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'''Claire Fox''' (also known as Claire Foster) is a director and shareholder of the [[Academy of Ideas]] and the director of its principal operation, the [[Institute of Ideas]], an organisation that she founded in 2000 which is part of the [[LM network]]. The IoI describes its mission as "to expand the boundaries of public debate by organising conferences, discussions and salons, and publishing written conversations and exchanges."<ref>"[http://www.instituteofideas.com/people/claire_fox.html Claire Fox]", Institute of Ideas website, accessed November 2008</ref> The IoI has been successful in drawing in to its events not just well-known names but leading British scientific  institutions, like the [[Royal College of Physicians]]<ref>[http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/morbid.html Institute of Ideas website], accessed November 2008</ref> and the [[Royal Institution]].<ref>[http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/riremains2004.html Institute of Ideas website], accessed November 2008</ref>
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Fox was a member of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]] (RCP) until its dissolution in 1996. The group is described by Andrew Billen, writing in [[The Times]], as “a Seventies Trotskyite splinter group”. Its leading light was [[Frank Furedi]], Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent.<ref> Andrew Billen, The Times,[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article802738.ece A prickly opinion on just about everything], 17 December 2002, accessed 3rd November 2008 </ref>. When the RCP disbanded, Fox relaunched the group publication [[Living Marxism]], the monthly review of the Revolutionary Communist Party, as LM. LM ran until March 2000, when it was sued out of existence as a result of a libel case brought against it by ITN journalists. Fox then went on to found the Institute of Ideas and to launch [[Spiked]], an online publication, with many of her former RCP colleagues.  
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'''Claire Regina Fox''', was a member of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]] until its dissolution in 1996 and remains a leading associate of its successor, the libertarian anti-environmental [[LM network]].  In particular, she founded and leads its largest entity, the [[Institute of Ideas]]. <ref>"[http://www.instituteofideas.com/people/claire_fox.html Profile]", Institute of Ideas, acc 15 Mar 2011</ref> She lives in north London, is unmarried and childless, <ref>"[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-515993,00.html A prickly opinion on just about everything], ''The Times'', 17 December , 2002</ref> and has two sisters, Gemma Fox, adopted and three years younger, who is a project manager for a women’s centre in Rhyl, north Wales, and  [[Fiona Fox]], four years younger, who was also a leading member of the RCP, is also associated with the LM network, and leads the [[Science Media Centre]]. <ref>"[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2188787,00.html Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters]", “Sunday Times”, 28 May 2006.</ref> [[File:Claire_Fox_sheffield.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Claire Fox at Sheffield Doc/ Fest 2011]][[File:Claire_Fox_QT_2004.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Claire Fox on Question Time 2004]]
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[[File:Claire Foster May 1986.jpg|thumb|right|250px|'Claire Foster' AKA [[Claire Fox]] as a [[Revolutionary Communist Party]] council candidate in Newcastle, as featured in [[The next step]], 2 May 1986, p. 4.<ref name="NS">RCP, [http://www.scribd.com/doc/76368933/The-Next-Step-2-May-1986-RCP The next step] 2 May 1986, No. 17, p. 4.</ref>]]
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Fox began at [[Warwick University]] as a Conservative Party supporter and a member of the [[Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child]] (SPUC). Fox’s parents were Irish Catholics who migrated to England before moving to Wales, where Fox was born. After three years she left university as a libertarian Marxist and activist. She uses her change of heart on the issue of abortion to explain why free speech and challenging orthodoxies is vital to democracy.<ref>Andrew Billen, The Times, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article802738.ece A prickly opinion on just about everything], 17 December 2002, accessed 3rd November 2008</ref>
 
  
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Fox is a columnist for [[The Free Society]], which describes itself on its website as a group that has been "launched by the smokers’ lobby group Forest to give a voice to those who want less not more government interference in their daily lives".<ref>"[http://www.thefreesociety.org/Columnists/Claire-Fox Claire Fox]", The Free Society website, accessed November 2008</ref> She is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze.
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==Early years and education==
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Fox was born on 5th June 1960 in Barton-Upon-Irwell, a suburban area of Eccles in Greater Manchester, to John Fox, who ran a plant-hire business, and Maura Cleary, who was noted for her strength of character. <ref>"[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-515993,00.html A prickly opinion on just about everything], ''The Times'', 17 December , 2002</ref>  Both came from Irish farming backgrounds <ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090111/jsp/calcutta/story_10371328.jsp Room to argue], “The Telegraph, Calcutta”, 11 January 2009</ref> and were highly religious. <ref>"[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2188787,00.html Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters], “Sunday Times”, 28 May 2006</ref>
  
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==Under investigation==
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Brought up in Clywd, North Wales, she was characterised as having a domineering character even as a child. <ref>"[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2188787,00.html Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters], “Sunday Times”, 28 May 2006</ref> In contrast, Fox recalls 'I was a ballet student for 12 years from the age of 4, and there is no denying that my teachers were unsentimentally critical, used their hands to push my body into shapes and postures it was reluctant to adopt and demanded a relentless, repetitive practice regime.'<ref>Claire Fox '[http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6352758 The line between good teaching and abuse - comment]' ''Times Educational Supplement'', 1 September 2013</ref>. Despite attending St. Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, a school she later characterised as a "bog standard comp", <ref>"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5337073-103677,00.html Infamy's child]", ''The Guardian'', 19 November 2005</ref> she was able to obtain admission to Warwick University, finally achieving a lower second class degree in English and American literature.
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When [[The Guardian]] investigated Claire Fox and the Institute of Ideas, they found links to pro-gun American libertarian groups and funding from pharmaceutical corporations.<ref>Stuart Jeffries, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/19/comment.radio Infamy's child: Claire Fox still takes joy in riling the liberal left]", The Guardian, 19 November 2005, accessed November 2008</ref>  
 
