Claire Fox @Fox_Claire@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Claire Fox is director of @acadofideas, author of 'I find that Offensive!', former MEP; now Baroness Fox of Buckley (!!!)
https://academyofideas.org.uk/ #CP4G
Joined Apr 2022
I don't do praying, but I am doing the secular equivalent. Please God let #SalmanRushdie be ok and continue championing free speech & artistic freedom
RT @BBCBreaking: Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of death threats after writing The Satanic Verses, attacked on stage in New York state https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62524922?at_custom2=twitter&at_custom4=41C6A9B6-1A52-11ED-A5FB-454416F31EAE&at_campaign=64&at_cu…
Nothing about this story makes sense or adds up...give money to who you want, but not clear why Badenoch or Starmer are interchangeable. What am I missing?
RT @GoodwinMJ: Major Conservative donor quits to back Starmer & says he would only return if Kemi Badenoch is leader
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/former-tory-backer-john-armitage-makes-donation-to-keir-starmer-mftz635rq
!!! Bottled water drought.
RT @MailOnline: Drought is officially declared in England as stores begin to ration amount of bottled water https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11105679/Drought-officially-declared-England-stores-begin-ration-bottled-water.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
Very nuanced, interesting comments on @GBNEWS from @Ella_M_Whelan on controversy re 'I, Joan' at Globe. Defends artistic freedom, while making insightful points on removing Joan of Arc as a WOMAN from story of Joan of Arc, as always in name of diversity/inclusion.
RT @GBNEWS: 'If the story itself is about a female martyr... what's the point changing it to a gender neutral stance?'
Ella Whelan reacts to a Globe Theatre production w…
This is really shocking. So much for solidarity. Mind you bemused they were trying to uncover #GenderCritical colleagues working under the EDI banner. If only...
RT @JamesHeartfield: Only one view acceptable on trans v women’s rights.
Brilliant account of the way the UCU, instead of defending its own members and officers against harassment, instead joined in the harassment and even organised it.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0e…
Philistine/tragic: Uni Eng Lit couses withdrawing books in case students harmed eg Essex Uni's removed permanently Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad (graphic depictions of slavery) & Sussex Uni's withdrawn Strinberg's Miss Julie (suicide)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/339af864-17ce-11ed-b1f4-627a202c7457?shareToken=f392efa01ed4e64dc60122267b9c003d
Anonymous campaign @dontpayuk is urging people not to pay their energy bills this winter. Getting lots of support. But might this just mean the most hard up are disconnected? Or will it be a show of mass resistance?
RT @SkyNews: What happens if I don't pay my energy bills? Can I be evicted and will it affect my credit score? https://news.sky.com/story/what-happens-if-i-dont-pay-my-energy-bills-can-i-be-evicted-and-will-it-affect-my-…
This is a campaign to watch out for. Credit to organisers, #EnoughIsEnough is exactly how millions of people feel. Could make a real difference to resistance to #CostOfLivingCrisis. And has merit of that frustrating sense of being a victim into a call for action.
RT @eiecampaign: Enough is enough. It's time to turn anger into action.
Join the campaign to fight the cost-of-living crisis.
One to watch.
RT @dontpayuk: 🚨 !! We have a live counter !!
🔥 After much work, we have updated our site so it's easier to pledge and see how many people have pledged!
Please share and get your friends and family to pledge! https://dontpay.uk/
This made me laugh out loud. As an obsessive plant waterer, with only Lockdown to thank for any interest, minimal experience & limited success in keeping pot plants alive, I realise there could be an easier alternative
RT @Sathnam: Recently I discovered that a plant I had been watering was actually... an artificial plant. But faux plants are getting really convincing, right? It's possible I'm just a complete idiot.
He's got a point. And his threat might just have an impact and make politicians sit up & notice. After all, without WhatsApp, British politics might collapse.
RT @SpeechUnion: WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart says his company might pull its services from the UK if the newly amended #onlinesafetybill becomes law. The amendment he's concerned about could end up being used to force companies like WhatsApp to "read everyone's messages".
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Impressive. We could do with an Amish-like productivity drive here in UK to build houses, hospitals and infrastructure...
RT @historyinmemes: Amish building a barn in one day
Genuinely heart-breaking. May Archie rest in peace. And may his family find some peace in amidst the grief. They did all they could for their boy. The world and just being human, can feel so cruel sometimes. And loss of a child is one its worst cruelties.
RT @SkyNews: Archie Battersbee, 12, dies after life support is turned off https://news.sky.com/story/archie-battersbee-12-dies-after-life-support-is-turned-off-12633585
About to do paper review on @GBNEWS - not exactly sprightly this early but some juicy news stories to wake me up.
Busy day programming @acadofideas free speech festival #BattleofIdeas. Wondering if assault on free expression might ease up. How daft of me. Emerge to discover Rishi Sunak has upped the ante by proposing assault on extremist thought-crime FGS. Now that's REAL threat to democracy
RT @rakibehsan: Sunak's reported proposal to widen PREVENT to incorporate those who "vilify" Britain is itself an attack on our democratic values.
The bes…
Otherwise known as collateral damage of Lockdowns. But important to note: those of us who back then suggested risk benefit anysis/balancing risks, were often vilified. Glad at least now this perspective & evidence, getting media airtime. Thanks to @tomhcalver for data-crunching
RT @tomhcalver: Lockdowns undoubtedly saved tens of thousands of lives. But two years on, the health and socio-economic consequences of keeping everyone indo…
Meanwhile, despite joy at home, sadly war drums sounding from Balkans
RT @metesohtaoglu: 🔴 📹 #Kosovo police announced on Sunday late afternoon that it closed the border for travelers’ passage in the Jarinje& Bernjak, on the border with #Serbia, due to the blockades of the roads leading to these crossing points.
Air raid sirens heard in #Belgrade
📹 @savunmaisleri
Ridiculously emotional #Lionesses
RT @Fox_Claire: Now breath. The nerves, but phew. And at last, lovely joyous victory.
Now breath. The nerves, but phew. And at last, lovely joyous victory.
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Claire Fox is director of @acadofideas, author of 'I find that Offensive!', former MEP; now Baroness Fox of Buckley (!!!)
https://academyofideas.org.uk/ #CP4G
Joined Apr 2022
