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• Thu 25 Feb 21 · The Charterhouse from Restoration to Revolution (the Charterhouse, London)

• Sun 16 Jun 19 · Lowborn – Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns (Conway Hall Ethical Society, London)

• Thu 23 May 19 · Antisemitism: Here and Now (Cafe 1001, London)

• Mon 11 Feb 19 · Engines of Privilege: Britain's private school problem (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Sun 2 Dec 18 · Drawbridge Britain – Where Did the Hostile Environment Against Immigrants Come From? (Conway Hall Ethical Society, London)

• Sun 14 Oct 18 · Undercover – The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police (Conway Hall Ethical Society, London)

• Tue 26 Jun 18 · Magick and Power in the Age of Trump (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 26 Jun 18 · Magick and Power in the Age of Trump (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 16 Jun 18 · Alt-Right – From 4chan to the White House (Conway Hall Ethical Society, London)

• Thu 15 Mar 18 · Book Launch - No Problem Here: Understanding Racism in Scotland (Blackwell's Bookshop Edinburgh, Edinburgh)

• Sun 2 Jul 17 · Putin in Perspective (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 11 Jun 17 · Book Launch: 'Worshipping Power' by Peter Gelderloos (The White Building, London)

• Thu 1 Jun 17 · Benjamin Franklin, Time and the Clockwork of the American Constitution (Benjamin Franklin House, London)

• Sat 1 Apr 17 · Deception Day: Hoaxes, Lies and Fake News (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 10 Nov 16 · The Jean Clark Memorial Lecture (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)

• Tue 27 Sep 16 · BREXIT and its consequences for the UK and EU Citizenship or Monstrous Citizenship (Skeel Lecture Theatre, People's Palace, London)

• Tue 20 Sep 16 · Life Lessons: Ed Balls and Tanya Byron (Cecil Sharp House, London)

• Tue 20 Sep 16 · Life Lessons: Ed Balls and Tanya Byron (Emmanuel Centre, , London, SW1P 3DW)

• Tue 20 Sep 16 · Life Lessons: Ed Balls and Tanya Byron (Cecil Sharp House, London)

• Wed 20 Jul 16 · Myths about the Government's Preventing Violent Extremism by Tehmina Kazi (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 10 May 16 · Thieves of State - A Conversation on Corruption with Sarah Chayes (Book and Kitchen, London)

• Thu 7 Apr 16 · Book Launch: This Orient Isle (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Wed 16 Mar 16 · A Humanistic Perspective on the Caste System in India and the UK (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 15 Mar 16 · Gender and Language in the 2015 UK General Election televised debates (Language and Communication, Middlesex University, London)

• Thu 21 Jan 16 · The Island: Should London be independent? (Camden People's Theatre, London)

• Wed 11 Nov 15 · Margaret Thatcher - Everything She Wants (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Mon 9 Nov 15 · London Thinks – The UK: Looking Inwards or Reaching Outwards? (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 24 Oct 15 · Who owns outer space? (The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Wed 14 Oct 15 · Cameron at 10 - the inside story of Cameron's premiership (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 16 Jul 15 · Martin Rowson's cartoons terrify our rulers and scadalise the respectable (Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School, London)

• Thu 18 Jun 15 · Art Practice today and the Labour Movement (Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School, London)

• Thu 11 Jun 15 · Challenging Capitalism: posing alternatives (Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School, London)

• Sun 7 Jun 15 · Cults and Brainwashing: The hidden – and not so hidden – epidemic (Conway Hall, London)

• Fri 5 Jun 15 · Lecture on Competition and Capitalism: counting the human and societal cost. (British Psychoanalytic Council, London)

• Thu 4 Jun 15 · Divide and Rule and the Collective Power of Labour (Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School, London)

• Wed 3 Jun 15 · Inscribed on our Banners (Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School, London)

• Wed 20 May 15 · Pioneers of Socialist Art (Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School, London)

• Sun 17 May 15 · SoapBox @ Thinkers Corner – Election Analysis (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 13 May 15 · London Thinks: Buying and Selling Sex - the Big Debate (Conway Hall, London)

• Mon 20 Apr 15 · Are We Still Any Use? Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Church Today (St Martin-in-the-Fields, London)

• Mon 13 Apr 15 · Towards a Politics for the Common Good (St Martin-in-the-Fields, London)

• Wed 8 Apr 15 · London Thinks: How to Topple a Dictator (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 19 Mar 15 · JOHN GRAY AND ALAIN DE BOTTON IN CONVERSATION (Emmanuel Centre, London)

• Thu 19 Mar 15 · London Thinks: The Rise of UKIP (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 22 Jan 15 · Artist Talk: David Birkin (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Sat 6 Dec 14 · ‘Para-academia’ with Deborah Withers, Alex Wardrop, and Charlotte Cooper (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Thu 4 Dec 14 · Anarchism and Sexuality (New Theatre, East Building, London)

• Wed 26 Nov 14 · Power Politics and the Humanitarian Impulse: the United Nations in the post-Cold War era (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London)

• Thu 20 Nov 14 · The War that Was Lost (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London)

