Anne Applebaum and Conrad Black join our major Trump debate

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New Debate: Trump is making America great again

Mon 24th April. 6.45pm, Emmanuel Centre

Speakers for the motion

Is Donald Trump making America great again? Or are his policies taking the country into dangerously illiberal territory? In this major debate to mark Trump's first 100 days in office, our two Trump supporters will be Conrad Black, the financier and historian who has written extensively about the United States, and Arron Banks, the former UKIP donor who met with Trump just days after his election. Opposing them will be two of Trump's fiercest critics - Anne Applebaum, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Washington Post columnist, and Khizr Khan. the constitutional lawyer who made headlines at the Democratic convention when he spoke about his son who was killed in action in Iraq.

Is Trump the disrupter that America needs to restore it to greatness, or will he send the country to the dogs? Join us on April 24th, hear the arguments and decide for yourself.

Arron Banks

Former major donor to UKIP and co-founder of Leave.EU. Along with Nigel Farage, he was one of the first British politicians to visit President-elect Donald Trump. He is planning to bring Trump's 'drain the swamp' political agenda to the UK by by targeting and ousting 'corrupt MPs, and recently quit UKIP to set up a new populist political force.

Conrad Black

Financier, historian and commentator. He was the chairman and principal shareholder of the Telegraph Newspapers (1989.2004), of most of the principal newspapers in Canada and Australia. and of the Chicago Sun-Times, Jerusalem Post. and other publications. He has written extensive biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon. a strategic history of the United States, and a comprehensive history of Canada. He is a weekly columnist at the National Post (Toronto) and the National Review, and is the honorary publisher of the National Interest. He is a cross-bench life peer.

Speakers against the motion

Anne Applebaum

Columnist for the Washington Post and Pulitzer prize-winning historian. She is a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, where she runs a programme on disinformation and 21st century propaganda. She is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History. Her forthcoming book is Red Famine, a history of the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33.

Khzir Khan is a Muslim-American constitutional rights advocate and the father of Captain Humayun Khan, a US Army officer killed in action in Iraq. His speech at the 2016 Democratic Convention denounced Trump's call for a ban on Muslim immigration.

for a ban on Muslim immigration and questioned his understanding of the U.S. Constitution, was one of the most memorable moments of the election campaign.

Chair

Key Information:

Name: Emily Maitlis
Profession: Presenter of BBC Newsnight, known broadcaster
Accomplishments: Presented the US presidential election, made BBC documentaries, interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump.

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