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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Tim Harford

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For the final instalment of the Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook series for 2024, Financial Times columnist Tim Harford joined us to interrogate what the numbers are really telling us about the economy – and what those numbers tell us about what lies ahead. As the FT’s Undercover Economist, Harford demonstrates a remarkable ability to explain and communicate complex economic data in ways that are compelling and entertaining.

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Tim Harford

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Thomas Friedman on the Future of America and the World: The Post-Election Dissection (Part 1)

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Martin Wolf and Yanis Varoufakis: Should We Fix Capitalism or Abandon It? (Part 1)

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How Geography Explains Our World, with Tim Marshall (Part 1)

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David Baddiel on Family, Jewishness, and the Healing Power of Comedy (Part 1)

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Jeremy Bowen: Making Sense of the Modern Middle East (Part 1)

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The October 7 Hamas led terror attacks on Israel and the subsequent siege of Gaza by the IDF has upended the modern Middle East. There are serious questions now as to whether the conflict can be contained or if further escalation with Hezbollah and Iran could engulf the Middle East in a regional war.

In this event featuring Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, who has been covering the Middle East since 1989, our panel reflected on and made sense of what is happening. Bowen has reported on all the most significant events that have shaped the region’s recent history – the long and ultimately failed Middle East peace process, the tragic events of 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rise of Mohammed bin Salman and most recently the Israel Gaza war. His deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences of its peoples makes him uniquely placed to explain its complex past and troubled present.

Jeremy was unable to appear in-person as he needed to remain in the Middle East to report on unfolding events, but he recorded a 40-minute interview with Matt McAllester, CEO of Intelligence Squared and former Middle East correspondent. He was joined on stage by Sanam Vakil (Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House) and James Barr (Historian, author and visiting fellow at King's College London). The event was chaired by BBC Jonny Dymond (Former BBC Middle East correspondent and host of 'The Conflict' the BBC's Middle East podcast).

In the video, Bowen sought to explain the historical context and political motivations behind today's conflicts. He drew from his book 'The Making of the Modern Middle East' and discussed his experiences reporting from countries as diverse as Netanyahu's Israel, Sadam Hussein's Iraq and Erdoğan's Türkiye, recounting his meetings with ordinary people on the frontlines as well as their politicians and leaders.

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What Kind of Liar Are You? Thomas Erikson on Understanding Human Behaviour - Part 1

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DEBATE: Is Free Speech Under Threat? (Part 1)

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Is free speech under threat? Many liberals believe that in recent years we have seen an erosion of the right to air unpopular opinions without the risk of being cancelled. We are in an ever-intensifying shutting down of conversation, they maintain, with constituencies on both the left and the right demanding that opinions they don’t like be declared out of bounds, socially, morally or legally. Today this dangerous trend is escalating with the help of populism and social media. We must reverse course now if we want to protect our most precious freedoms.

But some argue otherwise: that the so-called free speech crisis is completely a fiction. What we’re really seeing is a rebalance of power in elite institutions where privileged groups are being held to account for their words by others who have been historically excluded and marginalised. This is nothing more than the righting of wrongs, this side of the argument maintains. Besides, the very notion of freedom of speech is flawed – because the powerful have always enjoyed those freedoms more than the powerless, and so equating so-called cancel culture and no-platforming with state censorship is to fundamentally misunderstand (or wilfully misconstrue) what the concept of free speech was originally designed to protect.

Who’s right and who’s wrong? In October 2024, we launched the first instalment of Intelligence Squared’s new book series THINK AGAIN, published in partnership with The Bodley Head. Our authors – CEO of PEN America Suzanne Nossel and historian Charlotte Lydia Riley – debated the state of free speech today live on stage.

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Paul Johnson

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Paul Johnson is the economist who has set the terms of so much political debate over the past few decades in Britain. Having served as Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011, his expertise on matters of public spending and global economic trends have provided invaluable insight to the public and policymakers alike. Johnson’s column for the Times, as well as his acclaimed Austerity Audit for Radio 4, continue to define public discourse on economic policy and its implications.

In October 2024 Johnson brought his expertise to the Intelligence Squared stage to reflect on a year of seismic change and assess the impact of the 2024 general election on the country’s economic future. Does Starmer have what it takes to grow the economy? How can Britain hope to compete with innovation in tech and AI on the global stage? What shape should defence spending take in an increasingly volatile world, and how can we begin to tackle domestic issues such as child poverty, cost of living, a crippled NHS and a stubborn housing crisis?