  
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George Monbiot has been scathing in his criticism for Fox and the rest of the LM network, which he describes as a "bizarre and cultish network" whose members have become "the public face of the scientific establishment" in the UK. Monbiot explains that Fox and her LM associates "have taken on key roles in the formal infrastructure of public communication used by the science and medical establishment."<ref>George Monbiot, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2003/dec/09/highereducation.uk2 Invasion of the Entryists]", The Guardian, 9 December 2003, accessed November 2008</ref>
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==Career==
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Following university, Fox became a social worker from 1981 to 1987, working in mental health, with the homeless in Coventry, and with battered women. She then became an English Language and Literature lecturer for special needs adults at Thurrock Technical College (now Thurrock and Basildon College) during 1987-90.  Obtaining a PCGE from Thames Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich) in Eltham during 1991-1992, she taught at West Herts College during 1992-1999.
  
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Fox's sister [[Fiona Fox]] is the director of the [[Science Media Centre]]. Monbiot writes, "Fox has used the Science Media Centre (SMC) to promote the views of industry and to launch fierce attacks against those who question them." Monbiot adds that the SMC is "funded, among others, by the pharmaceutical companies [[Astra Zeneca]], [[Dupont]] and [[Pfizer]]."<ref>George Monbiot, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2003/dec/09/highereducation.uk2 Invasion of the Entryists]", The Guardian, 9 December 2003, accessed November 2008</ref>  
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==Revolutionary Communist Party==
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Disillusioned with the then Labour government and having been exposed to Catholic liberation theology as a teenager, <ref>"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5337073-103677,00.html Infamy's child]", ''The Guardian'', 19 November 2005</ref> <ref>[http://www.spannermedia.com/interviews/Fox.htm Hope for the Best] (Interview with Claire Fox),' Spanner Media April 2007</ref> Fox joined the [[Socialist Workers Party]] as a student at Warwick University, <ref>"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5337073-103677,00.html Infamy's child]", ''The Guardian'', 19 November 2005</ref> <ref>[http://www.spannermedia.com/interviews/Fox.htm Hope for the Best] (Interview with Claire Fox),' Spanner Media April 2007</ref> despite a background as an anti-abortion activist with the [[Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child]]. <ref>"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5337073-103677,00.html Infamy's child]", ''The Guardian'', 19 November 2005</ref> Considering the SWP crude and untheoretical, <ref>[http://www.spannermedia.com/interviews/Fox.htm Hope for the Best] (Interview with Claire Fox),' ''Spanner Media'', April 2007</ref> she left them to join the [[Revolutionary Communist Tendency]], later renamed the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]], possibly partly due to their uncritical pro-Irish Republican line, which will have resonated with Fox’s Irish Catholic background. <ref>"[http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/6128/daily-politico-claire-fox.thtml Daily Politico: Claire Fox]", ''Total  Politics'', 17 Aug 2008</ref> Her strong Republican leanings are suggested by the role of her sister Fiona as a leading member of RCP front the [[Irish Freedom Movement]] and editor of its bulletin [[Irish Freedom]]. Though her anti-abortion and Catholic background delayed her admission, <ref>[http://www.spannermedia.com/interviews/Fox.htm Hope for the Best] (Interview with Claire Fox),' ''Spanner Media'', April 2007</ref> Claire Fox was eventually accepted. She stood in the local elections for the party in May 1986, contesting the Benwell ward in Newcastle.<ref name="NS"/> She remained a member until its dissolution in 1996, becoming a branch organiser and then leaving her teaching job to work on its monthly magazine [[Living Marxism]] <ref>"[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-515993,00.html A prickly opinion on just about everything], ''The Times'', 17 December 2002</ref> with a party name (pseudonym) of [[Claire Foster]].
  
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David Miller, researcher at the [[Stirling Media Research Institute]], says that while the SMC was set up to provide accurate, independent scientific information for the media, "its views are largely in line with government scientific policy". What is more, "70% of its funding comes from business, which could be said to have similar interests."<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2003/feb/11/highereducation.research Peer trouble: How failsafe is our current system at ensuring the quality and integrity of research?] Not very, says John Crace, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 11 2003 01.31 GMT</ref> Thus the SMC has taken a stance that is invariably supportive of GM crops and of the pharmaceutical companies.
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==LM network==
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When the RCP disbanded, Fox relaunched Living Marxism as [[LM]], taking the role of co-publisher with [[Helene Guldberg]].<ref>[http://www.instituteofideas.com/people/claire_fox.html Profile] Institute of Ideas website acc 11 Mar 2011</ref>. After the magazine was bankrupted in a libel trial in 2000, Fox founded the Institute of Ideas, building on the existing RCP summer school, while other members set up on line magazine [[Spiked]]. She is a director, company secretary and shareholder of the company which runs the Institute, the [[Academy of Ideas]], and is the director of the Institute.
  
