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Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena in conversation with Susan Morrison: “Where there is disaster, there is opportunity. Use reconstruction as a moment to create a more resilient future. To change things that you would never usually have the chance to change.”

In a powerful conversation moderated by Natalia Antelava, Joseph Stiglitz and Volodymyr Yermolenko reflect on resistance and resilience. Stiglitz emphasises that ‘It can always happen here,’ draws lessons from attacks on U.S. higher education, and shows how capitulating to Trump

“Can I do one more Lebedev?” Paul Caruana Galizia, Ed Caesar & Oliver Bullough trade anecdotes on Lord of Siberia Evgeny Lebedev: his diets, hobbies, bugbears. Stories of oligarchy must reach a wide audience, says Paul Caruana Galizia. To draw people in, start with the absurd. #ZEG2025

Armando Iannucci: Trump is incapable of taking in detail or focusing. Now his presidential security briefings are filmed and presented in a Fox News type of style. But at the end of the day, Trump isn’t funny the Scottish comedian says #zegfest

“To be a whistleblower you have to understand that you’re right and they’re wrong and take everything that comes with that. To say the uncomfortable thing that people don’t want to hear”, Christopher Wylie 🏳️‍🌈 tells Isobel Cockerell on the main stage at Captured, The Secret Behind Silicon

“Privacy is the foundation of your ability to craft who you are,” Christopher Wylie on why you should think twice before handing over your data. From "The Elephant in the Algorithm" convo with Armando Iannucci, Adam Pincus & Alix Dunn. #ZEG2025

Giorgi Gigashvili took us through how classical music is a powerful voice of resilience and defiance for Georgia — where art meets activism. #ZEG2025 #KeysOfDefiance #MusicAsResistance

“I know I’m a little bit naughty in the corridors of power, in a human way. And I’m about to get in trouble for pushing a button I shouldn’t have pressed. But no one’s called me into the headteachers office yet.” platon kicking off our third and final day at ZEG Fest ‘25.

“Discomfort can be productive.” Dr. Erzsébet Barát on why true solidarity means resisting the urge for easy answers and instead learning to live with the discomfort of ambiguity, vulnerability, and difference in the fight against the patriarchy. #ZEG2025

“Not all minds are captured in this country.” Irma Dimitradze on the fight for press freedom in Georgia and why it matters far beyond its borders, in conversation with Maria Ressa, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Jodie Ginsberg at #ZEG2025.

A powerful start to Day 3: ✍ MZIA'S STORY: JOURNALISM ON TRIAL, with Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, couldn’t have been more urgent. 📸 While Platon was teaching How to Take Photographs No One Can Ignore, the entire Main Stage followed MOCAO’S JOURNEY - transforming trauma into

“Dictators understand our importance. That’s why they hunt us. That’s why they criminalize us. That’s why they lock us up. And that’s why they jumped for joy when Trump cut our budget.” Nicola Careem of recently defunded RFE/RL, with Philip Chetwynd of AFP at @ZEG2025.

“People stop doing what they're doing and go running in the streets because they are free - this freedom is the most extraordinary drug, the biggest high you can be addicted to - and I will always be addicted to it.” - Khalid Abdalla reminisces about the passion and hope of the

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Coming up in Oliver Bullough's Oligarchy newsletter: The Bank of England says in times of crisis, people move to cash. But the facts suggest, people are using less cash, even as the value of bills in circulation go up. And is there a millionaire exodus? buff.ly/H5Qacwg

In Oligarchy this week: Oliver Bullough asks why people in the UK and US are using less cash, but the value of bills in circulation is at record levels. And the false alarm about migrating millionaires. Sign up here buff.ly/H5Qacwg

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