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‘Tainted Democracy’ author Zsuzsanna Szelényi will join Trouble Club to explain how the Fidesz party rose to leadership of the country under Orbán and made sweeping legal, political and economic changes to solidify its grip on power—from reining in the public media to slashing the number of parliamentary seats.

The Hooghly was for centuries a river of global significance. Focusing on those who built settlements along its banks and struggled to control its waters, author Robert Ivermee looks at how the Hooghly provided a conduit for trade, warfare, imperialist ambitions, technological change and new ideas.

Join Observer columnist Kenan Malik as he introduces his new book ‘Not So Black and White’ in this livestreamed event. Malik will be in conversation with Guardian columnist Zoe Williams.

Does the conversation on race need a reset? That is the question that the ‘Not So Black and White’ author Kenan Malik and Coleman Hughes will explore when they come to Intelligence Squared on January 16.