ThinkIns on catch up
ThinkIns are for Tortoise members and invited guests. Catch up below on some of our recent favourites.
A ThinkIn is not just another panel discussion. It’s a real editorial meeting where your insight and experience can help shape our reporting.
How it works
Book a ticket, and we’ll send you a link to join us online. You can bring a friend.
We’ll invite guests with special expertise, but anyone can speak. Just raise your hand.
A ThinkIn is one hour long. At the end, the editor will summarise what we’ve heard.
7 SEPTEMBER 2020
Alastair Campbell
Alastair’s Campbell’s book, Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression, is a deeply personal account of his lifelong struggle with mental ill-health. It’s a painful but ultimately hopeful story that takes in his childhood, family and work relationships, as well as his relentless quest to understand the condition and the treatments for it. Listen back to his reflections on looking after ourselves, and each other, better.
What our members are watching
Will Nicola Sturgeon lead Scotland to independence?
Have the twin pressures of Brexit and Covid gifted independence to the SNP?
Can Boris survive?
Boris Johnson’s 80 seat majority should have given him a bulletproof five-year term in office but Covid-19 had other ideas.
Why isn’t the ethnicity pay gap reporting mandatory?
How can we make sure more companies commit to reporting on the ethnicity pay gap?
Is everything we know about food wrong? With Professor Tim Spector
One of the world’s leading scientists reveals why so much of the current advice on food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate.
covid Inquiry
We need a coronavirus public inquiry now
If the government won’t do it, we will
Recent ThinkIns
The Tortoise Covid Inquiry: Day Two
An independent examination of the UK government’s handling of coronavirus.
Greatest albums revisited: does music need a new canon?
Join Pete Paphides and British musicians, as we decide which albums should go down in history as some of the greatest ever.
Settled but not resolved: what next for the opioid crisis?
We return to our first ever story, and investigate the opioid crisis in the context of the pandemic.
How do we radically decarbonise our world, while meeting vital human needs?
How can we ensure that people and our planet can coexist harmoniously, and sustainably?
Open News
Add your voice to the Tortoise editors’ weekly news conference. Bring story ideas and perspectives. Have your say.
Is covid cover for corruption?
Is corruption rife in the government? Are our leaders allowing ‘chumocracy’ to flourish and using the pandemic as cover?
Is healthtech innovation having unintended consequences for patients?
What are the benefits of digital technology in healthcare? And what should we be wary about?
How should universities pick students this year if no-one trusts exams?
What should Universities do next?
Open News
Add your voice to the Tortoise editors’ weekly news conference. Bring story ideas and perspectives. Have your say.
Is Jack Ma the world’s greatest entrepreneur?
How powerful is Jack Ma?
How to write with award winning poet Anthony Anaxagorou
Join our NextGen ThinkIns, created especially for students and apprentices.
US Election: The Result – what now?
As the votes were still being counted, we discussed the US election – why it played out in the way that it did, and what the outcome will mean for America and the world.
Covid-19 winners and losers: the food business
What next for the food business in the UK?
The future of information: what is saved, what’s deleted and who decides?
Once you share something online, is it really out there forever?
What can smart machines do for humankind and for you?
What role will robots play in society? And how best can they serve humanity?
A ThinkIn with Ruby Wax – on reasons to be cheerful
Actress, comedian, best-selling author and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax visits our virtual newsroom.
Don’t miss these upcoming ThinkIns
In conversation with P.J. O’Rourke on the state of the United States
The Global AI Summit
The Tortoise Covid Inquiry: Day Three
In conversation with…
Crisis Leadership – Tony Blair
The UK’s former prime minister in conversation with James Harding.
Gina Miller
British business person and activist, Gina Miller joins us to talk about her life, work, and famous legal challenges.
James O’Brien
The outspoken radio presenter on how to change your mind in a world that is notoriously unforgiving of uncertainty.
Isabel Wilkerson
Pulitzer prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, joins Matt d’Ancona to discuss her new book Caste: The Lies That Divide Us
Next Gen
ThinkIns created especially for students and apprentices
How to start a movement with anti-discrimination activist Alex Holmes
Alex Holmes used his personal experience of racism to start a grassroots movement that later saw him become deputy CEO in the charity sector.
How to break down stereotypes with actor Samantha Renke
Samantha knows a thing or two about proving people wrong.
Sensemaker Live
Sensemaker Live: America and the world – beacon of nope?
We launch our series of special pre-election ThinkIns.
Sensemaker Live: America and Covid
Whatever happened to the country’s can-do spirit?
Sensemaker Live: American culture and values
Is the dream dead? And if so, what killed it?
Sensemaker Live: What does Biden mean for Brexit?
How will the new president affect Brexit?
