• Repatriation of Artefacts (Updated 2019)

  "Western museums should agree to repatriate cultural artefacts"

  

• Access to modern medicine

  "NICE does a good job of recommending which new drugs should be made available on the NHS"

  

• Access to modern medicine Scotland

  "The Scottish Medicines Consortium does a good job of recommending which new drugs should be made available on the NHS"

  

• Ageing

  "Attempts to extend radically the human lifespan should be welcomed not feared"

  

• Alternative Medicine and Indian Healthcare

  "Alternative medicine should be embraced as an essential part of healthcare in India"

  

• Animal Experimentation

  "Animal experimentation cannot be justified "

  

• Art Censorship

  "Artistic expression should never be censored"

  

• Artificial Intelligence

  "Humanity should fear advances in artificial intelligence"

  

• Artificial intelligence (revised 2018)

  "Humanity should fear advances in artificial intelligence"

  

• Artistic Freedom (India)

  "There should be no curbs on artistic freedom"

  

• Arts Funding

  "State funding of the arts is essential to a civilised society"

  

• Assisted Dying

  "Physician assisted suicide should be legalised"

  

• Autonomous vehicles

  "Autonomous vehicles will make driving safer"

  

• Bankers pay

  "The UK government should impose limits on bankers’ pay"

  

• Basic Income for All (Germany edition)

  "Universal Basic Income is not a solution to our social and economic problems"

  

• Berlin 2017: Artificial Intelligence

  "Humanity should fear advances in artificial intelligence"

   

• Berlin 2017: Compulsory Vaccinations

  "Childhood vaccinations should be compulsory"

   

• Berlin 2017: Contact Sports

  "We should accept the risk inherent in contact sport"

   

• Berlin 2017: Technology and the environment

  "Technological progress will not solve society's environmental issues"

   

• Biofuels

  "Governments should stop supporting the biofuels industry"

  

• BNP

  "It is undemocratic to treat the BNP differently from other parties"

  

• Boozy Britain

  "Minimum alcohol pricing would be good for Britain"

  

• Boxing

  "Competitive boxing is beneficial for young people"

  

• Burqa bans

  "European countries should take a lead from France and ban the burqa"

  

• CCTV

  "Closed circuit television (CCTV) is a threat to our freedom"

  

• Celebrity Politics

  "Celebrities should keep out of politics"

  

• Cheap Flights

  "The expansion of air travel is a good thing"

  

• Clicktivism

  "Social media is rejuvenating political protest"

  

• Climate Change and Development

  "India should pay more attention to economic development than climate change"

  

• Clinical Trials

  "Clinical Trials in developing countries are exploitative"

  

• Coal and Climate Change

  "Western countries should not encourage coal-fired power stations in the developing world"

  

• Complementary Medicine

  "Complementary and alternative medicine should not be provided on the NHS"

  

• Compulsory Vaccinations

  "Childhood vaccinations should be compulsory"

  

• Congestion Charging

  "The London Congestion Charge model should be adopted by all major cities"

  

• Contact sports

  "We should accept the risk inherent in contact sports"

  

• Copenhagen

  "China and India are right to resist binding carbon emission targets"

  

• Copyright and the Arts

  "Copyright benefits the arts"

  

• Cultural appropriation

  "Cultural appropriation should be welcomed not feared"

  

• Designer Babies

  "Human genetic engineering is a step too far"

  

• DM Berlin: Doping in Sport

  "We should permit the use of performancing enhancing drugs in sport"

  

• DM Berlin: Gentrification

  "Gentrification is good for neighbourhoods"

  

• DM Berlin: Offence

  "Nobody has the right to not be offended"

  

• DM Berlin: Repatriation of Artefacts

  "Western museums should agree to repatriate cultural artefacts "

  

• DM Israel: Animal Experimentation

  "Animal experimentation cannot be justified"

  

• DM Israel: Artistic Expression

  "Artistic expression should never be censored"

  

• DM Israel: Assisted Suicide

  "Physician assisted suicide should be legalised"

  

• DM Israel: Compulsory Vaccinations

  "Childhood vaccinations should be compulsory"

  

• DM Israel: Libraries

  "There is no longer a need for public libraries"

  

• DM Israel: Megacities

  "Megacities are bad for the developing world"

  

• DM Israel: Online Activism

  "Social media is rejuvenating political protest"

  

• DM Israel: Online Privacy

  "In a digital age we should not expect our online activities to remain private"

  

• DM Israel: Space Exploration

  "Space exploration is a waste of time and money"

  

• Doping in Sport

  "We should permit the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport"

  

• Drugs Policy

  "The UK should liberalise its drugs policy"

  

• Embryo Screening

  "The genetic screening of embryos devalues human life"

