Slogan or soundbite? Is there a lack of vision in politics?

Claire was a guest on Michael Portillo’s first GB News show. Are politicians frightened of talking in abstract terms? “Often politicians imagine that citizens and voters only think in terms of pounds and pennies and what will work, but when you talk to people… democratic accountability, sovereignty… that was what they were really interested in.”

How the Battle of Ideas Changed My Life

“It was the first time I found myself part of an intellectual community… it gave me the courage to become a braver person.” In the run up to the 2022 Battle of Ideas festival, Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos of the Ayn Rand talked with Claire Fox and Mo Lovatt of the Academy of Ideas about his … Read more

Tory Party Psychodrama

On the Planet Normal podcast Claire and host Liam Halligan discussed the Conservative party conference and fringe events. Claire appears from 21 minutes in…

RSE lesson content – Why parents should get to see the resources teachers are using

Curriculum changes now require staff to teach sensitive topics outside of their expertise, prompting some to turn to external agencies for resources and materials – which is why it’s only right that parents get to see what those lessons involve, asserts Claire in Teach Secondary magazine… “If you’d told me 10 years ago that in … Read more

Dewbs & Co, 27th Sept 2022

Claire joined Jo Phillips and guest host Beverley Turner for the GB News evening show. They discussed Kier Starmer’s Labour party conference speech… …and the plan of new Met Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, to root out racists and misogynists from the police…

Question Time in Grimsby

Claire appeared on the Question Time panel with Brendan Clarke-Smith MP, Wes Streeting MP, Layla Moran MP, Gerard Lyons and host Fiona Bruce. They answered questions from the audience on the energy crisis, fracking, NHS funding and waiting lists, Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons and positive ideas for the winter ahead. Watch the full … Read more

Iain Dale All Talk

LBC’s Iain Dale talks to Claire about her life, her past in the Revolutionary Communist Party, Living Marxism, the Institute/Academy of Ideas, the Brexit Party, her time as an MEP and her membership of the House of Lords.

Broken Britain?

“Everything is posed with so much hyperbole, so much disaster and catastrophising rhetoric, that we can lose all sense of perspective about which things we really faces as problems and which things are more minor.” Claire discussed the 2022 ‘summer of discontent’ of strikes, court delays, flight cancellations, policing problems, ambulance queues, passport delays, hosepipe … Read more