Battles on Video presents videos from previous Battle of Ideas festivals, interviews and opinion pieces by speakers and participants, as well as specially produced in-depth discussions.
21 10 12: Drink, smoke, eat: prohibition today
21 10 12: Religious or Spiritual or Neither?
21 10 12: Occupy: illusory radicalism?
21 10 12: Intellectual legacy: the battle for which ideas?
21 10 12: Preservation or modernisation?
21 10 12: Students: consumers at the heart of a university?
21 10 12: Risk, regulation and red tape
21 10 12: Taxing our way to a fairer society?
21 10 12: To build or not to build?
"The Battle of Ideas is a weekend like no other. I found the 2011 festival immensely stimulating. It gave me a great deal to think about, and a whole new list of books to read - from Virgil to Vygotsky. On to greater battles in 2012!"
Ken Macleod, award-winning science fiction writer; author, The Restoration Game and Intrusion
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