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Fox's organisation, the Institute of Ideas, also takes funding from GM and pharmaceutical companies. Fox responded to Monbiot’s charges of "entryism" (infiltration) into the scientific establishment by saying: "Entryism is clandestine, and that's something you can't accuse us of being." She argues that the Institute of Ideas' funding is an open book. "We have received money from Pfizer, and they have never interfered. We have received money from Syngenta, which is involved in GM technology."<ref name="Gu">Stuart Jeffries, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/19/comment.radio Infamy's child: Claire Fox still takes joy in riling the liberal left]", The Guardian, 19 November 2005, accessed November 2008</ref>  
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==Other activities==
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Fox is regularly invited to comment on developments in culture, education, politics and the arts on BBC programmes such as Question Time, Any Questions? and Breakfast and on SkyNews Review. She has been a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s [[Moral Maze]] since 2001, later joined by LM associate [[Kenan Malik]], while other LM associates regularly appear on the programme as witnesses. She writes for national newspapers and a number of specialist journals, has a monthly column in the MJ (Municipal Journal) and presented ‘Claire Fox News’ on the defunct internet TV channel [[18 Doughty Street]] during 2006/7. <ref>[http://www.instituteofideas.com/people/claire_fox.html Profile] Institute of Ideas website acc 11 Mar 2011</ref> She is also a Member of the [[European Cultural Parliament]] and sits on the Advisory Board of the [[Economic Policy Centre]].
  
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When asked if she should be ideologically opposed to receiving funding from corporates, Fox responded:
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She is a columnist for [[The Free Society]], which describes itself on its website as a group that has been "launched by the smokers’ lobby group Forest to give a voice to those who want less not more government interference in their daily lives". <ref>"[http://www.thefreesociety.org/Columnists/Claire-Fox Claire Fox]", The Free Society website, accessed November 2008</ref>
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:There is no such thing as clean money. So we're not selling out ... My peers who do take money from the government tell me there are always conditions. Whereas with [[Pfizer]], say, they have never tried to influence what we do.<ref name="Gu"/>
 
  
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==What others say==
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==Publications==
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*George Monbiot casts Claire Fox and her RCP intimates as people who have moved from "the most distant fringes of the left to the extremities of the pro-corporate, libertarian right". He adds that "members of this group have colonised a crucial section of the British establishment". <ref>George Monbiot, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2003/dec/09/highereducation.uk2 Invasion of the entryists]", The Guardian, 9 December 2003, accessed November 2008</ref>
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===Popular press, Magazines articles (including ''the next step'' and ''Living Marxism''/''LM'') and  web publications===
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*Time Out London rated Fox 64th in their list of London's 100 top movers and shakers 2006 <ref> London Time Out [http://www.timeout.com/london/features/2307/4.html London's 100 top movers and shakers 2006] accessed 3 November 2008 </ref>
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====1996====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20000307024550/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM89/LM89_Taboos.html 'Taboos: A comprehensive failure'], ''Living Marxism'', No. 89 - April 1996, p. 8.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010521173313/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM91/LM91_Wilding.html 'Disruptive pupils: teachers give wrong answer'], ''Living Marxism'', No. 91 - June 1996, p. 29.  
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010521181329/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM95/LM95_Exams.html 'Degrading education'], ''Living Marxism'', No. 95 - November 1996, p. 24.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010730210906/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM96/LM96_Pupils.html 'Who's afraid of schoolchildren?'], ''Living Marxism'', No. 96 - December/January 1996/1997, p. 14.
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====1997====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010628023515/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM100/index.html 'Nanny Blunkett knows best'], ''LM 100'', p. 18, May 1997.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20000310235045/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM103/LM103_Hunting.html 'A day out on the hunting demo'], ''LM 103'', September 1997, p. 19.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010714112139/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM104/LM104_Education.html 'The dumbing down of higher education'], ''LM 104'', p. 24, October 1997.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/how-class-rules-classroom How class rules the classroom], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 17 October 1997.
  
