Readings from speakers and chairs (and some classics on the summit theme):

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Akanbi, A. (2025). ‘The offensiveness of group-speak: Why we must find our own words’. Unravelled.

Akanbi, A. (2025) Rethinking group loyalty. Unravelled substack

Ansari, A. M. (2025) Reflections on (Iranian) nationalism. Iranshahr substack

Ansari, A. M. (2018) These Islands. Haus Publishing

Cheang, B. (2024). ‘Culture of Meritocracy, Political Hegemony, and Singapore’s Development’. Journal of International Relations and Development.

Christodoulou, D. (2014). Seven Myths About Education. Routledge.

Cowen, T. (2026). ‘Rebuilding our world, with reference to strong AI’. Marginal Revolution blog.

Cowen, T. (2026) A Dangerous Turn in AI Regulation. The Free Press.

Forth, T. and Jones, R. (2020). The Missing £4 Billion: Making R&D work for the whole UK. Nesta.

Forth, T. (2026). Recovering From Thatcherism. Tomforth.co.uk

Gilligan, A. (2025). ‘Some things in the government’s leaked social cohesion strategy will be deeply necessary’. The Spectator.

Goodhart, D. (2004). ‘Too diverse?’. Prospect.

Hensher, P. (2025). ‘Spare us from “experimental” novels’. The Spectator.

Jones, T. (2025). ‘Keir Starmer’s Kali Yuga’. The Potemkin Village Idiot.

Leslie, I. (2025). John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs. Faber.

Leslie, I. (2024). ‘Is Culture Dying?’. The Ruffian.

Maclean-Jones, A. (2025). ‘The survival of Swiss watches’. Works in Progress.

Maclean-Jones, A. (2025). ‘Dirty Thirty’. Rake’s Digress.

Oliver, H. (2026). ‘Oliver Traldi: Jane Austen and the Defence of Virtue’. The Common Reader.

Omrani, B. (2025). God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England. Swift Press.

Orr-Ewing, W. (2026). Real Education Policy Forum. Substack. 

Orwell, G. (1946) Politics and the English Language. Horizon.

O’Brien, A. and Glover, B. (2026). The Politics of Production: A new realist political economy for Britain. Policy Exchange.

O’Brien, A. (2025). ‘Can someone save us from our MATEs?’. Carlyle’s Attic.

Roberts, R. and McArdle, M. (2021). ‘Megan McArdle on Belonging, Home, and National Identity’. EconTalk.

Samuel, J. (2026). ‘I was a Remainer — this is why I was wrong’. The Times. 

Scruton, R. (2004). England and the Need for Nations. The Institute for the Study of Civil Society.

Walker, M. (2025). ‘Church has a gift to give to the nation’. Church Times.

Walker, M. (2025). ‘Anglican churchgoers need the Real Thing’. The Critic

West, E. (2018). ‘Citizenship is dead’. The Spectator.

West, E. (2024). ‘Britain isn’t a free country’. The Spectator.

Whitton, R. (2026). Destroying the Foundations. Prosperity Institute.

Whitton, R. (2026). ‘Iceland’s energy triumph holds lessons for Britain’. New Statesman.