Sitemap - 2026 - Academy of Ideas
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