The Labour government’s proposed children’s social-media ban is contentious enough for those advocating for freedom. Will the ban require adults to adopt digital IDs? Will VPNs be banned, putting the UK on a worrying list of nations, such as Russia and North Korea? And what will children consume instead? We’ve already heard that the government would like to reprogram algorithms to promote the BBC.

Yet Nandy let slip that this move is only the start in a broader online-safety drive: ‘This is a staging post to what must be a very active interventionist state, policing and regulating the online space so that people are safe.’

What does it mean to be ‘safe’ online? Are attempts to control the digital space the inevitable endpoint of a governing class that always seeks ‘safety’, rather than trusting the demos to consume information and judge its validity for themselves? We’ve already experienced a ‘very active interventionist state’, and for those arrested over comments made online, those interventions can seem deeply hostile to the values of free speech and individual liberty.

One thing is clear: the need to understand what’s coming, and how we can push back against a number of measures designed to constrain freedom, is greater than ever. We’ll be at the Battle of Ideas to do just that. Check out our sessions below, and if you haven’t already, use the LIVING26 discount code to buy your tickets here.

ALUMNI WATCH

EMMA GILLAND ON SOCIAL MEDIA & YOUNG PEOPLE
Living Freedom alumna Emma Gilland joined Matilda Gosling, Gabrielle Grant and Ruth Wareham at the Academy of Ideas Education Forum to debate whether banning social media for under-16s will give children greater freedom to grow up – or restrict their independence, social lives and access to ideas. Watch the discussion here.

LAVINIA ROSSETTI IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY FREE-SPEECH SOCIETY
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ALASTAIR DONALD ON THE RED LINES OF FREE SPEECH
Living Freedom’s Alastair Donald looks ahead to the Battle of Ideas keynote session: Free Speech For Me And Not For Thee: The Red Lines In Free Expression?

EMMA GILLAND ON THE FUTURE OF REPRODUCTION
Towards Individualised Reproduction: Why Are We Choosing to Change How We Have Children?

JACK KELSALL ON FREE SPEECH FOR FOOTBALL FANS
Read Free speech for football fans, too here

PODCAST BETWEEN MAEVE HALLIGAN AND CONNIE SHAW, WHO MET AT LIVING FREEDOM
Maeve Halligan on trans activism, free speech and campus censorship

EVENT WATCH

BATTLE OF IDEAS FESTIVAL: 11 DAYS TO GO
The festival is fast approaching. We have the following LIVING FREEDOM panels:

• Why are influencers so influential?

• Assisted death to sexual freedom: autonomy and its discontents

• The great sex recession: has Gen Z forgotten how to date?

• Angry young women? The rise of the Femosphere

• Quiet quitting to #LazyGirlJobs: Workshy Britain?
  One of the speakers, Joanna Williams, has written about this session – see her article on Substack.

Tickets are on sale now with big discounts for students and concessions - plus an extra 20% off if you buy here.

HOW CAN WE DEFEND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS – KCL FREE-SPEECH SOCIETY
TONIGHT – Tuesday 6 October, 7pm-9pm, Bush House
With Serena Worley, Michelle Shipworth, Brodie Mitchell and Living Freedom alumnus Omar Loubak Mohamed. Register here.

THE NEXT GENERATION WITH CLAIRE FOX – ADAM SMITH INSTITUTE
Tuesday 13 October, 6pm · Adam Smith Institute, Westminster
Baroness Fox discusses Why Free Speech Matters, followed by drinks and networking
For under-35s only · Refreshments provided
Find out more and register here

IAN PACE: ALBÉNIZ’S IBERIA & MORE
Tuesday 13 October, 6.30pm · City St George’s, London
Pianist and Living Freedom speaker Ian Pace performs Albéniz’s complete Iberia, alongside works by Mompou, Stravinsky/Lourié and Busoni
Find out more and book here

CONFLICT ON CAMPUS – EDINBURGH
Wednesday 21 October · Edinburgh
A full-day event with speakers including Arif Ahmed, Jo Phoenix, Tommy Curry, Lindsay Paterson, Michael Spence & Alice Sullivan
Tickets £55, including lunch and refreshments
Find out more and book here

TOGETHER 5TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT
COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS FOR 18–30s
Saturday 7 November · London
Speakers include Katharine Birbalsingh, Maajid Nawaz, Professor Norman Fenton, Mike Graham, Bernie Spofforth & more. Aged 18–30? Book up to two complimentary General Admission tickets with code LF1830. See the Together tickets page.