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==Controversial views==
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====1998====
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*Fox is strongly pro GM technology. She claims that "It's part of being a progressive person that I consider agriculture should be as efficient as possible. I support modern farming methods because I'm a modernist, not a sentimentalist. My parents were from a farming family and I know there's there's nothing to be sentimental about. GM offers great potential. It's not a panacea for the third world and companies will make lots of money out of it - but it's ever thus."<ref>Stuart Jeffries, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/19/comment.radio Infamy's child: Claire Fox still takes joy in riling the liberal left]", The Guardian, 19 November 2005, accessed November 2008</ref>
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*[[Helene Guldberg]] and [[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010513215536/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM108/LM108_Appeal.html 'Appeal in Defence of Free Speech'], ''LM 108'', p. 24, March 1998.  
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*[[Claire Fox]] and [[Helene Guldberg]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20000305195909/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM109/LM109_FSW.html 'Free Speech Wars festival'], ''LM 109'', p. 19, April 1998.
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*Fox has stood up for Gary Glitter's right to download child porn. In an interview with [[BBC]] radio 5live, she advocated her pro-choice stance to a level many found uncomfortable – the radio station's switchboard was overwhelmed by listeners angry at her position.<ref>Andrew Billen, The Times, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article802738.ece A prickly opinion on just about everything], 17 December 2002, accessed 3rd November 2008</ref> 
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/19991110065712/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM110/LM110_Devil.html 'And the Devil spake unto her'], ''LM 110'', May 1998.  
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20000617110215/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM111/LM111_Clair.html 'Snobs against sobbing'], ''LM 111'', p. 22, June 1998.
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*Fox is critical of multiculturalism, saying, "If you challenge multiculturalism you are seen to be a racist. But it's a political philosophy that needs to be looked at. If you don't, you're taking it on trust, which is intellectually dishonest."<ref> Stuart Jeffries, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5337073-103677,00.html Infamy's child], ''The Guardian'', 19 November 2005, accessed 3rd November 2008</ref>
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20000305231134/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM112/LM112_Loaded.html 'Loaded questions'], ''LM 112'', p. 16, July/August 1998.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20000310052338/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM115/LM115_TV.html 'Connected TV'], ''LM 115'', November 1998, p. 14.
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====1999====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20000818054411/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM118/LM118_Claire.html 'Docusoap meets current affairs'], ''LM 118'', p. 40, March 1999.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20000818054349/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM119/LM119_CW.html 'Culture Wars'], ''LM 119'', p. 12, April 1999.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20000818054417/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM120/LM120_CW_Bloom.html 'Does life imitate Shakespeare?'], ''LM 120'', p. 20, May 1999.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010514121618/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM122/LM122_CW_Fox.html 'Museums: don't touch the exhibits'], ''LM 122'', p. 42, July/August 1999.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010529171137/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM123/LM123_Fox.html 'Social inclusion': excluding ideas'], ''LM 123'', p. 35, September 1999.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20000522233227/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM125/LM125_CW_Fox.html 'What is so Scottish about that?'], ''LM 125'', p. 18, November 1999.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010311214029/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM126/LM126_CW_Fox.html 'Are you who you write?'], ''LM 126'', p. 32, December/January 1999/2000.
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====2000====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20000707233925/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM128/LM128_CW_Fox.html 'Veiled truths'], ''LM 128'', p. 40, March 2000.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010602054902/http://web.archive.org/web/20010602054902/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM129/LM129_CW_Fox_Hollow.html 'The hollow men'], ''LM 129'', p. 32, April 2000.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20010602054902/http://web.archive.org/web/20010602054902/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM129/LM129_CW_Fox_Joining.html 'Your guide to joining the new cultural elite'], ''LM 129'', p. 34, April 2000.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/knowledge-without-wisdom Knowledge without wisdom], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 15 September 2000.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/peer-pressure-a-part-growing Peer pressure, a part of growing up], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 24 November 2000.
  
