It’s August, which means it’s time for our annual soapbox event! We’ll be giving a platform to 4 or 5 speakers to vent their skeptical spleen or to wax lyrical on their topic of interest.This year we will have Twitter legend Andrew Taylor mounting an attack on prescriptivist linguists. Andrew asserts that this is a whole genre of widely believed but non-evidence-based nonsense that he assures us has yet to be tackled by skeptics. So we may be in for a first here.

Also joining us will be Katie Steckles from Manchester Girl Geeks who will be talking about philosophers such as Descartes and Russell, but with a twist. Aside from being philosophers they were also accomplished mathematicians. So come along for some skeptimaths.

Head honcho of Skeplit, Joely Black, will be attending skeptical confession, when she discloses her dark past as a tarot reader. 20 renditions of the periodic table and 10 Demon Haunted Worlds for her!

We may also be entertained, enthralled and educated by not just one but possibly even two Callisters. Details TBC!