• Mon 13 Oct 14 · The Establishment and How They Get Away With It (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Wed 8 Oct 14 · ‘Music & Politics’ with John Hutnyk, John Pandit from Asian Dub Foundation and Aki Nawaz from Fun-D (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Sun 5 Oct 14 · Thinking on Sunday - Debate: Is UKIP Ethical? (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 9 Jul 14 · Is Westminster in a fix? The run-up to the election in a Fixed Term Parliament (Portcullis House, London)

• Wed 2 Jul 14 · ‘The Price of Experience: Writings on Living with Cancer’ with Mike Marqusee (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Wed 25 Jun 14 · The Plot Against the Generals: Gülenists, intellectuals and the fraud that transformed Turkish polit (Old Theatre, London)

• Wed 25 Jun 14 · STIR SPRING ISSUE LAUNCH: ‘Anarchists in the Boardroom’ with Liam Barrington-Bush (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Tue 4 Mar 14 · There is an Alternative! Lessons from Portugal (Shaw Library, Houghton Street)

• Thu 30 Jan 14 · The Rise of Euroscepticism: causes and prospects (Old Theatre, London)

• Tue 28 Jan 14 · Rights, Law and Religion in a Liberal Society I (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 23 Jan 14 · The Future of the Liberal World Order (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 16 Jan 14 · The true story about the geopolitical role of Cyprus: David or Goliath? (LSE Campus, venue TBC to ticket holders, London)

• Thu 16 Jan 14 · The Battle of Cable Street (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Thu 28 Nov 13 · Combatting Crime and Imposing Good Governance on the Oceans (Mercers' Hall, London)

• Fri 22 Nov 13 · The Satirical Image: From Daumier to Private Eye (Royal Academy of Arts, London)

• Mon 18 Nov 13 · Young People’s Question Time 2013 (Portcullis House, London)

• Tue 12 Nov 13 · Al-Qaeda: Bin Laden and beyond - An evening with Jane Corbin (Royal Geographical Society, London)

• Tue 5 Nov 13 · Alternatives to Religion: Annie Besant (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 5 Nov 13 · St Bride's Twenty-Second AnnualTom Olsen Lecture (St Bride's Church, City of London)

• Tue 29 Oct 13 · Alternatives to Religion:Harriet Law (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 23 Oct 13 · Khodorkovsky: A Decade Behind Bars (Frontline Club, London)

• Tue 22 Oct 13 · Alternatives to Religion:John Stuart Mill (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 22 Oct 13 · An Anatomy of Truth: conversations on truth-telling with a politician, a journalist, a scientist and (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Sun 20 Oct 13 · The Rise of the Machines (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 15 Oct 13 · Insight with Paul Danahar: The New Middle East (Frontline Club, London)

• Tue 15 Oct 13 · Alternatives to Religion: Charles Bradlaugh (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 8 Oct 13 · Alternatives to Religion: George Jacob Holyoake (Conway Hall, London)

• Mon 15 Jul 13 · John F Kennedy's Quest For Peace (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 13 Jun 13 · War Resisters’ International present ‘Countering the Militarisation of Youth’ with David Gee, Ozgur (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Wed 29 May 13 · Book Talk - ‘Introducing Slavoj Žižek’ with Christopher Kul-Want (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Tue 28 May 13 · What Is Gender? (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Wed 22 May 13 · The Future of London within the UK (LSE Campus, venue TBC to ticket holders, London)

• Wed 15 May 13 · Launch of the Audit of Political Engagement 10 (Hansard Society, London)

• Sat 11 May 13 · Saturday Evening Lecture Series 2013 (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)

• Thu 2 May 13 · Obama, the Tea Party, and the future of American Politics (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Mon 29 Apr 13 · Art and Conflict (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Thu 25 Apr 13 · Charles Moore Margaret Thatcher- Not For Turning (British Government, LSE, London)

• Thu 25 Apr 13 · Margaret Thatcher- Not For Turning (LSE Campus, venue TBC to ticket holders, London)

• Wed 24 Apr 13 · Building a Better Politics (Portcullis House, London)

• Tue 23 Apr 13 · Andrea Leadsom MP - 'The European Union and the Democratic Deficit' (Portcullis House, London)

• Tue 23 Apr 13 · New Parliaments, New Politics? (Media & Performing Arts, Middlesex University, London)

• Fri 19 Apr 13 · In conversation with Nancy Pelosi (LSE Campus, venue TBC to ticket holders, London)

• Wed 27 Mar 13 · Debate/Book event ‘Is green growth possible and do we really need it?’ debate with Pete Dickenson an (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Thu 14 Mar 13 · EVENT CANCELLED: Obama, the Tea Party, and the future of American Politics (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Wed 13 Mar 13 · In Conversation with Baroness Hale (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Mon 11 Mar 13 · Sexual Politics and Revolution: Emma Goldman's Passion (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Tue 5 Mar 13 · Shirley Williams (The London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Tue 5 Mar 13 · A Life in Politics (Old Theatre, London)

• Mon 4 Mar 13 · Why I am a Euro-optimist (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 28 Feb 13 · Ken Livingstone (The London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Wed 20 Feb 13 · Health of our Institutions Today: Independent Police Complaints Commission Dame Ann Owers (New Academic Building Room 1.07, London)

