Public and government obsession with security is hampering a rational, open debate about prison policy, the former governor of Brixton Prison told a debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas last week.
Modern politicians are too stuck in a 24/7 media bubble to make the kind of grand speeches associated with past leaders, a debate on political rhetoric at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas heard last week.
Imagine a world in which there is no difference between blue and black or green and blue. A world where there are hundreds of different types of snow.
An online recreation of Charles Darwin’s famous experiment on the expression of emotion is being launched at Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas tomorrow (22nd).
New research shows true picture of what and who is behind the political uprisings.
Jason Hill was a persistent young offender who the courts and Youth Offending Services had given up on.
Join authors, historians and filmmakers for the flagship day at the Festival of Ideas on Saturday the 22nd October, the UK’s only arts, humanities, and social sciences festival which runs from 19-30 October.
Students ripped up their university exam papers in protest against established authority and in rejection of formal qualifications; a progressive sociologist assigned his students the storming of a public office as field-work; avant-garde writers, street theatre and poets moulded a bohemian sub-culture was dramatically reshaping university life.
Do you like singing or playing an instrument and fancy performing in a huge musical ensemble?
Billions of years of history will be on display when the What on Earth? Wallbook comes to the Festival of Ideas at Cambridge University on Saturday 22 October.
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