Belonging, Diaspora and Community

Belonging, Diaspora and Community

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Broke: voices from the edge

Contributor(s): Various Speakers | Throughout his long life Professor Peter Townsend - a great friend of the Centre, advocate of human rights, and emeritus professor at LSE - worked hard first to prove the existence of poverty in Britain and then to persuade our society not to ta ...  عرض المزيد

The Financial Crisis: How Europe can save the world

Contributor(s): George Soros, Guy Verhofstadt | This public discussion marks the publication of Guy Verhofstadt's latest book The Financial Crisis: How Europe can Save the World. George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC. He was born in Budapest in 1930. He survived ...  عرض المزيد

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1. Arguments from Beneficence, Part 1
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions

James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University, introduces some of the key concepts in philosophical debates about global poverty. He then discusses Peter Singer's argument that not donating to aid agencies is as wrong as letting a drowning child die. 

517. Professor Stephen Hawking (An Obituary)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

I woke up this morning to the news that Stephen Hawking had died and I thought - I really must talk about this. He was a British scientist who must be considered one of the most significant people of recent years - a brilliant mind who contributed so much to our understanding ...

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Peter Singer on Consequentialism
Philosophy Bites

Peter Singer is probably the most famous living philosopher. He recently won the million-dollar Berggruen Prize and promptly gave all that money to charity.  His positions on this, on animals, poverty, altruism, and much else besides are underpinned by his consequentialism. Here, ...  عرض المزيد

Grenfell: A tragedy that changed everything, feat. Lowkey, Paul O’Connell & Fatima El-Guenuni -- Bonus (Webinar recording)
The New Arab Voice

Four years have passed since the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower that exposed the deep schisms in British society. Today, what is left of the tower stands as a reminder of the ever-growing inequality and class divide in Britain. In fact, some would argue it was precisely the issues ...  عرض المزيد