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Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe AIN'T MISBEHAVING - DO BRITISH CHILDREN NEED THE ARMY TO SORT THEM OUT? http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2011/session_detail/5751 The Conservative-led coalition white paper on ‘the importance of teaching’ appears to have gone back to basics on behaviour...

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Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe BANNING THE BRAVE NEW WORLD? THE ETHICS OF SCIENCE http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6817 For many years, the only hybrid human/animal embryos that could be legally created in the UK were those resulting from fertilising a hamster’s eg...

Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe EPIGENETICS: ARE YOU WHAT YOUR PARENTS EAT? http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6797 ‘Babies born into poverty are damaged forever before birth’, ‘Mother’s diet during pregnancy alters baby’s DNA’, ‘Pregnant 9/11 survivors transmitted tr...

Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe BORN THIS WAY? http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6791 When former Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon suggested in an interview that she had chosen to be a lesbian, it generated an outcry from many gay-rights campaigners. For many, the...

Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe BLAMING TROUBLED FAMILIES: A LICENSE TO PARENT? http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6770 Last summer, hundreds of British children aged between 11 and 14 participated in looting shops and wantonly destroying property in UK cities. Immedi...

Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe WHAT MAKES A GOOD JOURNALIST? http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6816 Although the press has been vilified recently, we all understand the ideal of a good journalist. From the heroes of Watergate to the war reporter Marie Colvin, whose...

Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe TAMING TABLOID TITTLE-TATTLE http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6809 From Page 3 girls to unsavoury sleb photos and lewd speculation into people’s private lives, hatred of the tabloids is about more than phone-hacking, as contributors t...

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Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe STOP THE PRESS: THE MEDIA AFTER LEVESON http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6759 When education secretary and former journalist Michael Gove expressed concerns that the Leveson Inquiry might have a ‘chilling effect’ on free speech, Lord...

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Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe PRESERVATION OR MODERNISATION? http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6812 For most of the twentieth century, the preservation of buildings or townscapes reflected a judgement that they were, in some way, of architectural, historic or cultu...

Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe EVERYONE A RUNNER? http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6793 Once considered the preserve of sadistic PE teachers and fitness fanatics, long-distance running now seems deeply fashionable. In recent years the likes of comedians John Bishop...

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Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe BORED OF THE BOOKER: PRIZES, PRIZES, EVERYWHERE http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6772 The decision of the Pulitzer Prize 2012 board not to award the prize for fiction once again focused attention on the role of literary awards. Some p...

Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe URBAN HUBRIS AND THE INEQUALITY DEBATE http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6762 While tall buildings have always been the subject of some grumbling, London’s Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, has been particularly single...

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Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe LOBBYISTS: NEW HIDDEN PERSUADERS? http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6777 Is lobbying, in the words of David Cameron, ‘the next big scandal waiting to happen’? A series of high profile lobbying controversies suggest it could be: the res...

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Subscribe to the Academy of Ideas Substack for more information on the next Battle and future events: https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe TAXING OUR WAY TO A FAIRER SOCIETY? http://archive.battleofideas.org.uk/2012/session_detail/6806 Not since the American Revolution has taxation been such a pressing political cause. Conservative chancellor George Osborne recently vowed to tackle the ‘shocki...

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