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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