Can Free Speech Save Rational Debate?

Triggernometry host Claire and Author/Journalist Ella Whelan for a special discussion on the Battle of Ideas 2019, the recent parliamentary discussions over defamatory language, and the importance of free speech in society.

EU hypocrisy on workers’ rights and unemployment

In European Parliament on Thursday 10 October, Claire abstains from a motion about EU workers’ rights and unemployment, pointing out the bureaucratic attempts to appropriate the working classes’ historic struggle for their rights. She also points out the sheer hypocrisy of EU’s virtue signalling about workers’ rights whilst simultaneously imposing austerity and preventing member states … Read more

Nobody voted Brexit because of Russian bots

In European Parliament on Thursday 10 October, Claire challenges the EU commission head-on over a motion about Russian interference in elections which argued that British voters were “duped” by Russian bots and misinformation peddled on social media. She reaffirms her belief in the sanctity of democracy by calling these statements untrue and stating that the … Read more

Solidarity with the Hong Kong protesters and the gilets jaunes

In the European Parliament on Wednesday 8 October, Claire shows her solidarity with the ‘hundreds of heroic democracy protestors’ in Hong Kong and condemns the totalitarian efforts of the Chinese government to curtail democracy as well as their brutal treatment of the protestors.  She then goes on to criticise the EU and its hypocrisy in … Read more

An invitation to carry on insulting me and my fellow Brexiteers

“After appearing on Newsnight last week, an #FBPE-monikered keyboard warrior wrote a much liked comment above my picture that read: “Bat shit crazy, howling at the moon @brexitparty_uk  neo Nazi fascist apologist tries to blame the judiciary. Straight out of the Hitler/Goebbels Handbook. We are living in dangerous times. #stopbrexit #RevokeA50 #SaveDemocracy”. This was one … Read more

The politicisation of EU cultural policies

In this video, Claire talks about a meeting she recently attended that was supposed to be holding to account the proposed EU Commissioner for Innovation and Youth, Mariya Gabriel. The meeting was a joint one between two European Parliament committees, the Culture and Education committee and the Industry, Research and Energy committee. Claire explains her … Read more

Free speech and academic freedom

Claire asked the proposed EU Commissioner for Innovation and Youth, Mariya Gabriel, about the contradictions of the EU’s support for academic freedom while the EU restricts what material academics have access to through digital services rules. Claire also asked why funding for research and education is so often tied to promoting a sense of European … Read more

‘I celebrate this wonderful museum’

In the European Parliament, Tuesday 24 September, Claire Fox congratulates the European Parliament on the decision to allow a series of objective museum professionals and historians to decide on the content of the European house of history museum. Thus far, the EU have resisted their usual self-styled propaganda in dictating the historic content of the … Read more

This motion treats Europe and European history with disdain

In the European Parliament on Wednesday 20 September, Claire votes against the EU’s resolution for historical remembrance due to its revisionist attempts to tarnish historical facts and propagate the EU’s contemporary narrative. She claims that the motion is designed to make us feel ashamed of our European history whilst unremorsefully hijacking the horrors of the … Read more