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1.8 billion Facebook users; 1 billion Tinder swipes each day. We're interacting at breakneck speed through social media but, without face-to-face contact, are we really communicating?

William "Bill" Maher, Jr. is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, media critic, and television host. As a television host, he is well known for the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present).

A Hegelian philosopher and leading figure on the academic left, Žižek is the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books.

A Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Peterson has received considerable media coverage after publishing a series of videos criticising the Canadian government's move to enact Bill C-16, which made misgendering a form of hate speech.

Michael J. Sandel is an American political philosopher and a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for the Harvard course "Justice", which is available to view online, and for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982).

After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he secured a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature.

Creator and star of The Office and Extras, Ricky Gervais has won three Golden Globes, two Primetime Emmys and seven BAFTAs.

Within the context of increasing inequality in today's world, questions have been raised about whether the very existence of billionaires poses a moral dilemma.

Whatever our creed, sect, or personal conviction, most of us at least agree on the general futility of religious debate. As a debate topic, it is both bafflingly abstract and personally offensive; as a contemporary issue, both too fundamental to challenge and too influential to ignore.

In a timely debate, held just 24 hours after the religiously motivated incident in Woolwich, the Union considered the question of the nature of Islam.