Past events

How Green Politics went Mainstream

Sir Crispin Tickell was the speaker at the fifty-third meeting of the Mile End Group on the subject: ‘How Green Politics went Mainstream’

International Institutional Reform: Making the World Work Better

Crossbench peer and former Chief of Staff, UN Secretary General Lord Malloch Brown was the speaker at the fifty-third meeting of the Mile End Group

Tony in 2025: Blair as History

Independent columnist and visiting professor John Rentoul gave the fifty-second Mile End Group on ‘Tony in 2025: Blair as History’

The Vision of Canary Wharf

Lord Heseltine was the speaker at the fifty-first meeting of the Mile End Group. The event was held in Canary Wharf’s Winter Garden.

Women in the Lords: Politics and the media – Better or Worse in the last fifty years?

Rt Hon Baroness Jay of Paddington gave the fifth Women in the Lords lecture on ‘Politics and the media – Better or Worse in the last fifty years?’

Why do we still have a monarchy?

The renowned broadcaster and journalist, Jeremy Paxman gave the forty-ninth Mile End Group on the question ‘Why do we still have a monarchy?’

War and its Consequences

General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank gave the forty-eighth Mile End Group on ‘War and its Consequences.’

Civil Nuclear Energy since 1945: The Lessons’, in partnership with the Science Museum and the British Academy

Professor Sir Roger Williams delivered the forty-seventh Mile End Group at the Science Museum discussing ‘Civil Nuclear Energy since 1945: The Lessons’

Women in the Lords: Police and the Public in the 21st century

The famous novelist, Baroness James of Holland Park, gave the fourth of the series of Women in the Lords lectures on ‘Police and the Public in the 21st Century.’