Speakers
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AProfessor Ian Acheson
senior advisor, Counter Extremism Project; visiting professor, school of law, policing and forensics, University of Staffordshire
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Dr Remi Adekoya
lecturer of politics, University of York; author It’s Not About Whiteness, It’s About Wealth and Biracial Britain
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Kasim Agpak
politics and sociology teacher, Richmond upon Thames College
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Professor Aaqil Ahmed
director, Amplify Consulting Ltd; professor of media, University of Bolton; former head of religion, Channel 4 and BBC
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Chris Akers
sports writer; ghost writer, King of the Journeymen: the life of Peter Buckley; podcaster, The 286 Project
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Tom Andrews
police historian; lecturer in policing, University of Derby; former police sergeant; author, The Sharpe End: murder, violence and knife crime on Nottingham’s thin blue line
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Josie Appleton
director, civil liberties group, Manifesto Club; author, Officious: Rise of the Busybody State; writer, Notes on Freedom
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Jason Ashley
headteacher, Redbridge Community School
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BEmily Barley
Maternity safety campaigner
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Dr Graham Barnfield
consultant; founder, Emalone Books; former senior lecturer in journalism
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Max Barragan Segre
regional club support officer, England Boxing
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Steven Barrett
barrister, Radcliffe Chambers; writer on law, Spectator
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Jack Barwell
chairman, Speak Easy National Movement; president, Exeter University Speak Easy Society; founder and president, Bridge the Gap;
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Felice Basbøll
project assistant, Ideas Matter; student, Trinity College Dublin
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Rob Bashforth
head of Computer Science, Salendine Nook High School Academy
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Linda Bellos OBE
equality, radical feminist and gay rights activist; diversity and human rights practitioner
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Simon Belt
managed IT provider; founder, Simply Better IT; founder, Manchester Salon
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Daniel Ben-Ami
journalist; creator, Radicalism of Fools; author, Ferraris for All: in defence of economic progress and Cowardly Capitalism
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Dr Piers Benn
philosopher, author and lecturer
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Charlie Bentley-Astor
writer; commentator; free-speech advocate
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Sabine Beppler-Spahl
chair, Freiblickinstitut e.V; CEO, Sprachkunst36; author, Off-centre: how party consensus undermines our democracy; Germany correspondent, spiked
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Tom Bewick
visiting professor of skills and workforce policy, Staffordshire University; fellow, Royal Society of Arts
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Elliot Bewick
producer, TRIGGERnometry
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Dr Tim Black
books and essays editor, spiked
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Dr Peter Boghossian
founding faculty fellow, University of Austin; executive director, National Progress Alliance; author, How to Have Impossible Conversations
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Michael Booker
editorial director, GB News
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Dr John Boughton
social historian; author
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David Bowden
associate fellow, Academy of Ideas
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Sam Bowman
editor, Works in Progress; board member, Mercatus Center
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Dr Catherine Breslin
AI scientist; AI consultant, Kingfisher Labs
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Dr Carlton Brick
lecturer in sociology, University of the West of Scotland; co-author, Contesting County Lines: case studies in drug crime and deviant entrepreneurship
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Jennie Bristow
senior lecturer in sociology, Canterbury Christ Church University; author, The Corona Generation: coming of age in a crisis and Growing up in Lockdown
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Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans
philosopher; co-founder, Women's Declaration International; author, Transgender Body Politics
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Jon Bryan
gambling writer and poker player
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Emma Burnell
founder and political consultant, Political Human; journalist; playwright, No Cure For Love, Triggered and Venom
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Louise Burton
history teacher
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Jamie Burton
founder and chair, Just Fair; barrister (KC), Doughty Street Chambers; author Three Times Failed: why we need enforceable socio-economic rights
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Nick Busvine OBE
consultant; founding partner, Herminius Holdings Ltd; advisory board member, Briefings for Britain; former diplomat, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Dr Jim Butcher
lecturer; researcher; co-author, Volunteer Tourism: the lifestyle politics of international development
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CEmma Cabezaolias
student, Durham University; treasurer, Speak Easy national committee;
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Marion Calder
co-director, For Women Scotland
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Simon Calvert
deputy director (Public Affairs), The Christian Institute
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Silkie Carlo
director, Big Brother Watch; co-author, Information Security for Journalists
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Emily Carver
broadcaster and columnist; presenter, GB News; former director of communications, Institute of Economic Affairs
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Dr Firat Cengiz
senior lecturer in law, University of Liverpool
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Dr JJ Charlesworth
art critic; editor, ArtReview
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Melissa Chen
managing director and board member, Ideas Beyond Borders; journalist and activist; contributing editor, Spectator World
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Patrick Christys
presenter, GB News; former presenter, Drive Time, talkRADIO; former local reporter
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Dr Mehmet Çiftçi
public bioethics fellow, Anscombe Bioethics Centre
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Simon Clark
director, FOREST; author, Hands Off Our Packs: diary of a political campaign and Freedom: Up in Smoke?
