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Claire Fox✓

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Claire Fox is @acadofideas director, author ‘I find that Offensive!', former MEP; now Baroness Fox of Buckley (!!!) Subscribe to https://t.co/8X5CIluFrK

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  1. Claire Fox✓@Fox_Claire
    When I wrote 'I Find That Offensive!' few yrs ago, sketching out regressive trends associated w Identity Politics, statue toppling, 'You can't say that' culture, critics accused me of setting up straw men. In truth, I underestimated how toxic it'd become:
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    RT @Jebadoo2: There is no way clause 5 of the conversion bill would be so wide and so draconian if it didn't provide a financial lifeline for Stonewall to train companies in how to avoid prosecutions that they will actively encourage. It's painfully obviously in their financial interests.
    Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg
    @MForstater “The draft Conversion Practices Bill is a trans activist’s dream. It reads as though it was written with significant input from trans-activist lobby groups who consider ‘misgendering’ a form of abuse.” @Jebadoo2 claimed Stonewall would benefit from the bill because it tells businesses they have to take “all reasonable steps” to ensure that no one in the firm provides conversion therapy.
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    @MForstater “The draft Conversion Practices Bill is a trans activist’s dream. It reads as though it was written with significant input from trans-activist lobby groups who consider ‘misgendering’ a form of abuse.” @Jebadoo2 claimed Stonewall would benefit from the bill because it tells businesses they have to take “all reasonable steps” to ensure that no one in the firm provides conversion therapy.
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    RT @spectator: Andy Burnham has this afternoon admitted the least well-kept secret in Whitehall – that his planned changes to benefits will at first see costs rise. In a succession of broadcast interviews, the PM pointedly did not say when the overall bill would start to fall. We are now clearly in the run-up to the publication of the Milburn review into the million young people who are not in education, employment or training (otherwise known as Neets). ✍️ Tim Shipman Article | | @ShippersUnbound
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    RT @timurkuran: Brendan O’Neill of @spikedonline at the Soapbox26 conference of @TheFIREorg, panel on international threats to free speech: “In Britain today, the land of Mill and Orwell, one can be arrested for carrying a blank placard. It’s enough for one person to take offense.”
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    RT @wynneflh: In 1942, a drunk German officer sat at dinner and bragged about the Jewish woman he had selected from the brothel the Nazis had forced open in town. He said her name out loud. The Tunisian Arab sitting across from him stayed calm, smiled, poured more wine, and finished the meal. Then he drove the officer home, sped through the dark streets, and knocked on a door close to midnight. That night, he hid 25 people for four months. He never spoke about it again. His name was Khaled Abdul-Wahab. He was 31 years old, a wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York and spoke fluent German. Nazi officers trusted him. They invited him to their dinners. Tunisia was the only Arab country directly occupied by Nazi Germany during the war. Jewish families were pushed from their homes. More than 5,000 Jewish men were sent to forced labor camps. Yellow stars marked every chest. That December night in the coastal town of Mahdia, Khaled listened as the officer boasted. The woman he named belonged to a family Khaled had known all his life. He left immediately. He drove through the night. He knocked on their door at midnight. Pack nothing. Come now. He gathered 25 people — mothers, fathers, cousins, and children — and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm, hiding them inside the olive press, stables, and storage buildings. This was not one brave act. It was four straight months of courage. He fed them while supplies grew scarce. He kept babies quiet. He trusted his servants to stay silent. When German soldiers arrived to count Jewish families, the hidden people pinned yellow stars onto their clothes and stood motionless. When the soldiers left, the stars came off again. One night, a drunken soldier wandered onto the farm and discovered them. An eleven-year-old girl hiding under a bed watched him laugh and threaten to kill everyone there. Then Khaled appeared. She remembered him her entire life as a guardian angel. He calmly walked the soldier outside, took away his weapon, and sent him off the property. Nobody on that farm died. In May 1943, British forces liberated Tunisia. All 25 people returned home alive. Khaled went back to a quiet life. He married, raised daughters, painted, and worked in government service. He never told anyone what he had done. Not his wife. Not his children. No one. He died on September 4, 1997, at the age of 86. His story was buried with him. Ten years later, his daughter Faiza was sitting in a café in Paris reading a Sunday newspaper when she came across an interview with an American historian describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews in 1942. The historian mentioned her father by name. She was 45 years old and had never heard the story before. She contacted the historian. One of the children saved on the farm had left behind 83 pages of testimony before her death. Every detail matched. “I rediscovered my father,” Faiza later said. Khaled was nominated for Israel’s highest honor given to non-Jews who saved Jewish lives. He would have been the first Arab to receive it. The committee declined, saying he had not risked his own life enough. Faiza answered with a line history should never forget: “My father opened his home to Jews. They did not open theirs to us.” Today, the 25 people Khaled saved have hundreds of descendants living across Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl hidden beneath the bed grew up, moved to Paris, and built a family of her own. None of them would exist if Khaled had stayed silent that night. He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he spent the rest of his life saying nothing about it. The world nearly forgot him twice. Now you know his name.
