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The Huffington Post, March 19, 2012
"In a debate sponsored by Google + and Intelligence Squared last week, I supported the motion that "it is time to end the war on drugs"...For over 40 years, global efforts to punish drug users have failed to stem the drug trade and instead caused epidemics of violence and crime...Can and should the drug war be replaced with drug regulation that supports individuals with health issues and focuses law enforcement on serious criminals? This debate should be taken up by President Obama and his Republican rivals as well...
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The Telegraph, March 17, 2012
"We’re losing the war on drugs, so let’s give up. That seemed to be the conclusion of this week’s high profile debate on illegal narcotics hosted by Intelligence Squared in London...
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The Guardian, March 16, 2012
"It is more than 40 years since the war on drugs was declared. Ian Blair, former commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and Richard Branson, entrepreneur and member of the Global Commission on Drugs Policy meet – over a glass of wine – to discuss whether it's time to decriminalise...Sir Richard Branson and Lord Blair also took part in an Intelligence2 and Google+ debate this week, "It's time to end the war on drugs"..
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The Daily Mail, March 15, 2012
"'First I blamed drug-takers for their own actions, and also blamed them, and their hedonistic selfishness, for the disasters which have befallen the narco-states, disasters about which that very good man Ed Vulliamy is rightly incensed, though I don’t share his solutions.'..
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Evening Standard, March 14, 2012
"AN array of characters gathered both in person at Kings Place and on the digital airwaves for last night’s Intelligence Squared debate on the War on Drugs. Among the speakers for decriminalisation were Julian Assange, Russell Brand and Sir Richard Branson...
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The Telegraph, March 14, 2012
"...so it was immensely refreshing to attend a debate last night hosted by Intelligence Squared and Google which wasn’t sixth-form at all. It was opened by the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, who said that while Colombia has been successful fighting the “war” on drugs recently, it has come at high cost. “We have lost our best judges, our best journalists, our best politicians, our best police officers and our best soldiers… And our success means that this problem has moved to other countries”...
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The Huffington Post UK, March 14, 2012
"Did you see the debate? A debate with a host of celebrities: Russell Brand, Sir Richard Branson; world leaders, and eminent opinion formers. Oh, and Peter Hitchens was in attendance. A debate of such magnitude would surely not creep under the radar? Especially given the gravitas of the contested subject? Under the heading of 'The War on Drugs Has Failed' - and hosted by Intelligence Squared, the debate is a must watch for anyone remotely interested in societal issues...
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Mashable, March 3, 2012
"Google...announced a “series of global debates” on Thursday that will “connect people on opposing sides of the social and political spectrum.” The project, named Versus, will include controversial, opinionated figures discussing and debating vital current events topics...Versus is being done in connection with Intelligence Squared. Intelligence Squared is based in the UK with a U.S. offshoot and bills itself as the “the world’s premier forum for debate and intelligent discussion.”..
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The Jewish Chronicle, March 1, 2012
"A peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians would stand a better chance if America pulled out of the process. That was the conclusion of a London audience at an Intelligence Squared debate at a packed Cadogan Hall on Monday...
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The Independent, February 23, 2012
"Possibly the world's premier debating forum, Intelligence Squared pull in the biggest names with the sharpest minds around...
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Evening Standard, February 16, 2012
""Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you ... for my sake. Rejoice and be glad." I was reminded of this passage watching a video of the Benedictine monk Dom Antony Sutch in an Intelligence Squared debate...
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The Telegraph, February 8, 2012
"At an Intelligence² debate I was at last night, John Kay, the FT columnist, had a marvellous way of explaining this problem: "We want to run the casino, but not to let anyone in Britain gamble in it." In other words, we want the security and stability of a small, conservative banking system but the rewards that big, global, highly leveraged finance delivers...
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The Times, February 7, 2012
"Stephen King is HSBC’s group chief economist and will be taking part in tonight’s Intelligence2 debate, What hope for the economy?..
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"Only last October [Laurie Penny] was invited by Intelligence Squared to take part in a debate sold as 'Baby Boomers Have Stolen The Family Silver'. Proposing the motion with her was Universities Minister, David Willetts MP, lest we forget, author of The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future – And Why They Should Give It Back.....
