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Do banks have a responsibility to contribute to the common good? Evan Davis chairs a debate on the subject tonight at 7pm.

James Watson, Brian Cox, Werner Herzog, Richard Holmes, Colin Pillinger…wow.

It’s the week of intellectual debate announcements. Following on from the Future Human discussion about data journalism and the upcoming TEDxObserver, the new line-up of Big Ideas evenings has been revealed.

On Monday, Time Out Live House of Thoughts and female cultured cabaret company The Blue Stocking Society come together at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club to present The Great Burlesque Debate: “Art or Bust”.

There’s been a lot of fringe theatre on Londonist of late and while we’ve been seeing and reviewing a lot, there must also be time for London Theatre Talks 2010. And so, the London Festival Fringe (which had us a bit baffled at their launch) …

Tonight’s Big Ideas event upstairs at the Wheatsheaf (Rathbone Place) was programmed before the General Election but seems all the more apposite given our hung parliament. The pub discussion will argue the case for and against party politics in these supposedly pragmatic times, where ‘whatever …

A discussion at QMUL next Wednesday will look at the 2012 Olympic Games in terms of “the people’s legacy: community participation in the shaping of East London 2012 and beyond”. Will the East End become an urban regeneration success story? Can London succeed in its …

There may have been more of them this summer than you could shake a freshly sharpened quill at, but there’s still at least one more that might merit your attention. The SW11 Literary Festival, running between 7th and 30th September, offers a vast array of …