Tony Blair on Trial
When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, he had a landslide majority, an approval rating of 93 per cent, and he went on to become Labour’s longest-serving premier. At his last PMQs he got a ...
29 Apr 20161h 4min
The Future of Health: When Death Becomes Optional
What if doctors no longer played God and you became CEO of your own health? What if medicine were tailor-made for your own DNA? What will the world be like when people start living to 150 – or even fo...
22 Apr 20161h 3min
Art Today Has Sold Out To The Market
Today’s global art market is reminiscent of a roller coaster - even as it rotates and retrenches - the ride continues to propel, excite and surprise. With a tenfold increase in buyers over the last de...
15 Apr 20161h 3min
Democracy is India's Achilles' heel
We assume that democracy is what every country should have. But what has democracy done for India? Easy. It has stimulated corruption on a massive scale, and if you want to get rich in India the most ...
8 Apr 20161h 2min
George Steiner on the Poetry of Thought
Renowned polyglot and polymath, George Steiner has long been recognised as one of the most original minds and brilliant lecturers of our generation. In this talk from April 2009, he argued that at the...
31 Mars 20161h 3min
The United Nations is terminally paralysed: the democratic world needs a forum of its own
In January 2009, a panel of experts came to the Intelligence Squared stage to debate the motion "The United Nations is terminally paralysed: the democratic world needs a forum of its own". Speaking fo...
24 Mars 201649min
Obama's foreign policy is a gift to America's enemies
Barack Obama’s foreign policy came under expert scrutiny in this Intelligence Squared debate from 2010, as influential hawks and doves debated whether the president’s policies have left America lookin...
18 Mars 201649min
Both Britain and the EU would be happier if they got divorced
Some people just can’t bring themselves to acknowledge that a relationship is over. Finished. Unsalvageable. David Cameron, for instance. His long awaited speech on Europe has been one big exercise in...
10 Mars 201649min
