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Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

Jun 15, 2023

Thread. Regardless about where you stand on Boris & misleading Parliament, something gnawing at me: why no outrage at a whole range of Covid-related misleading statements at the time? Remember when we all discovered that vaccine helped indivs but didn't prevent transmission? 1/4

Yet despite knowing facts on transmission, politicians on all sides supported sacking care home staff who refused to have vaccine & job or jab enthusiasts misled public by claiming it would protect others. So many examples: made up facts re rule of 6/safe numbers at funerals 2/4

Lots of examples when non Covid harms associated with Lockdown - obvious in plain sight eg impact on children/economy - were denied. Those raising issues were maligned, misleadingly branded as anti-science/ worse. And don't get me started on official misinformation on masks 3/4

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Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

May 24, 2022

I spoke about the Schools Bill yesterday - on attendance rates falling in schools… (1/3)

The government’s response is mass data gathering and punitive fines. But as politicians locked down schools for over 2 years, it’s no surprise that some pupils have concluded that school doesn’t matter… (2/3)

The government then threatens freedom of home education using the excuse of safeguarding. But it is IN schools that some pupils aren't safe - eg from gender ideology, as a recent story in the Times pointed out. (3/3)

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Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

Jan 19, 2022

🪡We in House of Lords were only scheduled to discuss December's Plan B regulations on the very day of their abolition. So much for scrutiny... 1/5

🪡While some of us might want to celebrate now Plan B is dumped, I am still nervous about a divisive hangover from Covid passes, which divide society into vaccinated and unvaccinated - the latter treated as unclean and a threat... 2/5

🪡This is still a live issue for 70,000 NHS workers facing sack on April 1st because they are not fully vaccinated. Many are rightly now worried about the impact on understaffed hospitals, the RCN even calls the policy reckless... 3/5

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Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

Jan 17, 2022

A long night tonight discussing the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. I made a speech earlier, on why the introduction of new hate crime based on misogyny (and *perceived* offence) will do nothing for women's safety... 1/4

The push to make misogyny a hate crime won't help us understand data as fact, but will only tell us how alleged victims feel about their experiences - this broadens out the understanding of what 'misogyny' includes, rather than making things more clear... 2/4

Misogyny means hatred of women - but included in the description of misogynistic hate crime are things like 'spite' or 'ill will'. This amendment says it will help ensure the safety of women and girls - it won't... 3/4

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Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

Jan 11, 2022

🪡 A speech yesterday evening on an amendment to the #PoliceCrimeBill, which would protect women’s single-sex spaces in prisons while also sensitively managing challenges faced by trans prisoners - the government didn’t take the amendment... (1/6)

🪡 I read out a few tweets from people criticising the idea that female prisoners would be asked to share space with male sex offenders who self-identified as women. The MOJ says that the system is working well, I’m not so sure... (2/6)

🪡 Quite often the way in which legislation or advice talks about the situation of single-sex spaces in prisons prioritises the feelings and concerns of trans prisoners, leaving women’s issues as a secondary consideration... (3/6)

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Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

Dec 13, 2021

A speech on hate speech (and #freespeech) last Friday in the Lords. Too many still argue that a defence of free speech is just a cynical means of allowing offensive views to be promoted... (1/4)

Hate (like offence) is subjective, and can be used to deligitimise debate. This has also become a problem in relation to politics - with sceptics of government policy on climate change called 'climate deniers' or people who question vaccine mandates as 'anti-vaxxers'... (2/4)

The category of hate is often used to shut down views we don't like. We can't take 'hate speech' at face value - it has become too broad and too overused to be any decent means of collecting date (as its supporters claim)... (3/4)