Will Nicola Sturgeon lead Scotland to independence?
Have the twin pressures of Brexit and Covid gifted independence to the SNP?
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 december 2020
A ThinkIn with Nicola Adams
She’s Great Britain’s most successful female boxer ever – and a Strictly Come Dancing sensation. Catch up on our conversation with Nicola Adams OBE about breaking boundaries and the future of women’s sport.
What our members are watching
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
Sensemaker Live: The great forgotten story of Brexit – what’s really happening with trade?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors
What are the glaciers telling us?
Join us for the first ThinkIn of our year long conversation on ‘Accelerating Net Zero’
Finding Covid’s lost children: how do we bring them back?
We ask experts what happened to the lost of children of Covid, and what we can do about it.
Open News
Add your voice to the Tortoise editors’ weekly news conference. Bring story ideas and perspectives. Have your say.
Are business leaders stalling over disability inclusion?
Join us to ask why disability inclusion still isn’t on the boardroom table
Veganuary CookIn
Cauliflower steak or bean burger? Join us to cook up a veganuary feast
Sensemaker Live: Operation vaccination – is the rollout plan working?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors.
Why do we climb mountains? with Ed Caesar
Why are humans so obsessed with climbing mountains. We ask the expert, Ed Caesar
Does Britain have an answer to immigration now?
Freedom of movement is over, but what does that really mean for Britain?
Open News
Add your voice to the Tortoise editors’ weekly news conference. Bring story ideas and perspectives. Have your say.
Communicating the vaccine: how do we get the story right?
Now the vaccine is here, we ask the experts how we should be spreading the good news
2021 Predictions: what’s coming next?
Look into the crystal ball with us to predict what we should expect in 2021
Open News Special: what did we learn in 2020?
What really happened this year? Which stories mattered, and what did we miss?
Creative Sensemaker Live: reasons to be cheerful in 2021
Cinema and live music return, finally, in 2021. Apart from Glastonbury, what else is there to get excited about?
A ThinkIn with Andrew Cotter, Olive and Mabel
A ThinkIn (PetIn?) with Andrew Cotter, Olive and Mabel. Bring your furry, scaly and feathered friends – and expect chaos.
A ThinkIn with Gavin Patterson, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Salesforce
Salesforce’s President and Chief Revenue Officer, Gavin Patterson, in conversation with James Harding
Don’t miss these upcoming ThinkIns
Trans kids: what has been happening inside the Tavistock?
Open News
Global Health Summit
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?
