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 Dec 1, 2018

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The Academy of Ideas has been organising public debates to challenge contemporary knee-jerk orthodoxies since 2000. Subscribe to our channel for recordings of our live conferences, discussions and salons, and find out more at www.academyofideas.org.uk

Episode Date
Out with the old, in with the new world order
Sep 04, 2026
Can the state solve the housing crisis?
Aug 31, 2026
Battle Book Club: Running the Risk – From Shark Attacks to Nuclear Disaster
Aug 27, 2026
Decline… and fall? The UK economy
Aug 24, 2026
What does post-woke art look like?
Aug 20, 2026
Beware the manosphere? Misogyny and toxic masculinity
Aug 17, 2026
Policing today: two-tier justice?
Aug 13, 2026
Are patriotism and the nation state back?
Aug 10, 2026
Digital ID: privacy vs safety?
Aug 06, 2026
From Bud Light to Jaguar: brands caught in the Culture Wars
Aug 03, 2026
Science at the cutting edge: who makes the rules?
Jul 30, 2026
Battle Book Club: TERF Island – how the UK resisted trans Ideology
Jul 27, 2026
Why you should read Plato’s Republic
Jul 23, 2026
Online dating: the end of romance?
Jul 20, 2026
World Cup Podcast of Ideas, episode 4: after that semi-final
Jul 16, 2026
Controlling the narrative?
Jul 16, 2026
The problem with defining Islamophobia
Jul 13, 2026
Should there be a mental-health professional in every school?
Jul 10, 2026
Is Germany ready for revolt?
Jul 06, 2026
World Cup Podcast of Ideas, episode 3
Jul 02, 2026
From Saudi to Sheffield: is football still the beautiful game?
Jul 01, 2026
Jane Austen: spinster, feminist or just a good writer?
Jun 29, 2026
Religious fervour: the rise of faith or Cultural Christianity?
Jun 25, 2026
Never Again – for anyone? The new Holocaust relativism
Jun 22, 2026
What do the AoI team make of Makerfield - and what next?
Jun 20, 2026
World Cup Podcast of Ideas: episode 2
Jun 19, 2026
Letters on Liberty: The Freedom to Blaspheme
Jun 18, 2026
Should the West get ready for war?
Jun 15, 2026
Comedy: is politics that funny?
Jun 11, 2026
World Cup Podcast of Ideas: episode 1
Jun 10, 2026
Rebuilding Britain: the infrastructure crisis
Jun 08, 2026
Racial grievance politics: how did we become so divided?
Jun 05, 2026
Is there a right to die? The moral dilemmas of assisted death
Jun 04, 2026
Elections 2026: what next for populism, democracy, Starmer and the Union?
May 11, 2026
Podcast of Ideas: Has Scottish devolution been a failure?
May 02, 2026
Taking the PIP: who can reform welfare?
Apr 24, 2026
Why is my energy bill so high?
Apr 10, 2026
Women and gender: Supreme Court ruling, one year on
Mar 30, 2026
Letters on Liberty: Abortion and the Freedom to Forge Our Own Fate
Mar 27, 2026
Net Zero or ‘drill, baby, drill’? The future of UK energy
Mar 20, 2026
Island of strangers: is Britain broken?
Mar 13, 2026
After Greenland: understanding the new geopolitics
Mar 02, 2026
Are the old political parties over?
Feb 27, 2026
The rise of the workplace speech police
Feb 20, 2026
Rape gangs, Post Office and Scottish self-ID: an anatomy of three scandals
Feb 04, 2026
China's Trump card? Rare earths and geopolitics
Jan 14, 2026
Podcast of Ideas: Trump's intervention into Venezuela
Jan 09, 2026
Woke politics: ‘People are realising it is deeply authoritarian’
Jun 04, 2025
Cure or cult? Special educational needs in the classroom
May 19, 2025
The scary new powers to trawl through our bank accounts
May 15, 2025
How can the UK return to growth?
Mar 24, 2025
Podcast of Ideas: does England need a football regulator?
Mar 04, 2025
Girls only: Sall Grover and the fight for women's rights
Feb 20, 2025
'Why do we do it? This is the best job in the world.'
Feb 12, 2025
Neurodiversity to gender dysphoria: a problem of over-diagnosis?
Feb 04, 2025
Running back to EU? Labour, Europe and the economy
Jan 31, 2025
From social media to AI: a tech moral panic?
