Battle of Ideas

Battle of Ideas, a project of the Institute of Ideas, part of the LM network

The Battle of Ideas is a project of the Institute of Ideas, which is associated with the libertarian, anti-environmental LM network.

It commenced in 2005 ^[1] and is an annual two-day debating event held in London. It claims it "makes virtues of free-thinking and lively exchanges of views" and "fosters an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and open-ended exploration of new ideas, research and social trends".^[2] In practice, all of the sessions' chairs, around half of the speakers and most of those selected by the chair to contribute from the floor are LM associates. In response to the question, "Is the Institute of Ideas committed to promoting debate or to promoting one side of a debate?", Claire Fox replied "We are committed to debating in general, but make it perfectly clear that we have a position in the debates we organise." ^[3] Accounts by attendees are here. ^[4]^[5]^[6]

LM network resources

Core elements: Institute of Ideas | Spiked | List of all pages on the network
Key People: Frank Furedi, Michael Fitzpatrick, Claire Fox, Helene Guldberg, James Heartfield, Mick Hume, Phil Mullan, Brendan O'Neill, Keith Teare, James Woudhuysen,
Publications: Living Marxism | LM Contents | LM Commentaries | Frank Furedi: List of Publications | Confrontation | The next step
Precursors: Revolutionary Communist Tendency | Revolutionary Communist Party
Companies: Junius Publications | Informinc (LM) Limited | Cyberia | Easynet | CScape | Academy of Ideas
Background: Bibliography | Chronology | Images and logos | Scribd document archive

Funding

Associated sponsors

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, whose current Chief Executive is long time LM associate Ann Furedi sponsored the Battle of Ideas in 2008, 2009 and 2011.
cScape, whose current Chief Executive is long time LM associate Rob Killick and who employed another LM associate Nathalie Rothschild as Public Relations Officer sponsored the Battle of Ideas in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Sovereignty And Its Discontents, whose co-convenor is long time LM associate Philip Cunliffe sponsored the Battle of ideas in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Other multi-year sponsors, other LM network entities excluded, are:

Art & Business 2005, 2006 and 2008
BT 2006, 2007, 2008
Economic and Social Research Council 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
General Teaching Council 2005, 2006, 2008
Jaguar Landrover 2010, 2011
Pfizer 2005, 2006
PriceWaterhouseCoopers 2009, 2010, 2011
SAB Miller 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Shell 2009, 2010, 2011
The Times 2008, 2009, 2010
Wellcome Trust 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

During the four years 2007/8 to 2010/11, the Battle of Ideas and its partner organisation, Debating Matters, received £330,000 of public funds from the Economic and Science Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Medical Research Council.

Battle of Ideas banner noting the funding of the LM network by pharma giant Pfizer, BT and Rupert Murdoch's newspaper The Times.

2005

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2006

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2007

Other partners

In March 2011, the Wellcome Trust made a 'Strategic Award' of £875,000 over five years to support "debates about developments in biomedicine"; specifically the Battle of Ideas and Debating Matters. ^[14]

Speakers

2015

Battle of Ideas speakers for the 2015 conference, as listed on the website in November 2016, were:^[15]

