How to do politics in an era of cancel culture

Watch Claire’s speech at the Reform UK 2021 conference on 4th October, in which she warned delegates about the dangers of tit-for-tat cancel culture and argued that woke politics needs to be confronted by ‘going high when they go low’…

Free Speech Nation: The Podcast

Claire was the latest guest on Andrew Doyle’s Free Speech News podcast, and discussed why she set up the Battle of Ideas festival, the dangers of lazy woke/anti-woke caricatures, post-Brexit political discourse, and the reasons she accepted a position in the House of Lords. The Battle of Ideas takes place at Church House in Westminster … Read more

Battle of Ideas next weekend

Claire spoke to Neil Oliver on GB News about the Battle of Ideas festival taking place in Westminster on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th October. No vaccine passports, no age limits, no special requirements – all you need to join us at the Battle of Ideas festival is an open mind. See the Battle of … Read more

Teeny gains for Labour

Claire Fox stepped in as guest co-host of the latest episode of the Planet Normal podcast this week. Claire and regular presenter Liam Halligan discussed the Labour party conference, Kier Starmer’s conference speech, Angela Rayner’s ‘scum’ comment, guest Robert Peston’s first novel and the Battle of Ideas festival taking place in Westminster on 9th and … Read more

We need to move on

Writing in The MJ, Claire says vaccine passports for events would ‘cause immense harm, mainly to the fabric of society’ and it’s not clear if they would impact on virus spread… In a packed beer garden last week, I was surrounded by five hen parties. For once I was happy to have my sedate drink … Read more

Fall Of The Red Wall: How Labour Lost Its Heartlands

Claire was a contributor to this documentary for Darren Grimes’s Reasoned channel, and spoke about how our political elites on both left and right often misjudge the electorate’s views on issues such as the environment, the Culture Wars, and ‘levelling up’. Claire appears at 14 minutes and 24 minutes in.