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Now Goleman comes to Intelligence Squared for an exclusive talk on the themes of his latest book, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence.

Nearly four centuries after his death, no writer has come close to matching Shakespeare’s understanding of the world – or his gift for dramatic poetry.

Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England -- a landscape of Palladian mansions and handsome parsonages, peopled by rigidly-divided classes.

Their wide-ranging conversation will in part focus on Eco's latest work of fiction, The Prague Cemetery.

When the EU's transitional immigration rules expire on 1st January 2014, numerous Bulgarians and Romanians will be heading for Britain. And we should put out the welcome mat.

New York, Miami, Basel and London: every year curators and collectors flock to these cities to see and snap up the latest works. In recent years, art cities have also been burgeoning in Asia and the Middle East.

Following the death of Baroness Thatcher, we are revisiting our sell-out 2004 debate: 'Maggie Thatcher Saved Britain'.

Daniel Dennett is one of the world's most original and provocative thinkers. A philosopher and cognitive scientist, he is known as one of the 'Four Horseman of New Atheism' along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens.

Why are there so many Chinese maths and music prodigies? Because Chinese mothers believe schoolwork and music practice come first, that an A-minus is a bad grade…