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ON NOVEMBER 2, 2017, Chris Mansour interviewed Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked! and a panelist on a conversation that took place the night before entitled Is the Left Eating Itself?, part of an international discussion linked to Spiked!’s Unsafe Space Tour, which aimed to tackle issues such as campus culture, free speech, and Title IX. A recording of the conversation can be found at https://archive.org/details/RMONeill. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. [Read More]

What is the European Union and should we be against it?

Recording of a panel hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Chicago, April 7, 2017, as part of the 9th Annual International Platypus Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Glauk Tahiri Lukas Hedderich Efraim Carlebach Pádraig Maguire Rory Hannigan Evan Odell Description A united and peaceful Europe seemed to be a distant dream for a generation which went through the experience of war and destruction. [Read More]

Left Exit or No Brexit?

ON JUNE 8, the London chapter of the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel on the topic “Left Exit or No Brexit?” at the London School of Economics. The panel brought together Neil Davenport, Mike Macnair, and Gerry Downing, and was moderated by Ninad Pandit of the Platypus Affiliated Society. Neil Davenport is the head of sociology at a comprehensive school in North London, and is a NASUWT representative. He is on the organizing committee for the Institute of Ideas’ annual festival, the Battle of Ideas, and is a regular contributor to its associated publication, Spiked Online. [Read More]

Exit Left or no Brexit?

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Neil Davenport - Institute of Ideas / Spiked Mike Macnair - Communist Party of Great Britain / Weekly Worker Gerry Downing - Socialist Fight Description A united and peaceful Europe seemed to be a distant dream for a generation which went through the experience of war and destruction. In the latter part of the 20th century, this hope gained shape in the new realities of the European Union. [Read More]