The word 'soapbox' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used in the figurative sense to mean "a platform or opportunity to speak at length about a particular issue, usually a controversial one" (Merriam-Webster). You can use it in any context where you want to convey this idea. For example, "The Senator used his time on the statehouse floor as a soapbox to deliver a passionate speech about the impacts of climate change."
Second-half: Spurs get the second-half going and as I clamber off my Big Soapbox of Sanctimony, Emmanuel Adebayor misses the first half-chance of the second period.
There's no online platform – Twitter, Livejournal, Medium, Facebook – that hasn't been turned, at some point, into a soapbox for ugliness and hate.
We saw that during the referendum when he was the street-fighting star of the no campaign with his gutsy "100 Towns in 100 Days" tour of public squares where he used an Irn-Bru crate as his soapbox and made himself a martyr to Nationalist egg-throwers.
Ms Coyle, a visiting professor at the University of Manchester, begins her book with a portrait of Newcastle-born Angus Maddison, who can still recall his uncle's soapbox protests against the evils of the Depression.
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU, Israel's prime minister, could not have hoped for a better soapbox.
(It is not exclusively west-to-east: witness the Tory-influenced Republican attacks on Mr Clinton in 1992, and, maybe, the speech his wife made on a John Major-esque soapbox in New Hampshire).But the relationship is not as some comment implies a causal one.
Backers of the Houthi rebels, who hold sway over much of the north after fighting against the rulers in Sana'a for most of the past decade, mingle freely with members of the government.More recently, nearly two months after the conference began, the initial soapbox speeches have given way to more intimate and intense deliberations.
This strategy worked for John Major in the 1992 general-election campaign, when he swapped television studios for a soapbox.
Squatting vendors of tea and kebab jostle soapbox ranters hawking high ideals and dirty calumny.
But the comments on my friend's Facebook posting also reveal a slightly depressing willingness of people to be cowed by anyone who stands on an internet soapbox and declares inarguable rules.
He worries about "amplification of the internet soapbox" and imagines what role user-generated media would have played in "1931 in Munich, how easy it would have been to broadcast the message; I think the Nazis would have got power quicker".Paul Saffo, a futurologist and one of the world's most enthusiastic technophiles, also looks at the downside.
