Caroline Cox
 Caroline Cox    (politician, maverick) | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 July 1937 England |
| Nationality | UK |
| Religion | Christian |
| Member of | Global Panel Foundation/Board of Advisors, The Prague Society |
Maverick baroness in the British Parliament. | |
Baroness Caroline Cox is a member of the House of Lords. Formerly associated with the Conservative Party, she now sits as a crossbencher.
Career
On graduating, Cox became a sociology lecturer at the Polytechnic of North London rising to become Principal Lecturer. From 1974 she was head of the Department of Sociology.[citation needed] An Evangelicals Now article sympathetically describes her approach to her discipline: "As a committed Christian she presented a Christian view of Sociology."[1] She was therefore targeted by student movement: "It was a time of student unrest and the students organised demonstrations to disrupt lectures or meetings which they considered anti-Marxist. Cox bore the brunt of this and in 1974 the students passed a vote of no confidence in her."[1] Her background in sociology led her to write books on the subject for nurses.
In 1975, Cox co-wrote (with John Marks and Keith Jacka) The Rape of Reason: The Corruption of the Polytechnic of North London, published by Churchill Press Limited, attacking "Communist activity" at her workplace.[2] She resigned from the Polytechnic in 1977[1] and was a tutor at the Open University.[2] She was involved in the right-wing thinktank Institute for the Study of Conflict and contributed to its report, the Gould report, on left-wing activism in British universities, in which she focused on "Marxist bias" in the Open University.[3][4][2] Following her work on the Gould Report, Cox became a key figure in the New Right associated with Margaret Thatcher, Keith Joseph and Enoch Powell.[5]
Interests
She co-founded One Jerusalem. She met Bashar Assad in Syria along with two other parliamentarians; Michael Nazir-Ali and the Lord Hylton. She was criticised by Zionist MPs.[6] The Huffington Post reported that she went to America to lobby on behalf of Assad.[7]
She is a Eurosceptic, who invited Geert Wilders to Parliament. She sits on the Advisory Council of MigrationWatch.[8]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identity Crisis: Can European civilization survive conference | 13 March 2008 | 14 March 2008 | Italy Rome European University of Rome | |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
References
- ↑ a b c Champion - Getting to know Baroness Cox, Evangelicals Now, July 2008.
- ↑ a b c Martyn Hammersley An Ideological Dispute: Accusations of Marxist Bias in the Sociology of Education During the 1970s, Contemporary British History, Volume 30, 2016 - Issue 2, Pages 242-259 | Published online: 21 December 2015 https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2015.1112275
- ↑ Madeleine Arnot, Len Barton Voicing Concerns: sociological perspectives on contemporary education reforms, Symposium Books Ltd, 1 January 1992
- ↑ John D. Brewer The Public Value of the Social Sciences: An Interpretive Essay, A&C Black, 23 May 2013
- ↑ Jenny Bourne, ‘Anti-racist witchcraft’, IRR News, Institute for Race Relations, 15 January 2015.
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/05/british-peers-and-priests-accused-of-chatting-with-mass-murderer/
- ↑ https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-british-baroness-wants-to-rekindle-donald-trumps-affection-for-bashar-assad_n_59146959e4b030d4f1f045fb
- ↑ https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/about-us/advisory-council
