Tickets for the 2016 festival weekend at the Barbican are now available at early-bird rates. See our tickets page for more information.
The Battle of Ideas 2015 festival weekend was a great success, with more debates, speakers and attendees than ever before. You can keep up to date with our latest audio and video from the 2015 festival, and be the first to know the latest news about the 2016 festival, by signing up to our newsletter.
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Images from Battle of Ideas 2015.
Thanks to James Berry, Paul Brocklehurst, Lameya Chaudhury and Tom Fenn for the pictures.
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Why We’re in a New Gilded Age, Paul Krugman
What makes a city resilient?, Bruce Watson
Magna Carta-800 years of freedom: A spiked debate , WORLDbytes
'Sexual consent contracts’ are now a thing. Would you sign?, Olivia Goldhill
Farm borrowing rises to new record level, Isabel Davies
Living in diversity, Kenan Malik
The end of liberalism?, Mark Philp
Geek Culture Needs to Stop Patronizing Black People, Tonya Pennington
Lenny Bruce: the Dapper Laughs of his day, Tom Slater
This is a deal that heaps more misery on Greeks, Vicky Pryce
Divesting from free speech, Rachelle Peterson
The social value of public spaces, Ken Worpole and Katharine Knox