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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