drift drinking game

drift claims to believe in "Don't Repeat Yourself" but over the course of debate, certain expressions and argument forms reoccur.more...

Audio/E/internet literature versus traditional reading

You don't have to turn the light on to read off your computer-screen. Listening to an audio book is even better(if you miss something:rewind&play:re-play and you don't need a reading light either), listening is also a great way to memorize ideas(especially if your listening to a tape all nigh...more...

Has President Barack Hussein Obama been a good president?

the debate should encompass manya things what might happen, better candidates( as in who would have been a better option to obama ) and of course criticism to what he has done. more...

English needs a new gender-neutral pronoun.

Saying 'he' or 'she' when talking generally about an unspecified person can be misinterpreted as meaning it only applies to one gender. 'It' is an insult when applied to a human being. 'They' is too confusing as it is also used for the plural. 'One' is slightly archaic, too formal to use in gener...more...

Book publishers should prevent E readers from undercutting their books recommended retail price.

Macmillan has won a battle with Amazon, creator of the kindle, on the pricing of its books online. The intent is to try to prevent readers from buying their books online and instead purchase traditional style books. However the lessons of the music industry would seem to imply that in order to p...more...

Has Russell Brand gone too far?

Brand is a famously controversial comedian. As recently as July, he caused outrage by making a hoax call claiming he had spotted a man responsible for a series of assaults. However, in a show broadcast on the 16th of October 2008, Brand was involved in perhaps his most controversial performance t...more...

Does the media portray youths in a negative way?

Young people often feel that they are negatively portrayed by the media. The media gets lots of news stories out of the threat from hoodies, youth knife crime, binge drinking in city centres and ASBOs being slapped on young people. Even some ‘good news’ stories are portrayed negatively such as th...more...

English needs a new gender-neutral pronoun.

Saying 'he' or 'she' when talking generally about an unspecified person can be misinterpreted as meaning it only applies to one gender. 'It' is an insult when applied to a human being. 'They' is too confusing as it is also used for the plural. 'One' is slightly archaic, too formal to use in gener...more...

Labyrinth sequel anyone?

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.more...

Aliens are likely to be just like us.

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 ...more...

All forms of gambling should be banned

We in Scotland believe that there is one nation that shines out to the world as a beacon of social justice. A nation that truly understands that the people need not just a daddy state, or a mummy state, but also a nanny state. This nation, ladies and gentlemen, is of course, Russia. On July 1...more...

Are women superior to men?

Women are 'solely' responsible for the propagation and existence of the human race. Now with the creation of artificial sperm, a man's role in the process is void and unnecessary. Statistically:Women live longer on average. Women deal better with stress.Women perform better in school. Women are...more...

Violent video games, music and films are resulting in an increase of violent behaviour and crimes...

With the recent release of GTA IV, a role-playing game where players must commit crimes including homicide, car theft and drug dealing, the subject of violence in the media has been flung into the limelight again. Fingers have also been pointed at certain genres of music and films which portray v...more...

Obama one year in.

Voters in the US have had their say for the first time since Obama was elected, in several gubernatorial the democrats went down to defeat. Even in New Jersey, normally core democrat territory the democrats were defeated. While opinion of Obama may have plummeted this is no reason to write off hi...more...

There is a global pandemic of Caligynephobia (Fear of beautiful women.)

Movies, either portray beautiful women as vile evil vixen/vamps Or victims of extreme torture(those even remotely close(oxymoron) to them suffer tremendously. Women are afraid to be beautiful because of a highly plugged non-existent high correlation between looks and rape. Men are afraid to b...more...

Should tennis entertain off the court as well as on it?

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?more...

University education needs to be capped and more selective

With thousands more students graduating from university every year, Britain has more graduates than ever before, and it is becoming harder for potential employers to distinguish candidates by education alone, meaning a degree has less and less value in the workplace.more...

Time magazine's persons of the year are destined to fall subsequently.

A large number of Time magazine's Persons of the Year fail in the years following their anointing: Chiang Kai-Shek (1937), Adolf Hitler (1938/1939), Joseph Stalin (1939,1940 and 1942), Lyndon Johnson (1964 and 1967), Gen. William Westmoreland (1965), Richard Nixon (1971 and cowinner in 1972). Is ...more...

A ban on Pirate Bay would prevent illegal downloading

A case has been brought to Stockholm regarding the file sharing website 'Pirate Bay'. With such a flagrant and obvious offender being brought to court for its implied authorisation of illegal downloading, this case has the potential of setting a new legal precedent. But will the decision of the S...more...

China is to blame for the failure at Copenhagen.

There is plenty of blame to go around for the failure to reach much of an agreement on climate change at Copenhagen. AoSIS and the G77 pushed too hard preventing a deal between negotiators. The US would not shift their position. Chavez and other left wing Latin American governments tried to destr...more...