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We have some new initiatives planned. Read on for details of Generation Freedom – our new regular meetings for alumni. And keep an eye out next month for exciting news about the launch of Living Freedom Night School. But there are old favourites, too. Do follow the latest debates programmed at Battle of Ideas festival, where Living Freedom will be running several sessions across the course of the weekend of 17 /18 October. You can volunteer to help run the festival, which will give you access to many of the sessions, or you can buy your ticket here.

As well as this monthly newsletter, keep an eye out for our Substack articles. We’ll be kicking off next week with one of our alumni, Jack Kelsall, defending free speech for football fans.

In short: there’ll be plenty more to read, watch, attend and argue about.

Get in touch if there is something that you think we should advertise or publish. Please do share this Substack as widely as possible – and encourage friends and colleagues to subscribe. And if you can turn your free subscription into a paid one, then please do – you’ll be supporting the emergence of a new generation of freedom fighters.

Jake Weston
Living Freedom Substack editor
jake@ideasmatter.org.uk

FREEDOM WATCH

Jake Weston

The tragic death of Professor Jason Arday has sent shockwaves through academia. We will no doubt learn more about the circumstances surrounding his death in the months ahead. But the wider questions raised by the controversy – from allegations of plagiarism to concerns about how such a young academic rose so rapidly through the university system – go far beyond one individual.

For those beyond academia, some of the revelations of recent weeks may have come as a surprise. But to more observant – or perhaps more cynical – readers, especially those who have spent time in universities recently, they may have seemed rather inevitable.

Questions about standards, merit, priorities, institutional incentives and the way universities make appointments have been bubbling beneath the surface of academia for years. I’d wager that questions about the conduct of senior university figures – particularly in relation to DEI – are unlikely to disappear from debates about academia anytime soon.

For those of us lucky enough to attend Lord Biggar’s lecture at Living Freedom Summer School 2026, we’d be forgiven for wondering whether professors at Cambridge could have stopped this whole tragic episode if they’d had slightly more courage.

The response to Jason Arday’s death raises concerns over freedom in two particular respects.

First, lazy accusations of institutional racism in the media should worry readers about the extent to which the news media will pursue the truth in the future. Spiked’s Tom Slater was good on this issue on the BBC. Lord Woolley’s pronouncement that Jason Arday was ‘lynched’ is obviously ludicrous and reckless in its disregard for both the tragic context and the real-world consequences of reimagining this case as a purely racist witch hunt.

Second, some in academia are threatening to double down on DEI. One academic stated: ‘I can’t say anything on the record, or I’ll be the right’s next target. The [right] have set their sights on pushing Black people out from all these institutions.’ One can assume that some academics will push for greater ‘protections’ for black professors and more discriminatory hiring practices, moving us further away from the aim of treating people as individuals according to the content of their character and their achievements.

In short, we are at risk of learning the wrong lessons from this tragic episode.

Elsewhere in academia, Nathan Cofnas, who made the initial accusations of plagiarism against Arday, has been suspended (then unsuspended after intervention from the US government) from Ghent University for his ‘race realist’ views. Although I totally reject Cofnas’s views on race, I implore all readers to watch his interview with LBC’s Nick Ferrari, who seems to forget all principles of free speech due to his obvious dislike of Cofnas, asking him with incredulity: ‘Your position is you can knowingly cause offence and distress!?’

Yes, Mr Ferrari: free speech means you’re allowed to cause ‘offence and distress’. A good lesson in how not to debate those you disagree with.

new initiative
GENERATION FREEDOM – Tuesday 8 September

Our first GENERATION FREEDOM discussion is taking place on 8 September.

Generation Freedom welcomes Living Freedom alumni to discuss the most pressing challenges to freedom today. We take the ethos of our summer school into regular seminars and forums, encouraging young people to think for themselves and confront each other in the most complex and pressing political issues of the day.

