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Suicidal empathy: is the West killing itself with kindness?
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Bookies, barbers and black markets: Burnham’s high-street delusion
Fear, favour and failure: the crisis in British policing
Have we lost our appetite for work?
What should we do about climate change?
War with Iran goes from bad to worse
Selling off the World Cup: why FIFA’s plan is a step too far
Narrative control: the collapsing authority of the state
Inside the Lords: it's been a tough week
Britain’s free-speech immaturity
Living Freedom Summer School begins!
The dangerous cult of natural birth
On the wrong side of the Green Party, the right side of the law
Inside the Lords: is anyone running the country?
The case against the Equality Act
Happy birthday Brexit: 10 years of debate and reclaiming democracy
Brexit referendum, 10 years on: the view from the North East
What do the AoI team make of Makerfield - and what next?
World Cup Podcast of Ideas: episode 2
World Cup 2026: does size matter, who's gonna win – and who's got the best kit?
From EDI police to the Strait of Hormuz: we have a lot to talk about
Henry Nowak: we must demand accountability
The pope, AI and ‘magnificent humanity’
Nova Exhibition: the normality amid the horror
The power of the political novel
Last chance to apply for Living Freedom Summer School
Inside The Lords: Kings, influencers and insults
Brexit: do we really want to go back?
Eurovision: still 'united by music'?
Bets are on in Labour leadership race, but won’t somebody think of the punters?
Elections 2026: what next for populism, democracy, Starmer and the Union?
Elections 2026: the people have spoken, AND we need to keep on talking
Ahead of the elections: what's behind the rise of the 'angry young woman'?
The special-needs crisis in the classroom
Price controls: when politicians get desperate for something to say
Starmer, Mandelson and the rotten core of British politics
The case against assisted dying
Self-loathing and the war on the classics
Supreme Court victory, one year on: why the reluctance to implement the ruling?
What can we do about 'lawless Britain'?
Does the UK need a US-style First Amendment?
Thank God for the Together Alliance ‘anti-hate’ march (sort of)
Why I’ve changed my mind about banning social media for teenagers
Victory on ‘busybody’ fines in the House of Lords
Arts First: Tiffany Jenkins on art and the evolution of private life
spiked summit: discount tickets offer
The contradictions of conservative feminists opposing the womb transplant
Is Britain an 'island of strangers'?
Lovesick or sick of love: romance through the ages
After Gorton & Denton: we need to build a politics that transcends identity
Battle Book Club: 'Flesh' by David Szalay
Why politics never produces great schools
Marco Rubio: different tone, same message
Never mind the ballots: here's Battle of Ideas North
The graduate job market is broken – thanks to HR
Inside the Lords: Mandelson furore, threats to parliamentary democracy, decriminalising abortion
Abortion: understanding new approaches to women's freedom
The battle for free speech comes to Manchester
Against the social-media ban for under 16s
The ‘Old World Order’ is over, but a new one is not inevitable
Announcing Battle of Ideas North 2026
China's Trump card? Rare earths and geopolitics
Battle Book Club: 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk
New year, new debates: forthcoming events and media appearances