Neil Faulkner is a name that has drawn many to the event. After running a successful series on alternative economic thinking with Brick Lane Debates last Christmas, he passionately advances his anti-austerity message to an audience of around 200 people. If Faulkner’s name seems familiar, then it may be because as a TV archaeologist he featured on Channel 4’s Time Team, and on the BBC’s Timewatch. He also wrote A Marxist History of the World.