In regular meetups, we explore freedom in different forms, including alumni-led discussion groups, lectures, debates and seminars. We aim to equip young people with the ability to deal with the challenges of the day by thinking freely and innovatively, stepping back from the media headlines and the political noise to interrogate the ideas. Alumni will not just listen to interesting speakers but will be pressed to defend freedom through their own ideas – inspiring our alumni to not just think about freedom in the abstract, but to defend it in practice, and pushing them to be able to defend freedom and start their own discussions in the public sphere.

Message Emma Gilland (emma@ideasmatter.org.uk) for details if you don’t already have them.

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS / MEDIA

Plagiarism is not the only academic vice
Felice Basbøll, Substack

Suicide is a tragedy, not an argument
Samuel Rubinstein, UnHerd

The culture war on uni sports societies
Jake Weston, spiked

The Young Women Quietly Converting to Catholicism
Georgina Mumford, Compact

‘This is absolute arrogance in the face of the highest court in this land’
Maeve Halligan, now at the IEA, on GB News

Congratulations to Kirstin Brady, who will be starting work at the Centre for Government Reform in early November.

EVENT WATCH

BATTLE OF IDEAS FESTIVAL: SIX WEEKS TO GO
We’re now only six weeks away from the Battle of Ideas!

If you’d like to volunteer, we’d love to hear from you. We need a few people to help out on the Ideas Matter stall over the weekend, and on the Living Freedom sessions – so please let us know if you’re interested.

Alternatively, ‘early bird’ student tickets for the whole weekend are just £30 until 18 September.

OPTIMISTIC PICNIC AT HYDE PARK – FUTURE: UK
Saturday 5 September, 12pm · Hyde Park, London
Bring a blanket, food, drinks & a friend
Find out more and register here

THE GREENING OF ARCHITECTURE - EAST MIDLANDS SALON
Thursday 17 September, 7pm · The Brunswick Inn, Derby
Speaker: Austin Williams
Book tickets here

THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATISM - BATTLE OF IDEAS SATELLITE
Wednesday 23 September, 6pm · Vinson Centre, University of Buckingham
speakers: Daniel Silveira & Alistair Miller
Find out more and register here

WILL A SOCIAL-MEDIA BAN GIVE CHILDREN THE FREEDOM TO GROW UP? ACADEMY OF IDEAS EDUCATION FORUM
Monday 28 September, 7pm · Online via Zoom
Speakers include Emma Gilland & Matilda Gosling
Register here

RATIONAL ENDEAVOUR - CURIOSITY, OPTIMISM, REASON
Bi-weekly online meetings · Writing opportunities · UK 2027 conference
Find out more here

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Living Freedom Summer School is our flagship event, offering a fantastic opportunity to explore ideas and debate ideals as they relate to the past, present and future of freedom. The three-day residential school takes place in central London on 9-11 July and is open to anyone aged 18 to 30, based in the UK or beyond.

Successful applicants will be receive a Living Freedom Scholarship award that covers 90 per cent of fees. (Scholars will pay just £50, reduced from the full cost of £500.) The deadline for applications is 26 May 2026. A review panel will award 50 scholarships.

OVERVIEW

‘We have it in our power to begin the world over again.’ Published 250 years ago, Common Sense by Thomas Paine was more than a rabble-rousing pamphlet designed to stiffen American spines and hasten a revolutionary break with Britain. In lucid, often incendiary prose, Paine distilled his demand for sovereignty and equality into a popular, democratic call to arms. Many arguments unleashed then – over liberty, authority and rights – still reverberate today.

Anniversaries force us not merely to revisit history but to take stock of our own febrile age, where liberty is again up for grabs. Living Freedom summer school carves out space for serious argument on the defining questions of our time – a forum to think boldly, debate openly and test ideas.

250 years on from independence, much has changed, but some fault-lines look strangely familiar. The cry ‘All men are created equal’ once ignited a revolution. Today, critics argue that EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) orthodoxies and equality law chill speech and corrode equal treatment. Juries once protected dissenters from politicised charges of seditious libel. Yet, when juries acquit activists from groups such as Palestine Action, they are denounced as going rogue, even as governments curtail jury trials in the name of improving justice. What is the principled response?