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====2001====
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*Fox has stated: 'I fear that there is a loss of nerve around a new issue in politics which is religious offence which is making Enlightenment ideals dead and dusted. How are we going to inspire young Asian people to want to be part of a rational, enlightened society if we are spineless in the face of some of these challenges? We have to hold our nerve.' <ref>quoted in BBC Report [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/18_06_07impartialitybbc.pdf Safeguarding impartiality in the 21st century]</ref>
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/ict-clearly-now-brain-has-gone ICT clearly now the brain has gone], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 25 May 2001.
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====2003====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/put-philosophy-back-societys-curriculum Put philosophy back on society's curriculum], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 10 January 2003.
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====2004====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/dont-pass-buck Don't pass the buck], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 7 May 2004.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/are-we-all-bullies-now Are we all bullies now?], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 10 September 2004.
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====2005====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/would-social-services-teach-shakespeare Would social services teach Shakespeare], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 4 February 2005.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/no-respect-pupils-or-politicians No respect from pupils or politicians], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 29 April 2005.
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====2007====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2042233.ece 'The folly of the 16-year-old voter'], ''The Sunday Times'', 8 July 2007. (Registration required)
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.timeout.com/london/olympics/features/3216.html '2012 Cultural Olympiad'], ''Time Out'', 24 July 2007.
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*[[Claire Fox]], 'Anything but the arts', ''myA&B Arts & Business blog'', 16 July 2007.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22262635-28737,00.html 'Strike up the band for elitism'], ''The Australian'', 18 August 2007.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article3093766.ece 'Debate is being stifled by a new form of inquisition'], ''The Independent'', 25 October 2007.
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====2008====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/features/3960/Religion_and_free_speech.html 'Religion and free speech'], ''Time Out'', 11 December 2008.
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====2009====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&ID=76133 'A needle in a haystack'], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 4 March 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=76894 'Wheeling out the unpalatable'], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 25 March 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=77729&layout=2 'Give this moralising the brush-off'], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 22 April 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&ID=77957&&keywords=Claire%20Fox 'Engagement is kids’ stuff'], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 30 April 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/06/censorship-is-the-wrong-way-to-combat-bnp/ 'Censorship is the wrong way to combat BNP'], ''Index on Censorship'', 3 June 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://blog.indexoncensorship.org/2009/06/10/censorsing-the-bnp-3-claire-fox-responds-to-andy-newman/ 'Censoring the BNP 3: Claire Fox responds to Andy Newman'], ''Index on Censorship'', 10 June 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=80615&layout=2 'Give us some space'], ''MJ (municipal journal'', 22 July 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], 'Article on idealism', ''Fabian Review'', Summer 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=81200&layout=2 'Could sisters do it all better?'], ''MJ (municipal journal), 12 August 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&ID=82429 'Stop monitoring the public'], ''MJ (municipal journal), 30 September 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408474 'Academy strikes back: the fight for 'useless' knowledge starts here'], ''Times Higher Education'', 1 October 2009.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/dont-ban-the-bnp--even-racists-deserve-a-debate-6754859.html 'Don't ban the BNP - even racists deserve a debate'], ''London Evening Standard'', 19 October 2009.
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====2010====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/guest-commentary/no-means-no-but-what-about-yes-1.1039025 'No means no. But what about yes?'], ''The Herald (Scotland)'', 4 July 2010.
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====2011====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/What-value-is-a-social-enterprise/182910 What value is a scoial enterprise?], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 26 May 2011.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/On-the-shelf/183226 On the shelf], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 26 May 2011.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/its-not-children-who-are-sexualised-its-us.14159407 'It’s not children who are sexualised … it’s us'], ''The Herald (Scotland)'', 26 June 2011.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Bill-Stickers-is-innocent-ok/183885 Bill Stickers is innocent ok!], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 30 June 2011.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Hacked-off/184565 Hacked off], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 9 August 2011.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Adult-authority-has-been-eroded/185008 Adult authority has been eroded], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 14 September 2011.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/blaming-others-riots-a-cop-out-kids-are-spoilt-schools Blaming others for the riots is a cop out. Kids are spoilt by schools], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 16 September 2011.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Unwrapping-urban-myths/185340 Unwrapping urban myths], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 6 October 2011.
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====2012====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Its-the-economy-we-need-to-worry-about--not-bonuses/187117 It's the economy we need to worry about – not bonuses], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 7 February 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Listen-kids.-Life-is-hard-work/187642 Listen kids. Life is hard work], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 20 March 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Sober-reading.../188217 Sober reading...], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 20 April 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Crimbos-are-criminal/188955 Crimbos are criminal], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 7 June 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/An-open-and-shut-argument/189436 An open and shut argument], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 11 July 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Losing-out--at-the-Olympics/189852 Losing out at the Olympics], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 15 August 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Time-to-come-clean-on-planning/190264 Time to come clean on planning], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 19 September 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/free-speech-allowed-why-europe-needs-debate-8189908.html Free speech allowed: Why Europe needs debate], ''The Independent'', 28 September 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/intellectual-virtues-failing-your-exams The intellectual virtues of failing your exams], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 19 October 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/can-everyone-please-calm-down-about-child-abuse-8226955.html Can everyone please calm down about child abuse?], ''The Independent'', 25 October 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Lets-avoid-a-knee-jerk--response-to-Savile/191063 Let's avoid a knee-jerk response to Savile], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 8 November 2012.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/dont-let-value-mongers-hijack-classroom-0 Don't let value-mongers hijack the classroom], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 7 December 2012.
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====2013====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/We-need-to-talk.../191714 We need to talk...], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 9 January 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Progress-or-NIMBYism/192208 Progress or NIMBYism], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 21 February 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/art-free-ebac-not-end-world An art-free EBac is not the end of the world], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 22 March 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Make--compassion--a-priority/192706 Make compassion a priority], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 25 March 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Bound-and-gagged/193053 Bound and gagged], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 24 April 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/face-facts-without-them-we-know-nothing Face the facts: without them we know nothing], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 26 April 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/This-is-not-the-time-to-panic/193617 This is not the time to panic], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 12 June 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/glenn-greenwald-and-a-police-force-that-is-high-on-misusing-the-law-8774533.html Glenn Greenwald and a police force that is high on misusing the law], ''The Independent'', 19 August 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/line-between-good-teaching-and-abuse-0 The line between good teaching and abuse], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 30 August 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Stand-up-for-lobbying/194596 Stand up for lobbying], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 3 September 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/leveson-has-done-his-damnedest-to-encourage-press-regulation-despite-his-protestations-8874676.html Leveson has done his damnedest to encourage press regulation, despite his protestations], ''The Independent'', 11 October 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/why-student-voice-has-gone-way-too-far Why student voice has gone way too far], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 18 October 2013.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/it-s-a-sick-society-that-encourages-its-citizens-to-view-everything-going-on-around-them-with-8996052.html It’s a sick society that encourages its citizens to view everything going on around them with suspicion], ''The Independent'', 10 December 2013.
