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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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Stanley McChrystal has been fired from being the US commander in charge of the Afghanistan war. He had made comments about his colleagues such as "Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke... I don't even want to open it" about the US special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan. And ...
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"Roma issue can not be really solved by repatriation. Repatriation can be a transient solution. But the basic problem remains unsolved, and the approach is not the right one, and this is what, both the Romanian authorities and the EU Commission emphasized, once and again. The Roma's problem ...
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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...
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The President of the United States has claimed it to be the right of the Muslims to allow a mosque to be built near Ground Zero, the location where the Twin Towers went down.
"Let me be clear - as a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the right to practice their religi...
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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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With global warming, pollution and rapidly dwindling energy sources, the future looks extremely bleak. Will mankind adapt to the changing circumstances and survive? Or will we be wiped out by our own follies and foolish indulgences?
It is imperative that measures be taken to save the earth an...
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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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Is it “far Right” to posit a link between immigration and crime?
Can a mainstream political party demand that legal immigrants have their nationality stripped away if they commit certain offences?
Can it argue that juvenile offenders should be denied nationality when they reach adulthood?
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Stanley McChrystal has been fired from being the US commander in charge of the Afghanistan war. He had made comments about his colleagues such as "Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke... I don't even want to open it" about the US special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan. And ...
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With pension time bombs sprouting across liberal democracies and more and more pensioners being brought below the poverty line this house would privatize pensions. This proposition supports a gradual phasing out of government pensions to be accompanied with a regulatory framework to ensure fair c...
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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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We the proposition define the motion(LEADERS OF COUNTRIES THAT USE EXTRA-TERRITORIAL RENDITION SHOULD BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES) as:'Leaders are responsible for the practice,execution and admission/permission of extra-territorial detention.They are wary of the covenants that they or their predecess...
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A preliminary round to determine who will represent the U.S. in the World Online Debating Championship. Resolution: Assisted Suicide should be permitted.
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Illegal immigration has been a serious problem in many places of the World throughout history however even when every region of the World has the problem, it has very different causes (like push cases being very different from pull cases) and in very different amounts that require different ways ...
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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...
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With the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there has been outrage at BP's lack of planning which led to this environmental disaster. However, only some of the blame can lie with BP - similar disasters litter the history of offshore drilling (such as the Ixtoc 1 spill in the Gulf of Mexico 3...
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Mr.Obama has said that a power-sharing deal that may include the Taliban is in the works. However; he maintains that such a deal should be approached with caution and will in no way compromise American values of Freedom and justice. Even if the Taliban are not included; can Pakistan and...
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As we get older we need less sleep, forcing teenagers at school to wake up for a long journey into school at the crack of dawn is counterproductive. They would do better starting school later to allow teens to sleep in and be properly awake when they start school.
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We all know how crucial oil is to the world's economy. Many people think America invaded Iraq to get their hands on more of the stuff. Does this latest conflict have anything to do with the black gold?
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In 1992 the American political scientist Samuel P Huntington proposed that after the cold war the fundamental fault line of the future would be along the boundaries of civilisations. These were fundamentally defined by religion and cultural area. He argued that along these boundaries conflict was...
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With pension time bombs sprouting across liberal democracies and more and more pensioners being brought below the poverty line this house would privatize pensions. This proposition supports a gradual phasing out of government pensions to be accompanied with a regulatory framework to ensure fair c...
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In a 2008 pamphlet entitled #Building a world-class university', Queen's University Belfast listed a £230 million pound annual turnover as one of 5 'key statistics'. This debate will question the capital-centred University targets and their effects on teaching practice and academic retention. Are...
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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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Obama has been in office for a year. This is traditionally the time where pundits look back over the president's first and often 'easiest' year and give a score card. Obama has started a lot of things but has not been able to move as fast as hoped by many. The idealism of the campaign is rapidly ...
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Much emphasis is attributed to privacy in one way or another; it is often cited as an inherent part of the European Convention on Human Rights despite not appearing as an article itself, it is preserved by the Data Protection Act and confidentiality rights in aspect of daily life. Privacy has muc...
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There has been a great deal of progress since the Troubles, and many conflicts have been settled, but riots in Belfast last night after the Orange order parades show that there may well still a long way to go. Indeed given how far we have come only to still have violence should it be asked whethe...
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American Fast food comes to France.
France has for a long time been determined to resist US cultural hegemony or imperialism. Yet the export of US ideals as well as the US lifestyle such as fast food continues apace. French culture meanwhile is in decline despite (or possibly because of) larg...
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Flu pandemics occur once every 10-40 years so are fairly regular. Swine flu broke out in Mexico in early April and due to the interconnectedness of the world is now going global with confirmed cases (april 30th) in Mexico, USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Peru, UK, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, I...
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