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Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill @ Doughty St
Jeremy Scahill, National Security Correspondent for The Nation, and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, spoke at the Doughty Street Chambers on Wednesday 15th May 2013 to promote his latest book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. A documentary film of the same name will have its European premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest in […]
Delia Smith & Alastair Campbell do God
December 7, 2012
Another Westminster Faith Interview took place on Wednesday 5th December, this time featuring cookery queen Delia Smith in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Alastair Campbell, at Bloomsbury’s British Medical Association on Tavistock Square. Delia Smith is a devout Catholic who attends daily mass and reflects on spirituality each afternoon in her garden studio. She has also written several […]
Monbiot, Toynbee @ Russell Square “Teach-Out”
November 10, 2011
Awesome author, columnist, environmentalist and activist George Monbiot addressed a small crowd in Bloomsbury’s Russell Square on Wednesday 9th November 2011, as part of a wider day of protest against university tuition fee hikes and government cuts. At Monbiot’s side was Polly Toynbee, fellow Guardian columnist, author and current President of the British Humanist Association. Other speakers included Alex Callinicos of King’s College London, Richard […]
Malcolm Turnbull @ LSE
October 6, 2011
Malcolm Turnbull, former leader of the Australian Liberal Party, former leader of the Australian Republican Movement, current Liberal Shadow Minister for Communications & Broadband, and author of books including The Spycatcher Trial: The Scandal Behind the #1 Bestseller, and The Reluctant Republic, spoke on the topic, “Same bed different dreams”: Asia’s rise – threat or opportunity? The […]
Protest over New College of the Humanities disrupts Dawkins & Myers event
June 10, 2011
Protesters disrupted an An evening with Richard Dawkins and P. Z. Myers on Thursday 9th June 2011 at the Institute of Education in Bloomsbury. The evening was organised by the British Humanist Association. Richard Dawkins (below) – evolutionary biologist, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, and former Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science - is arguably the best-known of the […]
Smoke bomb for A. C. Grayling at Foyles in London
June 7, 2011
If it’s true that you haven’t had an authentic post-GFC London experience until you’ve been in the midst of a student protest, then I have finally qualified. What started, on the evening of 7th June 2011, as “The Arts in Britain”, a conversation at Foyles book store about the state of arts and humanities funding in […]
Niall Ferguson @ LSE
March 20, 2011
Niall Ferguson, historian, broadcaster and author of books including Civilization: The West and the Rest, spoke on “The Political Economy of the Cold War” at the London School of Economics, 18th October 2010. To hear the lecture, click here. Photos by Sven Klinge (please credit photographer & website when using these photos)
Geoffrey Robertson @ LSE
March 20, 2011
Geoffrey Robertson, human-rights lawyer, founder of Doughty Street Chambers, and author of books including Crimes Against Humanity – The Struggle for Global Justice, was on a panel discussing “Lady Chatterley – 50 Years On” at the London School of Economics, 1st November 2010. To hear the lecture, click here. Photos by Sven Klinge (please credit photographer & website […]
Noam Chomsky @ UCL
March 20, 2011
Noam Chomsky, linguist, political activist and author of books including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, gave the Rickman Godlee lecture on “Contours of Global Order” at University College London, Bloomsbury, 9th March 2011. To watch the lecture, click here. Photos by Sven Klinge (please credit photographer & website when using these photos)
London Bytes
- View of the week: Alien doppelgänger March 28, 2013 Belinda
- Noam Chomsky @ British Library March 27, 2013 Belinda
- View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern March 12, 2013 Belinda
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