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Ethical Matters: The Meat Paradox

Should we eat animals? This was once a question reserved for moral philosophers and an ethically minded minority. Rob Percival, an expert in the politics of meat, searches for the evolutionary origins of the meat paradox, asking when our relationship with meat first became emotionally and ethically complicated.

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Mistress Ethics – On the Virtues of Sexual Kindness

The figure of the mistress is undoubtedly controversial. She provokes intense reactions, ranging from fear, to disgust and revulsion, to excitement and titillation, to sadness and perhaps to some, love.

Thinking On Sunday: Mistress Ethics – On the Virtues of Sexual Kindness

Victoria Brooks offers an unflinching look at the lived experience of the mistress. Here she is recast as a potentially loving, free, intimate 'other' woman. She asks what happens when we opt for an ethics of sexual kindness and learning from mistresses, both straight and queer.

Compassion in a Time of Covid: Bridging the Gap Between Opposing Viewpoints

Compassion-Focused Therapy is a means to improving mental health and contentment. Using this approach, Dr Rebekah Honey attempts to answer the question: can compassion bridge the gap between opposing viewpoints?

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Thinking On Sunday:
How We Became Postmodern

13 Mar 2022 - 15:00 @ Conway Hall - (opening time 14:45) Thinking On Sunday: How We Became Postmodern

Thinking On Sunday: How We Became Postmodern

Beneath the glitzy surface of postmodernism there is a dirty secret: it is the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. Stuart Jeffries tell a radical new history of a dangerous idea.

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Ethical Matters:
The Generation Myth – Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think

28 Feb 2022 - 19:30 @ Conway Hall - (opening time 19:10) Ethical Matters: The Generation Myth - Why When You're Born Matters Less Than You Think

Ethical Matters: The Generation Myth – Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think

Are you bored or annoyed by the clichés about you and your generation? Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Z—we like to define people by when they were born, but Bobby Duffy, explains why we shouldn't.

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Thinking On Sunday:
What Do Men Want? Masculinity and its Discontents

20 Feb 2022 - 15:00 @ Conway Hall - (opening time 14:30) Thinking On Sunday: What Do Men Want? Masculinity and its Discontents

Thinking On Sunday: What do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents

From Men's Rights activists and incels to spiralling suicide rates, it's easy to see that, while men still rule the world, masculinity is in crisis. Nina Power explores how men and women can live together in a world where capitalism and consumerism has replaced the values that used to give our lives meaning.

Ethical Matters: Five Frontiers to Revolutionise Public Health

Public health expert Christopher Thomas argues that we must emerge from Covid-19 on the offensive - with a bold, new vision for our health and care. He imagines a radical expansion of the principles put forward by Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, over 70 years ago.

Thinking On Sunday: The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes and the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

Ewan Forbes was born in 1912 and assigned female at birth. Nevertheless, his true identity was clear. Zoe Playdon reveals the life story of a Scottish trans man — whose secret 1968 legal case had a profound impact on trans rights for decades.

You Coach You x Squiggly Careers Live

In this interactive event, the UK's leading career experts Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper, from the UK’s no.1 careers podcast Squiggly Careers, will help you to develop your own career, drawing on the themes of their new book You Coach You.

Thinking On Sunday: Weird Sisters – On Autism and Feminism

Following her midlife autism diagnosis Joanne Limburg became eager to discover other women who had been misunderstood in their time. She addresses autistic parenting, social isolation, feminism, the movement for disability rights and the punishments meted to those deemed to fall short of the norm.

Thinking On Sunday: God – An Anatomy

God’s cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the Bible was written and persists in the tics and twitches of our own society. Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou explores the places and artefacts that shaped our view of this singular God and the ancient religions and societies of the biblical world.

Politics and the Imagination: Reflections on Orwell’s Inside The Whale

Ian McEwan reflects on George Orwell’s 1940 essay, Inside The Whale, which raises important questions about a writer’s sense of obligation towards issues of the day, social justice and political commitment.