Press

Media access and opportunities

Press tickets are available for the Battle of Ideas festival 2024 in London. Press passes give access to the entire festival, with opportunities for interviews, filming and audio recordings with speakers and attendees. We have spaces for podcasts, as well as livestreaming capabilities. Email geoffkidder@academyofideas.org.uk  to enquire about passes.

The Battle of Ideas festival has 400 speakers on 100+ debates over 48 hours, with 3,000+ attendees.

Dr Remi Adekoya / Professor Aaqil Ahmed / Linda Bellos OBE / Dr Peter Boghossian / Heather Brunskell-Evans / Emma Burnell / Marion Calder / Silkie Carlo / Dr JJ Charlesworth / Donald Clark / William Clouston / Poppy Coburn / Dr Philip Cunliffe / Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda / David Davis / Mary Dejevsky / Laura Dodsworth / Andrew Doyle / Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards / Dr Rakib Ehsan / Miriam Elia / Paul Embery / James Esses / Thomas Fazi / Inaya Folarin Iman / Maya Forstater / Francis Foster / Claire Fox / Dominic Frisby / Lord David Frost
/ Professor Frank Furedi / Sonia Gallego / Marc Glendening / Matthew Goodwin / Professor Sunetra Gupta / Liam Halligan / Professor Anders C Hansen / Timandra Harkness / Dr Deborah Hayton / Ivan Hewett / Peter Hitchens / Baroness Kate Hoey / Jack Hues / Lord Stewart Jackson / Dr Tiffany Jenkins / Katy Jon Went
/ Helen Joyce
/ Rosie Kay / Molly Kingsley / Konstantin Kisin / Joel Kotkin / Ivan Krastev / Dr Sean Lang / Laurie Laybourn / Graham Linehan / Lord Ken Macdonald / Iain Macwhirter / Scarlett Maguire / Fiona Mcanena / Lisa Mckenzie / John Mcternan / Professor Anand Menon / Alan Miller / Ali Miraj / Munira Mirza / Lord Moylan / Mercy Muroki / Fraser Myers / Andrew Orlowski
/ Tomiwa Owolade
 / Allison Pearson / Nina Power / Professor Vicky Pryce / Nabila Ramdani / Freddie Sayers / Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
/ Tom Slater / Christopher Snowdon / Tim Stanley / Dr Kathleen Stock / Professor Doug Stokes / Baroness Stowell / David Swift / Dr Günes Taylor / James Tooley / Dr Jake Wallis Simons / Professor Sir Simon Wessely / Ella Whelan / Peter Whittle / Dr Joanna Williams / Lord David Wolfson / Toby Young


ChatGPT: Cheating or a new tool for learning? · Square-eyed screenagers: are phones corrupting our kids? · Womb for rent? The morality of surrogacy · From rewriting classics to sensitivity readers: the battle for books · Bouncing back or basket case? The state of the UK economy · Free speech on campus: should hecklers be banned?​ · Sex and drugs and rock’n’roll: has music lost its edge? · From diversity to debanking: is ESG bad for business? · Have we given up on sexual freedom? · Bad boys of the EU: Demonising Poland and Hungary · Extreme weather: can we adapt to a changing climate? · Andrew Tate and the Lost Boys · Are we taxed to death? · From Mizzy to shoplifting: anti-social society? · Feeding babies: is breast always best?

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