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====2014====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/girls-can-win-war-words-discuss Girls can win the war of words. Discuss], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 10 January 2014.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/dreaming-life-universe-and-everything Dreaming of life, the universe and everything], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 7 March 2014.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Fools-rush-in/196780 Fools rush in], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 10 April 2014.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Fat-chance-of-a-reasoned-debate/197019 Fat chance of a reasoned debate], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 8 May 2014.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Beware-the-fury-of-a-patient-man/197347 Beware the fury of a patient man], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 10 June 2014.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/how-save-libraries-e-predators How to save libraries from the e-predators], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 20 June 2014.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/The-Cinderella-Law-is-criminal/197650 The Cinderella Law is criminal], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 17 July 2014.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/A-point-of-principle/197949 A point of principle], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 20 August 2014.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Let-the-good-times-roll/198459 Let the good times roll], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 13 October 2014.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Politicised-pressures-of-food-banks/199090 Politicised pressures of food banks], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 8 December 2014.
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====2015====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Is-free-speech-offensive/199374 Is free speech offensive?], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 19 January 2015.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Is-Prevent-better-than-cure/199842 Is Prevent better than cure?], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 3 March 2015.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/A-waste-of-space/200297 A waste of space], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 14 April 2015.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Not-the-end-of-the-world/200706 Not the end of the world], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 26 May 2015.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Dont-learn-the-wrong-lessons/201538 Don’t learn the wrong lessons], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 18 August 2015.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/How-are-we-going-to-build-our-future/202016 How are we going to build our future?], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 14 October 2015.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Do-we-actually-need-to-level-the-playing-field/202383 Do we actually need to level the playing field?], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 19 November 2015.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-magazine/tes-magazine/dont-just-cringe-stand-jihadi-ideas Don’t just cringe – stand up to jihadi ideas], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 18 December 2015.
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====2016====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/outdoor-activity/best-desk-exercise-equipment-fitness-deskercise-for-work-amazon-nike-reebok-a6824746.html 10 best desk exercise equipment], ''The Independent'', 21 January 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/schools-should-not-have-worry-about-being-attacked-same-way-peter ‘Schools should not have to worry about being attacked in the same way as Peter Tatchell’], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 20 February 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/we-must-stop-continually-talking-childhood-complaints-mental-health ‘We must stop continually talking up childhood complaints as mental health problems’], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 25 February 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Boycott-illiberal-bans/203306 Boycott illiberal bans], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 1 March 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/brexit-teachers-must-dispel-myths-about-themselves-their-pupils-and Brexit: ‘Teachers must dispel the myths about themselves, their pupils and their parents, and Europe itself’], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 6 March 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/banning-rugby-schools-were-raising-children-be-scaredy-cats 'By banning rugby in schools, we're raising children to be scaredy cats'], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 19 March 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/should-teachers-be-proud-binge-drinking-feckless-wild-living-teens 'Should teachers be proud that binge-drinking, feckless, wild-living teens are a thing of the past?], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 4 April 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Beware-the-Eurocrats-agenda/203682 Beware the Eurocrats’ agenda], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 6 April 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/panama-papers-never-mind-financial-literacy-what-we-need-today-are Panama Papers: ‘Never mind financial literacy, what we need today are some grown-up lessons in economics’], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 17 April 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/school-corridors-are-bursting-sexual-tormentors-prowling-search 'School corridors are bursting with sexual tormentors, prowling in search of helpless prey? I just don't buy it'], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 24 April 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/sats-are-we-danger-weaponising-alleged-misery-children-political Sats: ‘Are we in danger of “weaponising” the alleged misery of children for political ends?’], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 3 May 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Back-to-school/204155 Back to school], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 17 May 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/it-doesnt-work-when-politicians-insist-dumbing-down-young-people 'It doesn’t work when politicians insist on dumbing down to young people – just ask teachers'], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 2 June 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Pull-no-punches/204430 Pull no punches], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 15 June 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/if-adults-criticise-views-young-they-are-accused-jeopardising-their 'If adults criticise the views of the young, they are accused of jeopardising their mental health'], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 20 June 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/a-generation-endlessly-resitting-exams-until-they-pass-thinks-you 'A generation endlessly resitting exams until they pass thinks you can revolt until the stupid wrinklies vote the correct way'], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 29 June 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/Relinquish-your-power/204841 Relinquish your power], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 20 July 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/No-lights-out-for-nights-out/205267 No lights out for nights out], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 6 September 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/arts-books/best-parenting-books-for-toddlers-dads-newborns-first-time-parents-a7330201.html 10 best parenting books], ''The Independent'', 26 September 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/The-real-lesson-from-grammar-schools/205618 The real lesson from grammar schools], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 5 October 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/a-liberal-arts-education-threatened-students-narcissistic-views 'A liberal arts education is threatened by students' narcissistic views about what is relevant'], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 21 October 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [http://www.themj.co.uk/What-councils-can-learn-from-Trump/206021 What councils can learn from Trump], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 16 November 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.themj.co.uk/Up-in-smoke/206320 Up in smoke], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 13 December 2016.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.tes.com/news/tes-magazine/tes-magazine/we-cannot-let-liberalism-silence-free-speech We cannot let liberalism silence free speech], ''Times Educational Supplement'', 16 December 2016.
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====2017====
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.themj.co.uk/Channelling-anxiety-for-good/206624 Channelling anxiety for good], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 1 February 2017.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.themj.co.uk/Whats-the-right-message/207157 What’s the right message?], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 22 March 2017.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.themj.co.uk/Watering-down-workforce-diversity/207358 Watering down workforce diversity], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 11 April 2017.
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*[[Claire Fox]], [https://www.themj.co.uk/Respecting-the-will-of-the-people/207676 Respecting the will of the people], ''MJ (municipal journal)'', 17 May 2017.
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==
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*[[Institute of Ideas]] -- founder
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===LM network===
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*[[Living Marxism]]
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*[[Informinc]] appointed 29 January 1997, company dissolved 21 April 2004<ref>Data at Companies House, accessed 9 February 2011</ref> | [[Living Marxism]] | [[Academy of Ideas]], Secretary and director appointed 16 March 2000 | [[Institute of Ideas]] - founder | [[Fiona Fox]], sister.
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*[[Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child]]
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===Conservative movement===
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*[[The Free Society]]
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*[[The Free Society]] | [[Economic Policy Centre]]<ref>Economic Policy Centre [http://www.economicpolicycentre.com/advisory-board/ Advisory board], accessed 4 April 2011</ref>
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*[[BBC]] Radio 4, The Moral Maze, on which she is a panellist
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*[[Fiona Fox]], sister.
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===Other===
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*[[Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child]] | [[BBC]] Radio 4, The [[Moral Maze]], on which she is a panellist
  
