Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Campaigning for evidence based education
Few patients would want doctors to make decisions based on their ideologies; when our health is at stake, we want to know that health professionals are drawing on evidence founded in rigorous scientific research.
Carly Chynoweth,
The Times, 10 December 2009
Society is collapsing because you are greedy
Social crises have always been blamed on the extravagance of the rich. But today, all of us - from wealthy to peasant - are labelled ‘decadent’.
Brendan O'Neill,
spiked, 26 November 2009
Welfare: how help becomes a hindrance
With the shift of emphasis from welfare to wellbeing, the state reinforces the sense that we are unable to cope with life.
David Clements,
spiked, 19 November 2009
Q&A with John Cooper
John Cooper is a member of the criminal and human rights Bar and is considered one of the leading barristers in London. He was recently nominated as Human Rights Barrister of the Year. John spoke to trainee barrister and Battle of Ideas committee member, Luke Gittos.
Luke Gittos & John Cooper,
Independent Independent Minds, 18 November 2009
We must stop being tolerant of repression
In a recent speech, the libertarian Wendy Kaminer argued that state intervention into everyday life is giving rise to ‘habits of submission’.
Wendy Kaminer,
spiked, 12 November 2009
The Attack on World Poverty: Going Back to Basics
This book tries to look squarely at some of the problems of development that everyone - from the South and from the North - has tried, and is still trying, to address, and some that we are avoiding altogether.
Benny Dembitzer, Green Print,
9 November 2009
A new type of activism is being born
Is activism dead – or is it blooming? Some look at the G20 demos or student occupations and see a vibrant youthful movement, taking on the injustices of the day. Others look at the same gatherings and see only a confused bedraggled crowd, a mere shadow of 1960s mobilisations.
Josie Appleton,
openDemocracy, 9 November 2009
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