Jan 29, 2025
The Great British Energy crisis
Jan 20, 2025
Assisted dying bill: for or against?
Nov 29, 2024
Allison Pearson's lawyer on free speech, hate crime and the law
Nov 22, 2024
Is it time to kick VAR out of football?
Nov 14, 2024
Kamalamania, Trump and the vibes election
Nov 04, 2024
Online safety vs free speech
Aug 08, 2024
Podcast Of Ideas: It ain't over 'till the fat lady votes
Jul 03, 2024
Podcast of Ideas: manifestos, media snobbery and Macron
Jun 18, 2024
Podcast of Ideas General Election special: D Day, selection madness and the return of Farage
Jun 08, 2024
Podcast of Ideas: General Election specials, episode 1
May 29, 2024
Net Zero: can the economy and democracy survive?
May 17, 2024
Understanding Modi's India
May 15, 2024
Religion in schools: protecting or neglecting the faithful?
May 10, 2024
Square-eyed screenagers: are phones corrupting our kids?
May 08, 2024
Disunited Kingdom: the rebirth of nations?
Apr 30, 2024
Is AI the end of art?
Apr 05, 2024
The politics of hate: is everyone a bigot but me?
Apr 02, 2024
Should we leave the European Convention on Human Rights?
Mar 26, 2024
Power play: who really rules today?
Mar 20, 2024
Why do comedians keep siding with the Establishment?
Feb 27, 2024
Podcast of Ideas: 24 February 2024
Feb 24, 2024
Reviving economies: Is the state a help or a hindrance?
Feb 16, 2024
Deifying diversity: a value for our times?
Feb 13, 2024
What would a Labour government look like?
Feb 10, 2024
Football fans, farmers and failed pledges - Podcast of Ideas
Feb 08, 2024
WhatsAppened to privacy?
Feb 02, 2024
Let's talk about race
Jan 30, 2024
Still in the race: understanding Trumpism
Jan 26, 2024
Extreme weather: can we adapt to a changing climate?
Jan 23, 2024
Podcast of Ideas: Rwanda, Rochdale and the Middle East
Jan 21, 2024
Still in the race: understanding Trumpism
Jan 12, 2024
Trust me, I’m your doctor: are GPs in crisis?
Jul 05, 2023
Jack Hues in conversation: Reflections of a Rock Star
May 19, 2023
Cancel culture comes for Claire Fox
Mar 24, 2023
Satirical art and the Culture War, with Miriam Elia
Mar 22, 2023
Gary Lineker: free speech, political debate and impartiality
Mar 13, 2023
No, Minister! Crisis in the Civil Service
Mar 08, 2023
Should teachers strike during an education crisis?
Mar 06, 2023
Podcast of Ideas: demystifying the deal
Mar 03, 2023
Have Brits fallen out of love with work?
Feb 28, 2023
Podcast of Ideas: Frank Furedi on the Ukraine War first anniversary
Feb 24, 2023
What does 2023 hold for the arts?
Feb 15, 2023
Is the Government right to veto Sturgeon’s self-id bill?
Jan 21, 2023
Debating Matters Beyond Bars: Jon Floyd and Heather Phillips
Dec 21, 2022
#SportscastofIdeas: World Cup - the final
Dec 16, 2022
#SportscastOfIdeas: World Cup 2022 Upsets and Underdogs
Dec 02, 2022
#SportscastOfIdeas: World Cup 2022 begins
Nov 25, 2022
Call To Courage: Winning The Battle Of Ideas
Nov 17, 2022
Podcast of Ideas - Claire Fox: ’Liz Truss is gone, but this isn’t over’
Oct 21, 2022
Is the UK heading for economic meltdown?
Sep 30, 2022
How can we end the cost-of-living crisis?
Jun 29, 2022
United we stand? Ukraine and the future of the West
Apr 25, 2022
#ScotlandSalon: Solidarity with Ukraine - freedom, democracy and sovereignty
Apr 14, 2022
Globalisation in retreat? AoI Economy Forum
Apr 05, 2022
#BelfastBattleFest: Misinformation - Ukraine, Big Tech and Online Censorship
Apr 01, 2022
#BelfastBattleFest: Snowflakes Or Revolutionaries? Free Speech On Campus
Apr 01, 2022
#BelfastBattleFest: Can Culture Survive The Culture Wars?
Apr 01, 2022
#BookLaunch: Free Speech - A Global History from Socrates to Social Media
Mar 23, 2022
Live debate: Ukraine in the crosshairs of history
Mar 15, 2022
#PodcastOfIdeas: War in Ukraine
Feb 25, 2022
Education Forum: Has Ofsted become too political?
Feb 22, 2022
#InternationalSalon: Boiling point - Russia and the West
Feb 04, 2022
#Arts&SocietyForum: What’s in store for the arts in 2022?
Jan 20, 2022
#SportscastOfIdeas: Controversy down under - from Djokovic to The Ashes
Jan 11, 2022
#BattleFest2021: What are Western values - and should we defend them?
Jan 07, 2022
#BattleFest2021: The post-pandemic recovery: how is it going?
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Can sport survive the culture wars?
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Care for the elderly: the forgotten minority?
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: From GB News to Ben & Jerry’s - boycotts or censorship?
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: How to fight cancel culture and win
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Girl, boy, other: how do we talk to kids about gender?
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Is it time to rethink the precautionary principle?
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Is levelling up really levelling down? The great inequality debate
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Racism and how to fight it
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: The status of science after the pandemic
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: The Irish border question
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Will green jobs save us?
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Can our data be used for good? The ethics of research
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Protection for me but not for thee? The equality conundrum
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Hate, heresy and the fight for free speech
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Feminism’s civil war
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: From profits to prophets - why has big business gone woke?
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Is there a case for fossil fuels?
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: A ’nudge’ too far? The rise of behavioural science and technocratic rule
Jan 03, 2022
#BattleFest2021: 20 years in Afghanistan - what happened?
Jan 02, 2022
#BattleFest2021: Who are we? Identity in crisis
Dec 06, 2021
#EducationForum: Teaching white privilege: making schools less racist or more divided?
Dec 02, 2021
#Arts&Society: Truth and politics in the theatre - in conversation with David Ireland
Dec 01, 2021
#InternationalSalon: From Covid to climate change: challenging the culture of fear?
Nov 25, 2021
#BattleFest2021: Is the NHS fit for purpose?
Nov 19, 2021
#BattleFest2021: Disinformation and Conspiracy - Tackling the Crisis of Trust
Nov 08, 2021
#BattleFest2021: Going Green - Eco Dogma or Salvation?
Nov 08, 2021
#BattleFest2021: Assisted Dying - Has its Time Come?
Oct 22, 2021
#SportscastOfIdeas: High jumps and low points - the Olympics returns at last
Aug 04, 2021
#SportscastOfIdeas: Defeat, division and the love of Slabhead - the Euros final
Jul 14, 2021
#SportscastOfIdeas: Speed, surprise and suspense - could it really be coming home?
Jul 08, 2021
#SportscastOfIdeas: Penalties, Pogba and Patriotism - Euros 202
Jul 02, 2021
#EconomyForum: Work after the pandemic - what can office workers expect?
Jun 25, 2021
#SportscastOfIdeas: Ronaldo and Coke, quarantine-dodging dignitaries and rainbow stadiums
Jun 23, 2021
#SportscastOfIdeas: Booing, kilts and small nations
Jun 18, 2021
#SportscastOfIdeas: Kneeling, bagpipe bans and Euro 2020
Jun 08, 2021
#LockdownDebates: Who needs human rights?
May 11, 2021
#EconomyForum: Special relationships: the UK, the US and the EU
May 05, 2021
#BookClub: The human heart in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara And The Sun
May 01, 2021
#SportscastOfIdeas: the rise and fall of the European Super League
Apr 23, 2021
#EconomyForum: What is Bidenomics?
Apr 13, 2021
#LockdownDebates: From cycle lanes to low-traffic neighbourhoods - who owns our streets?
Mar 24, 2021
#ScotlandSalon: What next for Scottish independence?
Mar 24, 2021
Book Launch: Free Speech and Why It Matters, with Andrew Doyle
Mar 08, 2021
#Arts&Society: Le Corbusier: universal artist or technocrat?
Mar 08, 2021
#EducationForum: Is lockdown damaging children’s mental health?
Mar 05, 2021
#LockdownDebates: Love under lockdown - are we finished with intimacy?
Feb 16, 2021
#Arts&Society: What is the future of classical music in the UK?
Feb 05, 2021
Book Launch: The Corona Generation, with Jennie Bristow
Feb 04, 2021
#LockdownDebates: Big Tech - platform, publisher or poison?
