TalkTV, 17th February 2026

Claire spoke to Julia Hartley-Brewer about compensation for ‘wrongful’ phone seizures by border agents, the Filipino migrant who was given sex change treatments on the NHS, the offer of ‘US refuge’ for the British man who burnt a Koran, and revelations about Labour’s reaction to a corruption dossier.

Starmer and Mandelson

“I almost don’t want him to resign over this… there’s so many reasons why he’s not fit to govern…” Claire spoke to TalkTV‘s Julia Hartley-Brewer about Keir Starmer’s handling of the Peter Mandelson scandal.

Gender fightback

“The shocking thing is that the BBC had written that script for her. The media have not caught up with reality and are still insisting on this nonsense.” BBC news presenter Martine Croxall has won fans for her live-on-air autocue correction, saying ‘women’ instead of ‘pregnant people’. Claire discussed this ‘little moment of sanity’ with … Read more

Banksy’s Glasto stunt

“For so many people asylum seekers are just a prop for them to push around to show they’re the good people.” Claire and TalkTV‘s Julia Hartley-Brewer discussed woke Glastonbury politics and Banksy’s crowd-surfing inflatable boat of migrants, pro-trans placards at a West End performance of Frozen, and the row about Gary Lineker wearing Next clothes … Read more