In the Hot Seat

Put your questions to parliamentary candidates for Finchley and Golders Green

Mike Freer - Conservative
Alison Moore - Labour
Laura Edge - Liberal Democrat
Donald Lyven – Green Party...read more

Anthony Julius in Conversation with Paula Kitching

Anthony Julius talks about life, work and his new book Trials of the Diaspora....read more

In the Hot Seat

Put your questions to parliamentary candidates for Hampstead and Kilburn

Chris Philp - Conservative
Bea Campbell – Green Party
Glenda Jackson – Labour
Ed Fordham - Lib Dem...read more

Stress: The 21st Century Curse

Nutritional Therapist Merriam Stern will talk about the signs, symptoms and causes of stress - a common complaint in our busy, complex lives. She will talk about how it can impact on other conditions and diseases and will recommend nutritional and lifestyle strategies to combat the onset of stress and how to alleviate it when it threatens to consume us....read more

What is Toleration? Reflections on the Anglo-Jewish Experience

Grudging, fragile and controversial, toleration offers and alternative to persecution in situations marked by deep cultural and religious diversity. Utilising key episodes in Anglo-Jewish history, the lecture proposes a genealogy, and probes the place of toleration within the western liberal tradition....read more

Matters of Conscience: The Right to Die - Whose Life is it anyway?

In the last century medical science has made great strides in extending the duration of life but not necessarily the quality of that life. With articulate and considered advocates for assisted suicide, like Alzheimer’s sufferer Terry Pratchett, should we be changing our attitudes towards euthanasia?...read more

The Enduring Lie: Collecting Antisemitic Material

Dr. Cohen describes himself as a collecting addict. Since the Second Intifada and the upsurge of antisemitic cartoons in both the Islamic and Western Press, he started collecting antisemitica to learn more about the source of these current images....read more

Barack Obama and the World: Saviour or Lame Duck?

With Professor Michael Cox, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics....read more

Haiti - A Short History

Haiti has recently been in the news, its poverty and lack of government exposed. Sadly, its entire history has been the exploitation of its people, first by Europeans and then by fellow Haitians. Along the way we shall visit Spanish Hispaniola, meet imported black slaves and colourful characters from L'Ouverture to the Duvaliers....read more

Afghanistan - A Short History

We shall trace Afghanistan's story from the wars of the 19th Century, when the country was the pawn in the great game being played between Russia and British India, through to the present conflict. We shall ask the key question - is Afghanistan a country in more than just name?...read more