Steve Moxon

Steven Paul Moxon is a British former civil servant who came to prominence as a whistleblower in March 2004 while he was employed as a caseworker at the Home Office, the ministerial department of the United Kingdom that handles immigration. Moxon revealed that immigration checks were not being followed for people from Eastern European countries which were due to join the European Union later that year. This led to the resignation of the junior Home Office minister Beverley Hughes.

Home Office Moxon came to public prominence as a whistleblower in March 2004, while working at the Home Office. He claimed that immigration checks had been waived for people from the eight countries in central and eastern Europe that were due to join the European Union in May of that year, so as to make migration flows following EU enlargement look less dramatic. The allegations were published in the Sunday Times. Moxon's revelations, along with those of two other whistleblowers, resulted in the resignation of junior minister Beverley Hughes. Moxon himself was dismissed from his civil service job. Initially, he was feted by figures from the opposition Conservative Party including Michael Howard and David Davis, but they distanced themselves from him when it was revealed that Moxon had e-mailed the website of the BBC's Panorama programme claiming that: "An international alliance of Islamic Year Zeros feverishly exporting death to 'infidel' and non-fundamentalist Muslims alike...eventually will have to be silenced by nuclear weapons".

Moxon subsequently wrote a book, The Great Immigration Scandal, David Davis had been scheduled to chair the launch event for the book, but withdrew "amid claims that the book was an Islamophobic rant". A Conservative Party spokesman reported that Davis "had agreed to go provisionally and talk in favour of Steve as a whistleblower. But that was before he saw the contents of the book. He then felt unable to attend". According to The Guardian, the book "claims the term 'paki' is not racist; predicts immigration leading to Ulster-style civil war; and Asians are more likely to be organised criminals". Labour MP Frank Field reviewed the book for the Sunday Times, describing it as a "slow-burn Molotov cocktail on immigration". It received positive endorsements from commentators including Andrew Green of MigrationWatch UK and David G. Green of Civitas.

Following his sacking, Moxon announced that he would take the Home Office to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal.

Independent researcher In an interview with the Evening Standard published in 2007, Moxon stated that he didn't "have a particular interest" in debates about immigration, noting that his passion was instead for psychology, and that he had previously dropped out of a psychology degree course. Moxon now describes himself as an independent researcher. He stated in 2007 that the payout he received from the Home Office as a result of their out-of-court settlement enabled him "to not have to work for a while, so that's when I started writing". In 2008, his second book, The Woman Racket: The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Society, was published by Imprint Academic. According to Andy McSmith of The Independent, the book expounds Moxon's "thesis that men are the disadvantaged sex". In a review, philosopher George Williamson wrote that it was "a singularly odd book". He argued that, despite the book's subtitle, "the science presented isn't all that new, nor is much science presented" and that "there are myriad concerns with the details of the science invokes". Novelist Lionel Shriver wrote in the Guardian that it was a "wilfully controversial book claiming that men are the downtrodden sex, so pretentious and badly written that even the happy prospect of finding it offensive couldn't pull me through".

In 2012, Moxon was ranked by an anti-feminist website as one of the ten most powerful people in the men's rights movement. He has also given evidence to a House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee inquiry into women in the workplace. It was reported that Moxon had suggested to the committee that women were "incapable" of rising to senior management positions. Feminist writer Laura Bates argued that it was worrying that the select committee "should be seeking out the view of someone who has openly expressed these opinions and demonstrated that he is prejudiced against women as a gender".

Moxon made a complaint to the BBC Trust about coverage of the select committee's inquiry in an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's Hour, broadcast in December 2012. He complained that he had not in fact claimed that women were incapable of becoming bosses. Moxon's claim that the programme "had over many years displayed unfairness to men generically and had dismissed scientific research on men/women" was dismissed, as were three of Moxon's other complaints, including that about the characterisation of his evidence to the inquiry. His complaint that the presenter misrepresented him as "a man who describes himself as an academic" was, however, upheld. In his complaint, Moxon stated that he describes himself as an "independent cross-disciplinary researcher/writer on the biological roots of human sociality with a particular interest in the sexes", and noted that he did not have a university affiliation.

In 2021, he wrote an article for the Yorkshire Dialect Society, which argued that many words in the western half of Yorkshire have Scottish Gaelic roots. Two years later, another article in the same journal denounced Moxon's claims as baseless.

UK Independence Party In 2012, Moxon was due to stand as a UK Independence Party candidate in local elections in Sheffield, but he was deselected by the party after endorsing the analysis contained in the "manifesto" of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik. Moxon had written on his blog that: "That pretty well everyone—myself not excluded—recoiled at his actions, does not belie the accuracy of Breivik's research and analysis in his 'manifesto', which is in line with most scholarship in respect of both Political Correctness and Islam".

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