5x15: Live at The Tabernacle: February 2026

Name: 5x15: Live at The Tabernacle: February 2026
Start: 2026-02-23T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-23T21:00:00+00:00
Location: The Tabernacle

Schedule

Mon Feb 23 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Tabernacle | London, EN

5x15's 2026 season continues in February with more remarkable speakers and gripping stories.
About this Event

Join us in February for a thought-provoking evening with some of the leading commentators and storytellers of our time, on war and imperial decline, the secret world of money-laundering, and the politics of royal fashion.

Speakers

Jon Lee Anderson on the fall and rise of the Taliban. Jon Lee Anderson is an author and a staff writer for the New Yorker. As a longtime observer of political violence and revolutionary movements, he has reported from many war zones over the years, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Anderson also wrote a celebrated biography of Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and, in the course of his research, discovered the long-concealed whereabouts of Guevara’s secretly buried body in Bolivia. His latest book is To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban.

Oliver Bullough on money laundering and the dark secrets of the world economy. Oliver Bullough is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Butler to the World and Moneyland, as well as two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The New York Times and GQ. His latest book is Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won.

Justine Picardie on royal fashion and conflict behind the couture. Justine Picardie is the author of seven books, including the international bestsellers Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture and Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life. Previously the editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, she was an investigative journalist for the Sunday Times, columnist for the Telegraph, editor of the Observer Magazine and features director of Vogue. Her latest book is Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture.