Claire Fox @Fox_Claire@respublicae.eu

This is so shocking re @ace_national treatment of one of its senior staff. As so predicatble these days, it's trans ideology at heart of the scandal. Solidarity with @DeniseFahmy
RT @DeniseFahmy: Me again in the news !- if you’re able to support my attempt to bring about justice, check out my pinned tweet and thank you to everyone who already has - yr kind words too xx Arts council officer 'is hounded out of her job amid toxic transphobia row' https://www.dailymai…

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It's thanks to @omarloubak & many young people like him, that those on campus who claim offence to censor, are shown up as bullies. Luckily, initiatives like @LivingFreedomUK & @speechchampions are a source of solidarity & resistance. And @RoyalHolloway - Omar's a credit to you
RT @GoodwinMJ: This is Omar. He walked out of his university debating society @ Royal Holloway when it disinvited @Fox_Claire & the uni caved. "What's the point of a debating society whic…

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Happy birthday to the indefatigable @GeoffKidder - backbone of @acadofideas; supremo of @IdeasMatterUK: politically shrewd on all matters and font of wisdom on every aspect of sports of all shapes and sizes. "For he's a jolly good fellow, and so say all of us".

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Looking forward to speaking at this @unherd event tomorrow night (Mon 27th March): The technocrat restoration: Has populism run out of steam? See you there I hope. Doors/bar open 18:30, event starts 19:00.
UnHerd, 6 Old Queen Street, Westminster, SWIH 9HP https://unherd.com/march-technocrat-populism/

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Excellent summary of madness of so many councils' eco-travel plans, charging car-drivers, etc, and irony that it can be so strident it can mean cutting down trees, upsetting other environmental supporters. See Rod Liddle gives @Togetherdec a shout-out
RT @BrynHarris6: 'What I fear we are seeing is the revenge of the second rate.'

Well, quite. There's been a lot of that about the past seven years.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c1e9794a-cb44-11ed-94e6-b14cdf80e31b?shareToken=d035e22d0fe8dcc199fcabd03455d0ec

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This is spot on. Fashionably promiscuous use of branding a wide range of opinions/indivs/orgs as Nazis not only relativises the horrors of the Holcaust, it also gives some people a righteous excuse to treat those labelled fascists with aggression, even violence. Dangerous trend.
RT @Nina_Compact: Needless to say that if the unofficial rule is "punch a Nazi" and you massively and illegitimately increase the people you place in this category, large numbers of people…

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This week in the Lords, I asked: who cares whether public or private bodies supply prison education? As long as someone does... And can we not simply confine this to basic literacy. Projects like @DebatingMatters Beyond Bars show the exciting things that can be done.

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This @LivingFreedomUK summer school is a fab & important initiative. Know anyone between 18-30 interested in dilemmas of freedom; open-minded about debating difficult questions thrown up by free speech? Tell them to apply. Convenor @MaximumCities will make them very welcome.
RT @acadofideas: Today our Substack features all the latest news from @LivingFreedomUK.
Read on to find out more about their forthcoming summer school, university salon discussions and next …

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He is spot on, on the dangers of banning books. Censorship is ugly and dangerous whether it comes from the left or the right
RT @RepRaskin: I’m joining parents, students, librarians and teachers to oppose the GOP's MAGA federal power grab over local schools, a phony "Parents' Bill of Rights" designed to extend their rampant book banning and suppression of history.

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This is a fab, short listen. A number of people - certainly my political oppoents - have wondered why I was making a fuss about my talk being cancelled at Royal Holloway. Here is @omarloubak, one of the students who invited me, with a special behind the scenes account of events
RT @acadofideas: In the latest episode of our podcast, join @jacobreynolds as he sits down with @omarloubak - a student who was at the heart of the storm over @Fox_Claire's cancellation at …

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Hmm. Not sure society, or the rule of law, is well served when lawyers become activists.
RT @Telegraph: About 120 lawyers are set to sign a ‘Declaration of Conscience’ stating they will not prosecute groups like Extinction Rebellion https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/24/just-stop-oil-extinction-rebellion-lawyers-climate-change/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1679617585-1

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Tonight. Important mtg in #Canterbury - discussing plans for #15minutecity. Go along and have your say.
RT @frankieobrienn: 🛣️Connected #Canterbury

⏳Happening tonight.

📍Canterbury, #Kent 15 Minute City.

🗣️ Plans to divide the city into five areas and ban residents from driving directly between them.

⏰ 7PM

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"historic democratic realignment (of) 2016 and 2019 may be in abeyance, battered & bludgeoned by partygate, generalised incompetence...return of failed establishment Toryism, but it hasn’t disappeared. Below the surface, the vital forces... are bubbling ". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/22/brexit-revolt-against-remain-establishment-has-just-begun/

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Remember PayPal censorship of @SpeechUnion & @UsforThemUK last yr? Remember Halifax telling customers where to go if they didn't agree with pronoun policy? Decided it was worth an amendment seeking to stop payment providers/banks punishing customers for their views (in 2 parts)
RT @Fox_Claire: Yesterday, I explained why my amendment to the Financial Services and Markets Bill was needed... (1/2)

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...I argued that we need to protect customers from online financial-service providers and banks blocking their cash flow, or bank accounts, because their views clash with corporate Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) or Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policies. (2/2)

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Yesterday, I explained why my amendment to the Financial Services and Markets Bill was needed... (1/2)

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Thread for anyone who fears it's impossible to make a difference. Honestly @francisjfoster & @KonstantinKisin - you guys & @triggerpod are important proof that we can all challenge orthodoxies, build a new community, with imagination & blood heard graft, change the conversation.
RT @KonstantinKisin: 5 years ago two comedians sat down in a room above a pub and decided to start a YouTube show together. We were so ill-equipped that when @francisjfoster said to me "i…

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...These interventions were designed to toughen up the Higher Education (Free Speech) Bill. Free speech is under attack - I was cancelled, after being asked to talk with the Royal Holloway University of London’s Debating Society. This kind of behaviour has become routine. (2/2)

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Today, I made an angry defence of academic freedom in the context of government ministers backing down and fudging on their own amendments... (1/2)

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I explained why clean-air zones like ULEZ (but also LTNs) are often anti-democratic and imposed despite public opposition or inconvenience. They are also often a stealth tax. The evidence on, for example, air quality or car congestion, is too often dodgy, or at least contested.

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