The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook is presented in partnership with Guinness Global Investors. To find out more visit: https://www.guinnessgi.com/

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Katy Hessel on The Story of Art Without Men, with Pandora Sykes - Part 1

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Dan Jones on Henry V - England's Greatest Warrior King - Part 1

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Henry V reigned over England for nine years and four months before he died at the early age of 35. He was known as a hardened, sometimes brutal, warrior, yet one who was also intelligent and artistic. He was a leader who made many mistakes, who misjudged his friends and family members, yet always seemed to triumph when it mattered. As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin, put down rebellions and secured England’s borders; in foreign diplomacy he made England a serious player on the world stage once more. Yet through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for three generations of calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses.

In September 2024 historian Dan Jones came to Intelligence Squared to tell the epic story of this controversial historical figure. Drawing from his new book Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England’s Greatest Warrior King, Jones explained why Henry is such an important figure in English history and why his legacy still inspires cultural and political leaders today. William Shakespeare deployed Henry V as a study in youthful naivety redirected as sober statesmanship. In the dark days of World War II, Henry’s victories in France were presented by British filmmakers as examples for a people existentially threatened by Nazism. Churchill called Henry ‘a gleam of splendor in the dark, troubled story of medieval England’, while for one modern medievalist, Henry was, quite simply, ‘the greatest man who ever ruled England’.

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The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, with Anne Applebaum (Part 1)

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In the 20th century most autocrats were brutal dictators whose main goal was to control a domestic population. But in the 21st century autocracy has become much more sophisticated and ambitious in its scope. States like Russia have developed sophisticated cross-border networks of kleptocratic financial structures, innovative security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship aim to do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another. Propagandists from one country can promote and finance extremists and propaganda in another — pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of the West.

In September 2024 Anne Applebaum came to Intelligence Squared to provide a radical new framework for understanding autocracy in the 21st century. Applebaum argued that autocracies today are best viewed like an agglomeration of companies or what she calls Autocracy, Inc. Their relations are not based on values, but are rather transactional, which is why they operate so easily across ideological, geographical, and cultural lines. In truth, they are in full agreement about only one thing: The destruction of democratic challengers.

Applebaum was in conversation with BBC broadcaster Jonny Dymond to discuss how to understand and thwart this new evolved form of autocracy.

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Adam Grant on Achieving Greatness, with Tim Harford (part 2)

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Rory Stewart and Mary Beard on Power and Politics (Part 2)

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Is Liberalism Dead? Fukuyama vs Gray

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Mustafa Suleyman on The Coming Wave of AI, with Zanny Minton Beddoes

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Mustafa Suleyman is the ultimate AI insider. As co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, he is one of the pioneers of the artificial intelligence revolution, potentially the single greatest accelerant of progress in history. Investors in Inflection AI include the likes of Microsoft, Nvidia and Bill Gates. Suleyman says AI represents nothing less than a step change in human capability and human society, introducing both risks and innovations on an awesome scale. This is what is coming.

In September 2023 Suleyman came to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss his new book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma. In conversation with Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, he explained how he believes we are approaching a critical threshold in the history of humankind. Soon we will live surrounded by AIs which will carry out complex tasks – operating businesses, running government services and maintaining infrastructure. This will be a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, as well as human-engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons.

We are not prepared, Suleyman argued.

While these tools hold the promise of solving global problems and generating immense wealth, they also bring the risk of upheaval on a scale we can barely imagine. Suleyman explored how these forces threaten the very foundations of the nation state and the global order. And he argued that we face an existential dilemma: on the one side lie unprecedented harms arising from unchecked and unregulated AI, and on the other, the threat of overbearing surveillance from the state. Can our governments forge a narrow path between too much openness and too much control? Or are we sleepwalking into disaster?

Suleyman grappled with ‘the containment problem’ – the task of maintaining control over artificial intelligence and other powerful technologies – the ultimate challenge of our times.

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Rachel Cusk On Art, Womanhood And Redefining Fiction

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Mishal Husain on Family, Empire and Why Partition Still Matters

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On August 15 1947 Pakistan and India gained their independence and colonialism came to an end in the subcontinent. But it was not a time of celebration. A botched process of partition saw unprecedented sectarian violence, an estimated death of more than a million people and some 15 million more displaced from their homes.

