The future of democracy in the UK

Claire addresses The Brexit Party rally in Peterborough on 19th November. She talks about the need for a true clean Brexit to be delivered along with radical democratic reform to ensure the establishment cannot try to silence the people again. You can find more videos of Claire on The Leftie Brexiteers YouTube channel she shares … Read more

Combating hate speech: who decides what is hate?

On Wednesday 6 November, Claire argued in the European Parliament that laws on hate speech are a threat to free speech. She used as an example the way that some feminists have been attacked by trans activists. By allowing free speech to be undermined in this manner, she continues, the EU is undermining a vitally … Read more

We need fewer rules and regulations and more freedom

In the European Parliament on Wednesday 6 November, Claire spoke against attempts to regulate the media. She noted that the mainstream media is often caught up in a ‘bubble’ and is insensitive to trends and developments beyond that bubble. As a result, mainstream outlets were caught by surprise by the vote to leave the EU … Read more

The outsourcing of migrant policy and the loss of solidarity

In the European Parliament on Wednesday 6 November, Claire had an exchange with Michalis Chrisochoidis, the Greek minister for citizens’ protection. Claire pointed out that while there are calls for solidarity with migrants, that sense of fellow feeling has been undermined by the way responsibility has been outsourced to the Turkish government. This has been … Read more

Is politics over?

The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) host Claire for a discussion on the current state of politics – From mass hysteria to the notion that it is even illegitimate to have a debate, why has political become so personal and does this signal an end to the traditional open polity that has long been the … Read more

The danger of right-wing extremism

In the European Parliament on Monday 21 October, Claire expressed her deepest sympathies for the Jewish victims killed in the Halle Synagogue shooting in Germany. She made clear that we should not be too simplistic when calling out acts of extreme violence. She argues that those who willingly pointing fingers at anti-Semitism being a solely … Read more

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