Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture 2026

Stephen Bush, Associate Editor and columnist at the Financial Times will discuss: “What do journalists owe the open society?”

In a time of geopolitical uncertainty, demographic pressures, and in which the open society – which while journalism can exist without, it makes our jobs significantly easier – we talk a lot about what is driving these crises, what politicians should do, what businesses should do, what activists, universities or citizens should do. But what are our obligations as journalists to the open society – and are we meeting them?

This is a free public lecture.