Letters on Liberty: Risking it all – the freedom to gamble

Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Jon Bryan, Mark Littlewood, Ed Rennie, Brigid Simmonds OBE

Infantilisation: the collapse of adult authority?

Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Jessica Butcher MBE, Professor Frank Furedi, Jacob Phillips, Barry Smith, Don Watkins

From grooming gangs to child abuse: is social work working?

Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Tom Bewick, Dave Clements, Dr Rakib Ehsan, Susie Hawkes

Parenting problems and the future of the family

Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Neil Davenport, Nancy McDermott, Matthew Patten

Do the culture wars matter?

Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Professor Aaqil Ahmed, Inaya Folarin Iman, Luke Gittos, Ivan Hewett,
Professor Doug Stokes

Disinformation and conspiracy: tackling the crisis of trust

Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Dr Tim Black, William Clouston, Dr Sean Lang, Mo Lovatt, Allison Pearson

From Covid to climate change: challenging the culture of fear

Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Sherelle Jacobs, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Nikos Sotirakopoulos, Bruno Waterfield

Social solidarity after social isolation

Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Paul Embery, Inaya Folarin Iman, Dr Tiffany Jenkins, Lord Moylan

Going green: eco-dogma or salvation?

Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Dr Shahrar Ali, Sabine Beppler-Spahl, Heydon Prowse, Austin Williams

Who are we? Identity in crisis

Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Rakib Ehsan, Professor Frank Furedi

The crisis of trust in institutions

Sunday 3 November 2019
SPEAKERS: Dr Tim Black, Miranda Green, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Linda Woodhead

The rise of toxic politics: can we be civil?

Sunday 3 November 2019
SPEAKERS: Dolan Cummings, Timandra Harkness, Dr Deborah E Lipstadt, Jacob Mchangama, James Tooley

Why Luther still matters: religious conscience and individual liberty

Sunday 29 October 2017
SPEAKERS: Professor Aaqil Ahmed, Dolan Cummings, Kate Maltby, Jon O’Brien

Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

Sunday 29 October 2017
SPEAKERS: Sohrab Ahmari, Andrew Bernstein, Dr Tim Black, Professor Steve Fuller, Professor Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian

Safety first: do we live in a cottonwool society?

Saturday 28 October 2017
SPEAKERS: Richard Angell, Terry Barnes, Professor Bill Durodié, Dr Clare Gerada, Lenore Skenazy

Diversity: does it matter?

Saturday 28 October 2017
SPEAKERS: Josie Appleton, Amali De Alwis, Dreda Say Mitchell, Cathy Young

What’s God got to do with it?

Sunday 23 October 2016
SPEAKERS: Professor Tim Crane, Dolan Cummings, Ken MacLeod, Professor Mona Siddiqui, John Waters

Who are we? Identity politics dissected

Sunday 23 October 2016
SPEAKERS: Dr Julian Baggini, Ivan Hewett, Sunder Katwala, Professor Michele Moody-Adams, Brendan O’Neill

Feminism: in conversation with Camille Paglia?

Saturday 22 October 2016
SPEAKERS: Camille Paglia

From literature to Twitter: the death of the reader?

Sunday 18 October 2015
SPEAKERS: Professor Teresa Cremin, Professor Frank Furedi, Sam Leith, Laurence Scott

Our morals, their moralism?

Sunday 19 October 2014
SPEAKERS: Dr Hannah Dawson, Kenan Malik, Alister McGrath

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