Do we need a licence to be free?
Claire Fox joins Christopher Snowdon and Tom Slater on Spiked’s Last Orders podcast to discuss a year of lockdown, Batley Grammar School and public health.
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Live with Littlewood
Claire joined Mark Littlewood of the Institute of Economic Affairs and commentators Alex Deane, Daniel Lacalle, Joanna Williams and Victoria Hewson to discuss the post-Covid global treaty, lifestyle paternalism and covid, immunity IDs, and the Batley Grammar School controversy. Claire joins the discussion at 18 minutes in.
Cancelling Culture and the Right to be Offensive
Claire gave a keynote speech at the Imagine! Belfast Festival on the growing threat of ‘cancel culture’ and its use by the intolerant against free speech and open debate.
Should misogyny be a crime?
In this edition of Counterculture on The New Culture Forum Channel, Claire discussed the political reaction to the murder of Sarah Everard with presenter Peter Whittle and fellow guests Toby Young and Emma Webb.
Question Time, 25th March 2021
Claire and fellow panellists Andrew RT Davies, Vaughan Gething, Adam Price, and Nigel Owens discussed questions from a virtual Cardiff audience about holidays during the pandemic, vaccine nationalism, pay rises for Welsh NHS staff, the lowering of the age of voting and proposals to fly the Union Jack on all government buildings. Watch the programme … Read more
In support of women’s refuges
Writing in The MJ, Claire warns that proposed legislation to help councils protect women facing domestic violence could end up with unintended consequences… The brutal and tragic murder of Sarah Everard has started a national conversation on violence against women. Some of this seems overblown and teeters on scaremongering. I do not recognise this picture … Read more
Owen Jones meets Claire Fox
Claire was interviewed by columnist and activist Owen Jones for his podcast. They discussed the reasons she joined the Brexit Party, what free speech really means, and Claire’s views on the current Tory and Labour party leaders.
Is cancel culture real?
Claire took part in this debate hosted by Bright Blue, an independent British think tank and pressure group for liberal conservatism, along with Professor Rob Ford and Femi Oluwole.
It’s time for councils to step up and give a lead on care home visiting
Writing in The MJ, Claire argues that the rapid rollout of covid vaccines shows what is possible when unnecessary bureaucracy is stripped away… One common argument given by for vaccine hesitancy is: how could the jabs be developed so quickly? In response, officialdom has been forced to admit that one key reason it’s been possible … Read more
How can democracy serve the people?
From Trump to Kim Jong-un, from Putin to Bashar al-Assad, from the far right to the far left everyone claims to be in favour of democracy. But of what form and in whose interest? In the West democracy has meant electing others to decide for us. Now, many argue democracy is in trouble. It is … Read more