Foreword / Sir Anthony Seldon -- Part 1: The concept of an ideas-informed society -- Chapter 1. Potent ideas, engaged citizens, healthy societies / Chris Brown and Graham Handscomb -- Chapter 2. The value of uncertainty and the tyranny of the closed mind / Sir Les Ebdon OBE -- Chapter 3. A little conceptual housekeeping: Ideas and their contexts / Lesley Saunders -- Chapter 4. Battle of ideas: Shaping the future through debate / Alastair Donald -- Part 2: Truth-telling, democracy and community -- Chapter 5. Battle of ideas: Weaponising the free speech fallacy / Sam Fowles -- Chapter 6. Reversing polarisation: How challenging ideas can help people find common purpose / Sir Paul Collier -- Chapter 7. When ideas fail / Iain King CBE -- Chapter 8. Bearing the truth and building truth-telling communities / Helen Cameron -- Chapter 9. Informed society and representative democracy: The role of parliaments / Stéphane Goldstein and Anne-Lise Harding -- Chapter 10. Questions worth asking and conversations that matter: Generating ideas in cohesive communities / Tim Slack and Fiona Thomas -- Chapter 11. An entrepreneur's journey: Delivering ideas to change a vuca world / Paul Lindley OBE -- Chapter 12. Education for democracy: Schools as communities of inquiry / Vivienne Baumfield -- Part 3: Creativity, arts and the environment -- Chapter 13. In praise of inutility: Learning from dickens / Judith Mossman -- Chapter 14. The power of visual ideas - searching for a sense of place and belonging / Rafael Klein -- Chapter 15. Curiosity and stories: Working with art and archaeology to encourage the growth of cultural capital in local communities / John Castling and Jilly Johnston -- Chapter 16. Getting the (positive) word out: The ideaspies platform / Lynn Wood and Sabra Brock -- Chapter 17. How to succeed in a volatile world? Utilising the 7 pillars of positive resilience to make the ideas-informed society a reality / Belinda Board -- Chapter 18. As we sit in the in-between / Benjamin Freud and Charlotte Hankin -- Part 4: Education and empowering young people -- Chapter 19. Ideas-informed? - ideas are not enough! / Valerie Hannon and Anthony Mackay AM -- Chapter 20. Unleashing ideas through youth led social innovation / Katherine Crisp -- Chapter 21. Developing ideas-informed young citizens / John Baumber -- Chapter 22. The future skills society needs and its critical implications / Jude Hillary -- Chapter 23. Education policy for a new age of enlightenment / Raphael Wilkins -- Chapter 24. Ideas in action: Critically reflective practice / Neil Thompson -- Chapter 25. Turning schools inside out - community curriculum making / David Leat, Alison Whelan, Ulrike Thomas, Carolynn Kerr, and Ruth Webb -- Chapter 26. The case for place: How we can improve our ideas about 'place' in education policymaking / Will Millard.