Mishal Husain’s family lived through the mayhem. In June 2024 Husain, the acclaimed journalist and BBC Radio 4 Today Programme host, came to Intelligence Squared to tell her family’s story and shed light on this remarkable period of history. Drawing from her new book 'Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence', she told stories like that of her grandmother Mary, a devout Catholic of Anglo-Indian parentage who leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse in Britain. Or her grandfather Shahid who finds purpose and success in the British Army as a Sandhurst cadet.

Husain confronted the acute sense of loss brought on by partition, the rupturing of cross-border relationships, and the scarring legacy of violence that still impacts the descendants of empire living in Britain today.

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Niall Ferguson on the BIGGEST question facing the Middle East #israel #gaza #middleeast

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Max Hastings on the Secret Mission to Defeat Hitler

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Historian Max Hastings talks World War II and the secret mission to defeat Hitler called Operation Biting.

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February 1942. RAF intelligence is baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe. Several radar installations are identified from aerial photographs but the purpose and the nature of the installations are not known. Some British scientists believe that these stations are connected with successful German downings of RAF bombers conducting raids in occupied Europe, resulting in severe losses of pilots and bombers. British scientists request that one of these installations be raided and the technology it possesses be studied and, if possible, extracted and brought back to Britain for further examination.

With the approval of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chief of Operations Lord Mountbatten of Burma an extraordinary operation known as Operation Biting is launched with an ambitious goal: dismantle Hitler’s radar systems and help Britain win the war.

In May 2024 Max Hastings came to the Intelligence Squared stage to recount the remarkable story of Operation Biting and what it tells us about the crucial role of intelligence and special forces in great power conflict. Drawing from his new book Operation Biting: The 1942 Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar he explored how this almost forgotten operation helped turn the tide of the war and how modern intelligence and special forces continue to shape the conflicts and wars we see in the world today.

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The World In 2024 With Niall Ferguson: Crisis, Conflict And The New Axis of Evil

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook China Special, with Keyu Jin

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Energised: A Global Green Team (In Partnership With Iberdrola)

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Jonathan Haidt on the Rise of The Anxious Generation (Part 1)

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Bestselling author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has dedicated his career to speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most challenging spaces – communities polarised by politics and religion and university campuses mired in culture wars. Now he turns his attention to what he sees as a perfect storm of factors that are causing a collapse in mental health among teenagers today. According to the American College Health Association, since 2010 anxiety among American college students has increased by 134%, depression by 106%, bipolar disorder by 57%, and anorexia by 100%.

In April 2024 Haidt came to the Intelligence Squared stage where in conversation with BBC presenter Sarah Montague he drew on his new book The Anxious Generation, which has shot to No 1 in the Sunday Times bestsellers. He argued that the decline of free play in childhood and the rise of smartphone use among adolescents are the twin sources of increased mental distress among teenagers. He showed how, between 2010 and 2015, as teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, time online soared. This profound shift took place against a backdrop of diminishing childhood freedom, as parents over-supervised every aspect of their children’s lives offline, depriving them of the face-to-face experiences with their peers which they need to become strong and self-governing adults. In short, childhood got rewired.

Haidt argued that it isn’t too late to put the genie back in the bottle. Against the backdrop of the growing movement to ban smartphones in schools, he drew on traditional wisdom and cutting-edge research to offer practical advice to parents, teachers and teenagers,

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"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is the path to hell" – Niall Ferguson on U.S. College Campuses

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Keir Starmer, Will Hutton, Alastair Campbell and Sonia Sodha on How To Remake Britain

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Hags: Misogyny & The Middle-Aged Woman, with Victoria Smith, Sonia Sodha and Hadley Freeman

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Comedy in Dark Times, with Armando Iannucci and Helen Lewis

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Tim Marshall on Ukraine, Gaza and how Geography Explains Our World | Intelligence Squared

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Michael Lewis Passionately Responds to Sam Bankman-Fried Critics

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Debate: Save Our Private Schools! | Intelligence Squared

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Britain has an education system that perpetuates inequality. Seven per cent of its children go to private schools and yet these institutions receive around three times the funding per student as the average state school. Privately educated people then go on to dominate our elite institutions. They are seven times as likely to win a place at Oxford and Cambridge universities as their state-educated peers, and they make up 65 per cent of senior judges and 29 per cent of members of parliament. Private schools foster a cycle of privilege with the result that Britain has one of the lowest rates of social mobility in the developed world. So Labour leader Keir Starmer’s proposal to impose VAT on private school fees must surely be welcomed. The estimated £1.3 billion a year the tax would raise would be used to fund more teachers and provide mental health counselling in the state sector. Doubtless some parents would no longer be able to afford the higher fees but there is capacity within the state system to accommodate the fall-out. Who could possibly object to a tax that would benefit the majority of Britain’s schoolchildren?

