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About this episode

Everything from social fragmentation to the economic crisis, and the riots that broke out across English cities in the summer, have been blamed on a modern ‘cult of individualism’. Labour leader Ed Miliband denounces ‘a “take what you can” culture’. But isn’t there something to be said for individualism? Strong individuals have been admired for their courage and imagination and valued for their unique contributions to society. So are we wrong to focus on the negatives? Speakers in this debate filmed at the Battle of Ideas bring fresh thinking and include Dr Maurice Glasman, director, faith and citizenship programme, London Metropolitan University; author, Unnecessary Suffering: managing market utopia; Clifford Longley, leader writer and columnist, Tablet; panellist, BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze; John Sutherland, Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of English Literature, University College London; author, The Lives of the Novelists; Bruno Waterfield, Brussels correspondent, Daily Telegraph; author, No Means No!

• Release Date

  Dec 14, 2011

• Runtime

  01:15:49