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===Resources===
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*Twitter: "[http://twitter.com/#!/Fox_Claire Fox_Claire]"
  
 
==Reference==
 
==Reference==
 
* Institute of Ideas, [http://www.instituteofideas.com/people/claire_fox.html Claire Fox] Institute of Ideas website, accessed 29 Dec 2010
 
* Institute of Ideas, [http://www.instituteofideas.com/people/claire_fox.html Claire Fox] Institute of Ideas website, accessed 29 Dec 2010
  
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==External links ==
 
 
===Profiles===
 
===Profiles===
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*Andrew Billen, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-515993,00.html A prickly opinion on just about everything] (profile of Claire Fox), ''The Times'', December 17, 2002
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*Andrew Billen, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-515993,00.html A prickly opinion on just about everything] (profile of Claire Fox), ''The Times'', 17 December , 2002
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*Stuart Jeffries, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5337073-103677,00.html Infamy's child], ''The Guardian'', November 19, 2005. (profile of Claire Fox)
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*Blank, [http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/6128/daily-politico-claire-fox.thtml Daily Politico: Claire Fox], “Total Politics”, 17 August 2008 
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*Caroline Scott, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2188787,00.html Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters], Sunday Times, 28 May 2006.
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*Dam, Mohana, [http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/discovery-of-india/412133/ Discovery of India], “Express India”, 18 January 2009
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*Fox, Claire, [http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk/home/?q=node/171 My Cultural Life], “New Culture Forum”,  
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*Stuart Jeffries, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5337073-103677,00.html Infamy's child], ''The Guardian'', 19 November 2005. (profile of Claire Fox)
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*Marc Kidson, '[http://www.cherwell.org/content/9159 What the big idea?]', “Cherwell”, 29 October 2009
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*Mukherjee, Uddalak, ‘[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090111/jsp/calcutta/story_10371328.jsp Room to argue], “The Telegraph, Calcutta”, 11 January 2009 
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*Nye, Richard, “[http://www.sheengate.co.uk/richmond/features_article.php?id=504&title=Foxing%20clever&author=Richard%20Nye&art_monthpub=March&art_monthno=03&art_yearpub=2008&art_section=Features&Chooseyourimagefile=http://www.sheengate.co.uk/test/files/02_40_52_25_02_08_Claire%20Fox%20print%20quality.jpg&delete_image=files/02_40_52_25_02_08_Claire%20Fox%20print%20quality.jpg&art_rich=on&art_elmking=&art_guildwok=&art_surdowns=&art_buswest=&art_upby=Vivienne%20Rudcenko&art_live=on&art_uploaddate=28_02_08 Foxing Clever]”, “The Richmond Magazine” March 2008
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*Obermueller, Mailin and Diana Leca, [http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/culturaldiplomacynews/index.php?Interview-with-Claire-Fox-and-Angus-Kennedy-from-the-Institute-of-Ideas Interview with Claire Fox and Angus Kennedy from the Institute of Ideas], “Cultural Diplomacy News”, 28 August 2009
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*Caroline Scott, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2188787,00.html Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters], “Sunday Times”, 28 May 2006.
 
*Huw Spanner, [http://www.spannermedia.com/interviews/Fox.htm Hope for the Best] (Interview with Claire Fox),' Spanner Media April 2007.
 
*Huw Spanner, [http://www.spannermedia.com/interviews/Fox.htm Hope for the Best] (Interview with Claire Fox),' Spanner Media April 2007.
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
 
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LM network resources

Claire Regina Fox, was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party until its dissolution in 1996 and remains a leading associate of its successor, the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. In particular, she founded and leads its largest entity, the Institute of Ideas. [1] She lives in north London, is unmarried and childless, [2] and has two sisters, Gemma Fox, adopted and three years younger, who is a project manager for a women’s centre in Rhyl, north Wales, and Fiona Fox, four years younger, who was also a leading member of the RCP, is also associated with the LM network, and leads the Science Media Centre. [3]

Claire Fox at Sheffield Doc/ Fest 2011
Claire Fox on Question Time 2004
'Claire Foster' AKA Claire Fox as a Revolutionary Communist Party council candidate in Newcastle, as featured in The next step, 2 May 1986, p. 4.[4]

Early years and education

Fox was born on 5th June 1960 in Barton-Upon-Irwell, a suburban area of Eccles in Greater Manchester, to John Fox, who ran a plant-hire business, and Maura Cleary, who was noted for her strength of character. [5] Both came from Irish farming backgrounds [6] and were highly religious. [7]

Brought up in Clywd, North Wales, she was characterised as having a domineering character even as a child. [8] In contrast, Fox recalls 'I was a ballet student for 12 years from the age of 4, and there is no denying that my teachers were unsentimentally critical, used their hands to push my body into shapes and postures it was reluctant to adopt and demanded a relentless, repetitive practice regime.'[9]. Despite attending St. Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, a school she later characterised as a "bog standard comp", [10] she was able to obtain admission to Warwick University, finally achieving a lower second class degree in English and American literature.