David Aaronovitch - columnist, The Times; author, Voodoo Histories; chair, Index on Censorship
Tim Abrahams - co-publisher, Machine Books
Gilbert Achcar - professor of development studies and international relations; chair of Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London
Abhay Adhikari - innovation consultant and strategist; founder, Digital Identity
Sam Adlen - head of business innovation, Satellite Applications Catapult
Andrew Adonis - Labour peer; author, 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond
Nicole Agba - Autocar Next Generation Award 2014 Winner
Jobeda Ali - CEO, Three Sisters Care
Shahrar Ali - deputy leader, Green Party
Stuart Allan - professor of journalism and communication, Cardiff University; co-author, Digital War Reporting
Duleep Allirajah - sports columnist, spiked; Crystal Palace fan
Merris Amos - reader in human rights law, Queen Mary University of London
Anthony Anaxagorou - poet, writer, performer and educator
Dr Frankie Anderson - psychiatry trainee; co-founder, Sheffield Salon
Bea Appleby - editor, The Female Lead
Josie Appleton - director, civil liberties group, Manifesto Club; author, Officious: Rise of the Busybody State
Alexandra Archetti Stølen - festival director, Oslo World Music Festival; president, European Forum of Worldwide Music Festivals
Dr Eugenia Arsenis - director; dramaturg, Center for Contemporary Opera, New York
Dr Julian Baggini - founding editor, the Philosophers' Magazine; author, Freedom Regained: the possibility of free will and The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
Tom Bailey - journalist; contributor, World Finance, European CEO, and The New Economy.
P Balaji - director - regulatory, external affairs and CSR, Vodafone India
Ros Ball - journalist; author, The Gender Police: a diary
Emily Barley - chairman, Conservatives for Liberty
Dr Graham Barnfield - senior lecturer in journalism, University of East London
Jenny Barrett - reader in film studies and popular culture, Edge Hill University
Leela Barrock - group head, group communications & corporate affairs, Malaysia-based multinational, Sime Darby Berhad
James Bartholomew - writer and journalist; author, The Welfare of Nations
Kalsoom Bashir - co-director, Inspire, an NGO working to counter extremism and gender inequality
Dr Tinneke Beeckman - independent philosopher; writer; columnist, De Standaard
Sean Bell - secretary and founder member, The Brighton Salon; copy-editor, writer and journalist
Simon Belt - IT consultant; coordinator, Manchester Salon
Dr Agiatis Benardou - senior research associate, ATHENA Research Centre
Dr Piers Benn - philosopher; author, Commitment and Ethics; visiting lecturer in ethics, Heythrop College, London and Fordham University, New York
Robert Bevan - writer; heritage consultant; architecture critic for the London Evening Standard; author, The Destruction of Memory: architecture at war
Paul Bew - crossbench peer; professor of politics, Queen's University Belfast; formerly, historical adviser to Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday Tribunals
Julie Bindel - journalist, author, broadcaster and feminist activist; research fellow, Lincoln University
Mark Birbeck - internet software and big data consultant
Jonathan Birdwell - head of policy and research, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Helen Birtwistle - history and politics teacher, South London school
Bill Biss - editor, STAND Fanzine
Dr Tim Black - editor, Spiked Review
John David Blake - history practitioner, Harris Federation
Cara Bleiman - teacher, Arnhem Wharf Primary School
Daisy Blench - policy manager - alcohol policy and responsibility, British Beer & Pub Association
Linda Blum - associate professor of sociology, Northeastern University, Boston
Laura Blumenthal- Conservative Party Councillor, Wokingham Borough Council
Allum Bokhari - columnist, Breitbart
Sylvia Borren - executive director, Greenpeace Netherlands
Sumantra Bose - professor of international and comparative politics, London School of Economics
Professor Mike Boulton - professor of psychology, University of Chester; researcher, bully-victim relationships and psychological well-being
David Bowden - associate fellow, Institute of Ideas; culture writer
Shaun Breslin - professor of international politics, University of Warwick; associate fellow, Chatham House Asia Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs
Justine Brian - director, Debating Matters Competition
Jennie Bristow - senior lecturer in sociology, Canterbury Christ Church University; author, The Sociology of Generations: New directions and challenges and Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict; co-author, Parenting Culture Studies
Jamie Bristow - director, The Mindfulness Initiative
Justin Bronk - research analyst, military sciences, RUSI; assistant editor, RUSI Defence Systems online journal
Amy Brown - associate professor in public health, Swansea University; researcher into breastfeeding
Dr Katrina Brown - director, The Common Guild
Cressida Brown - artistic director, Offstage Theatre; conceived, curated and directed Walking The Tightrope: the tension between Art and Politics
Jon Bryan - regional support official, University and College Union (UCU); treasurer, The Great Debate
Lyndsay Burtonshaw - activities officer, Sussex University Student Union
Jim Butcher - reader in geography of tourism, Canterbury Christ Church University; co-author, Volunteer Tourism: the lifestyle politics of international development
Nadia Butt - national coordinator, Debating Matters Competition, Institute of Ideas
Michael Caines - assistant editor, Times Literary Supplement
Dr James Campbell - lecturer in American History, University of Leicester; author, Crime and Punishment in African American History
Professor Ted Cantle, CBE - director, Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo); chair, Community Cohesion Review
Dr Nessa Carey - international director, PraxisUnico; author, The Epigenetics Revolution
Alvin Carpio - board member, UpRising
Emma Carr - director, Big Brother Watch
Ana Castro - graphic designer; CEO, Circus Network
Saimo Chahal QC (hon) - partner; joint head, Public Law & Human Rights, Bindmans LLP
Tom Chance - housing spokesperson, Green Party
David Chandler - professor of international relations, University of Westminster; author, Resilience: the Governance of Complexity
JJ Charlesworth - senior editor, ArtReview
Jonathan Charley - director of cultural studies, Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde
Dr Tom Chatfield - writer and broadcaster; author, Live This Book! and How to Thrive in the Digital Age
Daisy Christodoulou - research and development director, Ark Schools; author, Seven Myths about Education; season ticket holder, West Ham
Dimitris Christopoulos - vice president, International Federation for Human Rights
Ruth Cigman - senior research fellow in philosophy of education, University College London Institute of Education
Professor Nigel Clark - chair, human geography, Lancaster University
Simon Clark - director, smokers’ rights group, Forest; Action on Consumer Choice.
Dave Clements - adviser to local government; blogger, Guardian, Huffington Post; convenor, IoI Social Policy Forum.
Dr Robert Clowes - chair, Mind & Cognition Group, Nova Institute of Philosophy, Lisbon University; chair, Lisbon Salon
Joel Cohen - communications manager, BeyondMe
Christopher Coker - professor of international relations, LSE; books include Future War and Can War Be Eliminated?
Isobel Colchester - chief executive, Poet in the City
Glenda Cooper - lecturer in journalism, City University London; co-editor, Humanitarianism, Communications and Change
Frances Coppola - associate editor, Pieria; contributor to Nesta’s Our Work Here is Done, exploring the frontiers of robot technology