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Donald Clark
learning tech entrepreneur; investor; professor; author, Learning and the Metaverse; founder, Epic plc; CEO, WildFire
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Tessa Clarke
journalist; author; documentary reporter; deputy director, Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF)
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Niall Clarke
member of East Midlands Salon and Politics in Pubs Sheffield
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Dave Clements
writer; school governor; public servant
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William Clouston
party leader, Social Democratic Party
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Ben Cobley
author, The Tribe: the liberal-left and the system of diversity; public speaker; former Labour Party activist
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Poppy Coburn
assistant comment editor, Daily Telegraph
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Joel Cohen
associate fellow, Academy of Ideas
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Dr Kate Coleman
founder and director, Keep Prisons Single Sex
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Joanna Collins
Green Party councillor, High Peak Borough Council
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Tom Collyer
researcher, Pagefield; writer; musician; alumnus, Debating Matters
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Sue Cook
broadcaster and novelist; former presenter of Out of Court, and CrimewatchUK, BBC TV
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Paul Cox
comedian, writer and broadcaster
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Jason Crowley
integrative therapist
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Niall Crowley
designer; writer; former East End pub landlord
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Rosamund Cuckston
senior HR professional; co-organiser, Birmingham Salon
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Dolan Cummings
author, Taking Conscience Seriously and The Pictish Princess.. and other stories from before there was a Scotland
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Dr Philip Cunliffe
associate professor, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL; author, The New Twenty Years’ Crisis 1999-2019: a critique of international relations and Cosmopolitan Dystopia; co-host, Aufhebunga Bunga podcast
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Dr Jennifer Cunningham
retired community paediatrician
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DDr Sara Dahlen
writer; ethicist; researcher, King’s College London
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Alex Dale
designer and writer; podcast host, Performance Anxiety
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Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda
lecturer in French language and literature, Oriel College, University of Oxford; author, L’Anti-Salomé; fellow of Ralston College, Savannah
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Neil Davenport
cultural critic; head of faculty of social sciences, JFS Sixth Form Centre
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Andy Davey
freelance cartoonist
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Stephanie Davies-Arai
director, Transgender Trend; author, Communicating with Kids
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David Davis
member of parliament, Conservative Party
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Liam Deacon
communications and campaigns consultant, Pagefield Communications; former journalist; former head of press, Brexit Party
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Moira Deeming MP
Independent Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council, Western Metropolitan Region, Victoria Parliament
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Mary Dejevsky
former foreign correspondent in Moscow, Paris and Washington; special correspondent in China; writer and broadcaster
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Ben Delo
entrepreneur, mathematician and philanthropist
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Brian Denny
trade-union journalist, Rebuild Britain; author, Folk and the radical English tradition; curator, Working River: songs and music of the Thames project
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Dr Stuart Derbyshire
associate professor in psychology, National University of Singapore and the Clinical Imaging Research Centre
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Lord Meghnad Desai
crossbench peer; chair, Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust; emeritus professor of Economics, LSE
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Dr Charles Devellennes
senior lecturer, University of Kent; author: The Macron Régime: the Ideology of the New Right in France
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Ceri Dingle
director, WORLDwrite and WORLDbytes
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Nick Dixon
comedian; presenter, GB News; host, The Current Thing; host, The Weekly Sceptic
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Laura Dodsworth
writer; photographer; author, Free Your Mind and A State of Fear
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Alastair Donald
co-convenor, Battle of Ideas festival; convenor, Living Freedom; author, Letter on Liberty: The Scottish Question
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Pamela Dow
chief operating officer, Civic Future
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Andrew Doyle
presenter, Free Speech Nation, GB News; writer and comedian; author, The New Puritans: how the religion of social justice captured the Western world and Free Speech and Why It Matters
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Nicky Drury
genetic counsellor, Nottingham Department of Clinical Genetics; former member, United Kingdom Human Genetics Commission
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Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards
journalist; historian; crime novelist; broadcaster; awards include the Crime Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Gold Dagger for Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice
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Professor Bill Durodié
