Patrick Marmion

Patrick Marmion is a writer and theatre critic working for publications including the Daily Mail, spiked and Time Out. Patrick is also the founder of Soapbox debating forum and teaches at the University of Kent.


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"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times