Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 October, Church House, London
Call to courage: winning the battle of ideas
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Julie Bindel, Professor Sunetra Gupta, Ali Miraj, Tim Stanley, Bruno Waterfield
Curing cancer: is it all about the science?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Nicky Drury, Professor Eliot Forster, Miranda Green, Professor Karol Sikora
Is opera just for toffs?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Henrietta Bredin, Dolan Cummings, Peter Hanke, Michael Hollick
Letters on Liberty: Translation as Liberation
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda, Dr Shirley Lawes, Dr Vanessa Pupavac
Globalism in crisis: has Davos Man had his day?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Lord Maurice Glasman, Joan Hoey, Eric Kaufmann, Professor Vicky Pryce
How do we solve the housing crisis?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Simon Cooke, Ike Ijeh, Rabina Khan, Austin Williams, Charlie Winstanley
Trust me, I’m your doctor: are GPs in crisis?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Professor Dame Clare Gerada, Sheila Lewis, Allison Pearson, Jo Phillips, Charlotte Pickles
Letters on Liberty: in defence of teaching history
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Tarjinder Gill, Nicolas Kinloch, Dr Robert Pyrah, Kevin Rooney
Sanitised or modernised: staging Shakespeare today
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Professor Aaqil Ahmed, Lindsay Johns, Tomiwa Owolade, Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, Daniel Smith
Free speech or compelled speech: is silence violence?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Arif Ahmed, Dr Shahrar Ali, Abbot Christopher Jamison, Dr Joanna Williams
Can we fix Britain?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Laila Cunningham, Rob Lyons, Claire Pearsall, Martin Wright, Gareth Wyn Jones
For frack’s sake: how do we solve the energy crisis?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Tom Heap, Dr Caspar Hewett, Laurie Laybourn, Jordan Tyldesley, James Woudhuysen
The political image: in conversation with Stuart Mitchell
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKER: Stuart MItchell
Age of ‘isms’: what happened to ideology?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Professor Frank Furedi, Rod Liddle, John McTernan, Dr Zoe Strimpel
Ulysses at 100: Have we lost in faith modernist man?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Mary Kenny, Mark Ryan, Helen Searls, Justin Smyth
Climate emergency: catastrophe or catastrophising?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Dr Shahrar Ali, Orsolya Kovács-Magosi, Martin Powell, Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos
Work shy and retiring: have we fallen out of love with work?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Brian Denny, Simon Hoppe, Linda Murdoch, Angelica Walker-Werth, Dr Glynne Williams
From boozing to obesity: the new health tyranny?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Justine Brian, Christopher Snowdon, John Vincent
Why Bitcoin matters for freedom in a digital age
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKER: Allen Farrington
Biometrics and facial recognition
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Silkie Carlo, Donald Clark, Simon Evans, Robin Tombs
Can populism win the future?
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Ivar Arpi, Thomas Fazi, Sherelle Jacobs, Tom Slater
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