Jewish Book Week
The Cambridge Union
Jewish Book Week
March 2020. I was in conversation with Mark Lawson for a discussion about my book, Seeking Love in Modern Britain. We ranged widely across topics from Jswipe to gender in the 1970s and dating in a time of pandemic. It was heralded a festival 'highlight'.
Battle of Ideas
The Cambridge Union
Jewish Book Week
Nov 2019. I gave a talk on a panel entitled From Trump's Wall to Policing Culture: Understanding Borders Today. I focussed on the collapse in boundaries in sex and sexuality, and the way these merely introduce new ones, some of them psychologically punitive.
The Cambridge Union
The Cambridge Union
The Cambridge Union
Oct 2019. I opposed the motion 'This House Would Nationalise Eton', debating with Peter Hitchens, Brendan O'Neill and ex-MP Stephen Dorrell.
National Theatre
National Theatre
The Cambridge Union
June 2019. I gave the historian's lecture on themes from Rutherford & Son starring Roger Allam, entitled 'Courtship, Romance and Forbidden Love in the 20th century'.
The Oxford Union
National Theatre
The Oxford Union
Jan 2019. High-profile Metoo-themed debate debating the motion This House Cannot Separate the Art from the Artist. I opposed the motion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el0q0qApfDw
Eton College
National Theatre
The Oxford Union
Sep 2018. I gave a 45-minute talk to the Eton sixth-form about resisting political orthodoxies.