Battle Book Club: Running the Risk – From Shark Attacks to Nuclear Disaster

Battle of Ideas Festival 18 October 2025, 16.45-18.15, Westminster Room, Church House, Westminster, London. Please join us at this event: Battle Book Club: Running the Risk – From Shark Attacks to Nuclear Disaster This is the book: ‘RUNNING THE RISK: Understanding life’s biggest risks and how we build a safer future’, by David Burrett Reid. Here is … Continue reading

Debate about nuclear power at the Battle of Ideas Festival, including my introduction and contributions.

There is the link to the YouTube film of the full debate below. Note that the Battle of Ideas festival is not an academic conference and sessions have a variety of formats. This festival debate required short introductions, emphasised debate, content and placed primary importance on involving the public audience in discussions with the speakers. … Continue reading

Anti-Nuclear Demonstrations

Demonstrations against restarting nuclear power generation in Italy have been held in Venice and other cities in Italy in the buildup to the planned referendum on 12 and 13 June 2011. A demonstration on St Mark’s Square, Venice, highlighted the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in … Continue reading

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