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    RT @afalkhatib: Say no to the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex, Islamism, and cultural relativism: These scenes cannot become normal in the Western world. Earlier today in Copenhagen, Palestinian and Arab immigrants and their descendants were filmed chanting for Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Obaida, jihad, the destruction of Tel Aviv, and terrorism under the banner of being “pro-Palestine” (video source: Moumen Al-Natour @moumalnatour). For three years since October 7, this behavior has been excused, minimized, or dismissed as fringe. In reality, it has become a recurring and alarming trend across North America, Europe, and Australia. As Palestinians in Gaza increasingly reject Hamas, segments of diaspora Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim communities have embraced the group as the embodiment of “resistance” and the supposed voice of Gazans. Equally troubling is how academics, journalists, influencers, activists, politicians, and celebrities have obscured these pro-Hamas sentiments by presenting them as merely advocacy for Palestinian rights. Some have relied on “cultural relativism” that blurs basic moral distinctions. Yet there is nothing complicated about condemning Hamas’s torture of Palestinians, theft of aid and resources, disastrous two-decade rule, decision to launch October 7, devastation of Gaza, and perpetration of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The tolerance of Islamist extremism in Western societies, and the reluctance to confront openly hateful and pro-terror rhetoric, risks deepening polarization and instability. It is long past time to scrutinize pro-Hamas ideology, activism, and narratives that have gained traction among politicians, students, journalists, and protest movements. Nor is it “racist” or “Islamophobic” to oppose campaigns targeting Jewish-owned businesses or attempts to pressure businesses into adopting political litmus tests. Democratic societies should confront extremism consistently, regardless of who promotes it.
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    RT @thephilippics: The Brownshirts of our day now come wrapped in keffiyehs
    Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram
    NOW: City University pro-Pals are screeching “Ben Gad out of here” referring to an Israeli professor they’re targeting for no other reason than his nationality. Will @CityStGeorges protect him? This is xenophobic harassment.
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  10. Heidi Bachram✓@HeidiBachram
    NOW: City University pro-Pals are screeching “Ben Gad out of here” referring to an Israeli professor they’re targeting for no other reason than his nationality. Will @CityStGeorges protect him? This is xenophobic harassment.
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    RT @jwomencount2: Expel the students
    Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram
    NOW: City University pro-Pals are screeching “Ben Gad out of here” referring to an Israeli professor they’re targeting for no other reason than his nationality. Will @CityStGeorges protect him? This is xenophobic harassment.
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    RT @MelanieLatest: Such malice and ignorance as displayed in this comment really are a bottomless sewer. This picture shows an edition of BBC Question Time in 2013 when I took on the entire panel and a baying audience by speaking against the danger presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    Martin Shaw @martinshawx
    Birds of a feather: Israeli propagandist @MelanieLatest boasts both convicted rapist Russell Brand and disgraced prime minister Boris Johnson in her X profile header picture.
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    Birds of a feather: Israeli propagandist @MelanieLatest boasts both convicted rapist Russell Brand and disgraced prime minister Boris Johnson in her X profile header picture.
