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I am delighted to report that the website for The Freedom Zone - a joint initiative involving Forest, The Free Society and The Freedom Association - is now live.

The Freedom Zone is a two-day mini-conference that will run alongside the 2008 Conservative conference in Birmingham.

I've been wanting to do something like this for years. The Health Hotel, funded to a great extent by the pharmaceutical companies, is now a fixture on the party conference circuit, and I am hoping that this project has a similar future.

Between us, Forest and The Free Society are responsible for five events:

• Liberal Paternalism and the Nanny State (discussion)
• Freedom and the Internet (discussion)
• You Can't Do That! The Anti-Social Regulation of Public Space (debate)
• Liberty Live! (political chat show with Claire Fox)
• Cigarettes and Civil Liberties (champagne reception)

Other events include:

• Heffer's Half Hour (with Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer)
• An Audience with David Davis MP presented by Iain Dale
• Tories Got Talent (political talent show)

Full details of all events and speakers are on the website. Note: this is a non-party political event and you don't have to be a party conference delegate to attend because The Freedom Zone is outside the secure area. We'd be delighted to see you.

PS. Join our Campaign for a Free Society Facebook group HERE and see our Facebook event page HERE.