Claire Fox: the BBC is the ‘woke’ channel

The BBC “doesn’t realise it itself has narrowed what opinions are acceptable” the former MEP Claire Fox has said. 

The director of the Institute of Ideas told Liam Halligan on the Telegraph’s Planet Normal podcast that although she defends the BBC in principle, she feels the broadcaster is doesn’t “talk the same language as the majority of people in the country.”  

You can listen to the interview on the audio player above or subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred podcast app.

On reaction to Black Lives Matter, Ms Fox said that “history will see this as a period in which we denounced history” and that it is not “a rank and file grassroots movement of anti-racism.”

She added that she fears that more people are beginning to think of themselves through their ethnicity and that line of thinking was something she had hoped “we had transcended in the modern era.”

Listen to Planet Normal, a weekly Telegraph podcast featuring news and views from beyond the bubble with columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson on the audio player above or subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred podcast app. This week Allison is taking a break and Liam is joined by guest host, former MP, Kate Hoey.