Claire Fox @Fox_Claire@respublicae.eu

This short film is excellent. I feel quite chocked up - democratic voices organising & fighting back together are always so inspiring. Well done @alanvibe @sharrond62 & all @Togetherdec. Solidarity. To local politicians: NB how your unpopular #LTNS etc are stirring up resistance
RT @Togetherdec: “The council doesn’t listen to us”

So what are we going to do?

Take Back Democracy Together

Must watch @321shooter video with @sharrond62 @alanvibe & Bath residents fro…

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A must read from @TimandraHarknes on that shocking @BigBrotherWatch report
RT @TimandraHarknes: The politicians offering to keep us safe online are the same politicians working with the same technology companies to remove critics of its policies from the public square.

Me for ⁦@unherd⁩ https://t.co/L2BniBG4si

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Very good @danny__kruger. What is happening in Canada really is dystopia. Right to reveal it, and to warn about dangers for UK if we start down that path of assisted suicide. Glad that @BBCNewsnight did the item
RT @danny__kruger: I'm on Newsnight later talking about the Canadian experience of euthanasia. I won't have time to cite all these examples of what's going on... all presented to MPs this week by Canadian doctors @LeonieHerx and Dr Ramona Coelho at a meeti…

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Best speech of the day at #OnlineSafetyBill 'debate' here in @UKHouseofLords was from @danielmgmoylan - bravo! Mind you, not much debate. Not surprising, but dispiriting that free speech concerns were marginalised.
RT @tfa4freedom: "I don't think that I ever signed up to wanting to live in a country that was the safest place in the world to be on the Internet, because if I had, I would have moved to China already where nothing is out of place." @danielmgmoylan #fr…

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Despite government reassurances (and Lords focusing on the #OnlineSafetyBill being ALL about protecting children) the majority of it threatens #freespeech for ADULTS. Also legitimises political censorship - such as what was revealed in the Twitter files & @BigBrotherWatch report.

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Anxious cos today's a big free speech day in @UKHouseofLords: 2nd reading of Online Safety Bill. Backbenchers only have 4 mins each cos time is tight. So why oh why has "Crusacean mortality in NE England" been given a 50-minute slot before we even begin? Priorities and all that.

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In case you missed it, me amongst a hostile crowd on @BBCr4today debate assessing how Brexit is going three years on (mixed but no regrets) - featuring @campbellclaret @tonydanker & @Jacob_Rees_Mogg. Guest appearance from heckler Steve Bray livened up proceedings.
RT @acadofideas: The #R4today Debate w/ @MishalHusain useful discussion on Brexit three years on.
Our director @Fox_Claire makes case that for majority of leavers, #brexit not about economics but opport…

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Later on, I gave a fairly hairy speech on buffer zones. The mood in the chamber was quite nasty, and I went off script, so it's not brilliant. It was a long debate too, so everyone was tetchy - including me.

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Yesterday I posed a question to former police chief Lord Hogan-Howe in the Lords, asking why we need more laws for police when they won't use the public-order laws we already have. No wonder the public is frustrated...

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Not for the first time, the most enthusiastic advocates of Remain/EU reveal their sneering, misanthropic views of the wrong kind of voters. This is just pure snobbish nastiness.
RT @DanHowdle: @Otto_English Blue passports. They're great cos when I show mine at the airport I get to feel viewed as a petty, nationalistic Neanderthal who spends most of his days sitting in a cardboard Spitfire making rat-a-tat-tat noises. With his anus.

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We just had an XR-style short disruption of Lords. But even after that, I raised problems with the Public Order Bill. It might be sold to the public as targeting Just Stop Oil and the like, but it will be used against other causes - eg anti-LTN protests in Hackney and Haringey...

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Excellent and important on the needs for editorial standards to ensure journalism reports on, not stirs up, emotionally driven panics.
RT @john_mcguirk: Some thoughts on the genuinely remarkable holes in the Irish Time's story about the "attack" on a migrant camp in North Dublin.

https://gript.ie/the-remarkable-holes-in-the-irish-times-migrant-attack-story/

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Good
RT @NLC_2019: "We want to introduce legislation in the final parliamentary sessions of this calendar year to change the leasehold system.

The fundamental thing is that leasehold is an unfair form of property ownership" @michaelgove

@JoshHalliday #LeaseholdScandal

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/29/gove-admits-faulty-guidance-partly-to-blame-for-grenfell-fire

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Terrible idea.
RT @JohnJohnStewart: Big story in the Sunday Times from @NicholasHellen : 20mph to be the default speed limit in built up areas. Will produce community benefits.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/20mph-to-be-default-speed-limit-in-built-up-areas-cwxjk6chq

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Great guest post from @Robspiked for @acadofideas substack on problems of Scottish law making. Not just #GRR issue
RT @acadofideas: Academy of Ideas -- The Scottish Parliament: a font of bad laws https://clairefox.substack.com/p/the-scottish-parliament-a-font-of?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share&r=eylcj

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Inside the Lords this wk: Making Question Time & accountability count. Thorny qus on pushing trans ideology in schools; allegations of 'kidnapped' unaccompanied child refugees; and enforced pre-paid energy meters. PS sign up to @acadofideas FREE sunstack https://clairefox.substack.com/p/inside-the-lords-does-the-house-of

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Brilliant lampooning of ESG/Identity Politics in workplaces. Well done Howard & @DominicFrisby. Will cite it in my 241B amendment to Financial Services Bill, trying to ensure that banks/building socs/payment providers eg PayPal, can't cut off services based on users' wrong-think
RT @DominicFrisby: Howard - What Happened?

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So perceptive from @tomowolade. Irritating new fashionable way to shut down debate: when any of us raise concerns about potential negative consequences of identity politics on eg race or gender, we're accused of stoking culture wars. Tomiwa explains why so important to carry on.
RT @tomowolade: I've written a column for the Evening Standard about why the Culture Wars are Good: https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/intolerance-culture-wars-b1055858.html

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I asked the minister if she'd urge schools to resist fashionable affirming of gender transitioning of anxious teens, and if government will reassure teachers resisting such moves - falsely labelled as bigots - that their employment will be protected. Not satisfied by reply, btw.

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Hackney Council aims to turn 75% of its streets into #LTNs. 75%!!! Does Hackney really think inconveniencing local drivers, regardless of no popular mandate, is a priority? Jeez. As Tories & Labour pushing variations of devolution, locals live in dread of their localist wheezes.
RT @Future_Cities: We are being run by tinpot distators and lunatics.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hackney-london-ltn-car-ban-council-pollution-toxic-air-b1055476.html

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