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#BattleFest24
🚨
19 & 20 October 2024
At
@Churchhouseconf
EARLYBIRD discount tickets are now available!
The Battle of Ideas festival 2024 is more important than ever: attended by thousands, with hundreds of speakers, where the ideas can be presented, argued over and put to
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Academy of Ideas director
@Fox_Claire
on GBNews last night asks why British politicians across the political spectrum seem unwilling to come forward to defend freedom of protest in Canada:
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Did you watch our remarkable colleague
@Ella_M_Whelan
on Question Time?
Bravo Ella for standing up for the reality of sex, women's rights, and basic facts about reality 👏👏👏
“It’s remarkable to me that politicians in this country…seem to have given up on the belief in reality, that sex is real and that it’s irrefutable”
Journalist Ella Whelan says women are an afterthought in the debate around single-sex spaces
#bbcqt
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Academy of Ideas: Sex is real. So why have politicians given up on reality?
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Solidarity with
@UnleashedComedy
&
@Glinner
from all of us👊
More festivals need to join us & stand up for freedom of expression🗣️
Come to Battle of Ideas festival this 28 & 29 Oct where no-one is cancelled & Graham Linehan is always welcome!
Tix 👉
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Today marks an important moment as we launch the
#peopleslockdowninquiry
with
@thereclaimparty
@LozzaFox
You can read the submissions and watch the video testimonies at
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All of us at the Academy of Ideas are delighted to congratulate our director
@Fox_Claire
on her peerage. Hats off 🍾🍾🍾
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"Don't be fooled by the people who say the fuss over pronouns is trivial."
@andrewdoyle_com
on the consequences of gender ideology.
Join the Academy of Ideas: shaping the future through debate.
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We’re excited to be launching the
#peopleslockdowninquiry
with
@thereclaimparty
and
@LozzaFox
tomorrow
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When people say '
#Brexit
will make you poorer' to working-class Leave voters, what they actually mean is 'we know what's best for you' -
@Fox_Claire
on
@adamboultonSKY
#AllOutPolitics
this morning on
@SkyNews
.
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"Adults should never have let you make that decision in the first place."
@JamesEsses
on the importance of safeguarding children in the trans debate.
James will be speaking on two panels at this year's
#BattleFest
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Book signings & fabulous books gallore at
#BattleFest
Bookstall this year ... including these three fellas'
📚
@thecoastguy
📚
@Glinner
📚
@andrewdoyle_com
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"I can promise
#BattleFest
will always be a home for anyone with the courage & imagination to see the world can be a different place, who are prepared to build anew, who respect free speech & are serious about themselves & their ideas."
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"Rishi Sunak claims he wasn't allowed to talk about the damage of lockdown. In fact, he was just too spineless to speak up"
Up now on Substack - latest from
@Fox_Claire
's Inside the Lords series
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"We both lost grandmothers during the pandemic, but we weren't ever allowed to see them, not even at the end ... they were locked away from us, like in prison"
One of many heartbreaking stories collected for
#PeoplesLockdownInquiry
@thereclaimparty
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Academy of Ideas director
@Fox_Claire
on why political language isn't incitement on BBC
#PoliticsLive
yesterday:
"It's the end of free speech if we suggest that just because one person says something, others act in that way."
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"What they call 'misgendering' we call 'accurately sexing'."
Three days to go until
@andrewdoyle_com
and
@Glinner
at
#BattleFest
Tickets
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IN CONVERSATION WITH: GRAHAM LINEHAN
@andrewdoyle_com
will be talking to
@Glinner
about his new memoir Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy at
#BATTLEFEST
Read more and grab your tickets:
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"It was at a funeral ... a son had gone to comfort his mother, and the security guard separated them"
#PeoplesLockdownInquiry
@thereclaimparty
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Academy of Ideas director
@Fox_Claire
tells
@thecoastguy
about
#BattleFest
taking place NEXT WEEKEND.
No vaccine passports, no age limits, no special requirements - all you need to join us at the Battle of Ideas festival is an open mind.
Tickets:
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"The last 30 to 40 years have been a story of elite failure."
@GoodwinMJ
from last week's
#BattleFest
.
