Claire Fox on Generation Snowflake, Free Speech and Debate

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Claire Fox (@Fox_Claire), founder and director of the Academy of Ideas, discusses millenial snowflakes, hypersensitivity, offence, bullying, education, free speech, debate, gay marriage, censorship of drill music, Brexit and a lot more with the guys at TRIGGERnometry. Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	Hello and this is
0:09.0	This is the show for you.
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry.
0:11.0	I'm Francis Foster.
0:12.0	I'm Constantine Kissin. And this is the show for you.
0:14.9	If you're bored of people arguing on the internet over subjects they know nothing about.
0:19.7	At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts.
0:23.0	We ask the experts.
0:25.0	Our amazing expert guest this week is the director and founder of the Institute of Ideas.
0:30.0	Claire Fox, welcome to Chigonometry.
0:32.0	Good to be here.
0:33.0	Well, thank you very much for coming on.
0:35.0	The first question we always like to ask, I guess, is,
0:37.0	how did you get to where you are?
0:38.0	What's been your story and your journey?
0:40.0	Actually, for many years I was a teacher and I worked in further education and I was passionate
0:48.6	about aspects of education that I thought were neglected and became interested in creating discussion and debate.
0:56.7	I was also involved in politics.
0:58.8	I took a year out from teaching to relaunch what was living
1:04.3	Marxism and relaunch it as L.M magazine.
1:08.3	We weren't pretending it had no relationship to living
1:10.9	Marxism, which is what I had at LM, but it also was a different magazine
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