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    RT @FSI_Europe: Elissa Slotkin went to Hungary and Poland and brought back a playbook: pick “signature cases” against your political opponents and call it defending democracy. The Democrats are taking notes from Europe’s most authoritarian liberal regimes.
    Townhall.com @townhallcom
    UNDERCOVER: ELISSA SLOTKIN LAYS OUT DEMOCRATS' LAWFARE PLAN IF THEY WIN THE MAJORITY! "We have a list of, like, the 'signature cases.' So the things where it's, like, so egregious, such a violation of law, such a corruption case... in every committee, there will be the 'signature cases' where we hold people accountable." "I just went to Hungary. I went over to Budapest because they just got rid of their authoritarian leader after 16 years. And I'm like, how did you handle 16 years of corruption? We don't have that much, but we have so much." She named the targets: the White House ballroom, the reflecting pool renovation, "$200 million from the Defense Department." "So that's what you'll see basically in January."
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    RT @GHWTowler: This is a really important issue, shown the customary contempt by the Government.
    Claire Fox @Fox_Claire
    We're told that schools need to get 14-15 year-olds ready to vote at 16. Has the government thought through the problem of teachers who are political activists canvassing pupils for votes? And what about the obvious contradiction in expecting pupils to independently research who to vote for and the government's social media bans for teens? At the end, I responded to the minister telling me not to worry as 16 year olds will be allowed to get info from TRUSTED sources. Trusted by who? If this is a big expansion of democracy, why is there no impact assessment or proper engagement with criticism?
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    UNDERCOVER: ELISSA SLOTKIN LAYS OUT DEMOCRATS' LAWFARE PLAN IF THEY WIN THE MAJORITY! "We have a list of, like, the 'signature cases.' So the things where it's, like, so egregious, such a violation of law, such a corruption case... in every committee, there will be the 'signature cases' where we hold people accountable." "I just went to Hungary. I went over to Budapest because they just got rid of their authoritarian leader after 16 years. And I'm like, how did you handle 16 years of corruption? We don't have that much, but we have so much." She named the targets: the White House ballroom, the reflecting pool renovation, "$200 million from the Defense Department." "So that's what you'll see basically in January."
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    We're told that schools need to get 14-15 year-olds ready to vote at 16. Has the government thought through the problem of teachers who are political activists canvassing pupils for votes? And what about the obvious contradiction in expecting pupils to independently research who to vote for and the government's social media bans for teens? At the end, I responded to the minister telling me not to worry as 16 year olds will be allowed to get info from TRUSTED sources. Trusted by who? If this is a big expansion of democracy, why is there no impact assessment or proper engagement with criticism?
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    RT @jacobreynolds: Was an honour to welcome back the powerful and excellent @baylissbaghdad for our summer Academy He tackled the limits of British state power - and who it really fears.
    Ideas Matter @IdeasMatterUK
    "If the white working class were to seriously kick off… the state is completely unprepared." @baylissbaghdad on which disorder the British state really fears, and how it responds.
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    RT @LukeSGittos1986: The attacks on #RussellBrand's barrister are ridiculous. He had a professional duty to put his case to witnesses and was entitled to do so forcefully. Sympathy for victims should not mean diluting a defendants' right to robustly challenge the case against them.
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    RT @IdeasMatterUK: "If the white working class were to seriously kick off… the state is completely unprepared." @baylissbaghdad on which disorder the British state really fears, and how it responds.
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    RT @jacobreynolds: The EU's latest justification for its ongoing battle to censor the internet is now "negative effect on mental health". Suppressing political alternatives because someone's feelings might get hurt. Never more has Brave New World felt more appropriate.
