- Date
- 17 June 2025
- Time
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location
- Off campus
- Cost
- Free
- Type
- Lectures and seminars
- Audience
- Staff and students, General public
As part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations IDEA, The Ethics Centre is delighted to welcome Gavin Esler to present a public lecture.
Location: Cloth Hall Court, Leeds
As Part of IDEA The Ethics Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations we are hosting a public lecture to be held by Gavin Esler on truth, lies and public discourse entitled ‘Dead Cats, Strategic Lying and Truth Decay’.
Gavin Esler's talk will analyse the state of current politics and truth-telling in the public realm. He has observed that people no longer trust businesses, or politicians, or journalists as much as they used to.
Gavin will argue that this is the result of what he calls “the politics of distraction”. He will discuss how a loss of trust and “truth decay” is eating away some of the core principles of democracy in the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere and will suggest how trust - and truth - can be reinforced.This will be based on the findings of his recent book ‘Britain Is Better Than This’.