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.
A Christmas message from Claire Fox
As another busy year draws to a close, the Christmas and New Year holidays offer a welcome break! It’s a wonderful time to get together with family and friends, catch up with some reading and generally reflect upon the past year – and look forward to the year ahead. We hope you enjoy the break and remain thankful for those who will be working to keep things going while the rest of us relax.
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Amid the general Christmas viewing (I’m more It’s a Wonderful Life than Die Hard, but each to their own!), it’s also a chance to enjoy the debates from this year’s Battle of Ideas festival and the other debates we’re hosted this year. The Battle of Ideas YouTube channel is a great repository to enjoy these fabulous discussions, whether it is watching individual speeches or whole debates. Just hit the ‘Subscribe’ button on the channel page to keep up with all the new releases.
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It’s Christmas, so if you want to make a commitment to supporting proper debate, free-thinking and an alternative direction for Britain (and beyond), please make a donation. Not only do we create spaces for honest, free-thinking public debate, but having the Academy of Ideas gives us a launchpad to take part in other debates – from events produced by other people to appearances in the mainstream media. All the while, we make the case for liberty, particularly freedom of speech.
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That’s (almost) all folks!
We’re about to log off, but there will be one more edition of Inside the Lords before Christmas, so look out for that.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! See you in 2026!
Claire