IQ Debates
Forthcoming debates
SOLD OUT: The United Nations is terminally paralysed: the democratic world needs a forum of its own
22nd January, 2009 For the motion: Robert Kagan, Denis Macshane MP and Radek Sikorski. Against the motion: Sir Jeremy Greenstock, The Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown and Shashi Tharoor. The debate will be chaired by Zeinab Badawi. This debate is sold out.
SOLD OUT: The era of American dominance is over
12th February, 2009 This debate is sold out. For the motion: John Gray and Pankaj Mishra. Against the motion: Lawrence Freedman, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Sir Christopher Meyer. The debate will be chaired by Evan Davis. Remaining speakers to be announced.
SOLD OUT: Afghanistan: the future
10th March, 2009 This debate is sold out. With Mort Abramowitz, the Rt Hon Lord Ashdown, Lord Inge, Matthew Parris, Christina Lamb, Imran Khan and Rory Stewart OBE. The discussion will be chaired by Richard Lindley.
SOLD OUT: The future belongs to India, not China
12th May, 2009 This debate is sold out. For the motion: Gurcharan Das, Mark Tully and Deepak Lal. Against the motion: Danny Quah, Lord Powell and Sir David Tang KBE. Chaired by: Edward Lucas.
SOLD OUT: Psychotherapy has done more harm than good
17th June, 2009 This debate is sold out. For the motion: Theodore Dalrymple, Jeffrey Masson and Dorothy Rowe. Against the motion: Lord Layard, Lorna Martin and Andrew Samuels.Advertisement
Past events
2nd December, 2008
11th November, 2008
28th October, 2008
We were wrong to recognise Kosovo's Declaration of Independence
7th October, 2008
16th September, 2008
Paths to Peace: Proposals to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
30th June, 2008
Prince Charles was right: modern architecture is still all glass stumps and carbuncles