Free speech remains the frontline. The printing press and pamphlet wars have given way to smartphones and social media – a new public square that elites itch to regulate. How should defenders of liberty respond to initiatives aimed at ‘controlling the narrative’ such as the so-called European Democracy Shield? Is Washington truly a champion of digital freedom when its state agencies regularly lean on companies like Google, Meta and Discord?

Perhaps the biggest challenge is getting to grips with a shifting political landscape of freedom. The decline of ideologically motivated parties means that culture and the pre-political realm are where politics plays out and where many arguments around freedom arise – debates over community, traditions and identity, flag, family and faith. In an era of culture wars, sectarianism and insurgent populism, how do we restate the case for freedom – clearly, confidently and without apology?

SCHOLARSHIPS

The cost of providing a place at the summer school is £500. This includes accommodation in central London and attending the annual Living Freedom dinner.

However, attendees will pay just £50, a massive reduction of £450.

This is because Living Freedom uses a targeted scholarships programme funded by our donors and partners, which will ensure that we can select attendees on merit, irrespective of their financial circumstances.

If you would like to make a donation to support a scholar, find out more here.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

PLENARY LECTURES

• Island of strangers: what is a citizen?

• Women’s freedom: safety versus liberation

• Populism: threat to liberty or demand for freedom?

• Generation Fragile? Growing up in the Culture Wars

• Expert-led parenting to fertility support: should the state intervene in family life?

• Controlling the narrative: European Democracy Shield case study

• America: great bulwark of liberty?

TALKS, DEBATES AND WORKSHOPS

• Should social media be banned for under 16s?

• Woke galleries to diversity casting: disentangling art and politics

• Antisemitism to anti-Zionism: new challenges to free speech on campus

• Restricting jury trials: an assault on liberty?

• Activist staff to office speech police: EDI in the workplace

• Should we scrap the Equality Act?

• Nation, national community, national interests

• What the papers say – reviews workshops

LITERATURE AND LIBERTY: TALKS AND SEMINARS

• Aristotle: The Politics

• David Szalay: Flesh

SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Dolan Cummings writer and novelist; co-director, Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life
Frank Furedi sociologist and social commentator
Timandra Harkness author, Technology is Not the Problem
Ellie Lee co-author, Growing up in the Culture Wars
Phil Mullan author, Beyond Confrontation: globalists, nationalists and their discontents
Ella Nixon curator, writer and art historian
Jacob Reynolds head of policy, MCC Brussels
Zoe Strimpel author, Good Slut: how money, sex and power set women free
Maren Thom co-host, Performance Anxiety podcast
Maya Thomas legal and policy officer, Big Brother Watch
Ella Whelan journalist; co-convenor, Battle of Ideas festival

HOW TO APPLY

Visit the Living Freedom Summer School 2026 page on our website to fill in the application form.

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Should you need further information, please email the Living Freedom convenor, Alastair Donald, at alastair@ideasmatter.org.uk or call +44 (0)20 7269 9234.

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London Freedom Forum, Monday 24 November, 6.30pm, Westminster

Today, over half a century on from the radical emergence of equality movements in 1960s, the growth of an ideological and social splintering between the sexes is frequently making headlines.

A recent report by Onward notes that, in line with international trends, the divide between men and women in the UK is growing, most evident amongst Gen Z. In the 2024 General Election, young women moved leftwards while young men drifted significantly to the right, with the former almost twice as likely to vote Green as young men, who in turn were twice as likely to vote Reform as young women. With Gen Z opting for more radical parties, political polarisation is deepening – and following gendered lines.

Perhaps the problem is social media, with young women tending to use TikTok and Instagram while young men tend towards X and podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience. Socially, Gen Z men and women are also said to be drifting apart. Women now outperform men in education, being more likely to attend university and get higher-paying jobs in their twenties. However, young women are also reportedly more stressed, more lonely and less satisfied with life, while fears over the ‘manosphere’ and toxic masculinity go hand-in-hand with a hardening sense of cultural antagonism and alienation between the sexes.

Some say lower levels of intimacy and sexual activity in Gen Z reflect a loss of emotional connection and long-term commitment. Others point to young men increasingly viewing themselves as ‘left behind’ and more resentful of feminism, equal rights and woke policies that they perceive as discriminating against them. Are political divisions ruining young people’s love lives, too?

