Quotes by Claire Fox - Page 2

There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a situation they don't like.
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Running
Cry
Fragility
Ready
Situation
This Generation
Generation
Hint
Strand
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I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures.
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Truck
Authoritarian
Emergency
Governments
Measures
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I've spent my whole life fighting for leftwing causes, so I can tell you, no one is more surprised than me to be standing as candidate for Nigel Farage's Brexit party.
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Causes
Life Fighting Me
Brexit
Candidate
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We tell children their wellbeing is paramount, but we are also guilty of mollycoddling them. There's a constant emphasis on their vulnerability, which is proving toxic.
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Emphasis
Guilty
Paramount
Toxic
Vulnerability
Wellbeing
Proving
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There's a palpable frustration with the assumption that everyone who's under the age of 25 has got the attention span of a gnat and isn't interested in events and ideas.
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Assumption
Attention Span
Frustration
Palpable
Span
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There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.
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Seeking
Deciding
Different Thing
Journalists
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I confess that when I hear Boris Johnson's slogan let's get Brexit done it sends a chill. Because it's let's get Brexit done so we can focus on the important domestic issues.
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Chill
Focus
Johnson
Slogan
Brexit
Confess
Domestic
Sends
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One thing I got from my parents was that they talked about politics all the time. They weren't educated or academic but they were interesting about and interested in the world.
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Academic
Educated
Politics Time World
Talked
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We've lost a lot of regard for straight forward news stories, and that has then been supplemented by comment, not even analysis, which has created a lot of celebrity journalists.
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Analysis
Comment
Regard
Journalists
Supplemented
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I actually don't think we should ban Jihadi videos because I don't think that is what causes the issue of Islamist violence. We have to confront these things beyond banning them.
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Causes
Ban
Banning
Confront
Videos
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It has to be said that one of the most impressive aspects of the parliament are the brilliant unsung translators, who ensure that whatever language you speak, you are understood.
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Parliament
Aspects
Ensure
Unsung
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Constantly referring to past wrongdoings can become a substitute for developing a deeper analysis of today's foreign-policy challenges, of understanding what is new and different.
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Analysis
Deeper
Developing
Referring
Understanding
Substitute
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We need a younger generation that's prepared to grow a backbone, go out into the world, take risks and make difficult decisions. Otherwise the future doesn't bode well for any of us.
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Backbone
Difficult Decisions
Younger Generation
Risks
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I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.
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Disillusionment
Economic Growth
Gains
Modernity
Skepticism
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I am standing in solidarity with decent Remain voters who respected the rules and accepted the result and are as appalled by Parliament's undemocratic antics as the most ardent Brexiteer.
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Accepted
Ardent
Decent
Parliament
Solidarity
Voters
Appalled
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I think the influence of contemporary feminism has been very unhelpful to the current generation of girls. They are constantly being encouraged to speak out about how they feel victimised.
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Feminism
Influence
Speak
Constantly
Current
Encouraged
Generation
Unhelpful
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An ever-widening definition of abuse can incite a culture of fear and complaint: encouraging teachers and girls to name and shame could mean labelling sexually awkward teenage boys as sex pests.
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Encouraging
Sexually
Teenage
Complaint
Definition
Incite
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Senior Tories have exhibited a brand of entitled arrogance that implies that they own Brexit. It seems that anyone else who claims its mantle can be pushed to one side. And that includes voters.
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Arrogance
Claims
Entitled
Senior
Voters
Anyone Else
Brexit
Implies
Mantle
Tories
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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.
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Multiculturalism
Dishonest
Intellectually
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One of the great tragedies of Brexit has been that despite the fact there was an unprecedented public vote for change, Brexit was almost hijacked, owned, and controlled by a technocratic establishment.
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Controlled
Despite
Establishment
Unprecedented
Vote
Brexit
Hijacked
Owned
Tragedies
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Would it be preferable to argue for a fairer system whereby the unremarkable should be considered leadership material? With such an attitude, can we wonder why mediocrity is now a mark of Labour's hierarchy?
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Hierarchy
Mediocrity
Argue
Fairer
Preferable
Whereby
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One lesson of the vote for Brexit was that citizens were fed up being treated as bystanders. One of the gains of Leave was the flourishing of a sense of agency and self-determination that it afforded to many.
