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This linking of bullying to mental illness and the idea that it causes 'life-long damage' really concerns me. I fear it is the anti-bullying industry that is the real threat to young people's state of...

Claire Fox

This linking of bullying to mental illness and the idea that it causes 'life-long damage' really concerns me. I fear it is the anti-bullying industry that is the real threat to young people's state of...

What also makes victimhood an attractive currency today is that it can gain sympathy, as though it is itself an achievement. And

Claire Fox

What also makes victimhood an attractive currency today is that it can gain sympathy, as though it is itself an achievement. And

About Author
Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley (born 5 June 1960), is a British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician who sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer. She is the director and founder of the think tank the Academy of Ideas (formerly Institute of Ideas).
A lifelong Eurosceptic, she was previously a member of the Trotskyist British Revolutionary Communist Party but later began identifying as a libertarian. She became a registered supporter of the Brexit Party shortly after its formation and was elected as an MEP in the 2019 European Parliament election. She was nominated for a peerage by the Boris Johnson-led Conservative government in 2020, despite her past opposition to the existence of the House of Lords.

Victim status can buy special privileges and gives the green light to brand opposing views or even mild criticism as tantamount to hate speech. So

Claire Fox

Victim status can buy special privileges and gives the green light to brand opposing views or even mild criticism as tantamount to hate speech. So

Complaining about trolls is increasingly deployed as a weapon in gaining further sympathy as a Victim with a capital ‘V’: ‘Being trolled by strangers on the net gives you the chance to show how hard t...

Claire Fox

Complaining about trolls is increasingly deployed as a weapon in gaining further sympathy as a Victim with a capital ‘V’: ‘Being trolled by strangers on the net gives you the chance to show how hard t...