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Claire Jones

BBC New Broadcasting House
Opinion

Hands off our BBC: Trump’s tug of war over the BBC narrative

Claire Jones
19 November, 2025 (3 weeks ago)

A sloppy edit turns Trump into a crusader against bias, stepping in to protect us from a broadcasting corporation already leaning his way

Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage
Opinion

Polanski vs Farage – is this the new political duopoly?

Claire Jones
10 November, 2025 (4 weeks ago)

A bold movement for social justice vs a self-serving lie machine

Donald Trump
Opinion

Trump, Farage and the right’s free speech hypocrisy

Claire Jones
14 October, 2025

What’s behind the Trump administration’s transatlantic provocations on UK free speech and who does the dark agenda really belong to?

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons
Opinion

It’s time to get serious about stopping the global authoritarian network

Claire Jones
19 September, 2025

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the power and reach of authoritarianism

BBC Broadcasting House
Opinion

How the BBC dismantles the left without us noticing

Claire Jones
24 June, 2025

BBC right-wing bias is peculiarly dangerous precisely because it is subtle and exploits the corporation’s reputation for impartiality

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons
Opinion

Six big warnings about the rise of Farage

Claire Jones
20 May, 2025

To arm ourselves against Reform’s rise to power, we need first to recognise the most vulnerable parts of our current political landscape.

A photo of a ballot box
Opinion

It’s not Left vs Right anymore. It’s humanity vs inhumanity.

Claire Jones
7 May, 2025

We need to challenge the right-wing tactic of re-defining moral truths as ‘Leftie ranting’

Donald Trump
Opinion

The boys are back in town: reflections on the psychology of Trumpworld

Claire Jones
28 February, 2025

How did a cluster of toxic, binary attitudes get from the heads of small boys and Silicon Valley into the heart of Trump’s administration? 

Donald Trump
Opinion

What Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Nigel Farage mean for the Labour government

Claire Jones
21 January, 2025

‘The time for collusion, good chap politics and meekness is over’

Scrabble letters that read 'Democracy'
Opinion

Making the case for proportional representation against the backdrop of a growing far-right

Claire Jones
26 November, 2024

Without guardrails, PR becomes ‘anything goes democracy’ which is ultimately no democracy at all but just a child with a handgun.

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