  

• Energy

  "It would be better for new fossil fuel reserves to remain in the ground"

  

• Engineering and education

  "Anyone can become an engineer"

  

• Environmental Sustainability

  "Behaviour change is the best route to sustainability"

  

• EU Referendum 2016

  "The UK should leave the EU"

  

• European Union

  "The UK should withdraw from the European Union"

  

• Extremism on Campus

  "Extremist religious and political groups should be banned from university campuses"

  

• Factory Farming

  "Factory farming is necessary"

  

• Fair Trade

  "Fair trade holds back the developing world"

  

• Fake News

  "Social media sites should filter out fake news stories"

  

• Fertility Tourism

  "Commercial surrogacy in poorer countries is exploitative"

  

• Filtering false news (Germany edition)

  "Social media sites should filter out fake news stories"

  

• Football

  "Premiership footballers deserve all the rewards they get"

  

• Fracking

  "The UK must embrace the use of fracking"

  

• Free speech

  "Free speech is not an absolute"

  

• Free speech on social Media

  "There should be limits to free speech on social media"

  

• Future of driving

  "All vehicles should be automated"

  

• G4S: Doping in sport

  "We should permit the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport"

  

• G4S: Offence

  "Nobody has the right to not be offended"

  

• G4S: The BBC

  "The television licence fee should be abolished"

  

• G4S: Votes for prisoners

  "No prisoner should have the vote"

  

• Gender Quotas

  "Gender quotas in the workplace are good for equality"

  

• Genome Editing

  "We should welcome the advent of human genome editing"

  

• Gentrification

  "Gentrification is good for neighbourhoods"

  

• GM Food

  "It is time to embrace the commercial planting of GM crops"

  

• Great Apes

  "Great apes should have rights"

  

• Green Belt

  "We need to build on the Green Belt"

  

• Green belt (revised 2017)

  "We should build on the green belt"

  

• Green Energy

  "We should invest now in a low carbon economy powered by renewables"

  

• Happiness

  "Happiness is the business of government"

  

• Hate Speech

  "Extreme views should not be given a public platform"

  

• Health monitoring

  "The constant monitoring of our health does more harm than good"

  

• Healthy Behaviour

  "Government should use economic incentives to encourage healthy behaviour"

  

• Historical monuments

  "Monuments to controversial historical figures should remain"

  

• Historical monuments (Germany edition)

  "Monuments to controversial historical figures should remain"

  

• HS2

  "We should build HS2"

  

• Humanitarian Intervention

  "Western Humanitarian Intervention is a valid tool of foreign policy"

  

• Industrialisation in India

  "Industrialisation in India does not benefit the rural poor"

  

• Intergenerational Fairness

  "The baby boomers have squandered their children’s future"

  

• IVF

  "It is irresponsible to provide IVF to women in their fifties"

  

• Lads Mags

  "Lads' mags degrade women and should be covered up"

  

• Libraries

  "There is no longer a need for public libraries"

  

• London Olympics

  "The greatest show on Earth is worth it"

  

• Media Culture

  "The media are responsible for lowering the level of public debate"

  

• Media Violence

  "People need protecting from violent lyrics, films and video games"

  

• Medical data sharing

  "Medical data sharing is a threat to our privacy"

  

• Megacities

  "Megacities are bad for the developing world"

  

• Migration

  "We should have an open borders policy for migrants"

  

• Monarchy

  "An unelected head of state should have no place in 21st century Britain"

  

• MPs expenses

  "The response to the 2009 MPs expenses scandal will strengthen democracy"

  

• Neuroscience and the law

  "Neuroscience should transform our understanding of criminal responsibility"

  

• No Platform

  "Student Unions are justified in retaining 'No Platform' policies"

  

• No Platform 2017

  "No platform policies damage free speech"

  

• Nuclear Power

  "After Fukushima, we should abandon nuclear power"

  

• Offence

  "Nobody has the right to not be offended"

  

• Offensive Language

  "There should be no legal curbs on 'offensive' language"

  

• Online Privacy (revised 2015)

  "In a digital age we should not expect our online activities to remain private"

  

• Online privacy (revised 2017)

  "In the digital age we should not expect our online activities to remain private"

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• Organ and Tissue Donation

  "Financial incentives provide the best solution to the crisis of organ and tissue donation "

  

• Organ Donation

  "We should introduce a system of presumed consent for organ donation"

  

• Organic food

  "People should embrace organic food"

  

• Party Funding

  "The state should regulate the funding of political parties"

  

• Performance Enhancing Drugs

  "Allowing the use of enhancement drugs will not undermine the spirit of sport"

  

• Plain packaging

  "Plain packaging for tobacco products is a good idea"

  

• Political Parties

  "Political parties are bad for democracy"

