“I don’t know that there is a balance between free speech and other rights… I don’t think the other rights mean very much if you haven’t got freedom of speech.”
Claire appeared on the final edition of TNT’s The Muckrakers podcast along with William Mackesy, co-founder of Best Free Speech Practice (BFSP), Dr Edward Skidelsky, Director of the Committee for Academic Freedom, and host Andrew Eborn. They discussed the democratic importance of free speech, why free speech is central to the idea of universities, the danger of relying on the law to defend freedom. and the Battle of Ideas festival and satellite events taking place around the world during October.