Angus Kennedy - From Self to Selfie: A Critique of Contemporary Forms of Alienation

is the director of the Manifesto Club ( www.manifestoclub.com ), which campaigns for freedom in everyday life, and is the author of dozens of reports about contemporary civil liberties. She studied sociology and politics at the University of Oxford (undergraduate) and the University of London (graduate). She worked as a journalist and editor for five years and has good contacts with political/current affairs desks on all major newspapers where her research is reported every three months or so. She is the author of Officious: Rise of the Busybody State (2016) and she writes about the history and philosophy of freedom at notesonfreedom.com

is the editor of the essay-and-review magazine, the spiked review, and a columnist at Spiked . He has also written for the EU Observer , the Australian , the Independent , La Republica , and others. He did a PhD at the University of Sussex on The Ideology of Modernism.

is the director of the Academy of Ideas (AoI), which she established to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint. She convenes the yearly Battle of Ideas festival and initiated the Debating Matters Competition for sixth formers. She also co-founded the AoIs residential summer school, the Academy, with the aim to demonstrate university as it should be. Fox is a panellist on BBC Radio 4s The Moral Maze and is frequently invited to comment on developments in culture , education, media and free-speech issues on TV and radio programmes in the UK such as Newsnight and Any Questions? and regularly appears on Sky News evening paper review. Fox is a columnist for TES ( Times Educational Supplement ) and MJ ( Municipal Journal ). She is the author of a book on free speech, recently republished as I STILL Find That Offensive! (2018), and No Strings Attached! Why Arts Funding Should Say No to Instrumentalism (2007). Fox is involved at a board level in the international debate network, Time to Talk. In 2018, she did a three-month residency as a presenter of the weekly three-hour radio magazine show Fox News Friday on Love Sport Radio.

is a sociologist and social commentator. Since the late 1990s, he has been widely cited about his views on why Western societies find it so difficult to engage with risk and uncertainty. He has published extensively on controversies relating to issues such as health, parenting children, food and new technology. His book Invitation to Terror: Expanding the Empire of the Unknown (2007) explores the way in which the threat of terrorism has become amplified through the ascendancy of precautionary thinking. It develops the arguments contained in two previous books, Culture of Fear (2002) and Paranoid Parenting