London Legal Support Trust – Ceilidh Fundraiser
The London Legal Support Trust presents an evening of laughter, music and merriment! Join us to dance the night away to commemorate St Andrews Day. Join us for a festive ceilidh in support of access to justice! The Frank Reid ceilidh band will be providing the music for the night. Having appeared four times on BBC Radio […]
A sea of lies? The media, politicians, and ‘post-truth’ politics
Whether the issue is immigration, Brexit, welfare, press-regulation, the NHS, or Trump vs. Clinton, concern is being expressed about the way in which both politicians and the media shape the political agenda by means of spin, deceit, and, in some cases, bare-faced lies. To what extent have we lost sight of the truth? How can […]
Celebrating the Life of Terry Mullins
For Terry all the world was his stage. As we celebrate his life it is a wonderful opportunity to bring together, for one last curtain call, everyone he knew from all the many and varied compartments of his life. Arrival from 10am for a 10.30am start. Buffet lunch at 12 noon – close at 1pm. […]
how to: An Evening with David Salle
David Salle is the leading American post-modernist painter, the shaping spirit of a movement which provocatively took the entire history of art as its raw material as well as subject matter. His works are mysteriously original, yet everything they contain has had a life elsewhere: in paintings, in advertising, in comics, in photographs, yet somehow […]
An Evening with Alastair Campbell (On Brexit, Corbyn, Blair, May and much more besides)
Join how to: Academy for an unmissable evening with Alastair Campbell in a talk which will range from Brexit and Theresa May to the future of the Labour Party. The talk will also also provide an insider look at the years after he left Downing Street when despite having left government, his level of involvement […]
London’s Agitators and Protesters for Equality 1880s-1980s
Londoners have been engaged in collective struggles for equality in many spheres – economic, political, and social. They have: fought in the workplace to reduce the wealth gap taken to the streets to win equal rights for women campaigned for legal equality for gays and lesbians battled for racial equality against those sowing hatred and […]
Man-made Climate Change – is it trumped up?
SOLD OUT Hot-hot debate: Piers Corbyn v Professor Piers Forster Many consider climate change to be the biggest threat to humanity. So it is critical we know the real prospects for catastrophic global warming. The UN Panel that advises us – Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) say the science is settled – but is this really […]
Transforming Justice
Chris Purnell will discuss the changes envisaged by the Ministry of Justice in their recent consultation paper, e.g. as to the composition of Tribunal panels and the effect of some changes which have already taken place such as the imposition of fees on workers who wish to start claims in Employment Tribunals. There will be reference […]
Capitalism and Communism
“And it is precisely this industrial revolution which has raised the productive power of human labour to such a high level that – for the first time in the history of mankind – the possibility exists, given a rational division of labour among all, of producing not only enough for the plentiful consumption of all […]