From the 2010/11 season the EPL will essentially require 8 of out of 25 players to be ‘home-grown.’ This does not necessarily mean that they have to be of British nationality and the rule is designed to fight against the irresponsible transfers of recent weeks and perhaps to reduce the strain on ...
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46 fights. 46 wins. The Pride of Wales has beaten everyone put in his path including American greats Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jnr. Yet, due to the fact that he is Welsh, fought only a handful of times in America and called a "slapper" boxer, he is not as well known or respected as ...
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Europe is in decline while the European project is grinding to a halt. Population is in decline across large areas of the EU which in turn will reduce the economic weight of Europe in the world and for a bloc that relies upon its economy for its say this will mean a decline into irrelivence in gl...
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Africa is the least developed continent of the world. The continent has major socio-economic problems. More than for any other continent the causes of Africa's problems come from the developed world. These problems are reaching a crisis point now, particularly because of global warming which has ...
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Have Novak Djokovic's entertaining impersonations brought the fun and zing back to tennis or do they simply/only distract (the audience) from the real competition?
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The Government has new child safety plans to vet the 11 million adults in regular contact with other people’s children. This can be seen as another manifestation of the ‘nanny state’ and may well be wildly ambitious. However is it a justified invasion of privacy and worth the cost of doing all th...
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Racism, despite global protest and condemnation, remains crystallized as a real & abominable issue even today.Racial stereotypes plague the media. Racism has now, been proselytized from people of OTHER races to people of the same race: We are taught to be racist against our own kind and are p...
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Our law lords are preparing to move from the House of Lords to a new British Supreme Court. Britain does not have a formal written constitution so this could create a large amount of change, or it might make very little difference. While it represents a separation of the judiciary and the legisla...
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There are a host of possible trailers for the sequel titled 'The return of the goblin King' on YouTube. Labyrinth(1986) seemed to end open-ended.
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The Scottish government's release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person to have been convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has prompted accusations that Britain ordered the release as part of an agreement on oil and gas.
The West has long been willing to entertain dictatorial and undemo...
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On Monday 29th March Channel 4 broadcast a TV debate between the three people who would be Chancellor of the Exchequer. Vince Cable for the Liberal Democrats seemed to have the better of the debate while the Chancellor Alistair Darling and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne concentrated on attacki...
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A Swiss referendum has come out in favour of banning the building of minarets on mosques.
The referendum, called by the far-right Swiss People’s Party, has been criticised by the United Nations, the Swiss government, most Swiss newspapers, the Swiss church and the Vatican.
But it was suppor...
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Scotland is moving away from the rest of the United Kingdom. Is it now time for them to formally break ties and become an independent entity?
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The Cabinet of Former Prime Minister Olmert has been accused of war crimes by various NGOs and a UN review into the conflict over Gaza almost a year ago. Previously the courts have rejected an attempt to issue an arrest warrant for Ehud Barak who was at the time Defence minister. However they hav...
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Russia always one of the main sticking points in any plan to impose sanctions on Iran for its nuclear activities is part of the most recent initiative to find a deal. Russia will take much of the enriched uranium produced by Iran’s research reactors essentially slowing down any possibility of Ira...
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Following his affair, Tiger Woods went from popular sports icon to a hated and looked down upon "cheater". Though his actions are not acceptable, are we being to hard on him? After all, worse crimes have been committed.
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Israel has consistently oppressed and subjugated the Palestinians. They have brutalised an entire people in an attempt to punish the few who, understandably, want to fight back against years of attacks. It is time the world stood up to Israel, got over Holocaust guilt and started to help the mi...
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The digestive system of a cow is uniquely adapted to allow the most efficient breakdown of plant matter possible. What this also results in is the production of Methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Should this be capped?
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Simon Conway Morris, professor of evolutionary paleobiology at Cambridge University believes that Aliens are likely to be greedy, violent and wish to exploit the resources of the planet just like humanity. Our abiding image of Aliens is of little men with big heads and immense eyes, but none the ...
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At CERN just outside Geneva in Switzerland, a very large (28km) experiment is underway to replicate the big bang and find out what happened at the beginning of time.
