Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 October, Church House, London
Are we making a meal of GM foods?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Adam Hibbert, Zion Lights, Ed Rennie, Harry Wilkinson
Does the UK need a First Amendment?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Nico Perrino, Tom Slater, Thomas Walker-Werth, Toby Young
Don’t look back in nostalgia: is modern music rubbish?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Professor Aaqil Ahmed, Rushabh Haria, Lysia Leal, Harley Richardson, Leo Villa
Boomers vs Zoomers: bridging the generational divide
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Felice Basbøll, Jennie Bristow, Dr Eliza Filby, Natalie Turner
Are the arts being expelled from education?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Dr Oliver Doyle, Manick Govinda, Dr Lola Salem, Gabriella Swallow
Declare your pronouns: EDI and compelled speech
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Dr John Armstrong, Eric Kaufmann, Connor Murnane, Dr Joanna Williams
Housing: does renting make us rootless?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Alex Cameron, Liam Halligan, Sheila Lewis, James Yucel
Defending the West in a dangerous world
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Dr Tim Black, Sherelle Jacobs, Sir Simon Mayall, Tim Scott
Breaking through Britain’s innovation barrier
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Duncan Cunningham, Kevin McCullagh, Mercy Muroki, Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos
Climate lawfare: saving the planet or subverting democracy?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Dr Shahrar Ali, Jon Holbrook, Alastair Mellon, Tina Louise Rothery, Stuart Smith
Anti-Semitism on campus: ban it or tolerate it?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Professor David Abulafia, Daniel Ben-Ami, Baroness Ruth Deech, Greg Lukianoff, Edward Skidelsky
Iconoclasm: a new weapon in the Culture Wars?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Alexander Adams, Lara Brown, Dr JJ Charlesworth, Claudia Clare, Rosie Kay
Bookshop Barnie: Why the World Needs More Children by Paul Morland
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Paul Morland
From ‘powerhouse’ to populism: Germany today
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Alexander Horn, Lysia Leal, Dr Patrik Schumacher
Could citizens’ assemblies save democracy?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Dr Roslyn Fuller, Sophie Harborne, Rich Wilson
Equality law: freedom’s friend or foe?
Saturday 19 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Joanna Cherry KC, Dolan Cummings, Maya Forstater, Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Ballots betrayed? The crisis of political representation
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Steven Barrett, Dr Richard Johnson, Dr Mo Lovatt, Jo-Anne Nadler, Richard Tice MP
From riots to shoplifting: dealing with lawlessness
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Professor Ian Acheson, Shaun Bailey, Richard Garside, Lisa McKenzie, Alan Miller
(Mis)information: the battle for free speech online
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Timandra Harkness, Fraser Myers, Nico Perrino, Eli Vieira, Dr Daniel Williams
A sense of place: how to create community in a fractured world
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Dave Clements, William Clouston, Abbot Christopher Jamison, Michael Merrick, Kim Samuel
From WPATH to the Cass Review: the crisis in medical ethics
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Stephanie Davies-Arai, Susan Evans, Jennifer Lahl, Dr Margaret McCartney, Stella O’Malley
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