"Marxist proletarian firebrand" to speak at Forest's Freedom Dinner

Forest is delighted to announce that Brendan O'Neill, editor of the online magazine Spiked, is to speak at The Freedom Dinner on Tuesday July 15.

Telegraph blogger and columnist for The Big Issue and The Australian, O'Neill has also written for The Spectator, City AM, Reason and the Daily Beast.

Described by the Guardian as a "Marxist proletarian firebrand" he is a fierce opponent of "bossy, intolerant and censorious government".

O'Neill has described plain packaging as an "infringement of free speech" while proposals to ban smoking in cars "expose the new authoritarians' casual disregard for the notion of privacy, so that even our privately owned vehicles come to be seen as fair game for petty laws to curb and control what was once perfectly legal behaviour".

Also speaking at next month's event is Alex Deane. Head of public affairs at Weber Shandwick and an elected Common Councilman in the City of London, Alex was the founding director of Big Brother Watch and David Cameron’s first Chief of Staff.

Author of Big Brother Watch: The State of Civil Liberties in Modern Britain, Alex currently advises some of the biggest companies in the UK.

This year's Freedom Dinner is hosted by Forest and supported by the Institute of Economic Affairs, The Free Society and Liberty League.

Venue is Boisdale of Canary Wharf and tickets cost £95 (single) or £850 for a table of ten. To book online please click here.