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LobleyDr Martyn Lobley
retired GP
Martyn was an NHS GP for 30 years before he saw the light and retired to spend more time with his guitars.
He writes funny stuff for money (and on Facebook for fun) and once toyed with stand-up comedy. He wrote an Amazon best selling book, a regular weekly column for The Times and articles for virtually every other daily paper, even the Daily Mail.
Listeners and viewers heard him pop-up on every BBC radio station known to mankind and saw him on BBC One and Two, Channel 4 and SKY, where never-ending re-runs of his appearance in “What killed Michael Jackson?” will secure his own immortality. He has supported Manchester City Football Club since childhood and sees no reason to stop now.
PEOPLE
DEBATING MATTERS HISTORY
Championship: London North 2018
DEBATE: Online privacy (revised 2017)
Championship: London North 2018
DEBATE: Fake News
Qualifying Round: Bromley 2015/16
DEBATE: The BBC
Qualifying Round: Bromley 2015/16
DEBATE: Sex Selective Abortion
Qualifying Round: Greenwich 2014/15
DEBATE: Unhealthy Lifestyles
Qualifying Round: Greenwich 2014/15
DEBATE: Art Censorship
Qualifying Round: East Kent 2012/13
DEBATE: Free speech
Qualifying Round: East Kent 2012/13
DEBATE: Copyright and the Arts
Qualifying Round: Medway 2012/13
DEBATE: Boozy Britain
Qualifying Round: West Kent 2011/12
DEBATE: Nuclear Power
Qualifying Round: West Kent 2011/12
DEBATE: Public Health
Regional Final: South East 2009/10
DEBATE: Ageing
Regional Final: South East 2009/10
DEBATE: MPs expenses
Regional Final: South East 2008/09
DEBATE: Cheap Flights
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday 27 June:
Oxfordshire Championship at Oxford Union, in partnership with Magdalen College School and Oxford Festival of Arts
Friday 5 July:
North East Championship at Durham Sixth Form Centre
CHAMPIONSHIP ARCHIVE
Find a list of all our previous championship events here.
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