To give you an idea of what we do, here are some of the 2025 topics 

               Jean-Jacques Rousseau      Romanticism    and The Age of Reason.  Why We Believe   A Fresh View of the World   Challenging Materialism                                  
                                                        2026
JANUARY        What is Happiness?  

FEBRUARY      Schopenhauer on Happiness and Jeremy Bentham     on Utilitarianism

MARCH         Extracts from Richard Layard’s 2020 book  Can We Be        Happier? 

 APRIL    What do William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Voltaire’s     Candide have in common?

 MAY    April’s topic continued. 

 JUNE   Woke - what truths are allowed?

  JULY   An introduction to Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy   beginning with Who Are the Working-Classes?                                                                   

 AUGUST   July’s topic continued. 

SEPTEMBER    The topic will be decided after the August meeting.

  This is not a passive group, It is a safe place to voice ideas and be prepared for those ideas to be challenged, but you are very welcome just to sit and listen.  Topics are often presented by members of the group.

                            New members are very welcome.

                We meet on the third Friday of the month at 11.30.