MembersNEWNew in the Members’ Room: James Panton gives talks defending freedom in London and in Edinburgh ; Suzy Dean has a blog on youth engagement; Josie Appleton will be debating booze bans at Sussex University; Michele Ledda's petition against banning of a poem from the school curriculum has more than 100 signatures; Dolan Cummings writes on how anti-smokers are stubbing out liberty; Josie Appleton is discussing cities at a conference in Moscow; Manick Govinda has produced a new London exhibition. New on the Vetting Blog: Tenants turfed out for refusing to fill in forms; CRB checking tooth fairy; Children’s authors under suspicion; Flats halted because balconies have ‘view of school’. Read on… |
GUEST DINNER, 13 September – Professor Raymond Tallis
The guest speaker at the first Manifesto Club dinner was the Manifesto Club member, medical doctor, humanist writer, poet, philosopher, literary critic – in short, all-round Renaissance Man – Professor Raymond Tallis.
Dinner was held in the private room at the Polish restaurant and vodka bar, Baltic, in central London on Thursday 13 September.
Download an MP3 file of Ray's introduction: hi (128kbps) lo (64kbps), or stream it here:
Read the text of the speech here Also, hear Ray on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs Read an interview with Ray in the Guardian |
The Manifesto Club supports:Historians campaigning against 'memory laws'... 'Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed immaturity. Dare to know! Have courage to use your own understanding!' Immanuel Kant 'What characterises man is his extreme abundance of imagination; therefore, that man is a fantastic animal and that universal history is the gigantic, continuous and insistent effort to go, little by little, putting some order into the crazy fantasy.' José Ortega y Gasset |
Manifesto Club dinners are an opportunity to come together in an intimate setting over good food and wine; to hear and engage in discussion with provocative speakers, and to meet other individuals involved in the club.