  

• Pop artists

  "Pop artists should be judged on their work, not their lifestyle"

  

• Populism

  "Populism is a threat to democracy"

  

• Populist politics (Germany edition)

  "Populism is a threat to democracy"

  

• Prison violence

  "Blaming staff shortages for prison violence is overly simplistic"

  

• Privacy Online

  "We should not expect our online activities to remain private"

  

• Private Lives

  "The media should be prevented by law from intruding into the private lives of public figures"

  

• Public Health

  "The government should take tougher action on unhealthy behaviour"

  

• Recycling

  "Household recycling is a waste of time"

  

• Regulation of the Media

  "The British press requires tougher regulation"

  

• Religious Freedom

  "A secular society should not prevent people from acting on their religious beliefs"

  

• Reparations

  "Britain should pay reparations for its role in the slave trade"

  

• Role models

  "Sportspeople should not be seen as role models"

  

• Scepticism and Science

  "Scepticism is crucial to debates about climate change"

  

• Scottish Independence

  "We should maintain the Union"

  

• Secularism

  "A secular society should not prevent people from acting on their religious beliefs"

  

• Security Vs Privacy

  "We should be willing to compromise our privacy in the interests of national and international security"

  

• Sex Selection

  "The UK ban on using assisted reproductive technology for sex-selection should be lifted"

  

• Sex Selective Abortion

  "The UK should ban sex selective abortion"

  

• Sharing patient records (Germany edition)

  "Medical record sharing should be welcomed and not feared"

  

• Smacking

  "The UK should ban smacking of children"

  

• Smart Drugs

  "We should embrace the use of smart drugs"

  

• Social egg freezing

  "Social egg freezing empowers women"

  

• Social media

  "Social media improves our understanding of major world events"

  

• Space Exploration

  "Man not machines should explore space"

  

• Space Exploration

  "Space exploration is a waste of time and money"

  

• Sponsorship of the arts

  "Corporate sponsorship is good for the arts"

  

• Sport and Competition

  "In sport, winning is everything"

  

• STV/Debating Matters The Referendum Schools Debate: Currency

  "An independent Scotland needs an independent currency"

  

• STV/Debating Matters The Referendum Schools Debate: Monarchy

  "Scotland should have an elected head of state"

  

• STV/Debating Matters The Referendum Schools Debate: Nationalism

  "Nationalism is an idea that has no place in the 21st Century "

  

• STV/Debating Matters The Referendum Schools Debate: NATO

  "An independent Scotland should be a member of NATO"

  

• STV/Debating Matters The Referendum Schools Debate: Referendum Question

  "Should Scotland be an independent country?"

  

• STV/Debating Matters The Referendum Schools Debate: Small Nations

  "Scotland has more in common with other small nations than with its neighbour England"

  

• Sugar

  "The UK should introduce a levy on sugary drinks"

  

• Supermarkets

  "Supermarkets are bad for local communities"

  

• Tax Avoidance

  "Tax avoidance is morally wrong"

  

• Tax Incentives

  "It is wrong for countries to offer tax incentives to attract investment"

  

• Tax incentives (revised 2018)

  "It is wrong for countries to offer tax incentives to attract investment"

  

• Technology and the environment

  "Technological progress will not solve society’s environmental issues"

  

• Terrorism and Civil Liberties

  "Protecting the public from terrorism should come before civil liberties"

  

• The BBC

  "The television licence fee should be abolished"

  

• The Internet

  "The internet needs to be regulated"

  

• The sharing economy

  "There should be tougher regulation on the sharing economy"

  

• Three Parent Babies

  "We should embrace the advent of three parent IVF"

  

• Tourism

  "Tourism benefits the world"

  

• Tourism (revised 2018)

  "Tourism benefits the world"

  

• Trade not Aid

  "We should pursue a policy of 'trade not aid'"

  

• Trial by Jury

  "Trial by jury is the best guarantor of justice"

  

• Trident

  "The UK should renew Trident"

  

• Trigger warnings

  "Trigger warnings stifle debate"

  

• Unhealthy Lifestyles

  "Unhealthy lifestyles are not the business of government"

  

• Universal Basic Income

  "Universal Basic Income is not a solution to our social and economic problems"

  

• Unpaid Internships

  "Unpaid internships are exploitative"

  

• Vegetarianism

  "We should not eat meat"

  

• Votes for Prisoners

  "No prisoner should have the vote"

  

• Voting

  "Voting should be made compulsory in the UK"

  

• Water scarcity

  "Solutions to water scarcity in the UK are technological, not environmental "

  

• Wikileaks

  "Wikileaks is good for democracy"

  

• Youth Leadership

  "Young politicians offer the best hope for India's political future"

  

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