A pithy, punchy contribution to Biteback s Provocations series. -- --SpikedAn ambitious new series that tackles the controversy of the topics explored with a mixture of intelligence and forthright argument from some excellent writers. -- --The Observer Claire Fox is the director of the Institute of Ideas, which she established in 2000 to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint. A former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, she convenes the yearly Battle of Ideas festival, established the prestigious nationwide Debating Matters competition for sixth-form students and co-organises the Institute of Ideas' residential summer school, The Academy: `University as it should be'. A panellist on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze, Claire is regularly invited to comment on developments in culture, education and the media on television and radio programmes such as Question Time and Any Questions? She is also a columnist for the Times Educational Supplement and Municipal Journal.