PODCAST OF IDEAS: We're closing in on week two of lockdown in the UK, with life on pause for many of us cooped up at home. But thinking outside of our own four walls, it has often been hard to get a sense of what's happening across Europe, where cases of the virus seem to be skyrocketing. Some countries, like Italy, have forced their citizens into weeks of house arrest. Others have taken a more liberal approach - and have often been criticised for it.
This week, in the latest of a new series of the Podcast of Ideas, Alastair Donald talks to friends and speakers from our annual festival: the Battle of Ideas. You'll hear Fraser Myers, spiked's staff writer in London; Anne-Élisabeth Moutet, Telegraph journalist in Paris; Sean O'Halloran, freelance journalist in Fabriano in Eastern Italy and Lamprini Thoma, writer and podcaster in Thessaloniki.
#BattleFest2021: Is the NHS fit for purpose?
#BattleFest2021: Disinformation and Conspiracy - Tackling the Crisis of Trust
#BattleFest2021: Going Green - Eco Dogma or Salvation?
#BattleFest2021: Assisted Dying - Has its Time Come?
#SportscastOfIdeas: High jumps and low points - the Olympics returns at last
#SportscastOfIdeas: Defeat, division and the love of Slabhead - the Euros final
#SportscastOfIdeas: Speed, surprise and suspense - could it really be coming home?
#SportscastOfIdeas: Penalties, Pogba and Patriotism - Euros 202
#EconomyForum: Work after the pandemic - what can office workers expect?
#SportscastOfIdeas: Ronaldo and Coke, quarantine-dodging dignitaries and rainbow stadiums
#SportscastOfIdeas: Booing, kilts and small nations
#SportscastOfIdeas: Kneeling, bagpipe bans and Euro 2020
#LockdownDebates: Who needs human rights?
#EconomyForum: Special relationships: the UK, the US and the EU
#BookClub: The human heart in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara And The Sun
#SportscastOfIdeas: the rise and fall of the European Super League
#EconomyForum: What is Bidenomics?
#LockdownDebates: From cycle lanes to low-traffic neighbourhoods - who owns our streets?
#ScotlandSalon: What next for Scottish independence?
Book Launch: Free Speech and Why It Matters, with Andrew Doyle
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