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The Specialist | A Ten-Year Vermeer Attribution Project, with Gregory Rubinstein

This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best.

Head of Old Master and Early British Drawings Worldwide Greg Rubinstein led the decade-long effort to reestablish a once-doubted Vermeer as an authentic, autograph work. This extraordinary achievement in scholarship has redefined the painting’s cultural significance and market value.

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The Specialist | A Ten-Year Vermeer Attribution Project, with Gregory Rubinstein

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The Specialist | The Cabinet Detective of Urbino, with Mario Tavella

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The Specialist | The Rediscovery of Rubens’ The Massacre of the Innocents, with George Gordon

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The Specialist | Clyfford Still: The Mission to Establish a Museum, with Lisa Dennison

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The Specialist | The Untold Story of the Shredded Banksy, with Alex Branczik

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The Specialist | A Masterpiece by Kandinsky: a Story of Restitution, with Helena Newman

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The Specialist | Jenny Saville and the Art of the Sale, with Ottilie Windsor

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The Specialist | The Chicken Cup: Mankind’s Most Faked Object, with Nicolas Chow

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The Specialist | Beyond Black: Pierre Soulages’ Market Turning Point, with Grégoire Billault

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Michael Lewis: In Urgent Defence of Government, with Gillian Tett

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The concept of government is under attack. In the United States, Donald Trump has fired tens of thousands of federal workers; ignored congressional statutes; insulted judges; and allowed Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, access to sensitive government information in a slash-and-burn campaign against the US government.

In June 2025 Michael Lewis, the renowned author of bestselling non-fiction masterpieces including Moneyball, The Big Short, Flash Boys and Liar’s Poker, came to the Intelligence Squared stage to tell the inside story of how the Trump administration is dismantling the government and how potentially disastrous the consequences for us all might be.

Drawing from his new collection of essays Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service, Lewis argued that we must remember the often overlooked ways government officials do work that is deeply consequential to our lives. He shared impactful stories of public service, such as the story of a coal miner devoted to making mine roofs less likely to collapse and an Internal Revenue Service agent fighting tax evasion like a character straight out of a crime thriller.

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An Evening with Matt Haig: Embracing Hope, Wonder and the Power of the Imagination (Part 1)

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The Power of Good Conversation, with Jefferson Fisher (Part 1)

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How To Cure Your Algorithm, with Jamie Bartlett

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Truth Hurts: From Conflict to Connection, with Dr Julia Ebner

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How To Cure Your Algorithm, with Jamie Bartlett

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Truth Hurts: From Conflict to Connection, with Dr Julia Ebner

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Helen Thompson

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Tricks, Trolls, and LOLs: Comedy’s Crash Course in Spotting Lies,, with Rachel Parris

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Tricks, Trolls, and LOLs: Comedy’s Crash Course in Spotting Lies

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What Can The Stoics Teach Us About Capitalism? With Robert Rosenkranz and Bill Browder (Part 1)

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Abundance: A New Blueprint for Liberal Politics, With Derek Thompson (Part 1)

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Jonathan Haidt on How to Free the Anxious Generation (Part 1)

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Is Prosperity Possible Without Growth? | Professor Tim Jackson (Part 1)

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The World in 2025 with Robert Kaplan: Finding A Way Through Permanent Crisis (Part 1)

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The Afterlife of Data, with Carl Öhman (Part One)

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The Rise of Spotify, with Liz Pelly and Timandra Harkness (Part 1)

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The Age of The Strongman: Understanding Putin, with Catherine Belton (Part 1)

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Chokepoints: Economic Warfare in the Modern World, with Edward Fishman (Part 1)

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Justin Webb on The Trump World Order (Part 1)

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Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan on Faith, Hope and Carnage (part 2)

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‘We are all, at some point in our lives, obliterated by loss. If you haven’t been by now, you will be in time – that’s for sure. And, of course, if you have been fortunate enough to have been truly loved, in this world, you will also cause extraordinary pain to others when you leave it. That’s the covenant of life and death, and the terrible beauty of grief.’ – Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

In the depths of the pandemic of summer 2020 Nick Cave began a series of long conversations with his old friend Seán O’Hagan. The 40 hours of recordings have been distilled into a remarkable bestselling book, Faith, Hope and Carnage. In it Cave, one of the world’s most acclaimed and visionary musicians, talks with radical candour about his past, his loves, his work ethic, his creativity and the agony of losing his 15-year-old son Arthur in 2015. The book addresses all the big questions: What is love? How does faith work? How do we handle grief?