Jan 29, 2021
#PodcastOfIdeas: new year, new normal?
Jan 14, 2021
#EducationForum: Exploring Head, Hand, Heart by David Goodhart
Jan 06, 2021
#LockdownDebates: Conquering Covid - is there a better way?
Nov 25, 2020
#EconomyForum: Tilting at windmills - are there downsides to a ‘green recovery’?
Nov 25, 2020
Book Launch: Democracy Under Siege - Don’t Let Them Lock It Down!, with Frank Furedi
Nov 02, 2020
Book Launch: The Problem With Parenting, with Nancy McDermott
Nov 02, 2020
#EconomyForum: Time to scrap GCSEs?
Oct 12, 2020
#BookClub: Dorothy West’s ’The Wedding’
Oct 12, 2020
#LockdownDebates: Civil liberties in times of corona
Oct 06, 2020
#SocialPolicyForum: Is working from home, working?
Oct 01, 2020
#ScotlandSalon: Should we support the Scottish Hate Crime Bill?
Sep 30, 2020
#EconomyForum: Globalists, nationalists and their discontents
Sep 10, 2020
#ScotlandSalon: Will Covid-19 change education?
Sep 03, 2020
#Arts&SocietyForum: What future for the arts in the post-lockdown world?
Aug 25, 2020
#LockdownDebates: The divided state of America?
Aug 25, 2020
#LockdownDebates: Can we cancel ’cancel culture’?
Aug 25, 2020
#Arts&SocietyForum: Gabriella Swallow on JS Bach and Helmut Lachenmann
Aug 04, 2020
#SocialPolicyForum: Behind the NHS frontline
Aug 04, 2020
#EconomyForum: The Covid-19 global economy - from Italy to South Africa
Aug 04, 2020
Book Launch: Why borders matter, with Professor Frank Furedi
Aug 04, 2020
#Arts&SocietyForum: Gericault, Picasso and the art of composition
Aug 04, 2020
#Arts&SocietyForum: Morality and hell - the power of Dante’s Inferno
Aug 04, 2020
#EducationForum: After toppling statues, is it time to rewrite the curriculum?
Aug 04, 2020
#LockdownDebates: From furlough to mask-wearing: can we ever return to normal?
Jul 31, 2020
#BookClub: Burning books and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Jul 31, 2020
#LockdownDebates: How innovation works, with Matt Ridley
Jul 10, 2020
#SportscastOfIdeas: Sporting life beyond lockdown
Jul 01, 2020
#LockdownDebates: Has the NHS had a good crisis?
Jun 25, 2020
#Arts&SocietyForum: The shock of the old in Steven Berkoff’s ‘Greek’
Jun 18, 2020
#BookClub: Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the triumph of intimacy
Jun 17, 2020
#EconomyForum: The oil industry in times of Corona
Jun 12, 2020
#EducationForum: Can we go back to school?
Jun 12, 2020
#BookClub: When art imitates life - Albert Camus’ The Plague in lockdown
Jun 12, 2020
#LockdownDebates: What does George Floyd’s killing mean for British society?
Jun 12, 2020
#LockdownDebates: Morality during a pandemic, with Susan Neiman and Frank Furedi
Jun 04, 2020
#LockdownDebates: Has Covid-19 killed globalism?
Jun 04, 2020
#EconomyForum: Covid-19 and the US economy
May 26, 2020
#LockdownDebates: Is ‘gotcha’ journalism the new normal?
May 26, 2020
#EconomyForum: China, Covid-19 and the West
May 26, 2020
#BookClub: The moral dilemma of Ian McEwen’s Machines Like Me
May 26, 2020
#Arts&SocietyForum: How Salman Rushdie changed everything
May 26, 2020
#LockdownDebates: How much should we listen to experts?
May 26, 2020
#EducationForum: Is it time to reopen our schools?
May 07, 2020
#EconomyForum: Covid-19, from Germany to the developing world
May 07, 2020
#Arts&SocietyForum: The Burial at Thebes and the tragic imagination in poetry
May 07, 2020
#EconomyForum: How can we escape a coronavirus depression?
May 07, 2020
#EducationForum: Pedagogy and the ’Corona Classroom’
May 07, 2020
#EconomyForum: How will coronavirus affect Johnsonomics?
May 07, 2020
#PodcastOfIdeas: Is the lockdown lifting in Europe?
