If you’ve got a healthy appetite for argument, there’s no better menu than what’s dished up at the Battle of Ideas. Are we what we eat? Have we turned into a nation of hypochondriacs? Are drugs ruining sport? Id behaviour determined by evolution?Join contributors to the The Times’ award winning Body&Soul section to chew over some the answers the big questions in public health. But don’t be surprised if it gets a little personal.
Hilly Janes Editor, Body&Soul
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"The audience were the stars of the Battle of Ideas - engaged, informed and enthusiastic. As a panellist, I felt both ashamed and educated. Exactly as it should be." John Street, professor of politics, University of East Anglia