Nick Corston - co-founder, STEAM Co, set up to power communities to inspire children with creativity across the STEAM skills of Science, Tech, Engineering, Art and Maths
Madalena Corte-Real - sociologist , FAS – Fundo de Arquitectura Social
Ed Cottingham - media analyst and researcher
Dr Mark Coulson - reader and associate professor of psychology, Middlesex University; contributor, The video game debate and Online worlds: Convergence of the real and the virtual
John Coventry - global communications director, Change.org
Teresa Cremin - professor of education (literacy), Open University; trustee, UK Literacy Association; board member, Booktrust
Shane Croucher - senior writer, International Business Times
Niall Crowley - freelance designer and writer
Rosamund Cuckston - organiser, Birmingham Salon; lead singer, Pram
Dolan Cummings - associate fellow, Institute of Ideas; author, That Existential Leap: a crime story (forthcoming from Zero Books)
Dr Philip Cunliffe - senior lecturer in international conflict, University of Kent; co-editor, Politics Without Sovereignty: a critique of contemporary international relations.
Barry Curtis - Volunteer and writer
Lesley Curwen - business, economics and personal finance journalist, BBC; writer and speaker
Helen Czerski - physicist, oceanographer and broadcaster
Kenneth Dahlgren - head of social sciences, Rodeo Arkitekter AS
Sue Daley - head of big data, cloud and mobile, techUK
Kimon Daltas - editor, Classical Music magazine
Jeremy Dalton - innovation consultant, PwC
Anas Darkaoui - programme manager, Asfari Foundation
Martin Daubney - award-wining editor, journalist, and broadcaster; columnist for Telegraph Men
Neil Davenport - sociology and politics teacher; writer on culture; former music journalist
Rose Davis - intern, Institute of Ideas
Chrissie Daz - schoolteacher; cabaret performer; author on transgender and gender variant identity
Amali de Alwis - CEO, Code First: Girls
Alex Deane - managing director, FTI Consulting; Sky News regular; BBC Dateline London panellist; author Big Brother Watch: The state of civil liberties in modern Britain
Dr Katerina Deligiorgi - reader in philosophy, University of Sussex; author, The Scope of Autonomy
Dr Shirley Dent - communications specialist (currently working with the British Veterinary Association media team); editor, tlfw.co.uk; author, Radical Blake
Emma Dent-Coad - planning spokesperson, Labour Group, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council; design and architecture journalist
Nadia Denton - film industry specialist; author, The Nigerian Filmmaker’s Guide to Success: beyond Nollywood
Paul Dickinson - executive chairman, CDP, driving sustainable economies
Betsy Dillner - director, Generation Rent
Ceri Dingle - director, WORLDwrite & WORLDbytes
Emily Dinsmore - project administrator, Physics Factory
Mar Dixon - creator, MuseomixUK and MuseumCamp
Laura Dodsworth - photographer; author, Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories
Alastair Donald - associate director, Future Cities Project; architecture programme manager, British Council
Ian Douglas - journalist, Telegraph
Ashley Dove-Jay - aerospace engineer; popular science writer; Urban Spaceman columnist, Bristol Post
Andrew Doyle - stand-up comedian; playwright
Ruth Dudley Edwards - historian and journalist; author, The Seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish Republic (forthcoming)
Ian Dunt - editor, Politics.co.uk; political editor, Erotic Review
Martin Durkin - CEO, Wag TV
Professor Bill Durodié - head of department and chair of international relations, University of Bath
Dr Wendy Earle - impact development officer, Birkbeck, University of London; convenor, Institute of Ideas Arts and Society Forum
Kathryn Ecclestone - professor of education, University of Sheffield; author, Governing Vulnerable Subjects in a Therapeutic Age (forthcoming)
Susan Edwards - dean of law, University of Buckingham
Kajsa Ekis Ekman - Swedish journalist, writer and activist; author, Skulden - eurokrisen sedd från Aten and Being and Being Bought; writer, Dagens Nyheter
Saja Elgredly - YAV Debater and Trainer (Egypt) Grad Student at City University London (UK) Culture Corner (Egypt)
Jonn Elledge - editor, CityMetric; writer, New Statesman
Rob Elsworth - policy analyst - climate and energy, Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
Steven Erlanger - London bureau chief, New York Times
Dr Oliver Escobar - co-director, What Works Scotland; lecturer in public policy, University of Edinburgh
Mahan Esfahani - harpsichordist; BBC Music ‘Newcomer of the Year’ 2015
Raffaele Esposito - architect and urban designer, DRS / Glasgow City Council
Leo Evans - politics student, University of Liverpool; Liberal Democrat PPC for Liverpool Wavertree, 2015
Katie Evans - economist, Social Market Foundation
Craig Fairnington - associate fellow, Institute of Ideas; university finance and accommodation officer
Kishwer Falkner - Baroness Falkner of Margravine; chair, House of Lords EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee; member, EU Select Committee
Dr Miguel Farias - reader in cognitive and biological psychology, Coventry University
Paul Farmer - chief executive, Mind
Alice Ferguson - director, Playing Out
George Ferguson, CBE - mayor of Bristol
Dr Eliza Filby - visiting lecturer in Modern British History, King’s College London; author, God and Mrs Thatcher: The battle for Britain’s soul
Justin Fisher - professor of political science and director of the Magna Carta Institute, Brunel University London
John Fitzpatrick - professor of law and director, Kent Law Clinic, University of Kent, Canterbury
Dr [Michael Fitzpatrick]] - writer on medicine and politics; author, The Tyranny of Health
Dr Susan Foister - deputy director and director of public engagement, National Gallery
Dr Katrina Forrester - lecturer in history of political thought, Queen Mary University of London
Oliver Foster - managing partner, Pagefield
Claire Fox - director, Institute of Ideas; panellist, BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze; author, I Find That Offensive
Cristiana Fragola - regional director for Europe & Middle East, 100 Resilient Cities
Dr Ashley Frawley - Senior lecturer in sociology and social policy, Swansea University; author, The Semiotics of Happiness: rhetorical beginnings of a public problem
Dr Liz Frayn - consultant psychiatrist, Devon Partnership Trust
Professor Elizabeth Frazer - head of department, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford; fellow in politics, New College Oxford
Professor Monika Frommel - jurist; former director, criminological institute, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel
Professor Steve Fuller - Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick
Professor Frank Furedi - sociologist and social commentator; author, What's Happened to the University?, Power of Reading: from Socrates to Twitter, On Tolerance and Authority: a sociological history
John Gapper - columnist , Financial Times
Laia Gasch - special assistant to Deputy Mayor for Culture, Mayor's Office; chair of trustees, Chats Palace Arts Centre
Elisabetta Gasparoni - teacher; convenor of the Future Cities Project Readers’ Group
Dr Clare Gerada - GP; past chair, Royal College of General Practitioners
Jeanne-Marie Gescher - author, All Under Heaven: China’s Dreams of Order; speaker; adviser
Chrissie Giles - senior editor, Wellcome Trust; commissioning editor, Mosaic
Andrew Gimson - author and political journalist; contributing editor, ConservativeHome
Jodie Ginsberg - chief executive, Index on Censorship
Luke Gittos - criminal lawyer; director of City of London Appeals Clinic; legal editor at spiked; author, Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans
Dr Daniel Glaser - director, Science Gallery London, King's College London
David Goodhart - director, Demos Integration Hub; author, The British Dream: successes and failures of post-war immigration
