With Andy Burnham

Russell Jones is best known for his scathing, detailed reporting of government ineptitude in the famed #TheWeekInTory threads. He has since published three histories of the Conservative government since 2010: the Sunday Times best-selling The Decade In Tory, Four Chancellors and a Funeral, and is now launching Tories: The End of an Error. He is a columnist for Byline Supplement, and still intermittently works as a software developer and illustrator.

We discuss how conventional ways to represent identity are outdated and our identities are far more complex

Panel Discussion:

Matthew Ghallager, Anthony Lynch and Hardeep Matharu

Hardeep Matharu, Editor in Chefi, Byline Times

Matthew Ghallager, Byline Times and co-author of The Little Black Book of Press Barons,

Anthony Lynch is a facilitator working in the Youth Voice, Adoption and EDI space. He’s currently leading a digital inquiry into support for Young Adopted People with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Adoption and Permanence.

Rachel Shabi

Mario Theodorou

Mario is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and novelist known for work across comedy and drama. Selected for the BBC Drama Room and named on the BBC’s Hotlist, his credits include BBC Drama, Radio 4, and Sky. His acclaimed short films: Anonymous, Echo, and The Gifted Hypothesis have screened at Oscar, BAFTA, and BIFA-qualifying festivals, winning awards including Best Drama at Cannes Shorts. A BAFTA member Mario is developing several projects and has signed a multi-book publishing deal for his historical fiction series, Felix Grey. Shorter: Mario is a BAFTA member, screenwriter, director, and novelist. His award-winning work spans film, TV, and fiction, including BBC and Sky commissions and a recent multi-book deal for his historical fiction series, Felix Grey.

Climate change evokes a wide range of emotional responses—fear, sadness, anger, and sometimes helplessness. These feelings are natural and shared by many. The good news is, with the right tools and support, we can transform climate anxiety from a source of despair into a catalyst for resilience and positive action.
This interactive workshop, led by award winning clinical psychologist Professor Deborah Christie, offers compassionate, evidence-based strategies to transform anxiety into strength and invites you to navigate the emotional challenges of the climate emergency and learn practical strategies to cope effectively with confidence and optimism.
Through evidence-based approaches such as mindfulness, cognitive reframing, and community engagement, participants will discover how to nurture hope, manage overwhelming feelings, and regain a sense of agency.
Join us in cultivating a mindset of resilience—because even in the face of global challenges, hope and empowerment begin with understanding and self-care.

Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar will be talking about their succinct, punchy Little Black Book of the Populist Right, published by Byline Books last summer and proving more prescient and topical by the minute. The book tells you all you need to know about the background, ideology and current prospects for parties now topping polls in Italy, Hungary, Holland and the USA, as well as bidding for power in France, Germany and – via Nigel Farage – here in Britain. Following Reform’s success in the local elections, it’s ever more urgent to understand and counter national-populism’s growing appeal.

Jon Bloomfield has more than forty years experience as policy maker and practitioner engaged with cities and regions in the UK and Europe on the three great issues of our era: social inequality; migration and climate change. For the last five years he has been writing with David Edgar on the dangers of national populism for Byline Times.
David Edgar‘s plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company include Destiny (about the National Front), Maydays (about political defection) and most recently The New Real (about national-populism). Edgar has written for journals including Searchlight, Marxism Today, the Times, the Guardian and the London Review of Books; as well as The Little Black Book of the Populist Right, with Jon Bloomfield.  

Come to help Deborah Curtis look at how we can build a better world that is climate friendly and sustainable. Help her meet the world's greatest challenge- Help her create the Great Imagining

How can we shift the focus from patching peple up and from national services to healthy communities that mean we don't just live longer but much more healthier.

Lord Adebowale

Dr Linda Mizun, an Emergency Doctor and Board Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician, is also the co-founder of Hero of Health Neighbourhood Solution. Dr Mizun’s vision is to empower neighbourhoods by transforming local charities into population-scale, medically robust solutions that address both loneliness and chronic disease, with measurable clinical outcomes. With an ambitious goal of establishing 100,000 Hero of Health Neighbourhoods across the UK to tackle loneliness and reverse chronic diseases at a population scale. She is committed to reshaping healthcare through neighbourhood empowerment, leading a revolution that adds neighbourhood care as a vital layer alongside primary and secondary care.

Professor Deborah Christie, a leading expert in paediatric and adolescent psychology, combines award-winning research with impactful public speaking, inspirational training and advocacy, championing diversity and mental health. She has authored over 200 articles and a bestselling book, transforming lives across the NHS and the public sector.

Stephen Colegrave

Journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo – expose an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British political system. This is the untold story of the most audacious Russian influence operation in British history. It involves honey traps, Russian agents and information warfare.

Carole Cadwalladr

Sergei Cristo

Chris Steele

Peter Jukes

In an age dominated by billionaire-owned media, disinformation, and a collapsing trust landscape, Media Revolution has entered the scene to coordinate collective responses together with the movements most affected in order to create a moment of awareness, action and transformative change.

This interactive session will explore the critical intersection between media, democracy, and activism, and how coordinated collaboration and the crucial element of resistance can bring about a Media Revolution.

Hosted by Media Revolution

http://mediarevolution.org/

Artist and Art teacher Kate Tulett will help you create protest art on all types of materials that you can upcycle. Bring your thoughts to life and get in touch with the artist inside you. Have fun!