History Shows Us That Scotland and England Would Be Better Off as Separate Kingdoms
This event was recorded at the Chalke Valley History Festival in July 2014. The future of the Union will be voted for in a referendum soon, and this debate explored the historical relationship betwee...
11 Sep 20141h 1min
London Should Love Its Bankers
Do the British have a death wish? You’d be forgiven for thinking so the way so many of them seem to want to cripple the most dynamic part of their own economy. What is the world’s largest market for d...
4 Sep 20141h 37min
Has Martin Luther King's Dream Been Realized?
This event was on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. On 28 August 1963, civil rights campaigners marched on Washington to secure equality before the law. Today, Amer...
29 Aug 20141h 7min
Money Can't Buy Happiness
Leading voices from the fields of science, philosophy came to the Intelligence Squared Asia stage for this thought-provoking debate about the pursuit of wealth and its relationship to happiness. Amon...
21 Aug 20141h 32min
University is an unwise investment
For many Western teenagers university has long been considered a passport to the good life: a rite of passage consisting of mind-expanding reading and writing or the acquisition of a professional qual...
14 Aug 20141h 4min
It's Time to End The War on Drugs
To liberalise or prohibit, that is the question. Prohibitionists argue that legalising anything increases its consumption. The world has enough of a problem with legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco...
4 Aug 20142h 13min
"Contemporary Art Excludes the 99%"
What is the role of contemporary art museums today? Are biennales and art fairs platforms for experiment and exchange, or little more than social attractions for the elite? Have collectors become the ...
31 Juli 20141h 19min
America's Drone Campaign Is Both Moral And Effective
Bug splats. That’s what the American operators of drones, sitting in safety thousands of miles away, call the casualties of a drone attack in Pakistan or Yemen. Why bug splats? Because that’s what a h...
24 Juli 20141h 58min
