Join us at the Battle of Ideas 2024
The Battle of Ideas Festival has a solid reputation for being unafraid to debate the issues that matter. Our Fight will have a stand at the festival, and be involved in a number of the sessions. We'd love you to join us! Read on for details, including a special discount code.
The Battle of Ideas Festival is a well-established annual forum for tackling the important political, economic, scientific and cultural issues of our time.
Our Fight friends and activists will be at the festival, and we'd urge you to join us. We'll have a stand, at which we'll be explaining to people what we do. And some of the people you have been campaigning alongside this year–from Phoenix Cinema, to Swiss Cottage, to Piccadilly Circus, to the Foreign Office–will be putting megaphones, placards and bail conditions aside for a weekend, and convening, chairing, speaking and debating.
If you are involved in the Our Fight campaign, and would like to help with the stall, then please get in touch.
And if you plan to go to the festival and have never met with us, then please do come and say hello.
More details are below, including a special Our Fight link which will give you a 20% discount.
We look forward to seeing you in October.
Battle of Ideas Festival
Date: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October, 2024
Venue: Church House, Westminster, London
FREE SPEECH ALLOWED
Conversations for the public, with the public, in public.
#BattleFest / @acadofideas
Tickets
Get your discounted tickets, using the discount code OURFIGHT-24.
(A further early bird discount is available, expiring on September 16th.)
Sessions Include
- October 7, one year on: New world (dis)order?
- Defending the West in a dangerous world
- Islam v. Islamism v. Islamophobia
- Is anti-extremism a threat to liberty?
- Genocide: what it is and what it isn't
- Identity politics and the rise of ethnic conflict
- War and civilisation: a brief history
And many more. Keep up to date with the latest timetable.
Podcasts Live
A number of well-known podcasts will be recording an episode at the Battle:
- Planet Normal
- Heretics with Andrew Gold
- The spiked podcast
- The Winston Marshall Show
- Chinese Whispers
- Last Orders
- The Booking Club with Jack Aldane
- The Knight Tube
- Americano
Speakers
Just some of the many speakers:
Andrew Doyle • Greg Lukianoff • Claire Fox • Nico Perrino • Ella Whelan • Alka Sehgal Cuthbert • Kathleen Stock • Tom Slater • Joanna Cherry KC • Joanna Williams • Timandra Harkness • Fraser Myers • Freddy Gray • Jennifer Lahl • Zion Lights • Lord Walney • Frank Furedi • Catherine McBride • Cindy Yu • Alan Miller • Inaya Folarin Iman • Liam Halligan • Allison Pearson • Thomas Fazi • Baroness Deech • Rosie Kay • Stella O’Malley • Lord Moynihan • Luke Tryl
See the speaker list for the latest additions.
Tickets
Earlybird prices until September 16th:
- Standard: £90
- Concession: £45
Make sure to use the OURFIGHT-24 discount link to get a further 20% off.
In addition:
- £25 student offer
- School pupils can get a day ticket free
This event is particularly good for young people, and a real opportunity for them to engage in serious, 'grown-up' debates.
