David Lammy will be attending this year's HowTheLightGetsIn philosophy and music festival in Hay-on-Wye. On Sunday 29th May, David Lammy will be speaking in the debate 'Living Dangerously', about risk and fear versus liberal paternalism in modern life, and on Monday 30th, he will be a pannelist on the 'In Love and War' debate, which asks whether fairness is a plausible goal in politics.
Other speakers this year include Baroness Mary Warnock, Bianca Jagger, Vince Cable, Philip Pullman, Leela Gandhi, Tessa Jowell, Simon Armitage, Baroness Susan Greenfield, Rowan Pelling and Emilia Fox.
More details can be found on the official website:
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Sunday 29 May 2011 @ 12:00pm - Living Dangerously From GM foods to stranger danger, fear it would seem lurks round every corner in modern life. Yet statistically we are safer than we have ever been. Is our fear justified and beneficial, or misguided and debilitating? Is it always right to seek safety, or is risk itself desirable?
Neo-conservative theorist Douglas Murray, Labour MP David Lammy, and philosopher of risk Dylan Evans get to grips with living dangerously.
Monday 30 May 2011 @ 2:30pm - In Love & War There's a new word on every politician’s lips, setting the agenda for everything from the budget to the electoral system. But what does fairness mean for politics, and is it a plausible goal? Does fairness require us to accept that we can’t all be winners, or is the only fair society an equal one?
Times leader writer Oliver Kamm, Labour MP David Lammy and Marxist philosopher and historian Alex Callinicos ask whether all is fair in love and war.
