So did William Cobbett get it right? “No man has the right to pry into his neighbour’s private concerns, but when he once comes forward as a candidate for public admiration, esteem or compassion his opinions, his principles, his motives, every action of his life, become the fair subject of public discussion.” Really? How fair? Does that mean anyone with the slightest toehold on fame or public life – any “candidate for public esteem” – must say goodbye to any sort of private life? Does that mean you should just take it on the chin when prying newshounds inform the world of whatever details, true or false, they rake up on your private life, leaving you to clear up the inaccuracies only after your reputation has been trashed? That would appear to be the case in Britain, given that - unlike say in the USA or France - there is no right to privacy here, only a “right to confidence”.

This illustrated talk will discuss places in London that were either occupied, owned or had some connection with the Knight Templars and their dramatic downfall, including the sites of their imprisonment and interrogation.

A fantastic, unique opportunity to see the multi-award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, director and writer perform live. Thirteen years ago Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years - Moab Is My Washpot - was published to rave reviews and became a bestseller, tonight Fry will mark the publication of his hugely anticipated second volume of memoirs - 'The Fry Chronicles'.

The showcase features a selection of work by the talented final year students, curated and presented by Unit 15's director Nic Clear. The talk will explore Bartlet 2010 programme: 'Year of The Depend Adult Undergarment' which uses David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel ‘Infinite Jest’ as a starting point for an analysis of the psychopathologies of "Late Capitalism" and the way that they transform the built environment.

In association with The Photographers’ Gallery and Self Publish, Be Happy.

he last third of the nineteenth century saw the world in flux. Science vied with religion to represent the soul of man, and technological advances opened the possibility of new ways of living. Yet as the world sank into a long depression, untrammelled capitalism continued to stretch the gulf between rich and poor. From Russia to America, across Western Europe and beyond, governments already unsettled by major shifts in geopolitical power were threatened by growing social unrest and the rise of socialism. And looming over them was the spectre of the Anarchist and the shadow of international terrorism. A Tsar and an Empress, Presidents and plutocrats were all vulnerable to the assassin's bombs and bullets, but so too was bourgeois society in its cafes and opera houses. It was a new kind of Terror that could strike anywhere and that permeated deep into the imagination of the times. Its true weapon, though, was not dynamite but fear itself: a fact quickly grasped by those whose job it was to protect the powerful. Yet in a credulous age, when hoaxers and forgers thrived, the fictions spun by police chiefs and their agent provocateurs were often no less beguiling. And out of the short-term actions of these forgotten individuals grew the noxious delusions of worldwide conspiracy that would poison the century to come. A masterly exploration of the strange twists and turns of history, "The World That Never Was" follows the interweaving lives of several key anarchists, and of the secret police who tracked them. Framed by the Paris Commune of 1871 and the 1905 revolution in St Petersburg, and spread across five continents, their's is the story of a generation that saw the dream of Utopia crumble, to be replaced by a dangerous desperation. Alex Butterwork will present and discuss a revelatory portrait of an era with uncanny echoes of our own.