Claire Fox @Fox_Claire@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
Important. Well done those Welsh parents and good luck. Whole new Curriculum for Wales has serious problems for education. The sex ed lessons particularly egregious.
RT @SpeechUnion: Parents in Wales have launched emergency legal action against compulsory 'sexuality and gender' classes for pupils as young as three.
The lesson guidance involves pupils exploring 'sexual and romantic attraction' and not just the biology of having sex.…
V good interview @Emma_A_Webb & @andrewdoyle_com. Worth watching whole thing as digs down deep into attack on #Rushdie & broader challenges to free speech, from self censorship & new forms of therapeutic blasphemy to avoidance of confronting, and capitulation to, radical Islamism
RT @andrewdoyle_com: Would “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie be published today?
A clip from my discussion with @Emma_A_Webb on tonight’s episode of…
From a few years ago. Hope it stands the test of time. Sad that freedom and choice are even more being sidelined & undermined today.
RT @IAI_TV: "We need the freedom to make the wrong decisions" argues @Fox_Claire. Watch Theodore Dalrymple @theodalrymple, @julianlegrand and Claire Fox debate whether there is such a thing as too much freedom: https://iai.tv/video/the-limits-of-freedom
I think a lot of what @PaulEmbery says here will resonate far beyond the trade union movement
RT @GBNEWS: 'It's a reflection of the fact millions of workers have just had enough... there's a storm brewing in this country.'
Trade Unionist Paul Embery discusses the Felixstowe strikes as Britain's biggest port begins eight days of strike action.
Totally inspiring to see this initiative in solidarity with @SalmanRushdie from @PENamerica - real free speech leadership. We need more of that spirit of collective defiance everywhere.
RT @PENamerica: At @nypl and around the globe, readers and writers are standing in solidarity with @SalmanRushdie and celebrating his tireless advocacy for freedom of expression and the plight of imperiled writers around the globe. #StandWithSalman
Wow. Big news (not the Sunak endorsement). Regardless of what you think of his politics, Gove is one Minister who actually pursued whatever ministerial brief he held, with some seriousness. He did the graft. Not enough of that.
RT @TLDRNewsUK: #BREAKING Michael Gove has endorsed Rishi Sunak for the Conservative leadership...
...and announced that he is quitting frontline politics.
All I can say is bloody well done @AlStewartOBE. Credit to you and @GBNEWS for making #LeadershipHustings a lively affair; had a real TownHall mtg vibe. I liked that.
RT @AlStewartOBE: My place if work, 7pm-9pm: @GBNEWS #LeadershipHustings #Manchester
Thanks @Twitter - since this tweet an hour ago, followers have gone up to where they were. Appreciated.
RT @Fox_Claire: Been one of those @Twitter weeks where I lose lots of followers. Could of course have nothing to do with any sort of algorithmic punishment for wrongthink. But mysterious that whenever this happens, some who have always followed me have had to start following me again...Hmm.
Been one of those @Twitter weeks where I lose lots of followers. Could of course have nothing to do with any sort of algorithmic punishment for wrongthink. But mysterious that whenever this happens, some who have always followed me have had to start following me again...Hmm.
I do love a bit if dissident novel reading. Great show of defiance. Will infuriate book-burners. Good.
RT @SkyNews: Book sales for Sir Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses surge after author stabbed https://news.sky.com/story/book-sales-for-sir-salman-rushdies-the-satanic-verses-surge-after-author-stabbed-12675557
Impressive (see thread). I think #EnoughIsEnough resonates pretty widely, and from conversations I have had, has attracted support and interest beyond the trade union movement. Interesting times.
RT @chakrabortty: At the launch rally for @eiecampaign. Queues around the block, rammed inside
Does Boris think this contributes to his personal legacy as PM? More likely to confirm a sense of 'good riddance' amongst many, especially as they view their energy bills with a mixture of terror and fury.
RT @10DowningStreet: There are 10,000 days to go until the UK reaches Net Zero emissions and we're making good progress.
We have already supported 68,000 green jobs, boosted the UK's energy security by generating more renewable p…
Absolutely loved the documentary @helenlewis. Congrats on being one of best, most thought-provoking programmes on @BBCRadio4 for ages. And @tomowolade - what a star!
RT @helenlewis: What do you believe in? As traditional religions wane in Britain, my new BBC documentary asks if political movements are taking their place.
Has politics become "the amphetamines of the masses," as @ESOldfield put it?
Assumed @TitaniaMcGrath level of satire, but less witty. Now I'm assured below is true. When Welsh gov's period campaign addressed people who bleed & failed to mention women/girls, we thought it = peek gender idiocy. But oh no, hold my beer, Scottish gov here to ramp up indignity
RT @SamanthaTaghoy: Scotland has just appointed the first Period Dignity Officer… and it’s a man.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
Every time politicians fail to actually control UK's borders so it feels as though citizens told they've no choice but to accept everyone claiming asylum, it makes it more difficult to make humane & just decisions about who we should allow to UK their home. People like Musa
RT @JimButcher2: Please if you can, support this young man (who I know well and who is a credit to his adoptive country) and his family. Please share widely to…
Listen to whole of this. It's freaked me out. Furious too. An official from police explicitly says you can only express your views privately, lectures on need 2B better informed re trans, when she spouts misinformation & deploys tears & threats. Coercive & bullying. For a sticker
RT @IXthoth: Had another PCSO knock on my door tdy enquiring about drugs etc in area & then asked me about my sticker! She really upset me! I’ve been rap…
Amen to this from Eddie Dempsey. And more and more people do indeed feel #EnoughlsEnough
RT @eiecampaign: “I’ve got faith in working-class people. They’re always underestimated, but they’ve got the intellect and ideas to make change in this country.”
Eddie Dempsey explains why we’ve launched the #EnoughIsEnough campaign.
Join us: https://wesayenough.co.uk/
Very perceptive comments here from @ProfDHayes on the history of and real problem of trigger warnings and how too many in universities have internalised a version of the Fatwa.
RT @GBNEWS: ‘They’ve [universities] adopted a therapeutic culture… only one view is going to be heard, and that’s the view that won’t upset anyone.’
Professor Dennis Hayes reacts to an investigation by the Times that reveals the extent of literary censorship…
Is issue guest speakers criticising Gov policy (group think hardly creative)? Problem trend surely guest EDI speakers, less sharing views than establishing a climate of orthodoxy/group think in civil service re critical theory/identity politics which if challenged seen as bigotry
RT @katie_martin_fx: UK civil servants have been ordered to trawl through the social media accounts of guest speakers at one government ministry, including…
Brilliant news. Now for a full & speedy recovery. Regardless, we can't just move on from this brutal attack on #SalmanRusdhie. Need to use it as clarion call for going on offensive for free speech. And also not avoid difficult qus re continued threat of radical Islamist violence
RT @AP: Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk, a day after he was stabbed and seriously wounded as he prepared to give a…
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
