Sunday

These are the sessions for Sunday 29 October at Battle of Ideas festival in London. You can the full programme in PDF format here.

Weekend Saturday Sunday Strands

10:00-10:45 Sunday 29 October

Breakfast Banter: gender ideology and criminal justice

Old Office, Church House

Breakfast Banter: Marking time: how should lecturers judge students?

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Breakfast banter: Gagged cartoonists: is satire still possible?

Council Room, Church House

Breakfast banter: can we agree to disagree?

The Chapel, Church House

BREAKFAST BANTER: Who gives a folk?

Westminster Room, Church House

Breakfast Banter: Misinformation Wars: who fact-checks the fact-checkers?

Convocation Hall, Church House

11:00-12:30 Sunday 29 October

Are the culture wars a distraction?

Assembly Hall, Church House

ChatGPT: cheating or a new tool for learning?

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Still in the race: understanding Trumpism

Temple Room, Church House

Scotland’s ‘progressive agenda’: a warning?

Westminster Room, Church House

Why do comedians keep siding with the establishment?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Can renewables power the world?

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

Should we leave the European Convention on Human Rights?

Convocation Hall, Church House

Let’s talk about race

Old Office, Church House

Holding Covid times to account

Council Room, Church House

12:40-13:30 Sunday 29 October

Heroes or villains? Parliament Square Statues Guided Tour

12:45-13:30 Sunday 29 October

Housing crisis: is the leasehold scam a distraction?

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

Revitalising Free Speech on Campus: Living Freedom and Speak Easy

Old Office, Church House

Abolition Times: live music celebrating forgotten heroes

The Chapel, Church House

Capitalism and the working class: a love-hate relationship

Council Room, Church House

Understanding Modi’s India

Temple Room, Church House

Is there a ‘war on the motorist’?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

13:45-15:15 Sunday 29 October

Who’s afraid of populism?

Assembly Hall, Church House

I predict a riot: France in flames

Temple Room, Church House

Housing Britain: YIMBYs vs NIMBYs

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

Bookshop Barnie with Peter Hitchens: ‘A Revolution Betrayed’

Convocation Hall, Church House

Should schools teach social justice?

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Has the law become partisan?

Westminster Room, Church House

Can museums survive the culture wars?

Old Office, Church House

Bodies that matter: transgenderism and transhumanism

Council Room, Church House

Banning conversion therapy: a threat to freedom and conscience?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Letters on Liberty: In defence of drag

Abbey Room, Church House

15:45-17:00 Sunday 29 October

I dissent! Challenging the culture of conformism

Assembly Hall, Church House

What is ‘The Blob’?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Bad boys of the EU? Demonising Poland and Hungary

Temple Room, Church House

The politics of neurodiversity: fashion or affliction?

Westminster Room, Church House

‘Speaking as a…’: the tyranny of ‘lived experience’

Old Office, Church House

From BBC to GB News: can the media be impartial?

Convocation Hall, Church House

Extreme weather: can we adapt to a changing climate?

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

Ofsted: cruel judgement or making schools accountable?

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Brexit: how can we take control?

Council Room, Church House

Letters on Liberty: Freedom: up in smoke?

Abbey Room, Church House

17:15-18:30 Sunday 29 October

Against fatalism: how can we create a new Enlightenment?

Assembly Hall, Church House

Politicisation of therapy

Westminster Room, Church House

Israel at war

Temple Room, Church House

Andrew Tate and the lost boys

Convocation Hall, Church House

Have we given up on sexual freedom?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Sport’s trans wars

Old Office, Church House

Schools: the great expulsion debate

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Net Zero: can the economy and democracy survive?

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

18:30-20:30 Sunday 29 October

End of festival drinks 2023

Bishop Partridge Hall, Church House