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.
#BattleFest2019: Interrogating anti-Semitism with Deborah Lipstadt and Frank Furedi
#BattleFest2019: Are the old political parties dying?
#BattleFest2019: Education culture wars - what should be the role of schools today?
#BattleFest2018: Tearing up the rule book - the end of the new world order?
#BattleFest2018: The moral case for abortion
#BattleFest2018: The crisis of diplomacy in the era of Trump
#BattleFest2018: Feminism - in conversation with Camille Paglia
#BattleFest2018: Can we revive Britain’s ’Rust Belt’?
#EconomyForum: How can we revive UK economic growth?
#BattleFest2018: Culture - who pays?
#BattleFest2018: From robots to UBI - is capitalism digging its own grave?
#BattleFest2018: Do the right thing? The moral responsibility of the artist
#BattleFest2018: From anti-vaxers to Alfie’s army - have we lost faith in medical science?
#BattleFest2018: Understanding anti-Semitism today
#BattleFest2018: How fear works
#BattleFest2018: Automatic lovers - should we be worried about sex robots?
#BattleFest2018: Does our DNA define us?
#BattleFest2018: Democracy under siege?
#BattleFest2018: What is a woman anyway?
#PodcastOfIdeas: the 2018 culture wars
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