Battles on Video

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.

Health & Well-being

29 10 11: Your mind, your high: is recreational drug use morally wrong?

29 10 11: Remaking citizens for the ‘Big Society’

29 10 11: Radical surgery for the NHS? What is a GP's role today

30 10 10: The war on alcohol: new puritanism or healthy sobriety?

30 10 10: What makes life sacred?

30 10 10: Your conscience, my health: the right to refuse?

31 10 09: Whose right to choose? Choice, ethics and regulation in 21st-century reproduction

02 11 08: Whose Data Is it Anyway?

01 11 08: Abortion: the hard arguments


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