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Bankers should pay windfall taxes on bonuses.

The anger over bankers bonuses has finally lead to action in the form of a windfall tax on bankers bonuses. This is justified due to the large profits being made by banks who used government money during the bail outs and were proped up by the Bank of England printing money. However this seems to...more...

Google should leave china

Google has threatened to pull out of china. Google in China is censored and google was widely considered to have 'sold out' to china when it decided to accept such censorship. Many in google felt uneasy about it, but they believed that new technologies would lead to a gradual opening up in china....more...

Recruitment of teachers should be "brazenly elitist".

David Cameron the leader of the British Conservatives has said that the recruitment of teachers should be 'brazenly elitist'. All schools should have the best teachers so he would make it so that to be a teacher a first or a second class degree would be needed. He aims to increase the status of t...more...

Obama: Yes he could?

Obama has been in office for a year. This is traditionally the time where pundits look back over the president's first and often 'easiest' year and give a score card. Obama has started a lot of things but has not been able to move as fast as hoped by many. The idealism of the campaign is rapidly ...more...

Haiti will need to be occupied.

Haiti still has a government, however it is not a fully functioning sovering government. The government has been devistated like all other areas of life in Haiti, buildings including the presidential palace collapsed. As a country with poor government control at the best of times this is not the ...more...

contraceptives should not be allowed as solution of teenage pregnancy problem.

Much has been made of teenage pregnancy in our modern era. There is a stigma attached to teenage mothers and fathers (you only need to watch Jeremy Kyle for evidence of this). But whilst there is a stigma, and whilst they may not make the best parents, are contraceptives really the solution to th...more...

Most vulnerable countries should get adaptation fund quickly.

Here is a accord signed in cop-15 that developed countries will provide a handsome amount of adaptation fund to affected countries. We want this fund should give quickly without any delay.more...

This house believes that co-educational schools should be supported

People believe that children who go to single sex schools have a higher pass rate. However when we look at the way they relate to society shows that they should be in a mixed school as they can not interact with other people more...

Give up running shoes.

Running shoes get increasingly high tech, adding in microchips so that they can calculate how much to cushion the impact when the foot touches the ground. For half a century the latest shoes have been heralded as the way to avoid injuries. But could the opposite be the case and it be the shoes th...more...

This house sees reason to be hopeful after the Copenhagen summit.

Although the Copenhagen summit did not live up to expectations it was not a complete failure. It was never likely to get everything that campaigners wanted done, as such there was always going to have to be a next stage to the process. But while Copenhagen did not result in everything that was ho...more...