Claire Wright
Local government trainer. Writer. Occasional broadcaster.What I do
Training
Drawing on 20 years of experience - a decade in public sector communications and 12 years as an active high profile Independent politician - I provide training for new and aspiring councillors on effective community campaign skills, including writing for publication, media relations, how to communicate effectively with local people and how to influence decision-makers.
Copywriting and content creation
I’ve been writing for publication since 2001, including press releases, newspaper columns, blog posts (see the blog section), articles speeches, manifestos and social media posts, so I’m happy to provide assistance to companies or organisations that need extra help with their writing requirements.
Claire on Twitter
Load More...Foreign lorry drivers: please forget all the stuff we said about wanting you to go back to where you came from, we were kidding. As a special offer, we will allow you to come back to help us for a limited period before we tell you to get out again.
Martin Shaw "new book on Racism and Brexit"🧡@martinshawxDetails of Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath (Agenda, 30 March 2022) are now online at https://www.agendapub.com/books/194/political-racism, and you can order there (not yet on Amazon etc.). Publication scheduled for 30 March. Contents list in final tweet. /1 https://twitter.com/martinshawx/status/1436974361399939080
Exciting news: my new book Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath is coming out with @agendapub in April 2022. A definitive study of how strategies of hostility drove the Leave movement/2016, were embedded in the Brexit conflict/settlement, & continue in the Johnson regime.
If government ministers can dismiss and deny the entirely predictable (and predicted) impacts of Brexit, how can we expect them to engage intelligently with climate and ecological breakdown?
⚠️Today we warn that Gov’s plan on social care will not improve access to or quality of services in here and now https://www.local.gov.uk/about/news/social-care-plan-contains-nothing-help-millions-here-and-now
The Spending Review must set this plan straight and provide upfront new funding to meet immediate demands and pressures in our care systemFor just 0.1% of GDP each year we can solve the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis and prevent land degradation.
As a bonus, the world could also avoid the breakdown of natural ecosystem "services" such as clean water, food and flood protection. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/27/nature-financial-value-investing-global-gdp-avoid-breakdown-ecosystems-un-report-aoeWe need a step change in action to become Nature Positive by 2030 in the UK. A new report out today by all 5 UK #nature agencies sets out the actions we need to take. https://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/6de7bf27-055e-4407-ad29-4814e1613d90/nature-positive-2030-summary-report.pdf @NaturalEngland @nature_scot @NatResWales @JNCC_UK @daera_ni