18 Doughty Street

In an age when substance is given over to sound bite and free-thinking is marginalised by the politics of centrism, the Battle of Ideas challenges our modern-day intellectual orthodoxy by providing a forum where ideas stand or fall on their own merit.  18 Doughty Street is proud to support the Battle of Ideas as it pushes the debate forward.

- Donal Blaney, General Counsel, 18 Doughty Street


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"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times