Sunday

This is our Sunday programme for 2025. You can download the festival brochure and the weekend timetable in PDF format. Tickets for 2025 are available here.

Sunday

10:00-10:45 Sunday 19 October

Battle Book Club: The Melted Pot – Diversity, Antisemitism, and the Limits of Tolerance

Online dating: the end of romance?

Why you should read Plato’s Republic

Battle Book Club: TERF Island – how the UK resisted trans Ideology

Science at the cutting edge: who makes the rules?

From Bud Light to Jaguar: brands caught in the Culture Wars

Digital ID: privacy vs safety?

11:00-12:30 Sunday 19 October

Are patriotism and the nation state back?

Podcast Live: Planet Normal – Views from beyond the bubble

Policing today: two-tier justice?

Beware the manosphere? Misogyny and toxic masculinity

What does post-woke art look like?

Decline… and fall? The UK economy

From Harvard to Sussex: should the state punish universities?

From Saudi to Sheffield: is football still the beautiful game?

Can the state solve the housing crisis?

Out with the old, in with the new world order

A crisis in law making? The case of assisted dying

12:45-13:30 Sunday 19 October

Podcast Live: This Isn’t Working – battling the woke workplace

Andrew Doyle on The End of Woke

Contempt of court: protecting the innocent or stifling debate?

Right-wing boys and progressive girls: war of the sexes?

Battle Book Club: 1945 – The Reckoning: War, empire and the struggle for a new world

Breast, bottles and baby-led weaning: should feeding babies be this hard?

Why do progressives seem to hate the working class?

13:45-15:15 Sunday 19 October

Will DEI ever DIE?

After the Supreme Court: the end of trans ideology?

Can AI art ever be human?

The rise of snitch culture

Battle Book Club: No More Normal – Mental Health in an Age of Over-Diagnosis

Who will determine the future of the Middle East?

Podcast Live: The Thought Police – Free thinking journalism with Mike Graham and Kevin O’Sullivan

Should we avoid ‘ultra-processed’ food?

Lawless Britain?

Is there a case for tariffs today?

From Reform to Blue Labour: will the working class find a voice at last?

15:45-17:00 Sunday 19 October

Bookshop Barnie: Bijan Omrani on God is an Englishman

Are human rights scuppering democracy?

Should we ‘DOGE’ university research?

Podcast live: Last Orders – the latest nanny state news

Jailbreak: can we solve the prison crisis?

From steel to railways: can the state revitalise British industry?

The sun never sets: the decolonisation wars

Damsels in distress? The women’s safety dilemma

Why is Civil War a talking point?

Chagos: is there a democratic solution?

We need to talk about ‘genocide’

17:15-18:30 Sunday 19 October

Europe’s free-speech crisis: hype or reality?

Era of the downwardly mobile graduate?

Beyond TERF Island: gender identity worldwide

Incitement law: a tool of censorship?

The fragile foundations of China’s rise

Podcast Live: Arts First – are the arts too politicised?

Taking the PIP: who can reform welfare?

Think of the children: can we have online safety without censorship?