Saturday's Chatham House Zoom

You're invited!

Hello lovely subscribers! Once again, this Saturday at 8pm EST (Melbourne) or 11 am BST (London) (13th April), there will be a paid subscriber-only Zoom chat featuring yours truly and Helen Dale.

As previously, the call will be unrecorded and run on Chatham House lines. No information from or quotation of—and this doesn’t just apply to Helen or me—is to be attributed to any participant in the call, outside the call.

We’ll be discussing my two most recent pieces (on what could broadly be described as progressivism v equality) here and here, and Helen’s response to the failures of multicultural policy as refracted through the work of John Finnis and Joseph Raz.

We’re also going to introduce one of the two policy failure case studies we’ve developed for Worshipping the Future: public health and its nutrition guidelines. Helen provided a (cautious) curtain-raiser to this topic over at Law & Liberty:

I’ve now officially lost 39 kg (85.8 lb or 6.13 stone). Lorenzo Warby (my co-substacker) lost 43 kg (94.6 lb or 6.76 stone). I’m the same weight I was in August 2000, when I passed my Shotokan Shodan exam under the direction of Sensei Keinosuke Enoeda. I raise this to emphasise the extent to which my weight gain emerged from the pandemic. I was active and sporty in my youth, willing to challenge myself to achieve difficult physical goals. Lorenzo, by contrast, has spent a lifetime fighting what he calls “the battle of the bulge” and simply got sick of it. Among other things, the pandemic broke his habit of having breakfast in one of Melbourne’s many excellent cafés.

Nonetheless, we both lost our weight the conventional way, using diet and exercise. I mention this because we did so just as Ozempic and Tirzepatide completely upended weight loss methods globally.

I have since put a little weight back on, but I am confident of applying myself to get if off again.

I will send the Zoom link out to paid subscribers on Saturday morning a couple of hours before the call.

Helen looking fit and radiant at a recent function.