Career

Following university, Fox became a social worker from 1981 to 1987, working in mental health, with the homeless in Coventry, and with battered women. She then became an English Language and Literature lecturer for special needs adults at Thurrock Technical College (now Thurrock and Basildon College) during 1987-90. Obtaining a PCGE from Thames Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich) in Eltham during 1991-1992, she taught at West Herts College during 1992-1999.

Revolutionary Communist Party

Disillusioned with the then Labour government and having been exposed to Catholic liberation theology as a teenager, [11] [12] Fox joined the Socialist Workers Party as a student at Warwick University, [13] [14] despite a background as an anti-abortion activist with the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child. [15] Considering the SWP crude and untheoretical, [16] she left them to join the Revolutionary Communist Tendency, later renamed the Revolutionary Communist Party, possibly partly due to their uncritical pro-Irish Republican line, which will have resonated with Fox’s Irish Catholic background. [17] Her strong Republican leanings are suggested by the role of her sister Fiona as a leading member of RCP front the Irish Freedom Movement and editor of its bulletin Irish Freedom. Though her anti-abortion and Catholic background delayed her admission, [18] Claire Fox was eventually accepted. She stood in the local elections for the party in May 1986, contesting the Benwell ward in Newcastle.[4] She remained a member until its dissolution in 1996, becoming a branch organiser and then leaving her teaching job to work on its monthly magazine Living Marxism [19] with a party name (pseudonym) of Claire Foster.

LM network

When the RCP disbanded, Fox relaunched Living Marxism as LM, taking the role of co-publisher with Helene Guldberg.[20]. After the magazine was bankrupted in a libel trial in 2000, Fox founded the Institute of Ideas, building on the existing RCP summer school, while other members set up on line magazine Spiked. She is a director, company secretary and shareholder of the company which runs the Institute, the Academy of Ideas, and is the director of the Institute.

Other activities

Fox is regularly invited to comment on developments in culture, education, politics and the arts on BBC programmes such as Question Time, Any Questions? and Breakfast and on SkyNews Review. She has been a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze since 2001, later joined by LM associate Kenan Malik, while other LM associates regularly appear on the programme as witnesses. She writes for national newspapers and a number of specialist journals, has a monthly column in the MJ (Municipal Journal) and presented ‘Claire Fox News’ on the defunct internet TV channel 18 Doughty Street during 2006/7. [21] She is also a Member of the European Cultural Parliament and sits on the Advisory Board of the Economic Policy Centre.

She is a columnist for The Free Society, which describes itself on its website as a group that has been "launched by the smokers’ lobby group Forest to give a voice to those who want less not more government interference in their daily lives". [22]

Publications

Popular press, Magazines articles (including the next step and Living Marxism/LM) and web publications

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Reference

  • Institute of Ideas, Claire Fox Institute of Ideas website, accessed 29 Dec 2010

Profiles

Notes

  1. ↑ "Profile", Institute of Ideas, acc 15 Mar 2011
  2. ↑ "A prickly opinion on just about everything, The Times, 17 December , 2002
  3. ↑ "Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters", “Sunday Times”, 28 May 2006.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 RCP, The next step 2 May 1986, No. 17, p. 4.
  5. ↑ "A prickly opinion on just about everything, The Times, 17 December , 2002
  6. ↑ Room to argue, “The Telegraph, Calcutta”, 11 January 2009
  7. ↑ "Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters, “Sunday Times”, 28 May 2006
  8. ↑ "Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters, “Sunday Times”, 28 May 2006
  9. ↑ Claire Fox 'The line between good teaching and abuse - comment' Times Educational Supplement, 1 September 2013
  10. ↑ "Infamy's child", The Guardian, 19 November 2005
  11. ↑ "Infamy's child", The Guardian, 19 November 2005
  12. ↑ Hope for the Best (Interview with Claire Fox),' Spanner Media April 2007
  13. ↑ "Infamy's child", The Guardian, 19 November 2005
  14. ↑ Hope for the Best (Interview with Claire Fox),' Spanner Media April 2007
  15. ↑ "Infamy's child", The Guardian, 19 November 2005
  16. ↑ Hope for the Best (Interview with Claire Fox),' Spanner Media, April 2007
  17. ↑ "Daily Politico: Claire Fox", Total Politics, 17 Aug 2008
  18. ↑ Hope for the Best (Interview with Claire Fox),' Spanner Media, April 2007
  19. ↑ "A prickly opinion on just about everything, The Times, 17 December 2002
  20. ↑ Profile Institute of Ideas website acc 11 Mar 2011
  21. ↑ Profile Institute of Ideas website acc 11 Mar 2011
  22. ↑ "Claire Fox", The Free Society website, accessed November 2008
  23. ↑ Data at Companies House, accessed 9 February 2011
  24. ↑ Economic Policy Centre Advisory board, accessed 4 April 2011
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