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
This is really a nice, inspiring idea from @alanvibe and @Togetherdec - a shadow cabinet citizens, regardless of election result.
RT @GBNEWS: 'We are launching a shadow cabinet that is going to be constantly critical.'
Alan Miller, co-founder of the Together Association, tells Neil Oliver about what's next for the group.
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Utterly bonkers. I do hope voters of Oxfordshire stand up against such draconian and uterly pointless policies. Seems some politicians have let former Lockdown Powers go to their head and think that depriving citizens of liberty should be the New Normal. Never again.
RT @alanvibe: Fresh of the heels of lockdowns & all the destructive ongoing harms we’re dealing with…
Oxfordshire to trial a ‘climate lockdown’
You’re off your rockers @OxfordshireCC
Stand Togethe…
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Is it that they know not what they do, or know but are indifferent-even hostile-to free speech? Whatever, it's chilling/ shameful when Labour betrays a history of radical change that understood all sorts of censorship = enemies of social change, fight for equality, class struggle
RT @GuidoFawkes: Phillipson: Labour Would Restore “Legal But Harmful” Clause for Online Content https://order-order.com/2022/12/04/phillipson-labour-would-restore-legal-but-harmful-clause-for-online-content/
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Unusual request from @IainDale on @LBC: things to be positive about. I chose a) community projects eg @northwaleswomen who despite austerity/cuts, rise to the challenge & b) young people fighting AGAINST Cancel Culture eg @speechchampions & @LivingFreedom_ http://clairefox.org.uk/rising-to-the-challenge-in-difficult-circumstances
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Well I am shocked I tell you. A U-turn on a radical policy from Labour? Who would have anticipated that? Shame though: it was one of Starmer's polices that I agreed with.
RT @lara_spirit: EXC: Labour’s pledge to abolish the Lords is set to be watered down in favour of “reform” after an eleventh hour row between Gordon Brown and Starmer aides
Story with @patrickkmaguire @hzeffman
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Problem when any workers from anywhere are treated so appallingly. I've never understood when people argue that one reason we shouldn't have voted Leave is shortage of fruit pickers. If anything we need to invest in technology & wages to help make such gruelling work palatable
RT @BestForBritain: “Pickers were sent back to the caravan if they could not work fast enough and left with large debts to repay.” ~AA https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/02/hundreds-of-indonesian-fruit-pickers-in-uk-seek-diplomatic-help
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I had a run-in with Will Self (!!!) on @TimesRadio yesterday, discussing privilege, private schools & what debates on education should focus on. Oh and his inability/unwillingness to take a side on cancelling role of women's officer cos all so difficult http://clairefox.org.uk/times-radio-breakfast-1st-december-2022
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Inside The Lords this week; on slow collapse of Tories; watering down Academic Freedom Bill, thoughts on Lady Hussey race row & also those of us who oppose identity politics obsession w eg white privilege need to avoid emulating worst aspects of opponents https://youtu.be/i3h_4KB-W10
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Talk about the bigotry of low expectations. Patronising the poor and betraying your core purpose of the highest quality programmes for ALL. I shouldn't be shocked by BBC here, but I am.
RT @guardiannews: BBC to produce ‘lighter’ content to attract Britons from poorer backgrounds https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/30/bbc-to-produce-lighter-content-to-attract-britons-from-poorer-backgrounds?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1669825836
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I was asked to welcome the new Baroness Lea of Lymm in my speech on economy yesterday. I also criticised Hunt and Sunak trying to claim that there is no choice or room to manoeuvre with regards to the Autumn Statement because 'the markets/IMF say it is needed'...
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Heart-felt and fair comment from @J_Donaldson_MP. I am not Tory Gov know how to deal with MPs who honour their mandate
RT @TeamUnion_UK: Sir @J_Donaldson_MP has a little pop at Simon Hoare, an english MP who chairs the Northern Ireland affairs committee.
Simon is an arch remoaner and no friend of TeamUnion,
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Great to see this campus initiative thriving. Well done @MaximumCities @LivingFreedom_ & @CaiusCollege. Discussing Hannah Arendt & CLR James, two of my favourite thinkers. Led by @jacobreynolds & @buffsoldier_96, who really know their subjects. Good luck all #FreeSpeechMatters
RT @LivingFreedom_: Looking forward to being back @CaiusCollege #Cambridge tomorrow for second in series 'What can we learn from...?'
This week @jacobreynolds takes on Arendt & totalitaria…
A classy, witty response by @Docstockk to a classless, crass stunt. Cheers me up when we rise above these nasty, small-minded, mean-spirited tactics.
RT @Docstockk: I miss you too, babes
Quoted in article on self-adminstered, philistine cultural vanadalism by @ExploreWellcome, what WAS fab eg of public engagement w history of medicine. If curators so abhorred at Sir Henry Wellcome shouldn't they resign as he effectively pays their salaries?https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/475de806-6e7d-11ed-8a5b-f385de7508fe?shareToken=5e7035f3506cc5f75b8bb3986cdaab63
About to do this. Always enjoy a conversation with @Iromg
RT @Iromg: The home of common sense returns with @Fox_Claire @ClarkeMicah @LanceForman @ianwill and @sweirz PLUS Laurence Gerlis on the #NHS and @jkyleofficial too - it all kicks off at 10am
Attacks on cost of living can't get worse can they? No left leaning politician will introduce policies to make working people's lives harder & more expensive, charging them through the nose just to get about? Welcome to Sadiq Khan's policies for Londoners.
RT @AmyinLondon: Whole of London to be hit by new Ulez expansion ordered by Sadiq Khan https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/11/25/whole-london-hit-ulez-expansion-ordered-sadiq-khan/
Ahh, it's bloody hard this supporting Wales mularky
RT @SkyFootball: Heartbreak for the Wales fans 💔🏴
Inside The Lords, catching up on a) dilemmas of supporting reproductive rights but dealing with real life proposed laws that seriously compromise civil rights & b) why arguments on migration are ramping up and dilemmas about ensuring these don't turn toxic https://youtu.be/kmF2ODyTcKg
One for you @elonmusk
RT @GBNEWS: 'It's called bullying. Ironically, civil society organisations that say they are anti-corporate, are using cooperate power to destroy particular corporations they've decided they don't like.'
Baroness Claire Fox reacts to The Times | Twitter advertisers to be names and shamed 🗞
My summation. After a long, largely civil debate, I made a last call for balance RE the troubling issue of a nationwide mandate for buffer zones around abortion clinics...
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
