Author of the new book The Cauldron Simon Sebag Montefiore, joins UnHerd for a masterclass on the vexed region, from 1900 up to the present day. Join the best-selling historian on a spectacular journey from the Ottoman sultanate to the Trump presidency, asking: why is the Middle East so misunderstood?
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Could Andy Burnham reverse Labour’s fortunes? The new Prime Minister has promised rapid change and a radical transformation of establishment politics, but with fragile bond markets, mounting debt and a troubled inheritance from Keir Starmer, he faces an uphill battle. Moving beyond the old tropes of Right and Left, the Econoclasts take on the mainstream myths and Westminster orthodoxies that conceal what’s really going on in Burnham’s Britain.
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Dr Iain McGilchrist has dedicated decades of neuroscience research to unravelling the inner workings of the human mind. But now, a new form of ‘consciousness’ has come to compete with the very idea of being a person. Could artificial intelligence overtake its creators? Join the psychiatrist, philosopher and author of the bestselling book The Master and His Emissary, for a live on-stage conversation with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers.
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Clarissa Ward, chief international correspondent for CNN, is no stranger to the fog of war. She has covered every major crisis and conflict in recent memory and reported on the ground in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. With UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers, she discusses the ongoing Iran and Ukraine wars, Trump’s troubled diplomacy and what first-hand experience can reveal about geopolitics.
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Could returning to the earliest epic stories help to revive our divided and degraded culture? Join poet and Anglican priest Malcolm Guite in conversation with historian Tom Holland for an enlightening live dialogue on Arthurian legend, myth-making and the task of re-enchantment.
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