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Battle of Ideas festival 2025: let Battle commence!
This year, we celebrate 20 years of our festival - as ever with the motto FREE SPEECH ALLOWED. Join us this weekend in Westminster at the best place for…
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Claire Fox
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Letters on Liberty: risk, blasphemy and wellbeing
Our latest missives on freedom are now live. Join the authors at the Battle of Ideas festival in London this weekend.
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Ella Whelan
China spying-case collapse: cock-up or conspiracy?
With fingers being pointed all over the place, the Battle of Ideas festival discussions on our dysfunctional state and China's place in the world seem…
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Rob Lyons
Battle of Ideas: there's no substitute for 'being there'
Next weekend's festival in Westminster is our 20th – and there's never been a better opportunity to be at the heart of honest, open, public debate.
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Alastair Donald
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Ella Whelan
Donald Trump: international peacemaker?
As a ceasefire looks close in Gaza, two sessions at the Battle of Ideas festival will offer the chance to look at Trump’s successes and failings – and…
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Rob Lyons
Antisemitism, protest and Holocaust revisionism
On the eve of the October 7th anniversary and in the light of events over the past few days, four discussions at the Battle of Ideas festival, on 18 …
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Rob Lyons

September 2025

Name one Brexit benefit? How about 75?
In a guest post, writer Gully Foyle on the Labour pains associated with his new book and why we need to keep making the case for leaving the EU.
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Rob Lyons
Is the party over for Labour?
A year on from that electoral landslide, Keir Starmer’s government is deeply unpopular. At the Battle of Ideas festival, we’ll discuss whether a revival…
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Rob Lyons
Blasphemy laws and 'two-tier' justice
The fallout from two criminal cases surrounding the burning of a copy of the Koran will be discussed at two sessions at this year's Battle of Ideas…
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Rob Lyons
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Two hundred years of railways – so why can't we build things today?
Two sessions at this year's Battle of Ideas festival will look at our infrastructure crisis and whether the state can rescue British industry.
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Rob Lyons
Why the Battle of Ideas festival matters
With free speech under attack – quite literally in the case of Charlie Kirk – the festival is a vital space for free and frank debate. EARLY-BIRD…
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Claire Fox
The killing of Iryna Zarutska shows the mainstream media’s total moral collapse
The media is more interested in narrative control than in dealing with the issues laid bare by this murder – and that of Charlie Kirk.
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Jacob Reynolds
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