The aim of Leeds Salon is to establish a public forum for debate around contemporary political, cultural and scientific issues and, hopefully, challenge any orthodoxies along the way. Writers, academics and experts in their field are invited to present their ideas and to have them debated and held up to scrutiny by the audience. The Salons are lively, informal and open to all

Phil will join the panel at the above Salon event, alongside Cath Follin, City Centre Manager, Leeds City Council, Dr Stuart Waiton, Sociology Lecturer at the University of Abertay Dundee, author of The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics, Routledge, 2008 and Dolan Cummings, editorial and research director of the Institute of Ideas, and editor of Culture Wars.