chair of International Relations, department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath
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EDr Wendy Earle
writer; convenor, Arts and Society Forum; former impact development officer, Birkbeck, University of London
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Dr Rakib Ehsan
author, Beyond Grievance: what the Left gets wrong about ethnic minorities
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Miriam Elia
satirical conceptual artist; author, We See the Sights, We Go To The Gallery and We Do Lockdown; creator, A Series Of Psychotic Episodes
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Lexi Ellingsworth
co-founder, Stop Surrogacy Now UK
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Paul Embery
firefighter; trade unionist; columnist; author, Despised: why the modern Left loathes the working class; broadcaster
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James Esses
barrister; social commentator; co-founder, Thoughtful Therapists
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FDenise Fahmy
director, Freedom in the Arts
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Simon Fanshawe OBE
consultant and writer; author The Power of Difference ; co-founder, Diversity by Design
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Thomas Fazi
journalist and writer; author, The Battle for Europe: how an elite hijacked a continent - and how we can take it back and The Covid Consensus: the global assault on democracy and the poor - a critique from the Left
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Matthew Feeney
writer; head of technology and innovation, Centre for Policy Studies; former director, Cato Institute’s Project on Emerging Technologies
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Anne Fennell
chair, Mothers at Home Matter; president, European Federation of Parents and Carers at Home
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Caroline Ffiske
co-founder and spokesperson, Conservatives for Women
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Naomi Firsht
journalist and commentator; co-author, The Parisians’ Guide to Cafés, Bars and Restaurants
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Kathryn Firth
director, Integrated City Planning, Arup; London Mayor Design Advocate; Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Inaya Folarin Iman
broadcaster and columnist; founder and director, The Equiano Project
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Maya Forstater
executive director, Sex Matters
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Francis Foster
teacher; comedian; co-host, TRIGGERnometry
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Claire Fox
director, Academy of Ideas; independent peer, House of Lords; author, I STILL Find That Offensive!
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Dr Ashley Frawley
sociologist; author, Significant Emotions and Semiotics of Happiness
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Dominic Frisby
writer; comedian; author, Bitcoin: the future of money?
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Lord David Frost
member of the House of Lords
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Ann Furedi
author, The Moral Case for Abortion; former chief executive, BPAS
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Professor Frank Furedi
sociologist and social commentator; executive director, MCC Brussels; author, 100 Years of Identity Crisis: culture war over socialisation
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GAmy Gallagher
psychiatric nurse and psychotherapist
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Sonia Gallego
senior producer and reporter, Al Jazeera English
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Ceri-Lee Galvin
sexual abuse victim; campaigner for changes to safeguarding regulations created by exemptions for gender change perpetrators
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Elisabetta Gasparoni
linguist; teacher; founder, Aesthetic Study Group
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Tony Gilland
chief of staff, MCC Brussels; associate fellow, Academy of Ideas
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Emma Gilland
politics student, University of Birmingham; co-author, The Corona Generation: coming of age in a crisis; editor, Redbrick
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Luke Gittos
criminal lawyer; author, Human Rights – Illusory Freedom; director, Freedom Law Clinic
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Marc Glendening
head of cultural affairs, Institute of Economic Affairs; author, Transgender Ideology: a new threat to liberal values
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Michael Goldfarb
journalist and historian, creator, FRDH Podcast; documentary maker, Evangelical or Political Christianity?; author, The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
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Matthew Goodwin
professor of politics, University of Kent; author, Values Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics , National Populism: the revolt against liberal democracy and Revolt on the Right
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Matilda Gosling
social researcher; author, Evidence-Based Parenting and Teenagers – The Evidence Base (forthcoming)
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Vincent Gould
songwriter; actor; poet and performer
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Manick Govinda
guest co-curator, Culture Tensions, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
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Madeline Grant
columnist, assistant comment editor and parliamentary sketchwriter, Telegraph; former editorial manager, Institute of Economic Affairs
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Jonathan Grant
chartered accountant; arts critic
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Ethan Green
researcher, Ideas Matter; fellow, Common Sense Society; national committee member, Speakeasy Group
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Professor Sunetra Gupta
professor of theoretical epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; award-winning novelist
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HDr Pauline Hadaway
