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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