Rising to the challenge in difficult circumstances
Claire was challenged to find some positive news by LBC’s Iain Dale…
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Times Radio Breakfast, 1st December 2022
Claire clashed with author Will Self over accusations of racist comments by a royal aide, tax breaks for private schools and the abolition of the role of Women’s Officer at Oxford University Student Union. The discussion begins at 3 hours 12 minutes in…
Bev Turner Today, 30th November 2022
Claire was in the GB News studio to review the stories of the day with Alan Miller of the Together Association, Emma Webb of the Common Sense Society and host Beverley Turner. They began by discussing claims that robots and AI will take jobs from over-55s and the phenomenon of sleeping pill use by children… … Read more
GB News paper review, 23rd Nov 2022
Claire joined David Mellor and hosts Isabel Webster and Martin Daubney in the GB News studio to discuss the breakfast papers. Topics in the first segment: the prospect of rail strikes at Christmas, menopausal NHS staff being allowed to work from home, Germany’s attitude to the war in Ukraine, gay rights and the Quatar World … Read more
“We’re socialising young people into ignorance.”
On Michael Portillo’s Times Radio show, Claire discussed calls for universities to decolonise subjects such as geography and economics, the Free Speech Bill, and woke operas at Glyndebourne. Claire appears 23 minutes in.
GB News paper review, 17th Nov 2022
Claire joined Liam Halligan and hosts Isabel Webster and Andrew Pierce in the GB News studio to review the morning’s papers. They began by discussing tax rises and spending cuts in the Autumn budget… They returned to discuss the lifting of the energy price cap and whether doctors should work at weekends… In the final … Read more
We must protect freedom to protest, even for those we despise
“One of the trickiest challenges of being in politics is defending the rights of those we disagree with vehemently. That dilemma has never been truer than in deciding how to approach the Public Order Bill, now making its way through the House of Lords. How can I defend the right to protest when I have little sympathy for those … Read more
Where have all the intellectuals gone?
A 2017 appearance of Claire from the BBC archives… Twenty years after the death of Isaiah Berlin, philosopher Jonathan Wolff goes in search of the Isaiah Berlins of today. Where is this particular kind of public intellectual? Does it matter If they are no longer around and what, if anything, has replaced them? Claire is … Read more
“I’ve heard far more criticism of the NHS than ever before. Maybe it’s broken.”
Claire joined Hugo Rifkind and Times Radio Breakfast presenters Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell to discuss the prospect of NHS strikes, reports that Rishi Sunak may delay caps on care costs, and Matt Hancock’s appearance on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Listen on Times Radio. You can hear Claire from 3 hours … Read more
Politics Live, 2nd November 2022
Claire joined Andrew Bridgen MP, Richard Burgon MP, Naomi Smith of Best for Britain and presenter Jo Coburn in the BBC studio to discuss Rishi Sunak’s U-turn over attending COP27, the Public Order Bill, rent controls, and whether Brexit has been a success so far. Watch the discussion on iPlayer.