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
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
How far should protest go?
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Charlie Bentley-Astor, Mark Johnson, Kevin O’Sullivan, Sarah Phillimore
Free speech on campus: should hecklers be banned?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dennis Hayes, Holly Lawford-Smith, James Orr, Alice Sullivan, James Tooley
The morality of surrogacy
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Lexi Ellingsworth, Sarah Jones, Gary Powell, Ella Whelan
Are slippery-slope arguments ever valid?
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Piers Benn, Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans, Professor David Albert Jones, Professor Kevin Yuill
Free speech or compelled speech: is silence violence?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Arif Ahmed, Dr Shahrar Ali, Abbot Christopher Jamison, Dr Joanna Williams
The future of abortion rights
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Piers Benn, Mary Kenny, Margo Martin, Dervla Murphy
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
Andrew Doyle’s Free Speech Nation: Live
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: James Dreyfus, Josh Howie, Rosie Kay, Leo Kearse, Matt Ridley
Letters on Liberty: Risking it all – the freedom to gamble
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Jon Bryan, Mark Littlewood, Ed Rennie, Brigid Simmonds OBE
Taking back control: who will defend autonomy today?
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Dr Ashley Frawley, Ann Furedi, Nina Power, Christopher Snowdon
Online safety vs free speech
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Lord Charles Colville, Paddy Hannam, Molly Kingsley, Graham Smith, Toby Young
Lawfare: the use and abuse of law to fight for freedom
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Maya Forstater, Luke Gittos, Jeremiah Igunnubole, Sarah Phillimore, James Tooley
Is cancel culture killing the arts?
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Tiffany Jenkins, Rosie Kay, Winston Marshall, Emma Webb
Internet vs the nation state: a new Wild West?
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Timandra Harkness, Andrew Orlowski, Graham Smith, Dr Keith Teare
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