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Festival Of Debate
The Festival of Debate is an annual politics festival in England which takes place between May and June across South Yorkshire, but mostly focused in Sheffield. Founded in 2015, organisers say its aim is to "bring people together to share new ideas and lived experience that can help shape our understanding of the world." It is the largest non-partisan politics festival in the UK. Previous guests have included former leaders of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband, writer Afua Hirsch, feminist author Gloria Steinem, civil liberties campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, author and broadcaster Sathnam Sanghera, environmental journalist George Monbiot, composer Brian Eno and writer Armando Iannucci. The festival was founded in 2015 in the lead-up to that year's UK 2015 United Kingdom general election, general election. It is hosted by Opus Independents, a Sheffield-based "not-for-profit independent social enterpris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Bartley
Jonathan Charles Bartley (born 16 October 1971) is a British politician who was a Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, a position he shared with Caroline Lucas from 2016 to 2018, and then, from 2018 to 2021, with Siân Berry. He was the Green Party's national Work and Pensions spokespersonGreen Party Spokespeople ''Green Party of England and Wales'' and the party's Parliamentary candidate for Streatham (UK Parliament constituency), Streatham in the 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015 general election. He was the Unite to Remain candidate for Dulwich and West Norwood (UK Parliament constituency), Dulwich and West Norwood at the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. Bartley was leader of the opposition and a council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guilty Feminist
''The Guilty Feminist'' is a feminist comedy podcast hosted by Deborah Frances-White. Created by Frances-White and Sofie Hagen in 2015, the podcast features guests on a panel to discuss topics on and related to feminism, and is recorded in front of a live audience. Overview The podcast was created by Deborah Frances-White and Sofie Hagen in December 2015. The idea for the podcast came from the pair having lunch together and often sharing their hypocrisies and double standards with each other. Hagen and Frances-White co-hosted the podcast until September 2016 when Hagen left. Since then a range of guests have co-hosted each episode. The podcast is recorded in front of a live audience and each episode lasts approximately 45 minutes. Each episode begins with short stories starting with the words "I'm a feminist, but...", with the episode's hosts admitting to moments where they have done or thought something that an ideal feminist wouldn't. Episodes are based around a theme, and top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Mason (journalist)
Paul Mason (born 1960) is a British journalist. He writes a weekly column at The New European and monthly columns for Social Europe and Frankfurter Rundschau. He was Business Correspondent and then Economics Editor of the BBC Two television programme '' Newsnight'' from 2001, and Culture and Digital Editor of ''Channel 4 News'' from 2013,Josh Hallida"BBC Newsnight's Paul Mason joins Channel 4 News" ''The Guardian'', 5 August 2013 becoming the programme's Economics Editor in 2014. He left Channel 4 in 2016. He is the author of several books. Early life and education Mason was born in Leigh, Lancashire. One grandparent was a miner and another was a Lithuanian-Jewish violinist. Mason was educated at Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton and graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in music and politics in 1981 and trained to be a music teacher at London University Institute of Education, after which he undertook postgraduate research into the music of the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James O'Brien (broadcaster)
James O'Brien (born 1972) is a British journalist, writer, and presenter on radio and television. Since 2004, he has hosted a weekday morning phone-in discussion for talk station LBC. He has also presented podcasts, been an occasional presenter for BBC's ''Newsnight'', and published several non-fiction books, including the bestselling ''How They Broke Britain'' in 2023. Early life and education James O'Brien was born in 1972 to a teenage single mother whose name he knows but whom he has never tried to contact. He grew up in Kidderminster after being adopted at the age of 28 days by Jim O'Brien, a journalist on the '' Doncaster Evening News'' (who later joined ''The Daily Telegraph'') and his wife. O'Brien was raised in the Roman Catholic faith and refers to himself as a Christian. O'Brien was educated at the Catholic independent school Ampleforth College, from which he was expelled for smoking cannabis. He later studied philosophy and economics at the London School of Economic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger McGough
Roger Joseph McGough (; born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme '' Poetry Please'', as well as performing his own poetry. McGough was one of the leading members of the Liverpool poets, a group of young poets influenced by Beat poetry and the popular music and culture of 1960s Liverpool. He is an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and President of the Poetry Society. Early life McGough was born in Litherland, Lancashire, on the outskirts of Liverpool, to Roger Francis, a docker, and Mary (McGarry) McGough. His ancestry is Irish and he was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. He was a pupil at St Mary's College in Crosby, before going on to study French and Geography at the University of Hull. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Sarkar
