Claire Fox @Fox_Claire@respublicae.eu
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https://academyofideas.org.uk/ #CP4G
Joined Apr 2022
Well this is a twist on the usual 'paid less for doing same job' discrimination narrative (although why would we be surprised): the class pay gap. And great photo of @SBarrettBar to top it off https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2022/nov/12/revealed-working-class-people-paid-thousands-less-than-middle-class-peers-despite-doing-same-jobs
Good on them. For once some good news from Civil Service. Ridiculously, for a perfectly reasonable initiative, it will have taken some courage to organise this Sex Equality and Equity Network. Good luck #SEEN
RT @Telegraph: 🔴 It is the first time mandarins have formally organised a defence of gender-critical beliefs, following a series of controversies around Whitehall diversity training
Well #KhersonFree has certainly inspired me. Do read @jacobreynolds article as a reminder that this is what a fight for freedom & real resistance looks like (not attaching yourself to a motorway gantry to demand less energy that equates to less freedom): https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/11/the-liberation-of-kherson-should-inspire-us-all/
This thread provides convincing examples of counter-narrative to idea that Trump is a winner. Regardless of which partisan side you are on in relation to US elections, worth mulling over as it also suggests that if not Trump, Democrats may struggle.
RT @afneil: Toxic Trump - Exhibit A:
In crucial Pennsylvania Senate race Trump-backed Mehmet Oz, celebrity TV doctor, out of state, no political record, lost to John Fetterman, left-win…
What a sick joke. Any of us who have had to endure such awful service from @AvantiWestCoast, often with not even a murmur of apology or any sense it will improve, can only laugh bitterly.
RT @telebusiness: Avanti is entitled to a multi-million-pound performance fee from taxpayers despite repeatedly apologising for poor service
I fell for this, so to set record straight
RT @chhcalling: Hello Twitter!
Someone has sent a fake e-mail to press outlets saying I’ve resigned.
This is totally untrue. I hope one of @elonmusk first moves is to eliminate fake news on Twitter…
Very exciting I know, but complete and utter tosh.
Wherever you stand on The Union or the NI Protocol, it is always always good to know the actual historic detail of any issue. @CatharineHoey here giving @UKHouseofLords a useful history lesson
RT @JamieBrysonCPNI: Baroness @CatharineHoey with a detailed explanation on the Acts of Union & why suggestions it was repealed by the Gov of Ireland Act or later statutory provisions is simply wrong 👇
There is a lot happening in UK politics. Lots of issues to solve. Lots of problems that need to be tackled urgently. Listening to #PMQs so frustrating with its focus on individual bullying of whips. Feels unedifying & distracting. As Paul below notes, selective outrage. Bad faith
RT @PaulEmbery: I loathe selective outrage. It is unprincipled. So the question to any Labour MP currently kicking off about Gavin Williamson (who sounds l…
Mandated decolonisation of curriculum - this time of maths - is effectively compelled speech. Any academics who object risk being treated as racist bigots. This is a problematic undermining of academic freedom. Read thread below for details.
RT @johnarmstrong5: I and a number of colleagues have written an open letter objecting to attempts to politicise mathematics degrees by requiring them to take a 'decolonized' perspective. 🧵
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Tbf, worth noting
RT @GavinWilliamson: To dispel any speculation, I want to make it clear that I will not be taking any severance. This is taxpayers’ money and it should go instead toward the Government‘s priorities like reducing the NHS’s waiting lists.
Gavin Williamson gone. !!!!!
RT @GavinWilliamson:
This speech was a hit of Buxton #BattleFest. Well done to @RickMoore1980 for a speech that got so much applause it was hard to get to the end.
RT @RickMoore1980: My contribution to the Buxton #battlefest on Saturday.
It was another fantastic event organised by the @acadofideas , if you missed it, you should definitely watch out for future events.
https://rickmoore1980.substack.com/p/politically-homeless-what-is-next?sd=pf
Lords from all parties queuing up to demand that the #OnlineSafetyBill be speeded up, for the sake of children. I pointed out that the proposed law is not just about child protection - it has been expanded to act as a threat to #freespeech for adults.
This is disturbing.That this young woman is genuinely distressed because adults have projected eco catastrophism onto youth so they lose their minds. That she feels so entitled to cry & threaten us: we must all do what SHE demands, so much so that she comes over as an angry bully
RT @TalkTV: BREAKING: This tearful Just Stop Oil activist explains why she has shut down the M25 by scaling one of the gantries. More follows...
All women. Classy.
Delighted that RMT's action has forced bosses to negotiating table. Well done @RMTunion. Also no strikes is good news that any of you struggling to get to Buxton tomorrow for #BattleFest. You can now get train. So much to debate. See you there. Can't wait. https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/buxton2022/
Good, but honestly can Gov sort out what is being drip-fed through to media please.
RT @tomhfh: Extraordinary, the government now say that they are not rowing back at all on Sizewell C. Trumpeting £700 million investment.
Pleased to see egregious "legal but harmful" clause dropped. But much left in #OnlineSafetyBill is dangerously censorious. Not least policing weazle word misinformation. Also v premise of bill is: online speech of all sorts is harmful & needs 2B regulated. No room for complacency
RT @DavidDavisMP: The decision to abandon the “legal but harmful” clause is welcome. The clause would give sweeping powers to ministers and encourage more …
Final speech for the day - on why sometimes students' unions act as enemies of their own members' free speech... (1/2)
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