Is this divide as alarming or deep-rooted as it seems? Could Gen Z’s polarisation be a passing phase? Or is the growing divide around the sexes now an issue to take seriously – perhaps in ways that class or racial divides might once have been addressed in the past? And when previously ideology or shared social experiences were used to overcome these divisions, what is the route forwards to find common ground between the sexes today?

SPEAKERS
Poppy Coburn
acting deputy comment editor, Daily Telegraph

Emma Gilland
project assistant, Ideas Matter; author, The Corona Generation

Nicholas Stephenson
researcher and data analyst, Onward

Jake Weston
project assistant, Academy of Ideas

REGISTER
This event is free, but please register using the form on our event page.

Living Freedom Xmas Bash Balloon Debate 2025

Thursday 11 December 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Westminster

We would like to invite you to join us for a drink, some good company and a fun Xmas balloon debate.

What is the greatest representation of freedom in culture?

A panel of valiant freedom lovers will seek to convince you of their choice, whether a work of art or literature, a film, opera, play or song.

Each contestant will have just three minutes to present their case, followed by a round of questions from the audience. Then there is a vote, and the top three will be given an additional one minute to convince you to back their choice.

Which cultural representation of freedom – and its defender – deserves to stay in the balloon? You decide!

HOST
Alastair Donald
convenor, Living Freedom

This invitation-only gathering will take place in Westminster. We’ll send the venue details after you register.

What: Living Freedom Xmas Balloon Debate
When: Thursday 11 December 2025, 7:00pm-9.00pm
Where: Westminster
Entrance: Free
Register: use the form on our event page.

Panellists to be announced soon.

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There are also a series of events in the next few weeks hosted by Living Freedom fellows.

Battle Book Club: John Boyne’s Water

Wednesday 12 November, 7pm, via Zoom

John Boyne’s Elements quartet—Water, Earth, Fire, and Air—was released as one volume but controversy over his gender-critical views led to backlash and the suspension of the Polari Prize. Our Book Club invites discussion on his writing instead, focusing on Water, where Vanessa Carvin, hiding from her past and her husband’s crimes, wrestles with guilt, morality, and whether it’s possible to wash away complicity and begin again, simply by changing your name.

The event will be hosted online from 7.00pm-8.30pm on Zoom. Hosted by Emma Gilland with an introduction from Ella Whelan. The event is free but please register via Eventbrite.

Together’s 4^th Anniversary event

Sunday 16 November, Novotel London West, Hammersmith

Together is celebrating four years of fighting to take back democracy and advocating for a better future through freedom, free speech, public and accountability.

Speakers include: Baron Maurice Glasman, Lisa McKenzie, Laila Cunningham, Lord Tony Sewell CBE, Allison Pearson.

Under 25s get a free ticket with code: LIVINGFREEDOM

Book tickets here.

The Covid Lockdowns: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Trade-offs – free event 

Wednesday 19 November

Our friends at the Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) are hosting a free public seminar at Worcester College, Oxford, on Wednesday 19 November, examining the trade-offs that defined Britain’s response to the biggest public health crisis in modern history.

The discussion will bring together Professor Sunetra Gupta (Oxford University), Professor Hugh Montgomery (UCL), historian Toby Green (King’s College London) and medical historian Mark Honigsbaum (City, University of London), with molecular biologist Dr Güneş Taylor (Francis Crick Institute) as the chair.

Book your free ticket here.

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‘VIBE SHIFT’: A NEW ERA FOR FREEDOM?

Living Freedom is dedicated to renewing freedom for our times. Our three-day residential school on 26 to 28 June is open to anyone based in the UK or beyond. We aim to bring together participants with a wide range of interests and diverse views. Anyone interested in getting to grips with issues of freedom and free speech should apply – with all first-time attendees benefitting from a Living Freedom 2025 Scholarship that covers 90 per cent of fees (full cost £500). Full details available here.

Across the planet, political discussion is dominated by the American ‘Vibe Shift’ and the implications of Trump 2.0 for reshaping Western politics and culture. After a decade and more of freedoms feeling under siege, some anticipate that actions to counter race and gender ideologies, dismantle the DEI empire or ‘restore freedom of speech and end federal censorship’ will help usher in a more upbeat era, one where free expression again flourishes as the lifeblood of democracy.