researcher; writer; co-founder, The Liverpool Salon; author, Escaping the Panopticon
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Liam Halligan
columnist, Sunday Telegraph; presenter, On the Money, GB News; author, Home Truths: the UK's chronic housing shortage
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Maeve Halligan
founder and musician, The Hooligans; student
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James Hallwood
head of policy and external affairs, Council of Deans of Health
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Paddy Hannam
researcher, House of Commons; writer and commentator
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Professor Anders C Hansen
professor of mathematics, University of Cambridge; author, Compressive Imaging: structure, sampling, learning
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Rushabh Haria
London-based policy and project professional; Living Freedom alumnus
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Vivek Haria
composer, London Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Piatti Quartet; writer on art, technology and culture
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Timandra Harkness
journalist, writer and broadcaster; presenter, Radio 4's FutureProofing and How to Disagree; author, Big Data: does size matter?
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Kate Harris
co-founder and trustee, LGB Alliance; formerly Brighton Women’s Centre and Brighton Women’s Aid
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Phil Harrison
writer; author, The First Day; filmmaker, Even Gods
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Susie Hawkes
senior lecturer in social work, University of Wolverhampton
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Dennis Hayes
professor of education, University of Derby; founder and director, Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF); author, The Death of Academic Freedom? Free speech and censorship
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Dr Debbie Hayton
teacher; trade unionist; columnist, Spectator and UnHerd; author, Transsexual Apostate: my journey back to reality
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James Heartfield
lecturer and author
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Dr Caspar Hewett
lecturer and degree programme director, Water Group, EuroAquae+, School of Engineering, Newcastle University; director, The Great Debate
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Ivan Hewett
writer and broadcaster; chief music critic, Telegraph; professor, Royal College of Music; author, Music: healing the rift
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Balázs Hidvéghi
Member of the European Parliament (member, LIBE and Foreign Affairs committees); former director of communications, Fidesz; former member, Hungarian Parliament
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Milli Hill
freelance journalist; founder, Positive Birth Movement; author, Positive Birth Book
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Mark Hill
accountant; coordinator, Green Leaves; Green Party member
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Peter Hitchens
columnist, The Mail on Sunday; author, A Revolution Betrayed: how egalitarians wrecked the British education system
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Baroness Kate Hoey
non-aligned peer, House of Lords; former Labour MP; former sports minister; former unpaid commissioner for sport, London Mayor's office; Leave campaigner
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Robert Hoey
consultant
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Jon Holbrook
barrister; writer, spiked, Critic, Conservative Woman
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James Holland
writer and political consultant; Leave campaigner; former communications director, European Conservatives and Reformists Party
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Jenny Holland
writer and critic; former assistant, New York Times; author, Saving Culture (from itself) Substack
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Colin Horton
managing director, Hortons Group; founder, Flat; co-owner, Project & Co; podcaster
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Josh Howie
comedian; writer and star, Josh Howie’s Losing It, BBC Radio 4; actor, Hapless; television critic, Jewish Chronicle
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Dr Cheryl Hudson
lecturer in US political history, University of Liverpool; author, Citizenship in Chicago: race, culture and the remaking of American identity
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Jack Hues
musician; member, Wang Chung; creator, Primitif
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Ronnie Hughes
walker, reader and writer
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Professor Mike Hulme
professor of human geography and head of department, University of Cambridge; author, Why We Disagree About Climate Change and Climate Change Isn’t Everything; former founding director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Dr Jo Hurlow
consultant forensic psychiatrist; president, Birmingham Medicolegal Society
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Josephine Hussey
school teacher, AoI Education Forum
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IReem Ibrahim
communications officer, Institute of Economic Affairs; Linda Whetstone Scholar
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Ike Ijeh
author; architect; founder, London Architecture Walks; founding signatory, Don't Divide Us
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Professor Jonathan Israel
professor emeritus, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; author, Spinoza, Life and Legacy and Radical Enlightenment
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JLord Stewart Jackson
Conservative peer, House of Lords
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Bev Jackson
co-founder and trustee, LGB Alliance
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David Jamieson
Scottish socialist, journalist and editor
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Abbot Christopher Jamison
Abbot President, English Benedictine Congregation; author, Finding the Language of Grace: rediscovering transcendence
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Dr Tiffany Jenkins