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The Independent, January 31, 2012
""Where has slowness gone?" asks a contributor to a new book by John Brockman, How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?. The answer is not so hard to find. It is in the success of a slow-burn TV series like Borgen. It lies behind the popularity of David Hockney's exhibition of landscapes at the Royal Academy, of Melvyn Bragg's uncompromisingly thoughtful In Our Time series on Radio 4, of public debating groups like Intelligence Squared...
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The Guardian, January 26, 2012
"To the Intelligence Squared debate. The subject: The world needs religion even if it doesn't need God. Alain de Botton and Grayson Perry argue against religion, Anne Atkins and Dom Antony Sutch for. Perry appeared in a dashing polka dot dress: "I stand before you, a man in a dress, delivering a lecture," he said. "Nothing unusual about that. It happens in churches across the country every day." Asked by Atkins what could make him believe in God, he said: "Even if God plopped down in front of me, I would take some hard persuading that he existed. I've taken so many drugs in my life that I'd assume my mind had simply, finally, gone."..
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Guardian, December 16, 2011
"When last month Intelligence Squared staged a down-the-line interview with Hitchens at the Royal Festival Hall, compered by Stephen Fry, they wondered if anyone would come. When Hitchens proved too ill to do more than text his replies, they feared a flop. The hall was sold out. Not many journalists could do that, even with the help of such friends and admirers as Richard Dawkins, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Sean Penn and others. The caricature tales of drinking, womanising and U-turning were familiar enough, but what clear was something else, a widespread appreciation of a free spirit that owed nothing to anything but its own turbulent thought processes...
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Guardian, December 16, 2011
"While I was with him another celebration took place in faraway London, with Stephen Fry as host in the Festival Hall to reflect on the life and times of Christopher Hitchens. We helped him out of bed and into a chair and set my laptop in front of him. Alexander delved into the internet with special passwords to get us linked to the event. He also plugged in his own portable stereo speakers. We had the sound connection well before the vision and what we heard was astounding, and for Christopher, uplifting. It was the noise of two thousand voices small-talking before the event. Then we had a view from the stage of the audience, packed into their rows. They all looked so young. I would have guessed that nearly all of them would have opposed Christopher strongly over Iraq. But here they were, and in cinemas all over the country, turning out for him. Christopher grinned and raised a thin arm in salute. Close family and friends may be in the room with you, but dying is lonely, the confinement is total. He could see for himself that the life outside this small room had not forgotten him. For a moment, pace Larkin, it was by way of the internet that the world stretched a hand towards him...
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The Periscope Post, December 12, 2011
"And if “membership” sounds a bit too much like commitment, debate forum Intelligence Squared may even be a better option: Featuring debates on religion, politics, Facebook, nuclear power, Christopher Hitchens, Intelligence Squared events are where smart people go on dates...
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China Digital Times, December 12, 2011
"Intelligence²...recently hosted a debate entitled ‘Beware of the Dragon: Africa Should Not Look to China‘. Ghanaian economist and writer George Ayittey and Portuguese MEP Ana Maria Gomes argued for the motion, with American University and SOAS professors Deborah Brautigam and Stephen Chan speaking against...
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Channel 4 News, November 29, 2011
"Last night I took time out from writing my book on Libya to chair an Intelligence Squared debate called Beware the Dragon: Africa should not look to China. It’s been a topic that raises passions for several years now. The US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Johnnie Carson, said last year that he thought China had “no morals” in its dealings with Africa. Unlike everyone else who has always had scrupulous morals, I’m sure. He and many others believe Chinese investment is shoring up corrupt and abusive African governments. The opposing view is that Africa is benefitting from China’s growth, at a time when Europe and the USA see the continent only in terms of aid...
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Evening Standard, November 15, 2011
"A cause needs champions, and Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins make an irresistible argument for the rationalism of atheism over the hocus pocus of religion. I watched them at the Royal Festival Hall the other evening, celebrating their comrade in arms, Christopher Hitchens...Both Fry and Dawkins combine a charm of manner with relentless powers of persuasion, so they would have won round the audience at the Intelligence Squared event, even had they needed to...
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FT.com, November 11, 2011
"Last summer I found myself speaking at a debate for Intelligence Squared with Brendan O’Neill, the editor of the online magazine Spiked, and heard him argue, in effect, that environmental despoliation was something to be celebrated...
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New Statesman, November 10, 2011
"Hitchens, who I interviewed for the New Statesman last year, was too ill to appear in conversation with Stephen Fry at the Royal Festival Hall in London last night. But rather than cancelling the event, the organisers assembled an extraordinary selection of Hitchens's comrades and friends to pay tribute to the great essayist and polemicist...