Others remain downbeat, fearful that freedoms may founder on the rocks of legal or institutional resistance or be derailed by a partisan political class that rarely embraces the ideal of ‘free speech for all’. Is it sensible to rely on Trumpism for our freedoms? With technologies such as X now operating from the White House, and Meta now seemingly on board with the new regime, is the US government’s influence over ever more of the public square to be feared or celebrated?

Shifting loyalties and cultural hegemonies in the US are one thing, but what will be the impact downstream in Europe? Will Big Tech’s seeming turn against content moderation prevail in the face of European commitments to controlling hate speech and misinformation online? Can the quest for more open political debate survive the firewalling of populist parties in Europe? Can growth and development struggle free of environmental green tape and lawfare? And how best can agency and individual freedom be defended in the face of increasing incursions in the private sphere by officialdom? Is the trajectory towards scepticism of everything, from official fact-checkers to EDI, a sign that the tide is turning, especially with the young, keen to shake off their reputation as Generation Snowflake.

Clearly this is a moment of flux when we need to examine afresh many of the big, historically significant questions related to freedom and free speech.

Living Freedom Summer School 2025 is your chance to be involved in such debates. We’ll place recent trends in wider context through expert lectures on key developments in the history and philosophy of freedom; panel-led debates will cover contemporary challenges and hot topics of our time; workshops allow attendees to explore classic texts and ethical dilemmas.

In changing times, join us to assess the challenges and opportunities and to develop the arguments we need to make the 21st-century case for freedom.

Sessions include

· The Trump effect: step forward or setback for freedom?

· Privacy and Freedom: the rise and fall of private life

· Rule of law vs the rule of lawyers

· Young dissenters: how to fight back against conformism

· Any many more

MORE INFO AND APPLY NOW

Living Freedom is organised by Ideas Matter and supported by the Ian Mactaggart Programme administered by Free Speech Union

CAN YOU SUPPORT A LIVING FREEDOM SCHOLAR?

The cost of providing a place at the summer school is £500. However, each attendee will pay just £50, a massive reduction of £450. This is because Living Freedom uses a targeted scholarships programme that ensures that we can select attendees on merit, irrespective of their financial circumstances.

By supporting a Living Freedom scholar, you will play a vital part in encouraging a generational renewal of the values of freedom and free speech. Learn more about supporting a scholar through the link below.

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LIVING FREEDOM FORUM
Friday 7 March, 7pm, Westminster

Our next in-person forum event is organised in association with Student Academics for Academic Freedom (SAFAF) and takes place in Westminster on Friday 7 March at 7pm.

Our panel of young thinkers and activists will reflect on the question of how to reclaim the university from the culture wars. How do students who wish to change campus culture navigate questions about intellectual independence and academic freedom? Has managerialism destroyed the university for good, or can it be reformed? What are the biggest problems facing the modern university? How can we in the 21st-century best harness the spirit of true intellectual endeavour, inside and outside the universities?

For more details and to register, see here.

OPEN TO ARGUMENT
Monday 10 March, Queen Mary University of London

‘Open to Argument’ is a new forum organised by Committee for Academic Freedom, in partnership with Queen Mary University of London AFAF and is dedicated to encouraging lively, intelligent, good-faith discussions on controversial topics.

The first debate on Monday 10 March is entitled ‘Will Trump's Second Presidency be Good or Bad for Academic Freedom?’ Panelists Eric Kaufmann, James Orr, Alan Sokal and Helen Pluckrose will examine Trump's ambitious plans for higher education, his sweeping executive orders on DEI and academic policy, and the broader implications of Trump 2.0 for free intellectual inquiry in universities.

The event is free to attend and takes place at Queen Mary University of London. Reserve a place here.

READ ON

With our summer school on the horizon, here’s a selection of reading to get you thinking.

Free Love? A Tentative Victory for Overnight Guests
Felice Basboll, University Times, 26 February 2025

‘If you genuinely think Trump is a fascist, go and have a lie down’
Tom Slater, spiked, 7 February 2025

How to revive our reading culture
Tiffany Jenkins, Engelsberg Ideas, 6 March 2025

The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023: The Student Response
JE Long, Student AFAF Substack, 18 January 2025

Britain’s information war on America
NS Lyons, 4 March 2025

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