Harold Goodwin - professor of responsible tourism, Manchester Metropolitan University
Maria José Goulão - professor of art history, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto
Manick Govinda - head, artists' advisory services; producer, Artsadmin; vice chair, a-n The Artists Information Company
Susan Grant-Muller - professor of technologies and informatics, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Dr Maria Grasso - lecturer in politics and quantitative methods, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield; author: Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe
Miranda Green - journalist; founding editor, The Day; regular contributor to BBC political shows; former Lib Dem spin doctor
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh - professor of primary care health sciences, University of Oxford
Ross Greer - head of campaigns and communications, Scottish Green Party
Sean Gregory - director, Creative Learning, Barbican/Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Phoebe Griffith - associate director, migration, integration and communities, IPPR
Tiago Guedes - director, Teatro Municipal do Porto
Dr Helene Guldberg - director, spiked; author, Reclaiming Childhood: freedom and play in an age of fear and Just Another Ape?
David Gurnham - associate professor in law, University of Southampton; author, Crime, Desire and Law’s Unconscious
Dr Chris Gyngell - research fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Barbara Hackenschmidt - member of Parliament Brandenburg (2004-2014) and again as of 1st November 2015.
Pauline Hadaway - writer and researcher
Dr Philip Hadfield - associate fellow, University of Leeds; author, Nightlife and Crime
Isobel Hadley-Kamptz - Swedish journalist; author, Frihet och fruktan: Tankar om en ny liberalism
Rania Hafez - programme leader, MA Education, Greenwich University; fellow, The Muslim Institute
Dr Lesley Hall - Wellcome Library Research Fellow
Ahmed Hamad - YAV Debater and Trainer (Jordan) Secretary of International Relations at University of Vaasa (Finland)
Philip Hammond - professor of media and communications, London South Bank University
Adnan Harambasic - architect; partner SAAHA
Lisa Harker - director of strategy, policy and evidence, NSPCC
Phineas Harper - deputy director, The Architecture Foundation
Sabrina Harris - technical author; longtime gamer; regular commentator on issues relating to freedom of speech and internet subcultures
Andrew Harrop - general secretary, Fabian Society; author, A Presumption of Equality; contributor, The Generation Game
Adrian Hart - author, That's Racist! How the regulation of speech and thought divides us all and Leave those kids alone – How official hate speech regulation interferes in school life
Dr Anna Hartnell - senior lecturer in contemporary literature, Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Dennis Hayes - professor of education, University of Derby
Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh - fellow and tutor in politics, Balliol College, Oxford; author, How the French Think: an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people
James Heartfield - writer and lecturer; co-author, Who’s Afraid of the Easter Rising?
Bríd Hehir - writer, researcher and traveller; retired nurse and fundraiser
Professor Magnus Henrekson - professor in economics and managing director of Swedish IFN (The Research Institute of Industrial Economics); author and public debater.
Barbara Hewson - barrister, Middle Temple; writer and commentator
Nancy Hey - director, What Works Centre for Wellbeing
Angie Hobbs - Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
Christina Hoff Sommers - writer and resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; host, weekly video series, The Factual Feminist
Jon Holbrook - barrister; writer on legal issues; regular contributor to spiked
Rosemary Hollis - professor of international politics and director of the Olive Tree Programme, City University London
Professor Alan Hudson - director of leadership and public policy programmes, University of Oxford; visiting professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University
George Hull - co-founder, Bloc; contributor, the Spectator
Mick Hume - editor-at-large, online magazine spiked; author, Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?
Huw Humphreys - head of music, Barbican Centre
Dr Rupa Huq - Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton
Dr Humeria Iqtidar - senior lecturer in politics, Department of Political Economy, King’s College London
Tracy Irish - Warwick Business School Shakespeare Scholar; author, The Shorter Shakespeare
Tom Ironside - director of business and regulation, British Retail Consortium
Helen Jamison - head of media relations, Wellcome Trust
Christopher Jamison - director, National office for vocation, Catholic Church of England and Wales; author, Finding Sanctuary and Finding Happiness; featured in BBC TV's The Monastery
Ana Jara - founding member and manager, ARTÉRIA – Humanizing Architecture
Sian Jarvis - managing director, Jarvis & Bo Communications; former director general of communications, Department of Health
Paul Jasper - consultant, Oxford Policy Management – a leading international development consultancy
Nitin Jayakrishnan - tech entrepreneur (Co-Founder of iTrucks PLC and LO/RE); student, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick; alumnus, Debating Matters India
Leszek Jazdzewski - editor-in-chief, Polish liberal journal Liberté!
Vít Jedlička - president of Liberland
Dr Tiffany Jenkins - writer and broadcaster; author, Keeping Their Marbles: how treasures of the past ended up in museums and why they should stay there
Louise Johns-Shepherd - chief executive, Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
Dr Lucy Johnstone - consultant clinical psychologist, Cwm Taf Health Board, South Wales; author, A Straight Talking Guide to Psychiatric Diagnosis
Rachael Jolley - editor, Index on Censorship magazine
Lorien Jollye - vaping advocate, New Nicotine Alliance UK
Daniel Joseph - rector of Derby, Dean of East Midlands, Russian Orthodox Church; chaplain and lecturer in philosophy, University of Derby
Dr Thomas Karshan - lecturer in literature, University of East Anglia; author, Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play
Maja Kecman - design lead, HELIX, St Mary’s Hospital
Professor Mike Kelly - senior visiting fellow, Behaviour and Health Research Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge; researcher in nudge theory and choice architecture
Angus Kennedy - convenor, The Academy; author, Being Cultured: in defence of discrimination
Dr Peter Kent - immediate past president, ASCL; headteacher, Lawrence Sheriff School
Ashutosh Khandekar - editor, Opera Now
Aditi Khanna - senior correspondent, Press Trust of India; editor, India Inc.; president, Indian Journalists’ Association
Geoff Kidder - director, membership and events, Institute of Ideas; convenor, IoI Book Club; IoI’s resident expert in all sporting matters
Thomas Kielinger - UK correspondent, Die Welt
Rob Killick - CEO, Clerkswell; author, The UK After The Recession
Marie Kinsey - joint head of department, Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield
Matthew Kirk - group external affairs director, Vodafone
Lesley Klaff - senior lecturer in law, Sheffield Hallam University; associate editor, Journal for the Study of Antisemitism
Dr Simon Knight - senior youth work practitioner; vice chair, Play Scotland
Pius Knüsel - teacher; cultural editor and writer
Boris Kotchoubey - professor, University of Tübingen
Serena Kutchinsky - digital editor, Prospect
Dr Alexandra Lamont - senior lecturer, psychology of music, Keele University
Dr Sean Lang - senior lecturer in history, Anglia Ruskin University; director, Better History Forum
Nadia Latif - theatre director; credits include, Homegrown (NYT); Octagon (Arcola Theatre); Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against A Brick Wall (Soho Theatre)
