PODCAST OF IDEAS: Europe might be the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic at the moment, but this is a global problem. Alastair Donald, co-ordinator of our international Battle satellites, talks to friends and speakers from our annual festival: the Battle of Ideas. From Singapore: Stuart Derbyshire is the associate professor in psychology at the National University of Singapore and the Clinical Imaging Research Centre. From upstate New York: Nancy McDermott is an independent researcher with a special interest in the family, parenting, science and the public-private spheres. From Sweden: Johan Wirfält is the artistic director of talks, debates and film at the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. And from Johannesburg: Matthew Kruger is a law consultant specialising in corporate, constitutional and human-rights litigation.
#BattleFest2017: Medical dilemmas - who decides?
#BattleFest2017: Xi’s China - new global power?
#BattleFest2017: Silicon Valley - from heroes to zeroes?
#BattleFest2017: Was it Big Data wot won it? Political campaigning today
#BattleFest2017: Safety first - do we live in a ’cotton-wool society’?
#BattleFest2017: Putin’s Russia - a new Cold War?
#BattleFest2017: From Sandy Hook to Boston: guns, bombs and a changing America
#BattleFest2017: The corruption of political language
#BattleFest2017: Diversity - does it matter?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Presidents’ Club dinner, Brexit and the ’war on plastic’
#BattleFest2017: Do you trust the media?
#BattleFest2017: Millennials - youthquake or snowflakes?
#BattleFest2017: Can biotech lead an economic revolution?
#BattleFest2017: Is globalisation over? The future of world trade
#BattleFest2017: In the wake of Weinstein - #MeToo, calling out and sexual harassment
#BattleFest2017: From AI to Big Data - can technology save the NHS?
#BattleFest2017: Free speech for me, but not for thee
#BattleFest2017: Professor Stephen Farrall on Generation Right and the legacy of Margaret Thatcher
#BattleCry: Jamie Bartlett on the reaction against Silicon Valley
#BattleCry: Joanna Williams on contemporary feminism
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