 | Aaron, is former student of Graveney School, with whom he won the Academy of Ideas Debating Matters Competition 2011/12 and was a competitor in that years international final. He is now reading economics at the University of Portsmouth. He is currently the President of the University’s Debating Society. Aaron also has a keen interest in cricket, cycling, American politics and the Reformation. |
From open values to burqa bans: have Europeans lost the habit of tolerance?
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Albena Azmanova, social philosopher, political commentator and activist
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