Dr Shirley Lawes - researcher; consultant and university teacher, specialising in teacher education and modern foreign languages; Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques
Paul Lay - editor, History Today
Dr Ellie Lee - reader in social policy, University of Kent, Canterbury; director, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies
Philippe Legrain - visiting senior fellow, LSE’s European Institute; author, Immigrants: your country needs them and European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics are in a Mess – and How to Put Them Right
Sam Leith - literary editor, Spectator; judge, Man Booker Prize 2015
Penny Lewis - lecturer, Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University; co-founder, AE Foundation
Richard Lewis - veteran games journalist
Dr Norman Lewis - director (innovation), PwC; co-author, Big Potatoes: the London manifesto for innovation
Rod Liddle - associate editor, Spectator; columnist, The Sunday Times; author, Selfish Whining Monkeys
Jonathan Liew - sportswriter, Telegraph
Mark Littlewood - director general, Institute of Economic Affairs
Peter Lloyd - freelance journalist; author, Stand By Your Manhood
Daniel Lloyd - consumer lawyer; member of the employed bar; co-author, Blackstone's Guide to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (forthcoming)
Diogo Seixas Lopes - partner, Barbas Lopes Arquitectos
Jonathan Lundqvist - president, Reporters Without Borders Sweden; vice-president, RSF International
Rick Lyman - journalist; Central and Eastern European bureau chief, New York Times
Rob Lyons - science and technology director, Institute of Ideas; convenor, IoI Economy Forum
George MacDonald - executive editor, Retail Week
Leila MacTavish - head of initial teacher education, Future Training, Future Academies
Dr Jan Macvarish - associate lecturer and researcher, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, University of Kent; author, Neuroparenting: The Expert Invasion of Family Life
Shiraz Maher - senior research fellow and head of outreach, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), King's College London
John Mair - editor and journalism lecturer; co-editor, The BBC Today: future uncertain
Jakub Makowski - regional chair, Liberal Youth in the East of England
Amjad Malik - education consultant, The Nida Trust
Kate Maltby - theatre critic, The Times; associate fellow, Bright Blue; researcher on intellectual life of Elizabeth I
Lila Manioti - director of cultural affairs, Hellenic American Union
Maria Margaronis - writer and broadcaster, The Nation magazine
Toby Marshall - A Level Film Studies Teacher; PhD researcher in sociology of education, UCL Institute of Education
Carlos Martins - CEO, Opium lda
Jack Marwood - primary school teacher; education writer, Icing on the Cake blog
Nikola Matisic - opera singer and pedagogue; founder, Operalabb
Benita Matofska - chief sharer, Compare and Share; global sharing economy expert
Christian May - editor, City A.M.
Dr Catherine McCall - director, EPIC (the European Philosophical Inquiry Centre)
Amber McCleary - founding director, Copper Clothing
Dr Tara McCormack - lecturer in international politics, University of Leicester; author, Critique, Security and Power: the political limits to emancipatory approaches
Kevin McCullagh - founder, Plan
Nancy McDermott - writer; advisor to Park Slope Parents, NYC's most notorious parents' organization
Angela McFarlane - chief executive and registrar, The College of Teachers
Neil McGuire - designer and design tutor, Glasgow School of Art
Colin McInnes - James Watt Chair, Professor of Engineering Science, University of Glasgow
Dr Marie McIntyre - research associate, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Institute of Infection & Global Health, University of Liverpool
Dr Anthony McIntyre - author, Good Friday: the death of Irish Republicanism
Dr Ken McLaughlin - lecturer in social work; author, Surviving Identity: vulnerability and the psychology of recognition
David McNeill - director of public affairs and stakeholder engagement, Transport For London
James McVinnie - organist; latest release, Cycles
Anna Mdee - research fellow, Overseas Development Institute
Alp Mehmet - retired diplomat; vice-chairman, Migrationwatch UK
Dr Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens - lecturer, King's College London; head of research, ICSR
Clare Melford - interim executive and organisational consultant; presenter, BBC Radio 4 Four Thought programme "Buddha in the Boardroom"
Kaitlynn Mendes - lecturer in media and communication, University of Leicester; author, SlutWalk: feminism, activism and media
Samar Samir Mezghanni - YAV Debater and Trainer (Tunisia) PhD Candidate at University of Cambridge (UK)
Professor Andy Miah - chair in science communication & digital media, University of Salford
Dr Ruth Mieschbuehler - programme leader, education studies, College of Education, University of Derby
Gia Milinovich - producer, broadcaster, professional dork
Sally Millard - co-founder, IoI Parents Forum
Carl Miller - research director, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos
Alan Miller - chairman, Night Time Industries Association (NTIA)
Beverley Milton-Edwards - professor of politics, Queen’s University Belfast; author, Muslim Brotherhood: the Arab Spring and its future face
Munira Mirza - advisor on arts and philanthropy; former deputy mayor of London for education and culture; author, The Politics of Culture: the case for universalism
Kevin Mole - associate professor (reader) and head of entrepreneurship and innovation, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Paul Moloney - trade union and industrial relations manager
Derek Molyneux - historian and writer
Anshuman Mondal - professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, Brunel University London; author, The Politics of Free Speech after Rushdie
Dr Jules Montague - consultant neurologist, Royal Free Hospital
Chris Moody - chief business development officer, Transport Systems Catapult
Rowan Moore - architecture critic, Observer; author, Why We Build
Christian Moos - secretary general, German Section of European Federalists
Juliette Morgan - C&W Tech Global Lead – London Head of Property – Tech City UK
Paul Morley - music journalist; author, The North (and almost everything in it)
Mark Morrin - research associate, ResPublica; co-author, Devo Max - Devo Manc
Daniel Moylan - former deputy chairman of Transport for London; Conservative Councillor; co-chairman, Urban Design London
Frank Mulder - researcher, writer and journalist; ; columnist, De Groene Amsterdammer; author, De geluksmachine (The Happiness Machine)
Para Mullan - senior project manager, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; FCIPD
Phil Mullan - economist and business manager; author, Creative Destruction: How to start an economic renaissance
Chris Muller - head, Sir William Perkins’s School
Annabel Mullin - PhD researcher, UCL Institute of Education; Lib Dem Parliamentary spokesperson for Kensington
Toby Mundy - founding director, TMA literary agency; executive director, Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
Liam Murray - founder and owner, We Are Flat Five, a boutique management consultancy
Rupert Myers - barrister and writer
Jonathan Neame - chief executive, Shepherd Neame Ltd
Dr Kristian Niemietz - senior research fellow, Institute of Economic Affairs; author, A Patient Approach: putting the consumer at the heart of UK healthcare
Charles Nishikawa - management consultant, Across Associates Consultants; lecturer, Mejiro University
Jon Nixon - writer, Centre of International Education and Lifelong Learning, Hong Kong Institute of Education; author, Hannah Arendt and the politics of friendship; founding co-editor, Perspectives in Leadership in Higher Education
