This is a recording from the Battle of Ideas festival 2022 at Church House, Westminster: https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/session/call-to-courage-winning-the-battle-of-ideas/

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Today – at a time of enormous upheavals and significant political challenges – do we need to bring courage back into politics? There are certainly encouraging signs – do recent successes of gender-critical activists, the push back against diversity policies, or support for those threatened with being cancelled indicate new forms of solidarity? Can fighting back against the cost-of-living crisis, under the banner of Enough is Enough, forge a new movement? And as millions of UK citizens courageously refused to back down – and succeeded in forcing the establishment to ensure their democratic vote was not overturned – is the democratic Brexit spirit of taking back control ready to be rekindled?

SPEAKERS: Julie Bindel journalist; author, Feminism for Women: the real route to liberation

Professor Sunetra Gupta professor of theoretical epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; award-winning novelist

Ali Miraj columnist, TheArticle; founder, the Contrarian Prize; infrastructure financier; DJ

Tim Stanley columnist and leader writer, Daily Telegraph; author, Whatever Happened to Tradition? History, Belonging and the Future of the West

Bruno Waterfield Brussels correspondent, The Times

CHAIR: Claire Fox director, Academy of Ideas; independent peer, House of Lords; author, I STILL Find That Offensive!

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