Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 October, Church House, London
Stuck in the present with you: political change in an era of pessimism
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Aaron Bastani, Lord Maurice Glasman, Jacob Reynolds, Baroness Stowell, Robert Tombs
Disunited Kingdom: the rebirth of nations?
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Dr Richard Johnson, Penny Lewis, Alex Salmond, Christopher Snowdon, Max Wind-Cowie
Publish and be damned?
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Tim Abrahams, Ben Cobley, Masimba Musodza, Emma Webb
Disinformation and conspiracy: tackling the crisis of trust
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Dr Tim Black, William Clouston, Dr Sean Lang, Mo Lovatt, Allison Pearson
Is levelling up really levelling down? The great inequality debate
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Hilary Salt, Don Watkins
Is woke politics the death of rock’n’roll?
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Dr Philip Kiszely, Joel Mills
What’s the point of reading novels in an era of Netflix?
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Elisabetta Gasparoni, George Harrison, Phil Harrison, Michael Nath, Dr Maren Thom
From Covid to climate change: challenging the culture of fear
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Sherelle Jacobs, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Nikos Sotirakopoulos, Bruno Waterfield
What are Western values and should we defend them?
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Professor Aaqil Ahmed, Dr Stephen Blackwood, Professor Frank Furedi, Jodie Ginsberg, Tim Stanley
From HGV drivers to bricklayers: how do we solve the skills crisis?
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Tom Bewick, Victoria Hewson, Kelvin Hopkins, Rick Moore, Linda Murdoch
Social solidarity after social isolation
Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Paul Embery, Inaya Folarin Iman, Dr Tiffany Jenkins, Lord Moylan
From profits to prophets: why has big business gone woke?
Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Laura Bierer-Nielsen, Konstantin Kisin, Professor Vicky Pryce, Dr Diane Wei Liang, James Woudhuysen
Is ‘Cancel Culture’ killing comedy? Really?
Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Alex Dale, Andrew Doyle, Simon Evans, Josephine Hussey
Going green: eco-dogma or salvation?
Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Dr Shahrar Ali, Sabine Beppler-Spahl, Heydon Prowse, Austin Williams
Who are we? Identity in crisis
Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Rakib Ehsan, Professor Frank Furedi
Can culture survive the culture wars?
Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Jan Bowman, Dolan Cummings, Jonathan Grant, Josephine Hussey, Dr Philip Kiszely
Should we resist the new normal?
Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Kate Andrews, James Bloodworth, Tom Slater, Toby Young
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