    European Commission @EU_Commission
    We preliminarily found that TikTok’s ‘For You’ feed has a harmful design. It shows users endless and repeated exposure of personalised videos, even when those have a negative effect on mental health. While TikTok has implemented measures to mitigate this risk, we consider them insufficiently effective and call for readjustment. 🔗
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    RT @CandiceCarrie: I hope you will join me for my @TalkTV show tonight at 7pm. We have a feisty Friday night all lined up for you. Don’t miss it. ✨@charlotteEaLMoS on Russell Brand’s conviction and Thomas Markle’s arrest. ✨Former Head of MI6 Richard Dearlove on energy and Net Zero as a national security issue. ✨@CharlieM_OBE vs. James Mathewson in our big debate of the night ✨South African political commentator @DavidAnsara on the earthquake local election results in Johannesburg And more interesting guests and discussions. Live streaming on YouTube. Link below. 👇
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  24. European Commission✓@EU_Commission
    We preliminarily found that TikTok’s ‘For You’ feed has a harmful design. It shows users endless and repeated exposure of personalised videos, even when those have a negative effect on mental health. While TikTok has implemented measures to mitigate this risk, we consider them insufficiently effective and call for readjustment. 🔗
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    RT @DuncanBarkes: A must listen and watch. Be fab as always @CandiceCarrie 😎👇
    Candice Holdsworth @CandiceCarrie
    I hope you will join me for my @TalkTV show tonight at 7pm. We have a feisty Friday night all lined up for you. Don’t miss it. ✨@charlotteEaLMoS on Russell Brand’s conviction and Thomas Markle’s arrest. ✨Former Head of MI6 Richard Dearlove on energy and Net Zero as a national security issue. ✨@CharlieM_OBE vs. James Mathewson in our big debate of the night ✨South African political commentator @DavidAnsara on the earthquake local election results in Johannesburg And more interesting guests and discussions. Live streaming on YouTube. Link below. 👇
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    RT @jowilliams293: Absolute rubbish to suggest that juries need instructing in "rape myths" post conviction of Russell Brand. The jury did its job superbly well and justice was served. If Brand's barrister behaved badly, deal with that. Don't look for yet another excuse to undermine juries. tps://www.thetimes.com/article/60ee69a4-4168-46dc-a56a-39ecad98d1d4?shareToken=a79228cf1671b4fc8a6681a559ef21e6
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    RT @IdeasMatterUK: Britain is coming apart. Does the state know how to hold it together? @baylissbaghdad examines how the state is trying, and failing, to hold the line. Watch his lecture.
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    RT @alanvibe: So many have the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and privacy As we remember them all this weekend We also have a duty to uphold and defend freedom and privacy today Let’s do that Together Come along Saturday 7 Nov 10am 30+ speakers info below 👇🏻
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    RT @acadofideas: A key part of any #BATTLEFEST event is exploring how to win the fight for free speech! Almost half of Germans in a recent survey said it is ‘better to be cautious’ about sharing political opinions and supported restrictions on controversial or provocative statements such as ‘Soldiers are murderers’ or ‘Women belong in the kitchen’. What is driving Germany’s free-speech crisis? Is it primarily top-down, or are broader social pressures at work? Is every restriction simply censorship by another name, or are there legitimate red lines that should never be crossed? Where should the boundaries lie around insult, defamation and slander? And to defend free expression, do we need to repeal inappropriate criminal laws, introduce stronger protections for speech, or rebuild a culture confident enough to tolerate disagreement? W/ Dr Marcus Egg, @HGMaassen, @FraserMyers, @Adina_Portaru, Christian J Zeller & @MaximumCities DETAILS -
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    INTRODUCING: BATTLE OF IDEAS BERLIN - 28TH NOVEMBER🚨🇩🇪 1 DAY - 11 DEBATES - 42 SPEAKERS CONVERSATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC, WITH THE PUBLIC, IN PUBLIC For over 20 years, Battle of Ideas has tackled the big questions of our time. Now we're bringing the debate to Berlin! As always, FREE SPEECH ALLOWED Details - W/ @frei_blick
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    RT @CristianaEmsley: A JEWISH WOMAN IN WALES HAS CHALLENGED THE DEPUTY FIRST MINISTER’S COMPARISON WITH NAZI PERSECUTION. HER CONCERNS DESERVE TO BE HEARD. During the Senedd debate on face coverings, the Deputy First Minister drew comparisons between Reform’s position and the persecution of Jews in 1930s Germany, invoking the Nuremberg Laws. Beth contacted me to describe this as a false equivalence that, in her view, minimised the horrors of Nazi persecution. She also told me that the Minister had blocked her on social media, despite, she says, never having been abusive. This week, with Beth’s express permission, I raised these concerns in the Senedd and asked: Will you apologise, unblock her and listen to a Jewish woman whose history you chose to invoke? When a Minister invokes Jewish persecution in political debate, those who challenge that comparison deserve to be heard, not dismissed. 🎥 Watch the exchange and judge for yourself.
