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Hot House: The Truth. The Whole Truth. And Fake News

Join a panel of reporters, journalists and campaigners as they debate how to report, advocate and speak in a post-truth world – where everyone has an opinion to share, fake or legitimate. Free...
Speaker(s): Peter Oborne, Jack Monroe

Israel / Palestine: No Fit State

Two State? One State? Not fit state? What hope is there for a just peace in Israel-Palestine, when the world (and Israel) seems so content with the status quo? And might the brazenness of Trump...
Speaker(s): Peter Oborne, Robert Cohen, Sahar Vardi, Muhanad El Qaisy, Karen Chalk

So what does “The Common Good” even mean?

It's a phrase which sounds 'right' somehow. But what does it really mean? Where does the idea come from? And can it make a difference to our lives and our world? Join a panel of thinkers and...
Speaker(s): Luke Bretherton, Anna Rowlands, Karen Rooms, Ed Mayo

Two degrees of separation

Following the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, when the world committed itself to safeguarding a 'two-degree world' (not allowing global warming to rise by more than two degrees centigrade because...
Speaker(s): Natalie Bennett, Christian Aid, Most Revd Dr Winston Halapua, Mohamed Adow

Hot House: What makes for a good Brexit?

With remainer Natalie Bennett, Green Party, and leaver Sophie Sandor, Institute of Economic AffairsFor better or worse, the EU Referendum a year or more ago has exposed deep divisions in our society....
Speaker(s): Natalie Bennett, Cole Moreton, Sophie Sandor

Hidden in plain sight? Bringing black women into focus

Rozella Haydée White, Chibundu Onuzo and Saraiya Bah.The film Hidden Figures highlighted the wider truth about women of colour being largely invisible despite the crucial roles they have played in...
Speaker(s): The 9 Beats Collective: Rozella Haydée White, Chibundu Onuzo, Saraiya Bah

Towards a New Heaven, New Earth?

Darton Longman and Todd are proud to be at Greenbelt to launch a groundbreaking new essay collection: 'Reclaiming the Common Good.'In this panel session, editor Virginia Moffatt and three of the...
Speaker(s): Simon Barrow

Exchange The Future: where next to build a better business world

How we can make business better? What can we all be doing to help more enterprise to promote the common good? With Vivian Woodell, founder, the Phone Co-op, Joshua Brown, Renewables Manager,...
Speaker(s): Vivian Woodell, Joshua Brown, Cliff Mills

Women in Herstory

Herstory is a project that connects art, activism and education by using famous examples of feminist art to engage people of all genders with women's (often forgotten) history. Join founder, Alice...
Speaker(s): Alice Wroe

Dodgy Theology and Dodgy Politics : The Rise of ISIS, the Far Right and Trump – co-incidence or connected?

Asking if all the above is a coincidence or somehow connected, Salma Yaqoob explores the mainstreaming of Islamophobia through policies such as Trump's ‘Muslim ban', arguing that this is just...
Speaker(s): Salma Yaqoob

I Thought There Would Be Cake

Life never turns out as we expected. With empathy and humour, Katharine Welby-Roberts unpacks everyday issues of blame, self-doubt and identity to help us think about how we might live life a little...
Speaker(s): Katharine Welby-Roberts

Exchange inspiration: What difference does co-operative ownership make?

Does being a co-operative make you more likely to be for The Common Good? Why?Featuring Vivian Woodell, Founder, the Phone Co-op, Pete Westall, Group General Manager For Colleague & Co-operative...
Speaker(s): Pete Westall, Vivian Woodell

Cathedrals and Commerce : The challenge facing large churches

Large churches are getting involved in enterprise activity to stay open – but didn't Jesus turn over the tables of the money changers? How can we find the right way through commerce and...
Speaker(s): Alison Inglis-Jones, Cliff Mills

The Enemy Within

Being a British Muslim for the past decade or so has been a brutal affair. Sayeeda Warsi brings her unique perspective to bear on cultural difference, counter-terrorism, religious freedom,...
Speaker(s): Baroness Sayeeda Warsi

Israel and Palestine: How did we end up here?

After 6 decades of conflict, the situation in Israel and Palestine continues to be marked by occupation, fear, violence, poverty and the routine denial of human rights. How did we end up here? In the...