Assuming it's successful this experiment will answer the big question of how life began, a great leap in knowledge for the human ...
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As clearly stated in the title, this debate aims to resolve the never-ending issue and might as well name it as a predicament for all the International Students in the UK. They face a VERY BIG discrepancy, when it comes to tuition fees they have to pay, compared to ordinary Home Students. Is it ...
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With Jack Straw recently proposing a bill of rights to promote "common values" to boost social cohesion, the government should in fact go further and enshrine a constitution, similar in stature to the American consitution which cannot be overturned by a simple act of parliament.
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The skeptic asks that you come fornçamos that our knowledge has foundations that can be proven as true and refute any doubt. However, he requests that do not use our perception. It is possible to provide a proof without using the perception? In this case such evidence relates to perc...
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Numerous Eurostar trains failed, including many in the tunnel itself. Thousands of passengers were stranded unable to head home over Christmas. Service is now returning after three days of no trains. Eurostar has been vilified in the Press. However things have been as bad with other methods of tr...
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The UN have been involved in a peace keeping mission in the Congo for nearly 6 years. It is costing them at least $US1 billion a year and the war is technically over. However, with the situation in the country still unstable and elections being planned for 2011, is the UN force needed there now m...
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Cancer resources should be directed towards the most deserving, knee operations should be made more available to those who need them for non-obesity related conditions, liver transplants should be refused to alcoholics......
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The UK General Election is imminent. However, if you vote for any party other than Labour or Conservative, you are very unlikely to be represented by an elected official of your choosing in parliament. Can we really claim to be a democratic society when such a large proportion of the votes cast i...
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Around 30.5% of the entire net electricity produced in the EU comes from nuclear power [European Nuclear Society]. While some EU countries have no nuclear power stations, France produces 78% of its energy from nuclear power. The EU has not yet found a comprehensive solution to the challenge of s...
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The BBC is considering putting its weather forecasting out to tender. There are now numerous independent forecasting companies who may be able to do things cheaper and the met office has been criticised recently for its forecasting record. However this has mostly been the long term or seasonal fo...
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Britain has once again ground to a halt due to the snow. There has been a chorus of criticism, the government should have prepared more! Councils don’t get enough gritters out! Our transport system should not freeze up! Indeed we could prepare better, but it would cost a pretty penny to do it, fo...
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The Gurkha infantrymen have always held a special place in the hearts of members of the British army. They are notorious especially amongst those who have witnessed their tenacity, unstinting loyalty, strength, and valour. Amongst them, they have received 13 Victoria crosses. The Gurkhas were han...
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Lately many have advocated a return to simpler times. Is this a good thing or bad? Will moving to simpler less "forward" times actaully progess our society or degenerate it? Basically, are we moving backwards?
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"... Despite many of the minor Roma girls have good opportunities to complete their primary education, which is compulsory in Bulgaria they actually often are provoked to sacrifice their childhood entering into an illegal early marriage. What could be the consequences from such early marriag...
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While the language of the nation is English in order for many minorities some are not fluent enough in English to understand government information given out in English. So even if the numbers are very small they need to have information published in their language. Minority British languages su...
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The August 2008 Russian-Georgian conflict and the subsequent Russian recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, breakaway Georgian Republics, has raised fears of a new “Cold War”. The general public in both Europe and America has registered their increased fear of Russia in pu...
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In recent months, two large-scale energy projects for Africa have been announced. These projects, however, are not only aimed at providing electricity for Africa but at supplying the burgeoning energy needs of Europe. The Desertec policy, put forward by the Club of Rome and the Trans-Mediterranea...
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Octavia Nasr, a CNN middle-east correspondent, was fired from her post for tweeting about Lebanese cleric and Hizballah supporter Grand Ayatollah Fadalallah. Was this an over-reaction on CNN's part to fire a trusted reporter after 20 years? Is this a case of censorship? Or is CNN right for requi...
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July is JulNoWriMo - July Novel Writing Month - an unofficial offshoot of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, an online competition to write 50,000 words in a month. Other variations include ScriptFrenzy, a competition to write a playscript in a month, a comic writer's competition and a l...
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Should the UK join the Euro and ditch the pound?
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