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.
2012: Drink, smoke, eat: prohibition today
2012: Religious or Spiritual or Neither?
2012: Occupy: illusory radicalism?
2012: Intellectual legacy: the battle for which ideas?
2012: Preservation or modernisation?
2012: Students: consumers at the heart of a university?
2012: Risk, regulation and red tape
2012: Taxing our way to a fairer society?
2012: To build or not to build?
"To contribute to Battle of Ideas is to add a few words to a giant, communal speech-bubble out of the gap-toothed mouth of British opinion. It is a strong reminder that the joys of free, uncalculated speech and the right to attack orthodoxies can in no way be assumed in 2012 – that we use them or lose them."
Piers Hellawell, composer; professor of composition, Queen’s University Belfast
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