Alternate Energy Sources

One of the most controversial issues of today is energy. Prices have been skyrocketing week after week and they are only predicted to rise even more. Right now our most dependent resource is oil, which we currently have to mainly have imported to us. With the amount of oil depreciating, costs ...more...

A nation dumbed down: A UK first degree is not worth the paper it is written on

The government keeps telling us that teenagers are getting brighter and brighter. Their A level results - with many students achieving five at grade A, tell us so. And yet those who took A levels twenty or thirty years ago, know that it would have been impossible for anyone but the elite to get s...more...

Is animal testing right?

This debates engages on the contriversial debate of animal testing and if it's right or wrong.more...

Smacking children should not be made illegal

Was Margaret Thatcher right when she advocated a return to Victorian Family values? Whilst children definitely should be allowed their own voice, is it not possible to suggest the recent rise in anti-social behavior may be blamed on a lack of discipline at home? more...

Grey Squirrels - should we eat them?

The Guardian newspaper (UK) has announced that the grey squirrel is gaining popularity - as a meal. Costing approximately £3.50 per squirrel, the meat is said to be sweet, "like a cross between lamb and duck". One animal is said to feed one and a half adults.more...

If banks need to be nationalised should the Post Office really be privatised?

The Labour Government plans to part-privatise Royal Mail. 30% is planned to be sold off. It was said Royal Mail "was in danger of running out of money". There have been protests about this plan and over 120 Labour MPs oppose it. How is this justified if Banks are being bailed out in the...more...

Jade Goody has the right to exploit her own death

Jade Goody recently received the terrible news that her cervical cancer has spread to her liver, bowel and groin leaving her in the position of having only a matter of weeks to live. In light of her situation, she has elected to marry boyfriend Jack Tweed this weekend. OK! Magazine have secured ...more...

'Tweeters' at scene of disaster - digital rubberneckers, not citizen journalists!

A plane crash at Amsterdam's Schipol airport has highlighted the way that Twitter users, although often first to 'break' news, could be accused of rubbernecking, gossiping and drawing attention to themselves through the tragic plight of others. Should we leave this sort of thing to the profession...more...

Valentines Day is just a Hallmark ploy

The 14th of February is a date which annually brings around equal measure of love and cynicism, with some couples seeing it as a welcome time to joyfully celebrate their union, and others as a coercive social convention which could be done without. Is St.Valentines Day a cunning capitalist scheme...more...

The Eglin Marbles: Are Museums the last castle of 'Imperialism'?

The refusal of the British Museum to return the Parthenon Marbles to their country of origin on the grounds of a 'cosmopolitan ideology of culture' could be hiding a nostalgia for imperialism; holding on to the symbols of an imperialist past, the loot taken by the 'civilized' British from the 'ba...more...

consumerism

Parents are blaming the media for over commercializing their children and creating a generation of spoilt young people who judge their worth by their possessions. Yet it is often parents who eventually go out and buy the 'unnecessary' products and let children sit in front of the TV watching hour...more...

Globalisation is detrimental to democracy

We live in an increasingly globalised world. International institutions such as the UN, the EU, the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF are now hugely significant actors that have a massive influence on our daily lives. It is said, however, that these institutions are not democratic and often limit, ...more...

Should the British Prime Minister apologise for child abuse committed in care homes- Sponsored by...

Ten years ago Irish Taioseach Bertie Ahern apologised for the abuses committed by Irish Catholic church priests in the Republic of Ireland from the 1930's to the 1960's. Should Gordon Brown do the same and apologise for failures in care homes committed by care workers in care homes in the UK?more...

The United States Federal Government should ratify or accede to, and implement the Comprehensive ...

Currently the United States has not signed the treaty. Although 140 countries have ratified the treaty, it will not be forced until it has been ratified by 44 states listed in an annex that participated in the 1996 treaty negotiations, possessing nuclear power or research reactors at that time.more...

Could GM crops be the answer to a starving population?

Global population is still rising fast, and a rising global population means more mouths to feed. Unfortunately almost all of this increase will occur in developing countries, particularly Africa. These are the areas who not only can’t feed all the people they have at the moment but are also most...more...

That we should penalise companies that prop up the Burmese regime by doing business in Burma

Burma (also known as Myanmar) is led by a military dictatorship under Senior General Than Shwe's control who ruthlessly suppress their population and all opposition and dissent through violence, fear, and imprisonment. Their human rights record is appalling and Human Rights organisations such as ...more...

Is Atheism on the rise in the U.K?

And is it a good thing if it is? Should British children all be atheists until they can 'choose' what to believe? Should children be forced to believe in atheism? should children choose what to believe at all? more...

The armed forces should be banned from recruiting in schools

The army has no place recruiting in schools. School children are vulnerable, their view of war come from make-believe movies and comic books. They have no idea about the horrors of war. Recruiting soldiers should be kept out of schools until the children are at least 16.more...