The Battle continues in Buxton
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The trouble with
#comedy
today: there’s nothing funny about cancelling
@glinner
&
@UnleashedComedy
. But comedians these days are all too willing to virtue signal and support the establishment against the rest of us, too, says
@Robspiked
#freespeech
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Academy of Ideas director
@Fox_Claire
spoke to
@andrewdoyle_com
last night about the
#PoliceBill
and why new amendments being introduced in the
#HOL
pose a threat to free speech and the freedom to protest.
Watch the full interview with Claire here:
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"The loneliness was the worst ... We didn't see our children ... For people who died, an online funeral is not enough ..."
#PeoplesLockdownInquiry
@thereclaimparty
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"It's far easier to threaten a person who's misgendered someone than it is to do some real policing."
@Fox_Claire
Tickets for Buxton
#BattleFest
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At this weekend’s
#BattleFest
you’ll be able to get incredible books from festival speakers including
@PaulEmbery
@Docstockk
@TitaniaMcGrath
@MacaesBruno
@traceyfutures
@BungaCast
@thephilippics
@timothy_stanley
@bindelj
@andrewdoyle_com
@BareReality
@Furedibyte
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“We have a fight on our hands to overturn the fatwa on free speech and restore it to a prime position in Western societies”
@Fox_Claire
kicks off our new-look newsletter on Substack with a call to defend free speech.
Read it now, share and sign up!
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.
@instofideas
director
@Fox_Claire
on
@SkyNews
#skypapers
this morning:
The focus on May, coups and indicative votes has sidelined the real story - that
#Brexit
voters have had their votes betrayed.
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As
@Fox_Claire
says - we’re
#OpenForDebate
and so onto our first discussion - Beyond Culture Wars: How to argue better in an age of conformity.
With
@calvinrobinson
@ShahrarAli
@ella_m_whelan
and Arif Ahmed
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Rounding off
#BattleFest
2023,
@Fox_Claire
thanks convenors
@Ella_M_Whelan
@MaximumCities
& AOI team,
@Churchhouseconf
@worldwrite3
, fantastic volunteers, all speakers & esp the audience for their contributions to "Shaping the Future Through Public Debate"
See you next year! 🍻
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"Cancel culture has made cowards of a lot of people."
@Fox_Claire
Get your tickets for
#BattleFest
now
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Watch
@Fox_Claire
on
@GBNEWS
explaining why its so important we return to public debate and discussion.
This is why we're hosting
#OpenForDebate
THIS SATURDAY in the heart of Westminster with a public audience. Tickets and more below 👇
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"People say they don't know what its been like for us ... Wrong. They know exactly what it's like for us. They just don't care"
#PeoplesLockdownInquiry
@thereclaimparty
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RIP Professor Roger Scruton. Watch him in action delivering a brilliant introduction to Kant at The Academy 2012
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☃️Merry Christmas from everyone at AOI ☃️
We hope like us you won't let the restrictions curtail your festive cheer & time with family & friends.
Click👇for Christmas newsletter incl:
❄️ Early Bird tix
#BattleFest
2022
❄️Letters on Liberty
❄️& much more!
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“Free Speech, courage and shaping the future through debate”
We kick off the
#BattleFest
in a packed out Church House, with
@MaximumCities
Ben Delo and
@Fox_Claire
LET BATTLE COMMENCE
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"The inconsistencies in what they say ... I want to punch the telly"
Watch this short clip from one of many video testimonies collected for
#peopleslockdowninquiry
@thereclaimparty
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Great to support this unique event in the House of Lords - politicians and organisations across the political spectrum in support of freedom of speech and open debate.
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After events at
#LetWomenSpeak
our
@Ella_M_Whelan
takes a look at why some feminists seem so silent when it comes to free speech about gender.
Our latest Substack, ft. bonus video of
@Fox_Claire
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The government have done ok up until now in not overreacting or clamping down. But people actively demanding more authoritarianism and now the civil liberties implications of Coronavirus Bill make me nervous.
@Fox_Claire
on
#COVID_19uk
#civilliberties
#SkyPapers
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💚🎉Less than a week to go 🎉💚
If you believe in
#FreeSpeech
& public debate as a vital element of Democracy,
#BattleFest
is the place to be! Get your tix here👇
If you can't make it, please give us a RETWEET anyway & spread the word to your followers😊
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Reminder: TONIGHT 7pm
CAN WE CANCEL 'CANCEL CULTURE'?
What's behind the new assaults on freedom of expression and belief, and how should we defend open debate?
