Spend 12 minutes in the inspiring company of the priest, writer, broadcaster and motivational speaker, The Revd Ruth Scott. Ruth has worked as a mediator in conflict resolution for many years and is a regular contributor to conferences and events at Cumberland Lodge. She talks about the challenges of hate crime and what makes communities more divisive, the role of education in building more peaceful and tolerant societies, sources of mistrust and prejudice in society and how dialogue can help to overcome them, and the differences between tolerance and respect.

This recording was made in March 2017, as part of our series of podcasts to mark the 70th anniversary of Cumberland Lodge as an educational foundation.

A conversation with Greg Hurst, Social Affairs Editor at The Times, recorded at the end of March 2017, in which he discusses the implications of the 'Brexit' vote for social divisions, the role of education in challenging social divisions, and the importance of dialogue in tackling social issues.

This podcast is part of the 70th anniversary series of podcasts from Cumberland Lodge, celebrating 70 years of Cumberland Lodge as an educational charity.

Ten minutes with Dr Wanda Wyporska, Executive Director of the Equality Trust, on the threats to social cohesion in society today, the particular challenges facing young people, and issues of identity. Wanda talks about the 'broken social compact with young people', the problems of underemployment and insecure work, and the need to 'give young people a real stake in our economy'. She calls for a living wage and highlights the importance of dialogue and cross-disciplinary work in addressing the challenges facing society.

Emeritus senior lecturer of History at University College London (UCL), Dr Negley Harte, speaks to Cumberland Lodge principal, Edmund Newell, about his recollections of Cumberland Lodge in the 1950s through to the 1990s, including his memories of the foundation's formidable yet inspiring founding warden, Amy Buller.

This interview is published during the 70th anniversary year of Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park as an educational foundation.

In this Cumberland Lodge Lecture, Lord Finkelstein, executive editor and political columnist for The Times, talks about the idea of an arrow of history and its changing direction. In a far-reaching talk he covers economic, social and political change in the UK and the West, the spread of power and the rise of populism, the role of social media, the internet, religion, consumerism and environmental problems in shaping the new world we find ourselves in. He talks about Brexit and what led David Cameron to call an EU referendum, and he even throws in some insights from Premier League football.

This lecture was recorded at Cumberland Lodge on 31st May 2017. A video of the event will be published on cumberlandlodge.ac.uk and the lecture was live-streamed on Facebook at https://facebook.com/cumberlandlodge. The recording includes a 45-minute lecture, followed by wide-ranging questions from the invited audience.

Audio recording of the 'Open Society under Threat? A Warning from History' panel discussion held at St Paul's Cathedral on 16 May 2017, organised by Cumberland Lodge and the St Paul's Institute. The event also launched a new edition of Amy Buller's groundbreaking 1943 book 'Darkness over Germany'. Guest speakers included: Dr Rowan Williams, Baroness Butler-Sloss, Prof Maiken Umbach, Prof Kurt Barling, Lord Stern and Tamsin Greig.

Julia Unwin, former Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, speaks to Edmund Newell, Principal of the educational foundation Cumberland Lodge, ahead of a cross-sector seminar on 'Inequalities & Social Divisions', held at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park on 28 March 2017.

Sir Stephen Wall, former British diplomat and Chairman of the Cumberland Lodge Trustees, discusses the UK's history with Europe and the EU, during an induction weekend for Cumberland Lodge PhD scholars on 9th September 2016.

Our climate is changing. As global temperatures increase, the risks to human populations become more severe. We are already seeing the impact of more extreme weather events (e.g. flooding, coastal erosion) and shifting climate patterns (i.e. food and water shortages). But it is not just these environmental risks that we need to consider. Hidden associated risks such as population health, and political and economic stability, are also of global concern.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report written and released in 2013 by the world’s leading scientists there is no doubt that climate change is occurring, and based on nearly 7 years of new climate change research, human activities releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the 1950s are “most likely” the dominant cause.

To avoid experiencing the worst climate change impacts, the governments of the world have agreed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to limit global warming to a maximum of 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The only way to achieve this will be to work together.

In December 2015 the world will come together in Paris at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC). At this meeting all of the nations will meet to agree on a legally binding and universal global climate change agreement, with emission reduction commitments from all countries. The aim will be to bring together all of the existing binding and non-binding agreements under the UN climate convention into a single comprehensive regime to be adopted from 2020.

But how will this affect us here in the UK? How do the scientists know that we are causing climate change? What social and economic impacts are we likely to experience in the future, and how are we preparing? How are the global negotiations going? What is the UK Government going to do about cutting our emissions? These are all questions that were covered during a one day conference at Cumberland Lodge on Monday 6th October 2014.

Professor Sir Mark Walport, the Chief Scientific Advisor for government, provided our keynote public lecture, which summarised many of the key facts outlined during the day.

The UK government’s counter-extremism strategy, Prevent, is coming under heavy criticism. In particular, it has been said, that it inhibits discussion in schools about issues of terrorism and extremism, and that it stifles freedom of speech on university campuses. Some Muslims have said they feel as if they are under surveillance and even that their children are at risk of being taken into care. On 4th May 2016, the independent reviewer of the UK’s anti-terrorism laws, David Anderson QC, came to Cumberland Lodge to introduce some current issues relating to Prevent and explain why he thinks there should be an independent review of the strategy. In this short interview he outlines what the Prevent strategy is, why it is proving to be controversial, what can be done to address the issues the strategy raises