Sacred Reflections: Free-Thinking
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.
Media
We all need the economy working at full steam as quickly as feasible
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
My fears about the ‘new normal’
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
‘Being in lockdown is not a virtuous act’
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.
Staying at home doesn’t make us heroes
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
Let’s hear it for our invisible frontline workers
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
This is no time for ‘gotcha!’ journalism
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
Should we abolish the target of sending 50% of young people to university
Claire takes part in the FE News Skills World Live podcast, hosted by Tom Bewick, the Chief Executive of the Federation of Awarding Bodies, alongside guests to discuss the current government target of sending 50% of young people to university and whether this approach most effectively prepares young people for the future employment.
Has the Feminist Civil War alienated women?
Claire Fox joins Emily Carver, Lionel Shriver and Ella Whelan on The New Culture Forum hosted by Marc Sidwell to discuss the current internal struggle within the Feminist movement between traditional and progressive feminists, and whether the current 4th wave of Feminism infantilises women?
What a real public-health crisis looks like
Claire joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for Spiked’s Last Orders podcast to discuss the coronavirus, the government’s handling of the crisis, and whether they made the correct decision in u-turning its approach by imposing a lockdown.