Mishal Husain reflects on a 'search for reason' at the Romanes Lecture 2025

Published on October 15, 2025

Mishal Husain spoke of her deeply personal search for reason, through journalism, heritage and religion, as being a ‘compass for our times’ when she delivered the 2025 Romanes Lecture on Tuesday 14 October. 

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