Those who believe in aspiration, that’s who, argue the champions of private schools. People like Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s parents, who, as he has explained, were not wealthy or privileged but who worked hard so that they could send their son to one of this country’s top independent schools. Removing the tax breaks on private schools would amount to class war and punish parents who are prepared to make sacrifices to give their children the best start in life. Because, let’s be honest, it won’t be the one per cent who will be affected by this change, but the children of the ‘squeezed middle’ and the less well off who rely on bursaries and scholarships to access private education – many of whom these schools may no longer be able to support under Labour’s proposals.

Should private schools continue to enjoy their tax advantages or not?

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Martin Wolf

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What Is The Correlation Between Religion and Politics? - Jimmy Carter [2011] | Intelligence Squared

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Who Shares The Blame for the Mental Health Epidemic? - Will Self [2014] | Intelligence Squared

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Why Can Some People Learn Quicker Than Others? - Adam Grant | Intelligence Squared

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How Did The Wealthy Gain Power In The Past? - Yuval Noah Harari [2015] | Intelligence Squared

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Head of TED Chris Anderson and Jon Ronson on Hope, Shame and Infectious Generosity

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As head of TED, Chris Anderson has had a ringside view of the world’s most influential thinkers in action. TED’s annual conference in Vancouver sees thousands of delegates flock from across the world to hear presentations from pre-eminent scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, political leaders and CEOs on the biggest issues of the day. Speakers have included Elon Musk on artificial intelligence, Bill Gates on how to prevent future pandemics and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on how to create a better future for women and girls.

The first TED talk posted online was in 2006, during a relatively optimistic period in recent history. But in recent years Anderson has seen the tone of the talks delivered at TED shift as experts warn of the unprecedented dangers and risks posed by artificial intelligence, climate change and other tectonic shifts in our world.

On Tuesday February 20, Anderson comes to Intelligence Squared in conversation with author and filmmaker Jon Ronson to argue that we can turn fear back into optimism. Drawing from his new book Infectious Generosity he will argue that there is so much to be positive about in our world and that good things happen when we start to practice the most fundamental of human virtues: generosity. Anderson will combine cutting-edge research with human stories such as how a London barber began offering haircuts to homeless people and in the process catalysed a movement across the world to show us that whether we’re giving our money, time, skills, connections or considerateness we can all use generosity to change the world and feel good about the future, and ourselves.

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What Makes Emily Brontë A Better Author Than Jane Austen - Kate Mosse [2014] | Intelligence Squared

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How Can Labour Persuade Young People To Vote? - Alastair Campbell | Intelligence Squared

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How do we create a green jobs revolution? In partnership with Iberdrola | Intelligence Squared

Solar panel installers, architects, environmental scientists, [...]

Solar panel installers, architects, environmental scientists, recycling coordinators, wind turbine engineers, geologists, project managers, electric vehicle manufacturers – these are just a small subset of the countless jobs connected to the green revolution. For renewable energy to be a sustainable part of our lives, we need to ensure it offers both economic growth and climate security. How do we ensure the social and economic benefits of clean energy are available to all, and not just those at the top of the food chain? How can the public and private sector work together to encourage people to work in the green energy sector? What are the best ways to increase investment in green jobs? And is it possible for us to create an economy in which the health of the planet and the wellbeing of its inhabitants is a priority and profit isn’t the only goal?

To answer all these questions and more, Intelligence Squared brought together a panel of expert speakers to discuss their plans for creating economic growth and job opportunities within the green economy. ScottishPower Strategic Resourcing Manager Madeline McCreanor will be joined by Sam Alvis, Director of Energy at policy and insights firm Public First, and Shaun Spiers, Executive Director at the environmental think tank Green Alliance in a live panel discussion, hosted by journalist and broadcaster Kamal Ahmed.

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