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Claire Fox
All articles by Claire Fox
Brexit: ‘Teachers must dispel the myths about themselves, their pupils and their parents, and Europe itself’
Responding to a piece by former ASCL general secretary calling for teachers to defend to EU, the director of the Institute of Ideas takes a very different tack on the forthcoming Brexit referendum
6 March 2016
‘We must stop continually talking up childhood complaints as mental health problems’
Society is in danger of inciting children to play up up to the enfeebled, vulnerable victim-model, writes the director of the Institute of Ideas
25 February 2016
‘Schools should not have to worry about being attacked in the same way as Peter Tatchell’
With almost daily rows over free speech, schools would be right to be worried about falling foul of the ‘linguistical correctness’ police, writes the director of the Institute of Ideas
20 February 2016
How to save libraries from the e-predators
In struggling to keep pace with technology’s whizz-bang novelty, we fail to draw proper attention to the blessings of a good book
20 June 2014
How to save libraries from the e-predators
In struggling to keep pace with technology’s whizz-bang novelty, we fail to draw proper attention to the blessings of a good book
20 June 2014
Dreaming of life, the universe and everything
A utilitarian focus on the ultimate employability of school-leavers threatens to limit what our children can learn, achieve and enjoy
7 March 2014