British Thought Leaders

James Esses on gender ideology & his ongoing legal case after being expelled from his Masters Degree

James Esses is a commentator, writer and advocate on gender ideology and free speech. He co-founded the group, ‘Thoughtful Therapists’, who are working to change the narrative regarding mental health treatment in this space. Prior to this, he was a Criminal Barrister and spent many years specialising in crime and criminal justice in the public sector, including tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation.
@JamesEsses
http://jamesesses.substack.com

Sam Dunning discusses the infiltration into British Universities by CCP related businesses

Sam Dunning is a writer, researcher who heads up new charity, UK-China Transparency. They have thus far exposed Chinese infiltration into British Universities, investment in state-owned tech companies and the work done by UK-based Confucius Institutes.
@samdunningo / @ukctransparency
http://ukctransparency.org

Expert in AI safety Michael Cohen discusses the technology & the need to pause further development

Michael Cohen works in AI safety research at the University of Oxford. Michael shares his concerns that without intervention AI poses a risk to humanity.
@Michael05156007
https://www.michael-k-cohen.com/

Anna Loutfi on the threat facing British democracy & how politics should be kept out of the law

Anna Loutfi is a legal researcher, commentator and human rights barrister. Anna works with the Bad Law Project to challenge and de-politise our democratic institutions.
@BadLawProject
www.badlawproject.com

Gangsline founder Sheldon Thomas on what drives gang culture, such as bad parenting & absent fathers

Sheldon Thomas is a former gang member who now lectures, trains and consults on gang culture to various governments, police, frontline workers and engages gangs members in the UK and the Caribbean. He is also the founder of Gangs Line.
@SheldonThomas3
@Gangsline

Matt Ridley discusses his recent book ’Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19’

Matt Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, is a science-writer, journalist and member of the House of Lords. He inherited the viscountcy in February 2012 and was a Conservative hereditary peer from February 2013, with an elected seat in the House of Lords, until his retirement in December 2021.
His recent book Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 written with Alina Chan ascribes the spread of the virus to the COVID-19 lab leak theory.
@mattwridley

Professor & Author Doug Stokes discusses cancel culture in British academia & the rise of wokeness

Doug Stokes is a professor and director at The Strategy and Security Institute. His new book ‘Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West’ is due out late 2023.
@profdws | @SSI_Exeter

Mark Sabah talks about the CCP, the situation in Hong Kong & the rise in totalitarianism

Mark Sabah is a Director of The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, an expert on international affairs and campaigns for the release of Jummy Lai, jailed founder of Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily.
@MarkSabah | @thecfhk

Bill Browder, Putin’s Enemy Number One, on Russian, Ukraine, Western enablement & the Magnitsky Act

Bill Browder is CEO of Hermitage Capital. He was one of the largest foreign investors in Russia until he fell afoul of the Putin regime. He is head of the Global Magnitsky Justice campaign and Author of Red Notice & Freezing Order. Bill shares his story with us and gives his views on the Ukraine invasion.
@Billbrowder

Claire Fox on activists’ unhealthy influence in businesses, cancel culture & freedom of speech

Claire Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley, is a British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician who sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer. She is the director and founder of the think tank Institute of Ideas.
Claire speaks to Lee Hall about a range of subjects including freedom of speech, the modern reality of the political left and right labels, cancel culture, activism in public services and business, and her role in the House of Lords.
@Fox_Claire
@acadofideas