Academy of Ideas
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"There isn't gonna be a northern renaissance... However many reports are written and however many speeches are made by Andy Burnham" Simon Cooke (Simon Cooke) - former leader of the Bradford Conservatives - @ #BattleFest North ...But will a Northern No 10 do the trick?
Academy of Ideas13,308 views • 2 days ago
"The 6th biggest economy in the world is run by infantile fantasists with no understanding of financial markets.... There's nothing progressive about driving the economy of a cliff"📉⛰️ Liam Halligan @ #BattleFest 2025 "From steel to railways: can the state revitalise British industry?"👨🏭🚆 👇
Academy of Ideas582,494 views • 3 months ago
"Instead of seeing your opponent as somebody you disagree with, you see them as morally wrong. So it’s not, 'I’m right, you’re wrong'; it’s, 'I’m right, you’re bad.'" Maeve Halligan @ #BattleFest North "Disaffected youth: are young people becoming more extreme?" 👇
Academy of Ideas116,948 views • 1 month ago
"Renewables - we're told they're cheap, no they're not. Wind and sun are free, the machines to turn wind and sun into electricity are not free - they are expensive"☀️🌬️ Kathryn Porter @ #BattleFest 2025 "Net Zero or ‘drill, baby, drill’? The future of UK energy"🛢️🏭 👇
Academy of Ideas106,194 views • 3 months ago
"The British state is terrified that if people have the right to say what they really think, to protest how they wish peacefully... it will lead to chaos"🪧🫢 The The Free Speech Union's Connie Shaw @ #BattleFest "Free-speech emergency: how can we fight back?"💬🥊 👇
Academy of Ideas59,185 views • 2 months ago
Before Starmer announces plans to hand over British sovereignty to the EU, listen to this fascinating speech by Richard Johnson explaining why British left needs to rediscover the sovereignty it revered in the 20th century. "Sovereignty, far from being something exercised by Edwardian gunboats, is the real power of the people to control their destiny" - Neil Kinnock @ #Battlefest North "Iran, Greenland, Brexit Britain… does sovereignty still matter?"🇬🇧👇
Academy of Ideas16,657 views • 1 month ago
The PM and Foreign Secretary unaware that Mandelson had failed vetting?! Check out David Frost "Can we fix the dysfunctional state?" @ #BattleFest 2025 "A decision that's very important to state authority is taken, nobody seems to quite know what the committee was that took it..."
Academy of Ideas15,741 views • 2 months ago
"If the Labour Party is only for people in London, only for people who went to university, then its not worth existing and we should just pack it in" 🌹👩🎓 Jonny Ball of UnHerd Blue Labour @ #BattleFest 2025 on "From Reform to Blue Labour: will the working class find a voice at last?"👷♂️📢 👇
Academy of Ideas27,456 views • 6 months ago
"Until it was introduced (the online safety act), most children exposed to p*rn didn't actually seek it out, they saw it for the first time by accident"😲💻 Jo Bartosch @ #BattleFest 2025 - "Think of the children: can we have online safety without censorship?"👨👩👦👦📱 👇
Academy of Ideas12,603 views • 5 months ago
Less than 24 hours to go.... Tomorrow #BattleFest 2025 begins. The free speech festival to come to if you are interested in all areas of political, cultural, scientific and artistic life. 🎟️There are still tickets available 🎟️- and tickets can be bought on the door. Join us in Westminster on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th October.
Academy of Ideas14,250 views • 8 months ago
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