LOCKDOWN DEBATE: The Covid-19 pandemic has put an unusual strain on health systems around the world. What can we learn from how the NHS is dealing with the crisis? Should we continue with a model of healthcare that is both publicly funded and (mostly) publicly provided? Could we learn from other countries’ systems that have coped better? Are the problems the NHS has faced a result of politicians not backing up supportive words with adequate funding? Or has the NHS’s place as our ‘national religion’ prevented an honest debate about its future Kate Andrews, Dr Lee Jones, Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen and Patrick Vernon discuss.
#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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