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Claire Fox

Claire Fox

Claire Fox is director of the Institute of Ideas

Articles by Claire Fox

Solidarity in a climate of fear

By Claire Fox | 02 June 2021

In the aftermath of a recent religious scandal involving a schoolteacher, Claire Fox salutes the ...

Time to cut ties with the pandemic power grab

By Claire Fox | 27 April 2021

As the restrictions of the latest lockdown are eased, Claire Fox asks whether councils are clingi...

In support of women's refuges

By Claire Fox | 23 March 2021

Baroness Claire Fox warns that proposed legislation to help councils protect women facing domesti...

It's time for councils to step up and give a lead on care home visiting

By Claire Fox | 23 February 2021

Local authorities should support local care homes to find creative ways to open up to relatives, ...

Councils are the counterbalance

By Claire Fox | 16 November 2020

Priorities seem to have ‘become skewed by COVID-related policy-making on all sides of politics’, ...

Balancing the risks

By Claire Fox | 13 October 2020

Councils should ‘stop shaping all policies based on counting COVID cases and need to start balanc...

A question of equality

By Claire Fox | 08 September 2020

Councils should ‘be consciously biased against those who refuse to see us as individuals beyond o...

Unleash freedoms, not fears

By Claire Fox | 05 August 2020

As local lockdowns become more common, Claire Fox warns against the use of draconian measures – k...

Toppling statues is the easy part

By Claire Fox | 01 July 2020

Claire Fox asks: ‘Will black lives today be improved if local government becomes preoccupied by a...

Don't put democracy on lockdown

By Claire Fox | 27 May 2020

Claire Fox asks if it is undemocratic for local areas to introduce fundamental shifts in transpor...