Resolved: In the United States, the principle of jury nullification is a just check on government.

basically is it just for a jury to override the law, considering the law is unjust or the circumstances of a case?more...

People on job seekers allowance who refuse a job should lose their benefits

Under the new system proposed by the Conservatives, people on Jobseeker's who refuse a job or training programme will have their benefits stopped for a certain period of time. The long term unemployed will also be required to attend compulsory work skills programmes and those claiming for over 2 ...more...

Can public trust in climate change science can be restored?

Since the climategate scandal that started at the beginning of December 2009 there has been a continuous stream of reports that climate scientists may have been exaggerating their findings or else the evidence those findings are based on may not be rock solid. This has not surprisingly damaged pu...more...

Channel4 should not muzzle John McCririck

Channel4 has decided to cut down the airtime of veteran racing commentator John McCririck. He is scheduled to be reduced to the early hours of Saturday morning when no-one over 12 is awake. more...

Climate change = War?

Climate change is likely to have many negative consequences. These are often quite obvious, for example sea levels rise and there is likely to be coastal flooding, have more droughts and there is likely to be more famine. However one less obvious consequence may well be war. War has been a consta...more...

This house believes that independent schools should be abolished in the british educational system

I am on the opposition team for the motion. My points will be today. more...

Resolved: In the United States, the principle of jury nullification is a just check on government.

basically is it just for a jury to override the law, considering the law is unjust or the circumstances of a case?more...

Nuclear power is not the way forward - sponsored by CND

Government spin doctors and the nuclear industry have been working overtime to repackage nuclear power as a green solution to climate change. They want to build new nuclear power stations, but they know we won’t want them if we know the reality – nuclear power is dirty and dangerous and not the a...more...

Should Illegal downloaders be cut off from the internet?

Internet users who persistently swap copyrighted material on the web will have their connections slowed down or even stopped by their internet service providers, (ISPs) Lord Mandelson has announced. The decision is an unexpected one after the government decided in June to let communications wa...more...

International students are charged unfairly high tuition fees at UK universities

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 ...more...

Assisted Suicide Should Be Permitted 2

A preliminary round to determine who will represent the U.S. in the World Online Debating Championship. Resolution: Assisted Suicide should be permitted.more...

Governments should ban the media from reporting hostage-taking

Hostage taking media coverage, creates sympathy and dialogue for not only the hostages but the hostage-takers, who bring into light their political agenda and strife. They come out as victims/heroes and governments are portrayed as the bad guys who moved them to this 'desperate' criminal act. Gov...more...

Western powers should leave Afghanistan

Western powers have been occupying Afghanistan since the invasion in 2001 and the escalating human, financial and political costs of the continued occupation far exceed any benefits, either to the West or to the Afghan people themselves. The time has come for the West to admit they cannot contin...more...

Assisted suicide should be legal

The Debbie Purdy case in the United Kingdom shows a trend where assisted suicide is a notion that is becoming more common. Moreover, as modern medical technology advances, more people are given the opportunity to live longer than they wish, which results in unnecessary pain because they have no c...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...

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...

Has Israel sufficiently punished the officers responsible for the use of white phosphorus?

Israel has finally admitted to some wrongdoing in its reprimand for two of the officers in charge of the campaign in January 2009 against Hamas in Gaza. After an internal investigation in response to the Goldstone report, that said both sides may have committed war crimes, Israel has concluded th...more...

How can a city be built on rock and roll?

Which city was built on rock and roll and if this theory is at all possible just how exactly can a city be built on a music genre alone?more...

Every teenage girl in the UK should be given the HPV vaccine

This year the NHS launches its vaccination programme against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The vaccine will be given to girls aged 12 and 13, and then to all girls between 12 and 18 as part of an initial catch-up programme. Certain strains of HPV are responsible for 99% of cervical cancer case...more...

Should businesses have their products made in china?

China is the second largest exporter in the world. Chinese goods are cheap, so cheap they are causing a massive trade deficit for the USA with China. Various scandals have shown that products from China are not always safe as the manufacturers try to cut corners, should we really be importing them?more...