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The Spectator, November 10, 2011
"‘Christopher Hitchens in conversation with Stephen Fry’ this wasn’t — Hitchens had been struck down with pneumonia. No matter, ‘Stephen Fry and friends on the life, loves and hates of Christopher Hitchens’ at the South Bank didn’t disappoint...
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Evening Standard, November 10, 2011
"Martin Amis, James Fenton and Sir Salman Rushdie were beamed in from New York to join Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins for an evening celebrating the "life, loves and hates" of hard-drinking polemicist Christopher Hitchens at the Royal Festival Hall last night organised by Intelligence Squared...
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The Telegraph, November 2, 2011
"'I went to see Steven Pinker and Matt Ridley last night at Intelligence Squared, talking about Pinker's new book The Better Angels of our Nature in which he shows, powerfully, that we are now living in the safest time to be alive in the history of humanity. It's a fascinating read and was a fascinating talk: I'll write on it more fully later.'..
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Evening Standard, October 20, 2011
"Intelligence Squared, Notting Hill Gate, W11. From Jimmy Carter to P J O'Rourke, you're in the company of some of the world's sharpest minds...
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The Telegraph, September 6, 2011
"We were at last month’s Wilderness Festival in deepest Oxfordshire, opposing the motion that “new technology is creating more serious problems than it solves”. Despite the disadvantage of our being overweight, middle-aged, and stereotypical tools of the Establishment, the festival-goers warmed to our technophilic arguments, and we won the debate...
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FT.com, September 2, 2011
"High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d5addbb4-d322-11e0-9ba8-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1XGA5WhkQ I was appearing in [a debate] curated by Intelligence Squared on the dangers of new technologies. I think it could do with even more, plus a concert or two by some young Venezuelans, to show that high art and youthful high spirits are not incompatible...
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The Huffington Post UK, August 18, 2011
"Online debate is merging with traditional debate and this change from a one-way street could increase the quality and relevance of both: More and more discussion is being made available online; whether with TED, Intelligence Squared - or indeed our own effort.....
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HereIsTheCity.com, July 4, 2011
"Intelligence Squared, which hosted the [fidelity] debate, is my discovery of the month. The group organises weekly live and lively debates on political, social, historical and scientific hot topics. Two teams of figureheads from the worlds of politics, media and the arts contest each other on stage in front of a well-heeled crowd...Tickets are £25, which for two hours of mind candy, a comfortable seat, and a chance to laugh and listen to great minds observe our current zeitgeist, is better value than a couple of large Pinots and a saucer of olives in a City wine bar...
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Evening Standard, July 4, 2011
"George VI might never have known he was an ideologue if it wasn’t for Slovenian philospher Slavoj Žižek. At the weekend he argued ideology was alive and kicking, and being disseminated via the medium of cinema. Speaking at an Intelligence Squared debate at Cadogan Hall, he explained how the two recent big Oscar winners, The King’s Speech and Black Swan, are prime examples of ideology. “The problem of the stupid king is his inability to pursue his symbolic function,” says Žižek. Meanwhile, he says of Black Swan: “You have two films, one where a man is encouraged to believe his own authority, and a second that tells women don’t play with career — you will die.”..
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The Telegraph, June 20, 2011
"I’d bet on Wilderness [Festival] winning in the hip stakes; Mercury-award winner Laura Marling is headlining and there will be an “intellectual hub” curated by Intelligence Squared and Tom Hodgkinson’s The Idler. “It’s going to be extraordinary,” Lady Rotherwick says...
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FT.com, June 15, 2011
"Despite the alleged “dumbing-down” of our culture, there is a startlingly large audience for public lectures and debates. The most striking example of this that I have come across was when I spoke at an Intelligence Squared debate in London, a few months ago, opposing the motion “Latin America will be the 21st century’s superpower” ... the Royal Geographical Society in London was packed. The audience ran into hundreds...
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The Telegraph, April 28, 2011
"Intelligence Squared, which describes itself as the “global forum for live debate”, is another important player in the sphere of intellectual advancement. It provides a platform for leading figures in politics, journalism and the media, and operates with regular meetings in London, New York, Sydney, Kiev and Abuja – and online as podcasts...