writer and broadcaster; author, Strangers and Intimates (forthcoming) and Keeping Their Marbles
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Dr Richard Johnson
writer; senior lecturer in US politics, Queen Mary, University of London; co-author, Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 (forthcoming)
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Mark Johnson
advocacy manager, Big Brother Watch
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Luke Johnson
entrepreneur, Gail's Bakery
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Professor David Albert Jones
director, Anscombe Bioethics Centre; professor of bioethics, St Mary’s University, Twickenham; vice chair, Ministry of Defence Research Ethics Committee
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Sarah Jones
chief executive, Surrogacy UK
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Steve Jordan
director, hyperTunnel Limited
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Helen Joyce
director of advocacy, Sex Matters; author, TRANS: when ideology meets reality
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KEric Kaufmann
professor of politics, University of Buckingham, author, Taboo: how making race sacred produced a cultural revolution
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Dennis Kavanagh
director, Gay Men’s Network
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Eleanor Kavanagh-Brown
user-centred designer; project assistant, Academy of Ideas
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Eve Kay
executive producer unscripted; International Emmy winner; Realscreen and Critics Choice Award winner; Creative Arts Emmy winner
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Rosie Kay
dancer; choreographer; CEO and artistic director, K2CO LTD; founder, Freedom in the Arts
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Leo Kearse
comedian; writer, Breaking The News, Mock The Week and The Mash Report; co-creator, Hate 'n' Live
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Prof Dr Michaela Kendall
CEO, Adelan; UK Hydrogen Champion for Mission Innovation, UK Government
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Liz Kershaw
broadcaster and writer
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Khadija Khan
journalist and commentator
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Dr Wajahat Ali Khan
associate professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Derby
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Geoff Kidder
director, membership and events, Academy of Ideas; convenor, AoI Book Club
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Molly Kingsley
co-founder, UsForThem; co-author, The Children’s Inquiry
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Konstantin Kisin
satirist; podcaster, TRIGGERnometry; author, An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
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Lesley Klaff
senior lecturer in Law; editor-in-chief, Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism
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Dr Simon Knight
senior youth-work practitioner
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Stephen Knight
reporter and podcaster; host, The Knight Tube
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Agnieszka Kolek
head of cultural engagement, MCC Brussels; artist; curator; founder, Passion for Freedom London Art Festival; former deputy director, Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
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Joel Kotkin
R.C. Hobbs Professor of Urban Studies, Chapman University, California; executive director, Center for Opportunity Urbanism
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Marko Ković
author; podcaster; lecturer in sociology, University of Zürich
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Esther Krakue
columnist and broadcaster
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Ivan Krastev
political analyst; permanent fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna; chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies; author, Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe
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LHarry Lambert
staff writer, New Statesman; editor, New Statesman Saturday Read
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Dr Sean Lang
senior lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University; author, First World War for Dummies and What History Do We Need?; fellow, Historical Association
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Elena Louisa Lange
philosopher and author; editor-in-chief, Café Américain, a new magazine to launch in 2024
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Dr Shirley Lawes
researcher; consultant and university teacher, specialising in teacher education and modern foreign languages; Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques awarded
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Dr Holly Lawford-Smith
associate professor in political philosophy, University of Melbourne; author, Gender-Critical Feminism and Sex Matters: Essays in Gender-Critical Philosophy
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Laurie Laybourn
researcher; writer; associate fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research; co-author, Planet on Fire: A manifesto for the age of environmental breakdown
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Lysia Leal
student of City & Regional Planning, Technische Universität Berlin
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Ellie Lee
professor of family and parenting research, University of Kent, Canterbury; director, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies
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Ralph Leonard
author, Unshackling Intimacy: Letters on Liberty; contributor, Areo
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Matthew Lesh
director of public policy and communications, Institute of Economic Affairs
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Dr Norman Lewis
visiting research fellow, MCC Brussels; co-author, Big Potatoes: the London manifesto for innovation
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Penny Lewis
lecturer, University of Dundee; author, Architecture and Collective Life
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Sheila Lewis
