New Generation Thinkers 2017: hear their ideas
From satire and the circus, to gangs and 'speaking truth to power'
Branwell Bronte: not just a junkie with famous sisters
2017 New Generation Thinker Emma Butcher defends Branwell Bronte's literary merits.
"Death allows the world to renew itself"
2017 New Generation Thinker Simon Beard on existential risk and meanings of death
"This relationship between the abject and the divine seems to have been particularly resonant amongst women."
2017 New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes on links between ecstasy and debasement
"The challenge to 'man up' probably makes you slightly uncomfortable"
2017 New Generation Thinker Thomas Simpson on masculinity and terrorism
“Lucky Latin Americans could light their cigarettes (or cigars) with matches from books adorned with Churchill's face”
Chris Bannister on why the Ministry of Information is more than Keep Calm and Carry On.
"A curious collision between politics with a small 'p' and the big top"
2017 New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck on circuses & early 20th century Irish satire
What's in a Gang?
Alistair Fraser, New Generation Thinker 2017 Criminologist at University of Glasgow
How a talking statue in Rome hit the city's leaders where it hurt
2017 New Generation Thinker Joanne Paul on speaking truth to power
"Music is not a luxury, but a necessity"
2017 New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt on mental & physical health benefits of music
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
2017 New Generation Thinker Islam Issa on Shakespeare, stereotypes and first impressions
