Claire Fox
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Claire Regina Fox June 5, 1960 Barton-upon-Irwell, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School |
| Alma mater |
University of Warwick Thames Polytechnic |
| Occupation | Writer and broadcaster |
| Known for | Director and founder of the think tank the Institute of Ideas |
| Parent(s) | John Fox and Maura Cleary |
| Relatives | Fiona Fox and Gemma Fox (sisters) |
Claire Regina Fox (born 5 June 1960 in Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester) is a British libertarian writer. She is the director and founder of the think tank the Institute of Ideas and a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Fox was born to Irish Catholic parents John Fox and Maura Cleary and is the older sister of Fiona and Gemma Fox. After attending St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School in Flint, North Wales, she studied at the University of Warwick where she graduated with a lower second class degree (2:2) in English and American Literature. She gained a PGCE from Thames Polytechnic in 1992.
Fox was a mental health social worker (1981–7). She was an English Language and Literature lecturer at Thurrock Technical College (1987–90) and at West Herts College (1992–9).
Fox joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) as a student at the University of Warwick. For the next twenty years, she was one of the RCP's core activists and organisers, becoming co-publisher of its magazine Living Marxism.
Fox stayed with her ex-RCP members when the group transformed itself in the late 1990s into a network around the web magazine Spiked Online and the Institute of Ideas, both based in the former RCP offices. The group now takes the position that the terms 'left-' and 'right-wing' no longer carry any meaning. Author and environmental activist George Monbiot has argued these groups are part of the "pro-corporate libertarian right".
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