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

Is there a ‘war on the motorist’?

Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Mary Dejevsky, Alan Miller, Simon Nash

Revitalising free speech on campus: Living Freedom and Speak Easy

Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Jack Barwell, Felice Basbøll, Emma Cabezaolias, Ella Nixon

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

Holding Covid times to account

Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Jennie Bristow, Laura Dodsworth, Thomas Fazi

Gender ideology and criminal justice

Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Professor Ian Acheson, Dr Kate Coleman, Ceri-Lee Galvin

Should burning holy books be banned?

Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Manick Govinda, Khadija Khan, Lois McLatchie, Hardeep Singh, Peter Whittle

Last Orders Podcast – live

Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Patrick Christys, Madeline Grant, Tom Slater, Christopher Snowdon

Online censorship: an international clampdown?

Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Silkie Carlo, Thomas Fazi, Konstantin Kisin, Norman Lewis

Academics building academic freedom from the ground up

Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Firat Cengiz, Dr Ruth Mieschbuehler, Professor Ian Pace

How far should protest go?

Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Charlie Bentley-Astor, Mark Johnson, Kevin O’Sullivan, Sarah Phillimore

Letters on Liberty: Boxing – Don’t count it out

Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Chris Akers,Max Barragan Segre, Luke Gittos

Whatsappened to privacy?

Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Josie Appleton, David Davis, Tiffany Jenkins, Tim Stanley

Free speech on campus: should hecklers be banned?

Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dennis Hayes, Holly Lawford-Smith, James Orr, Alice Sullivan, James Tooley

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