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Laurence Fox libel trial

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newnamethanks · 22/11/2023 18:07

Laurence Fox has been sued for libel by two people he described as paedophiles in a twitter spat. They described LF as racist. Trial began today, suing and counter-suing. Mr Fox arrived with his - written thus (daily mail) in single quotes - 'girlfriend'. Odd description.

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SocksAndTheCity · 04/05/2024 21:28

There will people here far better at reordering this than me, but here we are:

Laurence Fox libel trial
TempestTost · 04/05/2024 21:53

CoffeeCantata · 04/05/2024 07:16

sprigatito · 22/11/2023 18:52
Lilacanemone · 22/11/2023 18:51

If he loses he should sue them for libel for calling him a racist. The people suing are happy enough to call people unfounded names but get upset when the same is done to them.
He is a racist though it's not as if he even tries to hide it.

I'm not up-to-speed on LF's most recent doings, but it's a puzzle why he's turned out like this. His BIL is Richard Ayoade, and as far as I know, they get on well. There's some think weird going on somewhere.

But where his anger comes from - who knows? His cousins, Emilia and Freddie Fox, seem popular and regular people - but where such a privileged man gets such rage from is a mystery to me. Mind you, I think he was a pain in the backside at Harrow School and was pushing the boundaries even then.

It seems to me like he started off in a fairly normal place, and went over the edge in a big way.

As much as some people don't understand, there are plenty of non-white people who don't agree with or believe in many of the things progressive identity politics say they are supposed to. Some of them really hate them. My in-laws are largely Caribbean, and most of them are pretty conservative on a lot of these questions. They could probably have had a comfortable family dinner with Laurence Fox a few years ago.

It seems like since he has gone into the political side of things over the last few years it's tipped right into some very weird persecution complexes and behaviours meant to shock.

Maybe that's understandable to a degree, because it does seem like if you are a regular white guy who doesn't buy into that stuff in the acting world, if you don't keep it very quiet, you will be persecuted. In somewhat the same way actors who don't buy into gender ideology are.

It's easy when you are being unfairly labeled to start to develop some kind of conspiracy issues, because it does seem like a conspiracy, and then it seems like people struggle to figure out where the line is between real and imaginary. They just spiral down.

And he may well have been a little unbalanced in the first place.

newnamethanks · 04/05/2024 22:58

And, of course, the £250,000 per year, his salary for fronting Hoskyn's repellent 'political' party. Money is a marvellous motivator, so Laurence says.

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