Background
Fox was born to Irish Catholic parents John Fox and Maura Cleary and is the older sister of Fiona and Gemma Fox.
Fox was born to Irish Catholic parents John Fox and Maura Cleary and is the older sister of Fiona and Gemma Fox.
After attending Street 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 Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Thames Polytechnic in 1992. Fox was a mental health social worker from 1981-1987. From 1987-1990 she was an English Language and Literature lecturer at Thurrock Technical College and at West Hertfordshire College from 1992-1999.
Revolutionary Communist Party
Fox joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (Royal College of Physicians) as a student at the University of Warwick.
Fox stayed with her ex-Royal College of Physicians 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 Royal College of Physicians offices. The group now takes the position that the terms "left-" and "right-wing" no longer carry any meaning.
Guardian journalist George Monbiot has argued these groups are part of the "pro-corporate libertarian right". In the media
Fox is regularly invited to contribute to British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s programme The Moral Maze.
She has also appeared as a panellist on British Broadcasting Corporation One"s political television show Question Time.
Fox has been widely criticised and praised for her libertarian belief in the desirability of minimal governmental control and support of free speech in all contexts. In particular, she has been accused of "supporting Gary Glitter’s right to download child porn", a claim she denies, without a source for the statement. She has also been criticised for rejecting multiculturalism as divisive, questioning the negative publicity surrounding genetically modified crops and denying that there are any natural limits to human activity on the planet with her suggestion that everyone could be as rich as a multi-millionaire.
Foreign the next twenty years, she was one of the Royal College of Physicians"s core activists and organisers, becoming co-publisher of its magazine Living Marxism, until it closed after losing a libel case.