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World Cup 2026: does size matter, who's gonna win – and who's got the best kit?
The World Cup is back – and so is the World Cup Podcast of Ideas. With the biggest-ever tournament kicking off on Thursday 11 June across the US, Mexico and Canada, we’ve got the team together to discuss some of the burning issues....
From EDI police to the Strait of Hormuz: we have a lot to talk about
Battle of Ideas festival is the UK’s premier annual festival of debate on the biggest issues of our times. And wow, there are a lot of issues to discuss. In the wake of revelations about the police’s inhumane treatment of stabbing vi...
Henry Nowak: we must demand accountability
Henry Nowak
‘We’ve just been attacked racially by some white person.’ Vickrum Digwa’s brother instinctively knew which buttons to press to mobilise the British state. The ideology behind the treatment of Henry Nowak, and sadly now a...
The pope, AI and ‘magnificent humanity’
On 16 May, Pope Leo XIV published a new encyclical – a letter to all Catholic bishops and directed to the wider church – on the question of artificial intelligence. Usually, grand statements from the Vatican on social issues are scar...
Nova Exhibition: the normality amid the horror
Nova Exhibition in London, where freed hostage Or Levy gave testimony.
‘Let me tell you about who I was before.’ That’s how Or Levy – an Israeli who spent 491 days as a hostage in Gaza – softly began to speak. I hope that, for those...
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Free speech and democracy campaigner, member of the House of Lords, and founder of the Academy of Ideas, where we seek to shape the future through public debate. Check out our Battle of Ideas festival #BattleFest
science and technology director, Academy of Ideas; convenor, AoI Economy Forum
director, Future Cities Project
Associate director, Academy of Ideas; co-convenor, Battle of Ideas festival: convenor, Living Freedom
Co-editor, The Future of Community (Pluto, 2008); Contributor, The Future of the Welfare State (Axess, 2017)
Lecturer BNH-HKBU United International College, China | Formerly @ Shandong Agricultural Uni | host of Speakeasy Pod | Contributor Think Scotland | Substacker
Retired Headteacher. Convenor of the Classical Philosophy Reading Group. Plato enthusiast. Currently reading mathematics and mathematical philosophy. Often found debating democracy and freedom in one form or another.
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Event Coordinator at Academy of Ideas; convenor, Battle Book Club
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