University of Oxford 2010: What can’t you speak about in the 21st Century?

• Timothy Garton Ash (academic, writer, Orwell Prize-winning journalist)
• Mehdi Hasan (senior editor – politics, New Statesman)
• Douglas Murray (director, Centre for Social Cohesion)
• Chaired by Jean Seaton (director of the Orwell Prize)

Ahead of this year’s Orwell Prize programme of events at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival (20th-28th March 2010), we wanted to take a discussion to the University during term time. Thanks to Merton College, we ran a lively debate on ‘what can’t you speak about in the 21st Century?’.

• Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
• Orwell Prize at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010
• The Orwell Prize: 1984 and Thoughtcrime discussion
• The Orwell Prize: 1984 and Civil Liberties discussion

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