With the Lib-Con coalition making a virtue of rolling back state micro-management in the Big Society, leading sociologist Frank Furedi will warn that unless liberals actively encourage individuals to take risks and learn from their mistakes, Britain could be ‘nudged into a moral wasteland.’ Read more…

With European public life seemingly in crisis with the decline of print media and increasingly dominated by an online populism, Professor Frank Furedi, a leading Hungarian-born sociologist, will call on journalists to work harder to engage the public with serious ideas rather than over-exaggerating the threat of social media. Read more…

This year’s Battle of Ideas festival will feature leading cultural commentators speaking at a wide range of debates on arts and culture, taking place across London and culminating at the Royal College of Art on the weekend of October 30-31. Read more…

This year’s Battle of Ideas festival will feature an unprecedented number of top-class speakers from across the world, travelling to London to debate the key ideas of our time at the Royal College of Art on the weekend of October 30-31. Read more…

The Academy of Ideas today unveils the 6th BATTLE OF IDEAS FESTIVAL programme, featuring a line-up of almost 400 speakers participating in over 100 debates on society’s big issues and unresolved questions, taking place across three continents in October and November. Read more…

With the Pope’s visit to the UK this week expected to be overshadowed by a storm of protests from secular and atheist groups, leading British humanist think-tank the Academy of Ideas has today accused their fellow secularists of engaging in a New Atheist witch-hunt – in stark contrast to their own professed views on tolerance. Read more…