May 01, 2020
#PodcastOfIdeas: Has Coronavirus put an end to the generation wars?
Apr 23, 2020
#BookClub: Power, democracy and coronavirus in George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Apr 20, 2020
#SportscastOfIdeas: Missing the beautiful game
Apr 16, 2020
#PodcastOfIdeas: Facing the lockdown from Singapore to Johannesburg
Apr 10, 2020
#PodcastOfIdeas: The European response to Covid-19
Apr 03, 2020
#PodcastOfIdeas: Life in times of Corona
Mar 27, 2020
#BattleFest2019: Resisting wokeness with Andrew Doyle and Douglas Murray
Mar 12, 2020
#BattleFest2019: Health and genomics - what’s the score with polygenic scores?
Feb 26, 2020
#BattleFest2019: How can we create a new industrial revolution?
Feb 20, 2020
#BattleFest2019: Do we need a Green New Deal?
Feb 01, 2020
#BattleFest2019: From zero hours to apprenticeships - young people at work
Jan 29, 2020
#BattleFest2019: What’s the point of going to university?
Jan 29, 2020
#BattleFest2019: How can we create a construction revolution?
Jan 28, 2020
#BattleFest2019: Artificial intelligence in schools - where’s the humanity?
Jan 27, 2020
#BattleFest2019: Does the world need a government?
Jan 27, 2020
#BattleFest2019: A waste of a good crisis? A decade after the crash, with Larry Elliott
Jan 21, 2020
#BattleFest2019: What is the future of the Union?
Dec 20, 2019
#BattleFest2019: Caster Semenya running into controversy - genes, gender and sport
Dec 16, 2019
#PodcastOfIdeas: first thoughts on General Election 2019
Dec 13, 2019
#BattleFest2019: Assisted dying - a doctor’s poisoned chalice?
Dec 13, 2019
#BattleFest2019: The rise of toxic politics - can we be civil?
Dec 12, 2019
#BattleFest2019: Woke corporations - responsible capitalism or virtue signalling?
Dec 09, 2019
#BattleFest2019: What does it mean to be normal?
Dec 07, 2019
#BattleFest2019: Extinction or progress? Visions of the future
Dec 06, 2019
#BattleFest2019: The Life of Brian at 40 - are we more easily offended today?
Dec 04, 2019
#BattleFest2019: Titania McGrath - satire in the age of social justice
Dec 04, 2019
#BattleFest2019: Interrogating anti-Semitism with Deborah Lipstadt and Frank Furedi
Nov 26, 2019
#BattleFest2019: Are the old political parties dying?
Nov 26, 2019
#BattleFest2019: Education culture wars - what should be the role of schools today?
Nov 20, 2019
#BattleFest2018: Tearing up the rule book - the end of the new world order?
Jun 07, 2019
#BattleFest2018: The moral case for abortion
May 17, 2019
#BattleFest2018: The crisis of diplomacy in the era of Trump
May 10, 2019
#BattleFest2018: Feminism - in conversation with Camille Paglia
May 03, 2019
#BattleFest2018: Can we revive Britain’s ’Rust Belt’?
Apr 26, 2019
#EconomyForum: How can we revive UK economic growth?
Apr 12, 2019
#BattleFest2018: Culture - who pays?
Apr 05, 2019
#BattleFest2018: From robots to UBI - is capitalism digging its own grave?
Mar 22, 2019
#BattleFest2018: Do the right thing? The moral responsibility of the artist
Mar 15, 2019
#BattleFest2018: From anti-vaxers to Alfie’s army - have we lost faith in medical science?
Mar 01, 2019
#BattleFest2018: Understanding anti-Semitism today
Feb 22, 2019
#BattleFest2018: How fear works
Feb 14, 2019
#BattleFest2018: Automatic lovers - should we be worried about sex robots?
Feb 08, 2019
#BattleFest2018: Does our DNA define us?
Jan 31, 2019
#BattleFest2018: Democracy under siege?
Jan 23, 2019
#BattleFest2018: What is a woman anyway?
Jan 14, 2019
#PodcastOfIdeas: the 2018 culture wars
Dec 21, 2018
#PodcastOfIdeas: Brexit special
Dec 21, 2018
#PodcastOfIdeas: the World Cup, Luka Modric and Lewis Hamilton
Dec 12, 2018
#BattleFest2018: All change - navigating the new political disruption
Dec 07, 2018
#BattleFest2018: Rule Book Britain -are we in love with legislation?
