Claire Fox speaks to The Sun’s Steve Edginton for the Burning Questions series to discuss the ongoing culture wars and the dangers of the ‘woke’ movement particularly in the areas of censorship and revisionism.
Black lives matter, says Claire Fox in The Municipal Journal. But will black lives today be improved if local government becomes preoccupied by a war against inanimate objects and historical wrongs. One remarkable reaction to the brutal killing of George Floyd in the US has been the wave of UK-wide demonstrations that sprang up in … Read more
Claire joined Kellie-Jay Keen, host of the Woman by Definition podcast to discuss the Coronavirus pandemic, Brexit and her experience as a Member of the European Parliament, and the wider discussion surrounding transgenderism and mental health.
Claire Fox joins Peter Whittle (New Culture Forum) and guests to tackle the eruption of controversy and revisionism in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Is Britain now engaged in a full-blown culture war and what is the end result likely to be? Are today’s youth being failed by schools & universities or are they … Read more
Has the statue of Churchill been improved by being enclosed in a protective casing? Was Colston’s toppling one of the greatest acts of performance art? Or is this all a sad indictment of the state of British politics? Fraser Nelson talks to The Spectator’s arts editor Igor Toronyi-Lalic and Coffee House contributor and writer Claire … Read more
In the Spectator, Claire argues that it is up to the public to avoid being dragged into an over-simplistic ‘whose side are you on?’ row. Who needs statue topplers when the state will do it for you? Some bright spark in authority has decided the way to defend the statues on Parliament Square is to … Read more
Claire joined Jack Anderton of Inflamer Media to discuss Catholicism, mental health, her experiences with the media, a post Coronavirus future, why she thinks the Labour Party is finished and her childhood. The accompanying article can be read here.
Following formal procedures is never enough, and becoming dependent on centralised rules can even be a hindrance argues Claire Fox in Westmonster. How are you getting on now that there’s slightly fewer lockdown restrictions? Are you coping with negotiating who you invite over to your garden or how far you sit away from extended family … Read more
I ATTENDED a funeral last week – a Covid funeral for someone who died of that terrible virus. I was heartbroken that a great force of life was robbed of that life too early. Even at 80, Deepak Lal, the internationally renowned economist, historian of ideas and academic, had so much more to give the … Read more
Claire Fox, the former MEP and Director of the Institute of Ideas, joins Liam Deacon of Brexit-Watch to discuss the media’s reaction to Dominic Comming allegedly breaking lockdown, Coronavirus, and how Brexit can revive our democracy.