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Intelligence Squared brings political and cultural questions into conversation with personal judgement, education and the way people live together. Its videos include interviews, selected remarks and…
Intelligence Squared brings political and cultural questions into conversation with personal judgement, education and the way people live together. Its videos include interviews, selected remarks and backstage observations. The subject range extends from American party politics and nationalism to childhood anxiety, humour and the relationship between scientific explanation and moral belief.
Some material centres on named conversations. Jonathan Haidt addresses the wellbeing of a generation of anxious children, while Lyse Doucet discusses humour as a powerful resource. These examples approach public questions through distinct concerns: how young people are doing and how people respond to the circumstances around them. Short extracts sit alongside videos framed as broader discussions.
Politics is particularly visible in material featuring Anthony Scaramucci. Topics include the future of the Republican Party and Donald Trump's use of cultural conflict. Other clips consider nationalism's effect on how people think and feel, or the role of teachers in forming character as well as teaching academic subjects. A question about atoms and justice opens a more philosophical line of inquiry into how different ways of understanding the world fit together.
The channel is suited to viewers who enjoy hearing an argument or an experience developed in conversation, especially when politics overlaps with culture and ethics. Its variety allows someone to begin with a current public dispute and move towards a question about education, identity or belief. The value is in encountering perspectives that give a familiar issue a different frame and provide material for further thought and discussion, rather than expecting every video to address the same topic or reach the same kind of conclusion.
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In this episode, Kamal talks to former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, Dr. Angela Spatharou, Senior Partner and EMEA Leader for Healthcare & Life Sciences at IBM Consulting, and Lawrence…
In this episode, Kamal talks to former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, Dr. Angela Spatharou, Senior Partner and EMEA Leader for Healthcare & Life Sciences at IBM Consulting, and Lawrence Tallon, Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). They explore how AI and hyper-automation are transforming the world of work; how future technologies can reduce costs, improve efficiency and ease pressure on essential services such as healthcare, while considering how organisations can embrace rapid technological change without losing sight of the people at its heart, and why the future of work must strike the right balance between being human-centred and AI-enabled.
This episode was recorded live in London as part of Intelligence Squared and IBM’s The Age to Come series. Next live event date: 18th Nov 2026. Find out more: https://www.intelligencesquared.com/ibm
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