Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Professor David Runciman, Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), answers questions about UK politics, voting, and the...

Immigration, Europe and extremism feature prominently at this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

Political issues ranging from the future of Europe, the US elections, immigration and how to deal with Islamic extremists will be at the heart of this...

Is terror legislation being used to stifle free expression? Where should the line be drawn on pornography? Can national broadcasters be truly...

On November 1 Melvyn Bragg will talk about his book Grace and Mary at the Festival of Ideas. The novel is based on Bragg’s own bitter-sweet experience...

On the eve of the Man Booker prize, our insatiable appetite for fiction (and fascination with those who create it) comes sharply into focus. According...

Eight of the talks from the Cambridge Series from this year’s Hay Festival are now available for users to stream or download online.

Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital...

A panel discussion for the Festival of Ideas examines whether social media giants are profiting from our willingness to share the most intimate...

A debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas asks What next for the Arab Spring?

Modern politicians are too stuck in a 24/7 media bubble to make the kind of grand speeches associated with past leaders, a debate on political...

Imagine a world in which there is no difference between blue and black or green and blue. A world where there are hundreds of different types of snow...