Ted Nordhaus - chairman, Breakthrough Institute
Peter North - reader in alternative economies, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool
Robin Norton-Hale - artistic director, OperaUpClose
Teresa Novais - partner, aNC arquitectos
Professor Fred Nyberg - senior professor in biological research on drug addiction, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University
Margaret O’ Callaghan - historian and political analyst, Queens University of Belfast
Anthony O'Hear - professor of philosophy, University of Buckingham; editor, Philosophy; director, Royal Institute of Philosophy
Mohsen Ojja - principal, The Crest Academies
Kunle Olulode - director, Voice4Change England; creative director, Rebop Productions
Brendan O'Neill - editor, spiked; columnist, Big Issue; contributor, Spectator; author, A Duty to Offend: Selected Essays
Andrew Opie - director for food and sustainability, British Retail Consortium
Daniel O'Reilly - comedian, aka Dapper Laughs
Andrew Orlowski - executive editor, Register; assistant producer, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
David Orr - chief executive, National Housing Federation
Sulaiman Osman - writer, blogger and political activist
Ann Overbergh - programmer, Dutch-Flemish House deBuren
Michael Owens - commercial director, Bow Arts Trust; owner, London Urban Visits; formerly, head of development policy, London Development Agency
Adrian Pabst - senior lecturer in politics, University of Kent
Danni Paffard - divestment campaigner, 350.org
Dr James Panton - head of politics, Magdalen College School, Oxford; associate lecturer in politics and philosophy, Open University; co-founder, Manifesto Club
Lefteris Papagiannakis - member, Athens municipal council; president; Immigrant Integration Council
Eva Pascoe - chair, digital network Cybersalon; co-founder, Cyberia, world’s first internet café; co-author, An Alternative Future High Street for the UK minister for high streets
Bénédicte Paviot - U.K. correspondent, France 24; regular contributor to news and current affairs programmes, BBC TV & Radio, Sky News, LBC and other UK and overseas outlets
Laurie Penny - journalist; contributing editor, New Statesman; author, Unspeakable Things: sex, lies and revolution
Luis T Pereira - founding partner, [A] ainda arquitectura architecture studio, Porto
Shyama Perera - writer, broadcaster and novelist; acting director, One World Media
David Perks - founder and principal, East London Science School; director, the Physics Factory
Martyn Perks - digital business consultant and writer; co-author, Big Potatoes: the London manifesto for innovation
Stephen Plaice - librettist; writer in residence, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Jeannette Pols - professor of social theory, humanism and materialities, University of Amsterdam
Martin Powell - global head of urban development, Siemens Plc
Dr Weronika Priesmeyer-Tkocz - programme director, European Academy Berlin
Vicky Pryce - board member, Centre for Economics and Business Research; economic advisor, British Chamber of Commerce
Dr Vanessa Pupavac - associate professor; co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham
Jamie Ratcliff - assistant director, Programme, Policy and Services, Greater London Authority
Adam Rawcliffe - partnerships manager, Institute of Ideas
Helen Reece - reader in law, LSE
Dr Paul Reeves - engineering software designer, SolidWorks R&D (part of Dassault Systèmes); convener, manufacturing work group for Big Potatoes: the London manifesto for innovation
Abdul Rehman-Malik - journalist; programmes manager, Radical Middle Way
Alex Renton - award-winning journalist; writer on food and food policy; author, Planet Carnivore: how cheap meat costs the earth
Jacob Reynolds - consultant, SHM Productions
Martin Robinson - educational consultant and teacher; author, Trivium 21c: preparing young people for the future with lessons from the past; writer, Times Educational Supplement
Carolyn Robson - executive headteacher, Rushey Mead School, Leicester; CEO, Rushey Mead Educational Trust
Alex Rogers - professor in conservation biology, Somerville College, University of Oxford; scientific director, International Programme on State of the Ocean (IPSO)
Kevin Rooney - politics teacher and head of social science, Queen's School, Bushey; co-author, Who's Afraid Of The Easter Rising?
Nick Rose - teacher; leading practitioner in psychology and research; shortlisted TES Teacher Blogger of the Year
Dr Joel Nathan Rosen - associate professor of sociology, Moravian College; co-author, Black Baseball, Black Business: race enterprise and the fate of the segregated dollar; author, The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes Toward Competition
Aoife Rosenmeyer - freelance critic; contributing editor, Art in America & Art Agenda
Nick Ross - broadcaster; visiting professor, University College London
Dr Martin Roth - director, Victoria and Albert Museum
Nathalie Rothschild - freelance journalist; producer and reporter for Sweden's public service radio
Maisie Rowe - landscape architect, writer and illustrator
Phil Rumney - professor of criminal justice, Bristol Law School, UWE; co-author, Understanding and Responding to Sexual Violence: a multi-disciplinary approach (forthcoming)
Dr Tamara Russell - clinical psychologist; director, Mindfulness Centre of Excellence, London; visiting lecturer, King’s College London
Kiernan Ryan - professor of English language and literature, Royal Holloway, University of London; author, Shakespeare’s Universality: here’s fine revolution
Angela Saini - science journalist; author, Geek Nation: how Indian science is taking over the world
Hilary Salt - actuary; founder, First Actuarial
Yunas Samad - professor of South Asian studies, University of Bradford
Peter Sammonds - professor of geophysics, University College London; director, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
Jane Sandeman - convenor, IoI Parents Forum; contributor, Standing up to Supernanny; director of finance and central services, Cardinal Hume Centre
Dr Michael Savage - blogger, Grumpy Art Historian
Dr Helen Scales - freelance writer and broadcaster; author, Spirals in Time: the secret life and curious afterlife of seashells
Professor Giaco Schiesser - vice-president & board member; University of the Arts, Zurich
Jonathan Schofield - editor-at-large, Manchester Confidential; editor, Manchester Books Limited
Bauke Schram - business reporter, International Business Times UK
Dr Patrik Schumacher - principal, Zaha Hadid Architects; author, The Autopoiesis of Architecture
Matthew Scott - barrister, Pump Court Chambers; blogs at www.barristerblogger.com, shortlisted for The Comment Awards "Best independent blog" 2015
Laurence Scott - lecturer in English and creative writing, Arcadia University; author, The Four-Dimensional Human: ways of being in the digital world (winner of Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for 2014)
Paul Seaman - co-founder, Zurich Salon; editor, 21st Century PR Issues
Professor John Seddon - leader of the Vanguard organisations; visiting professor, Hull University Business School
Fredrik Segerfeldt - writer; author, Den nya jämlikheten : global utveckling från Robin Hood till Botswana; co-founder, Migro
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert - educator, writer, doctoral researcher
Freddie Sehgal Cuthbert - student; contributor to spiked
Adam Seldon - co-director, Lauriston Lights, an education charity
Jack Self - contributing editor, Architectural Review; director, the REAL Foundation
Dr Sadhvi Sharma - researcher and writer on politics in India, development, and NGO campaigns
Karl Sharro - architect; writer; Middle East commentator; co-author, Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism in Architecture
Jeremy Sice - business and communications advisor, JS&A
Roxana Silbert - artistic director, Birmingham REP Theatre
