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. Claire Fox Read Quote
If a boy pings a girl’s bra it may be unpleasant and annoying, but is it really assault? Claire Fox Read Quote
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. Claire Fox Read Quote
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. Claire Fox Read Quote
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. Claire Fox Read Quote
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. Claire Fox Read Quote
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. Claire Fox Read Quote
The notion that one’s home is one’s castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in. Claire Fox Read Quote
