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Speakers included: Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy, Fred Manson, Urban Renewal Specialist, and James Fischelis, Urban Consultant. Moderated by Crispin Kelly of Baylight Properties Ltd. Introductory remarks by Hywel Williams, Legatum Institute.

Speakers included: Rupa Huq, Sociology Lecturer at Kingston University; former Deputy Mayor of Ealing, and Oliver Green, Research Fellow, London Transport Museum. Introductory remarks by Hywel Williams, Legatum Institute.

In this podcast, Adam Greenfield of LSE Cities discusses innovations in the pipeline that may redefine suburban living and urban relations.Moderated by Sian Hansen, Executive Director, Legatum Institute.

Speakers included: Lord Adebowale, People's Peer and CEO of Turning Point; Sean Worth, former Downing Street Advisor; Damian Green MP, and Tim Montgomerie, Columnist, The Times. The discussion was moderated by James Barty, Strategy Director, British Bankers Association, with introductory remarks from Cristina Odone, Director of Communications, Legatum Institute.

Speaker:Gerard Lyons, Chief Economic Advisor to Boris Johnson.Interviewed by Harriet Maltby, Government and Economic Policy Researcher at the Legatum Institute.

The mayor’s lecture examined how the experiences of democrats in the 5th century BC can help us to preserve London’s unique metropolitan character today. He warned against “the challenge, global in its extent, to democratic freedoms. We must fight these enemies”, and defend democracy, the rule of law and an open welcome to talented incomers that made Athens the eternal glory of the Western world – in stark opposition to the "ghastly, self-whipping, olive-spitting, xenophobic Spartans".

Panellists included Oliver Bullough (journalist and author of the paper), Anthea Lawson (Deputy Campaigns Director at Global Witness) and moderator Anne Applebaum (Director of the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute).

Panellists included the report's author, Peter Pomerantsev, human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC, and Giorgi Badridze, Senior Fellow, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. The discussion was moderated by Anne Applebaum, Director of the Legatum Institute's Transitions Forum.

In part two of the lecture, Roger Bootle drew on themes from his book to outline what, in his view, has gone wrong with the EU.

In part one of the lecture, Graeme Leach spoke about the economics of EU membership for the UK, showing that from the outset, when the UK joined the then Common Market, membership was projected to be net negative. He was joined in conversation by Roger Bootle, Managing Director of Capital Economics (separate podcast) who discussed his book 'The Trouble with Europe'.