Archive - Academy of Ideas

Battle Book Club: 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk

Emma Gilland introduces our next book club discussion, which takes place next Tuesday evening, online via Zoom.

4 hrs ago • Emma Gilland

New year, new debates: forthcoming events and media appearances

We're nothing if not busy at the Academy of Ideas. Here's a round up of some of the things we've done and what's coming up.

Jan 10 • Claire Fox

Happy new year – happy new world order?

The Academy of Ideas team discuss why Trump captured Venezuelan President Maduro and what it all means for politics - both international and domestic…

Jan 9 • Claire Fox

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December 2025

Happy Christmas from Inside The Lords!

Claire Fox gives a final report from parliament on assisted dying, puberty blockers and protests outside parliament.

Dec 20, 2025 • Claire Fox

Merry Christmas from the Academy of Ideas

We hope you have a great festive holiday – a great opportunity to catch up with our debates and to support our work.

Dec 19, 2025 • Claire Fox

Why the state can police your tweets, but not your streets

Jacob Reynolds introduces The Academy 2026 and explains why we now have a 'hostile state', incapable of hitherto basic functions but resolutely focused…

Dec 15, 2025 • Jacob Reynolds

Johnny Ball: my previous life in comedy

The comedian turned children’s TV legend introduces part one of his autobiography.

Dec 11, 2025 • Rob Lyons

Is gambling at the forefront of the fight for liberty? You bet!

Jon Bryan explains how the Budget tax rises were just the latest attack on players. PLUS: Jake Weston previews his case at Thursday's Living Freedom…

Dec 9, 2025 • Jon Bryan and Jake Weston

Academy of Ideas books and gifts: grab some big ideas for Christmas!

We've got a great selection of books and merchandise for sale – not forgetting our brilliant Letters on Liberty pamphlets.

Dec 4, 2025 • Claire Fox

November 2025

The Omnishambles Budget, mark 2?

Whatever Rachel Reeves announces on Wednesday, it has become abundantly clear that the Labour government has failed to ‘fix the foundations’.

Nov 25, 2025 • Rob Lyons

Inside The Lords: asylum policy, assisted dying and assaults on smokers

Claire Fox reports from a frantic few weeks in parliament.

Nov 20, 2025 • Claire Fox

Curriculum Review: where's the moral commitment to knowledge and truth?

Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, education researcher and director of Don't Divide Us, on why the government's blueprint for schools education is too obsessed with…

Nov 13, 2025 • Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

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