Nov 30, 2018
#BattleFest2018: Advertising: all-powerful or over-rated?
Nov 23, 2018
#BattleFest2018: From SJW to gammon: weaponising political language
Nov 16, 2018
#BattleFest2018: Is free speech a fiction? In conversation with Lionel Shriver
Nov 08, 2018
#BattleFest2018: Drones - will they ever take off?
Nov 02, 2018
#BattleFest2018: Me, Me, Me! Narcissism and the new politics of identity
Oct 29, 2018
#SportscastOfIdeas: World Cup special, episode 6
Jul 16, 2018
#SportscastOfIdeas: World Cup Special, episode 5
Jul 11, 2018
#SportscastOfIdeas: World Cup Special, episode 4
Jul 05, 2018
#SportscastOfIdeas: World Cup special, episode 3
Jun 29, 2018
#SportscastOfIdeas: World Cup special, episode 2
Jun 21, 2018
#SportscastOfIdeas: World Cup Special, episode 1
Jun 14, 2018
Book Launch: How fear works - Professor Frank Furedi in conversation with Claire Fox
Jun 11, 2018
#BattleFest2017: The international abortion wars
May 25, 2018
#BattleFest2017: Are science and medicine threatened by borders?
May 18, 2018
#BattleFest2017: Medical dilemmas - who decides?
Apr 26, 2018
#BattleFest2017: Xi’s China - new global power?
Apr 05, 2018
#BattleFest2017: Silicon Valley - from heroes to zeroes?
Mar 26, 2018
#BattleFest2017: Was it Big Data wot won it? Political campaigning today
Mar 18, 2018
#BattleFest2017: Safety first - do we live in a ’cotton-wool society’?
Mar 09, 2018
#BattleFest2017: Putin’s Russia - a new Cold War?
Mar 02, 2018
#BattleFest2017: From Sandy Hook to Boston: guns, bombs and a changing America
Feb 23, 2018
#BattleFest2017: The corruption of political language
Feb 16, 2018
#BattleFest2017: Diversity - does it matter?
Feb 09, 2018
#PodcastOfIdeas: Presidents’ Club dinner, Brexit and the ’war on plastic’
Jan 26, 2018
#BattleFest2017: Do you trust the media?
Dec 21, 2017
#BattleFest2017: Millennials - youthquake or snowflakes?
Dec 15, 2017
#BattleFest2017: Can biotech lead an economic revolution?
Dec 07, 2017
#BattleFest2017: Is globalisation over? The future of world trade
Dec 02, 2017
#BattleFest2017: In the wake of Weinstein - #MeToo, calling out and sexual harassment
Nov 24, 2017
#BattleFest2017: From AI to Big Data - can technology save the NHS?
Nov 21, 2017
#BattleFest2017: Free speech for me, but not for thee
Nov 13, 2017
#BattleFest2017: Professor Stephen Farrall on Generation Right and the legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Oct 24, 2017
#BattleCry: Jamie Bartlett on the reaction against Silicon Valley
Oct 18, 2017
#BattleCry: Joanna Williams on contemporary feminism
Oct 12, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: Battle of Ideas preview
Oct 05, 2017
#BattleCry: Professor Tim Ingold on evolutionary psychology
Sep 27, 2017
#BattleCry: Cathy Young on the rise of the alt-right
Sep 20, 2017
#BattleFest2015: From Islamic State to Oxford - a monumental war on the past?
Aug 18, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: Scaramucci, gender identity and the Brexit transitional phase
Aug 03, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: public-sector pay, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron
Jul 07, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: the Grenfell tragedy, the Finsbury Park attack and the DUP
Jun 20, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: further reflections on Election 2017
Jun 12, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: the morning after Election 2017
Jun 09, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: UK general election - episode 4
Jun 05, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: UK general election - episode 3
May 25, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: UK general election - episode 2
May 15, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: UK general election - episode 1
Apr 28, 2017
Book Launch: Phil Mullan’s Creative Destruction - how to start an economic renaissance
Apr 07, 2017
#BattleFest2016: Cosmopolitanism and sovereignty - what next for Europe?
Mar 31, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: What next for Brexit?
