Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Liberty & Law
The Human Rights Act should not be repealed
Conor Gearty, UK Constitutional Law Association, 17 September 2016
Conor Gearty, UK Constitutional Law Association, 17 September 2016
Don’t abuse the Brexit litigants: their action shows that we live in a free country
Matthew Scott, BarristerBlogger, 5 July 2016
Matthew Scott, BarristerBlogger, 5 July 2016
Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use
Minister also announced intention to implement 'injection rooms' in Dublin for addicts.
Rose Troup Buchanan, Independent, 3 November 2015
Minister also announced intention to implement 'injection rooms' in Dublin for addicts.
Rose Troup Buchanan, Independent, 3 November 2015
How to get a house
Everybody knows we urgently need to build more homes, but how, when and where will this happen? WORLDbytes interviewed Ian Abley, an architect and manager of Audacity at the plotlands in Dunton, Essex where from the 1920s East End working class couples built cheap homes themselves. Could we do this now?
WORLDbytes
Everybody knows we urgently need to build more homes, but how, when and where will this happen? WORLDbytes interviewed Ian Abley, an architect and manager of Audacity at the plotlands in Dunton, Essex where from the 1920s East End working class couples built cheap homes themselves. Could we do this now?
WORLDbytes
Time for a real free-speech fightback
Cameron’s anti-extremism strategy could have been ghostwritten by the NUS.
Tom Slater, spiked, 18 September 2015
Cameron’s anti-extremism strategy could have been ghostwritten by the NUS.
Tom Slater, spiked, 18 September 2015
‘Rape by deception’ should not be a crime
We are blurring the line between sex and rape.
Luke Gittos, spiked, 17 September 2015
We are blurring the line between sex and rape.
Luke Gittos, spiked, 17 September 2015
Rape culture and the crisis of intimacy
A new book warns of the threats posed by the obsession with rape.
Ann Furedi, spiked, 28 August 2015
A new book warns of the threats posed by the obsession with rape.
Ann Furedi, spiked, 28 August 2015
Illuminating the Middle Ages
"The Battle of Ideas gives a forum for the most topical of debates and the healthy exchange of ideas - in our session what interested most was the contributions from the floor, also just the sheer buzz of the crowds in the foyers."
Jeremy Musson, writer and historic buildings consultant; former architectural editor, Country Life
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