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The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, whose 麻豆社 Reith Lectures start this week, is calling for a moral revolution to change our societies for the better, charting how small groups of committed people 鈥� abolitionists, suffragettes, and temperance activists 鈥� have brought about positive social change.

Politics, Bregman argues, is in trouble in an age of apathy and backsliding democracy: 鈥淭he moral rot runs deep across elite institutions of every stripe鈥�, he says, 鈥渋f the right is defined by its shameless corruption, then liberals answer with a paralyzing cowardice鈥�.

So where might our moral salvation come? What are the deep values that underpin our contrasting political worldviews 鈥� left and right 鈥� and which should we look to prioritise now? Does any part of the political spectrum have the greatest claim to morality?

Chair: Michael Buerk
Panel: Matthew Taylor, James Orr, Mona Siddiqui and Tim Stanley.
Witnesses: Tim Montgomerie, Eleanor Penny, Joanna Williams, Paul Mason
Producer: Dan Tierney.