In November 2023 Cave and O’Hagan came to the Intelligence Squared stage to continue the conversation, as they explored the human condition and offered hoped. As Cave says, ‘Despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is, and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it.’

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Martin Wolf (2025)

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2025 is set to be a seismic year for the global economy. Donald Trump will return to the White House with an ‘America First’ agenda that threatens to dismantle global trade. Wars in Ukraine and Gaza could continue to escalate and cause turmoil in diplomacy. And the race to develop AI will accelerate as China and the US battle it out for technological supremacy.

Who better to make sense of these unsettling and fast-changing times than Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times? Widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential writers on the global economy and a multi-award-winning financial journalist, Wolf has been chronicling and analysing geopolitical and economic upheaval for nearly 40 years. He has written five bestselling books. His latest, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, maps out the implications of globalisation, technological development and the impact of democratic decline on the global economy.

Wolf joined us onstage for the this installment of the Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook as he discussed what we can expect from 2025 and beyond in conversation with BBC News presenter and Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond.

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Comedy in Dark Times, with Armando Iannucci and Helen Lewis (part 2)

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What Went Wrong with Liberalism and How We Can Save it, with Samuel Moyn (Part 1)

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How AI is Changing Warfare (Part 1)

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Old World vs New World: The Great Wine Debate, with Jancis Robinson and Oz Clarke (Part 1)

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France, Italy, Spain, Germany: these are the ancient Old World wine-growing regions of Europe, where continuity and history reign supreme. California, Australia, South Africa and Chile: these are some of the New World areas, where technology and science trump tradition. Old World wines tend to be light-bodied, with herbal, mineral and floral components. New World wines, thanks to warmer climates, are generally full-bodied, fruity and higher in alcohol. But which wines are the greater? To battle it out, Intelligence Squared brought together two of the UK’s most celebrated wine experts for this major debate.

Fighting for the tradition and terroir of the Old World was Jancis Robinson, wine correspondent of the Financial Times and the first person outside the wine trade to qualify as a Master of Wine.

Fighting for the modernising spirit of the New World was Oz Clarke, the last winner of the World Wine Tasting Championship, and the youngest ever British Wine Taster of the Year.

When it comes to the Old World, Robinson argued, you can’t beat thousands of years of experience. Europe’s winemakers have been perfecting their craft for countless generations. ‘Their terroirs are in the perfect climatological zones and are generally unaffected by the worst effects of climate change,’ she says. ‘And the best of them just taste, and mature, so much better than the best New World wines.’ As she pointed out, you can’t just suddenly throw up your trellises on a distant continent and expect the Old World’s centuries of refinement to spring from your casks. New World wines are over-ripe, fruit-forward, palate-pleasing young pretenders made on an industrial scale.

But isn’t our reverence for Old World wine sheer nostalgia? That’s what Oz Clarke argued. It’s been over 40 years, he reminded us, since the New World’s superiority over France was definitively put to rest. At the ‘Judgment of Paris’ in 1976, British wine expert Steven Spurrier staged a blind wine tasting for France’s greatest wine critics. New World wines won in every category. Proof, Clarke demonstrated, that New World wines possess a vitality that hidebound Old World wines don’t dare open themselves to.

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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns with William Sieghart and Sarah Dunant (Part 1)

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This event took place on 24th October 2019.

William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul was one of the publishing sensations of the past few years. Anyone who came to the event Intelligence Squared built around it – when Jeanette Winterson, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs,Sue Perkins and Tom Burke joined Sieghart in celebrating the power of poetry – will remember what a magical evening it was.

Now, after huge demand, Sieghart is back with a second volume – The Poetry Pharmacy Returns – and once again Intelligence Squared is brought it to all to life on stage. Whether your spiritual ailment is loneliness, heartache or anxiety, Sieghart has a poem to meet your needs. He was joined in conversation by acclaimed novelist and broadcaster Sarah Dunant. With their signature warmth and wit, they discussed poems from the new book, each one matched to a particular problem, whether it’s unrequited love, fear of the unknown or feeling daunted by the challenges of family life. And we had a stellar cast of actors to perform the poems, revealing their power to connect us to our fellow humans, bringing comfort and hope.

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Jonathan Haidt on the Rise of The Anxious Generation (Part 2)

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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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The World in 2025 with Peter Frankopan & Emily Maitlis: Making Sense of our Past, Present and Future

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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?

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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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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose new book is Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.
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