Ben Hammersley
‘The ultimate cross-platform boy about town’ (Guardian), Ben Hammersley is the Editor-at-Large of Wired UK, a BBC foreign reporter and the coiner of the word ‘podcasting’.

‘The ultimate cross-platform boy about town’ (Guardian), Ben Hammersley is the Editor-at-Large of Wired UK, a BBC foreign reporter and the coiner of the word ‘podcasting’.
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In Defense of Pornography
What kind of porn could be ok?

What Machines Can't Do
Will computers ever match human intelligence?

Against Meritocracy
Kwame Anthony Appiah | Merit is a mask of class

Corruption and Climate Change
Piers Corbyn | We misunderstood climate change

Rethinking Feminism
Is there a universal goal for women's rights?

Women and Conquest
Is modern sexual culture liberating?

The World After Men
Should we pursue matriarchy?

Sisters and the Sisterhood
Can elite women help all women?

Witches, Sluts, Feminists
Kristen Sollee | A History of Witch Feminism

Return to Radical Feminism
Finn Mackay | Has current feminism lost its way?

Humans versus Nature
Are humans part of nature or a hostile enemy?

The Story of Romance
Do we need a new narrative for love?

A Politics of Hope
Where are the alternatives to injustice?

Equality and Difference
Should equality be applied to all aspects of life?

Blind Data
The secrets behind compatibility science

After Feminism
The traumatic force of feminism | Griselda Pollock

March of the Machines
Is AI a threat to mankind?

Beyond Men and Women
Should we fight prejudice or gender?

The World in Our Hands
Rationality and climate change

Victims and Conquerors
Prostitutes or clients, who holds the power?

Forbidden Fantasies
Is sexual desire dangerous?

The Self and the Selfie
Can focusing on oneself bring about happiness?

Greater Than Equal
Is equality of opportunity a misguided goal that legitimises inequality?

Real Men
Is the real man a fantasy?

The Puzzle of Progress
Has technology brought us the good life?

The Dark Side of Environmentalism
Are we just trying to repent of our consumerism?

Selling Ourselves
The body as a commodity

Mind Machines
The future of AI

Dreams of Equality
What does mainstream feminism promise?

Dream Hoarders
Is the middle class to blame for inequality?

The Oldest Profession
Niki Adams | Should we decriminalise sex work?

When Women Rule
Do women make better leaders?

James Lovelock: Creativity in Science & Gaia Theory
The life of a lone scientist

After Equality
Where is feminism going?

What We Don't Know About CO2
The science of climate change

The Devil's Parties

Where Women Rule
The age of anti-patriarchy

Politics and the Patriarchy
Does Westminster still have a problem with women?

What's Right Anymore?

After Equality
Where is feminism going?

Drug Culture

Can We Control AI?
Nigel Shadbolt | The right questions to ask on AI

How We Came to #MeToo
Linda Woodhead | The origins of sexual accusations

A Woman's World
Margaret Heffernan | On radical feminist futures

The Crisis of Masculinity
Can socialism and feminism help redefine manhood?

Exotic England: Europe's Most Promiscuous Tribe
People's promiscuity in multicultural England

Is Digital Thinking Different?
The internet revolution & the human brain

Dangerous Images
Acclaimed photographer Adrian Arbib uncovers the moment art and journalism clash with the law.

Who We Are: Beyond Black and White
Can we have a world where race does not matter?

Myths About Feminism
Why real feminism isn’t about women ruling the world.

Climate Change and Britain’s Future
Huhne predicts wars and violence

How to Thrive in a Digital Age

The Sweetest Taboo

Democracy and Drugs
Should we legalise psychedelics as a treatment for mental illness?

Romancing Opiates
Theodore Dalrymple offer his personal take on the problems poppies pose

Creative Robots
How to make an inventive bot

Visions of Disaster and Perfection

Women on Top
Gender equality and positions of power

The Habits of Nature
Do natural laws evolve over time?

The Sexualisation of Society
Diane Abbott | Do we think about sex too much?

Genes, Memes and Temes

The Skin We're In
Selling the body versus selling the mind

The Myth of Scarcity
What is the future of sustainable farming?