retired management consultant; book-club founder
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Graham Linehan
creator and co-creator, Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd; comedy writer, Count Arthur Strong, Brass Eye and The Fast Show; author, Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy
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Anna Loutfi
equality and human rights barrister; consultant, The Bad Law Project
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Dr Mo Lovatt
national coordinator, Debating Matters; programme coordinator, Academy of Ideas
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Andrew Lowenthal
writer and researcher; director, liber-net; co-founder and former executive director, EngageMedia
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Rob Lyons
science and technology director, Academy of Ideas; convenor, AoI Economy Forum
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MLord Ken Macdonald KC
barrister, Matrix Chambers; crossbench peer
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Dr Jan Macvarish
education and events director, Free Speech Union; author, Neuroparenting: the expert invasion of family life
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Iain Macwhirter
columnist, The Times and Spectator; author, Disunited Kingdom: how Westminster won a referendum but lost Scotland
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Scarlett Maguire
director, J.L. Partners; former producer in media
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Beverley Marshall
AoI Parents Forum; working mum of three teenage children
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Toby Marshall
film studies teacher; member, AoI Education Forum
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Winston Marshall
musician; writer; podcast host, Marshall Matters; founding member, Mumford & Sons
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Matilda Martin
English student, University of Oxford
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Dr Zareer Masani
historian, author, journalist, broadcaster
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Fiona McAnena
director of sport, Fair Play For Women
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Catherine McBride
economist; fellow, Centre for Brexit Policy
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Dr Fiona McEwen
survey and interventions director, King’s College London
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Frank McKenna
group chairman & chief executive, Downtown in Business; former leader, North-West Regional Assembly; business programme host, City Talks radio
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Lisa McKenzie
working-class academic; author, Getting By: estates class and culture in austerity Britain and Working Class Lockdown Diaries
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Simon McKeon
archivist and writer
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Lois McLatchie
senior communications officer, ADF UK; commentator
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Dr Ken McLaughlin
former social worker; academic; author, Surviving Identity: Vulnerability and the psychology of recognition and Stigma, and its discontents
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John McTernan
political strategist, BCW; former director of political operations, Blair government; writer, Financial Times and UnHerd
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Professor Anand Menon
director, UK in a Changing Europe
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Michael Merrick
director of schools, Diocese of Lancaster; former teacher; education and social commentator
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Dr Ruth Mieschbuehler
senior lecturer in education studies, Institute of Education, University of Derby; author, The Racialisation of Campus Relations
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Sally Millard
director of finance; co-founder, AoI Parents Forum
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Alan Miller
co-founder and chair, Together Association;
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Dr Don Milligan
writer and social commentator; author, The Embrace of Capital
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Ali Miraj
broadcaster; founder, the Contrarian Prize; infrastructure financier; DJ
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Munira Mirza
chief executive, Civic Future
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Ian Mitchell
English literature and psychology teacher; writer, Teachwire; member, AoI Education Forum
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Omar Mohamed
student; president of Speak Easy, Royal Holloway University
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Tim Montgomerie
conservative journalist; founder, ConservativeHome, UnHerd and Centre for Social Justice
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Rick Moore
business owner, InControl; electronic engineer; deputy chair political, Blackburn Conservative Association
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Lord Moylan
Conservative peer
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Phil Mullan
writer, lecturer and business manager; author, Beyond Confrontation: globalists, nationalists and their discontents
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Para Mullan
former operations director, EY-Seren; fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
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Joan Mulvenna
semi-retired garden designer; founding member, Politics In Pubs
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Linda Murdoch
former director of careers, University of Glasgow
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Mercy Muroki
policy fellow to minister for women and equalities and business and trade secretary
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Masimba Musodza
novelist in ChiShona and English; blogger, The Times of Israel; writer
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Fraser Myers
deputy editor, spiked; host, the spiked podcast
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NJo-Anne Nadler
political commentator and writer; campaigner, Don't Divide Us
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Shreya Nanda
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