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The Sunday Times, April 24, 2011
"Next month Selfridges launches Project Ocean...on board are celebrity chef Mark Hix and Intelligence Squared, which will be staging talks, as well as high-profile artists to dress the windows and create installations...
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The Telegraph, March 1, 2011
"The Idler Academy isn't alone in its passion for pedagogy...there's the Last Tuesday Society, with its lectures from academics, the 5X15 talks at London's Tabernacle, where five eminent thinkers talk for 15 minutes, and the Intelligence Squared debates at the Royal Geographic Society...
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Emotional Intelligence, February 14, 2011
"Two of my favorites are the live – and lively – Oxford-style debate series Intelligence Squared and KCRW’s radio show and podcast Left, Right & Center. Intelligence Squared is modeled on a London program of the same name...
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Wired, September 23, 2010
"William Gibson, the US writer who perfected the cyberpunk genre of sci-fi, will be coming to London in early October to talk about his latest work, Zero History.
He'll be appearing on 4 October, 2010, at Cadogan Hall in London, in an event that sits him opposite sci-fi author and blogger Cory Doctorow. Gibson will speak about his life and work, and also detail some of the themes and motivations behind Zero History, which examines paranoia and fear following the recent global economic collapse...
Middle East Online, September 22, 2010
"A debate over the seriousness of the Middle East peace process was held in London Tuesday, where six analysts argued for and against the motion that the current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations were merely a charade...
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The Telegraph, September 8, 2010
"He enjoys an argument. “I don’t have the taste for controversy that I did, but I like debating with Intelligence Squared, places like that. I like the fight. And over Israel, I’ll fight until I’m the last man standing.”..
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The Daily Mail, September 6, 2010
"Wayne Rooney ’s lawyer Rachel Atkins will be making an assault on Press freedom as England play Switzerland in their Euro 2012 qualifier tomorrow. After more lurid newspaper revelations about the striker’s private life, Atkins, a Schillings law firm specialist in privacy and defamation, is joining former Formula One chief Max Mosley in arguing that the private lives of public figures deserve more protection. The current affairs Intelligence2 Magazine debate tomorrow at London’s Cadogan Hall, near Sloane Square, couldn’t be more timely..
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The Independent, September 5, 2010
"On Tuesday, he [Max Mosley] speaks at a debate to be aired on the BBC, for the motion: "The private lives of public figures deserve more protection from the press." Speaking against him is the investigative journalist Tom Bower and former Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald. But for Mosley this is not just a hobby horse: he has lodged a request with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg asking that, by law, journalists must inform the subject of a story of the private details they intend to print, prior to publication...
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The Independent, August 29, 2010
"And the reason for the (relative) popularity of Question Time, or the Intelligence Squared debates, is that we like watching an intellectual bust-up...
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BBC World Service, July 28, 2010
"This September, BBC World News will be televising an Intelligence Squared Debate proposing that ‘the private lives of public figures deserve more protection from the press’ – and speaking for the motion will be former FIA president Max Mosley, who has brought a case against the UK’s privacy laws in the European Court of Human Rights...
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Standpoint., July 10, 2010
""To quote Jean Cocteau, ‘Art often starts out as ugly, but becomes beautiful'. With fashion, it's the other way round." So began Stephen Bayley as he rallied against the motion, 'Fashion Maketh Woman', at Intelligence Squared's final summer series debate in Westminster last month...
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Spectator.co.uk, June 23, 2010
"The veteran Himalayan mountaineer (70 next year) and now indefatigable fundraiser for his Nepalese charity, Doug Scott, held a packed audience spellbound at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington last week describing the moment he was swept from west ridge of K2, second only to Everest in height but far more dangerous. ‘I thought, this is the first time I have been in an avalanche,’ he said. ‘And then I thought, I am going to die.’..
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Evening Standard, June 14, 2010
"Frivolous and fickle: that's fashion, isn't it? So how silly we women must be to spend our money on summer's maxi dresses or autumn's aviator jackets. At least, this is the wisdom I frequently receive — unrequested — from those who discover my obsession with clothes. When they spot a particular style “statement” (six-inch-high daisy print clogs currently), they shake their heads and sigh “fashion” in a scathing tone...