• Thu 31 Jan 13 · EVENT CANCELLED: What is Happening in Syria Today? (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Tue 29 Jan 13 · Is A Scientifically Literate Public Feasible Or Desirable? (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Wed 16 Jan 13 · Islam and the Politics of Resistance: the case of women in Iran (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Mon 14 Jan 13 · Life and Politics: Potentiation and Extinguishment (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Sat 15 Dec 12 · JOURNALISM, CHURNALISM AND MEDIA BIAS (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 15 Dec 12 · Journalism, Churnalism and Media Bias: CFI UK conference (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 8 Dec 12 · University of Dundee Christmas Lecture 2012 (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)

• Wed 5 Dec 12 · Book Event ‘Public Service on the Brink’ with Mark Serwotka and David Wiggins (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Wed 5 Dec 12 · Antifragile: how to live in a world we don't understand (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Mon 3 Dec 12 · Wishful Thinking (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Mon 3 Dec 12 · Book Launch: 'The Politics of Coalition' by Robert Hazell and Ben Yong (CLM.4.02, London)

• Mon 26 Nov 12 · An afternoon with Martti Ahtisaari (Shaw Library, Houghton Street)

• Thu 22 Nov 12 · The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 22 Nov 12 · "No Enemies -No Hatred" - Liu Xiaobo and The Struggle for Democracy in China (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Wed 21 Nov 12 · Islamists in Power: governing the Arab world? (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Wed 21 Nov 12 · Monetary policy and the financial crisis 2006-2009 (Graham Wallas Room, London School of Economics & Political Science)

• Wed 14 Nov 12 · Book Event ‘Freedom Through Football: The Story of the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls' with Will Simpso (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Tue 13 Nov 12 · Unsustainable Fishing (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)

• Tue 13 Nov 12 · Another kind of war (Shaw Library, London School of Economics, London)

• Thu 8 Nov 12 · The Future Of The Union: Wales (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Tue 6 Nov 12 · Contentious Politics: social and political forces in the Middle East today (London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Mon 5 Nov 12 · Will elected police Commissioners improve police accountability? (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 1 Nov 12 · The Conservatives since 1945 (CLM 4.02, London)

• Thu 1 Nov 12 · How to Exit? Debating the End Game of Post-Conflict State Building (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Mon 29 Oct 12 · America Votes (Old Theatre, London)

• Mon 29 Oct 12 · Satire today: still kicking against the pricks? (Shoreditch House, London)

• Thu 25 Oct 12 · Strengthening Competitiveness and Growth in Europe (LSE Campus, venue TBC to ticket holders, London)

• Sat 20 Oct 12 · The Battle of Ideas 2012 (Barbican Centre, London)

• Thu 18 Oct 12 · TO TELL THE TRUTH - Lectureseries part 1 (Witte de With, Rotterdam)

• Thu 4 Oct 12 · Interventions: A Life in War and Peace (LSE Campus, venue tbc to ticketholders, London)

• Tue 11 Sep 12 · More Heat Than Light? (Room E, Westminster)

• Thu 5 Jul 12 · Austerity and the Environment - Dr Caroline Lucas MP (Portcullis House, London)

• Tue 29 May 12 · What Are The Legitimate Ends And Means Of Protest? (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Mon 28 May 12 · The Emerging Left in the "Emerging" World (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Thu 10 May 12 · A CONTINUUM OF VIOLENCE-RESISTANCE & THE TARGETING OF WOMEN IN IRAQ (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Tue 1 May 12 · Faith and the Constitution (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Tue 24 Apr 12 · What Form Of Education Should We Offer Prisoners? (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Tue 24 Apr 12 · Faith, Gender and Equality (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Tue 20 Mar 12 · Citizens Privileges or Human Rights? The Great Bill of Rights Swindle (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Thu 15 Mar 12 · Critical Rationalism and Religious and Political Reform in Iran (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London)

• Sun 11 Mar 12 · Sunday Lecture: Religion, Identity and Psychic Detachment: Exploring some Consequences (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 7 Mar 12 · The Future of Egalitarian Capitalism, in Light of its Past (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London)

• Tue 28 Feb 12 · What Does It Mean To Die Well? (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Sun 12 Feb 12 · Sunday Lecture: Flawed Ethics and Climate Change (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 1 Feb 12 · A Tale of Tottenham: race, riots and the future (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Tue 24 Jan 12 · The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Mon 23 Jan 12 · Bottom-up Politics: an agency-centred approach to globalisation (New Theatre, East Building, London)

• Mon 23 Jan 12 · How Labour's traditions can renew Beveridge for the 21st century (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Tue 10 Jan 12 · The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the struggle for Russia (London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Thu 15 Dec 11 · IOI XMAS LECTURE: It’s Christmas in Euroland (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Mon 5 Dec 11 · Repositioning Bangladesh in the Western imagination (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London)

• Tue 22 Nov 11 · TV historian Amanda Vickery inaugural lecture: Family life makes Tories of us all (Queen Mary, University of London, London)

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