Time to get your Battle of Ideas festival tickets
The unmissable weekend of free speech, open debate and fresh thinking
15 & 16 October, Westminster
Join us for an unmissable weekend of debate and discussion on the most important political, economic and cultural issues of our time.
The Battle of Ideas festival in London is less than a fortnight away. Join us in the heart of Westminster for the biggest free speech festival in the UK. With a new prime minister already imperilled, a cost-of-living crisis and war in Ukraine, raging culture wars and institutions in meltdown, this is a time of enormous challenges and there’s certainly lots to debate and discuss.
If you’re sick of shouting at the telly, and a weekend of civil but passionate debate in-the-flesh appeals, don’t hesitate: grab your ticket for 15 & 16 October in the heart of London.
TICKET INFO
£90 for the weekend (£45 concessions)
£27.50 for students and STEM under 30s
School pupils get a day ticket free!
Become an Academy of Ideas associate today and get your full weekend ticket for just £120 (£65 concessions).
SESSIONS INCLUDE
DO THE CULTURE WARS MATTER? · ONLINE SAFETY VS FREE SPEECH · HOW DO WE REVOLUTIONISE THE ECONOMY? · ENOUGH IS ENOUGH? CHALLENGING THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS · POST-COLD WAR: RUSSIA AND ITS DEMONS · FROM ZERO-COVID TO ‘LET IT RIP’: DID ANYONE DO COVID RIGHT? · RWANDA OR BUST? THE FUTURE OF UK BORDER CONTROL · AGE OF ‘ISMS’: WHAT HAPPENED TO IDEOLOGY? · THE TRANS TEEN TREND: A CASE OF SOCIAL CONTAGION? · CLIMATE EMERGENCY: CATASTROPHE OR CATASTROPHISING? · SANITISED OR MODERNISED: STAGING SHAKESPEARE TODAY · TRUST ME I’M YOUR DOCTOR: ARE GPS IN CRISIS? · GLOBALISM IN CRISIS: HAS DAVOS MAN HAD HIS DAY? · ANDREW DOYLE’S FREE SPEECH NATION: LIVE (TV RECORDING)