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The Telegraph, June 7, 2010
"A big part of Britain's reputation in the world rests on the idea of debate. From the 18th century, the House of Commons has been the model. The word "Parliament", after all, means a place where people talk. We British often joked about it. My family's copy of A Baby Patriot's ABC, published in about 1900, says: "P is for Parliament – Commons and peers. They will talk, if permitted, for months, nay, for years." But we were also proud of it. The idea that debate could sway people, and produce good consequences, both intellectual and practical, seemed the mark of a high civilisation...
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FT.com, May 29, 2010
"Asia lacked a one-stop fair – and I think this is it!” says Iwan Wirth of Hauser & Wirth of Art HK10, the Hong Kong fair that launched its third edition on May 27. Hauser is just one of a number of prestigious recruits to the fair, along with Paris’s Emmanuel Perrotin, Pace Beijing, and New Yorkers Lehman Maupin, Leo Castelli and Marianne Boesky...
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The Telegraph, May 28, 2010
"If you've got it, don't flaunt it. That's the wise man's mantra in a recession. When friends are going bankrupt and the house next door is being repossessed, even the most hard-nosed millionaires will think twice about buying another car or adding a servants' wing to their manor. According to the American press, some expensive shops are now sparing their customers embarrassment by putting their purchases in brown paper bags instead of shiny branded ones...
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The Catholic Herald, May 28, 2010
"The personable young woman sitting opposite Emily Maitlis on Newsnight keeps her cool. She is being grilled about the Pope's speech at Westminster Hall. She carefully makes her way through a potential minefield without detonating anything. She avoids both the "I'm a Catholic but I don't agree with the Pope on this one" staple of one type of Catholic commentator and the angry defence of another type. Instead, she is informative as she lays out what the Church teaches and offers a clear explanation of the Pope's comments...
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New Scientist, March 30, 2010
"A noticeboard in the foyer informed me that the Pagan Federation would be meeting in the Brockway Room. They seemed appropriate neighbours for the novelist and the neuroscientist I had come to hear last night at Conway Hall, a central London venue for serious music and firmly humanist lectures. Neither is a follower of any organised religion, but both are preoccupied with one of the biggest questions that religion tries to answer: what should we think about death?..
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The Daily Beast, January 5, 2010
"From a brilliant lecture series to a must-have Google Alert to an applied-physics videogame, The Daily Beast interviewed the world’s smartest minds to find new breakthroughs and products aimed at boosting intelligence. Reported by Constantino Diaz-Duran and Gabe Oppenheim...
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Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2009
"This is Intelligence Squared, a debating forum now operating in several world cities that hosts ticketed events in which notables square off on loaded questions. The project is the brainchild of media gurus John Gordon and Jeremy O'Grady, and seats, which cost £25 each and are also available as season tickets, often sell out immediately. Mr. Gordon initially built the Intelligence Squared database on the back of his contacts and those of his friends...
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The Telegraph, December 5, 2009
"The motion that had them standing in the aisles and dangling from the rafters at Wellington College was: "Is atheism the new fundamentalism?" True, this was an Intelligence Squared debate, and there was a good line-up: Lord Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, and Charles Moore of The Daily Telegraph for the motion, Professors A C Grayling and Richard Dawkins against. But still. Atheism? When did this become such a crowd-puller?..
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The Atlantic, November 8, 2009
"You can forgive the pro-Catholic side for losing the debate in Britain on whether the Catholic church is a force for good in the world. Ann Widdecombe and Archbishop John Onaiyekan were up against Hitch and Fry. What you cannot forgive is the sheer intellectual shallowness of the defense. Just listen to the small speech above, I mean: really, this is the best we've got?..
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The Catholic Herald, October 23, 2009
"Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens have won a public debate in London in which they argued against a motion that the "Catholic Church is a force for good in the world". The debate at Cadogan Hall in Chelsea was organised by Intelligence Squared and featured Tory MP Ann Widdecombe and Archbishop Onaiyekan of Abuja in Nigeria defending the motion. But they were routed by Mr Hitchens, the author of God is Not Great, and Mr Fry, who won 1,876 votes against 268...
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The Guardian, October 22, 2009
"The Intelligence Squared debate on Monday night saw the supporters of the motion that the Catholic Church is a force for good in the world decisively defeated. As a historian, the fact that the Catholic Church has been a net contributor to human wellbeing is so obvious that it amazes me that it can even be a subject for debate. This realisation was a factor in my deciding to join the Church in the first place. One can reasonably ask whether Catholicism remains a positive influence today, whatever its record in the past. But even here, the arguments that can be made in favour of the Church are far more ponderous than those for the opposition. So why are Catholics so useless at making their case?..