Speakers:
@calvinrobinson
@ajcdeane
@HPluckrose
@NickBuckleyMBE
@Fox_Claire
FREE. Register
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@Fox_Claire
on her first EU Parliament experiences in the
@spectator
"A strange criticism of Widdecombe’s speech was that it was disrespectful to the EU. Good. We’re the Brexit party for God’s sake. We don’t respect it.
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Our colleague
@Ella_M_Whelan
hitting the bullseye on the threats to free speech - and how we can fight back 🎯
‘We must take on the battle for free speech, fighting back against those who wish to suffocate us with legislation or silence us with weapons.’
Ella Whelan gives her view on free speech and criticises censorship ‘on the grounds of offence’ after the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.
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We will be very proud to host
@brunskellevans
at this years Battle of Ideas festival
#battlefest
Get your ticket in the next tweet👇
My book on children was banned from
@QuakerBookshop
in 2018 but Trans Britain was sold. Later, Queer a Graphic History was on a special queer books display. It says e.g. disapproving of “inter generational sex” is an example of “heteronormativity”.
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"I don't want us to walk on eggshells, but I do want us to be respectful and civil."
@Fox_Claire
on our approach to debate at the Battle of Ideas festival.
Tickets here:
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From around the globe, this is an absolutely must read collection of comments and thoughts. Plaudits to
@spikedonline
for organising such a brilliant initiative.
Meet the women worried about
#MeToo
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Decolonisation explained by
@Furedibyte
We'll be discussing this in our session IN THE WAKE OF TERROR: ANTI-SEMITISM TODAY at Buxton
#BattleFest
Tickets here
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So many people are forced to go along with pronouns - sometimes even by their employer. This epidemic of bad faith and compelled speech has to be stopped.
@Fox_Claire
previewing one of many discussions at
#BattleFest
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In our Sunday Substack, Amy Gallagher
@StandUptoWoke
shares her new documentary with New Culture Forum: 'Trans, Racist and Woke: how psychology went mad'.
In this guest post, Amy explains the back story behind her involvement in psychology and the Tavistock, and why we need more
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"In the eyes of elites, those expressing scepticism about the wisdom of the lockdown policy were indistinguishable from anti-vaxxers and the people vandalising 5G masts"
Read
@toadmeister
's contribution to
#PeoplesLockdownInquiry
@thereclaimparty
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"Its a two-tier society ... the people who work in construction, deliveries ... the jobs that allow society to carry on during the pandemic ... they have been ignored"
Watch this, one of many
#storiesonfilm
collected for the
#peopleslockdowninquiry
@thereclaimparty
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"We need fracking! It is not going to solve all our ills, but avoding it is symptomatic of our risk-averse, energy-demonising society."
@Fox_Claire
addresses our failed energy policies in our latest Substack.
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Congratulations to Battle of Ideas festival regular
@andrewdoyle_com
on his new role. You can watch the video of his book launch we hosted recently here:
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We should be deeply worried when Governments start accusing people of *hiding behind* free speech. Free speech is not something we 'hide behind' - it's the core +fundamental defence of our right to free expression
@Fox_Claire
on
#skypapers
@SkyNews
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There are lots of campaigners & activists at
#BattleFest
this weekend where a major theme is
**Shaping the Future through Debate**
Come & debate w/
@bindelj
,
@lensiseethrough
from
@UsforThemUK
,
@JamesEsses
& Trade Unionist
@DebbieHayton
Tix here 👉
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Today was supposed to be 'freedom day', yet social life remains stifled, regulated and micro-mananaged.
In this submission to
#peopleslockdowninquiry
,
@jacobreynolds
reflects on the huge, often hidden, cost to sociability.
@thereclaimparty
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Unlike
#Paypal
the Battle of Ideas' motto is
**FREE SPEECH ALLOWED!**
We stand in solidarity w/
@SpeechUnion
@toadmeister
&
@UsforThemUK
.
#BattleFest
does Free Speech like no other. Check out our fantastic debates this year 👇
[thread] 🧵
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The cancellation of
@Fox_Claire
at Royal Holloway didn't just demonstrate cancel culture, it deprived students of a chance for debate.
In our Substack, get Claire's take on what happened and a special interview with a student at the heart of it!
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"Telling people not to use certain words anymore creates a sense of social amnesia."
