Intelligence Squared

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Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

For several years and more than a thousand miles, celebrated travel writer Robert Macfarlane has been following the vast network of old paths and routes that criss-cross Britain and its waters, lookin...

4 Dec 201334min

Western Liberal Democracy Would be Wrong for China

People everywhere are better off living in liberal democracy: that has been the reigning assumption of the western world. But could it be we’ve got it wrong? If you were one of the world’s billions of...

2 Dec 20131h 41min

Pornography is Good For Us: Without it We Would Be a Far More Repressed Society

Hooray for porn! What would we be without it? Bored, repressed, frustrated. Porn allows the timid to indulge fantasies they’d never live out in real life and the adventurous to experiment with new for...

1 Dec 20131h 28min

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...

1 Dec 201348min