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Pink News, October 21, 2009
"The Catholic Church is not a force for good in the world: that was the overwhelming verdict after a heated debate this week. Stephen Fry and author/journalist Christopher Hitchens opposed the motion, while Ann Widdecombe and Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria, supported it. Adrian Tippetts gives his view of the debate...
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The Times, October 21, 2009
"Secularism is the separation of civic and religious authority, and the consignment of religious beliefs to the realm of private conscience rather than public policy. I strongly favour it, and therefore am entirely unfazed by the declining authority of the Established Church. Bring it on. And that leads me to the humiliation of Catholics by Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry. The description is not mine but that of Andrew M. Brown, a Catholic columnist for the Telegraph...I was there too, and it was as Brown describes it.....
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Evening Standard - Londoner's Diary, October 20, 2009
"Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens would have made few friends in the Catholic community last night after they triumphed in opposing the motion in the Intelligence Squared debate 'The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world.' Fry said he had been very nervous as the debate, held at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, "really mattered" to him. He was also indignant at being labelled a "pervert" by Catholics whom he described as "these sexually dysfunctional people."..
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The Telegraph, October 19, 2009
"I have just witnessed a rout – tonight’s Intelligence Squared debate. It considered the motion “The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world”. Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry, opposing the motion, comprehensively trounced Archbishop Onaiyekan (of Abuja, Nigeria) and Ann Widdecombe, who spoke for it. The archbishop in particular was hopeless...
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The Evening Standard, September 4, 2009
"The row over responsibility for the Second World War broke out again last night at the Evening Standard and Intelligence Squared's joint debate on Winston Churchill. American Republican politician Pat Buchanan argued that the wartime prime minister was a leading proponent of the conflict and that had he not entered the war, the impact of the Holocaust would have been lessened...
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FT.com, June 20, 2009
"The hottest entertainment this summer is live and spontaneous. Blur’s secret reunion gig at an east London record store last Monday was announced by guitarist Graham Coxon on Twitter that morning and available only to about 170 in all. I like to think, however, that the Evening Standard/Intelligence Squared joint debate on the future of parliamentary democracy at the Royal Geographical Society the same evening had a rival street appeal. It was put together at short notice and named “The People’s Debate”. The audience was described by Simon Jenkins, the chairman, as a “mobocracy”...
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The Evening Standard, June 16, 2009
"Britain is in desperate need of constitutional reform and should change its electoral methods in the wake of the expenses scandal. That was the view of audience members at last night's Intelligence Squared debate at the Royal Geographical Society, supported by the Evening Standard...
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The Guardian, March 22, 2009
"The great thing about the present economic calamity is that it is forcing a thoughtful re-examination of values, rather than the coarse pursuit of acquiring more stuff we don't need with money we don't have. So, right on cue, the National Trust, guardian of collective memory, has held its first public "Quality of Life" debate, organised by Intelligence Squared, the business that makes brainy argument into an extreme sport for urban intellectuals...
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The Sunday Times, March 22, 2009
"The touch of spring in the air in the past few days has aroused a longing for beauty and a remembered love of beauty in almost everyone. That was the view of Germaine Greer, speaking poetically at the Royal Geographical Society last Thursday at a debate sponsored by the National Trust, The Sunday Times and Intelligence², in a packed auditorium...
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The Guardian, March 22, 2009
"Although only 500 or 600 people can attend an event at the Royal Geographical Society, these debates, pioneered by Intelligence², really make a contribution to the life of the nation. As with the convention three weeks ago, the ripples move out, the ideas in the debate spread into radio and the newspapers...
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The Times, March 2, 2009
"I didn't know Michael [Quinlan] well, but we spoke at the same conferences and we corresponded. He was among the most significant thinkers in modern debate about the ethics and strategy of nuclear deterrence. We spoke - with Sir Malcolm Rifkind - in support of Trident in an Intelligence Squared debate in 2007...
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"What to do about Iran?", featuring Daniel Levy, Fawaz Gerges, and Roxane Farmanfarmaian, RGS, 7th June
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One of America's most influential columnists on the decline of America, at the Royal Institution, 13th June 2012
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American neuroscientist David Eagleman on the science of hatred and dehumanisation, RIBA, 24th May 2012
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