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Agency
Citizens
Fed Up
Flourishing
Gains
Self Determination
Vote
Afforded
Brexit
Leave
Fed
Lesson
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Left to their own devices, the Tories will squash the life out of what Brexit really represents in terms of the chance to shake up political life and overturn a complacent status quo. We cannot let that happen.
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Complacent
Devices
Political Life
Squash
Status Quo
Brexit
Overturn
Quo
Shake
Status
Tories
We Cannot
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I think that the European Union negotiators have gotten a shock. They were shocked when they realised the Brexit trade negotiations were not just going to be a continuation of those that happened under Theresa May.
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Continuation
European Union
Realised
Shock
Shocked
Theresa
Brexit
Gotten
Negotiations
Union
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People conclude that if the famous can be dragged through the virtual public square and unceremoniously dumped, the fate of any random tweeter or the average man or woman on the street can seem even more precarious.
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Average Man
Dumped
Fate
Precarious
Conclude
Dragged
Square
Virtual
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We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.
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Determine
Remarks
Sexist
Stronger
Today
Cruel
Deal
Minor
Result
Slight
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I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it irritating that we have a culture where people are more interested in trivial gossip than substantive matters.
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Gossip
Irritating
Account
Politics Culture People
Substantive
Trivial
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Children are more restricted than ever when it comes to taking physical risks - one of the ways previous generations built resilience. Thanks to health and safety mania, leapfrog, marbles and conkers are now considered unsafe.
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Health
Generations
Mania
Resilience
Safety
Thanks
Unsafe
Considered
Marbles
Physical
Previous
Restricted
Risks
Taking
Ways
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Those who politically theorise the artificial concept of 'whiteness' infer that anyone who has white skin cannot escape their unconscious bias. If you object, you are accused of failing to come to terms with your white privilege.
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Accused
Artificial
Bias
Failing
Unconscious
Whiteness
Escape
Infer
Object
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When Labour leadership challenger Jess Phillips urged men to 'pass the mic' to a woman on the top job, telling Sky's Sophy Ridge it would 'look bad' if Labour failed to elect a woman, she more or less admitted not being up to the job.
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Sky
Admitted
Challenger
Elect
Mic
More Or Less
Ridge
Urged
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A cursory look at coverage of the so-called 'Free Tommy' brigade, centered around the alleged censorship of Tommy Robinson, a notorious anti-Islam campaigner, reveals how liberals shun defending the free-speech rights of the unpalatable.
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Censorship
Coverage
Notorious
Alleged
Brigade
Defending
Liberals
Reveals
Shun
So-Called
Tommy
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There was such a sense of relief on the left when New Labour came to power that certain orthodoxies could not be challenged. People became desperate to hang on to the ascendancy of left ideas without really questioning what they were about.
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Ascendancy
Desperate
Labour
Questioning
Relief
Power People New
Became
Challenged
Hang
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I've been inspired by the rank and file groups of Leavers that have sprung up from Warrington to Watford and beyond, organising pro-Brexit gatherings and marches. I stand in solidarity with their democratic spirit and determination to fight.
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Determination
Solidarity
Sprung
File
Gatherings
Marches
Rank
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The argument about the need to regulate the digital space has to be weighed against freedom of expression in our society, whether we are interacting in a virtual world or in the real world where we have the growth of so-called 'safe spaces.'
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Digital
Freedom Of Expression
Growth
Interacting
Real World
Safe
Regulate
So-Called
Spaces
The Real World
Virtual
Weighed
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Brexit has changed everything in British politics - it has blown open a cosy, zombie-like closed world of Westminster parliamentary politics. It has broken open the traditional line between left and right, which was already an exhausted tradition.
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Exhausted
Parliamentary
Westminster
Brexit
Closed
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We already know that the experience of lockdown is a mixed bag. It is increasingly recognised that for many it can be hellish. Enforced leisure - if you are crippled with worry about debts, insecure job prospects, your family's health - is no holiday.
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Experience
Health
Crippled
Holiday
Insecure
Leisure
Prospects
Worry
Family Health Your
Job
Family Experience Your
Bag
Debts
Enforced
Hellish
Increasingly
Mixed
Recognised
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European civil society and NGOs that petition for favours and influence for their special interests are often themselves funded from E.U. coffers. This creates a system of patronage that encourages self-reinforcing group-think and a cloying sycophancy.
