LOCKDOWN DEBATES: During the summer, the lockdown measures imposed in March were dismantled piece by piece. We were even encouraged in August to ‘eat out to help out’. But in the past few weeks, more and more restrictions have been imposed across countries and regions, including the return of lockdown in Wales and Ireland. Can we continue to live with lockdowns and restrictions, or should we find different ways to manage the risk? Indeed, how do we decide? Should we adopt a ‘consequentialist’ approach, adding up the ‘best guess’ costs and benefits of each policy and choosing the one that causes the least harm? Do we choose to emphasise rights and freedoms and live with the consequences as best we can? How should we move forward? Emily Barley, Rob Lyons and Alan Miller discuss.
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#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
#Arts&Society: Le Corbusier: universal artist or technocrat?
#EducationForum: Is lockdown damaging children’s mental health?
#LockdownDebates: Love under lockdown - are we finished with intimacy?
#Arts&Society: What is the future of classical music in the UK?
Book Launch: The Corona Generation, with Jennie Bristow
#LockdownDebates: Big Tech - platform, publisher or poison?
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