Why as a lifelong leftie I’ve joined Team Nigel

In The Daily Mail, Claire explains her reasons for standing as a European election candidate for The Brexit Party. As a left-wing campaigner for 35 years, I’ve been arrested on picket lines, led anti-imperialist demonstrations and spoken at anti-deportation protests outside police stations. I’ve made speeches at street rallies, in prisons and universities and at … Read more

FE Funding, Brexit and Social Mobility

Claire talks to Tom Bewick for the FE News ‘Skills World Live’ show to discuss further education funding, social mobility, the over-emphasis on qualifications and Brexit. Do you go along with this idea that FE has always been a poor relation in our education system? Claire Fox: Well, there’s always been that kind of Cinderella reputation. … Read more

TEDx: How offence culture stifles progress

Jess Butcher interviews Claire Fox about her book ‘I Find that Offensive’, exploring whether offence culture has become the dominant ideology of modern society and the damaging effects it has on debate, intellectual progress, and mental resilience.

The dangers of illiberal liberalism

Liberals who repress speech to prevent harm risk inviting authoritarianism writes Claire in the Economist. If ever there was a vivid illustration of illiberal liberalism, it was the response to one of the essays in this very series. After The Economist published an article by Kathleen Stock, reader in philosophy at the University of Sussex, which sensitively questioned whether … Read more

Al Jazeera: Is the UK still racist?

Claire debates writer Afua Hirsch on whether transcending racial identities is possible in the UK. According to journalist Afua Hirsch, “discussing race in contemporary Britain is still a radical act.” In her latest book, Brit(ish), Hirsch argues that the UK has failed to reckon with its colonial past and that conversations about race, ethnicity and diversity have been silenced. … Read more