Mar 17, 2017
#BattleFest2016: Tax wars and inequality
Mar 10, 2017
#BattleFest2016: Who are we? Identity politics dissected
Mar 03, 2017
#BattleFest2016: Immigration - what is the future of free movement?
Feb 24, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: Does Britain need an industrial strategy?
Feb 15, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: John Bercow’s snub, protests on campus and Living Freedom
Feb 10, 2017
#BattleFest2016: The UK economy after Brexit - sink or swim?
Jan 27, 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: Trump’s inauguration and Theresa May’s Brexit speech
Jan 20, 2017
#BattleFest2016: Is utopian thinking dead?
Jan 06, 2017
#BattleFest2016: The new populism
Jan 06, 2017
#BattleFest2016: What’s the truth about ’post-truth’ politics?
Dec 16, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: Josie Appleton on The rise of the Busybody State
Dec 09, 2016
#BattleFest2016: Zaha Hadid - her life and legacy
Dec 08, 2016
#BattleFest2016: Are political parties over?
Dec 02, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: public health, the view from Australia with Terry Barnes
Nov 18, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: Trump’s victory
Nov 11, 2016
#BattleFest2016: Can America be great again?
Nov 04, 2016
#BattleFest2016: Big Data: does size matter?
Oct 27, 2016
#BattleCry: Munira Mirza on reinvigorating London
Oct 21, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: What’s the truth about generational inequality?
Oct 21, 2016
#BattleCry: Anders Sandberg on ethical AI
Oct 14, 2016
#BattleCry: Ian Dunt on populism
Oct 07, 2016
#BattleCry: Timandra Harkness on Big Data
Sep 30, 2016
#BattleFest2015: After Ferguson - policing and race in America
Sep 22, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: How will we feed Britain after Brexit?
Sep 16, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: Was Brexit a democratic awakening?
Aug 05, 2016
#EconomyForum: The UK economy after Brexit
Jul 29, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: Austin Williams on China’s cities
Jul 15, 2016
#BattleFest2015: Georgios Varouxakis on JS Mill’s On Liberty
Jul 08, 2016
Live Special: Brexit - the battle for democracy starts here
Jul 01, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: a Brexit, post-referendum special
Jun 28, 2016
#BattleFest2015: We the People, you the Mob?
Jun 24, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: Jo Cox, Orlando and the referendum
Jun 17, 2016
#PodcastofIdeas: John Tierney debunks recycling myths
Jun 10, 2016
#BattleFest2015: Free-range parenting - reckless or responsible?
Jun 03, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: Brexit, fracking and public-health infighting
May 27, 2016
#BattleFest2015: European Referendum - what will decide the vote?
May 20, 2016
#PodcastofIdeas: Local elections, anti-Brexit arguments and the kid’s strike
May 12, 2016
#BattleFest2015: The Personal is Political - is identity politics eating itself?
May 06, 2016
#BattleFest2015: Can we manufacture a new economy?
Apr 29, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: monarchy, Brexit, German free speech under attack
Apr 22, 2016
#BattleFest2015: Is the NHS still worth defending?
Apr 15, 2016
#PodcastofIdeas: British steel, the Panama papers and Brexit
Apr 08, 2016
#BattleFest2013: Chewing the facts - what’s the truth of the obesity crisis?
Apr 01, 2016
#PodcastofIdeas: Must Rhodes Fall?
Mar 24, 2016
#PodcastofIdeas: the Brexit debate and public-health campaigns
Mar 11, 2016
#BattleFest: Reassessing paternalism: is autonomy a myth?
Mar 04, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: Free Speech at Manchester University
Feb 26, 2016
#PodcastofIdeas: Martin Durkin on Brexit
Feb 24, 2016
#PodcastofIdeas: Gravitational Waves
Feb 19, 2016
Book Launch: Frank Furedi on the Power of Reading - from Socrates to Twitter
Feb 12, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: Brexit, US election and public health naggers
Feb 05, 2016
#BattleFest2015: From literature to Twitter - the death of the reader?
Jan 29, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: the battle for free speech on campus
Jan 22, 2016
#BattleFest2015: Campus Wars - safe or sanitised?
Jan 18, 2016
#BattleFest2015: Is technology limiting our humanity?
Jan 15, 2016
#PodcastOfIdeas: Charlie Hebdo, Corbyn’s reshuffle and Brexit
Jan 07, 2016
#BattleFest2015: Can the UK economy survive Brexit?
