QED

📣Tickets to last ever QED are now on sale! 📣 Join @anniekelly, @mrmmarsh, @annaploszajski, Naomi Ryan, @jamiebgall and Robin Ince and more for a weekend of talks, panels, workshops and podcasts in Manchester in October. Details: qedcon.org/news/2025/tick…

All these details can be found on our website: qedcon.org/news/2025/soci… We can't wait to see you there!

And if it all gets a bit much? Over the course of the weekend, we have a quiet room so you can take a breather if you need to decompress. For the Friday Night Mixer, we’ll have the room open from 7pm until 9pm, if you need a break to reset and you're feeling a bit overwhelmed.

QED is right around the corner! One of the best things about attending QED is the social side – from chatting and hanging out in the bar and social spaces, to sharing thoughts digitally with during sessions. With that in mind, we have a few ways to help make socialising easier!

Coming to QED in person? We recommend taking a COVID test before you join us. Find out more here: qedcon.org/news/2025/covi…

Unfortunately due to entirely unforeseen circumstances, Dr Matt Winning is no longer able to appear at QED 2025. However, ably stepping into the breach will be podcaster, author, and atheist activist Noah Lugeons. Find out more here: qedcon.org/news/2025/fina…

Final QED 2025 additions: Making policy work panel, the European Skeptics Podcast, and Noah Lugeons. Evidence in Action: Making Policy Work with Jamie Gallagher, Lizzi Collinge and Louise Thompson European Skeptics Podcast with András Pintér and Pontus Böckman And...

While in-person tickets to this final QED are now sold out, all of our content from the main stage, panel room and live podcast room will be available via an online streaming ticket - pick up yours today at qedcon.org.

Two more QED 2025 panels announced: The Fat of the Matter: Health Claims, Human Costs with Alice Howarth, Asher Larmie, Maeve Hanan and Angela Meadows. And From Autocomplete to Apex Intelligence with Rick Owen, Ciaran Talbot and Mark Johnson. qedcon.org/news/2025/two-…

Podcast News at QED 2025: Andy’s final episode as host of InKredulous will bring the chaos of God Awful Movies. We genuinely have no idea what is going to happen! And! Fabulous Folklore podcast hosted by fantasy and Gothic horror writer, Icy Sedgwick. qedcon.org/news/2025/live…

While in-person tickets to this final QED are now sold out, all of our content from the main stage, panel room and live podcast room will be available via an online streaming ticket - pick up yours today at qedcon.org.

QED 2025 - featuring Matt Winning, and the real and fake threats to free speech Announcing the next two additions to the line-up for the final QED: our panel on free speech, and climate policy expert and standup comedian Dr Matt Winning on the main stage. qedcon.org/news/2025/matt…

Saturday night at QED 2025 – with Ian Smith, Rosie Holt, Alex Kealy, Eli Bosnick and the Ockhams Our Saturday night entertainment is free to all in person QED ticketholders, and will take place immediately after our Gala Dinner. qedcon.org/news/2025/satu…

New additions to QED 2025: our love of horror, and learning to debunk. We're thrilled to be joined by @TheOndrakGuy, @StelsG, @DavidAlnwick, and Mark Horne to talk about skepticism and horror, and @MonkEmma to teach us how to debunk! qedcon.org/news/2025/our-…

The Friday before QED officially starts holds all sorts of fun: SkeptiCamp, Friday Night Mixer and the Quiz! Don't forget to pre-register your team at the quiz - spaces are limited. You'll find the link at the news item attached. qedcon.org/news/2025/the-…

Announcing... Suze Kundu, and panels on True Crime and Christian Nationalism qedcon.org/news/2025/anno…

Announcing the first of our panels and the first of our workshops! Skepticism: Looking back, moving forward with @RichardWiseman, @chriscfrench, @MrMMarsh and @AliceEmmaLouise. How to draw anything with @kemp_matt. qedcon.org/news/2025/two-…

📣Announcing📣: Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Emma McLachlan join the QED 2025 line-up For QED 2025, we’re delighted to announce two additions to our main-stage line-up: award-winning writer & journalist @LuciaOC_ and bird of prey specialist Emma McLachlan. qedcon.org/news/2025/luci…