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Are London Underground staff justified in their strike action?

London Underground staff are going on strike on Monday 6th September 2010. They state it is because they do not agree with the regulation of safety measures for both passengers and staff. But is this really a case of greedy workers trying to get more money for a job that is already adequately pai...

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Should offenders be allowed to take part in unpaid work schemes?

Having offenders engage in work that is useful, helpful to communities and undoes some of the damage they may have cause seems obvious however there has been an increasing number of threats to supervisors and even violence against those doing the work there may be an unexpected downside to such w...

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Foreign workers should be given the right to vote in local elections where they work.

“Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite -- motto of the French Revolution This debate is about the importance of recognizing in our social structures the fundamental equality of human beings, as human beings. It begs us to ask ourselves what it means to be democratic. The advent of the global age has led t...

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Prostitution should be legalised to protect sex workers from HIV/AIDS

For decades, AIDS has afflicted and killed millions of people worldwide. In 2007, it was estimated that 33 million people had the disease and 2 million died from it. Fortunately in the last 10-15 years there have been great developments in the treatment and prevention of AIDS, mainly through the ...

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The Candidate Countries Should Be Fast-Tracked To EU Membership In 2012

Currently, The European Union is making an enlargement policy in which four countries are granted the title “candidate”: Turkey, Macedonia, Croatia and Iceland. These four countries have made a notable progress towards EU in the recent years. They have already signed many contracts and standards ...

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The Liberal Democrats have failed those who voted for them

Many people who voted for the Liberal Democrats at this year's general election did so becuase they were impressed with how their leader, Nick Clegg performed in the TV debates. Voters were supportive of some of their policies such as scrapping tution fees. But, since the Liberal Democrats formed...

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Is the UK education system getting better?

With exam results getting better and better each year is this a sign of an increasingly better education system within the uk.

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What do you think on proposed French 'anti-Roma' summit?

EUobserver: Paris has invited a handful of member states to an 'immigration' summit next month, amid strong controversy stirred by its high-profile deportation of scores of Roma back to Romania and Bulgaria. The meeting is to take place in Paris on 6 September and is supposed to deal with the &qu...

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We can put a price on a persons life. 21,000GBP is too much to spend on prolonging life for only six weeks.

The NHS drugs rationing body, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has, this week, refused to offer the cancer drug Avastin to NHS paitents after it was deemed not cost-efective enough. The drug costs approximately 21,000 GBP per patient but studies have shown that it ...

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Can England’s bid win the 2018 World Cup?

Nick Clegg has claimed that England's bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup is "unbeatable". England’s bid was being written off a few months ago after public relations disasters such as accusing the Russians, a competing bid, of bribing referees is now back in the running. England’s bid ...

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