Does the UK need a First Amendment?
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Nico Perrino, Tom Slater, Thomas Walker-Werth, Toby Young
Declare your pronouns: EDI and compelled speech
Sunday 20 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Dr John Armstrong, Eric Kaufmann, Connor Murnane, Dr Joanna Williams
Equality law: freedom’s friend or foe?
Saturday 19 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Joanna Cherry KC, Dolan Cummings, Maya Forstater, Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
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
Genocide: what it is and what it isn’t
Saturday 19 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Natasha Hausdorff, Lesley Klaff, Jonathan Sacerdoti
From smoking bans to junk-food restrictions: where’s the evidence?
Saturday 19 October 2024
SPEAKERS: Dr Carlton Brick, Reem Ibrahim, Molly Kingsley, Professor David Paton
A nation of shoplifters? Britain’s anti-social society
Saturday 25 November 2023
SPEAKERS: Tom Andrews, Lisa McKenzie, Dr Elizabeth Peatfield, Jane Sandeman
Boxing: Don’t Count it Out
Saturday 25 November 2023
SPEAKERS: Chris Akers, Rob Lyons, Vanessa Pupavac
Letters on Liberty: Risking it All: the freedom to gamble
Saturday 25 November 2023
SPEAKERS: Jon Bryan, Niall Clarke, Dr Ken McLaughlin
Letters on Liberty: Freedom – Up in Smoke?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Piers Benn, Simon Clark, Rick Moore
I dissent! Challenging the culture of conformism
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Peter Boghossian, Jennie Bristow, Abbot Christopher Jamison, Helen Joyce, Lord Moylan
‘Speaking as a…’: the tyranny of ‘lived experience’
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Ben Cobley, James Esses, Esther Krakue, Kunle Olulode
Banning conversion therapy: a threat to freedom and conscience?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dolan Cummings, Stephanie Davies-Arai, Lord Steward |Jackson, Bev Jackson, Katy Jon West
Has the law become partisan?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Jon Holbrook, Laurie Laybourn, Anna Loutfi, Lord Ken Macdonald KC
Revitalising free speech on campus: Living Freedom and Speak Easy
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Jack Barwell, Felice Basbøll, Emma Cabezaolias, Ella Nixon
Is there a ‘war on the motorist’?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Mary Dejevsky, Alan Miller, Simon Nash
Should we leave the European Convention on Human Rights?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Steven Barrett, Jamie Burton, Luke Gittos, John Oxley, Angelica Walker-Werth
Gender ideology and criminal justice
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Professor Ian Acheson, Dr Kate Coleman, Ceri-Lee Galvin
Holding Covid times to account
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Jennie Bristow, Laura Dodsworth, Thomas Fazi
Should burning holy books be banned?
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Manick Govinda, Khadija Khan, Lois McLatchie, Hardeep Singh, Peter Whittle
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