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.
Julie Bindel, feminist campaigner, active in women’s liberation movement since 1979; writer,
Guardian,
Standpoint Magazine; columnist,
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Frank Furedi, professor, sociology, University of Kent, Canterbury; author,
Wasted, Politics of Fear and
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
Bettany Hughes, president, Joint Association of Classical Teachers; broadcaster; author,
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the search for the good life
Virginia Ironside, journalist; agony aunt,
The Independent; author,
The Virginia Monologues: why it's great to be sixty
Wendy Kaminer, US-based writer on law, liberty, feminism, religion, and popular culture; author,
Worst Instincts: cowardice, conformity & the ACLU
Irma Kurtz, writer; broadcaster; agony aunt,
Cosmopolitan Magazine; author,
About Time: growing old disgracefully
Philippe Legrain, journalist; writer; author,
Immigrants: your country needs them and
Aftershock: reshaping the world economy after the crisis
Tim Parks, novelist, essayist and translator; author of
Teach Us to Sit Still, a sceptic’s search for health and healing and
Dreams of Rivers and Seas; associate professor, English and Translation, IULM University, Milan
Anthony Seldon, master, Wellington College; historian; political commentator; author,
Trust: how we lost it and how to get it back and
Brown at 10
Tarun J Tejpal, founder and editor,
Tehelka; former editor,
India Today; novelist; author,
The Story of My Assassins
David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science; author,
The Pinch: how baby boomers took their children's future - and why they should give it back
David Yelland, partner, Brunswick Group LLP; former editor,
The Sun; author,
The Truth About Leo
Peter York, broadcaster and journalist; ex style editor,
Harpers and Queens; author,
Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: the return of the Sloane Ranger
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