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.
In The Municipal Journal, Claire Fox asks if it is undemocratic for local areas to introduce fundamental shifts in transport policy as ‘settled’ without a proper public discussion? The new COVID-19 Britain we’re all living in has undoubtedly revealed that there’s more ways to travel than public transport or driving. My sisters and I have … Read more
Claire joins The Sacred Reflections podcast to speak about the importance of free-thinking at this time and how you can have different views to someone while still having something in common with them.
In Westmonster, Claire Fox explains how she was relieved that Rishi Sunak extended the Job Retention Scheme. Why should ordinary people pay the cost for the government’s decisions to close down the economy? I am not of the ilk who argues that this appeals to lazy workers who will wallow in being paid to do … Read more
Perhaps there’s light at the end of the long lockdown tunnel. The roadmap at least allows hope that life might get back to normal. For me, normal means freedom to live life as we choose, from cramming into packed planes to go on holiday to crowding into pubs for birthday parties. However, even saying that … Read more
Claire joins Talk Radio host Mike Graham to express her concern about the lockdown and her irritation at people making it out to be a virtuous act as if people were joining the resistance in WW2.
I don’t particularly like the constant war analogies used about fighting coronavirus. However, when someone like Matt Hancock conjures up the Blitz spirit, urging us to pull together ‘in one gigantic national effort’, I think of that cliched question: ‘What did you do in the war, Daddy?’ Forget the sexism, what will our answer be to future … Read more
In The Municipal Journal, Claire Fox says we can reflect on what kind of a changed world we want to inhabit after the pandemic and commit to embracing some lessons moving forward. Is everything up for grabs in a post-coronavirus world? Perhaps because we are all desperate to find upsides to this grim period, many … Read more
In The Spectator, Claire Fox argues that rather than trying to catch the government out, the media should treat its audience with the deference it deserves and truly scrutinise the government’s strategy. The lockdown has ensured that many millions now gather round the TV and watch the daily press conference from No.10. We hang on … Read more