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Civil Society
Patronage
Special Interests
Creates
Encourages
Favours
Ngos
Petition
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Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity. Activists' constant stress on white privilege can lead to an unhealthy defensive posture of white victimhood.
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Constant
Ethnicity
Lineage
Owners
Posture
Privilege
Slave
Stress
Unhealthy
Activists
Blamed
Defensive
Lead
Imperialist
Merely
Sins
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As a left-wing campaigner for 35 years, I've been arrested on picket lines, led anti-imperialist demonstrations and spoken at anti-deportation protests outside police stations. I've made speeches at street rallies, in prisons and universities and at pubs.
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Arrested
Left Wing
Pubs
Demonstrations
Picket
Prisons
Protests
Rallies
Spoken
Universities
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If you want to initiate a broader debate about racism, is it really healthy to create an atmosphere in which it is not only statues that are being toppled but a range of cultural artefacts, TV series, celebrities, columnists and controversial broadcasters?
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Atmosphere
Broadcasters
Controversial
Debate
Initiate
Racism
Range
Statues
Tv Series
Celebrities
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You don't need to be a fan of wars or militarism to note that heroic action - whether being prepared to be jailed as a conscientious objector or putting your life on the line by joining the resistance - creates a sense of meaning when society faces a huge challenge.
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Faces
Heroic
Joining
Militarism
Resistance
Life Society Your
Being Prepared
Conscientious
Creates
Jailed
Note
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Welsh voices and Welsh communities were heard in 2016 in their tens of thousands, in their droves. They voted to leave the European Union and since then they have had that slapped in their face actually often by Labour MPs who basically said we know better than you.
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European Union
Labour
Welsh
Slapped
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Voices
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Maybe the Tory party might, instead of telling the Brexit Party what to do, make an approach to the Brexit Party and say I'll tell you what, we'll stand aside in certain areas. That would be a very positive thing for me, let's work together for a new kind of politics.
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Aside
Brexit
New Kind
Positive Thing
Work Together
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I think a lot of things have become associated with the Right. For example, an unapologetic commitment to progress and modernity is now almost always associated with neo-conservatism whereas it traditionally used to be associated with left-wing thinking and moving society forward.
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Left Wing
Modernity
Associated
Whereas
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If the widespread attempts to block Brexit gave us a glimpse into how fragile our commitment to democracy had become - reduced to a technocratic in-name-only veneer - reactions to Covid are a stark reminder that freedom cannot be assumed as a social norm that's deeply embedded into our institutions and our psyche.
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Block
Embedded
Fragile
Glimpse
Norm
Reactions
Veneer
Assumed
Attempts
Brexit
Covid
Widespread
Psyche
Reduced
Reminder
Stark
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Are Labour members inherently bigoted against women, unable to objectively assess political attributes beyond the gender prism? This accusation seems particularly ludicrous when levelled at a party so much in thrall to identity politics that it sometimes feels more like a student union than an organisation set up to defend the working class.
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Accusation
Attributes
Class
Feels
Gender
Identity
Labour
Members
Organisation
Party
Seems
Assess
Beyond
Bigoted
Defend
Student
Particularly
Inherently
Ludicrous
Objectively
Prism
Union
Unable
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Public discourse degenerated. There's no longer a place for intelligent debate at universities, where people just work for degrees and careers. My own experience was how my trade union's lively branch debates dwindled to a few people round cups of coffee. There's a climate of people frightened to say what they think for fear of offending someone.
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Careers
Coffee
Cups
Debate
Degrees
Discourse
Frightened
Intelligent
Lively
Offending
Public Discourse
Branch
Few People
Round
Universities
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There were good-faith reasons to resort to extraordinary measures when confronting an unknown global pandemic. Most of us consented to the lockdown, even if reluctantly. However, that consent - freely given as an act of social solidarity - was not intended as a green light to giving up hard-won liberties, or a perpetual suspension of free society.
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Society
Confronting
Extraordinary
Free Society
Given
Giving Up
Green
Light
Perpetual
Social
Solidarity
Suspension
Unknown
Act
Free
Even
Green Light
However
Intended
Liberties
Measures
Pandemic
Reasons
Reluctantly
Resort
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