Ashna Sarkar (born 1992) is a British journalist and libertarian communist political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Sarkar is a contributor to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Independent''. Early life and education Ashna Sarkar was born in London in 1992. Her great-great-aunt, Pritilata Waddedar, was a Bengali nationalist who participated in armed struggle against the British Empire in 1930s Bengal. Her grandmother is a hospital carer. Her mother is a social worker who was an anti-racist and trade union activist in the 1970s and 1980s, helping to organise marches following the racially motivated murder of Altab Ali. She attended Enfield County School, an all-girls comprehensive school, before moving to the Latymer School, a selective grammar school for sixth form education. She has both an undergraduate and a master's degree in English literature from University College London. Career Sarkar is a senior e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Pankhurst
Helen Pankhurst (born 1964) is a British women's rights activist, scholar and writer. She is currently CARE International's senior advisor working in the UK and Ethiopia. She is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, who were both leaders in the suffragette movement. In 2018 Pankhurst convened Centenary Action, a cross-party coalition of over 100 activists, politicians and women's rights organisations campaigning to end barriers to women's political participation. Early life and education Helen Pankhurst was brought up in Ethiopia until the age of 12, the daughter of historian Richard Pankhurst. He and his mother Sylvia Pankhurst, the former suffragette, had settled in that country in the 1950s. Her paternal grandfather was Silvio Corio, an Italian chef and anarchist. Helen's mother was Rita Eldon Pankhurst, academic and activist. Helen has one sibling, Alula Pankhurst, like both their parents a scholar of Ethiopia. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Bennett
Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (born 10 February 1966), is an Australian-British politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in Theresa May's 2019 resignation honours. Born and raised in Australia, she began her career as a journalist with regional newspapers in New South Wales before leaving in 1995 for Thailand, where she worked for Australian Volunteers International and the '' Bangkok Post'' newspaper over the next four years. Since settling in Britain in 1999 she has contributed to ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'', and ''The Times''. Her election as leader of the Greens came six years after she joined the party in January 2006. Early life Bennett was born on 10 February 1966 in Eastwood, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, the daughter of John and Joy Bennett. She was born to working class teenage parents: a part-time secretary and an apprentice carpenter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowkey
Kareem Dennis (born 23 May 1986), better known by his stage name Lowkey, is a British rapper and activist from London. He first became known through a series of mixtapes he released before he was 18, before taking a hiatus from the music business. He would return in 2008, with appearances on BBC Radio and at various festivals and concerts including the BBC Electric Proms, Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, T In The Park and Oxegen in the buildup to his first solo album ''Dear Listener'', as well as collaborating with other British musicians to form the supergroup Mongrel (band), Mongrel. He released his second solo album, ''Soundtrack to the Struggle'', independently in 2011. After a five-year hiatus, Lowkey released a string of singles between 2016 and 2018 to precede the release of his third album, ''Soundtrack to the Struggle 2'', released in 2019. Early life Lowkey was born in London to an Iraqis, Iraqi mother and an English father. From the age of twelve he began to rap, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Martinez
Francesca Martinez (born 1978) is an English comedian, writer and actress. She has cerebral palsy, but prefers to describe herself as "wobbly". Martinez first came to public attention in 1994, when she made her debut on the television series ''Grange Hill,'' where she went on to portray the role of Rachel Burns for a total of 55 episodes. Later turning her focus to stand-up comedy, she has performed at the Edinburgh Festival and internationally, including the Melbourne Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Perth Festival and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. In 2018 she completed a 140-date tour, and has had off-West End London runs at the Tricycle Theatre, the Hackney Empire, and the Soho Theatre. Martinez's debut play, ''All of Us'', was scheduled to be performed at the National Theatre in 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It opened in July 2022. Early life Martinez was born in London to a Spanish father and a half- Swedish, half- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Reni Eddo-Lodge (born 25 September 1989) is a British journalist and author, whose writing primarily focuses on feminism and exposing structural racism. She has written for a range of publications, including ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', '' The Voice'', ''BuzzFeed'', ''Vice'', ''i-D'' and '' Dazed & Confused'', and is a contributor to the 2019 anthology '' New Daughters of Africa'', edited by Margaret Busby. In June 2020, following the George Floyd protests, her book '' Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'' (published in 2017) rose 155 places to top the UK non-fiction paperback chart, at the same time as Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 novel ''Girl, Woman, Other'' topped the paperback fiction chart, the first time books by black British women headed both charts. On 16 June 2020 she became the first black British woman to be No. 1 overall in the British book charts. Early life and education Reni Eddo-Lodge wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
