Critic. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Daily Sceptic, a news publishing site that he founded in 2020. He won the Contrarian Prize in 2021 and was made a Conservative peer in 2024.