Dec 18, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: The tyranny of health
Dec 11, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Paris, bombing Syria and climate-change talks
Dec 01, 2015
#BattleFest2015: The Corbyn Effect - are the old parties dead?
Nov 27, 2015
#BattleFest2015: The Paris attacks and the threat to an open society
Nov 20, 2015
#BattleFest2015: Shifting sands - understanding the Middle East today
Nov 16, 2015
#BattleFest2015: Anthropocene - are humans wrecking the planet?
Nov 09, 2015
#BattleFest2015: Planet of the Vapes - why is there a war on e-cigarettes?
Nov 06, 2015
#BattleFest2015: The battle for geek culture
Oct 30, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Battle of Ideas special
Oct 13, 2015
#BattleFest2016: Are greens the enemies of progress?
Oct 07, 2015
#BattleSatellite: Is Britain full?
Oct 02, 2015
#BattleFest2016: France: liberté, égalité, fraternité today
Sep 30, 2015
#BattleFest2016: Eugenics - myth and reality
Sep 25, 2015
#BattleFest2016: A tale of two cities - is inequality killing London?
Sep 18, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: making happiness policy
Sep 16, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Aylan Kurdi, the migration crisis and drone strikes
Sep 11, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: US shootings, migrant crisis and robot wars
Aug 28, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Kid’s Company, doping and milk prices
Aug 14, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Jeremy Corbyn, Lord Sewell and Ashley Madison
Jul 31, 2015
City of London Festival - highlights from our Justice, Money and Power series
Jul 17, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Greg Lukianoff, Sebastian Morello and DM at the British Library
Jul 03, 2015
#PodcastofIdeas: climate change and the pope, Rachel Dolezal and the DM final
Jun 19, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: FIFA Scandal, professionalism in crisis and a new approach to primary teaching
Jun 05, 2015
#BattleFest2014: Are we all vulnerable now?
May 29, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Fighting for the right to party and the history of theatre
May 22, 2015
#BattleFest2011: Can conservatism survive the 21st century?
May 08, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: The EU in crisis, the UK economy and the General Election campaign
May 01, 2015
#BattleFest2013: Time to get serious about irony
Apr 24, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Solving the housing crisis, scrapping the Human Rights Act and a breakthrough in autism research
Apr 17, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Richard III, General Election and rejuvenating the economy
Apr 01, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Racial equality laws, free speech on campus and tackling childhood obesity
Mar 20, 2015
#BattleFest2014: Ukraine: Cold War rebooted?
Mar 13, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Tax avoidance, plain packs and the sharing economy
Mar 06, 2015
#PodcastOfIdeas: Copenhagen terror attacks, the history of theatre and the FGM panic
Feb 20, 2015
#LondonLegalSalon: Abortion and Protest - Do We Need Buffer Zones?
Feb 13, 2015
#BattleFest2013: Do we live in a top-shelf society?
Jan 27, 2015
#PodcastofIdeas: Charlie Hebdo, Debating Matters and the Greek elections.
Jan 23, 2015
#BattleFest2014: America - the twilight years?
Jan 16, 2015
#BattleFest2014: Shopping and fretting - the ethics of buying the right thing
Jan 09, 2015
#BattleFest2014: To boldly go - what is the point of space exploration?
Dec 19, 2014
#BattleFest2014: Our morals, their moralism?
Dec 12, 2014
#BattleFest2014: Kindergarten culture - why does government treat us like children?
Dec 05, 2014
#BattleFest2014: What makes a great sporting leader?
Dec 02, 2014
#BattleFest2014: Cotton-wool campus?
Nov 20, 2014
#BattleFest2014: Immigration: who should control our borders?
Nov 12, 2014
#BattleFest2014: Should we fear democracy?
Nov 07, 2014
#BattleFest2014: Cultural regeneration or gentrification?
Oct 16, 2014
#BattleFest2015: From Magna Carta to ECHR - do we need a British Bill of Rights?
Oct 08, 2014
#BattleFest2012: To build or not to build?
Oct 03, 2014
#BattleFest2014: Opera: are we all invited?
Sep 26, 2014
#BattleFest2013 Private education - public harm?
Sep 18, 2014
#BattleFest2012: Banning the Brave New World? The ethics of science
Sep 10, 2014
#BattleFest2013: Building an intellectual legacy – the Battle for which ideas?
Sep 02, 2014
#BattleFest2012: Free will: just an illusion?
Aug 08, 2014