Dr Hayaatun Sillem - director of programmes & fellowship, Royal Academy of Engineering
Lenore Skenazy - founder of the book, blog and movement Free-Range Kids; “America’s Worst Mom”
Alv Skogstad Aamo - architect; urbanist; partner,DARK architects
Dr Richard Smith - chair of trustees, ICDDR,B; former editor, British Medical Journal; chair, Patients Know Best
Jason Smith - associate fellow, Institute of Ideas
Jean Smith - specialist development consultant; co-founder and director, NY Salon
Karel Smouter - deputy editor, De Correspondent
Justin Smyth - librarian; co-founder, Dublin Salon
Christopher Snowdon - director, lifestyle economics, Institute of Economic Affairs; author, The Art of Suppression
Sonia Sodha - freelance policy analyst; Observer leader writer
Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos - lecturer in sociology, University of Loughborough; author, The Rise of Lifestyle Activism: From New Left to Occupy
Thomas Soud - chair, Brighton Left
Barbara Speed - staff writer, CityMetric, New Statesman
Josh Spero - editor, Spear's magazine; art critic, Tatler; author, Second-Hand Stories
Dr Alex Standish - senior lecturer in geography education, University College London/Institute of Education
Dr Dominic Standish - author, Venice in Environmental Peril? Myth and Reality; lecturer, University of Iowa's CIMBA campus, Venice
Dr Ben Stanley - lecturer, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, SWPS University in Warsaw
Sandy Starr - communications officer, Progress Educational Trust; webmaster, BioNews
Susan Steed - economist and aspiring stand up comedian
Duncan Stephenson - director of external affairs, Royal Society for Public Health
Dr Jack Stilgoe - senior lecturer in science and technology policy, University College London; author, Experiment Earth: responsible innovation in geoengineering
Dr Melvyn Stokes - professor of film history, University College London; author, The Birth of a Nation: a history of the most controversial motion picture of all time and American History through Hollywood Film: from the Revolution to the 1960s
Sarah Strang - founder, CIVIC ROOM
Keith Stuart - video games editor, Guardian
Keith Sullivan - retired educational psychologist and university professor, National University of Ireland; author, The Anti-Bullying Handbook
Gabriella Swallow - cellist, broadcaster and arts commentator
Richard Swan - writer and academic
Isabelle Szmigin - professor of marketing, University of Birmingham; author, Understanding the Consumer
Amin Taha - architect, Amin Taha Architects and Group Work; jury member, RIBA’s National Awards and Stirling Shortlist
André Tavares - chief curator, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Dr Mark Taylor - vice principal, East London Science School; London convenor, IoI Education Forum
The Revd Canon Dr Simon Taylor - canon chancellor; Derby Cathedral
Peter Taylor - award winning reporter, BBC; documentaries include Provos, Loyalists , Brits and Generation Jihad; author, Talking to Terrorists: face to face with the enemy
Güneş Taylor - stem cell researcher, University of Oxford
Dr Funda Tekin - senior researcher, Institut für Europäische Politik
Jemima Thackray - journalist, Telegraph and Church Times; founder, UK’s first mums' chaplaincy service; soon-to-be trainee priest, Church of England
Paul Thomas - professor of youth & policy and director of research, University of Huddersfield; author, Responding to the Threat of Violent Extremism: failing to prevent
Paul Thomas - civil servant; qualified FE teacher; organiser, Leeds Salon
Matt Thomson - head of planning, Campaign to Protect Rural England
Leonora Thomson - director of audiences and development, Barbican Centre
Anne Torreggiani - chief executive, The Audience Agency
Lida Tsene - head of public relations, art and educational programs, Comicdom Press
Colin Tweedy - chief executive, The Building Centre Trust; formerly chief executive, Arts & Business
Menelaos Tzafalias - freelance journalist and producer based in Athens
Jake Unsworth - trainee solicitor, Bond Dickinson; convenor, Debating Matters Ambassadors
Daniella van Dijk-Wennberg - head of Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo Museum
Liesbeth van Tongeren - member of parliament, GroenLinks
Joana Varajão - architect, RA\\ Architecture & Design Studio
Georgios Varouxakis - professor of the history of political thought, Queen Mary University of London; author, Mill on Nationality
Nikos Vatopoulos - arts editor and columnist, Kathimerini
Annie Vernon - Olympic silver medallist and two-time World Champion rower; journalist and speaker
Marco Visscher - journalist; curator, Tegengeluid
Ignacio Vita - lawyer specialising in migration law, EC law and right of asylum
Dr Stuart Waiton - lecturer in sociology and criminology, Abertay University; author, Snobs' Law: criminalising football fans in an age of intolerance
Philip Waldron - district minister for Merseyside, Unitarian Church
Brendan Walsh - literary editor, The Tablet
Jason Walsh - journalist; foreign correspondent, CS Monitor
Philip Walters - chair, Rising Stars (educational publisher), and the GL Education Group; Spurs season ticket holder; member of Middlesex County Cricket Club
Stuart Walton - cultural historian, novelist and critic; author, A Natural History of Human Emotions and The Realm of the Senses: a materialist theory of seeing and feeling
Annie Warburton - creative director, Crafts Council
Bruno Waterfield - Brussels correspondent, The Times; co-author, No Means No
Dr Keon West - social psychologist & lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
Helen Whately - member of parliament for Faversham and Mid Kent
Ella Whelan - assistant editor, spiked
Myles Wickstead - visiting professor (international relations), Open University and King’s College London; coordinator, Aid and Development: a brief introduction
Dr Steve Wiggins - research fellow, Overseas Development Institute, London
Simon Wilde - science and health communicator
Dr Joanna Williams - academic; author, Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity; education editor, spiked
Peter D Williams - executive officer, Right To Life
Austin Williams - associate professor in architecture, XJTLU University, Suzhou, China; director, Future Cities Project; convenor, Bookshop Barnies; founding member of New Narratives
Dr Glynne Williams - senior lecturer in industrial relations, University of Leicester
Jane Wills - professor of human geography, Queen Mary University of London
Ruth Wishart - columnist, Herald; board member, Creative Scotland
David Wood - chair, London Futurists
Chris Woods - director, Airwars.org; author, Sudden Justice: America’s secret drone wars
Peter Worley - CEO and co-founder, The Philosophy Foundation
James Woudhuysen - visiting professor, London South Bank University
Professor Ian Wright - director, Science and Technology Directorate, National Oceanography Centre
Martin Wright - writer, editor and adviser on environmental solutions and sustainable futures
Mike Wright - executive director, Jaguar Land Rover
Milo Yiannopoulos - technology editor, Breitbart
Dagmawi Yimer - film-maker, AMM (Archive of Migrants' Memories)
Raymond Yiu - composer; conductor; jazz pianist
Cathy Young - contributing editor, Reason magazine; author, Ceasefire! Why women and men must join forces to achieve true equality
Dr Kevin Yuill - senior lecturer, history, University of Sunderland; author, Assisted Suicide: the liberal, humanist case against legalization
Kathryn Yusoff - senior lecturer in geography, Queen Mary University of London; author, Anthropogenesis: Origins and Endings in the Anthropocene
Jan Zalasiewicz - professor of paleobiology, University of Leicester; chair, Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy
Dr Paul Zanelli - chief technical officer, Transport Systems Catapult
Kolja Zydatiss - editor, NovoArgumente

