Despite Elon Musk’s claim that cancel culture is finished, it seems to be alive and well on university campuses. In two separate incidents, speakers were ejected from an Oxford Union debate about Israel and a 20 year old student took his own life after being cancelled by his peers. On Free Speech Nation Claire warned … Read more
“The Labour Party have no instinct for free speech… Of course Bridget Phillipson says she believes in free speech and academic freedom, but… and it’s a very big but.” On Free Speech Nation, Claire reacted to news that the Government may seek to repeal the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act.
“These days if you say to someone, ‘that’s censorship’, they say ‘so what’.” On Free Speech Nation, Claire discussed the state of free speech with Andrew Doyle.
On GB News’ Free Speech Nation, Claire joined Royal Holloway student Omar Loubak and host Andrew Doyle to discuss Claire’s disinvitation from a debating society event by the Students’ Union after she showed support for a Ricky Gervais joke.
“I wouldn’t trust what happens in the Parliamentary estate to solve our problems… Who is going to solve our problems? We are, the public.” Claire joins Andrew Doyle on Free Speech Nation to discuss what to expect from the Battle of Ideas festival.
“Even if the people watching think ‘I can’t stand the people who protested over this or that’, we have to defend the right to protest because there will be something in your life that you will want to protest over one day, and if the government are going to use anti-democratic means to impose all … Read more
Claire was the latest guest on Andrew Doyle’s Free Speech News podcast, and discussed why she set up the Battle of Ideas festival, the dangers of lazy woke/anti-woke caricatures, post-Brexit political discourse, and the reasons she accepted a position in the House of Lords. The Battle of Ideas takes place at Church House in Westminster … Read more
On this week’s edition of Free Speech Nation on GB News, Claire and her Academy of Ideas colleague Ella Whelan joined host Andrew Doyle to discuss Letters on Liberty, a series of thought-provoking and provocative pamphlets exploring the meaning of freedom in the 21st century.