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    INTRODUCING: BATTLE OF IDEAS BERLIN - 28TH NOVEMBER🚨🇩🇪 1 DAY - 11 DEBATES - 42 SPEAKERS CONVERSATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC, WITH THE PUBLIC, IN PUBLIC For over 20 years, Battle of Ideas has tackled the big questions of our time. Now we're bringing the debate to Berlin! As always, FREE SPEECH ALLOWED Details - W/ @frei_blick
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    RT @alanvibe: 50% of adults don’t vote Rather than try to convince them this government open up further opportunities for more indoctrination by activist teachers This is not education Nor good for democracy
    Claire Fox @Fox_Claire
    We're told that schools need to get 14-15 year-olds ready to vote at 16. Has the government thought through the problem of teachers who are political activists canvassing pupils for votes? And what about the obvious contradiction in expecting pupils to independently research who to vote for and the government's social media bans for teens? At the end, I responded to the minister telling me not to worry as 16 year olds will be allowed to get info from TRUSTED sources. Trusted by who? If this is a big expansion of democracy, why is there no impact assessment or proper engagement with criticism?
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    RT @KateMaltby: I haven't been on this site for a bit. But I haven't seen anyone share the photo the New Statesman staff staged in 2013 of Russell Brand as Christ, and themselves as his disciples. It seems to have been scrubbed from the web. It made me angry then and it makes me angry now.
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    RT @C_Hendrick: I taught literature for 20 years. I am personally not religious but I taught biblical allusions every year. How else can students understand Frankenstein, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and virtually the whole Western canon?
    Olivia Mullins @oliviajune82
    @StephenVainker @adamboxer1 @C_Hendrick So, if you have to choose a knowledge rich curriculum with Bible stories or a fluff basal curriculum where students leave elementary unable to identify that the state they live in is a state (as I see with many students) which to you pick?
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    RT @ronalyze: I‘m proud to be invited to Battle of Ideas on Nov 28 in Berlin, sharing the stage with @el_nagashi, director of @AthenaForumEU and @Kommunikatorin, the leader of @FrauenHeldinnen. Who will come? The session will be in German.
    Academy of Ideas @acadofideas
    INTRODUCING: BATTLE OF IDEAS BERLIN - 28TH NOVEMBER🚨🇩🇪 1 DAY - 11 DEBATES - 42 SPEAKERS CONVERSATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC, WITH THE PUBLIC, IN PUBLIC For over 20 years, Battle of Ideas has tackled the big questions of our time. Now we're bringing the debate to Berlin! As always, FREE SPEECH ALLOWED Details - W/ @frei_blick
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    @StephenVainker @adamboxer1 @C_Hendrick So, if you have to choose a knowledge rich curriculum with Bible stories or a fluff basal curriculum where students leave elementary unable to identify that the state they live in is a state (as I see with many students) which to you pick?
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    RT @EvoAngelic: Claire Fox is spot on again ! Who are these 'trusted sources' ? Children will be unable to research for themselves on the internet, it should be either social media access or voting age remains at 18.
    Claire Fox @Fox_Claire
    We're told that schools need to get 14-15 year-olds ready to vote at 16. Has the government thought through the problem of teachers who are political activists canvassing pupils for votes? And what about the obvious contradiction in expecting pupils to independently research who to vote for and the government's social media bans for teens? At the end, I responded to the minister telling me not to worry as 16 year olds will be allowed to get info from TRUSTED sources. Trusted by who? If this is a big expansion of democracy, why is there no impact assessment or proper engagement with criticism?
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    RT @GBNEWS: Congratulations, @OliviaUtley! We say goodbye to GB News presenter Olivia Utley as she begins her maternity leave. Join us in wishing Olivia all the very best – we can't wait to welcome you back!
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