Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights, democracy, LGBT freedom and global justice since 1967, and is a the director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation: www.PeterTatchellFoundation.org.
He is the author of over 3,000 published articles and six books, including The Battle for Bermondsey, Democratic Defence – A Non-Nuclear Alternative, and We Don’t Want To March Straight - Masculinity, Queers & The Military.
Your conscience, my health: the right to refuse?
"The rules of the game at The Battle of Ideas makes beating about the bush impossible. When you are given 5 minutes to make your point, you either say something essential, or you reveal that you have nothing really to say. This eliminates 'the unbearable lightness' of speculation that haunts public debate."
Albena Azmanova, social philosopher, political commentator and activist