admin Claire joins Giles Fraser for his Unherd podcast series ‘Confessions’ where she discusses growing up as a Catholic, life in the Revolutionary Communist Party, and her passion to reanimate the public square.
Claire chairs the Ayn Rand Institute’s debate on ‘What is killing Western Civilisation’ between Douglas Murray and Yaron Brook.
Jess Butcher interviews Claire Fox about her book ‘I Find that Offensive’, exploring whether offence culture has become the dominant ideology of modern society and the damaging effects it has on debate, intellectual progress, and mental resilience.
Liberals who repress speech to prevent harm risk inviting authoritarianism writes Claire in the Economist. If ever there was a vivid illustration of illiberal liberalism, it was the response to one of the essays in this very series. After The Economist published an article by Kathleen Stock, reader in philosophy at the University of Sussex, which sensitively questioned whether … Read more
Claire re-joins James Delingpole for another appearance on his podcast to talk about her time in the revolutionary communist party and how it helped shaped her views, the intellectual underpinnings of the emerging political divides, and the worrying rise of an over pathologised version of mental health.
Claire joins Triggernometry to talk all things Brexit, Generation Snowflake, hypersensitivity, offence, bullying, education, free speech, gay marriage and the censorship of drill music
In a speech at “Our Fractured Society” at the Oxford Literary Festival, Claire argues that we need to heal divisions and seize the moment I want to lay a claim: Brexit was a fantastic moment for popular sovereignty. The vote came after years of technocratic rule in which managerialism had replaced political principles and ideology. … Read more
Claire debates writer Afua Hirsch on whether transcending racial identities is possible in the UK. According to journalist Afua Hirsch, “discussing race in contemporary Britain is still a radical act.” In her latest book, Brit(ish), Hirsch argues that the UK has failed to reckon with its colonial past and that conversations about race, ethnicity and diversity have been silenced. … Read more
In Spiked Online, Claire reviews Ella Whelan’s new book on the importance of putting freedom back into feminism. While writing this review, two newspaper pieces catch my eye that sum up today’s destructive sexual-politics zeitgeist. In the New York Times, author Stephen Marche applies pseudo-Freudianism to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, concluding ‘if you let boys be boys, they … Read more
Claire joins Andrew Doyle and Nick Gillespie for a spiked podcast special in which they introduce the 2017 Battle of Ideas festival and discuss the importance of free speech and debate.