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Baroness?
PETER HITCHENS: Should the woman who said the IRA had a right to kill children really be a Baroness?
PETER HITCHENS: I invite those of you who still think Mr Johnson is a traditionalist patriotic conservative to ask yourself why he has put Ms Fox into Parliament.
But no traditionalist conservative could conceivably give her a lifetime seat in Parliament.
Claire was for many years a member of a strange cultish group called the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). This wasn’t a youthful dalliance like mine in the International Socialists, which I left in 1975. She carried on belonging to the RCP for 20 years after leaving university.
Its newspaper, The Next Step, said at the time of the 1993 Warrington bomb, which killed three-year-old Johnathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry: ‘We defend the right of the Irish people to take whatever measures are necessary in their struggle for freedom'
And there is every sign that she still hasn’t really broken with it. The RCP itself has disappeared after a series of misfortunes, and how has a ghostly afterlife in web-based outfits such as Spiked.
In this strange milieu, she must have met Munira Mirza, head of Mr Johnson’s policy unit but weirdly far less famous than that other crazy Downing Street radical, Dominic Cummings.
Ms Mirza, whose husband used to be famous for organising sex parties, is also linked with the RCP. And she has been close to Mr Johnson since his days as Mayor of London.
So could Lady Fox’s ennoblement have been her idea? Who can say?
What startles me is how little fuss it has created. Baroness Fox, in her RCP days, defended the cruel, violent actions of the Provisional IRA. This was RCP policy.
Long ago? Well, yes, but Lady Fox was challenged about this very recently when she stood as a Brexit Party candidate for the European Parliament in a constituency which includes Warrington.
Did she say, ‘I am deeply ashamed of these policies, which I now see as having been gravely mistaken’? She did not.
Last April, politely but firmly confronted by Tim Parry’s father Colin, she said that she stuck by what she had believed back in 1993.
No doubt there is a case for having all kinds of people in Parliament. But how strange that this award should come from a party whose emblem is the Union Jack, which is given to singing Land Of Hope And Glory, and which excoriates Jeremy Corbyn for meeting terrorists. Have we been had?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8607739/PETER-HITCHENS-woman-said-IRA-right-kill-children-really-Baroness.html
PETER HITCHENS: I invite those of you who still think Mr Johnson is a traditionalist patriotic conservative to ask yourself why he has put Ms Fox into Parliament.
But no traditionalist conservative could conceivably give her a lifetime seat in Parliament.
Claire was for many years a member of a strange cultish group called the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). This wasn’t a youthful dalliance like mine in the International Socialists, which I left in 1975. She carried on belonging to the RCP for 20 years after leaving university.
Its newspaper, The Next Step, said at the time of the 1993 Warrington bomb, which killed three-year-old Johnathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry: ‘We defend the right of the Irish people to take whatever measures are necessary in their struggle for freedom'
And there is every sign that she still hasn’t really broken with it. The RCP itself has disappeared after a series of misfortunes, and how has a ghostly afterlife in web-based outfits such as Spiked.
In this strange milieu, she must have met Munira Mirza, head of Mr Johnson’s policy unit but weirdly far less famous than that other crazy Downing Street radical, Dominic Cummings.
Ms Mirza, whose husband used to be famous for organising sex parties, is also linked with the RCP. And she has been close to Mr Johnson since his days as Mayor of London.
So could Lady Fox’s ennoblement have been her idea? Who can say?
What startles me is how little fuss it has created. Baroness Fox, in her RCP days, defended the cruel, violent actions of the Provisional IRA. This was RCP policy.
Long ago? Well, yes, but Lady Fox was challenged about this very recently when she stood as a Brexit Party candidate for the European Parliament in a constituency which includes Warrington.
Did she say, ‘I am deeply ashamed of these policies, which I now see as having been gravely mistaken’? She did not.
Last April, politely but firmly confronted by Tim Parry’s father Colin, she said that she stuck by what she had believed back in 1993.
No doubt there is a case for having all kinds of people in Parliament. But how strange that this award should come from a party whose emblem is the Union Jack, which is given to singing Land Of Hope And Glory, and which excoriates Jeremy Corbyn for meeting terrorists. Have we been had?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8607739/PETER-HITCHENS-woman-said-IRA-right-kill-children-really-Baroness.html