The End of Equality
Why the age of equality is a myth

Rationality and Drugs
Why our current policy to drugs is nonsense

More Than Equal

The Fifth Crime

Designing Life

Nine Million Steps in Solitude
What it’s like to walk the Amazon

The New Inquisition
The forbidden ideas in media

Where Have All the Radicals Gone?
The struggle against oppression has lost its way

Staying Human in Cyberspace
Mindfulness in cyberspace

The Internet is Not a Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine

Local Heroes

Global Overhaul
Rupert Read | Why going green matters

Future Storm
Where will lightning strike next?

Running the World Differently
What if women were in power?

Wearing the Future
How technology impacts our health

Why Trolls Matter
The threat to 'polite' society

Drugs, Money, and Morality
The hypocrisy of the West

How To Change The World
Can you change a culture from the inside out?

The World After Ideals

The Love of Things

Rise of the Machines
AI: a science fiction fantasy?

My Avatar, Myself
How to extend yourself into the virtual

The Death of Sisterhood
The gulf between the lives of women

A Time for Outrage
Doon Mackichan

Touching Cyberspace
Back to the physical

New Visions of Progress

Imagination, Inc.
Does public patronage awaken or stifle the arts? Do cuts spell the end of creativity?

How to Talk about Sex
Breaking taboos around sexuality

Drugs: the case for decriminalisation
The best choice for drug law reform

Flimsy feminism
Examining your biases

Getting high and being human
Debating drug law reform

Anarchy in capitalism
An interview with David Friedman

Women vs feminism
Has feminism lost its edge?

How to think about whiteness
Overcoming the taboo

Eradicating gender
Unraveling the path to equality

The future of feminism
Where is women's politics going?

Race, identity and justice
The relevance of race in the modern world

The dangers of victimhood
The effectiveness of BLM

No bad women
The case for the decriminalisation of sex work

The authority gap
How to work towards gender equality

Humans and other animals
The hypocrisy of the way we treat animals

Drugs, death and hypocrisy
Can and should we amend our drug policy?

What I've learned about whiteness
Moving towards a fairer society

Reimagining knowledge
Exploring sensuous knowledge with Minna Salami.

The final wave
Free speech and feminism

Framing the world
The optimistic future of AI and humanity

The trouble with modern feminism
An interview with controversial feminist Julie Bindel

Cracking the girl code
The future of the feminist struggle

Dangerous desires
Must we adopt a new attitude to social drugs?

From feminism to politics and back again
Mixing activism with politics

How to fight back
An interview with Peter Tatchell

Bad boys
Is danger integral to desire?

Sex, relationships and the future
Should we pursue love and sex separately?

Reviving feminism
How to become a better feminist

Reigning men
Where does the future of feminism lie?

The weaker sex?
Should we abandon the idea that men need to protect women?

Feminism and identity politics
Is identity politics holding feminism back?

The equality myth
Is the pursuit of absolute equality a mistake?

In conversation with Peter Tatchell and Bobbi Pickard
A response to trans critics

Desiring and being desired
Navigating power in #MeToo

Zanna Clay | In-depth Interview
On animal empathy, evolution, and beyond

Digital Apes
Technology as a force for good

How to talk about climate change
Emotionally engaging in the crisis

The smartphone society
Health, wealth and power in the digital age

Extinction and Renewal
Are we facing the Sixth Great Mass Extinction?

The AI illusion
What does the future really have in store?

Mind over matter
The potential of mind-computer interface technology

How to live forever
Radical life extension' technology

Technology in trouble
Getting to grips with the future of technology

Electric brains
A journey through 'wireheading'

The technology trap
Tech giants and our obsessive behaviour

Scientific freedom
An interview with Craig Callender

Who's afraid of the big, bad data?
Big data as a force for good

AI, emotions and the tech evolution
Building a better world around AI

The next environmental crisis
Are our current solutions just a short term fix?

AI and the future of the mind
Is it possible that we'll merge with AI?

Nature: friend or foe?
Does nature always know best?

Human justice and machine intelligence
An interview with Professor Joanna Bryson

In search of a cleaner world
Is green energy even possible?

The AI hoax
Is AI just a fantasy?

The accurate, the perfect and the dangerous
The potential and the threat of data

Capitalism and the climate
Our planet and the economy

Cities of the future
What is the architecture of a sustainable world?

The future is quantum AI
When physics meets technology