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Freedom isn’t failing
Battle of Ideas speaker Steve Baker, chairman of Fighting for a Free Future, argues the root cause of many of our problems is the way officialdom has…
 • Claire Fox
Is Islam compatible with the West?
The Winston Marshall Show is going live for the first time this coming Friday in London with a debate on one of the key issues of our time.
 • Claire Fox
After the grooming gangs and Valdo Calocane: where’s the accountability?
With the Nottingham Inquiry coming to a close this week, we have to ask why, time after time, authorities seem to get away with appalling failures.
 • Claire Fox
Skipping out on justice: Britain’s prison crisis
Ahead of a Battle of Ideas festival debate, Kirstin Brady asks why communities around the country must suffer for the failings of our criminal-justice…
 • Kirstin Brady

August 2026

What remains when the state has given up on culture?
Understanding the post-cultural state, a guest essay from Lola Salem
 • Lola May Salem
Suicidal empathy: is the West killing itself with kindness?
From the murderous attack on Berlin Pride to the imposition of asylum seekers on the village of Piddington, is an elite desire to signal virtuousness…
 • Jake Weston
Special last-minute ticket offer! Academy 2026 THIS WEEKEND
Ideas Matter's annual residential weekend is a brilliant intellectual retreat – and our Substack subscribers can get 10% off.
 • Jacob Reynolds Ideas Matter
Bookies, barbers and black markets: Burnham’s high-street delusion
The high-street bookmaker is already in decline from taxation and over-regulation. Lumping bookies in with barbers and vape shops lets the government…
 • Jake Weston
Fear, favour and failure: the crisis in British policing
After high-profile cases where forces have failed to protect the public or overstepped the mark in relation to free speech and journalism, read Claire…
 • Claire Fox
Have we lost our appetite for work?
The summer is a time to kick back and relax – but it seems like many in society are doing that all year round. Why?
 • Alastair Donald
What should we do about climate change?
For many people, we just need to ‘look out the window’ to see climate change is real and dangerous. But what we really need is a well-informed, nuanced…
 • Rob Lyons
War with Iran goes from bad to worse
Why does the West get involved in conflicts that it can never win?
 • Rob Lyons
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