Overview

You can find details of the debates and events for Battle of Ideas festival 2022 below. The programme is also available in PDF format.

Weekend Saturday Sunday Strands

09:45-10:00 Saturday 15 October

Battle of Ideas 2022 Welcome Address

Assembly Hall, Church House

10:15-11:45 Saturday 15 October

Do the culture wars matter?

Assembly Hall, Church House

Parenting problems and the future of the family

Council Room, Church House

Rwanda or bust? The future of immigration

Convocation Hall, Church House

Biometrics and facial recognition: friend or foe?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Cop out: who do the police serve today?

Room 512, Church House

From stagnation to inflation: how do we revolutionise the economy?

Room 511, Church House

Fake news? The misinformation wars

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

PODCAST LIVE: The Thought Police with Mike Graham and Kevin O’Sullivan

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

12:15-13:30 Saturday 15 October

The Road to Ukraine: has the West lost its way?

Assembly Hall, Church House

Internet vs the nation state: a new Wild West?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Can we take a joke?

Westminster Room, Church House

Enough is enough? Challenging the cost-of-living crisis

Room 511, Church House

Letters on Liberty: Rethinking anti-Semitism

Abbey Room, Church House

From the ECHR to the Supreme Court: judges vs politics

Room 512, Church House

From grooming gangs to child abuse: is social work working?

Council Room, Church House

Is cancel culture killing the arts?

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

From Indyref2 to a Border Poll: are we afraid of democracy?

Convocation Hall, Church House

The spiked podcast Live

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

13:45-14:30 Saturday 15 October

Generation YouTube: a challenge to MSM?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Too fat, too thin, are we too obsessed with calories?

Council Room, Church House

Hollywood blues: has tinseltown lost its sparkle?

Westminster Room, Church House

Can we just print more money?

Room 511, Church House

Podcast of Ideas Live: Liam Halligan on the UK’s chronic housing shortage

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Prisons: I predict a riot?

Room 512, Church House

14:45-16:15 Saturday 15 October

Taking back control: who will defend autonomy today?

Assembly Hall, Church House

Are young people really getting shafted?

Room 511, Church House

Lawfare: the use and abuse of law to fight for freedom

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

No, Minister! Crisis in the civil service

Room 512, Church House

Cultural vandals: who will defend the arts and humanities?

Westminster Room, Church House

Europe today: storm clouds over the continent?

Convocation Hall, Church House

Infantilisation: the collapse of adult authority?

Council Room, Church House

Online safety vs free speech

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

SKILLS WORLD LIVE: SHOULD BRITS WORK HARDER, OR SMARTER?

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Letters on Liberty: Risking it all: the freedom to gamble

Abbey Room, Church House

16:45-18:15 Saturday 15 October

Can populism win the future?

Assembly Hall, Church House

Bye Bye Baby? The birth-rate debate

Council Room, Church House

Dick pics and Tinderella: are dating apps the end of romance?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Balloon debate: what’s the greatest protest song?

Westminster Room, Church House

Trade unions: throwback, comeback or fightback?

Room 511, Church House

DEBATING MATTERS: ‘Skills Gap: are too many people going to university?’

Room 512, Church House

Bookshop Barnie: Konstantin Kisin on An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

US Midterms: can America survive the culture wars?

Convocation Hall, Church House

Andrew Doyle’s Free Speech Nation: Live (TV recording)

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

18:15-20:30 Saturday 15 October

Festival reception and drinks

55 Broadway, London SW1H 0BD

10:00-10:45 Sunday 16 October

Breakfast Banter: from boozing to obesity – the new health tyranny?

Council Room, Church House

Breakfast Banter: education and the war for children’s minds

Westminster Room, Church House

Breakfast Banter: from street preachers to Cineworld – religious freedom today

The Chapel, Church House

Breakfast Banter: why Bitcoin matters for freedom in a digital age

Abbey Room, Church House

11:00-12:30 Sunday 16 October

Age of ‘isms’: what happened to ideology?

Assembly Hall, Church House

From zero-Covid to ‘let it rip’: did anyone do Covid right?

Room 512, Church House

The trans teen trend: a case of social contagion?

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

Are schools indoctrinating our kids?

Room 511, Church House

From Doha to Derby: who owns football? 

Westminster Room, Church House

Climate emergency: catastrophe or catastrophising?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Work shy and retiring: have we fallen out of love with work?

Convocation Hall, Church House

Ulysses at 100: have we lost faith in Modernist Man?

Council Room, Church House

Russia and its demons

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

12:45-13:30 Sunday 16 October

Apollo to Elon Musk: the new frontiers of space

Westminster Room, Church House

Meet the author: Greg Scorzo discusses Love Before Covid

Council Room, Church House

The roots of Critical Race Theory

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

Climate change on the curriculum: teaching or preaching?

Room 511, Church House

The political image: in conversation with photographer Stuart Mitchell

Abbey Room, Church House

Artivism: the battle for museums in the era of postmodernism

The Chapel, Church House

Beyond the Hype: the inside story of science’s biggest media controversies

Room 512, Church House

13:45-15:15 Sunday 16 October

Free speech or compelled speech: is silence violence?

Assembly Hall, Church House

Trust me I’m your doctor: are GPs in crisis?

Room 512, Church House

Sanitised or modernised: staging Shakespeare today

Council Room, Church House

The great fall of China: real or imaginary?

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Letters on Liberty: In defence of teaching history

Abbey Room, Church House

Revolting parents: lessons from the schoolgates

Room 511, Church House

Can we fix Britain?

Convocation Hall, Church House

For frack’s sake: how do we solve the energy crisis?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

The future of abortion rights

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

Political realignment, or political homelessness?

Westminster Room, Church House

15:45-17:00 Sunday 16 October

Globalism in crisis: has Davos Man had his day?

Assembly Hall, Church House

Is it the end of the road for the automobile?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Lockdown breakdowns: mental health or social meltdown?

Westminster Room, Church House

After Elizabeth II: Does the commonwealth have a future?

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Beyond the birds and the bees: modern sex ed

Room 511, Church House

Is opera just for toffs?

Council Room, Church House

Letters on Liberty: Translation as liberation

Abbey Room, Church House

How do we solve the housing crisis?

Convocation Hall, Church House

Curing cancer: is it all about the science?

Room 512, Church House

Identity politics: just skin deep?

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

17:15-18:30 Sunday 16 October

Call to courage: winning the battle of ideas

Assembly Hall, Church House

Is there a case for racial reparations?

Westminster Room, Church House

Ukraine and the dilemmas of diplomacy: Give peace a chance?

Robert Runcie Room, Church House

Wasted: how do we tackle the global drugs crisis?

Room 512, Church House

Is Net Zero economic suicide?

Harvey Goodwin Suite, Church House

Winning young hearts and minds: the battle for academic freedom

Room 511, Church House

The New Puritans: How the religion of social justice captured the Western world

Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House

18:30-20:30 Sunday 16 October

End of festival drinks

Bishop Partridge Hall, Church House