Speaker: A. C. Grayling, Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, and its Professor of Philosophy, and the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays. He is a columnist for Prospect magazine, and was for a number of years a columnist on the Guardian and Times.

Chair: Tony Travers, Director of the LSE Institute for Public Affairs and Professor in Practice in the LSE Department of Government.

Winston Churchill described democracy as ‘the least bad of all systems.’ So it is, when it works. But it has been made to fail – notice those words: ‘made to fail’ – in at least two of its leading examples in today’s world, the US and the UK. This talk is about how democracy has been made to fail. And it is about how to put it right.

Entry to the event will be on a first come, first served basis with no ticket required. 

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