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Why politics needs a new language
Announcing The Academy 2025, the annual residential summer school organised by Ideas Matter.
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Jacob Reynolds
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Inside The Lords: farmers, football and Emily Damari
Bring them home: Claire Fox wraps up the final week Inside The Lords before Christmas.
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Claire Fox
Build, build, build: can Labour solve the UK’s housing crisis?
Labour talk a good game on infrastructure and housing. But as they’re finding out, governing is a lot harder than making rhetorical flourishes from the…
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Rob Lyons
But is it anti-intellectualism, really?
In our weekend essay, Ella Dorn on the online controversy over a Cambridge PhD - and why it's quite reasonable to be disillusioned by the state of…
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Ella Dorn
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Alastair Donald
Bovaer: milking the risk society
How did some people get so alarmed over a feed additive for cattle?
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Rob Lyons
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Big ideas for Christmas at the Academy of Ideas bookshop
Great books make great presents - and our Letters on Liberty make stimulating stocking fillers, too!
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Claire Fox
Inside The Lords: assisted dying, mental health orders and other moral conundrums
Claire Fox takes us through a busy week in parliament, from the passing of the Assisted Dying Bill to rows over trans police officers strip-searching…
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Claire Fox

November 2024

Happy birthday to the National Lottery
Jon Bryan - author of our Letter on Liberty on the freedom to gamble - looks at a rare moment of positivity for fans of a flutter.
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Claire Fox
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Jon Bryan
Assisted dying: what's at stake? Hear from both sides of the debate
Four excellent speakers made the case for and against Kim Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, reflecting the serious moral dilemmas…
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Claire Fox
Should we legalise assisted dying?
Ahead of the parliamentary vote, join us for a vitally important debate next Tuesday, via Zoom. PLUS the latest episode of Arts First, on the genius of…
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Claire Fox
Allison Pearson's lawyer on free speech, hate crime and the law
Criminal solicitor Luke Gittos offers an insider's view on the Telegraph columnist's case and the worrying rise of censorship.
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Alastair Donald
We need to banish 'non-crime hate incidents' to the dustbin of history
As the case of Allison Pearson has brought to the fore, NCHIs are illiberal, censorious and authoritarian.
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Claire Fox
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