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

LET BATTLE COMMENCE! #BattleFest kicks off for a weekend of unmissable debate. Claire Fox Ben Delo and Alastair Donald make the case for why we need free and unconstrained debate as a precondition for settling our challenges.

LET BATTLE COMMENCE! Every year our army of volunteers grows - a brilliant bunch ready to help make #BattleFest run smooth. Now for the biggest free speech weekend of the year...!

Always a pleasure to catch up with Ella Whelan THE ANDREW EBORN SHOW live from #Battlefest Academy of Ideas - subscribe NOW  youtube.com/Octopus TV8   Please do subscribe and follow Andrew Eborn 💎 Barrister Broadcaster Futurist  @OctopusTV  youtube.com/@OctopusTV8

Thanks to Milli Hill Catherine Roy Renée Hoenderkamp and Rebecca Steinfeld, for a discussion that lived up to a 'Battle of Ideas', well chaired by Ella Whelan Hope for more and more time next year!

Huge thanks and Congrats to Claire Fox and Academy of Ideas for Battle of Ideas 2025. What a weekend! Special thanks to the CPCS panels Ashley Frawley Naomi Firsht nmcdnyc Ella Whelan Catherine Roy Lola Salem Renée Hoenderkamp Milli Hill Emma Gilland and Rebecca Steinfeld

My thoughts on the discussion on gambling on BBC Politics #PoliticsLive this week involving Ella Whelan Polly Billington for East Thanet & Gawain Towler Why some Labour MPs do not care about job losses in the gambling industry open.substack.com/pub/jonbryanpo…

4. Battle Book Club📕: Water by John Boyne w/ Oldspeak Bookshop 📚 Join us as we unpick questions of identity, responsibility and morality… W/ Ella Whelan & Emma Gilland 12/11/25 - ONLINE via Zoom 💻 - 19:00-20:30 Free tix 🎟️ @ eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-book-…

A British journalist has branded Jacinda Ardern a “woke authoritarian” and an “elite people’s princess” while suggesting she is a front-runner to become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. Seems it's not just Kiwis who are onto Ardern. centrist.nz/telegraph-says…

TONIGHT - I'll be introducing John Boyne Books' Water for our Academy of Ideas book club. Join us!:

Society secretary Serena Worley shares her thoughts on Jolyon Maugham's recent visit to her college at Cambridge, Newnham. Read below: jealousfaithless.substack.com/p/jolyon-maugh…

'There are many many many adults in this country who enjoy this behaviour (gambling), whether you think it is good or bad, and manage it themselves, and the idea that the state would come in via a sin tax to kurb them I think is an affront.' 👏 Ella Whelan

I love reading angry young women:

OUR FREE-SPEECH DOCUMENTARY HAS BEEN CANCELLED THE RICH MIX CINEMA HAS BANNED OUR PREMIERE, BECAUSE OUR FILM DOES NOT ALIGN WITH ITS ‘VALUES’. You would think that banning a documentary about free speech would be a bad look for a cultural institution. But that’s precisely what

Censoring a film about state censorship - shame on you Rich Mix.

Tonight, Question Time is in Loughborough Joining Fiona are Labour’s Stephen Kinnock, Conservative Joe Robertson, Liberal Democrat Josh Babarinde, comedian Zoe Lyons, and columnist Ella Whelan Join #bbcqt tonight at 9pm on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, 10:40pm on BBC One

Welcome back to Question Time, tonight we’re in Loughborough You can tune in now via the BBC Sounds live news stream, or watch now on BBC iPlayer and the BBC News (UK) Channel Join the conversation using #bbcqt  bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

“Immigration is a much more fundamental question… about ‘do we have control of our country?’” Columnist Ella Whelan says the Home Secretary has “finally” given a “voice” to people who are concerned with immigration, and urges politicians to stop “lazy characterisations” #bbcqt

What a day in Dublin! 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 W/ gript 🔢5️⃣Panels🤩🤝 1. Over-diagnosis? Mental health's expanding empire 2. Gender ideology: Ireland's new religion? 3. Return of patriotism: democratic strain or national renewal? 4. Immigration, integration and cultural cohesion 5.