The Battle of Ideas 2009 was a two-day festival of high-level, thought-provoking debate organised by the Academy of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art.
Battle of Ideas 2009 Keynote Videos
Institute of Ideas Christmas Lecture 2009
Battle of Ideas 2009 Speaker Quotes
The Battle for Politics
Pre-Election Public SummitGatecrashing the political party -
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Festival Brochure
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Riots in Baltimore: a crisis of authority, Sean Collins
Get in shape: lose the fat, Clive Bloom
Society is collapsing because you are greedy, Brendan O'Neill
Should schools be engines of social mobility?, Sally Millard
Remaking citizens for the ‘Big Society’, Kathryn Ecclestone
In drug policy, pragmatism is the only moral approach, Roger Howard & Leo Barasi
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"The Battle of Ideas is adrenaline for the mind. A chance for intellectual fisticuffs with some of the best-known and most stimulating thinkers in the world."
Colin Blakemore, professor of neuroscience, Oxford University
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