Battle of Ideas 2010 30 & 31 October, London

The Battle of Ideas 2010 will be a two-day festival of high-level, thought-provoking debate organised by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art.

Battle News

The Battle for Politics: Institute of Ideas pre-election public summit - PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED

The Battle for Politics
Pre-Election Public Summit

Gatecrashing the political party -
Create a new agenda: 20 March 2010

Info & Tickets

Festival Brochure

Read the Battle of Ideas 2009 Festival brochure PDF [913 KB]

Reading for Battle

Society is collapsing because you are greedy, Brendan O'Neill

Q&A with John Cooper, Luke Gittos & John Cooper

It was disappointing to see how quickly we adopted the tawdry norms of African and global politics, Sharmini Brookes & Andrew Feinstein


Battles in Print

Questioning the carnivalesque , Ashley Frawley

Refocusing remembrance , Ted Harrison

Some myths of the ‘Work-Life Balance’ discussion , Para Mullan


Festival Buzz

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"Only the Battle of Ideas could provide the platform for a discussion about a GCSE Science exam where the atmosphere was so electric. It felt like a battle for the soul of British education."
Philip Walters, chairman, Rising Stars educational publishers

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