@Furedibyte
in our session ARE THE CULTURE WARS A DISTRACTION?
Join the Academy of Ideas: shaping the future through debate.
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Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences were scrapped in 2012, but thousands languish in prison because of them. The justice secretary has described them as a 'stain on the justice system'. It's time for politicians to act, says
@charleyallan
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"All of the worst excesses of the culture war have been presided over by the current Tory government."
@andrewdoyle_com
in our session ARE THE CULTURE WARS A DISTRACTION?
Join the Academy of Ideas: shaping the future through debate.
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"They said you can't go with your friends as you might get corona..."
Watch this important film from
#peopleslockdowninquiry
@thereclaimparty
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Free Speech Nation will be filming a special episode at the
#BattleFest
this year.
@andrewdoyle_com
will also be in other sessions, including an in conversation with Graham Linehan.
Get your tickets now
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To understand how data has been used, abused and misunderstood, read this contribution to
#peopleslockdowninquiry
from
@Robspiked
One of many submissions, testimonies and discussions which can all be found at
A thread: The People’s Lockdown Inquiry, commissioned by
@thereclaimparty
and curated by
@instofideas
, launches today. It's not about lockdown, for and against, but recording the impact of govt policy.
I wrote about the way data has been used 1/9
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We need a new politics - with Leavers and Remainers - one which addresses our current crisis of democracy.
Academy of Ideas director
@Fox_Claire
on
#newsnight
@BBCNewsnight
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“The damage to democracy of feeling that your parliamentarians are ignoring what you decided cannot be underestimated.”
@Fox_Claire
on
#skypapers
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Read this: Battle of Ideas festival co-convenor
@Ella_M_Whelan
on vaccine passports and how to reclaim freedom for the arts
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"For many of us today, we wake up with a sense of despondency about the month-long delay to fully opening up society in England. But it is important that we don’t succumb to fatalism."
@Fox_Claire
on the delay to reopening, a thread
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Great to hear
@SpeechUnion
education & events director,
@janmacvarish
on
@andrewdoyle_com
's Free Speech Nation tonight, giving her views on
#FreeSpeech
in Northern Ireland & why the upcoming
#SpeakEasy
is so important
26 Jan | 7-10pm | Belfast
Book ➡️
‘The slogan "no debate" has had an incredible chilling effect.’
Education and Events Director of the Free Speech Union, Dr Jan Macvarish and Solicitor Advocate and Litigation Specialist, Simon Chambers, give their view on free speech in Northern Ireland.
@andrewdoyle_com
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On the Irish border issue we could do with people being open minded about solutions rather than - as the EU are doing - using it as a political football and an excuse to try to scupper
#brexit
-
@Fox_Claire
on
#skypapers
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With partners
@GBNEWS
we’ve a special live recording of
@andrewdoyle_com
’ 🎧FREE SPEECH NATION podcast🎧
Join us & fab line up!
@DreyfusJames
@joshxhowie
@RosieKayK2CO
@LeoKearse
@mattwridley
👏
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"We have been deprived of our ability to collectively solve problems ... we've got a huge task now to tackle the problems of a post pandemic world - we've got to rebuild society now"
@Fox_Claire
on
@GBNEWS
explaining why we're holding
#OpenForDebate
THIS SATURDAY
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"The roots of the energy crisis are deep. In part, they expose the hollowing-out of the UK that was a core reason so many of us voted to leave the EU."
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It is six years since Britain voted, in the biggest election in our history, to leave the EU. Today, there is much that remains to be done if Britain is to live up to the democratic legacy of that vote. 🧵
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"We are normalising the racism aimed at Jews."
@Fox_Claire
outlining some of the themes of our Buxton
#BattleFest
session IN THE WAKE OF TERROR: ANTI-SEMITISM TODAY.
Tickets
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A new report says 80% of world's population have experienced
#FreeSpeech
decline.
Is this a global trend? Does easy online access justify strict regulations? Can we balance safety & security w/ freedom?
@silkiecarlo
@battleforeurope
@KonstantinKisin
@Norm_Lewis
@toadmeister
#OnLineSafetyBill
makes Ofcom one of most powerful regulators in UK/Europe, deciding what's seen, read. censored online. Who is newly in charge? A "Black Feminist, a student of decolonization"; anti-Israel too. Impartial? What about SAFETY of FREE SPEECH?
