Want to start a good pub debate? Try discussing what’s in front of you. If you’re quaffing a pint of Porter, you’re imbibing fairly contentious stuff: there are not only debates as to its origin, but also its composition and even its name. A popular …
Congratulations to the 25 winners of our ticket giveaway for Future City, a series of topical debates each tackling a key issue facing London right now. If you’d like to go along, but didn’t manage to nab a freebie, tickets are still available for the …
The autumn programme of debates from Intelligence Squared has just been announced. These events put some of the world’s great thinkers (plus a few who are there to fan the flames) on stage to debate ‘for’ or ‘against’ a particular motion. It can all feel …
Remember the Star Trek holodeck, where off duty officers could slip into a Sherlock Holmes adventure or visit a Klingon brothel (only for the whole thing to turn evil…every time)? Well how far are we from such things? A long way, probably. But that’s not …
If you feel that all this election talk is getting a bit stale already, you’ll be glad to hear that from tomorrow Londoners will be able to indulge their political tastes in a much more palatable fashion at Bompas and Parr’s Parliamentary Waffle House in …
Is Google a benign, modern company that abides by its corporate motto of “don’t be evil” and enriches the sum of human knowledge by indexing and sharing the world’s information ? Or is it an avaricious power-crazed entity that wields a dangerous amount of power …
“Yes, I share a tailor with Dr Who.” Darwin continues his cultural assault in the run-up to his 200th birthday (this Thursday). A couple of debates tonight should keep the momentum going. From 6pm, Imperial College host Darwin’s Sacred Cause: race, emancipation and the quest …
Tube drivers are irked by a new film that takes a light-hearted look at one of the more harrowing aspects of working for London Underground: the “person under a train”, TfL-speak for a suicide. Members of the Aslef union plan to picket the premier and …
Ken Livingstone’s certainly had a tough few weeks. For starters, Boris Johnson finally began to get his act together on a few fronts. He’s got a new website, a new team, and he’s had some success in generating noise around policy issues – most notably, …
