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What remains when the state has given up on culture?
Lola Salem is one of the few contemporary cultural critics who is both relentlessly critical of the current moment and who refuses to give into a quietist pessimism. Last weekend, she gave an excellent lecture at Ideas Matter’s annual intel...
Suicidal empathy: is the West killing itself with kindness?
This article is a provocation for a debate at this year’s Battle of Ideas festival, ‘Suicidal empathy: is the West killing itself with kindness?’. Agree or disagree? Let us know in the comments. Or better still, come to the festival...
Special last-minute ticket offer! Academy 2026 THIS WEEKEND
The Academy 2026 is almost here. This year, our theme is Hollow Leviathan: The state against the demos.
We’re going to be probing state breakdown, the return of the national interest, the fracturing of society, the sorry state of the mili...
Bookies, barbers and black markets: Burnham’s high-street delusion
William Hill bookmakers in Plymouth, 2019 (RogerMechan / Shutterstock.com)
The high-street bookie is the latest victim to be sacrificed on the progressive altar of refusing to admit the thing. In this case, that thing is the growth...
Fear, favour and failure: the crisis in British policing
Metropolitan Police patrol outside Palace of Westminster (Alex Segre)
Reading this account from the BBC of how a sexual predator, Simon Levy – who police knew about, but somehow managed to evade detention – was so gruelling and also...
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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
I'm an editor and writer based in the UK. Alongside The New Albion, I serve as Senior Editor of Ad Fontes and as Managing Editor at The Davenant Press.
science and technology director, Academy of Ideas; convenor, AoI Economy Forum
Academy of Ideas associate fellow; head of policy, MCC Brussels Interests in foreign affairs, the culture war, and literature. On X @jacobreynolds
Associate director, Academy of Ideas; co-convenor, Battle of Ideas festival: convenor, Living Freedom
journalist and commentator; co-convenor, Battle of Ideas festival; commissioning editor, Letters on Liberty; author, What Women Want
Convenor of the summer school The Academy; writer, commentator and book-reader
Stubborn advocate for the environment and women's rights.
Director & lead researcher, Don’t Divide Us. Educator, consultant and writer.
Partnerships and PR Manager at the Academy of Ideas
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