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"There's no friendly interaction ... everyone stares at your like you're a leper"
Another one of the
#storiesonfilm
collected for
#PeoplesLockdownInquiry
@thereclaimparty
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The Buxton Battle of Ideas runs smoothly thanks to the help of our fabulous, cheerful team of volunteers! 👏💚
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"My first appointment about my pregnancy was on zoom ... they told me I had had a miscarriage ... I was completely alone for all my appointments"
#PeoplesLockdownInquiry
@thereclaimparty
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A brilliant and NECESSARY event on free speech at the House of Lords.
#FreeSpeechAllowed
is the motto of our Battle of Ideas festival - we'll see you all there!
Our
@MaximumCities
spoke alongside free speech warriors like
@prwhittle
@andrewdoyle_com
@BareReality
@MForstater
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Has big tech got too big? Do we need to reign the tech giants in? How?
Make sure you've got your
#Battlefest
ticket!
Ft.
@GETTRofficial
's
@JasonMillerinDC
@Norm_Lewis
@AndrewOrlowski
@amali_d
@unherd
's
@freddiesayers
and
@martynperks
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"Somebody once described it as the Glastonbury of Ideas"
@Fox_Claire
Get your tickets for
#BattleFest
now
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"It's infantile to shout 'Nazi' at
@Anna_Soubry
, but encouraging the police to step in is a dangerous attack on
#freespeech
."
@instofideas
director
@Fox_Claire
and
@steverichards14
discuss MPs calling for a crackdown on the protests outside parliament on
#SkyNews
.
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Kevin Rooney, co-convenor of the Academy of Ideas' Education Forum, on
@GBNEWS
attacking the government's 'philistine' view of education
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Why has dissent been devalued? And, in a world that craves certainty, how can we make the case for speaking freely?
Challenging the culture of conformism
w/
@peterboghossian
Jennie Bristow, Abbot Jamison
@HJoyceGender
@danielmgmoylan
h/t
@Sajenks42
for📸
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"Some people casually think the rise of explicit expressions of anti-Semitism doesn't matter."
@Fox_Claire
on why the boycotts against Zara should worry us all.
Join the Academy of Ideas: shaping the future through debate.
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One week to go until our lunchtime session TOUGH CROWD:
@Glinner
IN CONVERSATION WITH
@andrewdoyle_com
Tickets here
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.
@KonstantinKisin
from
@triggerpod
asks: when is a conspiracy theory *not* a conspiracy theory?
#BattleFest
(Listen to the full debate from DISINFORMATION AND CONSPIRACY: TACKLING THE CRISIS OF TRUST here: )
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How can you beat cancel culture?
Hugely excited for this special session with
@SpeechUnion
with an amazing line up inc.
@toadmeister
@Gillian_Philip
Harry Miller of
@WeAreFairCop
@NickBuckleyMBE
and
@DailyBayliss
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🎉Less than a week to go till
#BattleFest
🎉
✅200 debates
✅450 speakers
🗣️FREE SPEECH ALLOWED
Never to late to book ⬇️or turn up on the door...
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Fantastic
#BookshopBarnie
at
#BattleFest
with Peter Hitchens
In his new book A Revolution Betrayed
@ClarkeMicah
argues that by trying to bring about an educational system which is egalitarian, politicians have created a system which is the exact opposite
h/t
@ReformSaba
for📸
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ONLINE CENSORSHIP: AN INTERNATIONAL CLAMPDOWN?
with
@SpeechUnion
#BATTLEFEST
Join
@Norm_Lewis
,
@battleforeurope
,
@silkiecarlo
, and
@KonstantinKisin
to discuss everything from
#onlinesafetybill
to
#twitterfiles
and consequences for
#freespeech
!
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What would we do without this lot - our
#BattleOfIfeasFest
volunteers have worked their socks off this year and made sure the festival was a roaring success. A dedicated team of fiesty, opinionated people with guts and stamina and something to say. We love them.
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What have been the effects of the WFH revolution? Flexibility for many, but what about work-life balance and increasing surveillance at home? What of teamwork and those beginning careers?
Read this from
#peopleslockdowninquiry
@thereclaimparty
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“If we turn our back on energy, we turn our back on the moral progress we’ve made in the past.”
@Raphfel
in our session CAN RENEWABLES POWER THE WORLD?
Join the Academy of Ideas: shaping the future through debate.
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