2010

Battle of Ideas speakers for the 2010 conference, as listed on the website in April 2011, were:^[16]

Beccy Allen, researcher, Hansard Society; project manager, HeadsUp, an online forum for 11-18’s, politicians and policy-makers.
Dave Clements, social policy writer; convenor, IoI Social Policy Forum; co-editor, The Future of Community.
Joel Cohen, politics student, SOAS; member, Battle of Ideas Committee
Dolan Cummings, convenor, Battle for Politics; associate fellow, Institute of Ideas; editor, Culture Wars.
Nick Dusic, director, Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE)
Tim Finch, director and head of migration, equalities and citizenship, IPPR
Claire Fox, director, Institute of Ideas; panellist, BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze
Frank Furedi, professor of sociology, University of Kent, Canterbury; author, Wasted, Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
Pam Giddy, director, Power 2010; co-founder and former director, Power Inquiry
Tony Gilland, science and society director, Institute of Ideas; director,Debating Matters Competition
Norman Ginsburg, professor of Social Policy, London Metropolitan University; author, Divisions of Welfare: A Critical Introduction to Comparative Social Policy
David Goodhart, founder and editor, Prospect magazine
David Green, director, Civitas; author, Individualists Who Co-operate: Education and welfare reform befitting a free people
Shane Greer, executive editor, Total Politics; political consultant and commentator
Matt Grist, director, RSA's Social Brain project; author, Changing the Subject - how new ways of thinking about human behaviour might change politics, policy and practice
Kamaljeet Jandu, national officer, Equality through Inclusion, GMB
Geoff Kidder, director, membership and events, Institute of Ideas; convenor, IoI Book Club; IoI’s resident expert in all sporting matters
George Lee, prospective parliamentary candidate, Conservative, Holborn & St Pancras; founding member, Black Police Association
Kirk Leech, freelance journalist; researcher, development and environment
Kevin Maguire, associate editor, Daily Mirror
Brendan O'Neill, editor, Spiked; author, Can I Recycle My Granny and 39 Other Eco-Dilemmas
Ben Page, chief executive, Ipsos MORI]; Editorial Board, International Journal of Market Research
James Panton, politics tutor at St John’s College, University of Oxford; co-founder, radical civil liberties campaigning group, the Manifesto Club
Jo Phillips, journalist, former spin doctor; co-author Why Vote – a guide for those who can't be bothered.
Mike Savage, professor of sociology, University of Manchester; Director, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change; author, Culture, Class, Distinction
David Seymour, co-author Why Vote – a guide for those who can't be bothered; former political editor, Mirror Group, leader writer, Daily Mail; founder, Student Mirror
Gerry Stoker, professor, Politics and Governance, University of Southampton; director, Centre for Citizenship, Globalization and Governance; author, Why Politics Matters: making democracy work
Wes Streeting, president, National Union of Students (NUS)
Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner; Green Party human rights spokesperson
Robin Walsh, editorial assistant, medical publishing company; co-founder, Current Affairs Forum.
Bruno Waterfield, Brussels correspondent, Daily Telegraph; author, No Means No!
Jeremy Webb, editor-in-chief, New Scientist
Richard Wilson, founder and director, Izwe; founder, leading public engagement think-tank, Involve

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Resources

Jon Alexander, Beware the Institute of Ideas Conservation-Economy, 1 Nov 2010

Jenny Turner, 'Who Are They?,' London Review of Books, 8 July 2010

Helge Ogrim, Battle of Ideas, Is the Revolutionary Communist Party still the vanguard? November 6, 2010 · 11:49 am

Press Gazette, The Battle of Ideas: It's a twisted old battlefield Press Gazette, 3 November 2006

Richard Wilson, 'Quite contrary:inside the Battle of Ideas', New Humanist, Jan/Feb 2011

Notes

↑ Culture Wars History, Culture Wars website, accessed 31 Oct 2010
↑ About: What is the Battle of Ideas 2010?, Battle of Ideas website, accessed 28 Apr 2010
↑ Hope for the Best - Interview with Claire Fox, website Spannermedia.com
↑ Who Are They, London Review of Books website, accessed 14 Nov 2010
↑ Beware the Institute of Ideas Conservation-Economy, 1 Nov 2010
↑ Battle of Ideas, Is the Revolutionary Communist Party still the vanguard? November 6, 2010 · 11:49 am
↑ "2005 Partners", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 7 June 2010
↑ "2006 Partners", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 7 June 2010
↑ "Partners Listing", Battle of Ideas, 2007, retrieved from the Internet Archive of 11 October 2007, accessed 7 June 2010
↑ "Partners", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 7 June 2010
↑ "Partners", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 7 June 2010
↑ "[1]", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 26 October 2010
↑ "[2]", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 3 September 2011
↑ Strategic Award supports The Battle of Ideas festival and Debating Matters Wellcome Trust website acc 5 March 2011
↑ Battle of Ideas speakers listing, Battle of Ideas website, last accessed on 30 November 2016.
↑ Speakers Listing, Battle of Ideas website, accessed 28 Apr 2011

[1] Culture Wars History, Culture Wars website, accessed 31 Oct 2010

[2] About: What is the Battle of Ideas 2010?, Battle of Ideas website, accessed 28 Apr 2010

[3] Hope for the Best - Interview with Claire Fox, website Spannermedia.com

[4] Who Are They, London Review of Books website, accessed 14 Nov 2010

[5] Beware the Institute of Ideas Conservation-Economy, 1 Nov 2010

[6] Battle of Ideas, Is the Revolutionary Communist Party still the vanguard? November 6, 2010 · 11:49 am

[7] "2005 Partners", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 7 June 2010

[8] "2006 Partners", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 7 June 2010

[9] "Partners Listing", Battle of Ideas, 2007, retrieved from the Internet Archive of 11 October 2007, accessed 7 June 2010

[10] "Partners", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 7 June 2010

[11] "Partners", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 7 June 2010

[12] "[1]", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 26 October 2010

[13] "[2]", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 3 September 2011

[14] Strategic Award supports The Battle of Ideas festival and Debating Matters Wellcome Trust website acc 5 March 2011

[15] Battle of Ideas speakers listing, Battle of Ideas website, last accessed on 30 November 2016.

[16] Speakers Listing, Battle of Ideas website, accessed 28 Apr 2011

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