Harrogate District Chamber of Commerce News

• Why is gender inequality so stubbornly persistent? Power. Even today, power remains concentrated in the hands of men right across the business, political and cultural worlds. Former Government Minister for Women Jo Swinson, discusses how ‘equal power’ holds a mirror up to society and the steps, small and large, required truly to make our society equal.
• What are our limits? Do we have limits? Human Rights Barrister, and visiting researcher at the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard, Dexter Dias has written The Ten Types of Human, a pioneering examination of human nature and who we become when we are faced with life’s most difficult decisions. Discover a new understanding of what makes us human.
• Who really holds the power in the land? The law? Or does it lie elsewhere? We think of Christianity as meek and mild but for many it was originally destructive and contemptuous of all laws but its own. “There is no crime for those who have Christ,” as one leader said. Award winning Historian Catherine Nixey explores the terrible consequences of this bold statement that resonate in British philosophy even today.

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